skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they counting that the first wallet owns ~5% of BTC?

With this in mind - it's less surprising that the remaining 0.01% own 22%.

This isn't TOO far off of regular inequality.

IIUC, the top 0.01% globally own >12% of wealth: https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/never-mind-1-percent-let...

Given that crypto had such absurd hyper growth - I'm actually shocked inequality isn't far worse.
Bitcoin is more like holding a piece of gold. If all gold exchanges are closed you can still trade your gold with someone in person. You don’t get your money without ever selling your piece of gold to someone else.
leetcode was introduced because the founder in india could not get a job because he didn’t have a degree. so he made a platform where people could prove how good they were.

the trouble is that this just trains code monkeys to memorize optimal solutions to a set of problems and to quickly reproduce them.

it does not optimize for real engineers who have the experience to build good software and to come up with creative solutions to hard problems.
Thanks xhfloz, I love what you're doing with mmm.page too!
If I can use methods like 2 or 3 to make huge orders without moving the market, why bother shorting?

Couldn't I use this to make easy profits on longs?

Say "X" is the method to place orders that don't affect the price.

1. Buy 5 million shares via X, at the current low price

2. Buy 5 million more shares via my stock broker, pumping the public price

3. Sell all 10 million shares via X, all at the new high price

My guess would be that the organizations you deal with through these dark pools or whatever discount your trades based on the perceived advantage you're getting by not making them public. If the public price is $100, and you want to sell a jillion shares through a dark pool, nobody is going to offer you better than, say, $98 per share or whatever their quants have calculated as a fair price for a sell that big. Likewise if you wanted to buy a jillion they'd ask for $102 or so.

There can't be a free lunch here.
He himself was burned by Facebook's privacy settings when private photos of him and his then girlfriend were leaked. In other photos his laptop has tape over the webcam and microphone. He knows why people are privacy advocates. Probably moreso than anyone else, given the data he has access to.

Personally, I think it was always a matter of time until this sentiement found it's way to the general public.
No. Source: Am Visa.
> Would Ukrainians really want it or they just want the invasion to be stopped?

They’ve already said yes in 2014.
> If you only read the title, it sounds like the hospital scammed her. All the reports on this news sound this way.

Well, personally: if I'm told that something will cost me $1300, and then there's a mistake, and they'll actually consult a big pile of papers that I'm not allowed to see to decide what to charge me... that sounds like a scam.

With an accurate estimate and correct information about the hospital not being in network, she would have chosen a different provider for her surgery.

> Also, if you have an open mind, you could see another perspective: her insurance is amazingly good, cutting $23k bill to $1.3k.

? Hospital estimated $1300 after her insurance, and provided no other info. Then she was billed $229,000. No one cut her bill to $1.3k, other than the legal system requiring the hospital to honor its original estimate after litigation.
> My experience so far is women over 30 are dead inside

Care to elaborate?
One should not need to pay $230k for back surgery regardless of circumstances.
No, because the entire purpose of grocery stores is also to make profits, and yet they price competitively and transparently. The problem is that healthcare has senselessly been given a long leash to price opaquely in a way that doesn’t allow price discovery to emerge.
Can you let me know more so I can repro? When you navigate from one kinopio page (called a space) to another, the back and forward buttons are supposed to do the right thing
At what point did it cease to matter, though? Can anyone provide information on how many computers, world-wide if that's what we're shooting for, pre-date the mid 2010s? Because, after that, all those computers are plenty fast. Again, this particular library isn't growing much in computational demand. As for the bandwidth, let's assume the worst case is 128Kbps. jquery 3.6.0.min is 88KB. That's about a 6 second download. Then it's cached usually. Sure, there will be people on slower connections, but how many? Maybe Gov needs to do that no matter what, but that's not an excuse for other use cases.
Actual quoted cost was 1,337.

Nice.
/me nods while switching from Safari to TikTok

According to Screen Time, I spend five times longer on TikTok than Safari. HN comes in at just 39 minutes over the last week. The two possibilities are that I’m consumed by the social media cycle, or that I learn more from TikTok than any other source. Since I love learning, empirically social media seems to be the web.

Don’t slay the messenger; I’m just as nervous about this as you. But we’ve all seen what happens to those who cling to old trends, hoping the golden ages will return. It rarely goes well.

For evidence, I flicked through about ten nonsense videos just now before landing on this gem: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdtq8Mmc/?k=1

I like the web. It has its purpose. But one could also say it’s served its purpose. The power grab exists because it wasn’t serving a very real gap in the transmission of knowledge.
Government money is a tool nations can use to further their own national interests.

While this isn’t without its downsides (though see Yanis Varoufakis on CBDCs [1]), the gains from it are socialized.

By contrast, an enormous percentage of bitcoin and all other major cryptocurrencies was mined (or worse, “premined”) in the first few years after launch. What nation of people benefits from this form of inequity? Cryptocurrency is entirely nationless.

[1]: https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/yanis-varoufakis-on-techno-f...
I think remix (remix.run) is really close. You can use it to easily build a site that fully functions with JavaScript disabled (seriously, at one point while building the demo app I disabled JavaScript and there was no observable difference in functionality), or one that just does SSR with hydration and client-side navigation. The framework is built and maintained by the people who did react-router and you can tell that it's very well thought out. It seems to fill a similar niche to Next.js but it has some clear "second system" advantages, IMO.

I find myself very productive in it, especially compared to trying to build a highly interactive frontend on top of a Django app. The tutorial app on their website does a great job of demonstrating the capabilities of it and the patterns you'll expect to use, and you should be able to follow along in one long coding session.

It doesn't have built in auth, admin, or ORM, but it heavily advocates for the use of Prisma which is probably your best option for ORM in js. So far, no node ORM really comes close to Django's in terms of capabilities. They don't really even try on the production-ready migrations system. However, you could always use Django to get auth (change your hashing to bcrypt and get a bcrypt lib from npm) and admin for free and use `prisma db pull` to keep your Prisma schema definitions (and corresponding type modules) in sync.
How to build is still valuable. Imagine if we had a world full of people who knew "what to build" but not how to build it.
Friendly reminder that a lot of Appalachia’s apple planting (think Johnny Appleseed) was actually for booze/other fermented products.

I thought it was weird that this article didn’t mention it at all, but upon searching for a source the first article that popped up was also about this man (Tom) & talked about it [0]

Probably has to do with the nature of the websites demographic that they exclude it.

This reminds me of another person I’m familiar with though, who is preserving hundreds of tomato species - Dan at Rainbow Tomato’s Garden [1]

[0]https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heritage-appalachian-a...

[1]https://montco.today/2021/08/rainbow-tomatoes-garden-east-gr...
Hey! Congrats on the launch.
Love the emerging thought and products around spatial web apps.
Building the company in adjacent space – www.spatial.chat
let's chat one day. feel free to dm in twi: @kidrulit
Thank you, that give me hope, this is very meaningful work :)
very minor critic: the scrolling performance is not perfect on some boards (note that my 4K screen doewsn't help..)

BTW your app just made me discover the movie "everything everywhere all at once" (yeah I must be living under a rock..) and I'm very hyped given the critics!
Let's say I bought a server from Dell. They quote me a cost of $6000. Maybe they assumed I was part of an MVP program that I hadn't been aware of. I have it delivered and installed and later the rep invoices me the price at 1 million dollars for the server because they made a "mistake" on the discount. I may have signed a resale agreement telling them that I'd pay for the hardware sent to me, so tell me how this is fair and equitable trade practices? It may be viable to ship the server back and call the sale a wash, but there's no rolling back medical treatment.
Not everyone who gives birth embraces the word, for a number of reasons. Sometimes people have surrogates give birth. Sometimes moms and dads adopt and don't give birth. Sometimes people who give birth don't identify as women. I know people in many of these groups so I tried to write in an inclusive way. It's not that you can't use the word mother! I have a mother. I'm married to a mother. And no one is telling you what you can and can't say! _I_ just chose to use broader language. The amount of weird comments about it is weird IMO.
Stack Overflow exhibits (or exhibited) all the points that parent mentioned. If you look at [the discussion of tags on the Meta site][0], and especially what's called ["burnination"][1] you'll see these issues being hashed out over time.

To sustain a tagging system like that it takes dedicated and invested individuals, and the corollary of that is that such people tend to generate a lot of discussion.

[0]:https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tags
[1]:https://meta.stackoverflow.com/tags/burninate-request/info
Yup! I ran the Classis theme exclusively. I was never a fan of the default "Fisher Price" theme.
browsers natively don't handle huge amounts of nodes as well as native or canvas implementations (which have other downsides). There's def more optimization I can do here though
Edible tape? There are so many pre-existing foods that get sticky when wet. Like seaweed wrap.
This makes waiting days for the actual approval all the more frustrating!

In your next stand up raise the fact you're waiting for a review as a blocker, and watch as reviews suddenly start getting done much more quickly.
Maybe you can find your creativity again? I'm sure it never truly left
Wealth distribution, with the bigger part owned by an extremely small percentile is like the history of human kind. We should take into account properties and any kind of ownership, such as national territory as well. Humans like to own as much as they can -- this is why wars happen.

Regarding to bitcoin as a currency, as I read in some comment here:

1) You can't demand your money from your bank at any time given. This gives the banks the leverage to maintain and/or invest your money however they seem possible, rendering them a complete "Ponzi" machine (lending all the time in order to invest and make more money while paying out whatever you want to withdraw within calculated timelines).

2) Bitcoin can't print money as it is designed to have a fixed number of distribution. You can't inflate it. You have the capability to become your own autonomous, independent bank. With a fiat such as USD, job wages do not increase in correlation to the USD volume. This promotes poverty, inequality and is completely unethical -- regardless if that effect is intended or not. There must be a public mathematically proven metric that constitutes as a stable currency, this is what Bitcoin is trying to solve. A so-called mathematical gold.

3) Different problems arise, such as: (a) incapability for consistent day-to-day payments due to processing inefficiency, (b) early birds get the bag, (c) global warming (hi tesla).
> the selling point of crypto was never curing inequality

Sure it was. Definitely not the only selling point, but there is a ton of drivel out there about how it is supposed to liberate us from the big bad banks (banks are now replaced by Coinbase et al) How something that's supposed to be decentralized, consensus-based, not prone to manipulation by the greedy corporations, greedy individuals and governments is now actually turning out to be something else. And it even has some real equality-related use cases like wiring remittances to Argentina, or the failed El Salvador experiment. But overall trending in the opposite direction to equality.
> That is called leverage and only exists because the government prints money.

This existed long before the government took over the banks and decoupled it from gold. It's called "fractional reserve banking".

> The bank did not create money

It absolutely did. It's how fractional reserve banking works. The "fetters" are the collateral backing up the loan. The money is destroyed when the loan gets paid back. I know it sounds like magic, but it isn't.
As per Wikipedia:

> In a SPA, a page refresh never occurs

This is not true with something like Turbo: the partial transfer may or may not take place depending on whether it's useful to do that. The point is that you don't have to even care about that (and I'm not even sure you even any control over that). From the perspective of a Rails programmer, you're generating whole pages. How they get to the client is immaterial to you. Think of it as compression (which is actually is, basically using the previously tranferred data as a dictionary).
I keep going from mechanical keyboards to low-profile ones (K380, Mx Keys) and not sure which one I like better. For sure the low-profile ones are less painful to type.

(And to be honest my usage is not for typing all the time - its also mousing and pressing a few shortcuts for an hour, and then an hour of mostly typing, etc)
Sorry for my french but this is all a bit of bullshit. I have some old sport watch that I open with a cent coin, it is completely waterproof as it was 10 years ago (so seals work), its whole sealing part is tiny and doesn't interfere with design/size/weight/price. If one wanted to manufacture top of the class phone with removable battery, it would be entirely possible.

But since we all know revenue is not anymore primarily function of units sold, but services continuously sold on top of those devices. Taking huge commission on every app sold, proprietary/brand stuff like cables (even if they fray worse than 1$ ebay ones), cases, buds, anything.

Apple used to be pioneer of this bad behavior, but now most manufacturers jumped on that wagon since apparently people kept buying their products anyway. I used to just pop back lid on my Samsung S2 to change sim card or add memory card, now with S22 that's a pipe dream.

I wouldn't call it a trade-off. I would call it what it is - customers are not pissed off enough to affect sales in negative way. So let's do it and milk them more. One step/slot/port/3.5mm jack at a time.
There is a story is someone doing something similar with their credit card [1].

Not sure how well something like this would fly in the states, but it would be interesting.

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/updated-russian-man-turns-ta...
yep sock coffee might be a problem as well.
In this case, everything is hand made (built in Vue and not much else)

https://pketh.org/how-i-build.html
Although I am not a lawyer, One weakness I see in this analysis is that it is taking as precedent things enforced mainly extra-territorially (smuggling) and using it to justify actions that have been mainly enforced domestically (civil forfeiture).

I personally would have a lot less problem with civil forfeiture if it were mainly something enforced at the borders. If someone attempts to smuggle in a bunch of cocaine at the US-Canada border and gets their car and the cocaine confiscated, is not as troubling.

I do have a bunch of issues if someone is driving along in the US, gets pulled over and then gets his car confiscated.

The Constitution and Jurisprudence has made a distinction between actions performed extra-territorially and domestically.

This analysis ignores that distinction and as such IMO does not establish that civil forfeiture as practiced currently is constitutional.

EDIT:

One example of this distinction is piracy. When America was first founded, pirates captured on the high seas were often summarily executed. However, the practice could not be used to justify the police doing that domestically.
I think it's a bit of an oversimplification to define equality as 'current distribution of wealth.' A very important part of wealth is being able to actually use it, and there are many ways holders or would-be-recipients of USD are restricted in who they can transact with that are far from equal. Cryptocurrencies are not without restrictions of their own, but their restrictions are more objective/technical rather than the vaguely phrased, regularly changing, cultural nature of traditional 'laws' that govern USD transactions.

Ultimately, I agree with your assessment of the research avenue as a straw man.
Is the name Greek?
Watch out for FPGAs this year: the prices are running something like 200x normal, if you can buy them at all. A $5 part is over $1000 on the grey market.
Yes. A link to an (valid, relevant) article discussed on a forum/blog where, with some regularity, unusually high quality comments are made. Then there's Schneier, who in my opinion, is worth paying attention to even on subjects of lesser interest. And while awareness of the particular subject might be common to some, it's uncommon to a greater number, even some in CS/IT/Tech etc.

Edit: It is probably worth noting that more than a few subjects warranting great intrigue but receiving little or no recognition, have been presciently forecast on that site.
Same year, and every engineering and CS student I knew had one in their dorm room. The lowest spec I saw was 386SX-16 with 2 MB and the highest was 486DX-50 with 16 MB RAM. Most used DOS/Windows but the CS students dual booted to Linux (Slackware mostly, some SLS).
Show HN: AWS Should Be Easy
Not happening here in the Uk - the world over here is still on WhatsApp.
This is so cool. I love the aesthetic and UX. The only thing is, I really wish I could self-host this. This seems like just the kind of thing I'd use for personal journaling brainstorms, and I'd really love to be able to just have that kind of data locally or self-hosted in my own location of choice.
Makes sense. At least in these early days I didn't want to rely on that as a crutch because Kinopio is designed to also work on mobile/touch devices which don't have hover
And Atari DOS was written by the same people that wrote DOS for the Apple ][. Shepardson Microsystems. The book ‘The Atari BASIC Source Book, written by some ot the same people is still an interesting read today.
re-posted to update to final title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31461852
In reality in many cities the property near airports is expensive. So that doesn't work as an argument
I'm still working on the pricing, any suggestions?
We had instant messaging in the 80’s at college on a VAX. Admittedly only 8 people in any one chat.
My Atari 800 died in a lightning storm in 1983, but I still have the replacement 800XL downstairs, with floppy drives, cassette drive, thermal printer, and 300 baud modem. An Ape Face paralell port adapeer for the Epson RX-80, which I don't have anymore. Lots of floppies and cartridges, too. And JForth along with the manual.
In this case the primary driver for these vaccines are still smallpox, given that smallpox is seen as a risk because of the potential for bioterrorism, combined with the fact the old smallpox vaccines had risks. So there's been several new smallpox vaccines after smallpox disappeared from the wild, because there's been a market for tens of millions of doses for them that's been far more interesting to the manufacturers than monkeypox.
Ceylon and Kotlin both came out in 2011 and neither was popular. I was hoping Ceylon would come out on top as giving the most without incurring the complexity of Scala (which can co-exist for other uses/users).

From Ceylon Wikipedia[0]

> Null safety

> Union and intersection types are used to provide null safety. The top type of the Ceylon type hierarchy is the class Anything, which has two subclasses: Object, the superclass of all normal classes and all interfaces, and Null, with the only instance null. Since Object and Null are disjoint types, most regular types like Integer or List<String> are not nullable; a nullable type is the union Integer|Null, abbreviated Integer?.

So not only do we get null safety, we get both intersection and union types. The emphasis on immutability is also a great selling feature, but perhaps that limited its interoperability with Java collections and adoption.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon_(programming_language)
It'd be nice to have a Ionic app in the future!
re-posted to update to final title and readme what/why/how.
I wrote this rebuttal. Nice to meet you! Your definition of asymmetry focused on asymmetry of outcomes, which I believe is worth considering, but not the usual definition of "asymmetric" when talking about games.

I also did attempt to define the luck/skill axis in a way that is non-intuitive, but I believe correct when talking about games in a technical sense: luck games have information hidden from all players, while skill games do not. In that sense, bridge is not a luck game. It is an unfair game because you can get screwed by how the cards are placed around the table, but the unfairness tends to even out as you play more hands.
To perform escrow with that technology a trusted third party is required, at which point, you are resolving disputes exactly the same way it works with credit cards: you are convincing some organization that the transaction wasn’t satisfied.
It would have to be signed by both sides to count. I've done it before, but you can't just try to sneak things through if they don't sign.
The war wouldn’t be such a problem if Ukraine received proper anti-ship missiles.
In Japanese it means mushroom, not sure what else (the nintendo character toad is called kinopio-kun in japan). But really I just randomly stumbled on it years ago and it sounded unique and interesting to me