skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You simply borrow against your existing holdings and pay that debt back while earning interest on your holdings. This model makes that 1-5% cashback on credit cards look like a joke.

You can do this today with existing investment portfolios. If someone is willing to give you an unsecured line of credit -without the risk of margin call- why would you borrow against holdings?

The magic issue is that markets don’t always go up so borrowing against a depreciating asset (even short term) is asking for trouble.

(Also most people don’t have serious investment holdings, and if you live paycheck to paycheck this model doesn’t work. Also you’d need a nearly free interest rate since credit cards have no interest until the bill is due which can be 30+ days after the purchase.)
'tell' to me is more like a warning that it's not an external link (and 'ask'/'show' don't fit).

'show' is when the point of the post is to show off the project; whereas here (partly by the fact that it is 'tell'!) the point is sort of tangential to the actual project, it's just an example of the topic rather than the topic itself.
Sure, direct 1:1 collateralized stable coins work, but look at the "algorithm" behind the underlying asset.

USD itself is an interesting stablecoin, algorithmic in nature with a board able to make decisions to change the algorithm. It is not pegged to an asset, rather it attempts to be pegged to an economic state, primarily an inflation rate, using issuance and purchase of other assets. It has failure modes as well.

Note that algorithmic and reserve based crypto stablecoins are both exposed to this, since one is backed and the other is pegged to it.

So if you want to avoid that, you need to peg your cryptocoin to something without that, i.e not a fiat currency. This is hard to do with collateral, some gold backed coins try. Pegging a stablecoin to some commodity or asset or index or "basket" algorithmically is much easier, if somewhat less stable depending on the system that is built to do it.
Why are you banned? What's the process for being unbanned?
Hey, it worked for the COBOL crowd 25 years ago :-)
I think the value in cryptocurrency has always been tokens which represent real goods intermixed with a digital, distributed transaction network. Smart contracts are a nice bonus.

Unfortunately, early conmen seized the helm of Bitcoin, removed the smart contract opcodes, and led us down the “digital (fools) gold” path.
How so? From the article:

a modern, well-run sewage treatment works removes 99% of these fibres from wastewater. So far, so good. But [...] In the UK, of the sewage sludge screened out by treatment works, 87% is sent to farms. The microplastics so carefully removed from wastewater by the treatment process are then spread across the land in the sewage sludge the water companies sell to farmers as fertiliser.

Either the figures are totally made up, and/or plastic in the environment—on the fields, on the produce, washed into the rivers and the oceans—is harmless, or else there is cause for concern.
absolutely ZERO chance they could get a $95B valuation in public markets today

HN/VCs also said Uber was a $150B company...Lyft was a $50B company...Peloton was a $40B company...

if Stripe went public today, I would say they would be lucky to crest at a $30B valuation, even that may be lofty...PayPal has 3x market share as Stripe and has a $92B valuation
Was Facebook messenger ever _federated_ though, like GChat was? You could use an XMPP client with messenger, but you couldn't talk to people on other XMPP servers like you could with Google Talk, from my recollection.
These days I use VSCode's remote development extension to mount my dev machine on my laptop. It works well for frontend and backend works (automatic port forwarding), but obviously doesn't work when working on native or mobile apps. I simply duplicated the environments and sync the development files with git when working on native stuff.
I'm a co-founder at PicassoMD[0]. We're working to improve our healthcare system by connecting primary care providers with specialists to better collaborate on patient care. Through our mobile apps, we facilitate more appropriate triaging of patients, seamless transition of care, and ongoing coordination. The result is a reduction in unnecessary referrals and ER visits and better patient experience and outcomes.

We work with providers in value based care arrangements[1] so helping providers and patients is the same thing that increases revenue for us. We're a small team so everyone definitely sees and feels the impact of their work.

You can check out our jobs page[2] or reach out for more info (even if there's not an open position that's a great match at the moment).

[0] https://picasso.md
[1] https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Ass...
[2] https://apply.workable.com/picassomd/
No, no, at most one can obtain such dominance.

Multiple state agencies can fight over control of nodes and, if one of them somehow controls enough nodes they get such information.

If you're right that such agencies can afford to, I dunno, expend zero days to seize control of nodes, they're all going to do that. That doesn't magically create more nodes, just makes it harder to decide who (if anyone) controls them.

The most likely outcome isn't that multiple state agencies can get this done, but that none of them can despite their fervent wishes otherwise.
Not really. Google killed XMPP federation because virtually nothing used it except spammers, who were becoming a big problem.

Controlling spam inside a closed network is drastically easier than controlling spam in an open network, because in a closed network you have lots of ways to make bans stick, whereas in an open network you really can't. Faced with the choice of building a massive Gmail style heuristic spam filter in which basically all the messages it was processing would be spam, or, just turning off federation, they went for the latter. It was probably the right call. Very few people even noticed, let alone cared. The idea of an SMTP-style global network of federated chat servers was dead by that point.
Paradise burned to the ground. Now it's another hot housing market
Sorry man, I didn't have my morning coffee yet.

Well researched and great job lol.

I guess i was railing against the hate on rust in the comments section, which in actuality had nothing to do with your analysis.
Most of the world still sees few foreign tourists, and much of it is interesting nevertheless. Difference is these days you might actually be able to use an ATM and internet in towns, and you don't have to carry film for all the photos you want to take in your backpack..
This is exactly my experience. Senior management spent 2 years convinced that 1) we didn't need project managers, and 2) tech leads weren't just glorified project managers besides all of the evidence to the contrary. The messaging was 'we're working out the kinks - it shouldn't take that much time is our processes are being implemented correctly'. I bought in for about 3 months before it became pretty clear that coordinating stakeholders and balancing business and technical requirements was a full-time job. The role became a mess that burned out anyone in it
They've been selling Google Workspace for 16 years. Its one of the biggest MDM platforms out there. ~~There are over 2 billion users of this paid enterprise suite.~~ Guess I was wrong on that figure, >2 billion users with >6 million paid subscriptions.
I don't disagree and we work hard to provide guidance on best practices and software to support implementation. Ultimately, in the contexts in which we work, the organizations are the data controllers and there are complex legal issues at play. For example, in some locales, clinical trial participants don't have the right to be forgotten.
Pretty sure this is referring to the situation last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000945
I wonder what devs you've met that can't explain this.

Personally, I work in an open-plan office. I have lots of Zoom meetings, which I have to do in separate conference rooms, and require having my computer with me.

This week I've been at a conference, and I had my laptop with me to get some work done while half-listening to presentations and panels. I also work from home, of course.

Also, sometimes I sit in a coffee shop to work.

I also sometimes travel to get a change of scenery, and work remotely with my laptop.

Also, I sometimes bring my laptop on vacations if there's any chance that I have to attend to an emergency.

If I only had a stationary machine, none of the above would be possible.

Of course, my MacBook is a "proper PC". When I'm at a real desk, I can plug it into an external monitor and have the full stationary experience.

Could I have a "real" stationary Mac for desk work, and a separate laptop for mobility? Sure, but that sounds like a huge pain, as I'd have to keep everything in sync.
There are no "obsolete sounds".
There are definitely data structures that are a massive pain in the ass (if not impossible) without a GC of some kind.
wondering, any culture clash aspect? (did you move to other country for job)

this is tough in US and Canada in my experience. manager has to tread lightly too, or else manager gets fired for sounding xenophobic
In theory, maybe. In practice, not so much.

Darling (https://www.darlinghq.org/) is not anywhere near usable for GUI applications. In particular, Darling is missing support for a lot of the macOS-specific libraries (Cocoa, AppKit, etc). Additionally, the macOS-specific things evolve pretty quickly and backwards compatibility is frequently dropped, so even if somebody put in a ton of effort to reimplement all of the missing functionality right now, it might not be usable a few years from now.

Windows, OTOH, hasn't included hard BC breaks in decades. For the most part, even very very old Windows programs will still run on Windows 10 (not sure about 11). Not having to redo the work every few years has given the Wine devs a lot of time to get bugs ironed out.
They've made a windows 11 theme for KDE and added sketchy "license activation" software, what exactly is "Linuxfx" trying to accomplish?
Alternative take: all protocols die a slow death, being replaced by centralised services. XMPP was replaced by WhatsApp. SMTP is being replaced by Gmail. HTTP will probably get replaced by some binary Chrome protocol, etc. At some point network effects kick in, and you just don't need a decentralised protocol when most users are on the same system.
What dang taketh, he giveth back at his discretion.
You can do the same thing with Proxmox VE. IMO, Proxmox is a much better choice for stand-alone VM hosts. The UI alone is certainly miles better.

Where VMware shines is when you want to virtualize multiple datacenters and manage them all from a single browser window. Getting hundreds of hosts and datastores managed all under one vCenter umbrella all while eliminating single points of failure, while not trivial, is the bread and butter of VMware and it works very well once it's all up and running.
I apologize I'm not sure what you mean by mothership, I'll assume you mean the core API's the OS presents. I mean that's how requests already work? You ask the system to handle the network for you and it passes the app data?

In the context of notifications this isn't an issue for when the app is in the foreground. But when it's in the background the app's event loop isn't ran consistently, so you might not get the notification for hours. To my knowledge the ONLY way to consistently push notifications for apps in the background is through apple's push gateways.
It might slow them down a few minutes but they will figure it out. There is no such thing as a squirrel-proof bird feeder.
I feel that functions + data needs some really good linting to keep things clean. The one problem I've never been able to find lints for is "keep related things together" because the implementation of that varies so wildly.
Possible alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarecrow
You described the point of view of an agile practitioner, leaning towards scrum. Could you contrast it with project manager's role? What's a project manager - a role eliminated by scrum - expected to do?
Australians also got forcefully corraled into Covid-19 camps as a result of having no means to protect themselves against a tyrannical government.

You seem to misunderstand the situation here. Guns are not and will not ever be going anywhere. Mass shootings can be prevented, and the solution has nothing to do with gun control.
ICE is the problem, all the heinous shit US defense and intelligence does, whom Amazon is also in bed with, a-ok
If anyone has a hankering for some world travel on small motorcycles I would recommend the YouTube channel C90 Adventures by Ed March. He has that British humor mixed in that keeps you paying attention. He likes to poke fun at the guys riding $15k bikes around the world.

https://www.youtube.com/c/c90adventures/videos
It is curious to wonder how they managed to lead the company this successfully. How often do young founders actually hang onto leadership this long without either imploding or being replaced? Why are the Collison brothers different?
What are you saying, that the Danish are selling the technology on to the Chinese? As if the Chinese government didn’t already have massively deployed facial recognition tech?
I don't know why who or what I simp for is on trial here. You have no idea what I own stock in. Maybe my big simpin' is a perfectly valid repsonse? Simpin' aint easy, that's for sure. For the sake of ending this inane argument, let's say I simp YC supes hard, but it's for personal reasons I'd rather not share.

Now that we have that out of the way, do you have any facts to hold up your baseless claims?
If you are wondering which distro: you likely never heard of it

It is Linuxfx, product of a Brazilian software company with the same name
> Also, surely "range" is one of the dominating factors in purchasing an EV, right?

Definitely true when the range was around 100 or 150 miles. Less true when the range is closer to 300.

> I'll tolerate some fit and finish issues so long as I don't have to stop to charge every hour (assuming I can even find a charger).

Are there any Tesla competitors that have so little range that they need to be charged every hour?
This is another case where those of us that view the world through the lens of race are again moving the racist goalposts.

Enacting a policy without race in mind, then have that policy impact one race more than another is not racist unless the intent was specifically to oppress a given group. Are laws against killing racist, even though some groups are disproportionately represented in the statistics?

Intent matters.
Why is AI so useless for business?

Because we have liability laws and there aren't too many areas of business where a significant rate of failure is acceptable.

"AI" is really just guess, a probability assessment. Would you want to fly on a plane where the autopilot failed to land 10% of the time?
Are there sci-fi stories with the premise that a character wakes up transported to a different planet except it’s later revealed that it’s actually Earth in a distant time?
When I was a dev lead I split my time between (1) high level sizing business needs to develop a roadmap, (2) architecting solutions, and (3) enabling/QC on more junior devs. That felt pretty right to me. I agree adding on PM tasks to that is too much. Generally why we had something like a PM to do that.

Last couple jobs had Engineering Managers to do (1) and generally manage the team. The problem is that EMs don't really know anything about anything. Maybe at one point they were a developer and knew stuff. But since they're not in the code every day they don't know the reality of the code base and their general programming skills decay.
Effectively they become a relayer of messages between the dev team and the business with lots of information being lost along the way. I much preferred the previous way.
That is the prior assumption for archaeologists. For a long time, it was simply treated as "obvious" and there wasn't a well-established way to estimate temporal ranges from dated finds. Now people use a technique called Optimal Linear Estimation that was originally invented by paleontologists to estimate extinction dates.
Umm, doesn’t every house have a knife in it?
Except you can't replace bitcoin with a smart contract, it wouldn't be bitcoin.
"Mission Statement" by weird al satirized this perfectly:

https://youtu.be/GyV_UG60dD4
In some gov circles, the scenario often postulated is that a bird flu variant would be globally spread by Hajj pilgrims leaving Mecca to return to their various homes. The average yearly Hajj partipation is about 2.5 million people. It's estimated by some that 500 million migratory birds pass through Saudi Arabia.
Python has a GC based around reference counting, which is vastly easier to integrate with native code than languages with heavier runtimes such as Go, Java, C#.

C++ could give you equal or better performance, but it's not anywhere near as friendly to beginners as Python. Plus, the value of REPL-based programming for prototypes and experimentation is hard to overstate.
I've seen similar things. Messing with /proc/acpi/wakeup (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/698185/laptop-wakes...) made the problem go away for me. I've been meaning to try to bisect it down and find the real problem, but haven't had the time to do that yet...
> BMW's i4 and iX just came out, both of which appear to blow Tesla out of the fucking water.

In what sense does it blow Tesla out of the water? A Model 3 gets 334 miles of range and it MSRPs at $49K--the most you can get out of BMW seems to be 315 and it costs almost double.

> The Ford Lightning has sold out several years worth of production.

That only speaks to Ford's marketing.

> GM has the Ultium platform in production (Hummer) which will soon serve as the base for a number of models.

Personally I'm not keen on a 9klb car.

> Just get in, use the "gear" selector, and drive.

Tesla has had that for a while now, and it works pretty well. I'm not sure why you'd "come out of the driver's seat" while backing up, but my Tesla doesn't shut off.

> Then they had to go and infantilize the climate control system. I wish I were joking when you tap a "I'm cold" button or "I can't see out the windshield" to get things to happen. Apparently VW's IQ team thinks people are absolute imbeciles.

Tesla probably beats them for the stupidest climate control system. If anyone in the car wants to adjust their seat heaters, it automatically turns on the heat or A/C, so you have to open up the climate control menu (which automatically turns on heat or A/C), adjust seat heaters, turn off the heat/AC, and then close the menu.

Similarly, the defrost buttons always turn the fan up to the max (and you can't turn it back down) and they also turn up either heat or AC to the max as well. So you're getting blasted in the face with either super hot air or super cold air, so in practice you toggle it on until you're uncomfortable, then turn it off, then wait for the windshield to fog up again, and repeat.

As if that weren't enough, there's no way to tell it to warm up or cool down, you have to set the exact temperature. So I guess you're supposed to carry a thermostat with you so you know what temperature it is currently, and then you can turn on your climate control and tell Tesla to make it a little warmer or colder.
Un-paywalled: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-26/elon-c...
people constantly see blockchain as a currency replacement. while this is a consequence it is not its raison d'etre. instead it is a decentralized, bank-less, accounting mechanism with its own denomination. it is up to you if you see value in this or not. i personally see value in being able to move my assets with involvement of a minimal (preferably but not necessarily 0) number of third parties
I have a 2018 model 3 with 35k miles and capacity is at 300mi fully charged. At least that one data point is better than what you suggest.
I don't understand how this logic is meant to hold. The behavior can be of enough value to justify it where the cost to source hosts is low, but not of enough value to justify it for all hosts. Which is where we are now.

It feels like some comments here are trying to reconstruct what happened axiomatically purely from comments on the thread, without any empirical input from, like, how the Go module proxy actually works, and ending up in weird places as a result.
SpaceX looks to raise $1.7B in new funding
You mean how much better would I perform for an extra million dollars? How much better could I perform with a team of assistants each making six figures?

Why on earth should one accept a percent-based framing of these ludicrous numbers?
Maybe not on Zoom but I’ll bet it is on FaceTime and Messenger video chats.
This sounds authoritarian, or maybe progressive. I can't tell the difference. My point is that data without context is almost worthless when crafting policy.
A founder's guide to hiring your first marketer
IPv6 was optimized for simple software forwarding implementations. For example, the header checksum was eliminated, so that the TTL (or hop limit) update does not need to recompute the checksum. But the IPv4 header checksum is so weak that it is entirely possible to update the checksum directly without full recomputation across the entire header, so this was only a significant win compared to an unoptimized IPv4 implementation.

More importantly, IPv6 requires a linked list traversal to find the TCP/UDP port numbers, rather than a simple computation of a variable offset. Maybe it was difficult to predict in the 1990s that hardware implementations that need to look at port numbers would be common by the end of the decade. But the claim that the IPv6 header was optimized for efficient forwarding stuck around even after it became clear that the increased flexibility really interfered with hardware implementations of packet filters.
Probably not in the UK.
Raises the question of what about our present beliefs and thinking should change as a consequence of discovering advanced civilizations that have risen and fallen not only independent of "us," but of our ability to have ever precived the possibility of their existence.

Makes me want to write a sci-fi story about predicting the reflection of coherent radio signals from distant planets that originated on earth hundreds or thousands of years ago, and the ML model that filters for candidate signals, as though it were more plausible that old civilizations discovered radio before they were wiped out than another advanced civilization inhabit nearby solar systems. Starts with capturing reflections of 1930s broadcasts, but then the method scales by applying it to further objects that reflect ones from further back in time.
Every time I think about buying an Elite controller and its $180 price tag, I look at the perfectly good controller I've already got and say nahhhhh.
make money?
its not a "job" it is leadership.. an appropriate analogy is closer to Roman General than school bus driver

within their own circles, competition is fierce.. part of the stature of a modern leader is in the dollar value, much less of the ornamentation and ceremonial weaponry of old.. bankers like it better now
You mean besides Planet of the Apes?
For #1, How to Speak[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
Care to link?
Not actually there myself but was speaking to family there about the issue. While it may not be a law enforced by cops, Canadians are generally pretty good about following announcements by groups like the SPCA.
DuckDuckGo caught giving Microsoft permission for trackers
That's a good point. What might be the cause of that? Lack of self-efficacy (i.e. people not being aware that they could change the situation if they wanted to)? Lack of discipline (i.e. being aware that they could but failing to follow through)?
Polyformer: An open-source machine, recycling bottles into 3D printing filament
Not seeing any dinosaur info on mobile. Using Android and FF browser