skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on. The 1800s „recessions“ were minuscule at worst compared to today‘s global meltdowns happening every decade. Think about the Asian crisis of the 1990s, the New Economy bubble burst at the beginning of the 2000s, the sub prime crisis 12 years ago and now a post Covid recession.

Also you‘re taking one feature „they had a gold standard back then“ and take it as the single point failure. In reality having a „Gold Standard“ does not guarantee a non-inflating currency. In the 1920s the FED was printing more dollars than were backed by gold to pay back the government’s war time debts. The same happened in the losing nations like e.g. Germany, too, in a much greater force causing a death spiral completely destroying the German Reichsmark. In the US you were lucky to just experience a stock market boom that spectacularly burst in 1929. This would have caused a recession for sure. However, the decade long depression that actually followed was a result of unprecedented economic meddling by the federal government under Hoover and then Roosevelt.

The Gold Standard was removed after the „Bretton-Woods“ system broke down in 1971. That was an attempt at establishing an international currency system with fixed exchange rates. It worked in a pyramidal fashion: The US promised to have their Dollars backed by gold and the middle power nations‘ central banks backed their currencies with US dollars. Of course, the US printed more dollars than they actually could back by their gold reserves. At some point France demanded to redeem their dollar reserves in Gold. The US did not comply and in 1971 Nixon declared the Dollar not being redeemable into Gold any more because the FED didn’t have enough gold left. Since then the US dollar as well as all international currencies are backed only by the people’s trust in them and by the fact you have to pay your taxes in those currencies.

So you see the monetary history is primarily a history of failure induced by bad economic policies. How currencies were implemented is just of secondary interest.

Bitcoin could easily serve as an international currency compared to the US dollar. Its value is based on trust like the US dollar. Governments could collect their taxes in the form of bitcoin if their wanted to without a major systemic change. And unlike the Dollar or Euro, Bitcoin couldn’t be inflated. Whether that will happen and change economy for the better is still left to be seen.
Of all the things that happen during the unpegging event, "unaccounted" for BTC (a 100% trivially traceable token) is the last thing people should be worried about.
> But in fact what backs up every fiat currency is pure air. Let's say the dollar stops being the international currency, good luck explaining everyone what it's "worth" when nobody else wants it.

This is a pretty simplistic view of how things work. Even if the dollar stopped being the main reserve currency, it would still have value, just like smaller reserve currencies like the Euro and Pound, because people trust the governments to be able to pay their debts later. Until the US government can’t pay its debt and really defaults (and not the default that happens due to political stalemate) the dollar will have value.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will never have this, especially if over the span of a few days it can lose a significant chunk of its value because of a sale of a few tens of thousands of Bitcoin.
let me guess without reading article, they are more aware of importance of prevention

same reason why married men live longer - less dangerous activities combined with wives who wanna keep their husbands alive so nag them about their health and prevention, for instance reason why my inlaw had to stop smoking

edit: also I will save you a click

"The slight benefit to longevity from higher intelligence seems to increase all the way up the intelligence scale, so that very smart people live longer than smart people, who live longer than averagely intelligent people, and so on."

"Part of it seems to be the lifestyle choices that smarter people tend to make: namely, that they smoke at much lower rates. Similarly, smarter people are more likely to follow other healthy practices, have a better handle on their health care, and be less likely to work in a job that puts them at physical risk."

Obviously if your work is less dangerous you are less likely to die, you could just get better work than improving your IQ. Same with prevention, you can have pretty low IQ if you just follow list of precautions, so only thing making the difference with IQ is those things you should be aware and it has nothing to do really in the end IQ. I'd like to see low IQ group vs high IQ group with same guidance, nagging about dangers of smoking, nagging about preventive checks etc, then we would most likely see there is hardly any difference. Maybe good test groups would be rich vs poor families taking care of kids requiring attention into late age like down syndrome or similar, them you work compare their health condition at same age, though obviously rich (read higher IQ usually) can provide better health, food and other options.
> I also haven't paid much attention to other stablecoins, but I imagine the systems are similar, based on faith in the system, and only good as long as there's not a run on the system and more than some percentage try to get their money out.

No, that's not true. There are categories of stablecoins. There are some in the category of Luna/Terra, there are some stable in name alone, there are many that work perfectly and some of those would be able to do 100% redemptions of the entire float automatically or in a crisis of confidence.

TerraUSD was a joke. People warned of the death spiral the whole time. Its merely amusing it got that big.
And who's going to buy MKR?
> How many fiat currencies from 100 years ago still exist today?

I don't know. How many? Fiat didn't even exist 100 years ago. Everyone was on the gold standard back than.
I'm not sure I follow. Sentience is inherently goal-oriented. The goal of a human is to propagate genetic information. AGI will invariably have to be supplied with a goal by us or else there is literally no impetus to act.
I think the parent was suggesting, without being so blunt, that TSLA is undervalued and grabbing some of those shares while they're cheap is his strategy.

And, of course, the counterstrategy is to wait until next Wednesday, when the price of TSLA moves upward, then sell and catch the falling knife when other institutional buyers ease off the stock price.

To be clear, I hold no shares of TSLA because you can get hurt trying to catch falling knives.
Wayland is just IPC for passing around buffers and inputs. It's used by WSL but not native apps.
You probably answered your own question. Humans haven't left Low Earth Orbit since December 7th, 1972! We're just coming up on half century anniversary. What a drear celebration that'll be. I expect there was just relatively little interest in exploring these things in the past when it was clear humans weren't going anywhere.

Now there's China + SpaceX. SpaceX is now already launching humans to LEO and their long since stated goal is Mars. And China is also making rapid and major progress in expanding beyond Earth. And China+Russia have already stated a goal of establishing an ideally international manned moon base.

The future has never looked brighter for manned exploration of the stars, and that's going to impact motivations.
So an interview like that should be the first, and if they don't clear it, reject them outright. Do the same for every round.

I don't know which sadist in HR or management came up with the idea of doing 6-8 mandatory interviews for every candidate and then telling them, "Oh sorry, you're not selected because you didn't do your first (or second) round well". This is an utter waste of time for the interviewers and especially the candidate.
Here's another stat: Over the past month, the entire cryptocurrency market lost over $1T USD in market capitalization; about 50%.

There's different ways one can look at this situation. I take a bit of a grim view, for crypto as a whole. This was a "come to jesus" moment for institutional investors. Remember; Luna was a top 5 coin by market capitalization; over $50B USD in capitalization. Its unclear exactly what happened, but the prevailing thesis right now is that it was an "attack"; a valid one, by an extremely well capitalized entity, which played within the rules of the game.

This wasn't a loss of faith; it was a failure of technology. The rules were bad; and scarily similar to the rules all coins play by. A loss of faith can stay isolated to a single security; but a much more fundamental failure, like this, is a mark against the asset class. Now, investors will look across the entire ecosystem and start questioning whether any coin is safe. The technologists will say "BTC, ETH, they're proven, they're safe", and they're not wrong, but they also said the same thing about Luna.

What I think we'll see is: the crypto ecosystem will enter a depression over the next 12 months. Larger coins (BTC/ETH) will stabilize. Most other coins will struggle; and with their prices in a depressed state, they become tempting targets for attack by well-capitalized entities. We'll probably see more attacks like this one; not just against algorithmic stablecoins, but also more traditional consensus compromise attacks. Pressure will be applied to both USDT and USDC; Tether may implode, as many have predicted for a while, and USDC's future is also questionable if Coinbase has financial issues due to a drop in consumer & institutional activity.

In short, I would evacuate any non-BTC/ETH crypto positions. Some people may look at today as the "end of the crash". I think it was a signal; that crypto's Dark Forest security model isn't working; it got big; it developed derivative securities which enable shorting; and now has drawn the attention of well-capitalized entities who can move against chains with no repercussion.
Very nice. I wish more people just played with code like this.
Ask HN: Solo makers who switched to a job, how difficult was it?
My journey as an indie hacker or aspiring startup founder has been rocky to say the least. I'm aware that's nothing unusual. However, every now and then the path of taking a job pops up in my head.

I have never taken a job offer from a company before. I've only ever worked on my own projects. One of them got funded and went on to becoming a business but the subsequent projects only ever reached pre product market fit. Still, I have experience designing, building and distributing products. I have conducted hundreds of user interviews over the years and do think that I have a lot to offer.

How challenging will it be for me to gain credibility without a reputable organization or logo backing me?
Only if we let it. A workers coop doesn't engage in a labor market, it pays everyone an equal portion of the company's profit.

And I'm pretty sure we could absorb a lot more labor and have a stronger safety net for the folks who currently need to work three jobs to make ends meet.

Closing borders really only tackles a high level symptom. If we're not excited to have more help building society, we're doing something wrong.
You are all insane, how is that not a Ponzi scheme
>This is not a realistic business model.

I disagree. The return could just go down over time. The idea of taking more loans out against your borrowed loans is risky and can be done with any other loan provider. It opens you to a lot of risk because if you get liquidated you will lose a lot.

>Then this resembles a classic Ponzi scheme.

Anchor itself isn't. A Ponzi scheme is where earlier investors are paid with the funds of later investors and is not sustainable without growth. In a Ponzi scheme not everyone can withdraw their money as the total reported money is more than the money deposited. In the case of Anchor the money reported is actually the same as the money deposited. Everyone is able to withdraw their UST. You can still get 18.06% APY on UST from Anchor right now.

The actual issue is with how Terra handles contraction of UST demand. As it turns Luna into an inflationary currency instead of a deflationary one. This is the danger of having your collaterals value tied to the growth of the stable coin itself. I can see how Terra + Anchor can look like a Ponzi scheme, but I personally don't see it that way. I personally just see another algorithmic stable coin deegging as demand for it goes down. The same thing would have eventually happened even without anchor. People could just get board of the project and decided to pull out.
Final report, Project Hermes V-2 Missile Program (1952)
Power of a wind turbine is proportional to the cube of windspeed. So if 28 mph gets you 40 W, 19.4 mph gets you 13 W.
NYAG, US DOJ and CFTC all found it was backed, from their own subpoenas. NYAG settlement with Tether forces them to keep updating disclosures.

Its 2/3rd backed by dollars and 1/3rd a mixture of commercial paper, which we don't have further information about. Rumor mill always swirls about that paper, but its probably not that controversial and would only be 33% of Tether. Likely would result in a liquidity crisis if more than 70-80% of Tether's were redeemed at once. Although I wonder if that's even possible now given how much USDT is locked in DeFi apps and liquidity pools and burned.

(Projects often lock assets in a liquidity pool share and then destroy their access to that share, to ensure to their community that there is always the ability to trade)

So Tether will probably continue working for partially the dumbest reasons.
That’s a somewhat misleading way to describe it. The N64 has 4K texture memory (TMEM), but you can use far more than 4K of texture during a frame—because you can load data into TMEM as many times as you like during a frame.

In practice, you might think of TMEM like it’s a cache, it’s just that you have to manage this cache manually. You can use as much RAM as you like for textures.

TMEM is also not part of main RAM, like the RSP’s DMEM and IMEM.
I prefer the simplicity of the current system and exposure to a range of topics. It doesn't take long to scan a couple of pages for interesting posts.

I enjoy the breadth of HN articles.

Bigger communities such as Reddit and Stackoverflow use ideas similar to tags to create more focussed communities.
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Partly due to better choices. Partly because iq -> better job -> more money -> better options. Partly due to social circles. And partly biological - I don't know if high iq is positively associated with good genes overall, but both bad genes and bad childhood are definitely a cause for both lower iq and shorter life span. Which makes low iq and shorter life span correlated.
Racketscript
If the company lied about the number of legitimate users, that will change the price substantially.
It's odd they flag suicide. The statistics there seem to correlate very well with average population density. So, they might have just accidentally measured the fact that smart people tend to move into cities if they didn't already live there.

Outside of that, and outside of COVID, the third leading cause of death for many years was "Accidental Self-Inflicted Injury." Just below Cancer and Heart Disease. The presumed correlations between higher intelligence and avoiding becoming a part of these categories seems like another accidental measure here.
Finnish open-source-as-a-service startup Aiven adds $1bn to valuation
This is notably prevalent in octopus, who are incredible creatures with short lifespans post reproduction.
For an application being developed professionally I agree. At least until you have an good enough reason to deviate from that course.

I wrote my comment with the experience working with deploying open source software personally recently. They already had support for multiple database backends, with SQLite being one of them. They already had test suites, and while adding support for another SQLite implementation isn't free, it did only take a few minutes.
> Some e.g's of HN relevant tags : .... Politics, History,

A bad tagging system can have a fatal side effect - because readers start using it like any other social networking site.

see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

> Personally I skip about 95% of posts here

You can use the https://hckrnews.com/ "top 10" / "top 20" / "top 50"

> . It can be used to search for or filter out posts to save time/energy.

I am using the "Search Hacker News" site https://hn.algolia.com/
So what about the Hydra and turritopsis dohrnii?
California reports staggering budget surplus of $97.5B
When I see young people do these things, I get happy and confident. Hopeful for a better future.

When I see talent wasted in things like scientology, then I get depressed.
Its not weird for exchanges to reverse transactions done on their exchange if the price is wrong. Happens in the stock market all the time. TD Ameritrade, Etrade, Schwab, the clearing house. They all do this if things get too out of wack from the rest of the market.

I'm just not sure what you think you read, what did it mean to you and why was it interesting/absurd to you, compared to completely benign and ignorable.
The problems with the modern web are hardly technical. We have the technology to make it better.

There is a single major problem: advertising. It is the default monetization path for most of the web, and it has become an unstoppable force of sites that are hostile to the user, siphon as much user data as possible, and use every marketing tactic available to trick the user into clicking on ads or agreeing to being tracked.

It has spawned a multi-billion dollar market of shady data brokers that sell user data to the highest bidder, and built an industry of adtech giants.

It has required passing laws to protect the user, and even those were late, not strict enough, impossible to enforce, and only available in small regions of the world.

It is pervasive and offensive, and this has to change. Progress is very slow on this front, but we need new monetization options that are as easy to use for both the user and content creator, and respect the user and their privacy rights.

Say what you want about Brave Inc., the BAT[1] is the most compelling of such alternatives. It currently uses user-friendly ads, but those can be bypassed by funding the wallet instead.

I'm curious about other alternatives to advertising, not about another web framework.

[1]: https://basicattentiontoken.org/
Exactly, it was a massive success. I never used Heroku but it was an great concept and a huge achievement.

After an acquisition products normally fail as large
companies are too sclerotic to adopt or even value new ways of working, so they just destroy what they don’t understand, often after paying a huge premium for it.
> If readers don't want to use tags/filters they don't have to

Then would be useless.

Maybe a tag system with a limit of 3 tags could be useful but people could use the wrong tags and manage it will request a lot of work from the mods.

The algolia search works well now, tags could help if well used by the users, but also create confusion.
Because HN is not Reddit? It's meant to be a cross section of interesting ephemera.
The top 1% have negligible incomes. It's all about capital appreciation in that zone
Did you disassemble the fouled unit? What was the point of failure?
No but they could prevent waisting their own time by beeing upfront.
> Bitcoin is a store of value, like gold. Not a currency.

Currencies have two properties: store of value and medium of exchange.

Gold has utility outside of store of value (you can make earrings or toilets out of it). Bitcoin does not.

Bitcoin has very limited uses as medium of exchange ("you can buy a pizza with it!"), I'm not aware anyone ever actually barters with gold anymore.

Both are speculative assets that store value, but have either lack medium of exchange or have limited use. Gold at least has some utility outside of these two properties.

That's it, there really is anything else to compare the two things by.
In his "The Myth of Sisyphus" he explores whether suicide is a reasonable response to an absurd existence and concludes that it is not. "The "Rebel" explores whether murder is acceptable and concludes, in a less black and white manner, that it also is not. You've got your books and conclusions wrong.
There's hundreds of millions of dollars worth of volume trading MKR. If you can get MKR at a discount you can just sell it on the market.
well only one worth paying attention to is moving. The others already are.

leaving just bitcoin and .. monero .. as major ones on Proof of Work who aren't moving.

so not sure if your snark is a valid rebuttal.
To anyone looking for a HN-like community with tags, Lobste.rs seems like a pretty good one. It has a few other interesting features, such as an invite tree (so you're more or less responsible for the people you invite) and "hats" ("a formal, verified, way of posting a comment while speaking for a project, organization, or company").
Even I am guilty of this. There is basically no incentive for anyone to properly cross verify all these papers. At best the reviewers would check for any egregious errors in calculations.
You want a publically accessible place for your public persona. You have got that. Why do you care about the protocol it uses? Why would you prefer a protocol that no one else uses? That no one has a client for?
The Linux version is bad too.
I used to think this, and I still wonder if it would be helpful, but on the other hand:

Just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should. Just because people ask for it doesn't mean it should be done. See: Social media.

The spirit of HN is a public forum to discuss all sorts of topics, and to be exposed to a broad set of headlines/subjects - even if one isn't educated on it.
> Facebook, where Andreessen has long sat on the board, touts its Recharge program, in which workers are encouraged to take a 30-day sabbatical every five years. During the pandemic, Twitter added company-wide mental health breaks called “days of rest,” on top of already-generous leave policies.

These are the perks that the article is saying are now the subject of derision.

One month of vacation in 5 years, and random few days off during the year. That's just baseline decent treatment, who wrote this nonsense, and why?
this is a semantics issue. people primarily call overcollateralized stablecoins their own thing. most/all have some sort of automation involved, which allows of the word algorithm to be used. but algorithmic ones are the ones that have no collateral, or as Do Kwon pioneered - last ditch effort of partial collateral.
If you go to here and plug in some numbers

https://www.omnicalculator.com/ecology/wind-turbine

You see that at around 0.2m blade length a HAWT will generate 40W at 28 mph wind.
28 mph is "Strong Breeze", according to the National Weather Service and in which you probably really don't want to be camping.

Strong Breeze = "Large branches in continuous motion. Whistling sounds heard in overhead or nearby power and telephone lines. Umbrellas used with difficulty."

But when you get down to 15 mph (moderate breeze) it's only making 6 watts, and at 8mph (gentle breeze) it's making 1 watt.

That is assuming steady wind to think you will get that continuously, derate accordingly.

I suspect there will be some gap between expected and actual performance for many people.
I'm pretty sure this doesn't work properly in Firefox. Very sad to see that Chrome 101 == IE6.
Is It Safe to Ship Thousands of Electric Cars on Big Ships?