skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole space levered up. When Terra Luna and UST blew, it exposed holes in other companines’ balance sheets. These holes are slowly getting exposed and then a new company blows up, triggering ongoing liquidations

Leverage sent it up on the way up, now leverage knocks it down as it unwinds

If it gets so bad that Tether crumbles then expect an astonishing collapse. Tether’s money printing caused both recent crypto bubbles. They’re the crypto money printer
Yeah, but this lawyer is almost certainly right. Firing people for taking concerted action is illegal in the US.

Why chime in at all if you don't understand the subject?
It gets weirder, I just got a 442181 run out of a constant -0.50% interest rate.

It seems that the whole system tops off at a zero-effort 500K or something, and the best approach is to do nothing to mess it up, just keep things cheap and stay away.
As a web dev reading this, this must be how my mom thinks about my work. It seems a bit like wizardry.
One of the followups says:

« unfortunately aiui the rust foundation cannot due to its nature as a 501(c)(6); you can't exclude people from a trade organization. »

If that's true, maybe making a 501(c)(6) wasn't a bright idea.
> What we really need is for these big companies to be split up. I'm not sure if the EU has jurisdiction to do that.

There have been non-binding votes to split it up. And they can tell them to split up or be banned from operating within the EU.
> They will fire you in an instant to save cost, never increase your salary and come up with elaborate schemes to basically screw you.

https://www.engadget.com/amazon-more-than-doubles-base-pay-f...
Honnold has mentioned that any fall he's made has always been his fault in retrospect. Throughout the linked video he underlines consistently mitigating risk & never getting yourself in a spot you aren't comfortable with

Some parallels if you look at hardcore mode in Diablo genre of games. Builds heavily emphasize safety & being able to slow down situations enough to react to unknown risks. Like how Honnold talks about how free soloing isn't gym climbing so you should always be taking it slow & keeping three points of contact, not leaping for holds
I'd like to remind everyone that Alarm Clocks Kill Dreams!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHxPgUlsbv0
There must be some sort of limits to what's protected though, right? SpaceX said they were fired for sending company-wide emails badgering people to sign stuff, and I'd have to imagine there's some line when it comes to using company time/resources to organize. If you grab a megaphone and start disrupting a whole factory floor by using it to try to get people to organize for better rights while you're supposed to be working, that seems like it ought to be a fireable offense, where organizing at someone's house outside of working hours clearly should not.
Most people mean "metaphor" when they say "analogy".
Can’t read the article, what makes 20 000 a key threshold?
I conclude from these examples that every time somebody criticizes me, they are wrong.
A neat fairy-tale but, with all due respect, scientist don't know anything that happened a billion+ years ago.

This is a little more than a tabloid article.
I can pay my real estate tax with cash. I can go to the store and buy food with cash.

What can I do with crypto? Maybe exchange it for cash if I’m lucky and willing to pay a high fee?
I half remember a JS library posted a few years ago called ‘STD’. I think the owner swiftly changed the name after a few giggles.
You forgot 5) mic drop
When you are kicked out of an establishment, more often than not they will first ask you to leave and give you an explanation. It’s in their best interest to handle the situation as calmly as possible so you don’t cause a scene and make them lose business. You have leeway to contest the decision. Even if you’re banned, it doesn’t affect your life much.

Getting kicked out of your Google account can mean losing access to all your other online accounts. That’s disruptive to your life and you might waste weeks or months dealing with a situation where you have no recourse because you can’t reason with a human.

It’s routine that people get their Google accounts banned without understanding why, and thus can’t fix it. When you’re kicked out of a physical location, you’ll know why.
Bacterial division would get some mitos on either side of the dividing cell. Mitos then proliferate on its own.
https://archive.ph/e9wQj
Or, at least, the faces that aren't actively speaking could be replaced by avatars. It will also help keep a clean image in case stuff is going on the the background, etc.
Inside the habit tracker, I expect that you could also grow tired of the interaction played repeatably.

Would it make a difference if the interaction was procedurally generated, offering an unexpected reward at your fingertips each day?

Google Doodles <MEETS> Checkboxes
Presumably like we do - (I'm heavily simplifying the complex regulation involved) the mitochondria have their own DNA which gets duplicated when the cell prepares to undergo mitosis, then the two new cells split the results.
Unless that time isn't really as recharging as you think. I found out it wasn't for me.

I discovered that going for a run, doing a physical project, and socializing took more effort to start, but was vastly more relaxing and recharging.
What's next? "Linter" for thought? When you control writting you control thought right?
I'm looking forward to an always-on pirate livestream of Crow T. Robot, George Carlin, and Strong Bad reacting to current events in real time.
Sort of a trance. A waking dream.

Consider the general behavior of people on social media in that light.
i like cyberchef for this kind of thing better
https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
Buh, yea. Vacation brain...
Postmark: The email delivery service that people like
so basically you're rich beyond your wildest dreams now?
Yes, we have actually considered AccessKit in our discussions :)
Emotion. BTC and others have the gold rush effect on people, so there is enough emotional energy in crypto to match the funds and electrical energy being poured into it. The ride up was an elation and the ride down will be something aswell.
Not sure if they can, but if they did you would be "clarifying" something that doesn't exist anymore. It's better in that case to edit the comment and add a clarification underneath, just like OP did. The problem is that people who downvote do it in a "fire and forget" manner.
It’s not wrong, at least I don’t think this article is arguing that multi cellular life evolved any earlier than we thought. Just that the mechanisms were different than we expected.
same as 420 for TSLA stock
By that logic, gold and silver are also useless.

Edit: I was not saying gold and silver have no use, I was saying the argument that usefulness is dictated by whether you can use something to pay a mortgage is spurious.

Also, to all the people who say "what about X use of gold, crypto can't do that". Obviously that's true. However the vast majority of value in gold has little to do with its applications, it has to do with its scarcity. 9% of gold demand is driven by technology. [https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-demand]
But this is about NFTs, it has nothing to do with a monetary system. You're buying a (link to a) JPEG.

If you buy a painting in real life, how exactly do you roll it back if someone steals it from you?
Posteo is an independent, ad-free and privacy-focused email provider
Perhaps you misread mine. What common structure exists to define what commands, sub commands, and tests exist in a project? If I were to write a CLI app, can any of the jetbrains or other IDEs automatically detect what the sub commands are within my CLI? What structure would it read this from?

Golang certainly has no such file, so you’d have to read from the main package and understand every CLI framework out there to parse out the sub commands to build your launch configuration. Sounds real easy right?

Now if we’re talking about nodejs, where the package.json can hold your run configurations within the script section, then ok. But we’re talking about golang.
If they find cells lacking some organelle, it will be hard to say whether it was never acquired, or was later abandoned.

One clue would be leftover genes from when it was there. Eukaryotes often find it hard to prune out excess DNA, vs. just turning it off.
> less likely to spark misunderstandings that can lead to legal difficulties

If you tend to look at things like that, better be careful with those baby goats.
I actually think this should be possible to train an AI to do. It could alter timing and monitor for laughs, it will learn when and how to pause, and use intonation to maximize for laughter.
It depends on your definition. It installs and runs as native with the speed expected because it is compiled for the platform.
It does not use the OS UI components for forms/buttons, but many built-in apps don’t even do that now so the definition is kindof changing I feel.
What cost does an email have company wide?

Most people receive a bunch of emails every day and it's never considered as cost.
I find sites like this very hard to accept at face value. For example, on iOS, they say to avoid Authy for MFA but recommend a project called Tofu. This may be a sensible recommendation but they give zero supporting information as to why.

I have nothing against Tofu (maybe the texture) but if you are going to convince someone that an opensource project made by mostly one person with very little financial backing, over a corporate MFA provider, data or rationale is required!
The 'hidden gotos', especially like an early return, for me have stricter guarantees and limitations than a goto used in the same way. Goto and labels can do too much for me to like them, i prefer more specific things with clearer boundaries and intent.
Believe it or not, it's not for the sake of engagement. I also use the internet and find articles with 2 parts to be disappointing but I felt like there was enough value in part 1 alone.

800+ words on an email client on a phone is just too much and there are better options to read long-form. I could make it smaller, but I would risk leaving out an important part I wanted to debate.
The company they're promoting, ParaState, is advertising 187% annual returns: https://web.archive.org/web/20220615182442/https://twitter.c...
Replacing compact, lightweight, low-maintenance kerosene tanks with larger cryogenic containers and fighting hydrogen's propensity to penetrate metals and rubbers and make them brittle is not an easy sell. It may make sense in some cases (like large cargo planes), but in a lot of others, like small, high-g semi-autonomous combat aircraft of the future, it may not be practical.

Or maybe metallic hydrogen at standard conditions will be attained soon enough.
We're all just speculating given that were stuck at sample size = 1 until we develop near light speed travel.

I get the convergent evolution point, but so far the story is that 1) life arose very quickly 2) then proceeded to do very little for billions of years. If that's true, then it's bad news for the possibility of complex life being common.
Musk has more followers than most media outlets have consumers. The media is hardly responsible for people hearing what he says.
Essentially: The mere symbolism of it. People ascribe a bit more meaning to such 'round' numbers, and since you are in a market with other people that do the same, it actually starts to make sense to see them as important markers at some point. (That's been my personal explanation for it, anyway.)
The Morning After: Half of Japan's businesses are still using Internet Explorer
None of that is new or changed in 2020, so clearly there are at least some other factors going on.
They were orders of magnitude from having 3 trillion market cap.
Not if he doesn't sell
The first time I came across a pyramid scheme was in my late teens - where the game was literally: "you give money to me and they'll give money to you".

A lot of friends of mine were "playing" it. Regular people.

I didn't play not because I was smarter then them, but because I didn't care and I didn't have much money to play around with, but in the end it's all about mixing:

- how you're introduced to the game by people you trust (like friends);

- the prospect of wins;

- naivety;

I'm sure the large majority of the people that bought NFTs didn't even thought about the technical part of the game. And you just need to attend some communities on discord and reddit to understand the level a lot of people were playing.

Some people actually believed that complex games were going to be created, that would bring NFTs ingame - similar to Ready Player One movie - and everything would interact with that world. Everyone was having fun, and some even made money, how can kids understand it was all a scam?

So the question might even be, how didn't more people get scammed? Like, what stopped people from hopping in this frenzy?

Maybe the reality was that they were just busy with other stuff.

Social engineering alone was enough to perform criminal activities with little to no repercussions.
Being responsible for your own insurance while gigging makes this seem less feasible given the cost.
It's roughly what the 2017 all time high was. The meme was that it wouldn't matter at what price you bought your BTC because if you just wait long enough you would eventually be green again. But, with dipping below 20K now, folks that bought at the peak in 2017 would be in the red again.
If we assume single celled life is common, and exists in either all star systems, or in all systems without a hot Jupiter close to the star; then given the length of time involved here before eukaryotes, can we estimate how many planets in the galaxy have eukaryotes?
Or how long it will be before some do?
Presumably increasing the length of time increases the probability of occurrence as would increasing the number of stars involved. Though how can we know if the event was statistically likely after that amount of time or whether we are deviations from the centre of the distribution (other than observing the quiet galaxy).
Surely we can have a rough idea now of where we stand
Just unregulated fraud fantasy and hype. It’s been embarrassing to watch this “industry” for the last decade.
don't worry, Richard Feynman read Trigonometric functions when he is 7 years old. that's guy better than Feynman!
All these money creating schemes highlight the need for a kind of money which nobody can create. I wonder if anybody has come up with a solution to this yet?
"abysmal".. ? Either you're an expert on the field and know better (please send some link !) or i'm not even sure what you're comparing that too. This is the best thing i've heard from speech synthesis since i can't remember.
It also means that there is no way to guarantee that you have covered all possible values for the enum, whereas if an enum value was removed in your older example, you would get a compile error.
Bitcoin’s Price Falls Below $20k
Construction is life
https://archive.ph/QAhmT
> If you grab a megaphone and start disrupting a whole factory floor by using it to try to get people to organize for better rights while you're supposed to be working, that seems like it ought to be a fireable offense, where organizing at someone's house outside of working hours clearly should not.

Can you organize on company time? It depends - can you discuss literally anything other than work while at work? Then yes. If not, then you'd have to organize off the clock but not necessarily off-site. There are exceptions for reasonability sake (a nurse can't interrupt an organ transplant to organize, for instance) but sending company-wide emails strikes me as sufficiently non-disruptive as to be protected.
asking what a binary tree is is one thing. asking to create the data structures and maybe find/insert operations is ok. but asking a really confusing question involving a binary tree designed to having a pissing contest about who is the smarter one is not.
How this wasn’t obvious?
Thanks for sharing this, absolutely lovely content here.
There is nothing religious with thinking about whether failure modes of advanced artificial intelligence can permanently destroy large parts of the reality that humans care about. Just like there was nothing religious in thinking about whether the first atomic bombs could start a chain reaction that would destroy all life on Earth.

Part of such precautionary planning involves asking whether such an accident could happen easily or not. There certainly isn't consensus at the moment, but the philosophy very clearly favors a cautious approach.

Most people are used to thinking about established science that follows expected rules, or incremental advances that have no serious practical consequences. But this isn't that. There is good reason to think that we're approaching a step-change in capabilities to shape the world, and even a strong suspicion of this warrants taking serious defensive measures. Crucially for this particular instance of the discussion, OP is favoring that.

There will necessarily be a broad spectrum of opinions regarding how to handle this, both in the central judgement and how palatably the opinion itself is presented. Using a dismissive moniker like 'religious' for a whole segment of it doesn't give justice to the arguments.

Present a counterargument if you feel strongly about it, and see whether that will stand on its own merit.
In march 2020 it dipped as low as 4k[0] and nobody batted an eye. I thought if it stayed there for long enough it'd finally burst, but then the prices soared up to 70k.

I'm surprised everyone's acting like it hadn't been down below 20k since 2017. Sure, it wasn't for long, but it did happen in 2020.

[0] Before posting I looked it up and what I'm finding is a lowest in 2020 of $4,861.32 for March 12th. I vaguely remember lower numbers, but this is aggregated data, so it might've been lower during the day but that was the closing price or the mean or something. I'm still sticking with the 4k number for quick reference, though you can take it as 5k if you want -- it's still a lot lower than the 20k that's making the news currently.
You can make fake teeth and cutlery out of gold and silver
From what I remember from reading my bank contract: they claim that any password sharing and blatantly insecure behavior waive bank responsibility.

It may not be enforceable, but in my case any use of Plaid or Plaid-like tool would allow bank to claim that they are no longer responsible for any fraud.

(for reference - I am from Poland, never encountered any nonscam asking me for my bank account, though banks have different variety of problems)
Most Gemini clients do decent wrapping, but it's pretty much up to them how that's done.
Ah yes, plain text. So, not responsive at all, needing constant side swiping on mobile and unnecessary eye strain on desktop due to no word wrapping on larger screens.

At the very least use these 100 bytes of CSS so it’s readable.

https://www.swyx.io/css-100-bytes
You can make really good conductive devices out of gold, and silver is used for high end solder and other things. Both metals have immense industrial value.

Crypto is not precious metals, crypto is art bought at a hot auction. Have you framed your hash codes and put them on the wall yet, or do you just keep them in the basement?
It is cool to make those simulations. The mechanics explained deviate significantly from any central bank I know.

In particular, the negative interest rate of SimCB does something very different from, almost the opposite of, what the ECB does (along with many other central banks). What they have is a negative interest rate on the deposit facility rate, which means that overnight deposits on a class of central bank accounts will incur a loss for the commercial bank of, say 0.5% yearly, which incentivizes instead investing those funds.

cf. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/educational/explainers/tell-me...

In SimCB, a negative interest rate makes everyone incentivized to take on a loan, as they will get free money at the expense of everyone else as long as they reimburse the principal, which is even easier when they don’t invest the money in orchards.
My electric devices that are full of gold disagree ;)
Just make sure you don’t have a moustache and you’ll be fine
> there are quite a few reasons why this sort of work would never get done

Doing those chimney climbs safely, with fall protection, is pretty easy these days. It's so easy that I've seen videos of urban explorers, base jumpers, etc. using perfectly good fall protection, even while doing illegal things!

Remember we're looking at a video from 1978: modern fall protection gear simply wasn't widely available back then.
I have solved this with my crypto, Zilch. Zilch is pegged to zero, and no Zilch will ever be mined. The filly diluted market cap is zero.
Too wide to read on a phone!
learn to sell and negotiate
Enlighten me: If I’m registering with my favourite store’s frequent costumer program and emails are “idiotic”, do I need to take the time to pick a username for a system with absolutely no social features, or do I just memorize the 12 digit long user ID (as opposed to my email, which I need to know regardless)?
My layperson understanding makes this baffling to me. Isn't motion inherently analog, and haven't we've developed high performing analog compression already? Motion seems significantly more amenable to lossy compression as well, and I could imagine a use-case for ML-based decompression to fill in between the keyframes.
Amazing work, terrible orientation on the recording.
Hmm, that would be cool. It almost sounds like converting from html to markdown and back to raw html would do the trick.
"Mainly, why would it want to [end humanity]?"

The anthropomorphism is misleading. No one expects that an AGI would "want to" in the commonplace sense of being motivated by animosity, fear, or desire. The problem is that the best path to satisying its reward function could have adverse-to-extinction level consequences for humanity, because alignment is hard, or maybe impossible.
Besides being used in jewellery, gold and silver have other practical applications, particularly gold.

It's used in electronics, aerospace and medicine among other fields. Industries are interested in buying gold for it's practical applications.
Please continue working on this. After years of work and having a novel backend infrastructure figured out for something that may have a lot of value for people, I have simultaneously been completely unsatisfied with frontend options — and I’ve tried nearly all of them. Accessibility is a major issue in almost all I tried, and closed source, vendor-specific UI options are not acceptable.

The main one I’ve been very interested in these days is called Makepad. Also written in Rust, still early in dev, but they need a lot of help on the accessibility front and their codebase is trying to do everything else. But the techniques are what I have been looking for in a UI kit. Anyway, I imagine there are a lot of cases like theirs.

The main issue is most of us do not have these accessibility issues. That domain knowledge needs to be collected and distilled into a framework that is open & simply covers most cases by its inclusion. Many JS frameworks have a lot of care in this regard, but their performance and dep hell make me want to avoid them (however tempting their ease of use may be).

Long story shot: this is very much needed and when I have time I would be willing to contribute.

Rust derive macros would be very powerful with implementing accessibility features.
Not if you are typing from any kind of device that uses gold in its components, or if you consider any of the uncountable ways in which you can exploit precious metals in the real world