skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone with more knowledge of finances and crypto explain this to me?

From the outside Tether always seemed like a scam. The characters involved scream scam and a stablecoin seems very easy to siphon off money from. So long as you assume that the number of Tether dollars held never drops by 80% then you can just pocket the 20% (of the giant number) and pay off withdrawals with new inflows. Due to the lack of regulation this seems like it would be easy to pull off - at least for awhile.

Is there reason to believe this isn't what's happening?
Agreed. I think that any complaints from tech executives about “coddled” employees are simply cover. Unless and until they also cut their own massive salaries and stock benefit plans, it’s all just additional warfare on the people who actually make the stuff that they hawk. It’s rare for workers to have leverage in the modern labor market, and the investor class won’t be happy until that leverage is removed.
> I was responding to a comment which was referencing Q1 2022.

There is nothing referencing Q1 2022 on this thread.

> Alas, that has not happened yet, and the market is more complex than net income trajectories

The comment you replied to didn't state that the market is simply net income trajectories.
Having read my fair share of papers, I've noticed a few large areas which call into question the reproducibility of a worrying percentage of papers, to the point that I view CS as not much better than the social sciences:

- Papers that can't publish their code due to NDAs (thankfully, reputable journals aren't accepting this with the same frequency they used to, but there's still a large body of existing papers published in reputable journals that fall into this category)

- Papers whose datasets are not disclosed despite being essential since you can't just go and generate your own data unless you have ultra-specialized equipment laying around (typically this is also due to NDAs)

- Papers that rely on specific software versions in specific configurations and will break after the paper is published and the authors stop maintaining it ("oh btw this only runs on kernel 3.6" - security conferences are still rife with this stuff)

- Papers that rely on not just specific software versions but things like environment size and link order for their benchmarks (this was called out specifically in [0])

In theory, this should all be easy to reproduce, but in practice, it rarely is. Especially since many papers that do have code and datasets available upon request will have said code and data lost to time as professors move around, files get routinely purged, and the project is forgotten about.

It sucks because there have been some interesting papers I've read that I really wanted to check out the code for, only to find out that everything was lost when the fileserver went belly-up (and nobody had been testing the backups) or when the first author left and IT automatically purged the home folder it was stored in.

[0]: https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/courses/322-2013-sp...
Some of these sound like they could be interview questions today.
this kind of assumes that the only goal of an economy is to avoid recessions. growth is also very important to the average person, and the gold standard does not optimize for that
On mobile, a popover shows up in the middle of the screen about the 'Bancor Network' with no close option. Only way to get rid of it seems to be to click on it.

This seems like a great way to make sure no one wants to read your site..
Because when everyone else stops investing, and starts hoarding their dollars due to deflationary pressures, the economy stops, and so does your ability to earn dollars.

I don't like brushing my teeth, but it's preferable to getting meth-mouth.
Disable what's not neccessary with O&O ShupUp10++.
They make money in the sense that they transfer money from the gullible to the unscrupulous, while heating the environment in the process.

It isn't evident that any lasting value is actually being created or that it isn't a zero-sum game.
We’re living with Covid but more of us are dying than ever
I also joined the industry (over) ten years ago, and I'm pretty sure people were saying similar things.

if you're good, you're good. no need to be terrified.
> But you need a medium to use photons

Since the speed of light in a vacuum is the prohibitive speed limit of Relativity, I always felt we should develop a medium in which light moved faster than it did in a vacuum, and I swear I've read an article about such a material which was referred to in the article as "ruby," and the images of it reminded me of those glass things at the Fortress of Solitude in Superman (1978). If such a material exists, it would not only make photon computers very fast, but make it possible to violate causality without violating Relativity.
The rest of the lanes are also often moving slowly through that section just due to traffic volume. This is what happened in that video: the driver accelerated slightly and started passing cars once in the exit lane (nothing to do with negotiating with entering cars).

If this theory is correct, then presumably you’d want the exit lane to be shorter. However, it did seem like many crashes were at night, which wouldn’t have this problem. Maybe there are just edge cases either way, and the near immediate stop light creates an situation that can’t be mitigated.
jbq wrote fantastic essay on a similar topic, Dizzying but Invisible Depth [1]. There was also an HN discussion at the time [2].

[1]: The original was posted on Google+ and is, of course, long-since gone. Wayback machine also doesn't seem to have captured it, but I found https://josh.works/dizzying-but-invisible-depth, which matches what I remember.

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3115951
One misconception in the article is that lots of people would like two houses, for example vacation homes, or work and weekend homes.

They say "At the extreme end, you can’t have more households than there are people", which I think is incorrect thinking.

It really matters when looking at houses getting built, because if those houses are holiday homes, then most analysts really screw up their analyses because the averages look like they improve, but actually the majority of people have no improvement.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.

The number of times I've seen that play out over my life is staggering.
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I also had similar thoughts without the eloquence of this article. The one area I disagree with the author is:

> Rule #1 is don’t make a subset. If the replacement for the web is just whatever features were in Firefox 10 years ago, it’s not going to be a compelling vision.

If you don't want a subset, and you like markdown, then gemini seems like the answer. It is definitely gaining popularity but I'm not convinced it's enough to convert the general audience.

I think supporting everything but javascript for the "document browser" would automatically enable a ton of websites and make it easier for creators and consumers to use the tools and languages they already understand.

https://erock.lists.sh/browser-monopoly
Thanks for sharing! I'm quite surprised I didn't come across this project in my research.

> I assume you're trying to address the need of those who want a Go back-end but with modern JS front-end?

Yes, that's a big reason. Half of it's preference, the other part is that most of the JS frameworks don't provide a cohesive solution for sending emails, queues, scheduling tasks, etc. The backend is a larger part of your web app than most JS frameworks give it credit for.

Their stance is to outsource the backend to third-party services, but then you're stuck piecing all these SaaS's together. I like the approach Laravel takes here: provide interfaces for Mailers, Queues, Scheduled Tasks, File Storage, etc. then provide implementations for SQS, S3, Mailgun, etc.

Just answered the question about SSR + V8 above!
It's easy to dismiss "basic science" when it comes from people who say things logically equivalent to "abiogenesis explains abiogenesis so it's clearly not a big deal". The least you can bring to this discussion is a Wikipedia-level understanding of the terminology. And the "aliens" comment was clearly a reference to panspermia, which last I checked remains an unlikely but still viable explanation for the origin of life on Earth. This was obvious to me, who was raised Creationist, so if you missed it you're either not as educated in "basic science" as you think or are playing dumb to make a point for... people who mostly believe in evolution already? I don't know, dude, just chill.
Perhaps I have been reading too much about the Wirth-descended programming languages, from Pascal to Clascal/Object Pascal, Modula-2, the Lilith workstation and Oberon the language (for which there are many implementations that cover almost all OSes and architectures); but I wonder if Wirth languages were more prevalent, with their emphasis in regularity and ease of reading... would the tone of this discussion be different?
Can't believe how accurate this is! Add some accompanying material like a paid course or a short book, where the person goes into more detail and you're good to go.
Getting cgo to cross-compile while targeting less popular architectures can be a royal pain: I was trying to use cgo to add official SQLite to a Go app that I had running on a long-abandoned (by OEM) mips/linux 2.x kernel "IoT" device with an equally ancient libc. It was a sisyphean task that absolutely nerd-sniped me, I spent way too much time on the building toolchains and trying to get them to work with cgo. I ended up going with a Go-version of SQLite
The story has been picked up by the WSJ[1] and includes the following text confirming it is a recent change:

> A Netflix spokesman said the company updated its culture page on Thursday for the first time since 2017. He said Netflix had spent the past 18 months discussing cultural issues internally with employees. The new language was added, he said, “so that prospective employees could understand our position, and make better informed decisions about whether Netflix is the right company for them.”

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/netflix-to-employees-if-you-don...
> It's a miserable job unless you really enjoy it because everyone will (and should) blame you when things go wrong

The idea that intelligence or hard work or danger justify executive pay defies common sense.

People keep arguing it because they can't think of something better, and there must be some reason for a persistent feature of reality.

But maybe a better explanation is simply that CEOs are being bribed, not to deliberately, neglectfully, or ideologically, wreck everything.

If your job is to steer a huge ship, then the job might not be that difficult, but someone underpaid, and unmotivated could easily have tremendous impact on everybody else.

And if money is the tool that you have, then you want people whose loyalty can be bought - possibly implying they have a neurotic attachment to money as a scorekeeping method.

Of course that often doesn't work, but you can't stop trying.
Nice sleuthing! Bud heavily relies on https://github.com/rogchap/v8go
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I’ve done a lot of backpacking and tried various approaches inluding solar panels but I’ve settled on bringing a good 10,000mah rechargeable usb battery pack. With this I can keep my garmen inreach mini, iPhone and headlamp charged for 5-6 days on the trail with a battery that weighs 6oz.
> it'd obviously be sexual harassment no?

No? I wouldn’t refer to that as sexual harassment, and I would be confused if someone did.

I wonder if there’s some cultural difference here (given other expressed confusion in this thread), in my experience “sexual harassment” refers to harassment of a sexual (intercourse) nature, not a sexual (sex — or gender I suppose) nature. So referring to someone’s genitals could be sexual harassment, but referring to someone’s X or Y chromosome wouldn’t be.

(If you said “short skirted” to imply promiscuity, say, then sure. But if you said “dangly earinged” then definitely not despite dangly earrings probably being more associated with women).
to quote Nassim Taleb "Gold and other precious metals are largely maintenance
free, do not degrade over an historical horizon, and do not require maintenance to refresh their physical properties over time. Cryptocurrencies require a sustained amount of interest in them."

if we turn off the servers then this value store would disappear.
"Most people are pretty competent and will rise to q challenge."

Most people cannot code.

"higher at random from a stack of team vetted resumes"

Because many offers would be declined, you would end up with mostly lemons. And the non-lemons would leave due to being surrounded by lemons.
The difficulty of computing the hashes is the entire point of them, to enforce scarcity. It's not wasted if you belief that scarcity has worth, which in the digital world it certainly does.

The price people are willing to pay for something _is_ the value of something.

Cryptocurrencies are gambling in a similar manner to how owning risky stocks is gambling. A cryptocurrency provides various services, and the utility of those services is what ultimately drives the price. Bitcoin's services for example include borderless, permissionless value transfers. The reduction in friction is immense---if you're operating in Bitcoin. Thus one of the incentives to own Bitcoin.
It's strange but as - I suppose "veteran" (sigh) Web guy, I just don't see the problem of building stuff(+) in html, css and maybe a sprinkling of js + PHP or whatever else serverside if you need it.

(+) stuff for me = websites, not web applications.

For Web applications, maybe all this vue / react / whatever stuff is worthwhile, I don't know, I'm not qualified to know (although let's face it, developers possibly might have a slight tendency to maybe over complicate things...just sometimes...)

But I struggle to see what in a normal website experience isn't more than provided by these basic tools.

Oh, and great content. None of any of this matters if you can't write...
Is that so? I couldn't read the paywalled article. So it's just artificially designed proteins?
Further reading:

https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Problem%20of%20Production%20A%20...

https://www.routledge.com/The-Problem-of-Production-A-new-th...
Radio Shack had a kit like that.
Machines are stupid fast but cycles are cycles, and O(n^2) time complexity will always be suboptimal. There are (I feel) so many examples of stuff getting locked up because it's just for loops, right?
To find out, my team will do a random sample of 100 followers of @Twitter
The parent is saying that aliens (proteins from comets) may have brought life to Earth, but that is not an explanation for how life began in the first place, anywhere in the universe. Saying "aliens" merely kicks the first-cause can down the road.
All of those things are your job as a founder. VCs don’t have enough time to help everyone who asks them for $100k, nor do they really have time to write $100k checks in general. They should be writing $2-50M checks and hoping for a 20-100x return on one or two companies per fund. That’s the nature of the game they play.
Rich Strike, 80-1 long shot winning the 148th KY Derby – aerial camera
you personally could view money itself as a collectible. that doesn't change the fundamental nature of money for 99.9% of the population.

I completely understand people who are interested in being a part of creating a financial system from scratch. but to most people, crypto is a form of gambling driven by fomo
I am not sure I agree with your hobbyist point. I do programming as a hobby, and I'd prefer doing it in Julia over Python anytime. I can understand that commercially you wouldn't risk adopting a new programming language like Julia when Python has a bigger mainstream ecosystem with solutions for most problems people have ran into, but for hobby I do not have these constraints; I have much more fun programming in a cleaner and more modern language like Julia withstanding its other benefits.
Follow news/current events more closely (not just from MSM sources)
I haven't looked too closely at LiveView yet. I did flip back and forth between going with the Hotwire approach (I guess inspired by LiveView?).

It was a tough call, but I ultimately decided to server-render JS. This thought-experiment helped:

• If Ruby could natively render Javascript, would they still choose the Hotwire approach? I concluded no. I don't see the reason to have multiple approaches (HTML over wire, Stimulus), when one solution would suffice. The one solution also happens to be way more familiar to today's frontend developers. I definitely didn't want to make another templating language.

Bud will eventually ship with it's own JS evaluator. Either through https://github.com/dop251/goja or through porting https://github.com/bellard/quickjs to Go (~25kloc of C)
I think those transfer rates are typical for spinning HDDs from many years ago. See eg this review of 4 TB drives from when that size was trending: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/desktop-hdd.15-st4000dm... - the middle drive of the 2013 comparison has the avg throughput that matches the 120 MB/s max theoretical throughput of 1 G ethernet.

The transfer rates go up roughly hand in hand with capacity.
> Such perks are now the subject of derision. Tech employees who were once encouraged to bring their whole selves to work are publicly mocked as woke crybabies by venture capitalists who see Musk as the leader of a righteous cleanse.

??? This reads like something written on Breitbart

Funny because Michael Bloomberg wrote the following in an article earlier this week:

> But as more outlets prioritize eyeballs over brains, the need for hard-nosed reporting and hard-headed analysis is growing.

IMHO: Bloomberg should put his money where his mouth is. I actually considered subscribing to Bloomberg earlier this week. Glad I didn't waste my money on garbage
Matt Damon’s crypto ad blamed for losing people money
Phosphorus deficiency, heavy metals, aluminum toxicity….

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03334-8
Nice!

Can I use it to sell software registration codes that are generated by an API I run from my server?

After a user clicks to purchase my item, Fruits would call my API with a preconfigured shared secret, the API responds with a unique code, then Fruits gives this to the buyer. Can it do that?
Does Matz still work at Heroku?
This is exactly like how I will go to my doctor when I feel sick. But I'll also drink my own urine to cure myself. It's important to have a little bit of a mix.
> why did Russia retreat from Kyiv?

Russia tried for a headshot with an airborne insertion and a small number of paratroopers. There were with multiple problems with what happened though. They did not have air superiority, so they lost IL-76s carrying paratroopers [1]. Those paratroopers never made it to the airport. The force was too small for an airfield seizure, and they didn't have sufficient planes in the first place, for the size of the force they needed on the ground.

Once on the ground, the AFU reinforced the airport and was bringing armor to bear. Since the battle was lost already, at that point they needed to disengage, and so they did, to the extent they were capable.

As a former American paratrooper, I'd say the plan was not sound, the execution too small, the forces insufficient, and the preconditions with air control were never met. A risky gamble that failed. American tactics around airfield seizure are brute force numbers - hence why we practice "mass tacticals", where we insert an entire division of paratroopers for a singular airfield. We also have an Air Force that we train with, great combined arms, and the planes to put all of us in the air at once. An American plan would have also had Main Battle Tanks coming in via C-5s, and the prickly swarm of manpads, javelins, and TOWs for which we are known.

> and now seemingly retreat from Kharkiv?

Tactical withdrawal from Kharkov makes sense as the Russian Army is mobile, and they can exploit their mobility & logistics advantages through force repositioning at will, while constraining the AFU ability to do likewise.

> What would it take for you to change your mind to believe Russia is not actually winning?

Thus far, all the major engagements seem to be driven by Russian attacks across the AO. While the Russians may not have succeeded in all their attacks, they have made captures of well-defended territory and routed defenders (example: Mariupol). Russians appear advantaged in everything but anti-tank weaponry from the West.

If I saw a true largescale counter-attack (not a defense) that broke the Russian lines and caused a true rout, and Ukrainian armor mobility on the attack, then I would believe this war could be won by the Western Ukrainians. I say Western Ukrainians as the DPR & LPR are the Eastern Ukrainians united with Russia, and working with the Russians. However, we haven't seen this yet because I don't know that the Eastern Ukrainians have sufficient armor to mount a truly effective counter-attack.

Given the huge amount of Russian strikes against AFU logistics though, I don't give the AFU much time. No fuel, no ammo supplies, no motor pools, no ability to move troops, no weapon systems left. The AFU conscripts don't appear hungry for a fight anyways, though the Azov / Right Sektor types do.

[1] https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/30332-tw-russian-il-76-tr...
One doesn’t need to look at traditional finance. A similar algorithmic “stable coin” Iron/Titan collapsed a year ago. The problem is with people not understanding anything before jumping in.

On the other hand, jumping in without understanding is why a small fraction of people got ridiculously rich from SHIB.
off topic, but I wouldn't have understood anything that happened in the last few weeks without Levine. now most of my days are waiting for him to post so that I know wtf just happened
This is unfortunately true of far more of the economy than a lot of people will admit.
It seems plainly obvious that history shows the opposite is true; corruption is increased when money and power are centralized amongst a few people. There's a reason the term "Robber Baron" came around the last time we experienced massive inequality as a country. If you have some examples to the contrary I would love to hear them.
The Good Ol' Days of QBasic Nibbles
> Containers (introduced in 2013) also changed DevOps and software deployment landscape. Yet, container-native PaaS (e.g., OpenShift) also failed.

If being in every Fortune 100 company running some of the world's largest containerized platforms in production is failure, I want to fail like that
Ahahaha. I watched this movie 100 times as a kid. I cycled between Air Bud and Flubber.
Beyond a certain level, salary doesn't matter. There's a base salary and there's upside, so if you create something profitable, you'll get paid significantly more. In finance, bonuses are many multiples of your salary, dependent on your performance. It's similar in tech, where the RSUs are how you make your money.

You can't post bonuses/equity, since it really depends on your performance.

Your post assumes that you're doing some task, but with most of the jobs people on this site go for, you're paid to be creative and commercial and not to just perform some job.
Truth. Website coming soon! This post exploded way more than I expected. Can't complain!
I'm really impressed with 22. The font is so cool
Ordinary full-disk encryption protects against that just fine, though.
Very disappointing, i expected to see mature plants, sprouted seeds aren't anything to write about, they'll sprout as long as it's moist and warm. Most disappointing is that the scientists were surprised. Then again, this IS a university in Florida...
Someone watched the martian and got inspired