skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... and, at the same time, to radically increasing government spending literally everywhere except where there might be a possibility of benefit for an individual who needs help (just because said individual could possibly be ("a") black).
It might not have a lot to do with price. The Solana network itself is too fragile to handle a liquidation like this. They're trying to keep the network from crashing. Needless to say, the network has one job, and it keeps failing miserably.

Solana goes dark for the seventh time in 12 months - https://www.cryptopolitan.com/solana-why-is-solana-down/
> The same code fragment could be written in multiple-line format as:

> E 2 2

> M X = A + B

> S I

Being able to write expressions that span multiple lines like that is really quite cool.
Ask HN: Practically speaking, what does an 'insuretech' startup do?
> See the graph.

I saw the graph. You're using it wrong.

> B12 is necessary vitamin. Most people get their B12 from animal-based foods. But animals do not produce B12, it just bioaccumulates in them. My argument is, that we can go directly to the source (e.g. bacteria) and make supplements instead from vegan sources, free of harm & suffering.

So plants are not enough?
And so castles made of sand

Fall in the sea eventually

- Jimi Hendrix
This is different. You're talking about technology. I'm sure there were artistically beautiful horse carriages, but they are largely a functional thing. Illustration and writing are themselves art. Uniquely human culture.
I've shared a project featuring wave function collapse here the other day and people got frustrated with me, cause they thought the project was about quantum mechanics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31384676
I'm not sure. Just pointing out that it doesn't necessarily have to use a lot of power or bandwidth to have the mic always on.
well I don't think that and nobody demanded that. Telegram merely has to comply regionally concerning in this case German users or content shown to them. Tech companies differentiating their products to comply with local laws is common practice.
When Apple announced the transition from PPC to Intel, the PPC Macs only got two major updates before being EOLed. Even the Power Mac G5 (2005) only got two major updates before being cut off from support.
Are they in the red on the loan? The numbers and functions are where I get confused.

"a whale has deposited 5.7M SOL ($170M and borrowed 108M USDC and USDT borrowed)"

So they put in 5.7 SOL at some price, and used it to borrow stablecoins? If their position is liquidated how does that play out? If he traded coin for coin how do they get the traded assets back?
To me, too. If nothing else, it's handing Putin an excuse to escalate on a silver platter. That seems unwise, even if he is stretched rather thin at the moment.
I would love to know how much of the toxicity on 4chan is a small set of people, or even how popular it ACTUALLY is.

I was in the Palin email hack thread (just watching, as usual, because I'm "a creepy guy" according to the folks I trained to get in and out of Russia and China with their skulls intact.)

I can remember how people moved around... LUE, Something Awful, 4chan... then 8chan or whatever and so on and so forth, as in parallel sites like Rotten went down.

It felt like some people... they went onto the net in the 2000s or so, found out what a snuff film or a tit looks like, got their fill for a while, and eventually stopped looking, and others... never could get their fill.

(I remember striding across... uh... Not MIT's campus, with people doing that "poll the autisit" thing like I didn't know they knew I was a former altar server... some... not MIT girl... had done an art project that disrespected the church, I think it involved a pope hat and no pants and possibly some kind of motorized scooter? I decided not to Bing it, since we were technically at "work", whatever that means when you're the assistant to a bunch of human computer interaction researchers who give each other buckets of marital aids as pranks)

I was like "well if the undergrads want to take off their pants, it's a private university, and the bishop's opinion shouldn't matter, but maybe they should be more careful not to be visible from the road since some people are prudes" and went off to get a giant curry from a truck, because I was hungry.

Anyways, my magical townie view is that the rise of Trump centered around a bunch of policy people who did policy because they were too mentally ill, often specifically too narcissistic, to be lawyers, because there's a character and fitness test.

Later on, because they're narcissists, they would whine and whine even in the classes designed to TEACH THEM STATS about their horrible lives up until then (rarely did I hear things like "my math teacher gave me a deviated septum"), and thus... everything had to be an A/B test, because they'd show up to everything with barely any actual quant knowledge and the US political system pretents to be a two party system when nowhere in the constitution does it say we have to have just two, or even any parties.

So then, you've got a situation where there have to be "two sides" to everything.

If you want a less gonza version of the above take, there's also this great article from July 2016 (people hate to be told "I told you so"):

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-ame...
At my latitude I'll lose sunlight at 2pm in the middle of winter. I can fix the webcam, I can't fix how much sunlight is available in my locale.
I'm actually very opposing this e2ee everywhere crowd, because we're developing an XMPP app and we're annoyed to death by people who demanding us (ordering even!) to deliver them encryption above anything else and always asking this as a first question.

The comment was more related to a puzzling observation that a really serious promise of security makes people more happy than actual security. Why bother with providing safety to people if all they need is to feel safe?
Why? Nobody said one is better than the other. Are you going to pretend all cultures are the same? if you've ever traveled or lived abroad, you will quickly come to the conclusion that there are major differences in how (say) Eastern Europeans approach communication vs people from the US. And that's okay. Nobody needs to be offended.
The pro-crypto folks have created the delusion that 'crypto will replace all modern finance' and they will quickly realise that regulations will wipe out the majority of tokens and projects unable to comply with them; and a remaining few of them existing and surviving.

It also means the anti-crypto folks will also realise that destroying 'all of them' is another delusion that activists like the free software foundation for example who's mission is still to remove all non-free software in existence. After 37 years, its still here and it is co-existing with some open-source software.

The undeniable fact is that regulations will be put in place for crypto and only a surviving useful few will continue to co-exist with the current system which both the anti-crypto folks and pro-crypto maximalists will be disappointed in achieving their utopian ideals.
The simple math tells me the volume of material is not double.m when you make the lid thicker. Not sure what you're about, it doesn't make sense.
C++ STL design is broken. The language shouldn’t define an API for std, it should provide an implementation. AFAIK no other major language defines the std library the way C++ does. It’s so bad and problematic.
Reading the title got a genuine laugh. Web3 is just such a ridiculous clown show of people discovering why existing institutions, regulations and processes exist in real-time.

Criticism of our monetary institutions is absolutely fair, but the Web3 crypto space has really proven it won’t make a positive difference whatsoever.
Discord does all this too? + the server rooms.
This is a clickbait-y title that at best, misunderstands his motives, and at worst, misrepresents what is in actuality happening.

The "right" has historically had more implied trust from heavy-duty surveillance mechanisms of government than the left.

What the left is doing is censoring "politically-incorrect" (as they see fit) speech, and banning accounts; this then is driving members censored/shadow-banned/outright banned by the leftist thread of big tech consumer companies to find/invent tech alternatives.

This then is opening up a potential Pandora's box of surveillance problems for such surveillance mechanisms; for example, the historical reality of Microsoft's origins wasn't at all what Microsoft's P.R. department claimed ("Bill Gates is a unique entrepreneurial genius and gift to mankind, not unlike the second coming of Jesus (actually literally-stated implications of a popular Gates-criticizing Reddit post from about a year or so ago that got immediately brigaded by a swarm of bots/P.R. agents all lavishing praise on everything Gates-related), but rather a practical measure taken to address a then-serious and quickly-growing-out-of-control practical problem: before Microsoft, the home computer market had something in the order of 3,700+ unique operating systems; a decision was made that it would be far more efficient to take a "Lord of the Rings" approach rather than having experts on hand uniquely-qualified in all 3,700+ OSs.

What Thiel is doing by signaling to the "Far Right" which is in itself another emotionally-triggering clickbait term meant to get more views from the left rather than an accurate depiction of political reality is simply extending his historical approach to its logical conclusion.

The surveillance mechanisms came out with a project that mysteriously was "discontinued" literally days before "Thefacebook.com" was registered as a domain name; said project literally described ... pretty much "Facebook" to a tee.

Now Facebook and other social media companies are viewed as not only "Leftist" in politics (abstractly mostly irrelevant), but in their application of their political leaning, by kicking out an increasingly-larger portion of the populace who doesn't "adopt" their "way of thinking" ... these social media institutions are ironically doing the exact opposite of what the surveillance mechanism wants them to do: corral users into homogenous, easy-to-track pens.

He's not at all "tearing down tech" as much as signaling that it may be time for "yet another" social media giant that is more permissive in its approach to user content, and so can more easily attract a larger audience in a homogenous technical pen that will be easier to keep track of automatically instead of having human analysts constantly trying to keep track of things manually by interacting with a dozen or more increasingly wonky user interfaces.
I don't know anything of Thiel's politics besides his support for Trump, but it's difficult to imagine such a person could be a serious thinker or would have any serious political positions.
Crypto has been an interesting experiment in rediscovering the reasons for all the financial regulations which we developed for regular currency in the late 19th and early 20th century.
> imagine someone anonymously putting up a $X million dollar bounty on someone’s head, backed by a smart contract promise or something (I know that it can’t be guaranteed at present, but imagine). Or other nefarious things that most of the society considers harmful - and having no way to stop those from happening.

With or without crypto, nothing prevents that from happening today. Number one currency for nefarious actions is (and likely will always be), USD. Likely perpetuated by the US govt itself.

> There is a reason why we have the current system, and while there are large issues with it, Bitcoin/Crypto solves very few of them

I don't think they are trying to solve for those issues though. I'm more than happy with the issues they do solve, for me, today. Namely, more control and flexibility over my own funds.

I can take any amount of my dollars in my bank, convert them to a decentralized stablecoin (and I'm not talking shit like UST), fly to another country, and then access those funds locally without anyone telling me what I can and cannot do.

If that means that others can do the same and they might use that to do something awful, it doesn't really matter to me because if they really wanted to get away with it in today's standards, they could. Jamal Khashoggi is a prime example of this.
There's a couple of points in the article that I don't see discussed here.

One is the comparison with games. So the article is about other categories of software. Has someone thought of other kind of "gamification"? I sometimes think that I'd love to see some fancy gaming interfaces outside games.

The other is that, forget about solutions, frustration is a very powerful force and it has consequences. Frustration for the users and also frustration for programmers. This used to be a job considered interesting and fulfilling.
I tend to agree but note that there can be as much variability in the quality, accuracy and precision of reference documentation as in many answers on SO.
> I don't have an iPhone. So if I want to buy one that is better than any of the webcams reviewed, I'm spending a couple hundred bucks at least. T

To be fair, he reviewed an iPhone so he recommended that. I think the advice is really more like "use the existing high powered camera you have in your pocket".
Mine does this. It makes me look drunk. People who met me in real life after lockdown were surprised I looked normal. I keep meaning to find some software that will turn the red down.
There is no math. It's all assumptions. Which can be wrong for a variety of reasons.
Provide insurance in a different way, in a way that was not possible without the web, apps, AI etc, or to a group of people nobody was catering to.
Hi Darek!

Maybe you can clarify my situation a bit with your experience. I've passed the Google interviews according to my recruiter, and have been waiting for a team matching interview for about 2 months now. Even though I passed, I have a feeling I didn't do particularly strongly in the interviews, since I made some mistakes, needed a few crucial hints and didn't have time for a second question in one interview. Also my CV is likely not as strong as many other applicants, since I didn't graduate from a top tier university.

My theory is that my file is going around from a hiring manager to another, and since the economy seems to be tightening, probably they have less openings than a few months ago. So they've become more picky about who to interview from the pool of possible candidates.

I've been pinging my recruiter regularly, and they keep telling me all is fine and they'll let me know when they have news. It's been rather frustrating to wait without knowing what's the process like and what to expect. I've read about people waiting for a team match for months, but also I know from following appropriate forums that someone was hired in this location on a much more hurried schedule.

So I guess I'd like to hear your thoughts about what happens after you pass the interviews and how likely it is that a "mediocre" hire goes through the interviews, but raises no interest of hiring managers.
+1 to everything you said, especially the Linux part. Telegram's Linux Desktop client is great. It's open source and on Flatpak.
Agree. I posted a sibling comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31803306

I use this on MBP M1 Max and on Intel MBP2019 16”.
Of course the ideal solution would be to throw DDoSers and botneters into jail instead of relying on DDoS protection, but that for some reason is a problem

(And some criticism like blocking Tor or some bots is valid and I agree with that)
I wonder if you could use this if Sony sues you for copyright infringement damages?
Discord's client apps are not open-source.
Exactly lol. Instead of greedy people screaming "eat the rich" they'll just be like "your cash is ours now lmao" and steal via voting.
Ok, we've changed the title to that. (Submitted title was "Solend just seized $170MM of user funds to prevent a decrease in Solana's price".)

If someone suggests a better title (i.e. more accurate and neutral, preferably using representative language from the submitted article), we can change it again. And if there's a better URL than the Reddit thread, we can change that too.
I bought a samsung a51 phone on clearance at Target and installed iruincam on the mac (for Linux I use droidcam). Much higher quality than a the Brio it replaced.
I don't think this is the right takeaway. Yeah, it's a problem if programmers have to copy-paste solutions from Google in order to do anything. However, sometimes people just search it because it's helpful and quick. Does not necessarily mean they don't understand it. Could be something as simple as clipping something out of Go slice tricks, or as advanced as "JS debounce function."

For a novice who is struggling, they might literally just copy-paste the solution, but for someone more advanced, I expect they will read it, try to gather the bits of nuance (some of it may be realizations like "oh, I need to use len-1 here because this bound is inclusive", or maybe something more practical, like, "oh, I need to decide if my debounce function should fire on the leading or trailing edge of the debounce.")

If they're literally copy-pasting the whole solution nearly verbatim, without really knowing what's going on, then maybe it's just not a very good interview question.
>The undeniable fact is that regulations will be put in place for crypto

why is this so undeniable? I would think well-implemented cryptocurrencies would be fairly regulation resistant
Why a Rhodes Scholar’s Ambition Led Her to a Job at Starbucks
I lack experience to tell - does anybody use chaining in production?
There are no purely "German users". People travel. People talk to people from other countries. Chatrooms have people from all over the world.
There are a lot of reasons people get into crypto. A lot want to get rich quick and aren't concerned with if it's bitcoins or tulips. Some are smarter money trying to make money off dumber money. Modern bitcoin miners opportunists. Some use it for illegal transactions. Then there are the true believers. I think only the get rich quick crowd will the be one clamoring for regulation after see how much money they've lost.
The word tree[1] has a specific meaning when talking about computer science (recursion). An idealised biological family tree is a DAG (directed acyclic graph[2]), because there are cross linkages creating common ancestors, although I am also presuming we define when to stop adding nodes.

An actual family tree is not even a DAG because the nodes are unknown, and “parents” is an extremely fuzzy concept. Where does adoption fit it? What about step-parents? How do you record uncertainty? Etcetera.

One of my friends in another country had a kid with her first cousin, and parents can be more closely related biologically.

It is less than one hundred generations before we find a single common ancestor to everyone alive[3]. Also see [4][5].

Regardless, anyone that thinks using a family tree as a teaching example for children should have a reëducation holiday </unfunny-black-humour>.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(data_structure)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph

[3] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-mo...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam
It really was a different universe when complex games were developed entirely in assembly, with simple tools, for very limited platforms.

There are plenty of challenges in modern game development, but many of them can be avoided if you're not trying to push the hardware to its absolute limit.
It's hard to say no to the government that can send policeman to your house.
Both.

Nationalism is not the same as patriotism. Patriotism is great. Nationalism breeds Ayn Rand insanity mixed with supremacist views.
Well, it makes it great for use by real world finance.
Yeah, that's pretty disgusting stuff. Fortunately, Ukraine hasn't been willing to play their assigned role. May others also be as unwilling, and as stalwart.
> The comment was more related to a puzzling observation that a really serious promise of security makes people more happy than actual security. Why bother with providing safety to people if all they need is to feel safe?

It's called security theater. The TSA is my favorite example of this phenomenon.
Everyone with a passing interest in the current war must use Telegram.

Many Ukrainian and Russian primary sources are on Telegram only. Including government officials etc.
I am always sad that the default STL collections leak so much implementation detail that they are stuck on such abysmally performing algorithms.

That every serious project ends up with its own hashmap, etc is such a shame.
Related ongoing thread:

Solend seized $170M of user funds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31802600 - June 2022 (60 comments)
> This whale is probably just happy to default on the loan and get liquidated at this point.

It's too bold to assume this.
This whale is probably so angry right now because they ruined his/her plan causing him/her million of dollars.
1) Find an opportunity to drive the price of SOL down due stupid DeFi design lacking 101 Economy knowledge.
2) Go short on SOL
3) Use the opportunity to cause a slippage of 46% in price which further triggers chain liquidation which causes the price even to go further down and most likely cause Solend to shut down creating more and more panic sell.
4) Make crazy profit.

Solend to call themselves "decentralized" now is just a joke.
Thank you so much for the feedback too! Please try to use my product. And if you don't mind, leave your feedback here or send an email to the address in the profile.

It seems to me that many people here are not quite familiar with the concept of Risk-Reward. What is the risk? Take 10 minutes of your time to figure out if it will be useful to them or not. I'm sure it will be useful.

The reward can be huge. The extension is very flexible and allows you to customize it for any, even the most bizarre, of your own needs. One commenter wrote that he didn't like the popup menus. But it takes 1 second to turn them off. Just press Alt + 1. Or you can create a new, your own two-item popup menu and make it appear when, for example, you hold Alt and select text. Or choose a different layout for the Popup menu, there are 5 different ones, including minimally intrusive ones. There are a lot of options! And at the same time, hotkeys continue to work, and you can assign your any action to literally any keyboard combination. You can also create your own context menus, and automatically switch them depending on the URL of the current page. The extension's command line is also always available via Control + Space. And yes, this keyboard shortcut can also be changed. There is not a single product on the market with such capabilities! Yes, this is a complex application that requires some initial customization. But any non-trivial application requires time to customize it for yourself.

I really want to help people improve their productivity. I developed this extension to make people feel more comfortable when doing things in the browser. And the feedback just upsets and discourages me.