skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should start selling before your product is complete, but I disagree that people will "give you money for anything that makes their pain point slightly less painful" (in some categories perhaps).

For consumer products, your product must cut through the clutter. For business products, it must exceed the hassles of buying (and it usually has to be a top 1-3 priority for the buyer).

Although absolutely start selling before you get there. For the feedback, not revenue.
That would be wonderful for betting markets on the outcome of elections.

Would it produce good governance do you think? I think, perhaps, the opposite.
It's easy to trade on crypto platforms with stable coins. A lot of people will typically buy tether and then use tether to buy other coins using the exchange of their choice. It works the other way around too when you want to store your value in a predictable form if a currency like bitcoin is doing a dip. Just convert your bitcoin to usdt and hold it there till btc starts going back up.
Providing evidence and arguments to support your claims is not "spoonfed bootlicking".

Your claim was: "NATO is a war-crime committing, human-rights abusing entity."

The first seems to be a link collecting data points for civilian casualties. I don't see any NATO actions on there; and in any case it's missing the further evidence that war crimes and human rights abuse occurred.

The second page, on the front page anyway, has nothing about NATO whatsoever as far as I could tell.
Yes, it turns out i must be a robot.
I guess that would be Serbia. But it is a bit pointless to have an alliance with one country.
I actually hate people disavowing themselves of responsibility here. While there is definitely some shady stuff in Crypto (particularly NFTs, which seem to be 99% scams), there's a certain level of personal responsibility required here.

People saw the meteoric rise of Bitcoin and got a serious case of FOMO. Everyone wanted to be on the next Bitcoin. This, ultimately, is the American Dream: to get rich by doing nothing other than getting lucky and being able to say how smart you are. Not by creating any kind of value.

People should be honest and admit (at least to themselves) that they didn't understand what they were investing in let alone believe in it fundamentally. They just wanted to get rich.
Sure, I have no problem agreeing to disagree. :)

I feel obliged to point out that "I trust that $BIG_COMPANY knows what they are doing" is very often in reality "There are gatekeepers inside the tech teams that are custodians of tradition". Been in plenty of companies and that's often the non-romantic truth.

I'd just end this by saying that a lot of teams don't make their calls in such a scientific and objective manner as you seem to imply. I wish that was the case but it's not what I've seen. Bad luck or me sucking at picking employers, I suppose.
It was Druckenmiller idea and analysis under Soros fund and management ; also Soros encouraged sizing the bet up, he could have done the opposite and the trade wouldn't be as discussed as it has been, I guess. So yeah, some credit should go to Druckenmiller, I agree, but it makes sense to quote Soros name.
This headline is needlessly aggressive. A massive bet one way or the other on a currency is all that was done and he was right. There's no "breaking" here.
Musk does not own Twitter yet, and won’t for months.
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But the entire point of Tether hinges on it being perceived as AAA.

No, the entire point of Tether hinges on everyone pretending that it's AAA, and just letting the Tether money printer lift all crypto boats.

Anyone paying attention knows its a fraud, but are happy to look the other way, because it's the reason BTC is $30K, instead of $600 right now. Sure, they'll lose whatever they have invested at the moment when the house of cards collapses, but if you can't predict when the music will stop, the smart move today is to keep playing.
> The web is the cross platform that runs everywhere (as in in a browser or webview)

Yes, but the web is crappy system for designing UIs in.

As a community we've got good at designing UIs with web technologies (HTML+CSS), because we have no other choice if you want to build web-apps. But the level of experience we've gained with those tools has hidden the fact that they have some real issues - mostly due to the fact that they've developed piecemeal over many years. Getting the layout of your page to behave correctly under all the circumstances it needs to requires a lot of experience with CSS, a lot of simple page behaviour we'd now expect as users require adding JS sprinkled around (and I'm not talking app logic, just UI logic).

I freely admit that I'm not great with CSS - I'm not a web developer although I have done some web development. If I do any at work (e.g. web UI for embedded device) I need a pro to come along and make things look nice. But when I did app development in Flutter it took about 2 days to be able to build screens that looked good, did complicated dynamic behaviour, and behaved reliably regardless of screen size and shape.
That makes ThinkPads with Linux look much different than before compared to MacBooks with macOS. (And save a lot of update/re-configure/re-install cycles...)
Nothing. 40%-50% drops (ie, far larger corrections than we’ve seen so far) are part of owning equities. They’re rare but they happen - and will happen again. And 30% drops aren’t even all that rare (https://money.com/stock-market-correction-chart/).

The possibility - some might say near-certainty - of a 40-50% drop at some point is why few people have the stomach for a 100% equity portfolio.
What, why? I've seen comma decimal separated values but I thought it was a weird English thing. What do these places use to separate larger values (e.g. each 10^3 magnitude increase) to make manual counting easier.

828.497.171.614,2?
Is there any mechanism today to prevent a bunch of gangsters attacking a Government's Central Bank like that?
>There are 10114 different coins listed.

And at least 10110 are shitcoins. We're now dealing with 2nd order memecoins. Dogecoins were the original memecoin but now we have Shiba Inu coins. Is there really any reason for anything other than BTC, ETH, and maybe XRP to exist at this point? Maybe XMR since it fulfills the original intent of privacy and anonymity, if not for the fact that governments are trying to stamp it out most exchanges don't want to touch it.
Funny thing is, the USA isn't "paying for everything".

The people who whine about NATO members "not paying enough" seem to think all the other NATO countries have got rid of their armies and are defended only by US troops permanently stationed there. That's not how it works: They all have their own defense forces. Trump was whining that those are not big enough (and he was probably even [at least mainly] right there), but that just means that if there is a war in any NATO country, it will only be able to do "too small a part" in its own defense, and the other ones (yes, given their size, mainly the USA) will have to help more than they otherwise would. But until that happens, this "missing money" doesn't actually come out of any US budget; it's just not being spent at all.

For once, not even "just another one of Trump's lies", but certainly a huge over-simplification by / for the more naïve of his followers.
> I say that navigation state should be in the URL.

That's a truism. You still have to decide what navigation is.

- opening or closing a modal

- switching between representations (example: grid view vs list view)

- collapsing / hiding major parts of the screen

- entering something into a search box

- turning knobs on a form that draws a graph

- drag and drop ui elements without side effects on the wider application

- the above with side effects on the wider application

All of these things and more have been implemented with or without changing the URL.
> "receivables from loans" can be worth nothing if it's a loan to someone with no assets.

Eerily sounding like CDOs from 2008, collaterised debt obligations.
> the Empire State Building can fit entirely inside of an n-cube with sides of 1 cm, for sufficiently large n. The length of the diagonal of such a cube grows without bound, and so does any constant-dimensional cross-section.

I still find this analogy confusing, because the units don’t match. The Empire State Building has some volume in cm^3, but the hypercube volume is cm^n. 1 cm^5 is not 100 times more volume than 1 cm^3, right?

Am I thinking about it wrong? I guess you can think about filling up a 3D cube with quasi-2D slices, is it like that?

Ah, thinking about the other comments a bit, you mean the diagonal of the hypercube can be larger than the biggest dimension of the building?
He did both, actually.

At some point he formed an opinion that Hungarian society would be better off if vaguely political organisations had more printers and copiers. (An local organisation to oppose tearing down an old building counts as political in this context. Really anything to do with civil society.)

So he bought several thousand laser printers/copiers and gave them to ~everyone. Several of the thousands went to fairly nasty organisations.
On windows, Notepad++ worked amazingly well when I was doing a lot of debugging of server logs at my old job.
Testing can’t prove the absence of bugs.
Here hoping I won't be called to war now ...
I have a 16xx card. It works fine.
i find most things murky if you really try to walk for a while.

I always find it interesting how i'm perceived. I didn't intend wage-theft as part of the idea. Also it is possible that there's people who are qualified to do this work (passenger/commercial endorsements on their driver's license), good character actors, and generally ethical.

I took it all as a thought exercise, anyhow. Having been on the hiring side of the table, i'm not the "team fit" or "social" interviewer. Technical and creative questions. I let people in their fields deal with how their interviews go.

So all told i wouldn't be in the position to hire someone to filter potential hires.
Not to mention that many of these supposed victims are arrogant assholes, whom I and others tried to warn in every possible way and we only got mockery and disdain in return.
DEA Investigating Breach of Law Enforcement Data Portal
> You’re only going to get suggestions from hot memory for whatever is cached on the nearby server cluster…
…cross referenced with advertising interests unless you are paying for Premium.

That sounds realistic. Do you have a source for this?
I love the word 'technics' to describe technology, it rhymes with 'ethics' etc, and sounds very 1960's scifi, Dune, etc.
This mentality of blaming the victim can muddy the waters and make it easier for criminals to get off the hook though.
Could push for increasing surveillance be related to the recent adoption of digital social credit, CBDC (digital currency), and predictive policy systems in EU countries such as itlay, Netherlands, denmark, and the US?

You would need a continous stream of data for building those.

It makes a lot of sense if you look at it as countries trying to replicate success of Chinese growth and systems which are highly centralized and depend on the above factors.
> none on retaining customer loyalty after an algorithm gets it wrong

Textbook monopoly.
This is my concern about the phone/tablet crap in modern cars…. My cars tend to go 5-10 years without significant problems. I worry the switch from dials and buttons to glass will either hardware-fail or die on a software update well sooner than that. It would have been so much better to offload that to a users phone so that the average purchase cycle would keep it up and running.

Phone’s got more cpu power anyway, and better connectivity. If you’re ponying up for a new car, I think it’s a safe bet you have a smartphone.
Read the comments on that post though.
solarphunk
Not every URL needs or wants to be understood by a user, but being able to share an URL and carry around specific configurations / state with that can be very useful, important even.
This is the only objectively correct stance. No ifs. No buts. This is a surprisingly clear cut war for modern times with one party (Russia) being the illegal aggressor and Ukraine being the heroic rightful underdog defender.

Every tank Ukrainians blow up is to defend their families for rape, murder and torture.

Nobody forced the Russians to invade. Any claim to such end is a deluded fabrication.

Pacifism is simply not a morally viable stance when a country is invaded by such a brutal force. We should not cheer the loss of life. But we should support 100% Ukrainian heroism and their efforts to defend their country.

Propaganda is one of the theaters of modern war. Ukrainians seem to be quite adept at it. But this does not make their position any more suspect.
Putin invades Ukraine to prevent it from joining NATO, so Finland decides to apply to joining NATO. That doesn't seem to improve their national security.
I tried MSFS in VR and it was also much easier because you are somehow much more aware of the surroundings (maybe because you move "camera" around the cockpit so much more). In VR I don't get lost so easily and always have an idea where the landing strip is.
Heya Justin :-) Thanks for the walk down memory lane (I had totally forgotten about axeman!) and the kind words.

A bit of nuance on the "terrible experience of trying to run Ruby apps" bit. I'd argue that the setup process for Ruby/Rails in 2006 was not all that much worse than other web stacks at the time e.g. Java/WAR or Perl/cgi-bin. (Although PHP+Apache+mod_php deserves a nod for being notably smoother than most others.)

What inspired us to start Heroku was that once we switched from building apps in other languages and frameworks, development time was reduced by a factor of 2 or 3; but deployment time stayed the same. That is, before Rails we'd spent maybe three months developing the first version of the client's project, and then 4-6 weeks on deployment. (This was usually buying and installing a rackmount server into their office or colocation facility, but sometimes also waiting for a managed hosting service to do the same for us. For small projects we could use Slicehost but those were infrequent because our clients usually needed a powerful database server.)

Once we were developing with Rails, we found v1 could be done in a month or even less. It felt incongruent to spend a month on developing the app (the differentiated part of our work) and then longer than that getting it deployed (the undifferentiated part).

There's many other inspirations that were part of the story (end-user programming / citizen developer, which led to the web IDE you talked about) but this was the "deployment pain" part of it. It sticks in my mind because we frequently had to answer the question from prospective investors: "Is Rails really that hard to install?" And we'd say, no, the game has changed--development is so much faster and joyful now, that by comparison our existing ways of deploying feel slow, error-prone, and boring.
Fair point - but you can't stake NFTs, can you?
> There are valid stablecoins like USDC (they hold sufficient reserves)

Those reserves are sufficient until they are not. There are always risks of losing the peg and anyone investing in them should be aware of and track the main ones. My 2c.
1% interest a day isn't worth very much when you discover they've ran off with your principal.
This. I am quite weary of the default dim view of humanity. We're not anywhere as bad as that on average.
The idea behind UST was that if it falls below $1, you can redeem it for $1 of Luna instead. The idea being that UST is "backed" by the activity on the terra Blockchain (fees are paid in Luna)

Of course, that means if UST is below $1 there is an arbitrage loop. buy UST at a discount, redeem it for Luna, sell Luna for USDC, repeat

This causes downward pressure on Luna's price. As Luna drops so does the faith in UST recovering, you end up with.... Luna dropping from $100 to $0.01, there's nothing backing UST effectively and it's still trading below peg (around $0.40)
Source: A couple of conversations with people in real life. If circumstances had been different these people would've been pushing Amway or similar.
> It's preposterous that we allow any kind of legitimacy to 'contracts' such as these

Big chunk of US GDP depends on IP, that IP is disproportionately in the hands of big corporations, big corporations can legally bribe, sorry lobby US politicians, we get anti-consumer legislation exported world-wide as a result.
this keeps getting proposed every few months and it keeps getting rejected
I’m surprised that they haven’t added the “recognition of Mars as a free planet” line. [1]

[1] https://futurism.com/starlink-terms-of-service-demands-users-recognise-mars-free-planet/amp
Thank you for bringing this up. This is a very good point. I have thought of hash URLs being obsolete outside of some neat CSS tricks and section anchoring. But they still serve a purpose outside of that and can even simplify server side handling in some cases.
No, they aren't. They're literally saying you should be a good parent to your children.

Your children - their physical wellbeing, emotional and mental health, behaviour - have a profound impact on you that, for good or for ill, will absolutely colour your own behaviour and decision-making at work.
The referenced "Rows" application seems to be the showcase app "Rows" listed at

https://flutter.dev/showcase
It depends on people, some people can get more information from document than others.
> But the OP-1 is literally the only piece of music gear you can bring on an airplane and write a whole song.

Apart from the several other great options mentioned in other replies, there’s also the Dirtywave M8. It, and the other tracker-style devices like the Polyend, actually make it much easier to write proper songs than the OP-1’s finnicky and unforgiving tape-based recording interface. (I own all these devices and have used them extensively.)

But if you are really serious about writing music on a plane just use a laptop and a modern DAW.
> But the OP-1 is literally the only piece of music gear you can bring on an airplane and write a whole song.

I have zero music talent or experience, so let me ask: Would there be something missing with a quality soft synth on iPad with GarageBand?

The hardware buttons, sure, but is it possible to write a "serious" song with such a setup (iPad, paid synth app)?
How many high net worth individuals can their possibly be in New Zealand?

It's a country of 5M. High Net Worth is usually top 0.1% (100M+) - that's like 2k families.

Or would foreigners use this service for some reason?
Wouldn't you just exchange it immediately to USD and not be affected by market.
99 problems and Tether ain’t $1
It’s not about area, but about actually physically placing an object in a higher dimensional object, like placing a long stick (1D) in a room (3D): the stick can be longer than the longest side of the room, but not by that much. In higher dimensions, this effect is more extreme.
I think list comprehensions (and generator expressions) already do (or did, in the past?) classify as FP.

In this context it seems a bit misleading to care about function call overhead (except for TCO) because Python is so slow overall. I'm usually seeing 30x when translating to C. (For pure Python of course, not PyPy or code making good use of numpy.)
That's a very fair price, just ordered one :)
.. and will now be recipients of billions in funding towards the cause.

Don't even try to pretend NATO isn't a major profit center for the American military-industrial complex. That is the only reason for its funding and existence in lieu of actual diplomacy and sane foreign policy.
cryptocurrency people telling me that burning money in exchange for a token is a good idea actually is the last thing I expected when I posted this

yet, somehow, I am not in any way, shape, or form surprised
Agreed.

On top of that, opportunity cost is a thing. If you pursue completely ineffective therapy - and spend time figuring out if your local acupuncture parlor uses dirty needles - you waste time and energy that would be spend pursuing worthwhile treatment.
The American dream is to make it through hard work, what you are referring to is simple greed and laziness and it’s been around since humanity attained consciousness.
Can confirm. Have a stable family is key to work success. Or put it other way, always put family first
I have never been under the impression that 2fa with telephone numbers was anything other than surveillance. Either by the company touting it as a security enhancement or by mitm.

And for the record don't think that apps that use the central messaging frameworks enforced by Google and Apple are doing anything different.
Every time I log in to my bank with Firefox or and device anywhere in the world, Google is told about it. In the real world this means that Google has to autorize my access to my bank.
> If they can do that then there is a bunch of money to be made.

Hoping to make money by betting on Tether collapsing is like taking out insurance against the event of a combined global thermonuclear war & genocidal alien invasion of the Earth.

If you win the bet, you won't have anyone to collect from.
Here's a question for tether "investors": why are you investing in something whose stated goal is to maintain a peg to the USD instead of, you know, just holding money in US dollars?

You're adding a bunch of risk for literally no upside.

The only thing you gain is to to trade that on the blockchain, which is really a response to the oracle problem.

So you've greatly increased your risk with no upside to slightly increase your utility. That doesn't seem like a good deal.
That Finland and Sweden should recognise the Croatian sub-part of Bosnia-Hercegovina as an independent country, IIUC.
Why is a car manufacturer going to keep the mobile apps they made for your model of car up to date enough to install on the next 10-15 phones you and future owners buy?
So it's meant to bypass the slowness of ACH and other aspects of the traditional banking system that the USD is limited by? Interesting.
3) Call it "Russian exclave that hosts missile systems" then, not "Russia has nuclear weapons inside NATO" because someone who's not familiar with European politics, borders might read it as "Russia installed missile systems inside NATO country" which is simply not true. It's quite important to be precise on this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Digit_groupi...

They use spaces or dots.
This is just my headcanon but I think of the punk in solarpunk as being metatextual: it's not rebelling against its own world, it's rebelling against ours, and against the pervasive pessimism of capitalist realism. I think we need something like that in a time where most fictional futures are dystopian.
That was the leading thought before we were shown how ineffective Russian conventional military is.
Mine is a bit meta, but don't take advice from random people about creating million dollar businesses. Always check the profile of the person giving the advice first.

Same applies for people teaching about SEO and marketing. It's very important to check who is giving the advice as a lot of advice seems to make sense in theory but doesn't translate that well practically.
There are many other options available - the groovebox market is booming right now. Even if you don't consider traditional grooveboxes like the Digitakt suitable for creating an actual "song", options like the Polyend Tracker are available and the modern MPC devices are basically a DAW-in-a-box now, complete with software synths.

The OP-1 is cool as hell, but realistically it's a £500 musical toy marked up to £2,000 simply because hipsters latched onto the design and marketing of it.