skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found myself walking on the streets of Berlin once, at 11 AM, after a simular night ;). Did not know where I was going and did not remember where I was staying. After 20 mins of brainless walking, trying to figure out where I was going, I saw a taxi driver looking at me and decided to take a taxi.

The last thing I remembered was we standing outside of the venue, giving away MDMA to our new friends. That was at 3:00am.

I was trying to talk, but could not get my mouth to work. Super strange!!! I felt powerless and went trough my pockets, where I found a flyer of a hostel. Luckily it was the hostel me and my friends were staying. Taxi driver was very polite and probably a little worried.

Slept till 20:00 like a baby. Woke up 100% normal again.
Standard Oil, plenty of others like Microsoft are more arguable but standard oil simply out competed and then bought up the competition.
> 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.

This was absolutely a thing; most large Ponzi schemes have feeder funds.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pwc-madoff-settlement-idU...
Fountain: https://fountain.io/

Highland 2: https://quoteunquoteapps.com/highland-2/

About John August: https://johnaugust.com/about
JS integers are value types unlike Java?!
Same for Lisp :)
Can you even earn below inflation without risks? Actually you can't even keep your money/wealth without risks...
Plastics are extremely good on the account of features and price. As such they are difficult to replace. I want to bet we would create bigger negative impact to environment due to additional spoiled food alone if it was not for plastics.

Recycling is hard but we need to tackle it. Enzymes seem like a good direction - dissolve plastics to chemicals that can be re-processed and re-purposed.
I always wonder with such things where the line between dishonest advertising and fraud is. To me its fraud, but a lot of people take a different view. E.g. in a lot of countries in Europe, banks were offering loans where the debt was registered in Swiss Francs. They advertised it as really safe, but it wasn't and they knew it. But in some countries the banks got into issues with authorities and in others it was viewed as the risk that the borrower should've known. I'm never really sure where to draw the line.
I regularly use parmigiano rind when making vegetable stock. Hopefully the tracker extract will add some nuance.
I think what's more interesting than the semantics of ponzis, this is a YC company ?!
The way to go, i wonder why it took them so long to have such feature, everyone around me is using Go, part of the reason why is single native static binary

It's mind boggling that they are just now waking up, not having it makes it impossible to choose and recommend dotnet when your requisite is to be able to have something "tiny", fast and ready to go (no cold start, no runtime dependencies)

We talk a lot about Go, but Java had it for years with GraalVM, it should have gave them a hint

Of course there was alternative solutions for native AOT, but nothing as easy and integrated as: dotnet publish
> The overwhelming majority of storage will not be batteries, ever

Pretty big categorical statement.

The problem with the "one moving part" storage systems is that their energy density is surprisingly bad. Gravitational potential energy in particular is terrible. Compressed air systems can be OK, especially the ones using underground reservoirs, but have an efficiency limited by the physics of gas expansion.

It's pretty hard to beat redox reactions for energy density. As you say, tankage is cheap, so can this be done with "flow batteries"?

But the real reason lithium is winning is the incredible power of path dependence and manufacturing efficiency. Is it the optimal chemists's whiteboard solution to churn out a billion 18650 cells? No. Is it the one that's easier to actually do in the world as it exists today? Possibly.
I haven't done much desktop/UI work but don't the small Framework 4.8 apps rely on the proverbial kitchen sink being pre-installed on a user's machine? Because afaik this is also possible with newer .NET [Core] applications, and indeed is the default. You just also have the option to publish and distribute a larger bundle which includes the runtime + required libraries.
I don’t think ACME alone fixes it. I had this exact problem with letsencrypt when they did their recent cert switcharoo.

Intermediate cert was referred to by name in the cert chain but not served by the server in full.

Server was of course referencing the newly signed intermediate cert (called L3 I believe) but the client only had a stale copy/ version of L3 signed by an expired trusted cert.

Issue was on an embedded device that couldn’t be fixed so the newly signed intermediate cert needed installation everywhere manually
Website collecting information on Fly Agaric mushrooms
oh and the music is just phenomenal.
big ideas are fascinating only because they are not realized. It's 99% of the time either stupid or not practical.
surely this headline could be re-written as ".NET 7 introduces compilation"?
Couldn't you test plug-ins with JIT? Seems like only some minor performance caveats would apply. Tiered compilation would kick in on hot paths after a while.
Do you have any numbers on that?
I really don’t understand this line of thinking.

Are gamers just running useless programs too?

We mobilise resources for whatever people want to pay for… “why” they want to spend their money on that has never been an issue.

Is Gucci wasting leather that could otherwise be used to make school shoes? Ban Gucci!
What? What the hell I've been trying to do this for years. This is on the desktop app?

Just checked, they finally added it...
I also had no luck with trimming.
I don't think PowerShell is able to use Native AOT compilation. The blog explicitly states that loading extra code at runtime is not possible, but AFAIK this is required for PowerShell commandlets.
Oh no!

Consider high speed optical communication.
The invention of transistor, laser, optical fiber, optical amplifiers, modulators, communication and information theory, DSP, and many other important technologies, was funded by taxpayers for a long time. You may say, some of it happened in old bell labs, but bell labs was a state-subsidized monopoly, rather an exception, and even things like information theory were really developed at MIT and other public research labs (Shannon had an office at Bell Labs for some time but had limited contact there).

Consider machine learning. From 1940s to 2010, neural networks were funded by governments grants, and developed at universities. The governments even funded building practical applications out of deep neural networks, for example, in the area of speech recognition, unsuccessfully. The periods are now called AI winters. It’s really in the past 15 years that the subject has become practical and companies are building products based on it. FANG is capturing the profits of this decades-long research and development.

Today there are millions of graduate students and postdocs and professors at universities performing risky research and experiments. A lot of it doesn’t pan out. The public bears the risk. Once an idea begins to work, it’s handed over to private sector for further development and bringing the work to market.

Most of the research papers published at conferences and journals, Nobel prizes, Fields Medalists etc come out of universities, not startups or FANG.

Yes, Google installed fiber cables (perhaps even bought it from Corning or the like, and also contracted out the installment). But that’s not infrastructure R&D.

I think there is no denying that basic long term research is done by and large in public sector. Private sector is still focused on short term product research.
https://archive.ph/Qfiji
UST wasn't a stablecoin, it was a ponzi scheme along with Luna. The invention here is obfuscation - move the exponential ponzi growth part into a separate token. In a very straightforward ponzi $2M coming after $1M would allow initial owners to cash out with a 2x gain. Which is too obvious. UST instead would transfer all $2M to Luna sellers (real wealth) while printing just enough UST to provide 20% APR to previous depositors (may have been a bit higher in the past).

What happens when some old depositor wants to cash out? Money comes out of new money that's coming in. As long as there's enough new money it works (the fundamental ponzi property). The system also utilizes some liquidity buffers (liquidity pools with other stablecoins) that can absorb temporary volatility in a redemption demand - which works as long as money flow is positive. When that stops being true, and liquidity buffers run out - both UST and Luna started collapsing, with 100% of inflows redirected to UST sellers.

Viewed as a system - all difference to a traditional, straightforward ponzi disappears. Empirically, this obfuscation is so successful from the marketing perspective algostables with meaningless changes (or even not) will continue to proliferate, although it may take years for any to get as big as UST.
I never cared about the start time of a shell.

What really bothered me were the IBM RAD Studio for Websphere 5.x start times back in 2005.

Now the few ms that PowerShell takes?

I can live with that, no need to go for breakfast while devenv is booting up.
SoftBank-Backed Fintech Giant Klarna Looks for New Funds at Lower Valuation
> Collectivism isn't a monopoly of the east.

Is that why people in the West refuse to wear mask?
There has always been compilation to byte code in .NET.
Sharing project: easy-use cross-platform file search tool
Requires some pretty specific geography, though. You're not going to see one in Florida.
You might be interested in [Catala](https://catala-lang.org/en/), a domain specific language for implementing legislative texts. Iirc, they have worked on the french tax code, and are starting on the us one now.
Not really - it already compiles C#, F# and VB.NET to .NET bytecode, which can be JIT compiled by the runtime to some optimized native code as the program runs. It's just that the native code can now be produced by the .NET SDK during the initial build ("ahead of time").
> A mentor has advised me not to become "boring" and wants me to try to stay entrepreneurial.

These are just your mentor's values, and your mentor's opinion on what is boring.

You are free to entirely ignore your mentor's opinions, and take the path that works best for you.

Please, don't let them guilt you into doing something that's not right for you. There are many, many interesting things to experience outside of entrepreneurship.

Big ideas are sometimes - perhaps even often - best realized inside big companies, with all the resources needed to make the desired impact. Your shift over to a big tech might be just what you need to make this a reality.
Every tax system is. Because the experts who help to develop it are the same people who get paid to help you file your taxes. Making it easier would lose them income.
Interesting. I had no idea, but it definitely makes sense. Thanks for sharing.
TerraUSD Crash Could Speed Up Crypto Regulation, Binance.us CEO Says
> Greatly improved graphics and draw distance

BOO! BOO!

Speaking of “introductory guides for modern gamers”, there definitely should be one that lists most common ways they unwittingly mutilate the old games.

Mistake #1 is, without doubt, using high resolution uncommon at the production period for rendering. So they start the game, then feel it looks a bit shitty (it really is, now when you set it that way), then turn to mods, HD skins, NN-upscaled textures, and other craptastic “enchancements”. If step 0 was wrong, don't try to fix it with further wrong steps. Screen resolution, texture resolution, model complexity, artistic style, etc. should all be in balance. If you want a game that looks good in FullHD, you need to gather a new team that remakes the whole thing from scratch (and that production is going to cost more than the original one).

Mistake #2 is increasing view distance for the sole reason that hardware allows you to do it. Virtual horizon is really important to set scale for the game world. If it's too far, the exciting travel to the unknown place turns into moving to a next stand in theme park, or the wide plane turns into the small crossroad with NPCs standing here and there who don't even need to shout to hear each other.

These changes are as drastic as giving rocket launcher to the player, but everyone is so used to them that they don't realize what is wrong. Some people even make “retro” games assuming this is how games looked like originally.
Even better, re-introduces AOT, given the history with other attempts.
Weird. I highlight RZA, tap "web search" and he's the first result. Less work than taking the time to tap out "who is RZA?"
> consciously invented in the Meiji period

So the Meiji government traveled back in time a thousand years and erected Shinto shrines all over Japan?
Cough, NGEN, MDIL, .NET Native and Xamarin.
Billionaires on the ISS Weren't Expecting to Work So Hard
Cyber Insurance Checklist
you don't want any slowdown introduced by a JIT compiler when you deal with audio

you want consistent perf, AOT makes more sense over there

Unity game devs for example had to fight with the mono JIT by warming up their gameplay code otherwise it'd introduce micro stutters
They're Stablegains, not Stableprincipal ;)
And to native with dynamic linking via NGEN at installation time.
Does that mean it's possible to buy a 20-30 year old house for just the price of land? That sounds fantastic.
These are my thoughts, 20+ years in to a software development career (25 now! Jeez!), you might find it of interest?

https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/success-criteria-21-year...
One way I deal with this is having co-workers also create tickets if they need help with something. That way I can still be a team player but there is also documentation about how much I helped which is otherwise hard to quantify.
Very helpful. I'll update the post tomorrow. thanks.
Exceptionally high quality deepfakes in Kendrick Lamar music video
That was a typo, which I did not catch during proof reading.

"Assume good faith." - my intent is easy to understand from the rest of my comment, and citation.

I'll ask again, where is your evidence that online conventional schools are a bigger disaster than cyber charters?

Remember, jamesgreenleaf in the g'parent at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31419272 said outcomes are worse in public schools than the alternatives. My point is that's simply not true, given how bad cyber charters are.
Leanplum Gets Acquired by Clevertap
It's up to the buyers to say whether it matters and they say it does.
GraphQL JIT – GraphQL execution using a JIT compiler
If gamers were swarming overnight* everything on the market like consumer, professional, server grade gpus then yes it would be problematic for the society.

* and also dumping them all together overnight
But maybe just as many as old folks leaving it for Matrix et al? Might just even it out in the grand scheme of things.
Maybe, originally, chess did have the duck, but when presented to the emperor, he wanted to have it removed. So duck chess is actually now reverting to the pure, original form!
I agree that history is in your favor (and so does everyone else who moved to Libera), which is why it was a bit odd to not see Freenode mentioned at all. It's nothing bad, it was just a bit "hmm, I wonder why they did that".
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This is quite disputed still, mainly because of the high weight of the batteries and the large energy cost of manufacturing these batteries. The studies I'm aware of, pretty much agree on that for 100% coal based electricity, ICEs are better, and for 100% renewables EVs are better. The dispute is at what percentage EVs become better.
OP has clarified that it’s total comp and not base salary, as I had assumed. This is absolutely not out of the norm for engineering compensation at publicly traded companies. Levels.fyi has all of that data readily available.
I tried doing that a couple of weeks ago, but it seems to be a GitLab premium feature
> at least where I live, I've seen a big push for the reduction of of single use plastics, both through legislation, savvy consumers and responsible supermarkets

Have we? Or have we just seen campaigns and legislation against plastic straws and supermarket bags, which amounts to mere virtue signalling and greenwashing by corporations and governments?

We need to do much better than ban plastic straws and advertise how we've saved the world. Properly pricing in externalities onto the price of single use plastics would probably go a long way to motivate the market to give a shit.
In Iran, a pop singer helps save prisoners from execution
It shows an advantage of an open protocol over a closed system:

You can just host it somewhere else if things go sour.
That's because "bilberry" is somewhat ambiguous, there are other related but distinct berries like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_uliginosum.
We send a "weekly summary" email of who is absent in your company in the next week.

At 9am on a Monday we send roughly 100k emails via Sendgrid and have very very low spam report rates. Transactional email for even relatively small SaaS companies can get high very quickly.

As much as us in the dev world rely on Slack and try to avoid notification overload, my experience is most people want things as an email.
Since countries other than US/some European countries existed. Godot developers get paid in the $30-40k range. I live in Lebanon, and it is normal for talented senior developers to be paid $15-25k a year.
I put together these questions for my job search and they have worked ok for me.

"What has turnover looked like in the past year?"

Sweat shops have high turnover, press for a number for this question.

"What are your on call expectations? How do you manage incidents out of hours? How frequently do incidents like that happen?"

If they don't mention comp time or anything like that during those three questions they probably don't offer it, and if incidents happen with any frequency you can assume you will work a good bit of unplanned overtime.

"How is my work evaluated?"

The harder the criteria here the less likely they use butts in seats management. If it's someone vauge about "how well you collaborate with the team" or similar it's probably a subjective measure probably related to if your butt is where they expect it to be when they look.
"Oh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention."
The instance of the software was started from scratch; the communities (which are the hard part) were largely cut & pasted
It's not engaging, because it's made for developers. It's a serious tool, and it's not corporate. Professionals want something that works, not something attractive.

For example there are two big c++ discord servers. You can't even search for discord servers, you can't favorite single channels. You quickly get overwhelmed with notifications. Not to mention the things you have to click when you join a server.

And it runs with electron.

It's about the people who will use the tool. Software developers would use irc, gamers would use discord.
You and Torsten are right. Write the freakin' book. Write the next page or two before knocking off for the night. The tools don't matter as long as you and/or an editor can polish the work and then mung it as needed for publication. But that's for later, once the book is written. Tools are distractions. They give you an excuse not to write the next page. Write the book.

That being said, Markdown + git are a really nice combination.

May your mind be focused and your sitting-upon body parts be made of iron.
This is cool and all but I really worry about this going out of control. Just like trees had nothing to eat them, right now, plastics don't either. All of our infrastructure relies on plastic so if that suddenly starting getting compromised, we'd be royally screwed.
From their website, is this really a sufficient disclaimer?

> Stablegains is not a bank and the assets stored in your Stablegains account are not insured by any private or governmental insurance plan (FDIC or SIPC), nor are they covered by any compensation scheme (including FSCS).
There is a range of safeguards in place to help secure your deposits, however holding and depositing stablecoins with Stablegains and third party lending platforms still carries significant risk. Please carefully read our Terms of Use and Risk disclosures in our Learning Center before making a deposit. Any deposit with Stablegains and third party lending platforms is entirely your responsibility. You understand that your principal is at risk.

> Stablegains does not provide any financial, legal, or tax advice, nor should this website be viewed as an offer or inducement to make any financial decisions. The interest rate refers to the level of current daily interest payments, is not guaranteed for any specific period and may be modified in the future depending on the conditions in the lending markets used.

At least you know you can report them to the cops, which you should do if you have been a victim of fraud:

> Stablegains, Inc. is registered as a Money Services Business (MSB) number 31000211740426 with the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
I couldn't, because exporting symbols that could be loaded from other apps was only possible with Native AOT
Honestly how was this ever a YC company? Some of their Web3 plays I totally get - things like building dev infrastructure as a SaaS helps a ton when it comes to blockchain development. But products on Web3 seem to risky, especially DeFi ones with no track record.
When you're advertising higher yearly interests than Madoff, that should raise some warnings into people's head.
I wonder if discord might threaten IRC, it seems that is not the case.

There are two servers dedicated to the c++ language.
This made me think... back in 2012, a startup called Kueski (now a very successful BNPL in Mexico) applied for YC (twice in 2 years). The founders were rejected, even though the business model was sound and the economics were pretty well laid out (I know the CEO and ge is a really meticulous person).

The reason YC gave for the rejection was that Mexico was an unknown market, and they felt lending in there was too risky for them.

Makes me wonder what was the decision logic to accept this Stablegains, against that background it doesn't make any sense.

Was YC aware of the ponzi nature of this thing and decided to dip in? It just makes no sense.
Does it make sense to think about money if you cannot have more income?
Follow the steps of Robinson Crusoe, he has lived without money for years.
And you can find houses just as big in Japan, and in large parts of Europe. Not the point.

Compare developer salaries with square meter prices. Anyone complaining about Japan being unaffordable clearly doesn't understand the problem is almost universal among developed countries. The only way you're getting past that is having a high income. Of course it's going to seem small for US developers used to being in the upper echelons of the middle class in a country with relatively low prices compared to CoL.

The moment you're not an office worker and/or trying to live close to the city to not have a daily commute over an hour, you're pretty much in the same position as anywhere else in the developed world.
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