skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked at a startup with a sick product that wowed every person we demoed it to, from investors to users to consumers that would see it on their devices. It was ahead of its time, now all the major phone manufacturers have their own variation baked into their OS.

It failed for a few reasons, none overtly technical. The product was feature complete by the time we ran out of funding. All we needed was someone to pay for it, which proved harder than you'd think.

The first problem was that it wasn't possible to advertise direct to consumers. For technical reasons it needed buy in lower in the stack, it wouldn't work as an app. Even if we hacked that together we'd either need users to jailbreak their devices for it to be seamless, or to get it into one of the major existing apps. We actually had the latter lined up with one of the biggest platforms out there today, which was around 6 months from launch when we folded.

The problem was that the tech itself was well defined. It was a piece of software users were very familiar with. However, the way that software is typically purchased is by individual users and not platforms - we wanted to innovate in that regard by giving the software away for free, but licensing the stuff made with it on the platform. Not only was this unheard of, the real money in the industry was hardware solutions - think multimedia chips. License the protocol for free to anyone that wants it (or even pay people to use it!), but sell chips to hardware manufacturers for the decoder. Since we didn't need hardware we couldn't go that route, and convincing someone to pay for something that they had never spent money on was inherently difficult.

Compounding that difficulty were some major issues: the first was that it could never directly translate into higher revenue. We'd need a months long pilot program to indirectly measure that. Secondly, the way the businesses purchase technology like it meant that it required individuals with tons of sway in business to get together and agree to fund and purchase it. At the time, meetings got delayed months and months because remote work hadn't taken off.

And lastly, possibly most importantly, the client that had the best odds to make the first big sale, and had a handshake agreement to buy it, was also an investor. Once it became clear that things weren't great for us they would rather let the company die and buy it out from under them at a discount, well below what they would have paid for the product. Like I said, it was virtually feature complete - you don't even need to retain staff to just buy the widget and have anyone they already paid to keep it up to spec.

The lesson I took away from this was that users are more important than demos, even if they don't pay. And chasing big paydays from large companies with complicated decision making processes is extremely risky, and not worth the time investment from a small team if you can be iterating on better product market fit. Finally, not all innovative business models have legs and you need to cut your losses early.
Coming from WAPO (owned by Bezos), this article can only be seen as an attempt to frame the narrative as Baudelaire and his contemporaries become hot in the "Theorygram" universe.

Discarded
You realize that “fiat currency” really means “by fiat” as in “by law”.

The law says the dollar is the legal currency of the US and they will (or would) literally take away your liberties if you threatened their monopoly over money.
GTA: San Andreas or Genshin Impact will consume several times that space on iOS, indeed.
Abiogenesis has nothing to do with aliens: it’s the conclusion of “[t]he classic 1952 Miller–Urey experiment [that] demonstrated that most amino acids, the chemical constituents of proteins, can be synthesized from inorganic compounds under conditions intended to replicate those of the early Earth.”

It’s terrifying that basic science can be dismissed so easily.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis
As were some cities too.
I am. But sad at the same time that this catastrophe has to happen to filter out all those bullshits. Blockchain can be cool, but it really needs to be free of toxic scammers.
You’re not unpacking anything in what I said, you’re just disagreeing with each point, and each disagreement is mostly rooted in a misunderstanding of what I’m saying.

My point is that the code, and all it’s material constructs that you pointed out (loops, allocation etc), do not exist apart from the business, because it’s the only reason those things exist in the first place. I’m not sure how much experience you have, but if you have enough, you should know how easy it is for an engineering team to become disconnected with the goals of the company. I’ve seen devs waste literal months on things that, had the primary stakeholders known about it, they’d never have agreed to.

Now, you could look at that situation and envy the job security. Sure you could just see yourself as just a cog in the machine, with no responsibility whatsoever in wondering why the fuck you’re doing what you’re doing. But I certainly would not hire you.
Don’t exactly have to be passionate about the product, but I would say they are passionate about the work they do. Getting something off the ground (especially solo) does require some motivation.
Come to Albuquerque and you’ll see a lot of wind.
Yeah, I could wax rhapsodical about my Emacs config and the HUGE productivity boosts I get by using and programming Emacs. But let's be real. I'm likely to get one of two reactions.

If the interviewer is 50 or so, or older: "Emacs... people still use that?!"

If the interviewer is under 50: "Emacs... what is that?"

Either way I'm going to get dinged for clinging to a clunky, obscure editor that's not even from this century.

So next time an interviewer asks me what my favorite editor is, I'm going to tell them VSCode, because it has the best tooling and most developers use it.
2GHz, 2-port VNA adapter for SDRs
The one I’ve heard ends with “transporting underaged gulls across staid lions for immortal porpoises”
SRE = Site Reliablity Engineering
> When it comes to "backed" stablecoins like USDT the scam is even simpler: you just say it's backed by cash when it's not.

This is such a silly argument. USDT is definitely backed by USD. To claim that it isn’t is just a lie. I think what you meant to imply is that it’s not backed 1:1. This isn’t only an issue with Tether. This is the case with any fractional reserve banking system.
I mostly agree with this
> This seems a personal opinion and unhelpful. Others might say avoiding porn is pathetic

No. Being a pathetic wanker who beats it to videos of things he lacks the agency to experience personally is in fact objectively shameful.
I only do that in the title. The actual article uses the term "cryptocurrency" throughout
If you are so scared of inflation (which is fair, so am I), just buy inflation indexed bonds.

As for crypto, there is no fundamental mechanism that guarantees it will appreciate more than inflation on the long run.
> I nearly exploded from my nerves

Why? Why not just calmly explain the situation? Why let your emotion get the best of you?

I saw you disregard someone else's advice as well earlier, I think you're forgetting that you have to mould yourself around what the market wants not the other way around.
See every patch ever in a game. Especially competitive or mmorpg. Exploiters love bugs!
There were 4 major bills passed, as well as many executive actions. This was not a one time piece of legislation that caused inflation.

The latest major bill, $2T dollars worth, was passed 1 full year after Covid lockdowns started... at a time where markets were reaching bubble levels, housing was appreciating at a double digit rate, unemployment rate was already dropping .5-1% per month.

Student loans are still in forbearance even today, despite being proven to be largely regressive and contributing to inflation (billions a month in spending power). Those who didn't go to college are footing the bill for this. It seems you're not a very rational minded individual... or simply misinformed of the timeline.

Many people don't seem to understand that a labor market this tight is a death knell to the downtrodden. They will be laid off when unemployment spikes after the Fed achieves their inflation fighting goals. Defeating the entire purpose of the stimulus and effectively making that money wasted, while we're left with high inflation and worse wealth inequality than ever before.

The feel good policy of spending excessively and avoiding inflation fighting has proven to fail many times in history. The 1970's in the US being the most relevant.

Also worth noting, that Larry Summers, the treasury secretary under Clinton argued exactly that the ARP would be inflationary. There were many voices calling this out that were ignored
Most of Tether's MC increase has come since the pandemic started. Since then roughly $70B+ USD has been handed to Tether, who have used that $70B+ to purchase backing assets at heavily inflated pandemic valuations, corporate paper of suspect ratings, loans of USD for BTC at high prices, etc.

This all works if the assets are stable and inflation continues. If the assets behind Tether are deflating or turn to junk they'll increasingly be unable to redeem.

Part of keeping this going is not allowing average retail to redeem their Tether for USD (imagine a one-way bank where you can deposit but not withdraw) and working with the larger crypto trading shops to shore up short-term liquidity issues.

A partial asset backing is not necessarily a bad thing (fractional reserve banking), but banks are far more firmly backed and regulated by the USG and have FDIC guarantees. The longer assets deflate and recessionary pressures increase the higher statistical likelihood of an eventual bank run on Tether.
I think you missed my point, some (possibly most) literally can't afford to do what you're suggesting early in their life. It comes from a place of financial and psychological security.

I suppose it also depends on your country, but at least here in the USA, that's hard to come by (especially for the lower / middle class).

Being able to be discerning about a job is a privilege that not everyone has. As someone who finally can, I'm happy to acknowledge that rather than pretend other folks are doing something wrong.

I don't disagree that they'd be dodging a bullet, but some folks have to take a bullet to get health insurance, pay the bills, and god knows what else given their circumstances :)
Luckily the main page continues on past that if you scroll down and tells you about the modules included and things that use the frequencies those modules speak.
There's no "stopping being on chain" (not sure exactly what you mean by that).

But as for stopping all transactions:

None of the other major ones have their own blockchain but are smart contracts on other chains. However, at least both USDC and USDT have mechanisms in their smart contracts to freeze accounts and transactions. I have not looked up TrueUSD, not sure how that works.

DAI does not.
We see how many went to jail in 2008 when the ‘real’ economy had trouble…
> protection from governments, criminal transactions

My understanding is that besides some exceptions like Monero, most crypto is really bad for privacy.
> Bitcoin is inherently deflationary

Bitcoin is inherently inflationary - the number of coins increased each epoch. Monetary inflation is just increasing the money supply. Price can go up or down. Price inflation is an increase in price.
yeah TSLA has to be feeling like a big of a golden cage at this point. 20 more years of making cars? sounds exciting
As I understood, people were taking loans at exorbitant interest rates because they could invest it back into some Anchor or UST related tokens and get even more profit. This is not a realistic business model.

Here is a quote from a random article:

> A popular strategy that many have used was the recursive lending strategy, this involved:

> 1. Depositing bLUNA as collateral on Anchor

> 2. Borrowing UST to buy LUNA

> 3. Swap LUNA to bLUNA to repeat Step 1

Regarding this:

> The other half was from Luna Foundation dumping money into Anchor's reserves.

And where do those money ultimately come from? I guess from unlucky investors who bought UST/LUNA and were left with useless tokens? Then this resembles a classic Ponzi scheme.

[1] https://medium.com/qi-capital/lessons-learned-from-the-may-c...
Hah. Thank you =). Great fun.
Tough subject and its hard to just drop the child 'has a brain defect'. Anybody want to speculate about the slippery slope of how the anti-choice movement can make passing on bad genes a crime?
Better yet, the cattle ranchers.
So are you saying you just want the web as it is? If not, what would you change? How would you prevent it from becoming what it is now?

I don't see why a document couldn't have a link to an application that opened next to it, so that you could view documentation and an application together. We should utilize the organizational ui paradigms built into our operating system, not use the system as a launcher for Chrome.

The effort is being done whether its all in one application or split into two.

It has to be siloed because if it isn't, you won't be able to find the document you want to read without running application code, as we see with the modern web. It's not a search issue, I find the documents I want to read just fine, it's just that they come with megabytes of executable code I don't want to run.

It would be nice if a client could only implement the rich stuff that it wants to, unfortunately, when the rich stuff is all different everywhere, it means only clients that support all of it get used, hence the current state of web browser development.
Could it also be that infants are pumped with 30+ vaccines at this time? Of which we have no longitudinal studies on safety of this procedure. (not antivaccine, anti-stupid-processes)
In my opinion the difference is that value of the collateral is mostly independent from the value of DAI. DAI going below $1 doesn't cause the price of USDC or ETH to go down.
Actually, the fact that Bitcoin can't inflate is the biggest tell it will never work as a currency. There are a set number of bitcoins that can be mined and no more after that. It's fundamentally incapable of inflating. And that's f**ing dumb for a currency. Inflation at certain levels is good and necessary. A deflationary currency makes certain low margin economic activity extremely unattractive versus just sticking your money under the mattress ('hodl' in other words). Inflation encourages spending, your money is worth more now then it is later, so if you're going to build that new building or design that new product, better to do it now. You want inflation low enough that it doesn't punish people for saving but still provides an incentive to spend now. Economists put that number at around 2 percent. Perfectly possible to save for a house or retirement but still enough to give a push. Deflationary currencies punish economic activity- if you have to take out a loan to accomplish something every day that goes by afterward the money you owe represents more and more real value without the numbers changing, representing a significant deterrent. Some of the worst economic crises in history, including the great depression, were marked by significant deflation.
Shit happens in wartime.

Mostly we hear about things like that a long time afterwards:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Tiger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieppe_Raid

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2018/12/25/battle-of-demya...
I got all those vaccines myself and the article (i dont see) mentions vaccines at all. So, despite your claim, you seem to be concerned about vaccines.
This article is a reprint, BTW. I read this story days ago somewhere else too.

edit to add ... SIDs been around before vaccines: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31239970/
In which case there is no volatility — 1BTC is still 1BTC.

For that matter, 1 LUNA is still 1 LUNA.
It's not just about finding just text to read, it's about finding the documents you want to read and not having to run arbitrary application code to read it.
Worth pointing out that this is dated Feb 22, 2022, when things in this space were a bit different.
True in almost all aspects of life.
Here's the book you're looking for. It's the same patterns going back to the 1700s, just with different instruments:

https://www.amazon.com/Lying-Money-Legendary-Frauds-Workings...
I gave this a try today. It was silky smooth! Is it possible to tell Swagger to omit OPTIONS methods?
Love this! If you can pull in info from Slack/Discord convos that would be a big unlock. Do you plan to make this available to private repos shortly? Would love to try it out on an internal one, as we always find ourselves repeating information when onboarding new team members.
Nobody really knows the exact mechanism that forms the beams, but the beams definitely do not shoot out of the black hole. Of course that’s usually what you see in an artist’s depiction of them, but that’s a whole different problem.

The beams come from the accretion disk. There are two opposing beams because the disk has two opposing faces. The profile of the disk is narrow, so it stands to reason that very little radiation would leak out around the edge. On the other hand, there is a black hole in the middle of the disk and that should be smearing the beam out quite a lot. Somehow the magnetic fields and currents within the disk must conspire to keep the beam fairly narrow.
1. Theoretically a tax against potential earnings is actually good, but it's much more difficult to estimate than land prices.

2. LVT is mostly about redistributing rents, with the land use efficiency bonus as a big second order benefit.

3. Professions aren't exclusionary. A person doesn't squat on their teacher gig for 20 years in order to see how their claim on being 1 of finite-X allowed software developers might rise in price. Other people would just become software developers.
Over $1.2B in Bitcoin reserves remains unaccounted for by Luna Fdn. Guard
>only in America

I agree with everything else, but Europe is dealing with even worse inflation than the US and the ECB is being even more dovish.
If you're a market maker, why wouldn't you? Your whole value-add is that you provide liquidity to folks who want to sell but can't find a buyer (a service in pretty high demand for LUNA right now), sell it at a later time point when there are relatively fewer sellers and relatively more buyers, take on the risk that there will never be fewer sellers and more buyers, and pocket the difference in spread. There's obviously risk in this, but if your business is market-making, you presumably have statistical models of this risk that you incorporate into the price you're willing to pay.
There are already a few in California. Environmentalists don't like them, so there will be no real expansion of them and certainly not to the level of being a net exporter.
Another boulderite checking in... Boulder is right on the foothills and mostly on the plains, not the mountains...you can just get to a mountain within 10 minutes.
> Render, fly, even Netlify

Pretty sure none of these can run any JVM applications. Heroku can, very easily.
Bitcoin is limited until a sufficient number of stakeholders decide that the number should increase. While it may be true that this will never happen, it isn't bounded by physics or math.
just buy inflation indexed bonds

It isn’t that simple. Inflation indexed bonds have a coupon and a factor.

As inflation goes up, the factor goes up. Yay, keeping up with inflation!

But as market interest rates go up, the price of your bond with the lower interest rate goes down. Boo, crippling losses!

Now you can buy Series I Bonds to avoid this interest rate risk (i.e. duration) but you’re limited to $10,000 per year per social security number.

If you’re worried about inflation the best thing to buy is a productive asset. Like stock in a profitable business. That is… until so many people do that it makes every company wildly overpriced.

Wow this stuff is hard.
Where would https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ fall? In the document web or the application web?
But they’re a distinct string syntax. Your point seemed to be that there was only one. rf"{expression}" works in Python too, note, so either way you want to interpret it, raw strings aren’t a difference.
> “No other state in American history has ever experienced a surplus as large as this,” Mr. Newsom said, outlining revisions to spending he first proposed in January for the 12 months starting in July.

As if that has something to do with how incompetently the state is run, rather than the inflation caused by the Fed and enormous federal overspending.

> Once again, as California heads into a gubernatorial election, the massive surplus allows Mr. Newsom to sprinkle cash across the state.

Once again, rare gains will be spent on vote buying, and next year when record budget deficit hits California, they'll whine how they have no choice but borrow more and increase debt and taxes.
Indeed, the book Money by Jacob Goldstein, co-host of NPR podcast Planet Money, talks precisely about this in regards to the gold standard. One reason that it was taken off the gold standard was because monetary policy could not be fully leveraged well when every dollar was worth some amount of gold. One couldn't print new money during recessions to restart the economy, and one couldn't remove dollars from the money supply in a boom period.
SES is great, but I prefer to use postfix.
> Have you ruled out power supply issues and are you running at stock clocks (for CPU and RAM as well)?

Yes for both. No overclocking whatsoever.

> Anyway, going from "at least once a week" to "once every 3 months" means that 90% of your crashes have been fixed.

I don't think I'm supposed to be ok with a device I paid premium money for crashing once every three months with no explanation from the manufacturer. They could've fixed 99% for all I care, it's still absurd that it's even an issue in the first place.

> What kind of message would you expect that would be more decipherable.

One that would lead me to an actual solution or at least an explanation, not just year old threads of people reporting this exact issue with replies saying it was fixed in kernel version X, where X is different for each thread.
"inflation indexed bonds"

Practically useless. The government only allows each person to buy $10k of I-bonds.
What data do you have regarding social sciences beyond a trendy take?
>DJI spokesman Adam Lisberg tells The Verge himself that he has been misinformed all along about how AeroScope works by his Chinese R&D colleagues

Thats really bad if they're even lying to each other internally how this works.
> really useful ventures like large infrastructure projects

give me an example of large infrastructure projects like this. The only examples i can think of are things which gov't fund via tax payer money, and don't expect to be able to reap private profit off; things like roads, rail, electrification of the grid etc.
“It all started this weekend. Over $2 billion worth of UST was unstaked”

Someone with $2B did the math using the new higher rate of inflation and pulled out of an asset that doesn’t produce anything because it has simply become less attractive. This pattern will keep repeating until inflation drops.
> Isn't cryptocurrency all about getting rich quick?
> That's definitely why 99% of people are into cryptocurrency

The vast majority of people in the space, and their expectations will end up deciding the future of the space. It doesn’t matter how cool the tech is, the mob is there to make money, and anything that promises so (including BitTorrent the company issuing crypto tokens) will get money, hype.

By being in the space, a hacker lends it legitimacy, and this spreads to the remaining 99% projects as well no matter what they’re for.
Where do you get 6-9 inch storms weekly?
> It's the most efficient way to use energy for security that there is.

After a halving, when BTC pays half as much to miners, does it get twice as efficient? Or half as secure?