skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Monero and its ability to transact privately is only valuable if you're participating in criminal activity, which is not the vast majority of people.

You may say that, no, hypothetically you are a privacy-enthusiast and like monero as a hobby money, but in reality most rational actors on Monero as evading taxes and using DNMs.

(I would also argue that Monero is the only crypto that is more currency than any other crypto today bc of this, but it's not a selling point IMO)
I've certainly had your skepticism and these same challenges. Nonetheless, one study of Shopify storeowners who adopted dashboards saw a 4-10% increase in weekly revenue post adoption: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/mksc.2022.135...

But to your point there's often a principal agent problem in larger organizations. A decision-maker wants to appear "data-driven" so asks for a dashboard because it costs nothing for them to ask--someone else does the work. And when the dashboard shows something different than expected they dismiss the concern or find a reason that the dashboard is "wrong."
I had to look this up after seeing that eye popping number. Apparently 9 figure homes is a thing amongst the billionaire class:

https://www.dirt.com/gallery/moguls/finance/brian-armstrong-...
> This is not just gdp or some fat guy getting rich

And yet:

- 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions (1)

- most of them belong to less that 30 billionaires

- many of them have been caught multiple times lobbying to reduce emission regulations

- many of them have been caught manipulating public opinion with advertising, research etc to deflect responsibility

(1) https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...
Thank you so much for this in-depth explanation. I understood that MPEG-4 had something to do with DivX, but could never understand why 'regular' media players couldn't interpret the files. This explains it!
I used it for a similar time if not longer and I think it crashed < 10 times. In the last years it was mostly just single tabs failing and probably was just another website with some endless js loop anyway.

Extremely stable compared to almost any other software. Perhaps the parent means the mobile version. If not I would expect something is wrong with the system, even if visiting the worst pages of the internet.
Short term treasuries still take time to change into US Dollars. A bank run could make USDC insolvent in the short term, in theory.

That's why you have FDIC insurance to cover the time period between say, a 30 day treasury and the worst case bank run.

That being said, such an event hasn't really happened in decades. So it's relatively low chance of happening.
Should mention that this idea has been around the internets for a while. Is mentioned in article, but not linked to.

https://pmarchive.com/luck_and_the_entrepreneur.html
https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-sur...
Ah, no wonder I never noticed it - it's buried under "Services" on 11.6.4, which is my current OS. Also it seems to always set the image to "Fill Screen", which is never what I want. So I'd be right-clicking on the desktop and hitting "Change Desktop Background" anyway.
That's the problem. The already loud echo chamber will just become louder and more consolidated. Misinformation doesn't just come from bots.
Don’t mix up engineer culture with being spolied. Engineers will find ways to trade social boilerplate for efficiency whether they get paid 500k or nothing at all.
Now, far be it from me to claim that there wasn't bloat in their workforce that generally needed to go, but if money is an issue, I'm pretty sure the CEO could use a house that costs a lot less than $133 million.
Everything Is Broken: Shipping Rust-Minidump at Mozilla
It's a desktop operating system. The software itself doesn't have a very robust impact on battery life.
I don't think that's the problem described in the article / an entirely different story / doesn't make any sense to dismiss the story because someone might lose a lot of cash.
I’ve used OSX on Intel since Leopard (10.5), though I have a Jaguar (10.2), Panther (10.3) install on my old PowerBook and Tiger (10.4) on my G4 Mac Mini, and small things changed, but on the whole the OS is the same. I mean, Aqua style changed massively between 10.2 and 10.5, so there are arguments that the UI might have seemed better to some pre Intel. For me, Spotlight, Exposé and Spaces made a massive difference and that is what I miss most when I have to do something on a legacy install. Even Tiger is painful to use because of missing Spaces and Exposé.

I use Monterey at the moment on my main Mac and it’s absolutely fine.
I was a fairly junior manager at the beginning of COVID when my company decided to make a deep cut (20% of the company) in order to make sure we would survive. I didn't even know about the layoffs until after they happened which annoyed me quite a bit. The director of engineering for my team and 3-4 others was the one to do the calls to each laid off engineer. The 2 engineers that got laid off on my team were pretty recent hires. One was only around for a couple of weeks. They were both already contributing a good amount to the team though which annoyed me even more that my input wasn't taking into account because I would've pushed for different people to be let go instead.

I offered to try and give up some salary to keep one of them because he was on a visa and would have to find a new job within 90 days or something like that. Everything worked out in the end with both engineers that were let go but the "bias for action" by executives and middle management in these kinds of scenarios pisses me off quite a bit since they usually don't ask for any input from the people actually working with the employees that are getting laid off.
This has to do with ownership and inheritance, not that SWEs are poorly paid laborers. Many software engineers are in the global 1% richest.
Indeed. "Crypto" has very much gone the way of "hashtag" (which is, amongst non-technical people I know, overwhelmingly used to refer to the hash symbol).
Amazon’s troubled drone delivery project is finally taking off
FTX is interested in being a real business. I think a lot of people the past several years have failed to try to become a real sustainable business, and instead have been pawns in Benchmark's and Tiger Global's schemes to flip companies into the S&P or into a F500 acquisition. CEOs in the former build responsibly. CEOs in the latter build fast to scare the incumbents into an acquisition or co-investment to push the price high enough to get it into the S&P.
How does a junior become a senior? By trying stuff that cannot do well yet and making mistakes.
As I said I am at the limit already, I have my home lab and a small server farm for work, I also have a workshop. I already cannot put everything on, if I use the workshop, you cannot use the kitchen oven for example. I realize 11kW is enough for most usage, but in my case, even that requires changing infrastructure, which is expensive.
I once heard from an engineer that the learning corpus for digital assistants like siri contains a lot of abusive (and usually sexist) stuff, like some section of the population regularly takes it out on digital assistants…
The generated switch statements for large sparse lists should be generated to hash tables, perfect tables even.
A not so trivial task.
The map key type can be anything for which `==` is defined. This includes structs for which `==` is defined for every field. Composite keys etc are trivial.

https://go.dev/ref/spec#Map_types
I think that's a consequence of reruns. My parents use Gilligan's Island or Columbo as background noise, because they know how they all go. The writers intended for each episode to be the focus of the room's attention, but it didn't work out that way later.
The point is that the trades lile electrician or HVAC get paid well but ut is much harder physical work just had my AC replaced and the guy was sweating through rhe day to put everything together I paid well but it wasn't harder than making a SWE salary.
I don't think child mortality in car crashes has decreased below gunshot deaths. There was a recent economist headline which suggested that gunshot deaths surpassed car accident deaths for young people, but they defined "young people" as 1-24 year olds so as to exclude infant mortality deaths on the low end of the age range and include gun deaths on the high end of the age range. The latter is the most important because those gun deaths were dominated by the 18-24 age range (and within that cohort, black males were driving the gun deaths). Further, it's not so much that car accident deaths decreased below gun deaths as much as gun deaths have increased--specifically, the gun death curve for "young people" mirrors the overall US homicide curve strongly suggesting that the increasing gun deaths among young people are also caused by the same thing as overall homicides: changes in policing over the last decade.
I do not think they are gas fees, that wouldn't make sense. The description on that chart states:
> Combined OpenSea and seller fees

Opensea takes a % fee, and the seller takes a % fee. Can you prove it's also including gas fees?
What caste are you personally in?
> I will work to spoil it

You've failed to communicate the why? of this.

I can express it a different way: you have decided that you know what is best for yourself and your country regarding independence - a big and highly consequential topic - and you're going to act in opposition of that to spite a relatively small number of powerful people whose actions you disapprove of. Those powerful people will not suffer regardless of whether your country makes the "correct" (whatever that is) choice regarding independence, but you and your country certainly will. Hence my curiosity about your logic.
The fact that you don't understand means that you are looking at this through some very rosey glasses. The principle of blockchain and decentralization is fine, but we've come full circle where the easiest way to access and track the only marginally useful implementation of blockchain is through a centralized service. So far, the biggest headlines from blockchain and bitcoin have been fraud.

The biggest adoption came when people saw that money (fiat) could be made off of "investing". Bitcoin is a clown show. Blockchain, while probably useful, just doesn't seem to have any truly great applications yet.
Isn't this solved with a login redirect? Just return a signed ID and set up cookies on the other end with that. Granted, it's one more redirect per domain than before per login period, but that's hardly onerous.

Domains that want to collaborate together can still do so.
Yes. A robotic space lasso can be used to herd the asteroids in low earth orbit. Next they are ground into a powder, packaged with little parachutes, and yeeted directly to consumers.
It really puzzles me why smart people want to spend their time satisfying the borrow checker rather than inventing new and useful things.
No!

We already have LinkedIn. It's good for what it is. We DON'T NEED a dozen different professional social networks! Just NO!
> What bullshit. Implies that "truckers" as a category had their accounts frozen.

> How about: "Some people organizing a riot had their accounts frozen, some few of which might have been truckers, but probably not"

That's something like what "truckers" means in this context. The context means you don't need to spell it out in excruciating detail like you're demanding. Language works like that. I got what was meant immediately.

Also, as far as I know, those protests were nothing like a "riot." Wasn't it mainly people parking illegally and honking horns obnoxiously? I get most of my news from the New York Times, and I mainly recall stories about how peaceful and well organized they were (compared to what you'd expect in America). If they were actually rioting, I don't think they would have given so much attention to stuff like that.
It doesn't have to. At its best, PIP is a very open, transparent, communicative, supportive method - here is what we need; here's how we believe you can help us; let's work together to meet our mutual targets.

As others have said, in a good company and team, PIP is one amongst many coaching tools, rarely the first one, and can be useful in various situations - somebody not taking a hint or being oblivious, indicator of seriousness, but also to those with potential who need structure and benefit from explicit list. And yes of course, a paper trail and a documented process if things don't work out for various reasons.
His net worth was about $2.4 billion. Coinbase is currently down ~3.5% on the day. So his net worth is now about £2.3 billion†. I don't see that inconveniencing him much.

† Or maybe a bit more if he was foolish enough to hold some of it in crypto.
It doesn’t make sense to me why pay is so low in Europe. Is there actually that much less demand relative to supply?
This was what pushed me off kde back in the day and started a multiple year odyssey through all the lesser desktops before ending up on lxde for a while. When lxde started to get left behind as they tried to port to lxqt with limited resources I took kde 5 for a whirl and it was like meeting back up with an old friend and I haven't bothered with anything else since except a brief foray into qtile (I see why people like tiling desktops but I also really think they are not good for anyone with a diverse and ever changing usage/workflow sitaution vs just autobooting kde with a few windows set to autostart in fixed locations).
It's a bit more than trolling at this point.
Ask HN: Android Alternative to Inkscape?
I've tried a few of them like sketchbook or infinity designer but many of them lack features or are kinda buggy. Do you know any good alternative to inkscape in Android?
This is quite helpful as it answers the "support role or not" question. I appreciate the forthrightness. I am applying for jobs over the next few weeks, and I will consider your take when selecting opportunities.
> If there was a discrepancy between the amount of USDT and USD controlled by Tether, surely that peg would be far away from $1 USD/$1 USDT right now no?

Why would you think that? As long as Teather has >0 USD they can honor redemptions at face value. When Teather has 0 USD, their ability to redeem also drops to 0, and the peg collapses.
You do realize acquisitions occur?
Appears to be open source: https://github.com/charslab/TranscriberBot
Such VR applications were foreseen even three decades ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h58lRIVHhGc&t=2m47s
It would have been better to use “near-sightedness” instead of “short-sightedness”. The first term always means myopia. The second can mean either myopia or personality flaw.
Offtopic, but is mises.org considered a "smart" site, by libertarians? Like, I can tell that they think they're smart, or at least present themselves as if they think that, but is that considered true by lots of libertarians?
The people who are still holding, or the people who sold at its height, to people who were hoping for more? If the former then they haven't gained anything yet, if the latter, that's the greater fools.
Ouch. That is unfortunate on several levels. From legal to moral to practical.

Depending on the company, that could easily be appealed/disputed.
I used RSS a bit a few years back. Other than getting a stream of text without ads which was good, I now use reader view for that and bookmarking sites I want to revisit with raindrop. I didn't really see the need for it.. Is there a RSS linux client that has tracking features described above? I want to try it out.
I love discovering things like this. I don't keep up with golf. I couldn't name 5 professional golfers off the top of my head. And the others, like Mickelson, I'd only recognize the name once it was brought up.

And then all of a sudden I find out that the PGA is essentially fractured and a competing league is coming up and it's nine kinds of high school drama.

It makes me realize just how much we all miss just going through our lives, even if we try to keep relatively informed.
Total non sense for a new user because so called documentation is very vague and no step wise step configuration nor how to use this "wonderful" thing.
Probably that is the use-case for the official multi-account containers plugin.
I'd give it more than the tulip mania (c. 3yr), and less than the bernie madeoff ponzi scheme (c. 17yr).
yes, it's impossible to point to a single improvement in motors, because it's come from FETs, control algorithms, power sources, source code sharing, algorithm sharing, testing strategies, materials, manufacturing practices, and more. They're all working synergistically.
The best way to increase your luck is to learn sales imo. And I'm not just talking about money.

What I've learnt is that you need to learn sales to be successful or lucky in just about any life's endeavour be it business, dating, kids, academics, etc. Hell you're even selling open source software if you think about it.

You're always selling something to someone - like selling yourself if you're on a date, goods when it's your business, etc.

You can be as hardworking as you want but unless you learn how to sell and close you're not getting lucky. Most successful people I've met or seen are just great salesman tbh and it's a wonder that most people look at selling with such derision (but selling doesn't have to be unethical).
Ask HN: Custom Domains Without ICANN?
Let me first say, I do get why ICANN has been successful in their ability to manage and administer their business (and to a lesser extent, duty) of being the authority in domains and domain name resolution.

But if all of this is built off of free and open protocols, why would I pay a company for the right to administer something I can do for free? Am I off base in my understanding of how the internet works, given not having to pay thousands of dollars to have the right to a custom name server?

If anyone can give me a technical explanation why it’s impossible to host your own nameservers or have your own custom domain, I’m genuinely curious.

It just feels like with the undercurrent of some in tech to get back to a more decentralized experience on the web, more would be done to allow for people to do what they want with the technology they have access to.
Oh, but it does as long as you can pay the fine. If a fine isn't significant enough or it is cheaper than getting rid of the waste, it simply becomes a cost of doing business. It doesn't matter that "no economist" has ever argued that.
Fake-celebrity endorsed scam
(1) totally exists, that's always how I configure all my FF installs. You also can add exceptions, although I don't use this feature.
Japan passes bill to make online insults punishable by jail time
"UPDATE: This issue has been resolved in macOS Big Sur 11.2. Apple has removed this whitelist completely, allowing third-party firewalls like Little Snitch to reliably monitor and filter any network traffic." - the Little Snitch link
Soylent Space... it's from asteroids, people!
The problem is that because they can't be upgraded, they are no longer 'perfectly good'.

I recently was donated a 2010 MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM, and a paltry 128GB SSD.

What the hell is anyone supposed to do with that?! If the RAM wasn't soldered to the board I could probably at least upgrade it to 8GB and someone could at least use it for email and Facebook.

So I don't really get your point.

My original point is that these laptops are not perfectly good anymore - but if I could pop that 2010 Air with 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, it could be useful for someone. A student, maybe. Boot it with Windows and you'd probably even be able to run a more recent OS.
This is why certain people who are commonly called "control freaks" avoid luck like the plague, to their own detriment.
I think the question being raised is "what if SBNY collapses"?
Its all good for me in the UK. Also recommend Hetzner been great to me in the last 8 years. Not Affiliated.
> do you think lawyers work on Jira tickets

You want to represent a murderer, rapist or a Bernie Madoff? Lawyers deal with an order of magnitude more BS. You may feel bad when you work on a dead end feature. Imagine if your representation let a rapist walk.
In a completely free market there would be no public property, by definition.
The big thing missing from Uber, Lyft, WeWork, Peloton, Postmates, BlueApron, and all the rest, was the right price structure to make this profitable when it got big. If almost all of your costs are in up-front development (e.g. software, pharmaceuticals) then this works; go big early, and once you achieve large scale your revenue goes up much faster than your expenses. None of these businesses were like that.
The more experience I have, the more I get paid for consultation on the basis of my experience. I understand how that works.
Let's prioritise what makes for actually efficient transport, and which most people will use, and not prioritise inefficient transports that only a few enthusiasts are using.
I think probably any post-hoc explanations will be wrong. Explainability needs to be built into the model from the outset.
Everything Is Broken: Shipping Rust-Minidump at Mozilla – Part 1
There a are real questions about if the non-compete clause that the PGA (a non-profit) is trying to enforce on it's independent contractors is legal.

If those legal challenges go through, then yes, we absolutely could end up in a world where PGA has to say yes to allowing competition in other tours.
Simple advice: become a regular in higher quality programming-related communities (could be discords, IRCs etc), befriend a FAANG worker and ask for a referral.

Entering the hiring funnel shouldn't be hard; it's the "exam" part which is very demanding.
Diversification has nothing to do with this case. Who knows how "diversified" the fake portfolio was on the fake web page? If your stock broker steals all your money, your problem was giving money to that dude in the first place, nothing to do with how diversified the stock picks were.
Would it be possible to detect stalls and other situations that could override the copilot requirement?

I’m wondering what happens when the M/S death rate is 100x the stall death rate; would engineering controls would be added?
No, capitalism is based on exploitation, and it's true that current society is neck-deep in neoliberalism but that hasn't always been true. Other organizations existed, that were completely horizontal, without hierarchies and exploitation. Those are not in human nature, as was documented by these guys: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-eve...

> If you really believe in unions, then fight for a union in your own workplace.

I believe work is the creator of riches, and such riches are to be redistributed by those who made it, by remembering that we all depend on each other so there can't be personal property if it harms someone else or the environment. Unions are a step in this direction and I do fight for them but it's only the first step.
Xerox PARC had it first, iirc
Not op, but I interpreted it as the fact that world is not fair. People dont go up purely on merit, skills, talent, you name it. As in, the nepotism described and defended in these threads is not the only kind of merit breaking factors.
Are you saying that Google is using their control of the user agent to specifically tie a Google auth cookie to an individual third-party-context web request even when third party cookies are blocked? If so, that would be a major scandal. What evidence do you have that this is the case?
Half the country has known this for ~CENTURIES~
That's true, but the main reason is the lack of cadillac converters on their vehicles. Which generally only cost $1,000-3,000 per vehicle. Which is much less than a full electric car. So if they can't afford cadillac converters, how are they going to afford 40k+ electric cars?
The average SWE in America is making $93,000. Average teacher is about $65,000, Average construction worker $38,000, average bartender $65,000, average hotel worker $45,000.