skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem being discussed is not the difficulty of asset diversification. Lest you forget:

> People who are unable to discern scam from not scam get scammed.

This is a common refrain, along with Do Your Own Research (DYOR). As if scams are that obvious.

However, my additional point was that I have successful crypto friends, that actively and knowingly invest in shitcoins and justify it as “money they can afford to lose”.

Also, just to be clear - are cryptocoins an investment, a store of value, a currency, or equity-equivalent in a company? Because the goal always seems to be buying enough of every coin to maximise speculative windfalls. That is /strictly/ not the goal of a traditional index fund.
THE REAL TOP GUN: Meet the real-life ‘Charlie’ – a true Maverick
As a small company working with Twitter firehose covering 10% of traffic just in Japan, we are clocking between 40-45GB of JSON data per day.
(i.e about 1.5 TB per month)
Minting an NFT is not simpler than adding a record to a relational database. It's pretty clear that technology itself isn't the roadblock.

And if governments ordering security theatre at airports is relevant to their ability to administer property then I've got bad news for you about the track record of people working on building important stuff on blockchains. Difference is they have no need to be involved in property transactions whatsoever, whereas when it comes to enforcing property rights you're stuck with government being involved anyway.
The "strange loop” is likely to be a reference to a concept explored in Hofstadter's book "I am a strange loop":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop
I appreciate the article but it's still disappointing to run into a typical misconception about Bitcoin from someone claiming to make a technical defense of cryptocurrency. He states that Bitcoin is now not so decentralized, presumably because of the concentration of mining power. This is a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of what decentralization means with regards to proof of work. What it means is that there is no central authority that can reverse or change transactions, add taxes, only operate from 9 to 5 on weekdays, etc. The protocol defines the behavior, not a centralized org, and it is perfectly decentralized. Anyone can add a mining node, because the protocol itself is decentralized. Having a smaller group of mining pools doesn't change this core characteristic of PoW blockchains.
I think the comment you're replying to is ironic.
> My point is that their choice of Python (because of the libraries they use, or the training they got in school?) bleeds out and causes Python to be used in places where it doesn't fit so well.

They use those libraries because there aren’t alternatives in the languages you prefer. Millions of man hours went into developing the Python ecosystem.

> If the libraries you mention were written for Ruby (and they absolutely could have been... probably with fewer defects and fewer lines of code), then we wouldn't be having this discussion.

This probably isn’t true because the core of NumPy is C. A theoretical NumRs would be the same. The issue with both languages is that they’re slow, so you have to resort to C wrappers. NumRs might be incrementally better at best. It wouldn’t be a revolution.

> There is no use of any of those libraries that someone could demonstrate which could not be equally or better demonstrated in one of the other languages you mention. Therefore, the only argument for using Python is that it's what those libraries are written in.

But no one wrote these libraries in Ruby. Someone had to do it, and no one did. Someone did it in Python. It would be impossible to justify recreating NumPy in Ruby today. If I want to do some simple image processing, Fourier transforms, simple optimization, and plotting in Python it’s trivial. If I want to do it in Ruby it is a ton of work.

> In fact, with a little effort an API could be written and wrapped around those libraries to make them available to other languages, decoupling the bigger projects from the library-specific logic. This is how it should be done at any reasonable company anyway. The data science wizards build their specific systems in whatever language they need, and that gets built into a minimal service. But things often start highly coupled, meaning the special code in Python gets business logic and persistence stuff built around it also in Python.

This isn’t a company scale problem. The Python numerical computing stack has developed over 20 years with enormous investment from companies and universities. Code could maybe be shared via an API, but someone would have to do it. It would have to be done very carefully to guarantee performance. If it were easy you’d expect to see significant code reuse between, for example, Ruby and Java web frameworks. I guess you could say this API does exist, and it’s called C FFI interfaces. Sane companies do use this, but it still sucks pretty bad.

Python’s lead isn’t unassailable, but any language that is just another C wrapper isn’t going to unseat it. Whatever does it will need to be compiled. I’d bet on it being dynamic with type inference, too, because static type checking almost never helps with correctness issues in numerical code while adding significant cognitive overhead. If it isn’t Julia, Julia is at least the blueprint.
Neither was arnie
Musk was born in South Africa, he's not eligible to run for US president.
Just a thought experiment (not defending him or anything):

If he (albeit illegally) provided extremely useful information to the firefighters that prevented a bigger spread and possible saved lives, would FCC still fine it?

e.g. Jumping in the plane's communication frequency and telling them the coordinates where a fire they haven't realized, say, is moving very close to a oil refinary. (Just made it up but you get the idea)
That's the job of the compiler, then we can use a disassembler to read the actual optimized source code.
Thank god it is not, but the problem is certainly getting worse at an aggressive rate.

This too will pass, the cycle towards the mainframe way of thinking will swing back to the idea of personal compyting again sometime in the future.
Well, that's the whole point of the useless use of cat - in the non-cat example you gave, making a typo at the end of the command destroys my data.

With the useless use of cat, that is no longer possible even if there is a typo in the SEDOPTIONS.
Avidemux does it well. I find myself returning often when every other editor frustrates me.
Regardless of the result, it’s interesting to see the values of different generations and ecosystems clash.
Even if they are residents, you can absolutely be expelled from university for bullying, hate speech and other abuses.
Sure they have valid points but I am more sure that if the price of Bitcoin and other major cryptos kept moving on up this would not be a thing.

This is the key problem with crypto only exchanges.

At some point (probably further down in share price) they will become a target for existing exchanges looking to diversify - ICE, CME
It's a lot simpler than that.

PRC's XJ security architecture is publically about counter terrorism and deradicalization through forced reeducation (with mass interment) and poverty alleviation. While forced sterilzation for women with 3+ kids is XJ catching up to family planning policies with rest of PRC. Years of consistent Uyghur terrorist attacks stopped in exchange for repressing minority consisting 0.02% of population. Majory Han is AOK with this. Plurality of UN position endorses XJ as counter terrorism narrative (with overwhemling support from Muslim countries), minority as human right abuses, and fringe as genocide. So when PRC students say:

>"we were crucified in a courtroom for crimes that we did not commit"

They don't mean for crimes they personally did not commit, but alleged "genocide" that the global political UN community majority states PRC did not commit. And in fact the opposite position is true, to them PRC has found a relatively "humane" method of eliminating radical terrorism versus US bombing the shit out of the ME.

As for being vocal / belligerant about it on campus, that's what what happens when complex diasphora drama between PRC and other anti-CCP minorities happens abroad. Especially in for profit "education" institutes (really prestige diploma mills). They're paying 50K USD + board and enjoying their customarhy campus freedom of expression perks. Foreign student enjoying western campus culture doesn't mean they also get brainwashed endorse western foreign policy instead of their domestic ones. Especially when the gap in perspective is so antithetical.
> it takes surprisingly little people to overthrow a dictator, so counterintuitively dictators have much higher support than democracies.

That’s a very unique perspective I never thought of it that way. I wonder though if some or most of a dictator’s power come from having a tight control over means of suppression, from controlled media to the military. The latter 2 would seem to require a much smaller percentage of support than 90%
I kinda question what the author is thinking of as the "problem". He says:

> unfortunately what we had built had only marginal improvements to what was being offered by other platforms

... Is it really a problem if there are already solutions?

As you say:

> I've met many many founders who have had too much passion about a single problem

I wonder if it might also be about the narrowness of the defined problem? That is, if you can define a problem in more abstract or general terms (such as "help people more easily do XYZ"), you can, assuming that still interests you, give yourself plenty of room to be flexible without needing to completely abandon the problem of interest.
“Signatures will be done in a way that is fair and transparent, as well as respecting the anonymity and privacy of each individual employee.”

What are some ideas for how to do this? Maybe start with the assumption that each employee has an ECC key signed by a corporate certificate authority.
> Have you seen what has happened to the market for fuel inefficient vehicles lately?

I have not. What has happened? Have SUVs stopped being the most popular class of passenger cars being sold?
YouTube accused of failing to tackle fake Elon Musk livestream scams
> Why do you bring it up?

Because someone asked why some people hate him?

> It was years ago

Falsely accusing people of being pedophile and raping 12 year old is not something where saying "sorry" is sufficient to never bring it up.

> What claims “turned out false”?

Are you really unaware of numerous missed promises, deadlines etc?
> Linux became more popular than BSD because the AT&T lawsuits made the legal status of BSD questionable. By the time it was cleared up, Linux had the momentum.

In theory this was the e
reason. In practice, Linux played nicely with the PC partition table and linux installers became newbie friendly much earlier than BSD. BSD did not have a graphical installer until DragonflyBSD. Also for many users, the ability to coexist with Windows and DOS was crucial. BSD did not advertise DOS compatibility (fatfs) and dual booting.
A.I. gurus are leaving Big Tech to work on buzzy new startups
that's an attitude that seems to accepts the consequences for those being harassed as collateral without giving it much thought, though
> I'm also not sure that I used it correctly, maybe I needed to find servers or something.

You needed to find people to follow. Unlike corporate social media content is not pushed to you by algorithms. You have to build your own social network manually. Not doing so you have an empty personal timeline, and a too busy global timeline that is full of irrelevant stuff to you.

> 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.

Strange as it may sound on HN, but I am happy it is that way. There is a different culture now on the fediverse, and it is one that likely won't survive that 'crazy growth'.
Really interesting way of looking at things. I use my phone about 6 hours every day. That’s 2,190 hours a year. That’s a lot of time yikes, but anyways, that’s about $0.50/hour of use or about $3/day. I pickup my phone about 110 times per day. That’s $0.027 per pickup. Pretty cheap and worth it when you look at it in those terms. Streaming services, not so much. That’s the magic of marketing. I love pay as you go pricing, but when it’s realistic.
He also cannot be president of the United States.
TIL that a table tennis racket is made of a blade (the wood/composite/whatever substrate with the handle) and the rubbers which are the sheets of rubber that you glue (?) on. Thanks.

As with everything, name brand blades can have prices that appear expensive to a complete outsider.

[1]: https://www.stigasports.com/eu/dynasty-carbon-xu-xin-edition...
Why is your comment just the subtitle of the article?
> I don't understand how neutering an animal is considered "kindhearted".

You have a good point.

That's what I get when I edit to add a word in later. 'Kindhearted' was intended to qualify 'immunization'.

On the other hand we do neuter ourselves (some forms of birth control can be considered neutering with different levels of reversibility), but the difference is that it happens with consent and is voluntary.

For the 'social problem' of strays neutering is an acceptable compromise struck between the dog lover and dog hater groups.

I would rather have a stray neutered rather than killed in a kill shelter or worse, stoned on the streets to death. The latter is not uncommon in a few states in my country.

You might be interested in the fact that in India dolphins have some of the human like legal rights. Definitely some progress. Not sure if Orcas would come under the folds of the same law. I dont think Orcas are to be found in Indian territorial waters.
This comment is giving me an eerie feeling of deja vu. Haven't we been through this before?
Germany, for all it's renewables, let out significantly more greenhouse gases per capita than surrounding countries, such as France.

> It's not even close to how costly nuclear is and will continue to be for GENERATIONS.

Modern nuclear plants are designed to last for a minimum of 60 years, and can be renewed to last another 40.

Modern wind turbines as well as most solar panels have an expected lifetime of around 25 years.

> Also we have build up renewable energy for the whole world. Paying for it.

Germany even pays Denmark to shut down their wind power on days when production is high, to make the statistics of German renewable production look prettier.

Germany is still using fossil fuels for most of their energy.

> Also we have build up renewable energy for the whole world.

Norway has been on 100% renewable electricity since forever, and unlike Germany, Norway actually uses electricity for heating. Fossil fuel heating was banned in Norway i 2020. So Norway uses electricity for everything, meaning the population is not willing to pay German prices for much longer. Most likely, the Norwegian government will have to strangle exports through Nordlink and similar cables in the coming winter, if prices remain high.

Norway did NOT need German help for that.

On the other hand, Norway also provides Germany with a large percentage of Germany's fossil fuel needs, both natural gas and oil (most of the imports not coming from Russia comes from Norway).
Landmark study on the replicability of psychological science overturned [pdf] (2016)
It's a joy to work with, it's perfect for glue work, it reads like pseudo-code which makes it accessible for the non-programmers and children, it has a bustling community which means it's easy to find solutions should one encounter problems, it has a flourishing library, it's a great gateway language. For these reasons and more I posit that Python was perhaps one of the great milestones in the history of c̶o̶m̶p̶u̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ mankind, and Guido probably deserves a Turing award.
I would be interested in seeing a similar breakdown of stakers and staking pools for the large PoS chains.
> 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.

In this case, the absolute value analysis yields the same result, so it doesn't really "depend". I'm not saying you will always go wrong thinking in terms of rates. I'm saying you'll never go wrong thinking in terms of absolute values.
Well, I can't say that I've ever witnessed this maneuver. Got my popcorn.
How many people signed it?
Suggested follow-up blog entry: "The survival of simple software."
Scientists test 'living skin' on robot that can heal when cut
What GP meant is that Google owns the email of all the people you would send mail to, and can decide that all messages from you go unseen by your recipients.
I hope this helps, though I don't follow this advice for economic reasons:
- Have a silent and private place for you to work
- Have zero distractions
- Leave your phone out of that room where you work
- Block youtube and social networks.
- Use the Pomodoro technique. Work 25 minutes, rest 5, repeat.
- Every few pomodoro cycles, take a break, check your social media, then get back.
- The time you are at work, focus 100% on getting as much done in the least time possible.
- When you have accomplished some significative progress, take a rest, pat yourself in the back.
- When you feel anxious, take a deep breath or meditate.
They haven't shown up because non-tech people don't demand it. They cave in and use one of the managed solutions like wordpress dot com, squarespace etc. A group of devs need to create a solution even without demand & set about popularising it, which is very hard, when most people are satisfied with cloud solutions and don't see the danger that their data could be lost or vendor captured or censored arbitrarily. The second issue is network effects, where these cloud services provide exposure to your content and provide you exposure to related content, which as a self hoster, you must do for yourself.

Combined, both problems seem to be remarkably hard when viewed at closeup detail, especially when pitched to "point and click" users with minimal willingness to hack at the command line.
You mean hammer factory factories.
> Along these lines, I find that not many people correctly calculate the cost-per-use of their car. They only think of the cost of gasoline burned, and maybe tolls and parking. They don't think about the cost of insurance divided by the number of trips, or the capital cost of the car amortized over the years of ownership. If people thought hard about the cost-per-use of driving, then other transportation options start to look more attractive.

They do think about this, which is why the second-hand market for cars is so healthy.

To be accurate, you should restrict your assertion to those people who only buy brand new cars, which is necessarily a far small population of people who buy second-hand.

There are more people who think about this (they buy second-hand) than people who don't.
Can you recommend any good introductory books on the topics you mentioned for someone who studied (theoretical/mathematical) physics but never electrical engineering or signal processing? (Read this as: I am more or less familiar with Nyquist-Shannon's theorem but that's about it.)
Gorillas Startup Dream of Food Delivery and Office Raves Falters
Genuine question: We signed up for the deci/decahose last month and for now making everyday dumps of about 50GB in flat files.

What kind of system architecture would be good to load & search through such dataset. We tried to explore Mongo Atlas but it is coming out very expensive. Other alternative is to throw away most metadata & just keep ID & Tweet.
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Deliberately distinguish the vital few from the trivial many
Initiatives like the Dot Collector and the Performance review system that has led to a toxic workplace culture

I was curious about that "Dot Collector":

Dot collector was an application invented by Ray Dalio’s hedge fund and Bridgewater Associates. The application has set its foot in Coinbase since the start of the year and has been in use by the HR and IT teams of the company. The user interface of the app is quite simple and efficient. It asks the user to rate the coworker or the manager on how well they demonstrate the 10 crore Values at coinbase. The values are not only limited to things like communications, but also include values like positive energy. The information about the co-worker can be shared by either giving a thumbs up or by giving a thumbs down. There is an option of giving neutral feedback for the co-workers in the application.

Sounds like hell.
I don't see how this can possibly go anywhere if employees aren't willing to put their names on it.
No absolutely, in fact I can develop and deploy apps to iPhone and iPads from Linux and Windows, without owning a Mac.
The article basically says that crypto currency currently is a huge scammy mess with lots of unsolved problems - BUT those problems are solvable in theory. It then spends most of it's paragraphs explaining what some of those solutions could look like, before finally admitting that even with those problems solved, crypto currency might not actually improve on any of the problems that existing non-crypto payment systems have.

Am I missing something?
It would be helpful, just not the way he did.

During his transmissions he was blocking any other transmission on that frequency, maybe an important message couldn’t be sent due to his „help“. Those frequencies are for emergency personnel only and it can‘t be used as a public tip line.

Imagine there would be more of his kind on those frequencies, all of them „helping“. Each one thinking that their help is essential, but none of them actually being in emergency response teams, just sitting in their lawn chairs giving helpful advise.
This is incorrect for many sane reasons. You don't get any value out of your phone for every use, so paying that 0.02USD is not cheap. It's like a pay-per-use subscription. Everyone who deals with investing knows that absolute money means everything - every 1000USD you spend is much costlier because it never has a chance to collect compound interest of inflation-adjusted ~5% annually for the next 30 years. That works out to 4481USD that you are never going to have.
So... where does something like this get tabled? Proxy vote at shareholder's meetings? Gang up with an activist investor firm perhaps?
Because it's not theirs to sell, data about a person should belong to that person. They should control who it's being shared with.
And there we are again: Demonstrating that an absolutist take on free speech tends to destroy free speech itself in the long run.

„The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.“

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Switch to proof of stake which has better defense mechanisms against 51% attacks.
But the only way to always reveal a goat is to have knowledge of the doors.