skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard of Mastadon, even tried it but couldn't get any value of the contents on it. The last time I looked at it, most of the content was about Mastadon and welcome messages. I was expecting to see some crazy stuff like flat earthers or antivaxxers but even that was not available.

I'm also not sure that I used it correctly, maybe I needed to find servers or something.

Anyway, my point it is that the lack of discoverability is not just a marketing issue but it seems like baked in these platforms. Something is not there yet and that's why it's not growing like crazy.
They are retail investors, and there are generally very strong laws to protect them from this sort of scam. Examine that failure.
The getting starting part is what I love most about headspace. They teach you the fundamentals in such an easy way. They make you really understand the 'why' behind meditation.
It was always allowed, but what people believe about it is up for debate. But even then just barely, due to the deliberate burying of the story by some very powerful people
> Only in the United States do we have such protections in place to prevent the government from retaliating against the individual for voicing a critical opinion.

Uh no. Here’s a list of people incarcerated by President Obama for criticism of the USA: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/employee-speech-and-wh...
This is brilliant and the journey I went on

Don't get overwhelmed with a massive to-do list just do what is realistic and small amounts and prioritise
Exactly. Reminded me of this tweet: https://twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1534969496724807680
i would argue OP was right in his estimate that it was just not a good market gap for them to fill, i.e. the problem was the product they chose to build not that they didn't market/sell it well enough.

It's much better to figure out a product people would actually really want to buy that have the uphill battle of trying to sell something people ultimately aren't that itching to buy.
This is my thinking, he didn’t anticipate the market would tank as bad as it did and now the math on the deal isn’t what it was before all the multiple compression both for Tesla and Twitter. People saying he wasn’t serious about it from the start are off the mark.
I do believe technology can make our environment more inhospitable.

The best world is one with zero emissions and everyone having all their shipping/transportation, heating, air conditioning, farming, food preservation, and other energy needs met in full. The philosophizing becomes important when deciding between people’s ability to meet basic needs and environmental protection. I think it’s a mistake to think there’s an intrinsic good in trying to preserve nature as it is currently, as nature is agnostic and much more inhospitable without modern amenities. The good relates to all of the many benefits of the way the environment is now to us, including long term environmental effects relative to our survival and the continuation of all the beauty and learning opportunities that currently exist in the current form of our natural world.

I’m not sure where the hostility is coming from. My consumption is pretty low and I enjoy spending time in and learning about nature. I think the best and most practical thing we could be doing energy wise is building more nuclear salt reactors, which I advocate for fairly frequently. I am not arguing that we shouldn’t take care of the environment.
> It looks like the FCC has plenty of hard evidence, and they are not making stuff up to fine him with.

Okay but the comment above said "hard evidence of a negative outcome", not "hard evidence [that he transmitted]".

If they did have evidence of negative outcomes, I think they'd do more than use the word "potential" when talking about harm to life and property.
there's no widely adopted index fund in the crypto world. to get exposure to a variety of ideas, one inevitably buys some that don't work and yes, some where the project runners commit fraud.
I don't see what so special about that, there were many such protests against people from the right side of the political map or even people who just perceived as such. There are such protests against Israeli speakers or students and other issues where you got a billion of people on one side of the argument and only few millions on the other side. Sometimes it is just a numbers game and there are much more Chinese than Uyghur.
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Yes.

China is like this because Chinese are like this, and they want it to be like this (for all possible values of "like this"). Same with Russia (who is invading Ukraine because Russians want it), Saudi Arabia (who is beheading gay people because Saudis want it) and other places.

I have even heard following argument: it takes surprisingly little people to overthrow a dictator, so counterintuitively dictators have much higher support than democracies. In democracy, you need support of majority of voters (or whatever, depending on the voting system) while for a dictator to stay up (assuming no outside help) 90 % of people have to stand behind the dictator. A dictator is not someone who took power, but someone granted power by the masses as long as they do what the masses want.

In any case, the real problem here is that the Western nations continue to let people "like this" (for all possible values of "like this" opposed to Western values) in and let them terrorize others, because money is more important than _not_ having people terrorized.

Stop letting the pro-CCP Chinese study in the West and the problem solves itself. They are not in any way entitled to come here and hurt people.
A virtual token is literally useless. It's only worth something, so far as it can be traded for actual goods, so the availability of "secured" goods is quite essential as far as the value of cryptographic tokens go.
> but that is not really important for all of us non-billionaires. For smaller amounts, the fixed cost of a bitcoin transaction can make it a significant amount of the total. L2 networks would be nice, but "work is being done" for years now so let's wait to see if they ever get that working

You gotta get up to speed with these things then. A lot has been happening the past year.

Lightning in it self is used all over the world by small vendors in developing and western countries. And it's a mix of using a service provider for using this (usually in the west) to self custodian where they cannot motivate the cost.

It was one of the big things needed before El Salvador's legal tender roll out.

I can give you more examples if you want.

https://twitter.com/HODLneverSODL/status/1518134911244320769...

https://twitter.com/CoinCornerMolly/status/15323143997629480...
But for houses, you could use an NFT to represent digital ownership of the underlying physical asset.
This is such a great, useful explainer (esp. for someone outside the US who don't really know how these systems are set up in the US). Thanks!
> Donald Trump went from 90 million followers on Twitter to 3.2 million followers on his own Twitter clone, and he has such a loyal following that people literally committed treason for him. Network effects are impossible to ignore

You're not wrong, but please note that those are Trump loyalists that followed him to a service that Trump didn't actually use until quite recently:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-makes-first-post-on-truth-s...

It kind of seems that far from being ignored, network effects were the main reason Trump was using Twitter in the first place.
One thing I'd be curious to know is how large the current open platforms are compared to those of 20+ years ago. The internet as a whole is so much bigger that it's hard to maintain a sense of scale.

For example, how many people are using Matrix now, compared to IRC 20 years ago? IRC had 10M users in 2003 [1], Matrix has 28M 'global visible accounts', but who knows what that means.

Maybe it's ok for these platforms to remain 'small', growing slowly. Sure we'd all love to win the fight for a free internet tomorrow, but it's also important to maintain a realistic perspective.

Disclaimer: Usenet is still growing, but I presume that's just alt.binary - According to Wikipedia [1] it had 15M daily posts in 2010, and 171M daily posts in 2021.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
Why Chinese warplanes are 'playing chicken' with US allies
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Just that we already do that successful while Blockchain now needs miners.
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Sounds like the “criticise Israel and you’re anti semetic” thing
Sure. But you can't withdraw by pointing to some clause and SHOUTING that they lied, they actually have to have lied and you have to prove it.

You're moving the goal posts on my analogy which is ironic ...
Have you tried medication? It can be life changing when therapy and habits fall short.
Believe it or not, I found out that using Cloudflare Warp allows you to get significantly higher rps rates for cloudflare sites and others. It's a pretty terrible flaw.
I think this is explicitly the danger of nationalism. It has always been odd to be, because criticism seems the cornerstone of a democracy. You need to recognize what is wrong (because you're never perfect) and improve upon that. You can do this and have pride in your country too. But we need to disassociate the idea that a people (or race) and their country are one in the same. There's relatively little difference in people due to their race. But similarly we need to be able to allow others to criticize our country without taking it personally. An outside perspective can be valuable.

But I think we end up making it a family issue. I can make fun of and pick on my brother, but you can't.
Isn't there regulation around calling something a "savings account"? My savings account isn't just detached from the volatility of crypto, it can't go down in value at all. It's a totally separate category from investment accounts
Even I can name a few: uncensorable payments (especially important as I'm from an extremely corrupted country where we can't use PayPal), also super quick payments (donated to Ukrania during war ar Sunday night < 30 secs), moving the ownership of items to a decentralized system (e.g. NFTs as trading cards), smart contracts (lock your tokens and you're guaranteed, by code, that something happens like being paid an interest at some time/logic trigger). While some of those can also be implemented non-blockchain too, decentralization and having everything public and distributed is the key here. I can have my trading cards on a privately owned server too, for sure, then I'm bound to them not banning me, not crashing and losing my data, not going bankrupt, not changing the rules of the game etc. And as a bonus everyone can come and say "hey if you have this card you can play this other game I made" which empowers creative freedom.

Eventhough I consider myself above average, I'm sure there are smarter and more creative people that can come up with more use cases by time.

Just like the Internet evolved to what it is over decades, crypto space also will. We're in the "animated gifs, visitor counts, and unskippable huge flash intros" era of the crypto space.
I am a software engineer and started making wooden table tennis blades. The only frustrating part is finding good woods, tools, ... In software you just need a computer and you can start being productive :-).
> See, you have proven your own ignorance with your example!

Surprise, the basement isn't leaking. You just claimed it was.

This is the problem, you believe Elon is right without proof.
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For the past 15 years, I've been working as a Software Developer Engineer. I've focused mostly in back-end languages, and also a bit of front-end (though I'm not up-to-date with the latest Front-End trends). I have added a lot of value to the companies I've worked for, but I have the feeling I've never been compensated fairly.
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I'm sure it's theoretically possible to write a database that only allows reads/inserts and that runs off a CD-R burner, but it's weird that I haven't seen that in the wild. Seems like something that should be doable with SQLite's VFS support (and in fact I'm pretty sure the existing demo VFS for read-only support gets you most of the way there).

In any case, "write-once" media can still be rewritten; the same lasers that etch data into a CD-R can do so to destroy the same data. You're going to want redundancy/backups and you're going to want each new row in the table to cryptographically reference the previous (such that any data destruction invalidates all subsequent rows) - by which point you've reinvented most of what constitutes a blockchain anyway.
I have bought two properties in two different first-world countries and also bought NFTs with Ethereum.

The idea of houses on a blockchain are pretty much a pipe dream. But there are a lot of systems in traditional house buying that could be made easier with crypto-like ideas. Saying “real estate should be on-chain” should be read as asking for more NFT-like features in how real estate is transacted.

- as a cash bidder you need to provide proof of funds to the estate agent, which might just be a screenshot of your entire bank account balance. privacy with a zk-proof could be used in theory here to hide your balance while still giving the agent confidence you can meet the bid

- blind bidding process is usually opaque and broken, subject to discrimination and some winks and handshakes behind closed doors between friendly parties. a blockchain would give transparency and treat transactions equally regardless of race, sexuality, and friend or family ties.

- settlement times are extremely long in the order of months, not seconds. this is sometimes just because some party including the agents are on holidays, or slow to respond to emails, or forget to sign some paper, or whatever.

- escrow and exchange of funds in some cases could in theory happen with smart contracts where both parties sign a message to perform the exchange, which would reduce the significant commissions and fees.

- the process feels archaic compared to buying most other types of property.
yes, a private company that has bought the information can just chose to share it for a fee with anybody it likes. Why would a judge be involved in that?
A flat fee isn't necessarily cheaper. A $25 fee on a $1 transaction is equivalent to a 2500% fee.
Leaking classified information entrusted to you is a fair bit different than voicing a critical opinion.
With a lottery ticket you know what you're getting
> FWIW, there's an effort to do exactly that

Could you link where?
What's more important is knowing how to analyse/derive the big-O of each of the various algorithms in space and time, IMHO.
Adaptive cruise control definitely requires less attention than traditional cruise control. Where's the alarm when a car equipped with adaptive cruise control gets in a collision? Same deal with lane assist. And autopilot is basically just adaptive cruise control with lane assist.

Over the last 6 years, there's been 16 collisions, one of them fatal. How many of those accidents would have still happened if people were using adaptive cruise control instead of Autopilot? How many were averted because autopilot is more sophisticated than traditional cruise control. Jumping straight to the conclusion that all of these collisions were due to autopilot, and not considering the fact that it might have been the same or even better than the status quo is naive.
If you need the info to be delivered immediately, you could probably use that frequency.

If it can wait 2 minutes, then use the proper channels. This guy could have waited 2 minutes, if he had any useful information at all.

This isn't "don't talk to cops", this is more like "don't jump into a moving cop car to tell them something".
"Can we do without?" is to my mind the single most precious question from an engineering point of view.

“It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.” Antoine de Saint Exupéry
I am not sure what your point is...

Your example is the same as treatment of black people in the U.S. at the time when they did not have equal rights.
Your example is the same as treatment of Jews in the Nazi Germany.

Things like that happened and happen.
Sometimes the majority of population wants to do horrible things to a minority.
That's true.
Still not sure why you brought that up.
Even if what this clown is saying were true, it wouldn't really matter.

These CEOs he's allegedly talked can throw as many tantrum as they want. If they don't pay the price, they just won't get any hires. Simple as that. "Tech exodus"? What is this even supposed to mean? Are the CEOs going to shutter their companies, fire all their employees and move to a cabin in the woods?
> why the analogies? its a corporate merger

Because clearly everybody is having hard time understanding this ...
There's no need for speculation -- the individual in question is not only a licensed amateur radio operator, but holds additional licenses for commercial microwave links. They are well aware of the rules, and chose to violate them, repeatedly, after being instructed not to by the very emergency response personnel they were purportedly trying to help (in fact, they were trying to manipulate the emergency response to save some of their own equipment).

It's baffling to me how many people here are defending them. This is about as clear-cut as it gets.
He sure was thinking one thing and is saying another.
Elon is not a natural born citizen.
Reddit has plenty of flamebait for the sake of updoots.
I remember when I first read Samuel Pepys's diary. What struck me the most is how insightful this man was and how organised his thoughts were. Incredibly aware of the political situation as well.
It read so "modern", that it was at times uncanny.
The attacks were similar in scale to the Irish attacks in the 70s through 90s. Did the U.K. sterilise Irish people?
You should involve yourself in his case. don't bother asking, you're just trying to help.
Isn't it true to say that a theoretical exponential becomes a practical sigmoid precisely because some property of the system has become saturated and gone nonlinear?
That is a lot of words to say "our genocide is justified".

It is not.

It can never be.

If you think it can be, you don't belong in a society.
> The psychedelic brats with their dad's credit cards and the anal retentive aggressor lizards trying to steal my prostate energy.
>
> Hand's off!

Lol. Sorry, I read this but somehow did not read this last sentence. I don't know or even know if I want to know what this statement really means to you because I love it so much and I'm afraid that if you told me it might lose it's magic. If this is a serious comment and you want to clarify though, I'll take it completely seriously and deal with whatever the outcome is. Either way, shine you crazy diamond. Genuinely I think that might be one of the best sentences I've ever read.
That is so accurate I can't tell if you went to Quora and found a quote or made it up.
That is not what Occam's razor says and is a very complicated, explanation anyway.
Because it’s in the interest of people who view themselves as aspiring elites to be anti-anti-establishment. Don’t let the term hacker fool you; it’s been culturally appropriated to mask the corporate ponzi scheme that is venture capitalism.
> It was years ago.

Not original commenter, but, so what if it's a while ago, from appearances it's not like his character has changed that much from being a major dickhead. He dismissed Covid as nothing because it would've been bad for his factories' output (he didn't say this but let's draw conclusions). Oh that's 2 years ago, also old news?
I totally agree on validating ideas but that's IMO not looking in to the future. It's trying to find a fit for something you believe is a good idea. There is a big difference in testing whether something is needed in the near future or you simply stick to your guns and blindly dictate how you believe the future will look like.

Your ORM example is good and exactly what i am referring to. Too much abstraction/gold plating due to unknown requirements in the future is perhaps a better way to put what is a problem.

And you also say that "If you're designing new systems that need to scale quickly..." - if you know that it will scale quickly then of course you know you need to do certain implementations to cater that. But if you do not know whether it will scale quickly then you are looking into an unknown future - and then you should step back on abstractions.
"Sorry, your role has been rescinded."
This is weird to say, but I've never had this happen before: as someone who's never heard of control theory, the initial illustrations and the leading icecream example seemed highly confusing and put me off from reading the rest.
I applied to Amazon, and studied Algo for 6 months. I practiced all of the algo questions in GlassDoor, and all of the algo books I could find.
I wasn't able to make it though :(
As other people mentioned, you have very few chances because those companies value that kind of interview questions more than quality engineering.
But please, give it a try, practice LEET code 24/7, and you might be able to make it! NEVER GIVE UP!
Those 6 months of preparation for Amazon helped me land better jobs at better companies in the future. So that time is well spent.
If they are residents, I agree there is nothing you can do about it.

But since they seem to be exchange students, you could say "We don't welcome people with such views here in our country", and just send them back to the country that is ruled by their beloved government.

Just because you have free speech doesn't mean you can't select foreigners based on their beliefs and values.
In which case the entire blockchain thing becomes redundant.
> It depends on the opportunity cost. If you can get a house for 3600 a month, and the house appreciates in value in excess of the discount rate, then it's worth it to purchase that house.

To add to this, there is also the opportunity cost of buying the more expensive option because the difference is only $1/day. Spending $365/year on the more expensive option is missing out on getting some other item[1] for $365/year.

Like I keep telling people who ask me why I don't pay for $FOO instead of using $BAR (where $FOO is "Windows", or "Office365", or some development tool and $BAR is OpenOffice, Vim/Emacs, git from the cli, Linux, etc).

The answer to any "Well $FOO only costs you $10/m, and if you are a professional using it as part of your profession, then you should be able to afford it" is "I can afford lots of things, doesn't mean I am necessarily going to buy them".

[1] Sticking with the phone example, taking a phone that works out to be cheaper by $365/year means that you could spend the extra money for redundancy (if your phone breaks, simply buy a new one in 30m), you get a drawing tablet (suddenly, whiteboarding during zoom meetings saves 30m - what's your hourly rate?), or you put it into a index tracker or stock or debt, and get a positive return.
Fail. Look at the North Ireland situation. There was no "reeducation" of Irish or Catholics that I heard of.
Love to see it.

Execs often hold too much power in tech companies, and I’ve worked enough to see how condescending they can be to people even just 1-2 levels below them.

If the choice is between many the of employees that are actually building the company and a few bad execs, it seems easy to me.
Considering they are likely all shareholders, I see nothing wrong with that.
> Are You Suffering from Toxic Productivity?

Yes, even small amounts of productivity are extremely toxic to me.