skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello, i'm from a country which is going through rapid inflation (>50% annually).

It's true that people here need either an alternative currency for purchasing foreign goods (access to USD or other currencies is restricted, and customs fees are insane), or an alternative asset for keeping the value of their savings.

But it's not true that people need Bitcoin. As a currency for purchasing things, Bitcoin is useless. People here are better off evading customs taxes (smuggling), and purchasing via USDs bought on the black market. And for keeping the value of their savings, again, people usually turn to USDs. Some people have speculated with BTC and other cryptocurrencies, yeah, but this is not so much for savings, but more for greedy speculation.

And it's not like the USD is important on itself, it's just an intermediate goal for something else. If the USD becomes too unstable or loses much of its value, people here will turn to other stronger foreign currencies.

So, imagine what this means in the context of what your parent comment said: that Bitcoin's ledger being trivially replaceable.

No, Bitcoin is not needed here. Not at the moment at least. And if it is in the future, so be it, but so can be any other crypto or alternative currency. Who can predict which it will be (if any)? I don't see how betting on future Bitcoin's value for countries like mine makes any sense when there nothing inherent about Bitcoin that would make more valuable than any other alternative currency.
Unpacking that:

> Code is an expression of a business solution

At some very high level that may be true. The person who makes the final decision on what code I work on (who happens to be the brother of the CEO, poor fellow!) may have to consider "business requirements", but only lightly. We implement what we are told to implement. I am a worker.

> The meat of any application is in the business rules it enables and enforces

No. That is crazy, and very high level. Where I work the "meat" is tight loops, memory allocation, network latency, data reliability....

> To be an effective engineer

I have not been to Engineering School. I am not an engineer. Engineers are people who have been to engineering school. I am a computer programmer working on low level iOS plumbing. "Engineer"? Huh! Putting on airs, I do not do that.

> To be an effective engineer, you need to have a solid understanding of how the code you're writing solves the needs of the company.

To be an effective computer programmer I have to understand the requirements that my firm has of the hardware. I can give very good advice about whether the hardware can be persuaded to do what they want. I cannot give (good or valuable) business advice about whether the things the firm wants are the correct things.

I understand a lot of people here really want to be successful "founders" and come at it from an engineering perspective. Very good. It is different for them than for me.

A lot of us (at least one of us...) here are workers who want to do a job, for a salary. Happy to work for one of those founders if the money is right. (I have to make a business decision about who I work for, in the best scenario. In my case I took what I could get, and got lucky - thank you universe!) I am not qualified (I am actually, another story) and am not employed to give business advice, or to care. I am more valuable to everybody if I stick to my knitting.
The question is why is one cryptocoin "collateral" and the other "not collateral?" What's preventing whatever coins DAI depends on from a death spiral?
If the algorithm is “give us assets more valuable than the claim we give you in return” is it an algorithmic stable coin, or just an asset with an arbitrary price? I’m unsure I understand how DAI can be characterised as an algorithmic stable coin, given “algorithmic” is usually understood to mean “the thing from which it derives it’s value is an algorithm” whereas for DAI, like Tether (ostensibly), the value is derived from its collateral. I’m open to an argument to why it is a algorithmic stable coin though, perhaps my definition is too narrow? To my understanding, the point of a stable coin is stability of value for the holder, which isn’t true of DAI — because they’re still exposed to the volatility of their collateral.
That is illogical. Money-less economic models are unable to predict structural unemployment. In fact Say's law predicts that a theoretical barter economy is always at full employment.

Of course the modeling flaw is that money is saved as a goal in itself so it will cease to circulate at some point which is the real source of unemployment.
Yes. The US SEC puts about two of them out of business each month, and often claws the money back, but jail is rare. Too rare.[1]

The IRS sometimes comes in after the SEC if someone operating a fraud didn't pay their taxes. They put people in jail for years.[2]

Remember, Al Capone was sent to Alcatraz for tax evasion.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/cybersecurity-enforcement-acti...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/founde...
"They don't constructively do anything to actually teach those issues of control and discipline to the students."

At least when I was growing up, it was always the kids who took karate that were quick to fight, or talk smack. So I think I agree. Although one caveat is that it's not appropriate for everyone, or that some kids need to be much older than others. So maybe it has to do with the parents and facilities not denying those kids based on their ability to control themselves.

On a side note, if a kid uses martial arts skills in real life, it could result in increased liability. That's something people don't think about.
Ask HN: Extracurriculars” for experienced programmers to find better work?
Currently I'm unemployed and I also have the curiosity of a student- trying to build a network with professionals and to get a smorgasbord of tech company offers while remaining very open.

My network isn't very strong, technical skills are lacking, and I am having trouble planning my time to work on all these things.

I don't want to limit myself to just FAANG. I am mostly interested in offers for high pay and the opportunity to learn a lot more from engineers in my next 2 years of work than I did in my past 5. Having a company that can provide health insurance and being able to contribute to 401k would be nice too, I never had that before. Wanna make my immigrant parents proud and I feel I've let them down with as someone who hasn't held a steady job in more than 10 years.

For my experience, I have spent the last 2 years unemployed and the last 12 before that going on and off temp work for various startups and other small companies. Nothing that involved more than 5 people in a project. Sometimes it's web boutique work other times it's a SaaS web project. JavaScript and PHP have been my main tools but I am fine with trying out others.

Counterintuitively, from the perspective of getting an interview at high-paying companies, my 12 years of doing work as a freelancer is seen as inferior to a handful of internships. I especially know from speaking to someone else that's much newer to the industry, that he got the attention from companies such as Github and Intel with research projects and academic publications. He took internships from both.

As someone who's graduated long ago, I clearly don't have those extracurricular options. So I'm interested in some career "side quests" for the under-skilled and out of school, that aren't just personal side projects, and trying to go above and beyond. My unemployment just means I should have more spare time to get involved in them.

Are there hackathons open for any programmer no matter their experience level that are worth attending? Interesting coding challenges sponsored by big companies? I need to add things on my resume that I can start doing right now to make a lot of tech companies say "let's interview him". In the geographic area where I live, there are rarely any opportunities to network with people in big tech.
> Most people don't get to choose

Is that a case of business people making technical decisions?

That I understand. Do not like, but I understand
I'm comparing apples to apples. Both gender dysphoria and body integrity identity disorder are mental health conditions where the sufferer seeks to have healthy body parts altered or removed. But only gender dysphoria somehow gets the green light for actual irreversible body modification, including on children.

I mean, I'd hope you wouldn't support lopping off a 13 year old girl's arm because she said she feels like her 'true self' is a disabled amputee. Having the same done to her breasts because she thinks she should be a boy is no different really.

These are children who haven't finished, or maybe even started, puberty yet, a time of much natural bodily change. They inherently cannot understand the full implications of what they're asking for, in a way that competent adults may be able to.

The other key thing is, most children who report feelings of gender dysphoria will desist if they don't undergo transition. With watchful waiting, letting the child go through puberty normally and become an adult, instead of medical or surgical interventions, the problem usually resolves itself.

Your comparison to cleft palate surgery is not sensible, this is to correct a physical birth defect that impairs function. Feeding and speech and so on.

If a girl suddenly grows a beard, and it's a symptom of an androgen disorder, then yes she should receive medical treatment. Because she is female and her body isn't supposed to be producing androgens in those quantities. Again this is a physical health problem where there is an actual defective condition in the body, not a mental health issue like gender dysphoria or body integrity identity disorder where the subject just thinks there's something wrong with their body.

The parallels with lobotomy are really quite disconcerting. For example, lobotomy was sometimes inflicted as an attempt to 'correct' homosexuality. Some parents who have encouraged their child down the transgender path are on record as saying essentially the same thing. As have whistleblower clinicians at the UK's largest gender identity clinic.
There is a best efforts covenant. They are in every merger agreement. Musk can't do this without being sued.

Look at Section 6.3
I get the feeling even that wouldn't have made much difference

https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1464897977793728514?re...
You’re used to reading about western militaries.

Look at the Ukraine War… Russia clearly completely ignored logistics and failed in their attempt at a “modern” war and quickly degraded to a WW1 style artillery duel.

And yes, being a NCO or field officer in the Russian army is miserable.
Agree. I like simpler. Most of my coworkers do not prefer simpler. They want to use tons of AWS services.
Does anybody have more resources on the research done on Ubiquitous Computing at PARC?

Steve Jobs saw some amazing things decades ahead of it’s time during his famous tour, and the iPad wasn’t released all that long ago. I’m curious to what other kinds of things were forgotten about.
> People keep using the DMV as an example of government inefficiency, but my state has made it run so painlessly I don't think I've spent more than 15 minutes in an office over the last 5 years.

It's totally baffling to me when there's 'the DMV' in US films/tv, because that's just not a place (nor anything equivalent) we have to go to, whether it's 'only fifteen minutes' or more.

(Sure, when my driving licence expires in 10y, or I change address, I'll need to spend a minute or so on an online form.)
Not having an audio jack sucks. They said it’s because Bluetooth is the future and my phone can be .01mm thinner. Well- I have AirPods and their battery life sucks. They die before I get home. I always lose the adapter. It may be a first world problem, but it’s still a measurable regression in my quality of life.
The Personal Computer Book (1982)
I had been programming for over ten years when I first ran into FizzBuzz, suffice to say I failed the exercise and wasn't offered the job. So I just moved onto the next interview and passed that one.

Sure, you can't prove that finding subcycles in a directed-graph is an NP-Hard problem on a whiteboard, or implement a linked-list or invert a binary tree by hand: But what you have is hard-earned common sense and a meaningful understanding of how software evolves over time. This is valuable to any company and many have identified that they are in desperate need of it.
The Making of a New Kind of Science
So why is it needed and used outside those situations? Like let's say Euro-zone and USA? Seemingly extremely stable currencies, with SEPA absolutely superior user experience if costs are considered. Do those listed markets really support the value we see?
If it gives him a cover story to sell $TSLA shares when that company is valued more than the next ten automakers put together, he’s at least getting a bit diversification and is winning on that side while losing on the Twitter side.
Those who aren't adopting are missing out! I've been using Render for a few months now on a postgresql/next.js app and it's really good! Hopefully the new signups continue to accelerate
Why not just debug on component creation? Or maybe on DOM subtree modification [0]? Or maybe modify the compiled JS to add log or trace statements?

It’s all in your browser. You have a debugger at your fingertips.

Why doesn’t Vue stop this from happening? Because it assumes whatever you’re telling it to do is what you want it to do.

0: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/javascript/breakp...
Sorry, looking for numbers in the United States.
Elastic Beanstalk is a shitshow compared to Heroku. Takes so much time to get an app to work.
Depends what is meant by "failed." I worked there for a long time, in the earlier days. I also used it quite a bit after I left.

From my point of view, as a mere customer of their mass-market product (a.k.a. cedar) with some insight into operation history, I think expensive or at least detailed investment in refurbishing or adjusting the mass-market product became, for whatever reason, difficult to (internally) justify expense for.

For example: the mechanisms that make "heroku run" work could have really used a new version that could let me change my window size gracefully, and maybe streamlining some authentication, by using SSH. As far as I know, it's closely related to the first version of that feature ever written, which somewhat naively ties the client machine's tty to a remote tty via TLS connection. This is fine for getting cedar off the ground in the first release, but at some later year (decade?), it seems like it should have gotten re-do so, finally, I could change my terminal emulator window size.

Ditto the holding of extremely powerful API credentials in the plaintext file `~/.netrc`, further exacerbated by a fairly weak authorization system for Cedar. There's still a place for .netrc (e.g. so curl can pick up the credentials automatically), but at some point, use of the keyrings on various operating systems (at least) and U2F hardware attestation should have shown up.

Passing along cost reductions in inputs (e.g. AWS servers) is another long-standing example.

Somewhat related to that, IPv6 is a lot more common than it used to be. So are VPCs or similar products on other platforms. Putting all that behind a "let's have a call" process -- and cost structure -- for "Private Spaces" is not in step with the times in 2022. And probably not 2018, neither.

As a counter-example, it does seem the web/dashboard login not only grew U2F, but Macintosh TouchID support. Whoever got this in: well done. But it's a noteworthy exception. And I kind of wonder if it has anything to do with the web authentication system being more trouble than it's worth to segment between Cedar and the Private Spaces product.

There's always a temptation to put new features into an upmarket product to increase the gap in segmentation, but realizing that at least some features are closer to adaptations to raising or at least changing standards of adequacy in industry does not come naturally. I don't think this is the only problem, but it seems like a problem to me. As it comes to projects that turn on minute details, such as improving "heroku run" in the presence of terminal emulator resizing, it probably says something about the bureaucracy's inability to grapple with details of that kind. That was already present when I left.
Again, semantics: 'Investments' are not required to be made on 'positive-sum' underlying assets. For instance, airlines may make an investment in oil futures (a zero sum contract) to hedge expenses that correlate with their fuel costs.

>Crypto and slot machines are not positive sum.

I think this the part where I link to a wikipedia page of a fallacy I don't understand/doesn't apply? /s
I like the traveling wave tube amplifier because it's such a wild way to amplify a signal. The digital ranging using a pseudorandom sequence is also pretty cool.
Counter Clicks
So nothing Tesla has accomplished so far has helped toward slowing climate change going forward?
If Tether isn't redeeming fast enough for the traders who want to cash it in, won't the market price drop quickly in the meantime, due to the run on it?
I'm struggling to understand what Elon Musk's crime actually is?
Being successful?
Having influence on the internet?
Not following the narrow railroad tracks of a particular ideology?
I think the loss of personal finances is far more acute than sports, but Sam Anderson, in the book Boomtown, conflates Timothy McVeigh's disillusionment with the Buffalo Bill's Super Bowl loses in the early 90s. It's a good little section of writing.
> People don't have a right to live in the US just because they decided to walk across the border illegally.

This is invented nonsense. It would be just as reasonable to say "People don't have the right to live in the US just because they were lucky enough to be born there" or "People don't have the right to live in the US just because their parents were US citizens" or whatever.

"Walking across a border illegally" is an imaginary thing we made up because some people (probably xenophobic people) thought it was a good idea at some point in the past. I don't think unrestricted immigration is necessarily the answer either, but the system as it is clearly does not work.
You have to hand it to the man. I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire, and have zero interest in Twitter, yet I'm drawn to this comments section like a moth to a flame.

He knows what he's doing.
I have bought 3 used cars and gotten 2 teenagers thru permit and drivers test and license. Never had any appointments except for the driving test, and never had any long waits. All waits were much shorter than when I transferred my out of state license to CA in 2008 or 2009. Impressively well run bureaucracy, I'd say. And this with covid precautions to work around. Much better than the several east coast states I had prior experience with.

Now I do chose the office to visit with some care, and also (as an "elite WFH software engineer") time it so that the lines are likely to be shorter, so YMMV.
People are more protesty now than in 2019.
For Fly.io I need to create a docker container? Why would I want to do that when I can just push to Heroku?
For a lot of leftists, justice means punishing the living for the crimes of the dead.
If your monthly payment stays the same and the interest rate is lowered you pay less interest to the bank which means the seller gets your money instead. The price increase literally doesn't matter to you.
The most generous estimate I can find of monetary usage is 10%. Most estimates are less than half that. I don't remember the last time I saw a legal business that accepted crypto as payment or heard of anyone I know using crypto as a currency. The way it's taxed doesn't seem very currency-like to me. I've yet to hear some practical reason for crypto better than "no bro, you'll see".
I live next to a straight off ramp into a light, and has a one way intersection with two turn lanes off a bridge.

People just cruise through that intersection from the highway and once a year there's a blind left turn and highway speeder collision.

It got worse when a shrubbery occluded the left turn line of site.
> Plenty of people manage to pay the rent without needing to completely compromise their sense of "moral clarity" or "ideological purity".

The point is these people need to find that fulfilling work somewhere else if they object to what their current employer requires them to do. "Ideological purity" and morals are not shared by everyone equally... and if Netflix were to comply with these fringe employee demands, they would lose subscribers who want to watch, for example, the Chappelle special and more.

Netflix isn't a church group... it's a for-profit organization that will always try to give it's customers what they want, despite what some crusading employees think.
Here's another library I've been using for several years:

http://lorance.freeshell.org/csv/
Yes! https://calmtech.com/papers.html
Just to make it explicit: the woah-effect of the idea is that the firm, a concept rather central to our experience of capitalism, contradicts a (common conception of a) central idea of capitalism, namely that competition assures efficiency.
One possible option, work on/pick an open source project(s) suited to given area/skill set of interest.
How My Fitness Tracker Turned Me Against Myself
Or more likely, costs would rise for people in search of those services, and the extra profit would be pocketed by the management and shareholders of the construction companies.
Actually this is missing an extremely important point, which is that the algae generated current even when there was no light (ie overnight). The paper hypothesises this is because it stores some of energy gained for later use.
They got a lot better if you were buying quality bikes (not department store bikes) in the 2000s. I have a road bike that has 20k miles that never needed shifting adjustments besides replacing worn out chainrings and chains.
In the video it says they are frontend agnostic and will be adding multiple frameworks soon. React was mentioned specifically as coming soon.
The ultimate proof of ownership is a piece of paper.

You can do a lot of stuff electronically in my state, transferring a title isn't one of them.

Additional fun thing is that the buyer is supposed to go do that and it can cause the seller headaches if they don't.
You're right - it's pretty definitionally hard for businesses to be profitable early on. The problem is that this unprofitable period has been extended towards ludicrous ends.

It used to be that you spend your Series A and B figuring out the business, and from Series C forward you've got your unit economics dialed in and are just pushing the "growth" button as hard as you can.

Nowadays you get all the way to IPO without ever achieving positive unit economics: Uber, Lyft, DoorDash... You have companies raising (or trying to raise) Series E, F, G while they lose money on every transaction and make it up in volume.

I suspect OP is talking more about that phenomenon - companies that are way too far along to not have positive unit economics on their core business.
I was thinking about this topic just recently, as someone who got to spend the first ~10 years of my career in workplaces with private offices, now working remotely.

I came to the conclusion that open offices really did ruin everything. “On edge, wary, defensive, and emotional” is a pretty accurate description how I felt every day at work after everything changed to open offices.
It seems to me that it's a bug that has sent gotten much attention or it's not worth fixing because of the amount of work involved. I doubt they are try to deceive the users.