skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should mom and pop get rich on the backs of local poor people?

Jeff Bezos (and Sam Walton) did more to materially improve the lives of poor people than any politician or “advocate”.
well, yeah, but my point is there are situations where you can't refi
That's presuming that Russian people don't support they goverment, which is far from proved afaik.
Finasteride seems like a miracle drug (cheap and effective) but unfortunately is not without risk for some users:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22789024/
> Never once in my history of ordering on Amazon have I received a fake, spam, or bait-and-switch product

My wife and I both have. It's likely that there's a buying pattern you have that's been very lucky. If you want to assume that millions of people are lying, there's nothing more to talk about. I would suggest trying to buy parts for anything on amazon to see the inaccuracies + bait & switch behaviors.
In addition to GiveWell (which I definitely support), you can support politicians who want to make people like Musk pay their fair share.
> I don’t think the aspiration of humanity (or a participant) should be to have a retail business.

Shopkeepers have been around for a long time, genociding them may not be wise.

Strictly as an ecological approach, no value judgement. Sparrow killing backfired on paradise builders.
regular photogrammetry usually means searching for common features in a bunch of photos.
if you find the same feature in 3 photos you can triangulate its location in 3d space.

the output of this process is a point cloud which you can then process into a triangle mesh.
(google structure from motion).

this OTH is differentiable voxel rendering. so basically optimizing the colors of a bunch of cubes to make it look the pictures.
using backpropagation just like you would do it for neural networks.
Newsy: Turn Your Unused Domain Name into a Complete Web Application
> "these responses are better than I'd expect from most people I talk to over chat".

And the conversations in sitcoms are so much more witty and refined then real life everyday conversation. This doesn’t prove what you seem to be implying.
If winning the lottery is so great, why don't you just become a lotto winner?
“These stablecoins” lumps together some very different implementations of “thing that is always worth $1”.

USDC: fully collateralized by cash or cash equivalents held in US banks - basically a money market fund

Terra: partially collateralized by crypto assets + algorithmic magic

Tether: like USDC but not held in US banks, and the actual collateral may be partial or of lower quality

Dai: overcollaterelized by crypto assets + algorithmic magic

These are really distinct things and your risk model for each of them should be different.
Correct. AWS is god-tier and many non-technical users have any clue how Amazon actually works. They don't make money off your stupid ass delivers Nancy. Amazon has a monopoly with AWS and that is what people should really fear. Not Amazon, but the power of AWS
Shannon Entropy from Theory to Python
What are you doing in your mini-retirement?
Same reason banks sell mortgages instead of buying homes and renting them. It’s not their business model to operate thousands of stores. Having many different people operate many different stores to their standard is.
So if I make a pill that cures cancer, _it_ is worth 100bn, but I am only worth 50m?

how does that make any sense?
Custom data placement API (in SQL) in TiDB
> Hitler took power 10 years after the hyperinflation.

Hitler started planning a coup in late 1922, during the hyperinflation. It was attempted in late 1923, around the time the hyperinflation was stopped. It failed, and he ended up in prison. In 1924, during his time in prison, he wrote Mein Kampf, which lays out the plan he followed (or tried to) thereafter.

Before 1922, NSDAP (aka Nazi party) was very tiny. During the hyperinflation, it grew to 20000, mostly in Munich. Still small on a national basis, but enough to give it a solid basis as an organization.

Between 1925 and 1929, it grew slowly, but exploded after 1929, as the Great Depression hit Germany hard.

As for the role of hyperinflation in this, it is relatively well documented. Here is one quote from wikipedia:

"The Nazis' strongest appeal was to the lower middle-classes—farmers, public servants, teachers and small businessmen—who had suffered most from the inflation of the 1920s, so who feared Bolshevism more than anything else."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

> Antisemitism was rampant everywhere in the West

At least very widespread. Still, the situation of jews in the West, including in Germany was much better at the time than it was for Blacks in the USA.

In Germany, there were many highly respected German leaders and intellectuals, such as Einstein, Freud and (less known today) Rudolf Hilferding. Hilferding is, quoting wikipedia again "almost universally recognized as the SPD's foremost theoretician of this (20th) century."

> the Germans only took it to its inevitable consequences and only after 1933.

I don't agree that it was inevitable. The Nazis were a marginal force up until 1929. By 1929, most Germans may have gotten over the terrors of 1922-23, but in 1929 the wounds were torn open, and the messages of the "little man with the funny mustache" didn't seem so crazy, after all.

It didn't help that Hilferding was Minister of Finance at the time the Depression started.

"Of course, this doesn’t change the fact that nazis were criminals, but the Shoah has much deeper roots that the hyperinflation or some temporary unemployment."

I'm not claiming that the hyperinflation was the root. I'm claiming it was one of the main sources of energy, and a great inspiration for Hitler himself, direcly before writing Mein Kampf. (Even though he was already an antisemite before 1922, I'm sure the things he saw during those two years reinforced his convitions. Hitler was known to tailor his speechest according to what ressonated with the audience.).

> You can find similar stories about all cities that had a large Jewish community.

Yes, I know. Being a minority comes with a lot of risks and problems. I fully understand why some jews prefer to have at least one state where they can be the majority. (Though it might have been better for world peace had they been given Köningsberg/East Preussia in 1945 instead of being supported in becoming the majority in Israel/Palestine).
Crypto Firms Quake as Prices Fall
A one-time certificate server slowdown two years ago and two deeply unpopular features that they scrapped?
Bezos didn’t destroy mom and pop shops. Consumers did when they chose Amazon over those stores.
Exactly this. One of the best things governments could do to help lower greenhouse gasses is incentivize people to get their goods delivered instead of going to the store. So much fuel is wasted moving a ~2 ton vehicle and a >100 lbs person to the store so they can pick up, often, <100 lbs of goods. That's <5% fuel efficiency.
Crypto Lender Celsius Hires Restructuring Lawyers After Account Freeze
He's been wearing different hair pieces for years.

For some reason actors get a pass.

Keven Smith was tired of Bruce Willis talking about his weight. So, in a friendly guy's banter, he started calling him Cue Ball on a set.

Everyone said Bruce can make fun of us, but never mention his hair.

Whomever did Elon Musk's hair line did a good job.
Aaron Swartz and open access sentiment over the past decade.
I was recently looking into CoffeeCatch for Android. Are you saying that I'm losing my time? :-)
> named it Amazon because

... it was "a river of one million books".

That was the slogan when it came out to steamroll books.com (the first mover), an outfit from Ohio that sold books on the Internet and shipped without plastic packaging in 1991.
Senator Says Amazon Ring Audio Surveillance Capabilities “Threaten the Public”
> What can you do about it? Nerf your CPU performance by disabling "turbo boost" or equivalent. Should you do it? Probably not unless you're particularly vulnerable (journalist, human rights activist, etc.)

Would not another option be to do something that temporarily maxes out the CPU and forces it into boost mode, immediately prior to executing the crypto operation? But not for such a long duration that the CPU reaches any thermal limits and decreases its speed again.

Obviously energy inefficient and not good for laptops or portable devices.
> And it sounds like you're doing something niche that shouldn't be prioritized

Using the site for its main and sole purpose? No

It sounds like you're looking to apologize so that you can win

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> If they're not fixing it, that is a message to you that your use case doesn't matter to their business

No, it's not. It's a reflection that their customer service isn't actually communicating with the engineers.

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> You are precisely the kind of squeeky wheel that wastes everyone's time.

Please take your public guess driven judgements somewhere else, thanks. I just received a thankful email from their engineering department as a result of the HN comment making one of their engineers aware.

It's not clear why you felt the need to insult a stranger for saying "here's a situation in which ranking tickets can matter, even when there are already too many."

Thanks for your time. Have a good day.
The Latecomer’s Guide to Crypto Crashing: a map of where we are and what’s ahead
Also reported on https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Senior-Republican-Senator-...

“If you believe in a democratic secure Israel [and] you absorb the Palestinians, they will eventually demographically outvote the Jewish state. So that does not work."
Shout out to the TIC-80 as a FOSS alternative to PICO-8
Notice I said "your net worth increasing becomes a substitute for income" and not "your net worth becomes a substitute for income". These billionaires can get periodic influxes of cash through taking loans on their increased net worth. So I agree Elon's $220b net worth isn't directly comparable to my income, but the $121b increase in his net worth is pretty comparable to my income.

The numbers I made up in that example are obviously made up. I included them to illustrate my point and not as a prediction that all billionaires see their net worth increase 50% every year. That said, Elon's net worth went up over 100% last year.
FYI there is a somewhat active BBS reddit - https://old.reddit.com/r/bbs/
howabout no silly wealth taxes? I don't get it.

why do we need to keep growing gov't and adding more and more rules/programs/etc.? Certainly we don't need to keep spending more and more, cut it off and some point and stop growing it for some period..
Reimagining Apple's Bauhaus OS (2021)
The jobs you mention are even more repetitive. Just like most jobs. I think this is a the grass is greener mind of thing
My father worked for 35 years as a carpenter on mega yachts for insanely rich people. Yes it put food on our table in a rural area otherwise devoid of job opportunities.

Rich people spending their money isn’t really the problem. It helped put me through college.
I don't care!

There, I said it.

I didn't care about Spectre, Meltdown, or any of the other obscure timing side-channels that came after them either, because they relied on so much detailed information about the environment being attacked that you'd almost certainly be able to get the information you wanted by some much easier way.

Attacking something that doesn't seem to be in much use either doesn't make me any more worried either. Go after e.g. TLS, SSH, AES, RSA, etc. if you want to get our attention, but I suspect that trying this in practice, you're going to be overwhelmed by all the other sources of noise --- especially over a network connection -- that you won't be very successful at all. They mention 36h and 89h to get the key (few dozen bytes), and I assume that was in a basically ideal environment with nothing else to measure.

Those of us familiar with hardware would know that things like this are pretty natural; but unlike these people, we don't go feeding the paranoia machine and driving us even more towards the growing dystopia.
Coinbase operates under the protectionist policy of the US and still only has 1/10th of the volume that Binance has (with the same amount of employees). I never got what the fuss is about Coinbase compared to all exchanges, except for the "silicon valley bro" angle
How does the annexation of Crimea play into that agreement?
True but what is the pop total of executed on death row vs foetuses terminated in the third trimester?
> Would an acceptable compromise be to allow insults but to punish people responsible for suicides?

I worry that could increase the rate of suicides. Consider the following train of thought: "If I kill myself, the government might go after those who have been bullying me". Especially if the laws have teeth, the government would be giving those with suicidal tendencies an additional reason to follow through.
What's never mentioned is that the Google Engineer calls himself a priest and Christian mystic. I'm not sure what that all means but I do know that religious people don't need hard evidence to believe what they believe. That's fine. People can believe whatever they want as long as they don't hurt themselves or others. But his believes have primed him to jump to conclusions without having all the evidence needed. That's ok for him but for society as a whole we need a better way to decide these matters. One man's conclusion should not be the way to resolve whether LaMDA is sentient or not.

I hope google takes steps to make sure that there is always a way to determine if their software is more than language processing at scale.
> like thousands or tens of thousands of the motor/generator devices. I can't imagine the cost.

? The number of motor/generator pairs is proportional to the charge/discharge rate of the system. I'm not saying that because I'm an insider or have any special knowledge, I'm saying that because nothing else makes sense. So the question is whether it's cheaper to maintain a bunch of cranes and miles of steel cable and pulleys or a water generator and pipes. And then things like how each responds to earthquakes and thunderstorms (water probably wins in the latter, but the former is a little more complicated).
> Your employer is just a customer.

Agree with most of it except this bit. In order to be succesful, respect customers, understand their needs, deliver and create value. Lead by example, take initiatives, lift others in your team and hold yourself to the highest standards. Work hard, persevere and be the change you want to see. It's ok to not pledge allegience to your employer or sign off your life like the Japanese corporate culture, but being unreasonably resentful of your employer will make things worse for everyone in the company.
Doesn’t say that anywhere
An engraved granite tombstone with the haiku repeated in multiple languages. Convince a lot of people to add this to their grave when they die. A cemetery is likely to remain stable as hallowed, undisturbed ground for many thousands of years. Even if future civilizations (the time frame we're talking about) forget and don't realize they're building on a burial ground, once they discover it it will be recognized as important to preserve. Burial and death rituals will likely remain preserved for 10k years. For fun, add a base64 encoded data uri representation of the haiku on the monument.
Because I don't believe that most people are really aiming to be multi-billionaires, I think most of the effort comes from people trying to reach financial independence at various levels of cost of living.
Minoxidil is highly, HIGHLY toxic to cats. Pregnant women shouldn't handle finasteride because the hormonal effects could cause them to lose the baby. I decided I'd rather go bald than put any cats or women in my home, or my unborn child, at risk. That was before I learned about the long-term detrimental sexual side effects of finasteride.
As the other guy mentioned this has nothing to do with GoG. A good data language or library should provide the user (and plotting libraries) copyless, cheap and immutable slices of the data being handled. Javascript just doesn't really have one. It shouldn't be the concern of the plotting library however.
Be strong brothers. Turn to baldness.

"I'm proud of myself, for the way I accepted my baldness." - Larry David, the president of bald people.

https://youtu.be/Le4tih0tfbs?t=194
Three interviews is now an "only"? Man this industry is fucked.
I love when you see such a huge study yield significant results.
Not that dire!?! There's a reason that FIFA games gives MLS such a low star rating in the game. Ever sit down on a Saturday morning to watch EPL/Serie A/League 1/Bundesliga/etc and then watch MLS on Saturday evenings? It's like watching professionals all day followed by little league. The level of play is so so much different. It's like driving on a long road trip at highway speeds to finally make it home and forced to slow down to drive a city speeds. Your body just feels like things are in slomo. That's how I feel about MLS.
> how many startups do receive way, way more than that and fail?

This is not the right way to look at it. In a competitive market obviously only a few, or one will survive.

The point is, how many "rags to riches" startup can you think of? The ones with founders who did not have a safety net. The 600k (or 300k in 94) is immaterial, he could have also done it with zero capital. What matters is he was able to take risks because of his family's safety net. He would never be homeless if he failed.

The risks he could take were very different than one who refinanced their home to fund their startup.
Out of interest what is the use case of developing in Arm Windows on Paralells on MacOS on a MacBook?

Are you writing Arm Windows applications?
Compensation does not reduce the type of suffering software developers typically endure (or complain about).

Office politics, skills evaporating, high work pressure, ageism, boredom, physical inactivity, an indoor life, over-consumption of information...all of these factors have their effect on one's mental state as well as body.

Pay does not fix that.
An elderly friend of my wife's is in a nursing home. My wife talks to her on the phone every day, sometimes twice a day. The friend talks about how she is so lonely all the time, and why can't my wife come and visit more often?

Well, the 200-mile round trip is definitely a factor...
If the sample code in question is the bare minimum amount of code required to call a function or use a language feature, then it probably doesn't meet the threshold of originality.
Also advised: "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."
Most of the email I receive would fail the Turing test.
> which can be rendered on the server and client isomorphically. The same component code runs on both sides.

You mean portably. If the same code runs in multiple environments, it's running portably.
Can I get your bank account username and password?
What car should I buy?
I guess I am over-pedantic, so yes, I partially stand corrected. Loosely they "turned red". Once the bees delivered their load from their honey stomach, were they still red?
AWS wasn't Bezos, it was a whole squad of Amazon execs and employees and an idea that formed over a long time period through many people, if anything it proves the opposite point that he deserves outsize rewards. The rest of the success makes a ton of sense in context (Kindle and distribution from becoming the network-effect winning e-commerce store/bookstore).
And they're surely not the only ones. Michael Saylor at MicroStrategy insists he won't have any forced sales all the way down to $3,500 but it seems hard to believe.
While student loans still have deferred interest, just put the money you would be putting towards your loans into a high-yield savings account.

If the loans get cancelled, you'll have a bunch of money in a savings account that you can invest with, if you'd like. If loans don't get cancelled, you'll have a bunch of money in a savings account that you can use toward your loans.
The antitrust probe is not strictly regarding the privacy changes themselves, but that Apple did not subject themselves to the same new policy and opt-in UI. They've preferenced their own services and built a multi-billion dollar ad network using data that's dark pattern opted-in for themselves and dark pattern opted-out for third-parties.

In isolation, this may seem like a standard competitive advantage for a platform, but Apple has drawn attention to their own power by wiping out nearly a trillion dollars of public market cap from other tech and ecommerce companies with the change.

Not coincidentally, Apple quietly announced that they are relaxing some of their privacy restrictions during WWDC last week.
Even if that's so, saying it's plausible they lied would be putting it kindly
The example of same/next day delivery doesn't suggest anything special about Amazon though. It's really just an argument of economies of scale.

A small business usually only addresses a very specialized part of the market so they don't really ship that much stuff and thus can't hire that many people to deal with shipping without a huge overhead. However, if you stack thousands of businesses onto a marketplace, and then handle logistics for all of them, now there's much less overhead: the same shipment can combine many different specialized things.

Also fwiw Amazon is by far not a pioneer of fast delivery. Same day delivery has been around in densely poplated places (like in China) years before Amazon even started trialing the service.
The page compares it with the $120bn growth in his net worth last year, which absolutely is a capital gain over a fixed period comparable with how much salary and capital gains you made last year.

Admittedly that's an atypical return from the most hyped stocks in a bull market. But using a made up figure for Musk's earnings based on normies' annuities is just as unrepresentative of the typical annual return of being Elon Musk
Why 999M? And is that yearly annual income or does it include all assets? In any case, surely nobody _needs_ one billion dollars. Why not 100% taxation on anything over 1M? Actually even that is outlandish, people can go their whole lives without ever earning that much. Just cap it at 100k.
Zappos and others have done it (Zappos did it better, even), but most were sucked up or forced out by Amazon as it had all the momentum. That's exactly being in the right place at the right time.
> Are you affected? Very likely.

How long is it likely to take to apply this to cryptographic protocols that people actually use? The protocol they attacked is rather obscure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersingular_isogeny_key_exch...
Just like Spectre/Meltdown, it assumes you have an idea where to extract the secrets from, and more importantly what they secure. A string of random bytes is worth nothing to someone who doesn't know what they're the key to.

...and someone who is running JS is probably also running tons of other JS, adding even more noise to what already exists.
> It's not like he was a rags to riches story, they never are.

21 billionaires who grew up poor https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-who-came-from-n...

Sam Walton: Born as a Poor Farmer, Died as The Billionaire CEO and Founder of Wal-Mart https://corporatebytes.in/sam-walton-born-poor-farmer-died-b...
> There are many things in this world which you can't observe with your senses but which nevertheless exist.

Such as?

> So "want" in this context would be about conflicting goals.

Do tell, how can I observe a goal with my senses?