skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Failing fast" was hardly an intentional decision on the part of France. In fact, one of the principal reasons why Germany was able to so quickly overwhelm France was precisely because France was still preparing for the last war, i.e. trench warfare. Related to that, after the fall of France, the British Cabinet was intensely split between those on the side of Churchill who believed that the UK should "never surrender", and those on the side of foreign secretary Lord Halifax (and initially Chamberlain) who believed that the UK should offer peace terms with Germany to avoid a crushing defeat [0]. Had Chamberlain not changed his mind and Halifax's view had prevailed, one could argue that the UK would have chosen to "fail fast" and thus avoided the Blitz and much further suffering of its people—but at what cost?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_cabinet_crisis,_May_1940
Even if you have a licensed copy of WinXP, MicroXP is useful because it is a stripped down version that has been tested. That represents quite a lot of work.
How This Indoor Vertical Farm Makes Perfect Japanese Strawberries [22:20] Eater
Universities get away with absurd pricing because the government guarantees the loans. If the govt stopped backing the loans, the tuition costs would plummet and the govt wouldn't need to back them anyway.
> where you don't have 100% of the amount in advance.

This is not what I said. Willing to put 80% on down payment does not mean not having ways to pay things in full.

- You might have the cash, but not interested in becoming totally illiquid.

- You might be interested in getting a mortgage for the tax deductions.

- You might have only the cash the downpayment, but use another property that you already own as collateral.

- You might have only the cash for the downpayment, but you are going to buy the house to rent it.

Point is, with "traditional" finance, you can only do these things if you are negotiating the whole package with the same bank, and this is how they "get" you. If people could actually manage their own wealth, there would be no strings attached.

And let's not even get into the other kinds of issues such as bank's "rules" that seem totally reasonable but end up making the life of marginalized groups more difficult.
Previous discussion:
YC W22 Stablegains is being sued for losing $42m in funds from 4878 customers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31431224
Terraform has $3B (ish, stores as Bitcoin) that they could use to try to buy back faith in their coin.

Problem is, best they can do is reboot with a Bitcoin-collateralized coin. The whole Terra/Luna/Anchor "algorithmic stablecoin" had been exposed as a fraud or a fantasy, so such smaller fraction of suckers and scammers will buy in to that again, and everyone else might buy in to a Bitcoin backed stablecoin, but there's not much profit in that for Terraform, and the users have no reason to choose it over a more reliably backed coin like Tether or USDC or DAI.
Care to back that up with data? The link above is demonstrating the opposite.
If you present a contract to the hospital and explain that these are your terms, and a reasonably understood officer of the business signs it, then sure: they're on the hook. Contracts are contracts, and the law gives great weight to consent, even in circumstances like this where it's not clear a real negotiation happened.

The idea above was about "swapping" some random document in for the standard form and presenting it to them as if it was their document. That's not good faith negotiation, that's just fraud.
> had (have?)

I was at my insurance agent a few weeks ago and they still had a 3270 emulator in use.
This. Please image those disks. You may find you have something that has not been backed up to the Internet until now. Pretty sure I had at least one C64 demo that I have yet to be able to find online in over 20 years of looking.
I’m worried that the hospital forms will start to include a clause to agree to “waive” the affects of this bill
I’d probably assume somebody looked at “15% interest” as a sales pitch and “losing all of your money” as the actual thing that happened and concluded that it was fraud.

What exactly is fraud by your estimation?
It’s funny how anything elective or cosmetic is like that. To be clear, infertility is a serious medical condition, and I’m not making light of it. The distinction I’m making is an economic one. When patients have more choice as to whether to even be a patient, you see much, much more consumer-friendly openness about pricing. So it is possible. Fertility treatment is a great example. So is elective eye surgery. These areas of healthcare are very different from the “sign your life away now and we’ll send you the bill later” standard of most healthcare.
I don't believe that (all of) the people who get frustrated by these things don't understand that different problems require different solutions, it's when the majority of the industry (or more likely an influential minority) starts to say, "Hey! Let's build EVERYTHING this way" that that people start to complain. And I say this is warranted as it affects the job market. SPAs have their place (highly interactive applications that more closely mirror traditional desktops apps, I would say, the main one) but so many companies out there are developing their apps as SPAs that have no business being such and some of us would rather not have to deal with that (I've experienced this first hand).

The other side (or one other side) of the coin, of course, is that our industry is super new and we're all still figuring it out. I always liken out industry to thinking about how long it took to standardize the hammer design we have to day. I don't have the exact stats, but I'm thinking it was probably 100s of years and our ancestors had many a fight over a big rock vs a plank with a bit small bit of steel on the end of it being the better choice.
I'd think most likely its the bit about React. I don't think it would be likely its about going back to Ukraine.

React is sort of the one used all over, it takes a bit more risk to use Angular, Vue or Svelte and those would predominantly be in startups. The issue is it is actually hard to hire people with Vue and Angular so React is the one chosen.

Do you mention when applying you could work with React?
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Kwon
That's what I've done.

The way I see it is this. Tools like ansible, terraform, etc. don't eliminate the need to understand about shell scripting, the AWS API, etc. All they do is give you something additional to learn on top of all the stuff you already need to know. It's like

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

Maybe I am cynical but once you get into the ecosystem of tools like that then you are stuck investing more resources into those tools, paying for support, adopting more tools to deal with the complexity, you never win.

Years ago I was building virtual machines that would run a web service or populate a database full of content and publish it to an AWS image that I sold in the AWS marketplace.

The architecture was: a Java program sets up the resources required to do the job with the AWS API, then creates an init script and installs it on a new VM, that init script does all the work that has to be done on that machine, then it sends a message to SQS that tells the program that started it all it is done. Very simple, and if my DSL connection flakes out momentarily during the hour or so the init script takes to run it keeps running and I don't have to do it all over again the way I might if there was excessive communication going on between the master program and the host.
What do you mean in secret? The person explicitly talks about providing the hospital with alternative agreement. It is their responsebility to read everything they sign, just like it is the patient's
Easiest way to trigger an ET? Tell them it’s pronounced “mil-tim-it-er”
And if they swap the form in secret in order to trick surgeons into performing an operation which they haven't agreed to pay for, it's pretty clear that they're committing fraud.
Luck tends to even out in all games that involve luck if you play long enough. Why is it different in bridge than in poker? Luck will even out in both.
> Funny, most of those torrent got a __padding_file

Those are supposed to be hidden by clients. They represent "free space" between files, allowing clients to download individual small files without having to also download the files adjacent to them.
What will it finally take to cut this cancer called “healthcare” in the United States? There is nothing promoting health or care in it
That would be fine with me if the onus was on the government to prove the assets weren't legally acquired. Now it is up to the person to prove the assets were legally acquired.
> Also you could propose a discount for the first year

Sounds like a good idea, I haven't really seen this myself though, could you point me to some examples?
I can imagine. Imagine a podcast generation system. You'd simply have to describe the personalities of the host(s), the topic, the general vibe of the theme music, length, hardcode any sponsors, and a GPT-4 powered MLops service could produce something liked by a list of demographics 8 times out of 10 in 5 minutes.

There really is no stopping this train. In 2030 90% of internet content adopting the guise of being from the "real world" will be entirely generated by machine learning models. 90% of conversations you have with strangers online will likewise be with bots catered to influence you in subtle ways to maximize the return on revenue of your attention.
So the options are to withdraw to USD at 5% value, or transfer the ust to another wallet to qualify for a "potential airdrop" but probably lose the 5% as ust goes to 0?
>Terraform has $3B (ish, stores as Bitcoin) that they could use to try to buy back faith in their coin.

This is not correct. They used those bitcoins to try to defend the peg. Here you can see the actual treasury: https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/b31cc9e5-c54c-44...
I like bridge. I want bridge to be more popular, but I don't think that will happen.

To extend from your first point. Top level players have their dedicated partner, and their own bidding system where the information transmitted is much more refined. This is all very fascinating!

But it also makes it unwatchable for anyone not dedicated to this art. Sometimes even the commentators don't know the meaning of a bid.
It won't work.
What they are trying to sell, is - community was stronger then only relying on UST.
In one in a million chance, there could be a inflow of money and while users from snapshot wouldn't sell their tokens in an instant. So, basically, an utopia.

Hype is lost, wave is over.
It’s surprisingly useful, and shows up everywhere from chess to molecular biology—-but the CPU instruction probably exists because of its use in code-breaking.

This article has a lot of interesting examples.
https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/
You made my day, thanks bro
I use TS-100 daily and have found it excellent (very fast startup, precise control, one-hand UX), but DES-68TE/TF/TH look good too.
Meh YC backs a lot of scams masquerading as businesses. This period of easy money and wealth concentration has fostered much in the way of misallocation of capital. Y-Combinator exists to make its owners money. Their primary concern is bloody Benjamins, not morality and the public interest.
> Terraform has $3B (ish, stores as Bitcoin) that they could use to try to buy back faith in their coin.

Had. It's gone.
It's definitely happening in some circles. I was quite surprised to hear that my dad's reasonably active sibling chat group uses Signal, and we're talking about a dozen+ mostly technologically-inept people aged 40-70.

To give an example of how inept, my dad recently discovered that iOS Safari has tabs, and he's had a smartphone for close to a decade and uses Safari heavily. I have no idea what prompted them to switch away from WhatsApp, and before that, GroupMe (which they used for a while because it worked through SMS), but they did.
Visa has a huge footprint and those plastic cards are not organic. The toxic material for printing plus the buildings and employees who drive in to work each day to keep the system going or the millions of miles Visa sales, repair, security, etc drive each year need to be counted.

Miners are cheap.. Visa execs flying in private planes are worse for the environment.
This 100%. You have to flush out the reps who won’t vote for it regardless of constituent support and desire. Determine how many you need to replace, identify the weakest incumbents/most likely races to win, select challengers, fund them, and you hopefully unfuck US healthcare in the end. Maybe you need a few candidates to pull a “reverse Sinema”; run as a Republican, win, and then turncoat and vote for Medicare for All (with the understanding you’re probably only serving one term, but who cares if you get the policy done, 1.8 million voters over the age of 55 die every year, you’re just pulling progress forward with some political sacrifice versus waiting for cohort succession). Politics hacking and social engineering at its core.

If you’re not one to wait, the only other option is moving to a better country.
The generation of the 'script' uses a kind of L-System - like production rules. There's a big file along the lines of:

[the podcast] = [intro] [main body] [outro]

[main body] = [main prediction] [lucky colours] [alibi] etc

// these rules finally break down to text, eg

[main prediction start] = "A bite from a wild animal" or "A chance encounter"§

So the script has lots of combinations and is semi random - but it should always make sense.
When I was registering as a new patient at a dentist, they gave me the standard form that would let them do things like contact my employer if I didn’t pay my bill on time. I stroked a bunch of that stuff out and initialed it.

If it ended up in court and they produced that form, would my amendments mean anything? Is it a contract when only one part signs it?
>With XP I used to browse websits, fansites, blogs, forums, chats, MSN messenger/Yahoo Messenger/etc, whil now everything seems to be the boring social networks where almost everything is generated/shared.

That 2005-2009 period was absolutely the swan song of the pre-corporate internet.

Or maybe it's just nostalgia for a simpler time.
I’ve done that! But I also have 32GB RAM in my machine :)

I want 64 GB but I will say for my current needs, 32 GB is the sweet spot. My normal daily use is around 20GB. And it is a MacBook Pro. One day I’ll probably go back to a laptop running Linux. It is the fastest for code compilation in my experience.
…no it isn’t? You need to get surgery, they want to provide surgery
Producer co-ops are similar in that respect.
The monoculture is ruled by Google. Well funded forks are rarely breaking from upstream. So in practice supporting only one browser, or even just Blink / WebKit, yields more control and power to a single company.
Again, Constitutional scholar. I don't buy any of this. I wouldn't want him to face injustice either. I don't buy it that this guy is innocent and blameless. He needs to face an open and free trial here in the USA. Let's have it out. Everyone will be heard. It'll likely be on CourtTV for you. No need for conspiracy theories and excuses for him. Let's see the freedom fighter nut up.

It does matter what country he's in, all of these circumstances are suggestive of one thing or another. No reason to stick the head in the sand. I have no axe to grind. I'm just an average person calling this guy out as I see him. I wanted to present an unpopular viewpoint on him on HN that isn't heard often, or one that people are scared of saying out loud in fear of the aimless mob tarring and feathering them for. I simply don't care, I'll speak out every time, and I'm always willing to bear any cross required for it, unlike Eddy.
Do you mean that remaining primitive hunters-gatherers, as now observed in certain places near Amazon river, would be more of a success?
He committed statutory rape of his wife's sister
do not push this button
He didn’t launch a competitor, but Zuckerberg approved the blocking of Vine’s API access to find Facebook friends a few days after it launched.

TikTok must have paid a pretty penny to have access to it today.
Cult Classics: ‘Species’ Is a Top-Tier Low-Quality Film
The genesis block includes a headline about bank bailouts not on inequality.
1000x yes. When I finish a significant PR, I almost always wait until the next day to put it up. When you’ve spent 3-4 days grinding away at a problem, the urge is to just put it up and get rid of it. But when I sleep on it and look at the code from someone else’s perspective the next day, I always find a ton of easy fixes that I didn’t see at 5pm the previous day. It makes the review so much less painful for everyone.
Ok, so a secured loan? Those exist, sure. What does crypto get you in most of those cases?

In the "all I've got is a million bucks in gold I stole from a vault and can't show a paper trail" case: I don't care. Not a valuable use case for me. That reason alone doesn't move the needle on crypto for me.

In other cases: seems like you're gonna have an easy time getting a loan. lending to people who don't need it is the easiest sort of loan to make.

(In most of these cases, e.g. multiple properties or non-liquid assets, I'm not sure why I want to put down more collateral anyway...)

Edit: you added something about how with traditional banks you have to do it all-or-nothing with a single bank and that's how they "get" you. I'm not sure how anyone's being "gotten," especially in recent times where rate competition has resulted in cheaper money than ever before. But it's also not true in most of the cases you outlined. If you have multiple sorts of assets that you want to borrow against instead of securing the loan with the property itself, you can take out a bunch of other loans on those other assets and pay cash for the property.

Then you bring up historically marginalized communities and such... If you could sell me on the benefits for most of the folks in the world, people who may only have 5% down compared to a traditional bank... that would be a different convo, but "additional ways for people with assets to borrow money" doesn't sound so interesting, as it is.
It is baffling that there is a video for the $5 version (which is barely more than "do google searches or searches of a pre-canned list of sites, with site previews, from your menu bar" - thanks, I'll keep my $5) but nothing for the $50 software?

devontech has been around for something like two decades and has always struck me as being borderline snake oil. Lots of hand-waving elevator pitch, but I just never see anything explaining how the fuck it's actually useful.

https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/technology is basically several pages of lorum ipsum buzzwords.
Seems to me that ultimately this will have little to no effect since they gave them an escape route.

> Require that health care providers and facilities give you an easy-to-understand notice explaining the applicable billing protections, who to contact if you have concerns that a provider or facility has violated the protections, and that patient consent is required to waive billing protections (i.e., you must receive notice of and consent to being balance billed by an out-of-network provider).

All hospitals will simply make you wave your rights as part of their onboarding process. These rights need to be something that cannot be waived or they actually just add more work for hospitals (ie, more cost for patients) and more work for patients.

Edit: After further reading, in all emergency care scenarios and certain non-emergency care scenarios, they cannot ask you to waive these protections. Though, I wonder who gets to decide if it was an emergency? Certainly not the patient.
You doxxed yourself sharing that tiktok link.
The AMA is a professional organization for doctors and they have opposed all kinds of changes designed to reduce medical costs because it would hurt their members’ bottom line.

The system is a racket and doctors are in on it.
This makes me dread that soon many other podcasts will be automated like this, and it'll be orders of magnitude more difficult to find good content than it already is.
If Fractional Reserve Banking would create money, then it would not have a problem when all the depositors go at the same time to claim their money at the bank. :-)

As the previously mentioned article states, the bank does not create money, it increases the Velocity of Money.

"Banks do not create money out of thin air": https://voxeu.org/article/banks-do-not-create-money-out-thin...
agreed. You are under huge distress and don't have a viable alternative and your life is in danger and you sign what is really, a contract to pay with the amount to be paid being blank.
So essentially and legally speaking, how is this different than blackmail?
Fair point, but I have a counterpoint. The dunning krueger effect means most "widely specialized" people assume their competence is leagues higher than it actually is in fields they have marginal understanding of. This leads to people overestimating their abilities and fucking things up, when they really should rely on 0.1% experts. This of course isn't true for simple things like cooking, knot tying and email writing, but the more technical a task, the greater the threat of overestimated competence vs known incompetence.
FreeBSD has two repositories of packages, quarterly and latest.

$ cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
FreeBSD: { enabled: no } # disable the default config
FreeBSD-latest: {
url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
#url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly",
mirror_type: "srv",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
enabled: yes
}
You are missing an important element of the game theory, and the missing part is what makes the stakes matter.

You can't just make decisions based on expected value of the bet, because when you run out of money, you can't play anymore. A bet that has a positive expected value, but has a good chance of knocking you out of the game, is not worth playing if your baseline expected value per hand is positive. Running out of money (either your actual money, or the amount of your stack in a tournament) means guy can't make any more bets, so you have to factor that risk in.

This is why it is different without real money. Does the game end when your bankroll runs out, or are you playing such that you can refill your stack? That will change the game theory.
That was funny!

> the average person

So I'm riding the subway in NYC and there are these adds for yet another one of these crypto related "businesses" and copy iirc goes something like 'stop boring us at parties trying to explain crypto. just invest with us blah blah'. Pretty sure the irony is lost on the target demographic.
It's too expensive to build anything nuclear. Especially these days. Also NIMBYism and fossil fuel interests and antinuclear activists.
> With no slippage/spreads on dex's or cex's to be able to do this with any stablecoin? Pipe dream.

Slippage for an arbitrageur is price correction to the market. I made a math error in my comment: call money at 2.75% is less than a basis point a day. The trade makes money with no collateral.

I--me!--could call my broker and borrow $10mm at 5.75% (call money + 300 bps, because I'm not a billionaire) by lying and saying it wasn't for trading, buy 10 million Tethers for 0.9987, redeem them and pay back the loan the next day to turn an $11,425 profit.

I'm not going to do this. Because in that interval between buying and redeeming, an interval I'm sure would be marred by unnecessary delays--with my borrowing cost the trade breaks even between days 8 and 9--there is more than a 1 in 875 chance that Tether blows up [a]. (In other words, I'm betting, by not doing this trade, that Tether has no more than a few years to its name.)

[1] 1 / (11,425 / $10mm), the 11,425 being about $10mm - [$10mm * 0.9987] - [$10mm * {(2.75% + 3%) / 365} * 1 day]