skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a big benefit to learning about how to gamble well as a kid, but that is offset (in my opinion) by learning that it is good to gamble. It needs to be drilled into a good gambler's head that they should take good bets as long as their bankroll supports it but avoid bad bets. Most people who learn to play poker don't learn that.

Incidentally, I believe that it is also good to teach teens about fine wines and spirits (to expand their palates) and how to drink in moderation and avoid hangovers (to help them in social situations). Many people who start drinking early also don't learn those lessons.

Kids also pick up a lot from context, so if you teach your child to gamble using a dreidel on a holiday, it is a very different thing than teaching them to gamble with online poker (for example). It's very easy to learn the wrong lessons from games like poker and blackjack.
* the 21 tweets in a thread version
> Imagine an otherwise empty room with a table and a few chairs. A couple people come in with some money in their pockets and cards. They play a few round of a card game, some lose, some win. When they leave, the room as it was before so it is crystal clear the sum of their money couldn't change. Some won, some lost but overall the change is zero. This still doesn't change if, for convenience, during the game, they use plastic chips to count wins and losses and at the end they exchange it for money.

Does this not describe CC fees/taxes/online marketplaces/etc? Or is your argument all those are scams as well?

I agree crypto projects are generally a scam but I fully disagree the reason for that is transaction fees (which I assume is what you're alluding to here as the "small cut").
There is a difference between informing them you are modifying it or sending back a clearly edited version and stealthily modifying it in the hopes that they won't notice.

I don't think it's going to hold up if you surreptitiously modify it in bad faith.
What's funny about this is that I can recall discussions here and elsewhere from only a few months ago questioning the "guaranteed" super-high returns. I forget who said this but someone awhile ago said in finance said that if someone is promising you consistent above-market returns it's either a scam or there is unknown or undisclosed risk.

And the Crypto Andys were all like "you just don't understand DeFi!" to which the retort is "No, you just don't understand finance".

Finance is the way it is for many reasons. There are thousands of years of lessons that have made the system the way it is. I get the innovator mentality of sweeping away the old but there seems to be a fine line between innovation and ignorance.

I'm just sitting on the sidelines watching people relearn all the lessons of finance the hard way, some because they think they understand finance because because they understand merkle trees and consensus protocols but really most just want to get rich quick.
It depends on what I think the title means and if I guess being interested in the post of discussion about the post.

Most programming/engineering content I'll read the comments first to get a sense of the level/quality of the post.

For math, science/physics, tech inventions I'll read the post first, unless I'm on my phone then the comments load and read faster on my little screen.
The judge specifically mentioned that they chargemaster is not shared with the patient as a protected trade secret, so I think this sets a precedent that you can't be held to terms about price if you aren't going to disclose the price.
> careful to not make any explicit claims of safety (eg. "your principal is protected", or "you won't lose money").

These are both explicit examples of explicit claims of safety that are still up on their documentation (at least as of 5 minutes ago)

- "You will not lose your funds because all loans are 100% asset-backed." (https://stablegains.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402680425...)

- "Regardless if crypto markets are soaring or crashing, the value of assets under our management remains stable." (https://stablegains.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402687671...)

Edit: Updating link to fix truncated urls
The money comes from incredibly low IQ and poor people thinking they’ll win the lottery. It’s the same thing over and over. Luna2 is just a scam. Do Kwon is a sociopath.
Somebody else used their property to e.g. transport contraband. Often enough, stole it.

Wasn't long ago a twin engine Beechcraft was stolen, used, and confiscated. The owner never got it back because the DEA argued they needed it.
Setting aside the potential values of the human element (e.g. the ability of a court to void a contract deemed illegal or done under duress), isn't that only true for digital assets?

If you secured it against artwork, for instance, that might've already been shipped to another country.

(As an aside, I would be all in favor of expanding the court system so stall tactics are less effective.)
As I've said elsewhere, having dealt with them and seen who they invest in, morality does not seem to be an important aspect of YC investments.
Not going to make an argument for the realism of The Brady Bunch, but people did certainly dress more formally in previous decades.

At my first job bagging groceries and stocking shelves, we wore a dress shirt and a tie.

At my first corporate software job, it was only a year or two past the time they had to wear a suit and tie to work. By the end of the 90's people went to work at a corporate job dressed the way I dressed at the beginning of the 90's to go skateboarding.
I asked "Is there any evidence for" the claim that "Devs code better products if they enjoy using the tools."

So far nothing has been offered.
You can also make jewellery and tooth fillings and platings for electric contacts with gold. Not with crypto.
> According to western media.

Wow, that's a new level of denial. Take a look, this happened yesterday [0].

This is a "culture hall", pretty far away from the front lines, where kids used to learn to play music. More than ten injured including children.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnU_3ljHMQ
>Houses will be broken into in order to destroy evidence, I know I've had it done to me!

>This may be your only chance to out the criminals that run the world!

Given that the screenshot is an (instagram?) ad, there's probably such a huge papertrail that can be subpoenaed that you don't have to worry about the founder breaking into your house to destroy the only copy of the marketing materials.
OK more missing. Locksmithing and Engraving as well as Instrumentman(IM).

Nothing on optical stuff (R-Division periscopes) and no Torpedo Man 3&2 (TM)

Very surprised to see the Hydraulic stuff...
That reminds me. Engineman books???

All the boatswain books from coxswain to engineman.

Nice to see this old stuff preserved. It is learned knowledge.

Not surprised that Damage Controlman books are missing.
What a useless article. Literally just linking out to YouTube. Is this what journalism has become?
Getting stuff done privately in Ireland is great and fairly cheap. But relying on the HSE can leave you waiting years for basic treatment.
Maybe you could store it on the blcokchain…
The date was my mistake - the 'Aquariums' was for LOLs. (see also 'Librarians' and similar)

It's prerecorded snippets that came out of my mouth ;)
You can do that with a smart contract if you plan ahead for the possibility that you want to do so.
https://www.fedemploymentlaw.com/blog/2022/03/a-spotlight-on...

Google is there for your further investigation beyond the first result.
Thanks for the feedback! If you have some details and want to post them on https://github.com/dotnet/runtime, we can include them in planning. As you might have guessed, this is a pretty huge long-term project and many things basically need to be rebuilt from scratch in order to be supported.

Debugging is one area where the form factor will likely demand different behavior vs. JIT, so it will be an evolving scenario. It would be great to know what you would expect vs. what you saw, and importantly what you expect to be different from a traditional native debugging experience (like in C++).
Getting better, eh? – I thank the Canadian health care system
While there was a proposed attack, there is no evidence it (or any other attack) was executed.

Which would be weird. Attacks on blockchains usually have detailed analysis within days, the blockchains are public and any evidence would be right there for people to examine.

All evidence is that UST simply collapsed on under it's own weight because it's algorithmic nature was never stable. As soon as the price of LUNA started falling, it created a feedback loop which drove the price of LUNA to zero, destroying the very thing backing UST.
Energy crises are caused by cheap energy. When energy is cheap people use a lot and stop investing in new sources. The resulting crisis causes high energy prices which causes people to be more efficient and to invest in new energy sources. It takes 20 or 30 years for this to play out. (mid 1970s, early 2000s, current 2022)

Each cycle leaves behind a tranche of books that reprise the last crisis, with the interesting effect that the literature often looks like a stopped clock.

One bit of stoppage is that people still compare nuclear to coal, although coal has been uneconomical in North America since the 1980s. One issue is that a coal burning plant (like a current nuclear plant) has a huge steam turbine that's more than 10 times the size of gas turbines used for aircraft engines and for generating power from natural gas.

It's no accident therefore that we stopped building coal and nuclear plants at the same time. The Amory Lovins "soft energy path" was not a transition to renewables but rather a transition to methane.

There's not just the capital cost of the steam turbine but also the cost of the heat exchangers, if you look here

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/pwrs.html

the image is roughly to scale and you see that there are multiple "steam generators" that individually are as large as the reactor vessel and are every bit as safety critical as the reactor vessel because a breakage could lead to a loss of coolant accident.

The cost of the heat handling parts is substantial enough that even if the cost of the core was zero and the heat was free the LWR would still struggle to compete.

A reactor that runs at higher temperature using liquid metal, liquid salt, or a gas coolant like helium, could drive a Brayton cycle gas turbine powerset which would fit inside the employee break room of the turbine house of an LWR.

Of course it's tricky: we have quite a bit of experience with liquid metal reactors, and a little bit with other types. The closed-cycle gas turbine however is a work in progress

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-cycle_gas_turbine
Why was it a bummer for the users?
They'd likely ask you to sign way before that..
> When this happens, you might have a point.

98% of the energy here comes from renewables. The 2% that doesn't comes from nuclear, with fossil fuels providing something like 1/50th of a percent.

Why are you all so far behind?
Limit charging so Texas bitcoin farms dont have to

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/fort-worth-tx-the-first-city...

https://fortune.com/2022/02/10/texas-world-capital-bitcoin-m...

Reminds me of California use smaller shower nozzle so our farmers can grow almonds and alfalfa.
Bluetooth profiles. Routing specific applications to their own outputs.
I will watch this with great interest.

Beginning to hear tinnitus is one of my backstop signals for tiredness,
where I can avoid sleep deprivation inertia on waking, if I go to bed within half-an-hour to 2 hours of onset.

It seems to reliably relate to changes in muscle tension I sense around my ear and upper neck, often some slow twitching as well. It's a related sensation to satisfying yawns, stretching that eustachian tube.
archived for future reference

https://archive.ph/O2lZV

https://archive.ph/ItERp
I should not be held liable for your fuckup. You tell me a price, were wrong, and sold me something that inherently cannot be returned, you fucked up. Not me. Your money is gone. Maybe you should be insured against your own fuckups.

I understand that it being an estimate muddies the waters a bit, but if a contractor estimated $2k to do my windows and it cost him $200k (somehow??!) any contract that holds me liable is clearly unconscionable. I would hold that contractor in the same contempt as I do this hospital.
The theory is that the Ukranians would use those missiles to clear the Black Sea blockade and then they would be able to resume shipping grain, grain-precursors, and other goods as they did before the war. There's more to the situation than that, so it's impossible to say if that would be enough, unfortunately, but that's the theory.
It’s not secret. This is standard contract negotiation (sending along a new draft).
AAPL has physical and IP assets which could be sold to make investors whole. While I have big issues with them, they're not in the same ballpark as this 'stable' coin company or pyramid schemes.
It would be dischargeable in bankruptcy so there is a practical limit.
Except it's not really a moral discussion, it's a legal one—and the most fundamental laws of the country obviously ban the tactic.

The article uses a lot of sophistry to try and argue that the plain and obvious intended reading of the Fourth Amendment isn't correct, and that's obviously nonsense, both in a vacuum and in the context of when and why it was written.
SPAs reimplement accessibility features in JavaScript to the best of their ability. This has created an arms race where screen readers need to execute JavaScript and use heuristics to determine what's on the a page.

Everyone who down voted me is a total idiot.
I dunno. Stop pretending we're doing anything for the environment by burning Russian natural gas instead of Western-drilled natural gas, maybe?
> But I think the label Ponzi scheme is colloquially used for a broader concept

Yes, incorrectly. It does nothing to clarify the topic and obscures the risks of actual Ponzi schemes.

> harms the climate

This seems dubious at best. It seems like a lot of mining is happening on hydro and solar power, and only shifts to carbon intensive electricity when the price is booming.
Isn’t QuickBooks Online a (multipage) SPA?

Running it on the desktop is far inferior, because a great advantage of QBO is the ability for several people, distributed worldwide, to work on the same account at the same time.
Crypto is a tool.

Is it often used for scam? Yes. But so is email.

Just like stocks can fall 99% in a day. It stock s cam? No.

The problem is that users dive into it without understanding the risks. Also, there should be (and will be) more regulations around it.

But it is as far from the scam as it gets.
> Source on the company being fraudulent?

See [1]. If you sell a deposit-like product by saying "you will not lose your funds," and then lose the funds, you go to jail. (First you lose your money.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31462617
Well 15% monthly woud be ~535% annual and at that point you're well past "highly unlikely" and into "I'm printing money in my 20k sqft basement" territory.
30 feet
Because it hasn't yet heard about Nitinol
IF they sign first there's no way to do the switch: the new form would be either missing their signature, or be an (illegal) modification if original terms.
One of the responses[0] is from someone working at kantree[1].
They are talking about raising funds and building a product, which I assume would somewhat qualify.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459041
[1] https://kantree.io
Skimmed the article but it doesn’t have that much content? I’m a developer without a “traditional” CS background (my degree is in bio engineering) but the points mentioned in the article don’t strike me as novel.

Isn’t this why STEM acronym has evolved to incorporate Art, and is now called STEAM?

The post says “but liberal arts is about critical thinking, logic, picking apart complex problems, and ethics.” and I would say the same applies to a technical education.
People keep saying “in secret” but that’d only be true if it happened after it were filed or some such. Giving someone an amended contract isn’t fraud.
Why did YC fund this fairly obvious fraud?
I've had tinnitus as long as I can remember. Watching a Bugs Bunny cartoon where Elmer Fudd got hit over the head and he says "somebody answer that phone" or some such, I didn't get the joke so I asked my dad. He told me some people have ringing in their ears. I couldn't have been more than 7 and that was how I learned it was abnormal. I have always had poor hearing too. Don't know why to either of them.
Right, they don't expect to have it done to them.
CSS vs. WebGL Cubes
I had a similar experience. Used Devonthink for about 10 months and suddenly some files disappeared. Asked for a refund and they said “sorry, no”.
A great related article from last year about the "Inherent fragility of algorithmic stablecoins" it also mentions Terra:
http://www.wakeforestlawreview.com/2021/10/built-to-fail-the...
Yep. Too many regulators have been on the trail of Tether and its ilk for too long for any of what's about to come to take them by surprise. Crypto being strangled in the crib by regulators makes them look like exactly the villains all the crypto advocates portray them as. Crypto being detonated by a huge number of blatant Ponzi schemes, on the other hand, is nothing but upside for the regulators.

Tether may also have been allowed to proceed as a sort of test bed for the CBDCs which seem to be on the agenda. Now the narrative can be "the public has already demonstrated strong demand for USD-type cryptocurrencies, we just need to supply an official version."
Apple aggressively pushed openCL when it was new, and NVIDIA and AMD aggressively pushed their platform specific CUDA APIs, so all anyone did was complain about apple using openCL when no vendors supported it.

Apple had (runtime and ABI) stable openCL built into macOS and iOS by default and on desktop devs kept requiring you install NVIDIAs or AMDs CUDA systems, and on iOS everyone found that openCL was just as clunky to use as openGL.

Apple made proprietary APIs that were more usable and better interacted with the hardware, and everyone just used those instead, until Apple deprecated openCL and openGL as they merely represent a pile of engineering work and support that is essentially unused.
not that stable...
Isn't the point that it can only go around once?
This is a challenge but I'm trying. I have a long and sordid history of overworking on things that did not give back anywhere near what I put in. I'm testing the thesis that it was because of power dynamics and ownership.

I'm a year and a half into a project that I've worked on fullest time with max grit that I own completely. If it succeeds even a little I plan to build 3-5 dome houses on our rural land for indie gamedevs and artists to work on their personal projects for a year without rent. We'll only ask for a tiny percentage of revenue sharing just to try and make the thing self sustaining. A little forest moon base for dreams.

I hope by not being parasitic and actually just helping people do the thing I have been struggling to death to do, it would move the needle a few atoms towards what you're describing.

My greatest fear is that the system is so efficient that some how helping others is impossible, and I'll figure out why only when I'm dry. It's hard to imagine, but I haven't seen much help from the waterworld captains while I've been cobbling together my raft of flotsam. Maybe it's because sailing is hard and storms are kind of scary no matter how big the boat. Few grow old enough to find the time.

Feel free to email me, especially if you're among that rare resplendent type.
Plenty of countries have currencies which have a fixed exchange with USD, including my own (1 KYD = 1.2 USD).

It just takes a shit-tonne of capital, and it helps to have a functioning internal economy and flexibility to be able to defend against malicious agents.

I suspect there are other legal issues with creating an alternative currency in the us though, which is why these aren't currencies but securities. Which is still fine! A tethered coin is conceptually _similar_ to a 0-yield bond.

Presenting it as being "safe" without it actually being so is the problem here.
Thanks for unearthing this. In light of this, I'll admit it looks pretty bad for them.
Unless the thief is a cop, of course.
Credit unions are also examples of customer owned cooperatives
A New Electronic Nose May Help Sniff Out Counterfeit Whiskey
We sell entry level computers that choke on small spreadsheets and are less responsive than the same size spreadsheet was 25 years ago on a computer with a thousand times less computing power.

Yes, we can handle much larger data now with proper hardware, however, most people don't do that, their needs for documents and spreadsheets are just the same as it was earlier, but modern systems somehow manage to be worse despite having orders of magnitude more processing power and working memory.
That's totally wrong about operating vs construction costs.

Nuclear plants are cheap to run once you have them built, but they are expensive to build when everything goes right and frequently they don't.

There has been a lot of hand-wringing about the costs of the nuclear fuel cycle and frankly it's a bit ridiculous. For instance, they were expecting Yucca Mountain to cost $100 billion to run back when they were planning to run it.

People look at that and think "that's a lot of money" but a nuclear reactor makes about $500 million worth of electricity a year so that is 2 years worth of electricity from the 100 reactors that operate in the US.

(It's more absurd that we'd bury nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain when 98% of the energy content of the fuel remains in the waste! A reprocessing cycle would cost "more" but not much compared to the capital cost of building the reactors.)
I have both. I can hear blood rushing around my ears where the sound varies from windy/water rushy sounds to faint very high-pitched sounds. Then when I exert myself physically (e.g. get up suddenly after not moving a long while) there can be a kind of thud followed by very loud high (but not very high) frequency ringing. Once that happens regardless of how idle I am it doesn't go away for hours. Sometimes it just creeps up slowly from nothing in particular. The first kind mostly don't notice and forget it's there, the other is very distracting so play music or white-noise.

Strangely I don't know that either of them interfere with falling asleep. It may very well be that I just don't even try to sleep unless tired and quiet, can't tell--I don't do it consciously. Lately I usually start something on Netflix or YouTube without autoplay so perhaps that's what I accidentally found to work.
>How long do you expect users can earn such high yields?

>The basis for Stablegains' rate is Anchor Protocol's yield. At the time of writing, Anchor yield is set at 18% - 20% APY and expected to remain so for a long time.

>We expect the rates of open finance protocols to beat those of traditional finance for a very long time.

https://stablegains.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402680471...
Listened to a few podcasts, read a few - then tried to come up with some combinations that (I hoped) were funny :)

Here's all of the current 'starts' for the main prediction:

(Note they're all pretty non commital - so anything could come next)

A bite from a wild animal

A financial matter coming to a head

Completion of a long delayed task

A seemingly generous gesture

A sudden realisation

An agreement with a headstrong peer

An unavoidable slowdown

Being pulled between two emotional options

A sudden eruption of feelings

Investigating a proverbial - light in the woods

Involvement with a purely privte project

Making peace with the past

The chance of a big win

Todays socialising