skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idiots who yelled "have fun staying poor!" are now yelling "we're people too please have empathy!"

Can't make this shit up
I love the RNA world hypothesis, I love the idea that DNA is an iteration on RNA optimised for stable data storage, that proteins are and iteration on RNA optimised to be better enzymes and structures and that mediating between the two we still have to transcribe data to the legacy RNA data format, and use the legacy RNA enzyme ribosomes to translate this through to amino acid sequences.

The idea the RNA metabolisms might have evolved in small cavities in hydrothermal vents also makes it easy to imagine communities of cooperating molecules in an enclosed area needing to defend themselves from free-loading virus molecules, setting up the ongoing conflict between cells and viruses right from the beginning, and also a dynamic in which viruses are both destructive and an important source of novelty
> I have a house and was able to lift out of poverty by ignoring people like you and saving in BTC instead of USD for the last decade. YMMV.

This is fine. But you acknowledge you gambled. If you'd lost, it would have been inappropriate to ask for others' sympathy or, worse, public support.
Luna is a sideshow. Sad for the people who got caught up in it and lost their savings, but Tether is the real game. When Tether blows up the entire crypto system is going to blow up. And this is why Luna was important, because it caused a loss of confidence in stablecoins across the board. For a while this week, it looked like Tether might actually lose its peg and start a death spiral.
Oh, I missed EXT-X-PRELOAD-HINT, [1] thanks. That seems like a significant improvement, in that the client can do a hanging GET and have the server respond when the media segment exists, avoiding that transit latency. Still has to send extra requests. (I guess the silver lining there is that this is a flow control mechanism, so the server won't keep sending more data if the client isn't keeping up with previous data. My custom WebSocket protocol doesn't really do flow control right now, beyond what TCP does.)

[edit: another problem: multiple simultaneous hanging GETS are really awkward with HTTP/1.1 due to connection limits. You have to shard the domain name (which causes problems with cookie auth). Or you really need to use HTTP/2 or HTTP/3.]

I'm really confused by the HTTP/2 push thing that article mentioned. My general understanding of HTTP/2 push is that the clients implement it by adding the pushed data to their cache and nothing more. (Or don't implement it at all. IIRC Chrome dropped support.) If the client later needs that URL, it loads more quickly. But there's no JS API for doing something as soon as a push is received. Maybe Safari has a special hook in their HLS implementation that bypasses the polling delay if the media segment is pushed, but if so, I don't know where that's documented, and it's a surprising behavior. Or maybe they gave up on the idea? Dunno.

The whole HLS spec seems arcane compared to a protocol in which the server pushes data over a WebSocket. Even MSE is more complicated than I'd like. I'd rather try WebCodecs, but only Chrome supports it AFAIK. [2]

I suppose the cool kids use WebRTC for live video instead, but my use case is an NVR, where I'd like a uniform way of handling playback and live. I don't think WebRTC really does playback.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-pantos-hls-rfc82...

[2] https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse/issues/5641
> Anchor was a dumb-money trap

What % of current crypto climate/culture is "dumb money trap"?
More than $200B erased from entire crypto market in a day
Patrick Boyle argues fairly convincingly in my mind that the problem with this was the design of Luna itself[1]. TL;DW TerraUSD maintains its price by minting $1 worth of Luna in exchange for one TerraUSD coin. But this assumes that there are always going to be willing buyers for Luna, even if its price is in free-fall. When the price of Luna drops suddenly, desire to hold Luna decreases, causing TerraUSD to lose its peg, causing confidence in Luna to drop further, leading to the death spiral we currently observe.

[1] https://youtu.be/iisPX_xVMV8
Just anecdata, but I've been given offers without interviews purely on the basis of my resume, and viewed it as a pretty big red flag.

I've known enough people who've gotten where they've gotten with little technical ability that I'd be suspicious of a place that doesn't even attempt due diligence.
That privacy policy is long, and far more of it than I'd prefer is listing people you can and will share my data with.

> We intend to sustain our business by getting paid when customers sign up for financial products we recommend. That said, this will never impact our advice to you. We won't push products we don't think you need.

That's a good goal. That's pretty easy to say though, harder to do. I prefer when a company's incentives are more aligned with my own though.
With the demand for software, I don't think it matters that much how many devs are churned out. Most of them are going to be mediocre and have poor interviewing skills. Boot camp grads really don't pose serious competition to anyone besides other junior developers. With a resume that has good formatting and spelling, people skills, networking, and maybe a few personal projects, it's entirely possible to get hired today. With 10 years of experience, I'd be surprised if anyone gave a f--- about whether you have a degree in most cases.
The market as of last year couldn’t be divided by bulls and bears. It was more like “mega bears, bears, bulls, mega bulls”.

You’re talking about mega bears and they’re gloating because the mega bulls talked so much shit in the last 3 years.

But most people are just regular bears and bulls. We don’t comment on the market. We understand the cyclical nature of it. Some of us may have rebalanced portfolios according to our beliefs. That’s about it.
You just got lucky. It is time everyone in crypto acknowledge that.
It changes the raids e.g. troll, skeleton, those burning creatures that occur a at given time but it doesn't lock any specific content like this.
It’s fine, they don’t have to tell you anything about how their stuff works or why it does what it does, and it’s not their job to troubleshoot your WiFi.
I never ever again am going to count equity promises as part of my remuneration. My pay is all I count on, once I have banked it.

Otherwise I become shark bait. Been there, done that.
I vote for a used thinkpad!
Just pointing out 1 dogecoin is still worth 1 dogecoin.

Wow!

(Also 100% agree on the compassion thing: schadenfreude for ostriches who thought sticking their head in the sand would make the objections false is only natural.)
Yet, somehow, DAI (an algorithmic stable coin running on top of Ethereum as I understand it) has apparently managed to keep its peg since 2017. I read on it yesterday and I'm very intrigued. It's a gigantic target for dark hats and yet so far nobody found a way to attack it.

And it's not small: $6bn of DAI worth 1 USD each circulating.
Even if you think BTC with limited coinage is valid (vs Dogecoin which is unlimited), how can you believe an algo "stable coin" like UST is after the iron.finance failure?
> The regenerative solution is a serial hybrid drive that converts the mechanical energy generated during pedaling into electric energy, which in turn is converted back into mechanical energy in the wheel hub motor.

How much efficiency is lost compared to a direct mechanical system?
>"We could allocate resources to productive assets by fiscal spending, but that is prevented by politics. Only when "the market" gets its cut can any infrastructure be built in the US. That's also true for much of the medical establishment and pension/retirement systems"

I'm trying to follow this but not understanding it. What do you mean by " Only when "the market" gets its cut". A you referring to public/private partnerships here or pork barrel politics? Something else entirely?
I was in an Explorer Post that met at Convex Computer Corporation in Dallas, TX in 1986. It was my first exposure to Unix and C programming. A few of us got dial-up access to a Convex C-1 “minisupercomputer”. Then I got in trouble for dialing in just to play Hack. (This was before it became Nethack.)
Good for you. People like you will make money. That's how all speculative bubbles form... nobody would join them if there weren't highly visible gains in wealth, but they are effectively zero-sum. Unless the product creates value, independent from speculative value, it's a bad investment period.

The entire reason we were banging our drums was exactly because people made money, but the music will stop, and when it does, all that value disappears. There is nothing wrong with crypo as a commodity. If you need it to build something with, fine, but it's not a wealth creating asset. It's a commodity, which is effectively never an investment vehicle.
There are only a few ways to make consistent >15% yields in this world:

- Buy Treasury bonds in 1980

- Invest in shaky emerging market debt

- Be a credit card lender

- Invest in the early phases of a Ponzi scheme before it blows up

Good luck to USDD investors.
If you can avoid Win 11 at all I'd recommend it. Not in general, but people who try to somehow improve it generally. It's not really that possible to do.
As an Eagle Scout, one of the things I’m most grateful for is the merit badge program. You really get a wide exposure to tons of different areas - most of which come with a pamphlet similar to this one.

The real value proposition of the BSA is to better serve your community and those around you by becoming well-rounded, and having contextual experience of teamwork dynamics.
Oh, that’s a good point :/
Either.

Like I could have a recursive solution that returns the sum of the length of the sub-arrays or I could just pass a mutable object and update the length there.

Which way would depend on the exact problem (i.e. Strings would be best collected in a StringBuilder rather than concatenated but `lengthParam` would probably more clear if it returned a number instead of using the Array).

```
const lengthParam = (a,p) => {
if(Array.isArray(a)) {
for(let c of a) {
lengthParam(c,p)
}
} else {
p[0] = p[0] + 1
}
};

var b = [0]
lengthP([1,2,3,[4,5],[6]], b);
console.log(b[0]) // 6
```
The one I've seen mentioned most often is DAI.
that is not by any stretch of the imagination what I am saying. I also am very very far from all in on crypto ideologically and financially.

The poster above was parroting concerns du jour about bitcoin miners to shit on a policy regarding bitcoin nodes. I'm just saying lets be serious in our critiques.
a security rfid tag is about as secure as a security QR code.
So if you share equipment, share an office, publicly use the same name, frequently work jointly on projects...

How is this fundamentally different from a single company with 3 departments? What advantages are you garnering? Are there purely tax advantages to this?
Case in point, some old tweets from Luna founder Do Kwon:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/terrausd-founder-kwon-mocked-econ...
Isn't Tether actually backed by dollars though?
Edit- here are current reserves: https://tether.to/en/transparency
We were bimetallic and then fiat [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_d...
Do you know which website you’re on?
Why slack? I never understood.

I never liked IRC. But to not like it and pay for it? I do not understand.

Am I a fossil?
I used clockwise before, but the PMs that get slotted into the meetings were the problem. They have every minute blocked up with meetings so there is no flexibility.
Yeap. Sell high, TSLA tank, buy low.

Pump and dump by definition.
Seems like something that should be so easy to catch in a simulation/test
This is very interesting. Similar to a path I almost went down with some partners, but it fizzled due to too many unknowns and lack of energy to research them. Would you be willing to expound on your arrangement? Either here or privately. In particular…

What legal structure are you each using? sole proprietorships, llcs, s-corps? (Assuming you’re US based)

Are there any tax benefits/costs to this arrangement?

Has the government hassled you regarding the arrangement? (It sounds like it has, but…how exactly and how did you respond?)

Have counterparties hassled you or been scared off? Do they even “know” of the arrangement?

Are there significant legal/transaction costs between the three of you? If not, is that simply because you have strong trust in each other?
1000% this. The state of native form inputs on the web platform is dismal, truly. Particularly on mobile.
In terms of making assertions from personal experience, I do emphasize that what I've seen is limited to New York City. If you live some place else, your experiences might be very different. Perhaps I should repeat this point.
The only way to not gamble wealth is not to have it. Leaving cash in the bank is gambling that government won't inflate it away. Buying equities is gambling that market conditions won't change. Buying bonds is gambling that the returns will outpace inflation and that the bond seller won't default.
> Isn't Tether actually backed by dollars though?

No [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)#Questi...
if humans were any good at taking that specific piece of advice, the world would be a better (and very different) place.
Did new wealth get created? Cryptocoins are a negative sum game (trading is zero sum, but since mining wastes resources, total has to be negative). For you to have gained this wealth, a group of people have to have lost this wealth, they might not have realized it yet.

A ponzi scheme doesn't stop being a ponzi scheme because your personally profited from it. It doesn't stop being a ponzi scheme because it uses complex technology that 99% of people don't understand.
a slightly sarcastic but not incorrect purpose of the firm: having a large amount of employees gives you leverage against politicians.

I think about that when I see some tech companies and their employment levels.
And I remember thinking back in 2010 that investors who have Facebook valuation of $10b were plain stupid. Taught me not to take myself too seriously.
I suggest to view Scott Alexander's (Astral Codex Ten) review of the same book [0].

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...
Most of it, but it’s not unique to the cryptocurrency industry, only the degree to which crypto is dumb money — many aspects of traditional finance are going down the same path, where it’s no longer professional against professional, but professional shooting a bucket full of laymen.
Incentives resulting in unintended consequences isn't specific to any type of system.
The crash was in a non-appreciating asset.
The Vanmoof bikes have automatic shifters. I don’t like them because they are unpredictable, and you feel the difference. It’s jarring. The Cowboy is single speed, which works pretty well because of the motor. That’s my preferred configuration. But at high speeds it does feel like I’m at a spinning class, and it sounds like this system could fix that.
> the fact that the battery has had to be replaced four times only proves my point

Do keep in mind that I’ve had this phone since 2015!

> What the hell's wrong with your phone or phone/battery combination?

Basically, with a fresh battery, my iPhone lasts just long enough to make through a day of heavy (for me) use. As soon as the capacity drops to the point where that's not possible, I like to get the battery replaced.

I can turn my phone off without taking it out of my pocket by holding down the lock and home button for a few seconds, I’ve done that a few times.
This might help you run some tools you're familiar with: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
> What actually maintains the value of the US dollar is the long dick of the US government through the Fed obviously but also the US government itself. It's the ability to project military power anywhere on the planet. It's the nuclear arsenal.

I started reading yesterday on DAI, an algorithmic stablecoin running since 2017. The thing is: a sizeable percentage of DAI is made of... USDC (a non algorithmic stablecoin created by Coinbase/Circle/Centre). They overcollateralize it and so far so good (since five years). They're even saying they're so overcollateralized they should widthstand USDC going to zero (or their USDC wallet being frozen by Coinbase, as Coinbase can do if asked to by the US authorities).
I feel like that’s not unreasonable over a decently long period of time?
Surgeons are vetted way beforehand by tests that are way harder and way more stressful than any engineering interview round. They also possess a widely recognized credential from (usually) reputable schools. Software doesn't have anything close to a surgeon's credentials as far as wide recognition/acceptance and rigor go.

I would love a widely recognized and rigorous credential that I could study for and work towards if it meant I never had to do another technical interview again. They can be less rigorous than surgeons since we're not saving lives, obviously.
Most of my problems are with JBL Charge 4, which I often share with friends. Multiple phones get paired and connected during a day. Notifications definitely can stop currently played music from another phone in this case.
Arena/buffer-based allocation is also used to avoid an OOM at runtime not due to the lack of memory per se but due to fragmentation.
It isn't 4Chan per se, but it is no coincidence that 4Chan appears associated with it due to the militant approach to "hands off" moderation.

8Chan, and various darker corners of the internet have it much worse. The fact is, moderating this type of thing out of sight is counterproductive, and even downright dangerous.

People can't get pulled back from the edge if you can't find them, and you aren't saving any sinners if you never leave the church.
“I played Russian roulette and won, you should try it too!” is not a very convincing argument.

Nonetheless, the winners think they’re winners because they made the right choices and will try to convince others to follow suit.
You could say the exact same thing about the broader stock market volatility (read: downturn) we’re experiencing. How one can be considered gambling and the other not?

At least the crypto investors aren’t expecting a wholesale bailout at any point, unlike “sophisticated” institutional investors as we saw in 08…
Your money came from the people who ruined their lives gambling.
Yes, but your story only exists because you found a bag holder who may or may not jump off a bridge when the chickens come home to roost.
I think you are correct about it being timescale-based.

I only used it once out of pure curiosity, so idk all of the intricate details, but they essentially offered a 4 equal monthly payments plan with 0% interest, as long as I pay it off on time. Tested it, worked as promised, all was good.

I bet if you go outside of their deadlines for payments/try to stretch it for longer, you will get hit with massive interest rates tho, but cannot confirm that. Mostly because I only use credit for things I can easily pay off in cash at any moment (except things like car/house obv), so I basically treat it like a debit card and pay it off very pedantically on time (because with 0% interest, it is essentially just extra leverage).
And someone lost their life savings so that you could have that.
> only way to not gamble wealth is not to have it

This is a false analogy between taking measured risks and gambling. Putting 100% of your assets into anything, particularly a cryptocurrency, is gambling.
I wasn't bashing the creativity, however it should be noted somewhere that it's not the optimal way to use those controls. Although it seem obvious to most of us, people looking for programming examples might take it more seriously.
I recall a colleague back in the day (late 90s to early 2k, VB or possibly Delphi) telling me: "heh, I didn't know where to find a sorting function for this and that, so I dragged on the app form a visual component (grid, list etc) having a similar method, made it invisible, then copied data back and forth using its cell/list/array sorting method: problem solved". Different context as my colleague knew it wasn't an optimal solution, but you get the point.
I'd also encourage more creative (mis)uses of the web, but possibly with some warnings attached just in case.
It's not Russian roulette. It's "let's all shoot each other and whoever wins gets all the stuff".
Here's this situation a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31291065
Protecting people from foreseeable disaster is not the same as infantilizing them, and greed doesn't explain why we need laws requiring seat belts and prohibiting unsubstantiated claims on herbal "remedies" and warnings that hot coffee is hot. A big part of the value of society is the accumulated experience of "seemed like a good idea at the time but wasn't", but only if we make sure that experience is shared with the next generation of tulip bulb speculators or beanie baby collectors before things get out of hand again.
Dude, where did you think that money came from?
How is it a dark hat target?
I know you're being flip, but this is exactly my point. If you needed doge to go out and buy an NFT (if that's your cup of tea) you can still go convert your money into doge to buy an NFT!

The usefulness of the commodity doesn't change, just like apples or steel, it's something you can go out and buy with your savings. Just don't buy apples because you think the value of apples is going to skyrocket forever! At best, apples will go up for a temporary period and then find equilibrium.
> How one can be considered gambling and the other not?

Positive- versus zero- or even negative-sum games.
There will absolutely be contagion into the rest of the economy. A lot of funds are long crypto, they will have received margin calls so will have to liquidate other assets driving those prices down etc. It's still to be seen how much contagion there will be, but there will be some.
If it happens a few times, sure, signs work. If it happens more, it’s clearly a road design problem.
Don't people trade in commodities though? Corn and soy and other things fluctuate in price because of their utility and changes in supply and demand, no?
For those who think a Georgist tax makes sense, why not apply the same type of logic to income?

If someone is employed as say, a teacher making $75,000 a year, but would be most productive as a software developer making $200,000 a year, should we tax them on $200,000 a year?
Bubbles are absolutely necessary in an innovative marketplace. There has to be thousands of fail fast companies before a titan emerges.
> Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks in a toy-like body. It loves hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware and more. It's fully open-source and customizable, so you can extend it in whatever way you like.

From the sounds of it it's fulfilling a very different niche. I'd like you see a smartphone that exposes gpio pins.
But "women are bad at X" is not 'sexual harassment'.

Misogyny is not identical to sexual harassment, they are two different things with some overlap.

EDIT: would downvoters (or downvoter + socks) like to explain their disagreement? I'm happy to be corrected.
Oh good lord no. It's backed by something they originally said was dollars, they then relented after people poked around a bit and confessed it's just a basket of stuff they consider equivalent to dollars (plus probably some dollars I guess?)
Not the person you asked, but we had a flood of low-quality candidates which clogged up our pipeline. Eventually the process was redesigned to have a more aggressive funnel, but candidates don't like that either.