skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was. At the time (31 years ago) I was the magician in my office because I was, somehow, able to find any file on our Novell file server via a content search-- no matter what program originated it.
> Inspired by the possibilities across DeFi, our aim was to go beyond Anchor and to integrate with multiple protocols so that users could have easy access to multiple tools and allocate their assets across all of them based on their judgment of the benefits, costs, and risks of each option. Unfortunately, we didn’t get there in time.

Their previous marketting said (or at least implied) that they were spread across different defi products to protect against this exact risk.

That is not the same thing as "we planned to get there eventually, but didn't in time". This is borderling to an institution saying "We're FDIC insured!" but actually meaning "We hope to be FDIC insured at some point in the future".

Lying to customers about what you're doing with their investment funds is 100% illegal and literally what Martin Shkreli was in prison for (and that case didn't even end with him losing all of his investors money)
people who bet early, made big money. people who came in on the hype lost everything. the definition of pyramid schemes.

Oh well. We'll see, it might bounce back as these things do.
> This is not correct. They used those bitcoins to try to defend the peg.

My understanding is that its more likely that they were allowing connected insiders to cash out at face value rather than "trying to defend the peg" at the prevailing market rates.
Written as if no mistakes were made on their end. Paraphrasing:

"We all thought UST and Anchor were a source of stable >10%/yr gains that you could trust for your corporate treasury. That the yield instead turned out to be -99% is quite disappointing, and makes this a natural time for us to bring our service to an end. It's been a pleasure to serve you."
Reminds me of Fiddler on the Roof:

The most important men in town would come to fawn on me!
They would ask me to advise them,
Like a Solomon the Wise.
"If you please, Reb Tevye..."
"Pardon me, Reb Tevye..."
Posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eyes!
And it won't make one bit of difference if i answer right or wrong.
When you're rich, they think you really know!
"doing fine" is a pretty bold claim. I doubt there is a healthcare system without issues. Germany is changing a lot, and not for the better, because the system was not really sustainable as it was.
That's not an ad hominem.

The circular relationship between Terra and Luna is really fishy. It's probably not really a scam today, but similarly structured schemes should probably be classified as such and criminalized in the future.
Any crypto or web3 startup contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of "receive_funds.sh > /dev/null".
innovation and differentiation are not things i need or want in my messaging app, holy cow, i just want to send messages. use a standard protocol or write a new one, i don't care, but the problem you are solving is SENDING MESSAGES TO A KNOWN USER. write a protocol, document it, and let the client handle the rest. omg. grow up
Apple is in a class of their own in some ways, so until they offer a repairable one I don't think a fair comparison can be made.
> using manual gear shift in a car.

Which is useful everywhere but suburbia which is why it's still popular and mandatory in driver's education in Europe?
If you read the article, the 40kg of equipment are clearly needed to do the repair.

So now you’re demanding Apple ships you a light bundle of small tools that do the same as that 40kg of tools or otherwise it’s just a “token effort”?

Or you want Apple to design a phone that you could safely repair using only a few small tools? That’s fine too. In that case I’ll just sit here waiting for all the bitching from HN about their new repairable iPhone that is prone to water damage, has shit battery life and creaks when you hold it.
Because Visa made that against there rules.
UST, a stable coin not even pretending to be backed by the very thing it was pegged to fails. Unlike USDT, USDC or GUSD, there was a documented plan of attack to take UST down 6 months ago, someone just raised enough capitol to execute it.
At some point I want to write a long-form post with code proving my statements above. I walked through this scenario a long time ago using https://www.flopzilla.com/holdeq.html to find the equilibrium but it'd be neat to write open source code that does the number crunching and that way others could actually audit the proof.

The short of it though is there exists a perfect range of cards the bot can play where it neither folds enough for you to bluff to gain an edge, nor does it call enough that you can wait for better cards while bleeding chips to gain an edge.
Gastronomy of burrito is strange. Rice in a wrap doesn't sound right to me. Filling but bland. It's probably the worst type of wrap I've had. How it got so popular is a mystery to me.
Hey Robocat,

Networking events was just an example of meeting a cofounder in a setting where you have no prior interaction with the person, just like the online dating YC created.

My confusion, for lack of a batter word, is that every single one of these guys, Thiel, YC, ... do not want to even consider co-founders that have not known each others and have not worked on a project prior to launching or deciding to work on a startup.

It's just super contradictory to launch a service that offers what you always shunned away from ..
It's not that different, if you can play enough rounds. Bridge and poker both give you that chance over a day. Magic the gathering, not so much.

However, the luck element (by the human way of thinking about luck, not my definition) is much smaller for duplicate bridge than for poker. You can get legitimately screwed by finding the right contract and going down due to unusual opposing hands, but so will most of the rest of the field bidding your cards. _Only_ unskilled players will get a good result on that kind of hand, and they will give you back that advantage later. I guess you could say that the correlation between skill and score is negative on a few hands.

A pro player on a cold streak will usually lose a few bucks in a cash game against new players, but a professional bridge player will beat the new players, guaranteed, even with the new players making "happy accidents."
In a parallel to email spam-bots, we get personal agents which (by your choice) filter out the generated content and make sure you only get the real deal.

The fight is real.
It's pathetic that regulators haven't stopped this nonsense. These scams don't even last 6 months anymore, it's a joke
That's a good point, and I should look into that (it's been a while since I touched that part of the codebase). Off-hand my guess is that the other reason I handle api requests separately is because I can group multiple actions into a single request more easily, which isn't something I need to do with websocket streaming
There really isn't anything anyone can preemptively do about someone else committing outright fraud. If that's their intent, all they need to do is photocopy a paper form with your signature on it, and move your signature anywhere they want.
You need to take the cultural aspect into account - we are talking about a country where to this day one can legally marry a 12 year old.
I tried this exact thing when my wife was going to have a baby.

None of the hospitals within 100 miles, the doctors, or the the insurance company would give me so much as an estimate, and this is for something that they do every day.
I’d think agricultural diets were less healthy insofar as they didn’t have nutrition science (even we barely do) and would have to rely on what they could get to grow, mainly grains. Most likely they weren’t actually fully agricultural and were using the farms to make beer or feed their animal herds.

But I was just thinking that hunter-gatherers need more active participation and can’t provide a surplus to feed as many idle hands.

The population growth problem is the purpose of religion whose main thing has always been telling people to not have sex.
how does your personal wealth in this industry

The Living Computer Museum in Seattle is closing down. Paul Allen's estate, who gave so much money and built several Seattle organizations, seems to be focusing money elsewhere.

Like Bill Gates philanthropy, I assume they believe focusing resources towards vaccines and other general population philanthropic investments is more important.

The Living Computer Museum was unique. I remember especially they had a room set up like an old 80s living room with an Atari VCS 2600, and a window looking outside. It wasn't important in the sense of "progress", but it provided a shared historical perspective.

I hope whatever takes its place is cool.

I'm tired of moving.
Obviously I'm a little out of the loop, but what is the "attack" they talk about in the new plan? I thought the coin just death spiraled.
There are examples elsewhere in this thread of Rust code which is obviously incorrect (static mut values not protected by a mutex).

I would not put any faith in the security of this software, which for remote desktop, is a problem.
> I still have my first Android phone. It contains a battery you can pop out after removing the back cover. Replaceable batteries used to be the norm!

> If Apple actually cared about repairing phones, they'd design better phones.

They do make excellent phones. No doubt about it. I think the end claim is tad contrived: If you (and millions similar) are willing to let go of IP68 dust & waterproofing, willing to work with cheaper melamine casing, and plastic screens, I am sure Apple will have no argument to back up its high ground of why they need specialist repair tools & services. What you desire is a state of the art smartphone, with gloss, finish & every working bell & whistle. What you demand for is a Nokia 3200 (which incidentally wasn't too behind in evolution).

This protocol exists because the devices are sophisticated. And they ship this hulk with the assumption you are at Level 0. I can only imagine good faith on Apple if they empowered local technicians to handle such repairs instead of this elaborate stunt to prove their point on self-servicing.

Repairability is much different topic from build sophistication. Lets not mix up these two. Apple's approach to prove its point is labored. What we probably eventually want is iOS devices to be easily serviceable by ourselves (if well equipped) or via locally available technicians, instead of entering their marbled ecosystem. Eventually we will reach some middle ground. But it is crucial to understand that self-repair isn't everyone's cup of tea and a corporation cannot keep a supply chain for the 1-5% customers who dabble with this hobby
> Stablegains is not accepting any new users or any new deposits on our platform. At this time, please DO NOT use your deposit addresses as any funds sent might not be recoverable.

It boggles my mind that people don't see that the inability to block/reject payments is a fundamental flaw of cryptocurrency.
This whole nonsense with chargemasters is an industry standard practice. It's hard to find a hospital that will open the book for you.
Which suburbs do you live in? still the same old 5 varieties here. I drove for 3-4 hours to get to an orchard that grows a variety that used to be a local staple 20 years ago. 30 years ago the variety was much greater over here in the mid atlantic.
Keeping children with adults in prison is a bad idea for many reasons. Surely you've heard about some of the things that happen in prisons?
Humans haven’t been around long enough for that to happen. The most divergent groups outside Africa are that way because we met our distant relatives like Neanderthals, but it seems in our case they were just incompatible enough it didn’t add that much.

Africans esp the San have much more diversity than everyone else but IIRC it’s still remarkably low for our current population size.
This is also my experience. Pipewire is better than Android or Mac.
Here is one of thepiratebay up to 2019: https://archive.org/details/ThePirateBayMarch2019
> While we have informed users that there are no absolute guarantees against risks

I'm... uh.... fairly certain this was not the crux of their marketing which severly downplayed the underlying risk. There is also a huge spectrum between "we cannot guarantee that there is 0 risk" (which seems to be what the above sentence is saying), and "there exists a risk that all of your funds disappears in 24 hours".

It seems like there is some serious rewriting of history going on here.

Question though, do the founders here have any potential criminal liability from this whole situation (including apparently lying about what they were doing with their customers funds)?
Your guide to the crypto crash – Terra UST, Bitcoin and El Salvador
Anybody promising low-risk, high-return investment is a fraud. After all, why would they have to convince you to invest money if they could just do it themselves?
It is in my country, so why couldn't it be in the USA? Here we always know how much I'm going to pay for a procedure ahead of time, no surprises, procedures have sticker price just like groceries.

- If you have health insurance: you always know ahead of time what hospitals are in network, then the price for all out of pocket expenses are listed in the contract with the insurance company (prices adjusted yearly). You only ever deal with your insurer, out of pocket co-pays came in next months bill, just like a phone bill or credit card bill , it is actually illegal for a doctor or hospital to charge you directly for anything in that case. Any dispute (like the one in the article) is a business matter between the insurer and the hospital, nothing to do with you.

- If you don't have insurance and decide to go for a private hospital: the hospital will sell you a fixed price package for each procedure or a big package for the whole stay, each with a fixed contract signed ahead of time. There is no surprises, no one signs a "blank check" to the hospital like those "service agreements" in the USA.
That's why uncontrolled population growth is not considered a sustainable pattern. But granting those who are already born the right to breathe few would dispute.

However, those consuming more resources than the share the planet has to offer for everyone are just denying others an equally good life. Either now or in a future generation. https://www.overshootday.org/

Rather useless growth of computer performance might not be the worst problem. But it's easy to address. I can tell you that working with an old 2 GB computer is no problem at all for many tasks with just a bit of thinking. (For sure there are tasks that require more memory. I also use such machines, but not all the time.)
“But Tesla has always been financially precarious” is a direct quote from his thread, which tells you everything you need to know: the author is playing fast and loose with facts and his audience is gullible enough not to look up basic things like the fact that Tesla’s net was 5b last year and is so far on track to more than double it.
Storing nuclear waste for 10,000+ years is also unpopular and no-one wants it stored in their backyard and further does it add up to put aside proper funds to steward waste for 10,000 years.
Yeah my bad - trust the human in the loop to put date in wrong.

As to the point, its programming practice, perhaps a stepping stone to more elaborate content-generation systems, and jolly good fun too.
When they outlawed general slavery, they specifically enshrined the type of slavery taking place at state penns every day.
I'm not sure if it is React specifically or it the general attitude that this is reflective of.
Sorry, I was in the middle in the edit and I think I ended up sort-of responding to this comment.

> What does crypto get you in most of those cases?

Speed and reduced operational costs, for one. If I wanted, I could get a collaterized loan on DeFI and have the money on my bank account faster than it would take me to fill the bank load application form.

Most importantly, it gets disintermediation: a bank might be interested in selling a loan if it has some level of profitability. In DeFI, anyone can be a bank, so the market tends to be a lot more open and competitive.

> 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...

Because, e.g, you've done the math and you realized that you don't want to pay more interested that is needed?

> 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

Sure: https://trustlines.network/ TL;DR: it's a system where people can create distributed credit lines, local currencies (for use in impoverished communities that have no money but still need to have a credit rating mechanism) and so on. People could do this with community banks and credit co-ops, but it would be extremely difficult to have, e.g, such a system being capitalized by someone outside of the community. With Trustlines, you can have people in rich countries contributing for the system without middlemen like in a standard micro-credit alternative.
going faster than light is sometimes a possibility!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation
It is not possible to go faster than light only in an absolute vacuum medium.
Much the same way as this scam.
There is intent behind fraud.
I tried copy and pasting certain paragraphs from the article here, (weather/price of inputs/farmer incentives/how wheat is purchased by nations/monetary policies/etc) but there are so many compounding global issues here one might just consider rereading the article instead.

It is quite a big deal.
Let's not forget one of the best approaches for indexing magnet hashes: https://btdig.com . It basically connects to the DHT and listens to queries. When a new one is found, it downloads the torrent data and indexes it.
Could you expand upon this? Do you mean the lack of routing or something else?
Pasty - a term I did expect to see on HN.

Referring to the Finnish variety or other ?
The headline quotes Caspar's exact question.
The thoughts are that someone borrowed lots of BTC and UST, started selling UST to depeg, then started selling BTC as they tried to regain the peg, the joint selling of BTC lowered the price making it harder, actually impossible,to regain the peg.
Why wouldn't you use Terraform or AWS CDK or Pulumi for this?
Every Angular dev I knew switched to React because they couldn't find good positions...
Car mechanics are also bound by estimate accuracy laws in many states. If they go over without approval then they aren’t entitled to more money.

I understand that medicine and mechanics aren’t the same thing, but I also have gotten elective procedures where the cost, down to the penny, was quoted up front.
Pedantically, is that insider trading, or is there a different name for that? IPOs work the same way - insiders get granted shares at pennies on the dollar, and then on IPO day the company sells shares, and allows insiders to sell their shares (after the lockup period expires), a process that has created millionaires a million times over.
> Switching operating systems is not the trivial thing you claim it is unless you only use a web browser.

And in the case of “use Apple” (macOS I guess), it's also quite costly as you'll have to buy a new computer.
90% + 10% :)

I'm sorry but its been almost fourteen years and not a single mainstream product has come out of this so-called revolutionary technology. Zero.

For the entirety of the last 10 years I've been hearing how blockchain is the "internet of the early 90s" - well by now it should be the internet of the early 2000s, but it's still the "internet of the early 90s" according to proponents.

It's time to stop and ask yourself: what if it's just not that revolutionary after all? What if a really slow database isn't a solution to all our problems?
enterprise software isn't built for users, it's built for the upper level administrators who contract the software, and for the amusement and profit of the engineers who are paid a large multiple of the salaries of any of the people who will be forced to use their systems and consume their ads at work. the result is developers getting paid a lot, not improving anyone's life, and then spending their earnings on our labor time, when we become available as food service workers, sex workers, and so on. the categories of technical competence and social awareness are not supposed to intersect.

as a developer you know perfectly well that as you become more sophisticated you can do much more using much simpler tools.

i don't think you people have any idea of the kind of environment into which your software is deployed. you're mostly happy to ship any crap that will superficially justify the infinite expansion of bloatware that you get paid to produce.
No public evidence of that as of now, but it could definitely be true. The interesting thing is that it doesn't really matter, those "insiders" would have dumped the coins in the open market breaking the peg even further. So yeah, maybe LFG could have sold the bitcoins a bit better in the open market, but I don't think that it would have made a difference.
I recommend skimming over the list of blog posts shared over the course of a year about the rise and decline of a crypto startup. It's a great post-mortem: https://medium.com/@kamil.ryszkowski
My experience with it has been decent, but I am an expat with Western money.

For some stuff like a rabies shot or my girlfriend’s oral surgery, we used the public system. It was cheap and and reasonably efficient.

For everything else, we used a private hospital. It was also cheap, and the quality was comparable to the US. E.g., under $500 total for an endoscopy, a sonogram, doctor’s visits, etc. to diagnose and treat a stomach ulcer.

All of that was in the last 3 years in Ho Chi Minh City.

Now, there certainly are some squalid hospitals, especially in the countryside. Further, $500 is a lot of money for most VN people. Having written all this, I guess I realize all I have are some anecdotes.
> sitting on my Dad's lap playing some Infocom game

That's heartening. I'm also trying to do a good job as a dad, letting
my daughter have positive experiences with computers, to learn to have
fun, respect but also command them, to be in control.