skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MySpace, BlackBerry come to mind.

At least those were new markets.

At the end of the day you can't explain love and people love Elon Musk. Guys from all over the world are in a sort weird parasocial relationship with the guy. That never happened with the CEO of MySpace and BlackBerry
Of course we are. This is what technological progress is.
> I believe that crypto has actually been a serious contributor to inflation through the use of electrical power for "mining" crypto.

It's caused a scarcity of video cards, sure, but the vast contributor for inflation has been government money printers running on full blast.

Crypto, in my opinion, is a waste of electricity, but you're not seeing the forest from the trees.
Death is a beautiful happening that we should not fear so much. It allows growth and transmutation of stagnant ideology.
> And I learnt that even when it is not used (not sure it the lid was closed) a macbook can cause significant interference to the wifi for all other nearby devices.

My partner has an older MBP, I noticed this the last time she was forced to updated her OS a major version... the thing no longer sleeps when you tell it to or when you close the lid, it will stay connected to wifi and quite happily saturate the network downloading updates.

Only way to be sure is to power off the stupid thing.
I don't doubt they want to. That's not the same as they should. I think actually you have three groups.

1. Most of the people on this thread that want default text.
2. People that carefully format documents.
3. Idiots.

The first two find copying the style over to be super annoying. Both have to remove it as a second step. The last don't know any better. That latter group is much larger than the first two.
It's very likely you put your life on the line every day with things that can't be proven. That is engineering after all.
When I launched a home built casino in 2011, I bought 5000 BTC to initially bank it. I didn't want to take BTC, I wanted to get licensure in Malta and take credit cards. But I didn't have any investment, or $500k to buy a license. I just had good software, so I launched it in BTC as a proof of concept and to try to earn enough to bootstrap the cost of licensing.

Long story short: That project is long gone. I viewed BTC as an interesting payment method that might have some inherent value as an efficient and anonymous means of transfer, which it's not anymore. I never trusted it and I didn't want to gamble on its fluctuations since the casino was denominated in USD and I was already exposing my savings to literal gambling risk (albeit playing as the house - still scary). So eventually I took to just getting rid of BTC daily, trading out the day's rake, and only buying it to do payouts. Closed the casino in 2013 and never saw any major profit, stakes being as low as they were.

I'm a middle aged working coder with a net worth short of $1m. I've thought a lot about what my life could have been like if I hadn't done ANYTHING except hold that initial 5000 BTC instead of getting out of it. And
you know what? I'm not sorry about it. I did what seemed smartest to me at the time: I got rid of what I thought was a bad investment. And by then I knew plenty more about Bitcoin than most of the people who've bought into crypto since. Under the same set of conditions, where that was a meaningful chunk of my savings, I'd do the same again every time.

You're absolutely right that there is nothing healthy about being bitter or angry towards people who strike it rich - even, or perhaps especially, if they do so by pure luck.

Life is a casino. Envy gets you nowhere, and it's not a good look. Show a little class and you might get comped for the show.

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This looks a little odd

SELECT age, sum(civility) as total_civility
FROM star_wars_universe
ORDER BY ALL
-- ORDER BY age, total_civility

there's no GROUP BY?

edit: (removed edit, I blew it, sorry)
I think it is actually kind of crazy how so many people here, a proverbial VC techbro hub, just love to get on their soapbox to preach sanctimoniously about the great cryptocurrency evil that is destroying the world with so much glee, without looking in the mirror and realizing that what is going on in cryptocurrencies isn't really that much different than what is going on in the valley or elsewhere in society.

The behavior exhibited by those insufferable cryptobros (who I am not a fan of either to be clear) isn't much different than that of techbros having some of the highest paying salaries in the world with a matching ego, working on some vaporware juice package squeezer or creating incredible amounts of social discord through social media and data harvesting, or the degenerate gamblers of wallstreetbets memestocks like amc or gme, or any of the pandemic stocks that are down 75-90% right now. People spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on jpgs is not much different than people spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on bananas taped to walls at Art Basel, I could go on and on.

A lot of the smugness and resentment comes from a response to human behavior which has not been exclusive to cryptocurrencies, so I don't get the fixation on this one thing, it isn't even like cryptocurrences are some ubiquitously salient thing, you can very easily filter it out from your life and social media feeds and hear next to nothing about it.
As an end user, let them come. Suing me over some illegal clause on an illegible contract with all of the evidence of not being open to evaluation before I entered it is a sure losing proposition.

But if I was thinking about buying something from them as a company, I would take that line very seriously.
If you're in the USA, look into Series I Bonds.
Ask HN: Why is B2C so much harder than B2B?
It feels like the majority of VCs are only interested in B2B companies. B2C startups need a lot of traction and already established network effects to have equal chances of getting funded.
Hmm. I would also very much like to have something like this. But on the other hand, we already have something like that, it's just called law and contracts(and more specifically TOS) already specify what is different than in the law (like e.g. which court to use etc.

So if there were archetypal contracts and they would be balanced or even slightly favor users, there would just be longer TOS to counter them and every company will have the same boilerplate again.

So in that case this archetype will have to come from the industry or politics will have to force them to do something like this. This will then also have (at least) the following side-effects:

1. Lawyers of companies teaming up and tightening their TOS even more
2. Unclarified effects on the participating companies if parts of the common TOS get invalidated/overturned by a court decision
3. Since companies (are maybe forced to) work together, there is the risk of a cartel, since <agreeing on contract conditions to be the same across an industry> is pretty much the definition of a cartel.

To take care of all of that, legislation needs to be first-class and I can't see that happening.
> They have to accept payment in whatever form customers are willing to provide it in. Customers aren't going to move away from PayPal and credit cards without a good reason, and so far crypto has failed to provide that reason.

In general this is just an illustration of the racket between banks and card companies, since customers really only seek to pay using the payment options their bank provides upon opening an account, although I guess that's not a surprise given Visa started out under Bank of America[0].

If banks provided a crypto wallet that had all the benefits of regular accounts like direct deposit and FDIC insurance, which they might eventually do[1], I doubt many would hesitate to use it. The only barrier would be if using the crypto wallet presented a fee that Visa and the rest of the card industry loves to keep a secret by charging the merchant instead, with the merchant passing on those costs to the customer in the form of higher MSRPs.

0: https://minesafetydisclosures.com/blog/2019/5/29/part-l-a-hi...

1: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/what-is-a-central-bank-d...
Simple: there will a lot of focus on persuading that single country to change its position. And once persuaded (or "persuaded") it will be too late (and ridiculous) for the "secret supporters" to voice their opposition.
Wow this thread is incredibly toxic. People openly admitting to passionately hate groups of people they don't know. I thought this website was better than this.
I usually just get started hacking out a prototype of what's in my head, and then Google for information as questions, ideas, or uncertainties come up. I still end up diving into best practices, existing approaches, etc, but more incrementally as I build as opposed to all at once in the beginning.
This is neat. Have you found this new found capability at odds with "good SQL"? Eg, i run a fairly large application that has a huge DB schema, and more often than not when the SQL gets huge and ugly it often means we're asking too much of the DB. "Too much" being more easy to run into poor indexes, giving more chances for it to pull in unexpectedly large number of rows, etc.

My fear with PRQL is that i'd more easily ask too much of the DB, given how easy it looks to write larger and more complex SQL. Thoughts?
Owning a stock is not the same as having controlling interest in the business and being able to take home your share of profits (or suffer your share of losses) from the business. It is interesting how the mind works to confuse these two things.

Also, in the limit, if you owned all the stock in the world, you have destroyed the stock market.

Because ultimately, stock market is about speculating the future potential of the business and pricing it into today's stock price and more importantly having someone believe that and be available to buy from you at that price. So, it is a sophisticated collective story-telling-belief-system based on imperfect and asymmetric information using fancy mind-bending jargons. By having some regulatory safeguards, it is lent an air of legitimacy but really only the crudest of scamsters are stopped.
correction: stability fee is paid by the vault owner towards burning MKR governance token.
> Even that never really happened, did it? Madoff was never not able to make a payment.

Until the day it collapsed. It collapsed because he didn't have enough cash to cover withdrawals and he could not find new victims.

That's how all Ponzi schemes collapse.
Great question! We chose to make the order explicit and important - for example if we have two battling units, one with "unit reduces counter attack strength by 50%" and one with "unit counter attacks with 200% of original attack strength", order is very important. So the game designer has to add an 'order' value to every object in the game.

So far the favourite library is Fast-JSON-Patch[1]. The method we're trying is to build up a sequence of patches - so every object in the game can add a patch to the queue, and then once the system is ready, it can apply the patches and validate the result.

This particluar library allows the code to directly manipulate the object, and generate a patch from the changes made - so it keeps the code simple and easy to understand.
I already use shopify for the shop page, https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...

But I’ve been wary of using it for the whole website since I didn’t want my whole page structure and content coupled to shopify.

And I didn’t want it all to feel like a shopify store.

But maybe that was a bad priority and I should just get over it.

Thanks for the tip with the theme, btw
Self driving cars come to mind as well. I remember 2015, when my friends would debate the self-driving Trolley problem over lunch. We were worried if society was ready for an owner-less car market; I seriously wondered if I would have to have a license in the future, or if I should keep it just in case.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apo...
I totally agree with this take.

I'm also surprised that there hasn't been more strident push-back against the "conservatives are being banned from Twitter" story from conservatives themselves. If I were right-leaning I would certainly not want to be associated with the q-anon advocates for violence that are being kicked off the platform.
I couldn't really say for sure but I think macroscopically (viewed from a low-resolution telescope) it would look fuzzy, but close up, it would look very spiky and dynamic with all sorts of stochastic events happening.
>It doesn't

It does require one if your system doesn't support user namespaces. Some distros used to disable it, but they're getting rare these days.
So now that laser cutters and cnc routers are sort of everywhere, I wonder if I can get the plans for that.
Terraform Cloud Onboarding
Haven [0] can turn an android phone into just that, though you'll need a separate sim for it.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.havenapp.m...
St. Petersburg is already less than 100 miles from Estonia, which is a NATO country.
ah yes, awk's famously narrow focus, covering things such as networking (https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/TCP_002fI...) or video games (https://github.com/mikkun/AWKTC). What do you mean your blog isn't served by awk (https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/html_node/...) as a VRML world (https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/html_node/...) ?
or change how often it scans
What's shocking is that similarity in values don't seem to be a predictor of happiness in a relationship.

Could it be that for those in relationships with differences, if the difference were significant enough, they merely wouldn't be in a relationship at all, and wouldn't be in the sample data?
They very likely would have got suspended even if this succeeded.

- The lead pilot requested an exemption for the stunt from the FAA, which the agency denied.

- The lead pilot made a "personal decision to move forward with [the] plane swap."

- "I regret not sharing this information with my team and those who supported me."

- The FAA are also proposing a $4,932 fine.

There's no two sides to this one, you cannot do a highly dangerous stunt without the relevant authorities signing off on the plan (or more specifically ignoring them when they tell you "no"), and then expect no consequences. They're just lucky the consequences are only likely to be civil in nature (i.e. suspensions and fines).
I am ambivalent.

On one hand the schadenfreude is high, not going to lie.

On the other hand I liked that they were all in the same spot. Every time crypto dips down, or there's a rugpull or whatever, I am afraid they'll jump ship to some other area that they'll ruin for everyone. Or worse, they will move to many different areas, spreading the greedulousness all over the world.
This is one of my many peeves with Outlooks UX. You can do Ctrl+Alt+V, which gives you an option to paste unformatted, but it's much more finger-intensive than the other shortcut.
Hits me in the feels.

In 2011 I had an idea for a ceramic coffee mug with a threaded base. then build a screw on base with heating element, battery, and QI charger. Screw the base on, set it on a QI charge pad... voila "always hot coffee". When you're done for the day, unscrew the base, put the mug in the dishwasher. Rinse, repeat.

For a year I researched getting a prototype built, castings, etc. Finally decided to just abandon it. Just drink coffee faster and it won't get cold.

Now I have 2 Ember mugs and an Ember travel thermos. Still can't dishwash it, but dang it's useful.
I never said your comment was incorrect. I’m just providing further context.
I had exactly the same experience. It's a simple system, but felt very confusing at first.
For a different take - I’m generally happy when things go on sale.

Until I’m living off of my investments, it’s generally in my interest for the prices to be low.

This is true for company stock programs. Yeah - it can be painful to watch 3 years of options go to zero, but if I’m being given $N in options every vesting period, that just means my next vest is going to be great!

Crypto is no different. If I’m dollar cost averaging into Bitcoin, crashes are in my interest and rallies are less than worthless unless I’m planning on selling.
If there was never anybody to pay for it, like the GP said, no, it didn't.

But if people don't pay because there was actually somebody doing the bad behavior and they changed, then it would be useful.
Really amazing.

We're having hundreds of undocumented endpoints created over the years, and running this tool on our backends will create instantly good documentation

Thanks for that! Will give feedbacks if any issues
I'm not sure the comparison holds up. Twitter right now doesn't moderate content, really, it only does anything about outright scams, misinformation, etc. Toxicity can mostly run wild and free. Whereas HN has various moderation mechanisms that seek to decrease the amount of low-quality interaction.

I.e., I think dropping all moderation from HN would have a much bigger effect than doing the same on Twitter
The problem with pcap is that whe requests there would be encrypted and basically there is no way to practically decrypt them.

Mitmproxy solves that by being between the client and server and injecting it's own self-signed certificate (which you need to add to the trusted certificates on the phone, which requires root).
> Owning 16% of a segment-leading, tech-leading, growing car company that generates $12-$14b in operating income, is a very good business to be sitting on.

Every rational thinking person sees Musk and his behavior and throws any financial statement produced by Tesla straight into the bin.

They are cooking the books 100%. Musk believes in manifestation, self-fulfilling prophecy and faking it till you make it.

In the early days of PayPal he'd order to get parts of old fridges, paint them black in order to convince investors that PayPal had "supercomputers"
a16z: Investing in Lightspark
The question is not whether he's been successful. He has been, the question is whether this is the peak valuation akin to Cisco during dotcom and whether he is over leveraged at this point.
have read some comments here:

> "They have the best designers, i feel like in the US we have no taste, i knew this couldn't be an American company." -- @iamricks

how about monome (https://monome.org/norns)?

@chaosprint

glicol is cool. another two interesting live coding languages are tidal (https://tidalcycles.org) and orca (https://100r.co/site/orca.html)
I am beyond happy. Its a freaking pyramid scheme- top to bottom. Same with NFT's
Sorry, didn’t want to poo poo the whole thing. Don’t get down about it! This is an opportunity to rework the site so it works for you.

As sibling comment says, use a website builder instead. Something like shopify will have everything you need (though I’m not massively familiar with it myself).

Another suggestion I have is to focus on the target audience. I skimmed the doc you linked to about uploading images (couldn’t find any extra docs on the site at a glance btw) and it felt geek heavy in terminology.

The shots of the device look nice, but there’s an app for managing it? Is it easy to use? If I buy this device would my wife ever use it or is it too complicated?

Are you actually making these devices yourself? If I were hand making these my starting point would be to sell to friends so I could iterate on the whole thing. There are a lot of people on here talking about ads and marketing but honestly, hustle is how you get started.
I guess Peeps is already spoken for. Drowning their post-firing sorrows in alcohol wouldn’t be a good idea anyway.
What if this is just a huge PR stunt on elon's part to get more followers and engagement for his own brand, without having to actually buy twitter?
Fellow tech employee
> I find myself studying too much in order to make something that I want.

> I wonder whether this type of behavior is called anything so I could study about it.

Personally, I start building.

There are certain things you should plan out, but honestly: just start building. Move fast and break things. Make mistakes faster, learn faster, create faster.
How can they orbit the Earth when it's flat? Come on
Some perspective that may help:

If the Sun were replaced by black hole with the same mass as the Sun at the center of the Solar System we wouldn't automatically get sucked into it. A very cold Earth would continue to orbit the black hole exactly as it does the Sun today. Only if the Earth's orbit were perturbed by some other body would it have a chance of joining the black hole.
If we can't find a buyer then yes, we buy them back until we find a buyer.

To limit this risk, we only offer buy-back on particular instance families and regions that are most popular (and easy for us to sell to other users).

With 100s of users -- we have network effects that make it easy for us to sell.
Link to the original report https://americandragnet.org/
I don't think it's nice to have posts on the front page basically celebrating other people's misfortunes.

The only thing that could be celebrated is if crypto mining capacity were to lower. But this aspect isn't even mentioned. And although the most valued coins currently rely on PoW, PoW isn't something intrinsic to cryptocurrencies. It's something we should move away, the same way ETH is planning to do.
Woke = critical race theory, gender theory, third wave feminism - mixed in with some globalist centralising (socialist) economics

It's pretty specific.
Networks of such. And a lot of very complicated interpolation.
You can as a restaurant require a certain level of clothing. That can be used for overtly discriminatory purposes, but is allowed.

(Some social media) can say “here are the rules you need to conform to: don’t threaten people, don’t propagate racist abuse, etc” they can’t say “we don’t accept black people”, but if they have rules that apply to everyone, then it’s their own right.

Musk wants trump on Twitter because musk recognizes that buying favour is super easy with trump.
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/turn-power-nap-on-o...
Remarkable. I guess some of the old timey tinfoil hat theories are still around. If the Americans didn't put the LLR on the moon who did? I think you'll find it difficult to suggest that it's naturally occurring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment
I've never once thought to myself "I'm happy that the people I follow are only allowed to express some views" or any similar thought. If someone is too rude, I block the person. If I don't enjoy reading a person's Tweets, I unfollow him.
The article doesn't mention it, but ravens also act as spotters for wolf packs, leading them to prey.
Claim:

> the first map with Poland [...] doesn't explain much.

Reasoning that disputes it:

> The Russian partition [...] was the cause of the area in blue being poor and underdeveloped

For these to be contradictory statements, the Russian partition must refer to something meaningfully different than what the map with Poland refers to. Is that true? I'm no history buff, I'll leave it up to others to say.
I know I shouldn't but I still do find it surprising how someone speaking English can't understand a well spoken English person!
From elsewhere in this thread:

- Part of the deal with being an executive is no job security. It's part of the trade you make for gigantic compensation.

- What would be preferred, firing him the first day he's back?