skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a landscape consumed with pushing crypto scams and web3 nonsense it was nice just to see a small blurp about someone explaining basically how I feel.

I like the web for different things but they are in a bit of a state of conflict. Things like Wikipedia are virtually unaffected by webassembly while things like Twitter and Facebook might make good use of it.

The future has yet to be written but like the article I kind of just know we are in a transition period from what we have to ...something.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8URdhSigzjs
The percent of all taxes paid for by the top 1% has only held steady or gone up over time.
From the Show HN rules:

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This most definitely is not a Show HN.
Musk says $44 bln Twitter deal on hold over fake account data
Here's a short newsreel from the time that includes the flight footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sykfqa3MKAg
Lending is often talked about as "printing money" but isn't investing in anything other than money also able to do the same thing?

Some seed investor puts a million pieces of money into a company, that company starts getting a lot of customers, new people are willing to pay much more for pieces of that company. But now this company has gone from zero to lots of value, and so that first investor can behave like they now have a billion pieces of money instead of the million they had originally (whether that's cashing out a small amount, or borrowing against it). So if the economy grows in a non-zero-sum way, how do you avoid inflation? The total value in the system (due to the circulation of money and the productive activity) goes up, and lots of it isn't in the form of "pieces of currency."

Is there so much difference between "lending money" - giving money on the belief that the counterparty will pay you back more over time - and "investing" - giving money on the belief that the share of the thing will be worth more over time? In the absence of regulations, even someone like a bank who's holding other people's deposits could do either sort of investment (and so is VC just a special sort of "bank")?
That's a valid take individually but collectively it become invalid once widespread barter began and institional action bega. I don't see Chase offering Topps and Donruss in 401k plans, let alone Rolex and Omega packs. And criminal actors aren't asking to be paid with an amalgamation of granddaddy grade Colt 1911s and Spanish coins.
Sounds like you dodged a bullet to me.
Who cares if you personally can redeem them

I care because I don't require an intermediary to withdraw my USD "IOUs" from a normal bank.

In the case of Tether these intermediaries that decide whether or not I get my USD (Alameda, FTX, etc) are located on the opposite ends of the earth stockpiling cash by playing trading games and have a vested interest in ensuring I don't get my USD, especially when they don't have the full capital to redeem. You know this will eventually end up in a redemption crisis that will be magnified by shady loans/guarantees that attempt to stave off a de-peg but eventually blows up.

That's really the problem with Tether, they want to be a bank without the regulation, backing, or standard courtesies provided by banks. Everyone will eventually learn their 1920s banking lessons all over again.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1093/aepp/ppr011
So has economic productivity, total activity, and overall quality of life.

So how do you decide which correlations to believe in more than other?

I believe economic inequality is a problem, but the gold standard would be throwing the baby out with the bathwater, based on weak "look, these things happened at the same time" reasoning.

Economic inequality has been MASSIVE at many times in the past prior to modern currency, after all.
I never said that you'd get 2.4A @ 8mph wind. I just dropped all the other numbers by 1/3rd. I have no idea how fast the wind has to blow to get that level of power output.

I would be willing to bet that 8mph wind only gives you ~500mA of power (which is what USB v1.1 operates on), and that fancy internal battery is probably using off-the-shelf circuits so that you can charge phones.

This product sells* for $400+ CAD. You can buy several 10,000mAh battery packs for that amount of money, and probably have a lot of juice left over at the end of your camping trip. [Note: I just did some searching and an Anker 20,000mAh powerbank can be bought for $33. So I could buy 10 of them for less cost and probably not need to charge them for a couple of months.]

I'm kinda/sorta intrigued. The fundraiser page looks scammy IMHO, and is full of marketing fluff. I go bike-camping. Something like looks less practical then a 100w solar panel, but also more compact. Full sunlight is rare when/where I camp, I'm usually under tree-cover. That makes the solar panel weep, and is practically useless. I have to make compromises to make use of it. (i.e. the edge of a farmers field)

This turbine might require different compromises, but the best thing it has going for it; time. I could leave it operating for 2 days giving me 48hrs of charging time, compared to the 3hrs of direct-overhead sunlight I might get while camping. That's 16x the amount of time for 'energy generation'. Even at less then my 1/3rd rate of power, that might charge all of my battery banks.

I will wait for them to be built, and field tested by others. I'm not in a rush.

*Not shipping yet, but we promise soon! /sarcasm
> I mean if modern tech people had their way, the web would have never been anything but a bare data API on a blockchain, and no one without at least a bachelors' degree in CS or engineering would even know about it. And oh yeah, you'd need a license to publish anything.

They're looking for a technical solution to a social problem. They miss the Web as a space for people only like themselves. Having to share the web with normies who don't create out of _love_ or don't spend hours researching a small change like they want everyone to means folks different from them end up inhabiting the web. It's thinly veiled gatekeeping, a desire to make the web a space where only folks like them would inhabit.
In this case the Oracle is a consensus protocol where community nodes report the LUNA/UST rate.

But of course to make running such a node easy for users Terraform Labs distributes node software that reports a value chosen by Terraform. So in spite of the distributed consensus design the Oracle is just Terraform.
I'm pretty sure we already knew that plants can grow in soil, why did they have to go to the moon to prove it?
This is meaningless without more detailed numbers. If it's held steady or gone up by a few percent while, say, the percent of wealth and income received by them has gone up far more, then... whoops. They're better off.
it's incredible that we got WebGL, Web Assembly and a million other things that are neat, but not really crucial to a proper hypermedia implementation, but they can't give us DELETE, PUT and PATCH in HTML, even though they are sitting there in HTTP just staring us in the face!

the irony is that DELETE, PUT and PATCH are used today almost exclusively in non-hypermedia JSON data APIs

crazy world!
And awfully fragil pseudo-code, and hard-to-reproduce base data, and ridiculously extensive hyperparameter search, and specialty hardware, and proprietary libraries, and magic circumstances that a grad student with horrible sleep deprivation happened upon and now couldn't reproduce at gun point...
The way I like to tackle this is to interview sporadically, at least every other year when I have a stable job and I'm not actually looking. It takes the pressure off and if nothing else, can be useful to just practice my interviewing skills. When they ask why I'm looking, I tell them the truth... that I'm happy where I'm at but just looking around and that you never know what opportunity is out there. I don't see this as a question loyalty. You don't owe the company you work for anything any way. But it's a matter of you making life choices on your terms, and when you deal with the type of anxiety that I do, you have to take control lest it control you!
Those companies don’t come often, but you don’t need many winners to be all set.

I saw Google before the rise, Amazon, Apple, Bitcoin and Tesla. I only acted on Tesla after seeing all the other ones before but didn’t put my conviction into action.

It’s not very hard: you read HN daily/weekly and listen to the trends. Pick one that keep coming and interest you and dig deeper, you are not in a hurry as HN is way early in the cycle, the danger is being too early and giving up before it catch up. (Bitcoin)

Pick one big potential winner, calculate the expected value as good as you can Good/Bad scenario, place your bet, let the time do it’s thing.

An example of a bet I didn’t do: Bitcoin was 1$, I knew that if it worked very well it could go to 1M$. Let say you think that the probability of success is 20%: (1M$/1$)*20% = 200 000 to 1. You then place let say 5k$ on bitcoin and forget about it for 10 years.

At the moment, I don't see a trend that catch my attention beside AI and for the moment I think Tesla will be the winner in that trend.

Look up the book: one up on wall street
Sure; but lots of papers don't publish their raw data or their code.

Or they do publish their code but its full of obvious problems. Abstract: "Algorithm X (ours) outperforms algorithm Y". Then you go read the code, and they have a sloppy implementation of algorithm Y which is missing all the obvious optimizations. Actually, they often have sloppy implementations of both algorithms X and Y, because they're a student and they've never really optimized anything before.

So the conclusion of the paper is that some sloppily written code that you can't inspect outperforms some other sloppily written code that you also can't inspect. Wow.
Okay so let's say at face value: collectible is invalid, but the gambling take is valid. How does that explain 401k plans any better? Surely some aspect of both the gambling value and the perceived future appeal (what I call aesthetic) plays into this? Or what do you categorize crypto as, if not those two things? (I mean this curiously, as I appreciate these don't cover the illicit nature)
Sorry, I didn't know. If a mod could change the title that'd be much appreciated
I guess we have yet to find out if time ain’t Bitcoin.
I guess the easiest mitigation is an app that sends a false location of the pilot. Ideally near the target so they have a chance to receive some friendly fire.
Good old sensitivity analysis! :)
Luna didn't go to zero because the whole crypto market woke up and realized that was no intrinsic value to it. If it did, it never would've got as big or lasted as long as it did.

There was an explicit attack that crippled the peg to the point that their algorithmic stability mechanic couldn't self heal. Which led the Luna project to attempt to assist the peg by deploying their own reserves, which unfortuently didn't work.
Maybe. You could also just be screening out loyal people or people who don't like interviewing constantly. I'll let you hire the people that jump ship every two years.
Definitely would be interested in a single income (wife is SAHM) with kids base case.
Does that save us much time? In the systems I've worked on, the problems of deletions and edits aren't HTTP verbs, they're wild, complex business rules around authentication, authorization, auditing, etc.
> Even if you don't care about crypto, even if you think people who trade in crypto are idiots, please remember there are real humans behind these things.

I don't care. There is nothing, NOTHING you could say to make me care about selfish cryptocurrency assholes.
No, I was describing bacteriophages, assumed that that was obvious, and was pointing out that they would be more effective than the nanobots described in the article. The nanobots don't reproduce, and deliver antibiotics to the site of the infection (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsnano.1c11013). Bacteriophages reproduce at a phenomenal rate and overcome the problem of antibiotic resistance - they're not antibiotics, and they can evolve.
Speaking as someone who has been on the other side of the interview table for a customer service position, you probably focused on the tech side a little more than the people side. It sounds like you were probably over qualified as well. Usually we were looking for someone who would stick around for a while after they were trained.

Just something to consider. I hope your job search worked out or is going well.
Well the percent of the GDP that is taxed is pretty steady at 20%, which infers that spending/taxes grows at the same rate as income. Thus the rich are paying the same percent or more of their annual income over time.
I am that grad student. Lol
Bitcoin is a store of value, like gold. Not a currency.

Yes, it's very volatile and no, just like gold, it doesn't protect you from inflation in the short run. but, it does protect from inflation in the long run. It doesn't have the adoption of gold yet, that's why there's more risk, but also more upside too.
Noted! Thanks for the input - if you add yourself to the list we can keep you posted when we’ve built your case!
The very first thing I though of when I heard about the bitcoin reserves was “that’s a great cover story to hide extracting more solid currency out of an obvious Ponzi scheme.” And low and behold it can’t be accounted for. This is my surprised face.
You can email the mods on hn@ycombinator.com
I'm starting to grow more confident that we'll solve #3 in my lifetime.
I normally camp near running water, a more practical idea in this case would be a small water turbine, especially as water water enables smaller size for same power and generally constant flow so power output needed is less than generally intermittent wind.

The other thing is it doesn't say how noisy it is - bet you it's pretty annoying if it is making 40W, probably even at 15-20W.
I've ridden a few boom and bust cycles in crypto at this point.

One pattern I've noticed is that when you start hearing regular people on the street talking about buying crypto currency, its time to sell.
You definitely can return plates in California. They just don’t ask for them as a due course for any normal processes. But, you can choose to mail them in or turn them over to the clerk.
Interesting. Isn’t there a selection bias on the level of which pictures, of which restaurant, of which food by what type of people are actually taken and shared… I think this might skew what we see, away from an unbiased random selection of food impressions from the entire menu from each of all the (web-listed) restaurants, even with a perfect random selection of available images?
Longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Czech resort
> All of the most talented engineers at Heroku left

There are still plenty of talented engineers at Heroku.

I used to do architecture work and support for enterprise customers and I knew the whole support team. Heroku support engineers are all devs or former devs; I am surprised at how passionate they can be about their work (ex: Jason, who STILL keeps the subreddit updated in his spare time).

I do think there are situations where support can't help, but those are usually situations where Heroku is probably not the right place to host a service. They can't help you setup crypto miners on the platform, or to setup a redirect service. If you don't like how the platform works, they can drop in suggestions on what to change, but they aren't going to be able to implement them overnight. You might get ideas on restructuring your app to work better on Heroku, which I admit is quite frustrating for a customer; but limiting the problem domain is part of building a service like Heroku.

Heroku's support structure didn't have a half dozen escalations, which was good IMO.

If you run into an issue on the platform, there is usually the support engineer and then engineers who developed it. This might have changed around when I left (my team was mostly eliminated during the pandemic), so I'm not particularly up-to-date on recent changes. However, the system they had in place when I was there felt much better, as a developer who needs help, than the support I currently get from (large IAAS provider), despite myself doing work for a major customer of theirs.
whenever i hear or read a google SRE resource, i’m most impressed by their back of the napkin calculations. it’s a skill i wish i had but don’t have opportunities to do it or even validate that i’m in the right ball park
You're still on Heroku..?
Let's test it at the NREL National Wind Technology Center!
Not to excuse such behaviour, but it can be explained in part by minimising time sucking emissions which are typically most noxious when a ICE is accelerating. So these jerks wishing to get upwind of accelerating tail-pipes is rational, even if selfish.
A standard university computer science degree is 4 years full time. Generally past that age it's not possible to put your life on hold to go to school full time, so even 4 years can be pushing it.
Then that SGI team broke out to form ArtX, developed the GameCube hardware, then were snatched up by ATI and went on to form the foundation of ATI, now AMD GPUs
Lmao
Nice one
So, if you define "land" as including domain names, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and electromagnetic spectrum, then sure, almost all money comes from "land". I would say that at that point, calling it "land" is pretty misleading, though. A right-wing Georgist who wanted to communicate ought to call it something else, like "monopoly control" or something.

> after zero interest rate policy, quantitative easing, helicopter money and debt amnesties, the only choice is between a war and georgism.

Objection, your honor. Assumes facts not in evidence.

Many Georgism advocates seem to have this idea that Georgism is this magic formula that is going to fix everything, and the only alternative is catastrophe. Even by those standards, though, this statement seems rather extreme. Can you defend it, rather than simply assert it?
Musk said he wanted to get rid of the Twitter bots, but is now afraid there are too many of them?
Is it definitely backed? As far as I know there has never been satisfactory proof that USDT has ever been backed by anything.

Yes fractional reserve banking is a real thing, but real banks must publish audited financial statements so that outside observers can asses the banks financial position. From small local banks to national reserve banks, the financial statements are out in the open for depositors and borrowers to scrutinize. This isn't possible with Tether because the fiat side of their books are closed.

If everything is above board at Tether why not release the books? It's such an obvious PR win and would increase adoption of their currency.

They haven't done so because they know the books are cooked.
How it broke is pretty well understood. Is there a path forward to save the ecosystem? I think this is the more interesting question
Yes, and death also enables reproduction without eventual overpopulation. Reproduction leads to mutation, which evolves the species.
What you say about most managers is true.

And yet, still the situation I described can arise for perfectly valid and rational reasons. Like if the context required for your 30 seconds of input is difficult to convey quickly - if you’re available on Slack but it takes you 15 minutes to get through all the questions everyone else has already addressed in your absence, then as long as there are 3 people you’re keeping waiting whose time is equal or greater in value to yours it isn’t at all inefficient for you to have been sitting there doing nothing but listening for an hour to get to that point.

Plus, the simple act of receiving information in a meeting is often valuable in itself, even if you as (one) recipient (of possibly many) don’t immediately perceive that value. Again I’ll plug High Output Management, which explains why far better than I can.
There's one cutely named Synthetix. If you look into the rabbit hole of "algorithmic stable coins", many of them use the same mechanism.

What made Terra interesting to me is that Luna is usable for paying gas costs. All equivalent systems that I've seen have a backing currency that has no uses other than minting synthetic assets or pure speculating.
> In 1984, at the dawn of the personal-computer era, novice software tester Roberta Walton stumbles across a bug. She brings it to its inadvertent creator, longtime programmer Ethan Levin, and the two embark on a hunt for the elusive bug
It’s not quite that simple, no? If I deposit 1M in the bank, that bank can loan you 900k. You then buy a Bugatti from me for 900k, which I then put into the same bank. Then the bank loans you 810k to buy an NFT from me…
And Maxwell is used in the Nintendo Switch, I guess that makes it mobile! This is a mostly pointless debate.
If a vault has a liquidation ratio of 150% and the value of the vault drops below that then the crypto in the vault is auctioned off for DAI.

If it's not able to raise enough DAI to make up for the DAI that was issued when creating the vault the protocol can mint and sell MKR for DAI to get rid of that debt.
The larger an organization grows, the more complex and arcane and bureaucratic it gets. More and more weird emergent behavior pops up that isn't directly related to the original charter of the organization. Companies, governments, academic institutions... all across the board.

Is it any surprise the code we right at the direction of these organizations does the same thing?

In other words, I don't think it's our relationship with code turning us into automatons. I think its our relationship with each other that pushes both our organizations and our code into those paths.
The net effect of ebikes isn't going to be for existing cyclists to buy batteries.

Like what is your point? That we aren't on a path to a perfect society? Do you think complaining is going to change that?
Solve homelessness in the state?

Nah..
I have no idea who exactly is or isn't a dictator, but there is a Spanish word for the situation when a democratically or legally elected leader acquires dictatorial powers by breaking down institutions: it's called an "autogolpe" or self-coup.

I realize it happens outside of Central and South America, but it's suggestive that there's a specific word.
I think it’s an unfortunate typo, OG’s profile links to https://uprise.us/
Yeah but it's $10, who cares?
And both foods are not a hot dog!
The OED also cheats a little by using quotes from other languages like Latin, which does not seem completely cricket. Definition 1 of Peer in the 1989 Edition has the following starting quote from the Magna Carta:

1215 Magna Carta xxi. Comites & barones non amercientur nisi per pares suos.

Counts and barons shall not be fined except by their equals.
That's why DAI isn't really an algorithmic stable coin. Overcollateralized stable coins really belong in their own category.

That's not too say that DAI is safe, but any sort of algorithmic stable coin faces massive systemic risks unique to their design.
They would rather complain and try to force the hand that feeds them.
Tether cuts commercial paper holdings, says majority of exposure in Treasuries
>...because the loss of any of those is worse in the long run than the distastefulness of supporting someone you may disagree with in the short run.

This argument doesn't hold water when we are talking about 2A though. Kids getting their heads blown off isn't the same as having an uncomfortable conversation with a Nazi.