skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell me you’ve never taken out a margin loan without telling me you’ve never taken out a margin loan.
There is no paperwork. I can withdraw enough cash from my brokerage to buy a house through my phone and in only the time for an ach to post. Entirely collateralized by my assets. I regularly float 250k intraday for free through margin to support trading.
You don’t need defi for this. The defi kids are reinventing traditional finance poorly one step at a time.
Uber peaked at ~$150 billion market cap. Peloton peaked ~$55 billion market cap.

They were absolutely overvalued at those market caps, but it's wrong to say that "HN/VCs said those companies were worth X but they didn't reach X in public markets"
You can do other things with the stablecoin. You own the upside and downside of the collateral, and you also own the downside of the collateral, and the upside of whatever you bought with the collateral.

Stablecoins are not meant to be an investment; they're for leverage. I agree it is probably a terrible idea to borrow a bunch of stablecoins and then just sit on them.
syncthing and gnu stow.

as long as things stay reasonably connected and you take a bit of care to avoid split-brain (after powering up a laptop that has been off or away for awhile give it some time to sync) then you can even sync git repos just fine.
That's... not how secondary markets work at all
That makes sense. I've always had same-day fixes, but that's because I never had a critical failure (so I could come in when they had parts on hand).
And Google Translate and GPS (which is particularly handy given the addressing system). Communications can still be a bit tough even in major cities, but it's definitely easier than it was 15 years ago.
Anyone feel like ratcheting up the optimism in the room for a change and trying to make this happen? (upvote, share with your network operator friends, ISP friends, mention it at relevant meetups, and so on)

Yes, maybe it's a slightly ridiculous site, but I doubt you'll regret being involved if you do promote the switch to IPv6 and it becomes feasible as a result of that.
> Other failures leading to the failure of X.400 was

naming. The biggest failure of X.400 was naming. X.400/X.500 style naming was and remains an unqualified disaster. Not that the pre-DNS alternative (UUCP) was great, but that name@domain turns out to be infinitely better than X.400.
>It doesn’t make your life objectively worse

If my taxes go up to fund plants / warehouses for profitable companies I am objectively worse, am I not?
Exactly. Paddle saves me so much time and money. I couldn’t even imagine what my accountant would bill for something similar.
You can't engineer your way out of a marketing problem.

Also, Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail
The reason companies are given legal standing and privilege is because they serve a useful social function, in addition to being a legal nicety for investment. If companies don’t serve useful social purposes we can change the law to withdraw those privileges.
Would you be willing to share an empty version of your TiddlyWiki with the log extension and example content?
Boards of Directors exist.

I bet a lot of companies already have more non-employee shareholders than they have employees.

It doesn't seem to be a problem.
Obligatory mention that killing most birds is a federal crime under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
>petitioning at multiple sources of the problem is often more effective at getting things done

Could you provide any sources for this? As it stands, I've seen zero tangible results regarding Amazon's ongoing unchecked growth, the prevailing lack of workplace standards in their warehouses or for delivery drivers, monopolistic practices, or any general "ethical" standing of the company.

Same goes for the US Government. Sure, you can vote for who you want and try to elect change, call your congress reps, and protest at the chambers, but it doesn't matter when they nothing gets done at the top level. Until there is an honest discussion had about immigration reform without a partisan spin put on everything, we won't get anywhere with ICE.
I’m exactly the same. Sometimes I think, ok, just ten minutes, and before I know it I made a ton of progress and spent an hour enjoying the process.
"Is it still tied to Windows/what kind of edge-pain can I expect on my Fedora machine?"

"Microsoft people said EEE, using Microsoft- led projects is nonstarter."

"Are you going to pay me the time to relearn x,y,z in dotnetland?"
with_resource(mutex file handle etc etc *o, func callback) is a safer pattern, for this reason. Thank you, Python

(with_resource is a generic example. Search for such capabilities in your library.)

Computers exist to automate. Let the computer remember to close resources upon scope end.

Go's defer is also helpful in this regard.
I only get the horizontal scrollbar when zoomed in on that Vim org page (macOS, Firefox)
EU generally can’t make good (tech) legislation. Cookie law is the goto example. It’s too complicated. Too many cooks.
Those are services not OS. And Microsoft services are no different. Difference is that Google is more successful (has more users and services and therefore more data).
Perhaps, but only if you define the "issue" as squirrels getting bored because the feeder is too easy to get into.

My favorite in this vein was a metal sleeve on the pole holding the bird feeder that was held up by a weight inside the pole. Squirrel climbs up sleeve, which then falls down due to the squirrel's added weight. Disappointed squirrel deposited back on the ground. It worked until one of the squirrels chewed a hole in the pole and ate through the cord holding the weight. This really happened on a bird feeder belonging to a friend's parents. (Related question: how on earth did the squirrel figure that out?)
https://www.dpreview.com/news/5756257699/nvidia-research-dev...
Tooling is always an issue in the beginning, when you pick a new technology like XML or ASN.1. Tooling is not an issue now, but now is too late. Turns out that writing specs -and implementing them- around simple textual protocols is easier than building new binary and textual structured encodings.
> It's a group of people self selected for the ability to sell us a vision with only a distant, vague prospect of realizing it.

That's unnecessarily and destructively cynical. There are plenty of politicians (and others working for governments) at all levels who are there to do a good job.

The showboats and bad actors (which are almost coextensive) of course by definition get most of the press. Don't let them distract you.
Not in the US, but Germany and Scandinavian countries show this very much is a possibility. Medium sized firms in Germany just don’t behave the same way they do in the US and large enterprises are subject to far more state intervention. And it still works fine.
I bet they mean birds, aka modern dinosaurs. This is a good 'aka' because dinosaur made baby dinosaurs who grew up to make their own baby dinosaurs. Each generation was slightly different than the last and after millions of years, the baby dinosaurs were named birds!
the majority of the damages of a stroke are generally induced in the following weeks of the event, e.g. via extremely high oxidative stress and apoptotic signaling and impaired bioenergetics.
Those issues are trivial to fix pharmacologically speaking and indeed there are countless studies showing a very potent protection against damage including neurons death, unfortunately doctors have not the required erudition nor do they care to save those lives and therefore people are left helpless and suffering.
Let's see what will happen for them in this bear market.
Cool, but the coolest thing about Telegram is that IDGAF, it just works
Just a pro-tip to anyone looking to persist information coming in from remote clients... please, please, please never directly expose your DB (or effectively expose your DB by having SQL generated by the client or using a library to autogenerate SQL based on a query request)... Just put a dumb layer of PHP/Node/Python/whatever you like between clients and the DB. It is immensely difficult to properly secure data if uncontrolled clients can connect to the DB - it is possible - but it takes far more work than you'd like to put in.

Putting a thin application layer in front of the DB means that you're effectively whitelisting what operations are legal to run on the host and that makes your security life so much easier.
Do they properly control for important confounding factors such as Dutch language proficiency both spoken and written? Alternative hypothesis could be that someone with insufficient command of the official language has hard time finding job at the Tax Authority.
This code uses VBMI2, which just came out quite recently.
I feel like thats the case with most “Gangster” actors. I agree about De Niro.
How did you learn about this organization? I agree there are a lot of people out there doing good work, but how do I know which ones they are?
That's not a limitation of USD, it's a limitation of sleazy crypto exchanges. If I sell stock through my stockbroker, I can have funds in a bank account within hours. You ought to be able to sell BTC and get funds in your account in Chase or Barclays via wire transfer within hours.

But no. Crypto exchanges hate to pay out real money. They don't even like paying out cryptocurrencies to external wallets. They want you to just bet within their closed system.

Real brokerages don't care whether you're buying or selling. They get commissions either way. Crypto exchanges have a strong bias towards your buying what they're selling.
It applies to non-leads as well, and it's not just money. When they know a certain actor can pull off a certain "type" in a way that the audience connects with, they'll cast that actor for that over and over.

The actors themselves might prefer to show more range, but they give the directors what they ask for, and the director can worry about a million other things.

There are a few actors whose brand is versatility -- Daniel Day Lewis, Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, etc. -- and audiences go precisely to watch them be different. As an actor I have mixed emotions about that. The performances are sometimes more showy than good, to my understanding of "good". But if audiences connect with it, and directors want it, that's the only metric that matters.
Uvalde Police Went in for Their Own Kids During Shooting
The tendency of media and goverment to push "one random shiny thing to keep idiots occupied and/or profit from after another..."
NOAA-2 Returns from the Dead (2021)
Highly tuned wavelength-specific photovoltaic sounds interesting.

> The receivers for optical power transmission are specialized photovoltaic cells designed to convert a single wavelength of light into electric power with very high efficiency. Indeed, efficiencies can exceed 70 percent, more than double that of a typical solar cell.

I'm still thinking of the last power-beaming example, a Navy microwave-based one, which showed up a month ago (and in this article) & was hyped up but ended up being pretty crazy low end-to-end efficiency if you read the fine fine print. If these folks really can do real 50% end-to-end efficiency- major congrats to them.

At some point, I think solar concentrators probably do make great sense. We already have some pretty big scale solar-thermal plants. These can have nice thermal storage capacity, for off-peak usage. The idea of launching some satellites & trying to point lasers or concentrators down at an on-the-ground collector seems more promising than microwaves, given what lukewarm at best efficiencies we've seen out of attempts to leverage microwaves. That said, the article itself contra-indicates:

> But there have been improvements in efficiency and increased availability of devices that operate at much higher frequencies. Because of limitations imposed by the atmosphere on the effective transmission of energy within certain sections of the electromagnetic spectrum, researchers have focused on microwave, millimeter-wave, and optical frequencies. While microwave frequencies have a slight edge when it comes to efficiency, they require larger antennas. So, for many applications, millimeter-wave or optical links work better.

[1] https://newatlas.com/energy/us-navy-beams-1-6-kw-power-kilom... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31128267 (245 points, 33 days ago, 194 comments)
SMTP was simple then. It grew organically via grafting of new things. It's not simple now, but nothing would be.
Why do you want to collect resumes?

Couldn't this just be a list?
Wild colors, mixed up fonts, and bored layout are all non-copywriting problems with this page.
What mods are you using to bring back functionality?
Ha, I used to live in Cheltenham UK where a company Alan Dick did mobile antennae disguised as trees http://www.alandickae.com/portfolio/cellular-palm-tree-sites...
The commies are here to give an actual argument, finally. Won't somebody listen to them?
>It may create a taxable event.

What’s the difference in tax liability from trading your BTC for dollars vs. a stablecoin?

I’m aware that there are places where you can exchange crypto for crypto that won’t report it to the IRS, but that doesn’t change whether it is a taxable event.

By the way, there’s no statute of limitations for tax fraud.
Nobody hates you - what you're describing could be called a "character actor". It's very common and a perfectly normal thing in show-business. People in the film/entertainment industry, especially actors have very thick skins when it comes to this kind of stuff.

From my experiences working with actors on sets, the fact that someone is a character actor doesn't mean anything less, it's still work and it still requires acting. People who comment on performances often have no idea that most of the work is quite tedious and mechanical. Sometimes someone being a good actor means they're easy to work with and professional. Most of the time film editing changes the actual performance anyways, so what you see on the screen is often a totally different matter.

Also reputations of actors like Robert De Niro are manufactured and are part of the 'product' or 'brand'. You aren't a fan of the brand, that's fine, those people know what they're doing and they know who is their fanbase.
> The main point though is that you don't accomplish more

You said this is your main point, and I directly replied to that.

Another point you made was that electronic signs at trams aren’t an improvement. I agree! Wholeheartedly. I mean showerheads haven’t improved either! We could list all sorts of things that either haven’t changed or that aren’t improved by tech. But that would be silly.

You in fact have avoided the very valid point I made in reply to that. Electronic tram signs are a red herring. The revolution is in your pocket. I can check flights, trams, buses, anything in about 15 seconds anywhere in the world. That is a huge productive improvement.

Anyway it’s clear this convo isn’t going well, but glad we had it. I very much got your other points, I just didn’t feel them relevant to the article or this thread, it’s a whole other conversation on simplicity or satisfaction, not really productivity. You can see one of my sibling replies for what I think about it.
There are people, namely Amazon shareholders who are happy to pay that money.

It's a voluntary transaction, there's nothing unfair about it.

People who are not in tech are also shocked to hear about developers salaries. And yet, there's nothing wrong with it, it just means shareholders can (on average and with a certain degree of risk) extract more than that value out of CEOs or engineers. If this wasn't true those companies won't be profitable (if we exclude market distorting forces like government bailouts or regulations that help top companies to maintain their edge).

There's an argument to be made that companies could afford to pay less for these roles and have the same performance - that may very well be true. But this doesn't make it unfair; simply put, the customers (the shareholders) are pooling their money and deciding to shoot for the best of the best by offering the best compensation.
Care to elucidate some critiques of the paper?
Because 7 8 9!! Ha ha
This so much, Stripes innovation was making it so much easter to integrate a payment api. Paddles innovation is making international tax/vat a complete none issue to new businesses. They are doing everything small business want to make online digital goods sales painless from an admin point of view.
Not mutually exclusive :)
Will the utility persist as governments ramp up compliance requirements on those exchanges? So far they've largely flown under the radar. But eventually they will be forced to do more to comply with AML/KYC and tax reporting rules.
Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still like to use today?
Hi HN,

I asked a similar question a couple of days ago, but for some reason it didn't manage to get to 'Ask HN'. However, before it sunk into oblivion, I got some really interesting comments [1]. So I'd like to give my tiny research one last chance. ;-)

So the question is:

Which app or tool (if any!) that is no longer developed or supported — or perhaps so far from mainstream that it’s practically dead — you used to use a lot, like a lot and now miss a lot? Can be pro or personal.

Feel free to share more than one, if you like.

Thanks for any comment. :-)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31425990
If it really keeps credit card details, that’s way more than just a tombstone.
Please understand that these types of decisions come straight from management so that they can tick off a box somewhere with the word blockchain. You may have heard this bank invest in IoT and AI/ML solutions as well. It's just buzzwords.

There is no technical reason why this needs to be on a blockchain and it is very likely that the ""blockchain"" is run on some mainframe or 'private cloud' because that is how banks do tech.
Ok, you can go back to Twitter now.
I agree 100% with this and havent found the right game for it. not exactly RTS, but friends and I play Civ5 with 1-2 minute turn timer and it's a pretty good balance.
>If it bothers someone, they can stop visiting news sites, uninstall apps, discontinue their newspaper subscription or whatever

That only works for people not living in a society.

When you leave in a society you can suffer from societal phenomena, even if you don't participate in them.

News (not as in "things that happen and and reported" but "how the media reports news and what news it choses"), for example, can influence policy that affects you, influence your family and friends, influence your industry, and so on...
To add to this, it is mostly a sales/marketing problem and not product itself. Mostly.
I think the point is more that having the degree doesn't guarantee anything, and that not having a degree is not a barrier. You still have to do an interview with the candidate, and there will be many self-taught devs who will be much better than the people with degrees.
Ironically, latency was far better in 1987 for plenty of users, even though you are implying it was worse. https://danluu.com/input-lag/

I would like to see latency figures for the dominant spreadsheet on the average computer over the years though, starting with VisiCalc on Apple ][.
AlmaLinux 9.0 Released as Community, Free Alternative to RHEL 9.0
Sources? For what amounts to "approaching this problem two ways is better than approaching it in one way"?
Speaking of Blade Runner, back when I had an 800x600 projector, I was having a hard time not noticing the DLP squares. I had a 1080p copy of Blade Runner. I downscaled it with a strong Lanczos filter, so the video looked too sharp. Then I put the projector slightly out of focus. The DLP squares disappeared, but the blur also compensated for the sharpening and the video looked amazingly non-digital.
From that post:

> because someone’s choice to use an XMPP client or server that doesn’t support video or some other arbitrary feature doesn’t only affect them

It was actually even worse than that, because clients also have complete freedom in which audio and video codecs to support. So you would end up with client 1 and 2 both supporting video, but not the right protocol, so it didn't work, and it was hard to figure out why.
ERROR: UPS man is now detected as a buzzard.
FRED data go only to 2002, but:

"Revenue Passenger Miles for U.S. Air Carrier Domestic and International, Scheduled Passenger Flights"

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPM

Jan. 2000: 48.3b

Jan. 2022: 56.4b

"US airlines revenue passenger miles" 1974-3 -- 2004-11

This shows flattenings 1979--1984 (Iranian oil embargo, Reagan recession), again 1990--1992 (First Gulf War / recession), a strong climg through 2000, then a large post-9/11 drop and relatively flat trend through late 2004. Omitted is the 2007-8 Global Financial Crisis.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/US-airlines-revenue-pass...
Normaly me neither. In that particular case so it makes sense. Hardware development costs tons of money, especially when done by throwing highly paid engineers at the problem as the only idea. And when it is easier to get funding through a listing, but not enough yet, the company doesn't have a product yet but is public. Not an ideal place to be, for sure.
A memoir along the lines of OP article: How an Average Man Lived an Adventurous Life. He backpacked around the world as an American in the 70s and 80s. Hippie trail, you name it. At the end, he retired to his hometown with his wife in Illinois.
Ditto. I left Google in January, extremely burned out after 7 years. I'm taking some time off to let that settle down and to rediscover my love of software. It's coming back, but slowly.

I find myself in a similar boat to the poster. When I joined Google the world was trying to figure out how to run cloud applications. NodeJS, no-SQL and other new server technologies were relatively new; we didn't have good patterns, tools or libraries for rich web client development, and mobile development was just getting going. There was a lot going on in pure software. But then I joined the insular (and relatively advanced) world of GOOG, during which it seems the outside world has figured out a good amount of how to do large server applications, the client frameworks are getting decent and mobile is very mature. So I'm not sure what the big, new, interesting problem spaces are but it seems like we're near the end of a technology cycle.

This feeling could just be me. I'm a pretty experienced engineer at this point and have seen a lot. I've done late-90s LAMP stack development, PC desktop development, early rich web development (my startup built a collaborative browser-based video editor in 2014) and then within GOOG saw and touched a ton of stuff. Maybe because I've seen so much my bar for "what's interesting" is a lot higher than it used to be?

Either way, I still find myself asking: what's the next cycle?
- Is AR/VR going to really stick this time and be a big thing with lots of interesting problems and products?
- Is ML going to result in some really killer apps that aren't just iterative improvements on current stuff?
- Is anything in Crypto non-BS? This space seems to have sucked a lot of air out of the room, but there SO MUCH NOISE it's hard to know if there's anything really there.
- Have we hit peak pure software and the really interesting stuff from here on out is software applied to atoms? Eg. automation, robotics, etc.?
I'm not so sure. Stakes may be higher but feels like CEO performance doesn't correlate strongly to education, past experience, class, or anything really. So perhaps a random lottery--with some IQ floor--and lower pay would be a win-win for companies and workers.
there is no incentive to run it without the currency part. you water it down further and it just becomes git