skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, perfectly safe three digit APR yield was the norm for months, and high double digit - for about 1.5 years. Checking the contracts was easy, as usually they were copied from other projects and thus known. Often capital was locked doing nothing at all, sometimes just providing liquidity in a lp pair. Took a while for the absurd risk premium to go down to its real value of ~0, crashing safe yields.

Ironically, this is partially what made UST so big - because to many people it looked like this:

(1) months of three digit APR - 'obviously unsafe' ('common sense' - high yield is sus, smells like ponzi)

(2) it wasn't a ponzi. Nothing bad happens. Many people make bank. Some have no idea what's safe and were just gambling, some make informed decisions

(3) eventually, the person in question feels stupid for missing free money and decides to put money in with no deep understanding

(4) safe yields crater from a combination of people like that + slow moving, but smart, funds that started to deposit hundreds of millions

(5) person in question deposits into the UST ponzi scheme by extrapolating safety record of non-ponzi farms that are now gone, due to a category error - 'it's defi and it was safe for so long, therefore UST is safe'

(6) not realizing it's a ponzi scheme they don't even try to exit when the gig is up. Massive loss.

Ironically I now see many examples of the same category error but applied in reverse - many people that lost on Luna think its collapse proved that defi is, in fact, fundamentally unsafe, when the reason they lost is because they put their money into a ponzi scheme that leveraged defi brand for marketing.
No we don't, if we compare normalised numbers (per mile driven) rather than unadjusted ones.
I understand this is a heated subject, but please don't accuse people on HN of "ignoring reality". It's enough to just state the facts and make your argument persuasively; I can't speak for everyone, but I can say that many open minded people here who are indeed willing to change their mind when presented with strong evidence.
1. HYIP (High Yield Investment Programs) is an old scam. Rebranding it as DeFi doesn't change this.

https://www.investor.gov/protect-your-investments/fraud/type...

2. Algorithmic "stablecoins" don't work, in the same way as perpetuum mobile doesn't work. You think you're inventing a perpetuum mobile, but you're building a Rube Goldberg's machine instead ;)

3. Every algorithmic "stablecoin" can be traced to 2 papers published in 2014: Hayek Money and Robert Sams' Seigniorage Shares

https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/1073248331726553090
As engineering leaders & managers, one of the most repetitive and boring task we would do is to file JIRAs that almost always originated from slack conversations.

To make this easier, we have built a cool integration that can identify conversation boundaries and send the entire slack conversation to JIRA (or other platforms).

The JIRA issue is populated automatically using our AI algorithms that figures out the boundary of the conversation. The entire conversation (spread across threads) along with attachments, is automatically posted to JIRA saving manual effort in copy-pasting conversation across threads.

You can also link slack conversations with existing JIRAs in a similar way and opt-in for selective updates coming from JIRA.

If you are a heavy JIRA - Slack user, we would love to chat with you pick your feedback and pain-points. Feel free to request for a demo on the website (clearfeed.ai) or join our slack community at https://clearfeedcommunity.slack.com/
He was a reddit user for a long time pre-radicalizatiin. Then he went to /pol/ and became radicalized sometime after. He had to leave reddit to find the material that radicalized him.
Not for you. But I know quite a bit about the guts of the BEAM VM and I think this is a very interesting development and if the jump is large enough it may well obviate the need for a whole slew of situations where you now have to fall back to externally loaded functions in different languages, and that would make a bunch of stuff far more elegant. Yes, those externally loaded functions will (always) have a speed advantage, but if the advantage drops below the level of the cost of adding an external module then that would be pretty good news.
Mozilla expects to launch extensions Manifest V3 support in Firefox in late 2022
Games Fund One: Building the Future of Games
Such closed industry groups are a cartel who can limit production which is actively bad for consumers.

Therefore we should be doing everything we can to assist 'cheese fraud'.
Picking up another task doesn’t mean that it has to be finished. If one lacks skill, they can train. If documentation is missing, one can document whatever they learn. The last one is difficult to address, but not impossible. If team members don’t give a shit about the product, I bet they can still find something they give a shit about that also contributes to the product.
By actually launching, you’ve achieved what most engineers only think about. I’m not sure if it would mean anything to you, but I look up to what you’ve achieved so far and hope I can ship something in the next 3 years.
Sell it to a fellow HN user?
By definition, a Ponzi scheme involves some kind of reporting fraud where you're being lied-to about how your investment was converted and how much of that converted asset there is.

I'm not saying these aren't some other kind of scam but lots of people use "Ponzi" as if it meant any kind of scam... And generally speaking "how many thingy-coins do I own" is the one thing cryptocurrencies focus on making very difficult.

TLDR: Everybody overuses "Ponzi" and it annoys me.
I didn't know either so I went on a quick Google - turns out, conventional latex condoms are soaked in casein to make them smoother [1], and said casein is also responsible for the sour-ish odor.

Vegan condoms and sex toys are made without casein or other animal-based byproducts.

Fun fact: a lot [2] of consumer goods use animal-based byproducts either as technical agents (e.g. beer that's being filtered through fish bladders) or as outright ingredients (shampoo, perfume, ...).

[1] https://www.greencondom.club/vegan

[2] https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/products-you...
I was talking about the Linux Foundation of the original comment.

Now reading back, I realise that I might have gotten confused and took the numbers that were referring to the Facebook project, thinking it was the Linux donations.

Sorry for the confusion.
Australia's ID systems 'deficient', unfit for online: review
They stayed in Installmonetizer and Scribd afaict.
Apparently it developed the payload for an already compromised system that encrypted files, which tracked how many times the malware got removed. After numerous times it just destroyed the files because the target is unlikely to pay. Side job after reading about openssls heartbleed?
> Hello (do not) @buyvpnservice from (dirty) @Kape_com

> I hope you’re enjoying the ride.

> You are now at KAPUT, you are booked until the final destination, FUBAR.

> Please fasten your seatbelts and return your tray table to its full upright and locked position.

I'll be honest: I have absolutely no idea what this means. It's obvious the @buyvpnservice is meant to be a play on "buy VPN service", but everything else looks like mindless mumbling to me. Could you explain it, please?
Fair enough.

But what I really mean is that it would be cool to have Firebase db access SDKs and realtime capabilities, with a relational, non-proprietary database. If you plug in your CloudSQL or another managed database you don't get that, and have to write everything on your own.

Supabase seems to be going in this direction, and while I haven't tried them yet, I certainly see how it's an attractive proposition.
How do we ensure that this only eats the plastic in plastic waste, and not (for example) the plastic in electrical insulation?
google en passant

.. it's not that extremely buggy. Once in a while you can't move or something, but then a page refresh solves it. Less than in 1 game out of 1000 games or so. (I just estimated according to the number of my games and memories.)
A limitation taken care of with the upcoming 5.0 release.
Happy birthday libera.chat! Thank you very much to the founders for providing this free and open platform :-)
The argument is based on theory of historical fraud that is somehow become a mainstream and goes unnoticed. g-factor has been measured again and again. The problems with renormalization have been known. Initial theories have been refined and reformulated to be better, criticizing outdated formulations does not change physics.

It's a conspiracy theory with sparkle of equations.
I do the same with with *gitignored*. Handy for output files of tests, and log files. For example: "log_gitignored.txt" or "mesh_transformed_gitignored.stl".

I add it to the repository settings, so all collogues have the same behavior.
OCaml already got multicore merged.
No, it's a sceptical way of looking at it.

Most western people also view donating to religious institutions is a way of supporting their communities and culture. Collectivism isn't a monopoly of the east.
This depends on the database and consistency level it’s enforcing. You can often configure databases to require an ack from the replicas before it returns, so that you’ll be able to read your writes. This obviously has a trade off with speed.

Some databases are cleverer about this. Things like Spanner and FoundationDB work differently so as to be fast to both read and write, but they’re much more complex to operate and use.

There is another quick trick though… if a client performs a write, set a bit in their session that causes all of their reads to come from the primary database for a short period, maybe a few seconds, just enough to cover the replication latency. This is a hack. It’s got a lot of downsides, but it’s a quick way to patch the problem if truly necessary.
Archived:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220519020040/https://addyosman...
Ooh, a Clojure .NET implementation? This is news to me. From a quick look at the website, it looks really good... but how is it in practice? One of the major advantages of F Sharp's .NET integration is that it's developed by Microsoft, as of course they pretty much created the ecosystem from scratch.
Crank science is easy to separate from non-mainstream approaches. Crank science is "everybody is selling nobody is buying" business. There are no physicists inside *or* outside mainstream who buy Consa's crank theories.

(I explained why the narrative is not valid in another comment).
Not that I can share publicly unfortunately.
Credit cards issue debt on promised 15%-24.99% returns all the time..
> nice bit of white-knighting there

Is it really constructive to throw insults[1]? I explained myself above, after all.

[1] I had to look it up to see what it means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_knight. Since we aren't in a business context, I can only assume that you think I am female :-)
Address bar commands that substitute a given argument in a URL when a given search key is used.

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

For searching in Hacker news, I saved the URL 'https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%s' with the search key 'hn'. So when I want to search something around here, I just type

hn something

which then replaces the %s variable with 'something'

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=something

There is Javascript code that allows for two or more arguments, but saving that as a bookmarklet isn't as neat.
I've been thinking about concurrency in go code and how we can make it easier now that generics have landed.

What do you think, are you ready for safer tools?
Such bargains exist because the manufacturers treat workers poorly and skimp on safety - many products contain toxic chemicals, may catch fire, contain sharp parts, etc. There’s also zero recourse should the product cause damage.
Agreed, it's actually fairly impressive. Beware the false equivalence fallacy however - there's little overlap in the expertise needed to design and install a home solar array, and that needed to analyze the economics of complex industrial technologies. Based on my links above, I think op is a far better electrician than economist.

Also, I doubt op ever built a nuclear reactor in his backyard :D
Well, we can always use the USB approach to naming. Lets just call the next thing web3 type II superspeed or sth.
There is a lot of good content on Complexity Explorer!
I spent hours and hours setting up an ID.me account (I'm a US citizen living abroad), had to use a VPN, numerous SMS verification failures (even using a US number), extreme hold times for a video interview, incorrectly OCRed US passport (issue date read as date of birth) resulting in immediate rejection with no workaround... I had to blur the date in order to get around the OCR (good luck to non-techies).

All to be a) spammed with 'deals' I did not sign up for the next day from id.me, and b) to access an IRS page that really isn't very useful.

It's a really stupid partnership which of course exists to avoid the government giving you a digital ID themselves and something something private enterprise something something, but of course ID.me has a monopoly so those points are moot.

Plus, if we go to all of this effort to have a secure, authenticated portal, it would make sense to then be able to actually use the portal to do things. Once logged in I can't change my address (send us a paper form!), I can't see the status of paper-submitted returns (received/processing/etc), nor can I see a digital record of communications from the IRS... they show 'some versions of IRS notices' but I still get paper letters from the IRS that are not on the portal (despite signing up for paperless communications).
Hello, thank you for taking the time to read.

If you read my tweets since December 21, 2021 (<20 total) you will get some more context.

I worked for PIA VPN for 5 years before it was bought by Kape.

They're scammers.
Is it digestible, or rather passable in stools with no harm entailed?

My favorite part of Parmesan is the rind
I publicly called out LUNA/UST on Twitter a few times a few months before the collapse [0] [1]. Just stating this so it's clear that I don't have any interest defending them.

That being said, calling these platforms "ponzis" isn't correct, the most you can say is that they were front ends for a ponzi. It would be like setting up a front-end to receive investments, and then depositing the money with Madoff. I'm not saying that it is a legitimate business, just not a ponzi.

And I'm not defending these companies either, a very light DD [2] made it obvious that the LUNA-UST mechanism was broken and the collapse was inevitable. It's really messed up that they put clients' money at risk, and that they lost it. I also think that YC is somewhat responsible for this.

What makes the situation even worse is that the collapse didn't happen from one day to the next, they actually had time to pull the money out at a 0.5%-5% loss, but they still decided to wait and see if it would repeg.

[0] https://twitter.com/josusanmartin/status/1478185473499615233

[1] https://twitter.com/josusanmartin/status/1478188494463848448

[2] This DD took me less than 1 hour: https://twitter.com/josusanmartin/status/1524323026942242818
Question: Why is a tracker necessary? Is there no solution that works with just a qr code that contains some cryptographic signature, similar to train tickets for instance?
It certainly includes that, yes. In fact, mobile push notifications is one case that I hadn't even thought of. If you use a third party to perform push notifications, you are "accessing" data through a third party application.

(I'm presuming the word "accessing" is used here to mean any use of a third party server, regardless of whether read or write - because the whole idea is pointless if transmitting is not included in the definition)

It also includes any email client with a built-in VPN, or potentially any client that can use a VPN (remember, it's at Google's discretion)
The current religion in Japan was mostly consciously invented in the Meiji period so Westerners couldn’t say they were religion-less savages who needed colonizing.

(Same goes for most modern forms of Buddhism.)
More microplastics - it's all a bit depressing, to be honest.

"p-Chip micro-transponders can tolerate extreme temperatures (-200°C to 500°C); withstand microwave irradiation; ride out high g-forces (15,000 g); and hold up against solvents and reagents."

Nice and biodegradable then.
> Mozilla will maintain support for blocking WebRequest in MV3. To maximize compatibility with other browsers, we will also ship support for declarativeNetRequest. We will continue to work with content blockers and other key consumers of this API to identify current and future alternatives where appropriate. Content blocking is one of the most important use cases for extensions, and we are committed to ensuring that Firefox users have access to the best privacy tools available.

This is 100% the right thing to do: let extensions use the more powerful API, while also providing the more neutered version for extensions that may not need to use the legacy version, or are designed around Chrome instead of Firefox.

There's been a fair bit of confusion regarding Mozilla and Manifest V3, but I'm glad this (somewhat) clears it up.
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

Unfortunately firefox with enhanced tracking protection claims that the user WANTS a light theme instead of indicating no preference - yes, the spec has no no-preference but a) this means the spec is broken because there is no equivalent setting to not implementing the spec and b) web specs are defined by browser vendors and Firefox used to have a no-preference value for this. In general, desktop browsers will also often indicate prefer-color-scheme: light if the user has not actually made an active choice - either as a default in the browser or based on the default system theme. This unfortunately makes prefer-color-scheme: light not actually carry any useful information so there is currently no way to have a dark theme by default but provide a light thome for those users that actually want it (you can only do the reverse).
Summary for other people who might not know what this is:

Nicholas Weaver, Lecturer at UC Berkeley after 9 years of research in cryptocurrency, lectures on Cryptocurrency as part of CS161: Computer Security. He explains the history of the data structures, some implementation choices, then a bunch of obvious lies from Bitcoin hucksters debunked, security problems, more history/lies debunked, the fraud and bs, computational power, power consumption, blah blah, everything is there in one hour.

I think it could be a good thing to send to people so that they either come out of it knowing bitcoin is braindead or have to admit they're not capable of understanding it because they don't have the basic computer science knowledge :P
The most difficult thing to deal with in the first couple of days were the occasional server crashes. We would have liked some more time on our testnet to iron out the bugs in the IRC server software we were planning to migrate to (and started out with on the new network), but that didn't end up happening. In essence, we deployed a beta straight to production with >10k users on day 1 and had everything ironed out by day 4 if I recall correctly.
Meanwhile the iPhone 13 mini is 131.5 x 64.2 x 7.7 mm

There's really nothing small about any of the Androids.
>America seems to have a blase culture about actually preventing these mass-shootings after they occur outside of virtue-signaling

The truth is that people value the freedoms that allow these shootings more than they value preventing them.

It's simply not acceptable to say that you're okay with people dying sometimes but people make these decisions constantly when there's not someone publicly pleading to think of the children.

Guns is the example here but that's just where Europeans see a big discrepancy in conclusion but the same decisions are made everywhere. Americans just have a slightly different position but that slight difference is magnified because the vast majority of other positions are very similar.
Yeah I'm guessing that's what he meant. PS:T is less accessible to the general gaming public in that regard.
> projects disappear.

This was a commercial editor released not even a month ago.

For a Mac-only, commercial piece of software there were more positive comments than I'd expected to be honest.

The developer responded for the first few days, but then stopped completely, along with disappearing downloads and now web-site. After that "splash", nothing.

I treat is as fraud (or whichever legal term applies - if any, we were perhaps just gullible) due to the short timespan between release and disappearance, but the editor seemed interesting, such as its navigate mode.

So the question is whether the developer just felt overwhelmed and gave up, or someone else's code was used to compile a minimal working version to set up a scam, or something else completely. The app was also notarised, which requires a paid Apple dev account.

As mentioned on the Zas github issues, which is still there, it's an odd choice for a scam considering the small target group.

https://github.com/ZasEditor/Zas-Editor-Issues/issues/65
Time resolved protein crystallography is a technique that achieves what you’re looking for.

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

https://youtu.be/wqYMA2rh8ow

https://youtu.be/OFnVsdFXifg

By the way, around 50% of the volume in protein crystals is usually occupied by water, with some cases reaching up to 80%.
Amazing[1], thank you[2]!

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=4V9QQePap9Y

[2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIE0ckhwCs
Presumably the grocer or end user will end up with a pile of rind containing the embedded tagging chips. Fraudsters could simply gather/buy the waste rind plus trackers to embed them in their own fake products. Unless there is a robust disposal process (sending them back to the cheese producer), the genuine trackers will just end up 'authenticating' fake products.
Appreciate your thoughts on this topic. What are some things that would help keep your interest in a topical chat app? Is it strictly that you're uninterested in the content and so the discussion is boring? Or is the asynchronous/disjointed conversation more of an issue?

> My reaction is always kind of, well, we're here in this reddit where there is already a community

I think that misses the different ways people seek to interact online. Reddit/HN style threaded comments have played a traditional role in social/aggregation sites, whereas live chat-based platforms are newer and facilitate a different kind of experience.

Both have value but they are different, and it could be that the latter is simply less interesting to some people.
yes, it's mosty density.

once you have to scroll in the ap-list there is a very good chance that you are contested on air-time because some neighbour is active on any given channel. [0]

add to that interference from non-wifi or other unclean rf-equipment like babymonitors, wireless doorbells or bluetooth ... 2.4ghz is quite crowded, 5ghz is crippled by a wall...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_node_problem
A big competitor of theirs, tailscale, also does well here.

I think the lesson is partly that the typical somewhat-deranged writing style/topics are popular. More companies should try to write engaging blog posts and be more open if they want to be successful.

It seems to have paid off for them as I would guess at least some of the people trying it out are learning about fly.io from HN.
The thing about nimbyism in this case is that confortable commentators on hackernews are vanishingly unlikely ever to have to live near one. This is a poor people problem.