skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is super exciting and it's the biggest part of a big set of donations by Google, Microsoft, VMware, Intel, Ericsson and I have no doubt rudely left someone out.

I'd like to see more and from more players. More from other big cloud vendors like Oracle and Alibaba, more from other tech companies like SAP and HPE, more from end user industries across many sectors - not just finance, but also health, retail, pharma, industrials, manufacturing, resources, you name it. Everyone needs to get on this train.
I have left this behind for a Rohloff Speedhub 500/14 and I'm not looking back. The chain runs inside a Hebie Chainglider protected from the elements and is lubricated with a nice mineral oil. I can run this setup without any maintenance whatsoever for 2000km in every weather. The Rohloff itself will likely outlive me, provided it gets its oil change every 5000 km or so.

I do utility cycling and long distance tour cycling.
This is not true. The president had abandoned his post and ran away and much of the military and security aparatus was infiltrated by Russia, which left Ukrainian forces in Crimea surrounded in their bases, without orders and much of the gear disabled.

The Donbass war started in the following months, with many of the "separatists" and "volunteers" coming from Russia, including early leaders like Girkin-Strelkov (a GRU officer).
I feel like it won’t be long until a satellite gets shot down.
100% it's hard to do. We're looking at Wirecutter as a great example of a company that does this well.

We want to remove the barrier of entry for everyone to get access to financial optimization and we think this is the best way we can.

We're really committed to providing the best recommendations regardless of commission and we've love to prove it to you if you'd be up for trying us out!
I’ll also add that there is an argument to be made that Twitter (and FB, etc) is the public square in 2022+. But, if that’s the case, I’m not sure what we do about it - forcing a private corporation to host speech is doesn’t want associate with doesn’t feel correct. Maybe a government buy-out of Twitter? Make it officially part of the public square? Feels wrong too, but less wrong than forcing Twitter-the-corporation to do our bidding?
When is it fair to quit a sinking startup?
I joined a seed stage startup 2 years ago.
We've made many pivots and have had inconsistent growth.

6 months ago, the technical cofounder left, promoting me into the technical lead.

We have 6 months of runway left, and I'm considering leaving now.

Would it be fair to do so? To leave this project in this final lap feels selfish in one way. In another, I feel that I've given this startup a respectable employee stint.

Thoughts?
> Seems like something that should be so easy to catch in a simulation/test

The system has two stable equilibria, one and zero. If we assume zero is virtually permanent, the system always ends there. But it's highly sensitive to a volatility assumption. Ex ante there is no way to precisely estimate that.
> but I got a small correction in regards to what you said about fintech.

Market makers like Jane Street are not fintech. They are trading companies.

Jane Street in particular is still very much gut-feeling point-and-click trading, compared to Jump and Citadel Securities.

Fintech companies are more related to payments: Stripe, Gusto, Plaid, etc.

Another difference is pay/TC: trading companies pay significantly more than fintech and MAANG, even for SWEs.
Most people don't get to choose, in my case, it's our corporate IM system, so I have to use it whether I want to or not.

It's got a lot of enterprise features that companies like, like SSO integration, message retention policies, security certifications like HIPAA and FedRAMP, and more.

There are also a lot of pre-made apps for integrating with corporate apps like Jira, Gmail, Salesforce, etc.

It's fine, I haven't looked at a lot of other options, but it seems more usable than Google Hangouts (or messenger or whatever they call it now) or Microsoft Teams.
To be fair, when we do develop nanoscale machines, it's quite likely that they will partially or entirely consist of proteins or similarly produced complex molecules.
Thats it ! Great film. And strangely became even more relevant recently.
Land buildings are on tends to become extremely valuable due to all the surrounding businesses that emerge due to a high density of people. If you look at land value maps of cities you get very noticeable spikes in cities.

I’ve seen land as cheap as $489 an acre and land as expensive as $6,000,000 for a half-lot. Even assuming $12,000 an acre in the countryside in California which can be found now on the internet, it’s quite believable that 10 square feet of land beneath a skyscraper is going to be worth more than $24,000. That 10 square feet is an underestimate as well because the unit will be responsible for more than 1/60th of its floor plan.
It only occurs when you use the label's for attribute to manually associate the label with the input, or wrap both the label text and the input in the same label.
People have been concerned about this for quite some time. It seems the answer that question is definitely not. Here is a somewhat dramatic write up: https://www.singlelunch.com/2021/05/19/the-tether-ponzi-sche...
Look at the case of Atherton, CA - multi-million dollar home values due to city ordinances around minimum lot size and land usage. The land value here is created by scarcity, and driven largely by the success of the greater metro area.

But if you are trying to value this land from a Georgist perspective, and one that takes into account property zoning and use requirements, the land is worth much less than it should be due to the restrictions, and would be taxed lower than parcels of similar size in nearby cities.

This seems, in theory, to reward obstinate enclaves of low-density development within larger metros. The homeowners have no reason to elect a council that would vote against their interests in this respect, and their taxes would stay low.
Yours is one of the reasoned and illuminating takes on the WFH debate. I am going to share it with my team and one of my senior engineers who is extremely reluctant to come to the office, which in the long term will hurt his prospects.

As for meltdowns, I think it is because you are poking at something irrational namely "the urge to work from home". WFH has been a "freebie" for most folks - to use your example jobs that should pay $110k are paying $250k.

When you poke at this irrationality, like questioning the provenance of stolen goods, people get defensive and have emotional reactions. Deep down folks know that they have to accept the inevitability of going back or take a pay cut and neither option sits well.
I think its the time for education.

Where are the news articles about the stablecoins functioning perfectly? There are a quite a few stablecoins functioning perfectly.

You pressed play on your “oh a crypto thing” script about anything crypto related and tradeable. You’re in comfortable and like company, but the issue with it is that it dilutes the conversation way from the one specific organization that launched Terra and Luna. This is the exact forum that should be talking about system designs, instead has all these odd anti-speculation rants. Half of this forum is paid in lottery tickets, its out of character.
It's in my 1969 BSA merit badge book, too.

I don't know why I never got it, though my first access to a computer was in 1975. At one point I decided to get every merit badge, but lost interest before finishing.

In the early 1970s, the BSA underwent a major dumbing down, which contributed to my losing interest. For example, the WeBeLoS rank in Cub Scouts stood for "Wolf Bear Lion Scout". To a boy, that was pretty cool! But by the time I achieved Bear, they changed it to mean "We Will Be Loyal Scouts". Ugh. That just let all the air out of the balloon. What boy wants that rank?

The uniforms were changed from cotton that worked great outdoors, to cheap, itchy polyester. Perhaps coincidentally, the scouts stopped wearing the uniforms.

They revamped the Boy Scout manual, too, in a miserable way. I kept my old one. I had the 1969 Merit badge book because, you guessed it, they messed up the merit badges, too, to be more like Sesame Street.

It just wasn't for me anymore. Grumble, grumble.
They might just have a wrong prescription initially

When they spend more time on getting prescriptions and multiple opinions, they get better prescriptions.
Almost all DMV problems are due to understaffing, not any laziness or incompetence on the part of the people who work there.

In California the DMV experience was greatly improved by having appointments, and for walk in, you get a number and at least have an idea when you'll be called, so you can sit in a waiting area, not have to stand for hours.

COVID has reduced staffing so that makes appointments harder to get.

Also, imagining that corporate offices are models of efficiency is an error.
They wouldn't recognize them if they looked closely. Chariots, I'm guessing, had radial spoked wheels - the spokes are radiuses from the hub to the rim. Those were tried in early bicycles but didn't stand up well to usage. That led to two innovations in the late 1860s - mid-1870s that persist today:

* Tension method of spoking: Invented by Eugene Meyer in Paris in 1869.

* Tangential spokes: If you look closely at bicycles, the spokes are tangential to the hub, not radial. The tangent-tension combination (and maybe tangential spokes independently) were patented by James Starley in 1874. The "spokes are placed so as to be tangential to the hub in both the forward and the backward direction, thus forming a series of triangles that brace the wheel against torque during either acceleration or braking." [0]

The improved spokes were introduced before chains and gears, allowing larger wheels. Larger wheels served as a subsitute for gearing, increasing the ratio between linear distance traveled and one rotation of a pedal, and thus the big-wheeled 'penny-farthing' or 'ordinary' bicycles were born.

However, knowing the history, I haven't yet grasped the mechanics of how tension and tangents benefitted wheels, beyond general concepts. Does anyone know a good technical source (not Wikipedia)?

[0] "Bicycle Technology" by SS Wilson (Stewart Wilson, afaik) in Scientific American (March 1973)
As I understand it: Anchor is the only reason UST was (briefly) workable to begin with. There wasn't enough liquidity in the UST/Luna system to support a major stablecoin; Anchor was how they dragged that liquidity in: by giving people free money to help prop it up.

Take away Anchor and you're stuck at Step 7 of Matt Levine's Algorithmic Stablecoin Analysis: "if you do a good enough job marketing Luna, its price will not be zero. If the price is not zero, you're in business". As I understand it, the price of this whole ecosystem was driven largely by Anchor.

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/1524509243587575808/photo/1
“Range” is likely the only one of those metrics Jane will care about. This sounds like one of those rants we used to hear about “why would anyone buy a Mac when PCs have higher specs??”

Mercedes does cabin UX like Apple does software (and BMW is better still). Maybe Jane wants a button for her wing mirrors. And door handles that work. Actually comfortable suspension. An instrument cluster. A dealer to look after her from decision to delivery.
The author called out that profit centers and cost centers are similar, but different, to the staff vs line distinction being made.

Why equate them as the same here?
That doesn’t explain anything. The broader stock market valuation bears no resemblance to reality and hasn’t for a while.

Crypto does have value. Not all of it, but again we could make the same comparison with ridiculously overinflated stocks like PTON or CVNA.
As I understand, Dai is an overcollaterized stablecoin. People mint Dai by locking up cryptocurrency into its smart contracts worth more than the Dai they get. I believe that collateral can be automatically liquidated in the case of a crash of those assets. This is different from an "algorithmic stablecoin" as the term is commonly used, since by that people usually mean a coin which doesn't utilize collateral.
Ah interesting! Thats cool :) Aside from the FIDO transaction itself (which from your description sounds not to shabby) would you say then that passwords and FIDO are equivalent in terms of exposure of personal information? I guess I figured the location aspect seemed like a differentiating factor.
Ah lovely! Thank you for your great work!
you have ten years of exp, you shouldn’t be worried about having no degree at all… unless you are not in US?
Agreed on crypto. Just feel its important to understand that banks are quasi-government institutions because of the federal reserve system, heavy regulation, and FDIC insurance. All of this evolved over time to improve how they serve as financial intermediaries and most of which crypto lacks.

So how banks actually work is important. Banks assets vs liabilities are their capital ratio and they become insolvent when the capital ratios are below fed requirements and are not allowed to continue lending. Notice these ratios were relaxed in the 2008 crisis. But bank liquidity is different from solvency. Liquidity, the ability to make interbank payments for consumers(like writing checks) or make withdrawals is guaranteed for banks because these adjustments are made in bank reserve accounts(at the fed) which are totally different from consumer checking accounts. And, the fed will cover any overdrafts in these accounts by design. So equating lending with consumer deposits and liquidity is wrong. Banks don't check deposit amounts before making loans. This is a myth. They create loans out of thin air so long as capital requirements are met because loan funding is nothing more than a bank making a deposit to the borrowers account in exchange for a signed contract (which is an asset to the bank).
The fed will cover overdrafts from banks
The old fashioned way: ask for a raise and go somewhere else if they don't pay?
That's a perfectly reasonable response, but it can also be framed as empowering. For some, this realization precipitates a Deleuzian scream - a conflict that cannot go unaddressed. For those, it is the beginning of a lifelong project to resolve that very contradiction, a higher purpose as it were.
algostable != overcollateralized stable. Being an overcollateralized stable means it's actually backed by something, even if it's USDC. An algostable is backed by the sister token (eg: LUNA), and relies on faith and confidence in the sister token.
Are there other examples of commodities that turned into investments? Tulips? Is that how all many bubbles form?
Luna was functioning perfectly until it wasn't. Tether continues to function, for now.
Phones tend to get pretty nice treatment compared to bikes. Bikes are constantly stepped on and rubbed against pavement.

Because if something goes wrong with your phone you probably won't be able to fix it. Compared to a bike where most anything can be repaired.
Any percentage that was not calculated using a methodology? As HillRat said:

* As long as they used _a_ methodology,

* and that methodology spat out 5%,

* and there's no material information to indicate that anyone thought the methodology was inaccurate or otherwise wrong,

Then there's probably nothing actionable there.
Imagine the seas a thick soup of iron complexes and RNA folded into quadrillions of nightmare shapes, a vanishing few of them busy replicating whatever they bumped into. One day, two of them bumped into one another. In the blink of a geologic eye, the seas were brimming with a descendant of whichever of them was faster.

Somewhere, a membrane happened. I don't think anywhere in nature today do we find a membrane created entirely from scratch. Everywhere we find a membrane, it grew from and split off of an existing membrane. It may be that we should think of ourselves as fancy membranes, and DNA, RNA, and protein are just clever ways to make more membrane.
This includes primarily heavily excerpted copies of the papers. While some editorial choices may make a lot of sense, you don’t know what you don’t know between the ellipses.
Judges are not meant to write laws. There is deciding a new precedent in the application of existing law. And then there's redefining 'sexual harassment' to mean whatever you want to get the same level of punishment for things you think deserve it.
Why wait? Now I'm curious.
Agreed. Not saying the drivers are not at fault. They are just seeing the corner as a fun spot to play Ridge Racer not realizing they are going to have to immediately brake after the corner.
Chieng Coin
Putting 100% of your assets into one thing is bad gambling. Putting your assets into diversified, positive-sum assets is good gambling. I can play semantic games too :)
The commodities trade is driven by people needing those commodities. Right? Like, Kellog and Absolut need wheat. They need them because their business relies on them. They are willing to pay a premium, to make sure their supply will be there when it's time to make cereal or vodka.

(interesting aside, the best heuristic i ever learned on how to get good vodka, look up the manufactures headquarters/operations location on google maps, and if you don't see grain silos, don't buy the vodka)

Who needs bitcoin? Honestly not many people right now. The speculative boom is that, in the future, it becomes internet-cash. Then people will need it, they'll want it a lot to buy things in the internet, and that's fine. If they do, then the value will go up.

However, aside from the fact that bitcoin is absolutely not able to handle cash-like transactions at all, there is still no reason for normal people to speculate on it now. If it becomes the de facto internet cash of the future, then, cool, you just exchange for it in the future.

The idea that anyone could ever anticipate the future demand of a trivially replaceable ledger of exchange is... honestly insane. I'm not saying it's not worth speculating on, but please, god, don't put any serious portion of your investment portfolio in those types of arbitrary bets!
One Bitcoin is presently worth $30,000.
In my opinion something I don't have the words for about the design of this section of road makes it feel like it should be drivable at 40mph despite the warnings. I've messed this turn up once and needed to brake hard but wasn't anywhere near the accidents in the videos and now that I know what to expect I've never had another issue.

Another exciting feature on the other side of the divide there is this[1] on ramp onto northbound i5 that dumps you into the left lane almost directly across from exit 166 on the other side of 4 lanes of freeway. At some point probably around 5 years ago Google Maps directed me to take this on ramp and cross 4 lanes to get to exit 166 which was a fun experience I don't ever need to repeat. I'm currently unable to convince Google Maps to take this route so something was fixed since then.

[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6130802,-122.3302303,3a,75y,...
I'm generally curious about this question because it popped in my mind when I read your comment but what about the situation where someone builds or buys a house in a dense forest in California?

Said house is destroyed in a fire, insurance can't pay everyone out (see Paradise fire) and then those same people end up begging others for support (Including GoFundMe) pages.

Didn't they gamble on having a house in a high risk area and lost? Why do we only bail out certain people and not feel bad about it?
This is why crypto needs to collapse sooner rather than later. To minimize the self harm.
DAI isn't an algostable. It's overcollateralized, so to mint $1.00 of DAI, you generally need $1.50 of crypto or centralized stablecoin.
> its the time for education

It's time for regulation. Financial institutions that can cause systemic damage are regulated and taxed to pay for (a) that regulation and (b) remediation should (a) fail. We need that for crypto.

> are a quite a few stablecoins functioning perfectly

If people believe this, we need special regulation for stablecoins. The one thing more dangerous than a risky asset is a risky asset pretending to be safe. (The regulator and its enforcers can be funded out of a special tax on stablecoin holdings by U.S. persons. Hell, make it revenue positive.)
> "consider the difficulty of solving climate change if we are in a spiraling economic collapse"

This is not really a good argument. Economic collapse would more than likely solve climate change faster than any carbon-weening methods civilization purposefully did. COVID lockdowns (and the reduced footprint at the expense of economic activity) should be more than a good enough example of that.
These people should just file a complaint with the regulator that manages this stuff.

Oh, wait...
I was thinking the same. Leverage and trust as a mechanism of "sunk cost" on both parties.
Yes, Russia = Russia.
I had an idea based on the phasing. A phased array directs the signal with antennas that are steered by subtle delays introduced to the rise/fall of the transmitted/received signal on active basis. The Fourier sum of these waves creates the transmit and receive path. These antennas also create numerous side lobes, an antenna pattern would reveal this. The main beam maximises at the satellite, and the receptive focus is also the satellite, closely followed across the sky and shifting to the next satellite in line. Lots of high speed computational stuff. I was curious if there was a way to create and antenna shroud of green painted aluminium foil that reduce these side lobes? I am not sure if the satellites that serve Ukraine follow a track where most travel, so a shroud would reduce lobes to north/south or whatever, as the sidelobes can be detected and after a number of detections of what is transmitted and locus within which there is a station. It also occurred that a 'fake site' could be created that would resemble true side lobes - same frequency- buzz etc. that you could locate far away in the woods to waste the time of the Russians as it would mimic a real station and at the end that time in, say a swamp or lake would be wasted, and the russian will not have man things to act as detectors at these frequencies? As a ham radio member, we often had many hidden transmitter chases - and this is the same thing at the 18+ gigahertz band. I am sure test equipment in these bands is restricted, but people find ways and Russia has a number of good labs that had high Ghz stuff in use before the sanctions limited new buys.
Quamina: Fast Pattern-Matching Library
Great work.

The last bit about single binary is quite interesting. I could easily deploy app to my raspberry Pi without worrying about bundling things. I know Go can do this but it's nice that framework aligns with Go philosophy.
For sure it's possible, but evolution rarely gets completely rid of something (as far as we know). My favorite support for RNA-world (and similar) hypothesis is that RNA molecules are used as enzymes in some processes (ribosome - translation), even though RNA is a pretty bad catalyst. If the evolution could choose, it would most likely use a protein, but the cost of switching to "new tech" is too high.