skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current headline "Solana just seized $170MM of user funds to prevent a decrease in Solana's price" is factually incorrect.

A project on Solana, called "Solend", froze $170m of funds deposited into its protocol.

"Solana" didn't seize the funds, nor was the purpose specifically to protect Solana's price.
Indeed. The author just wrote yelling. Given the Russian culture I suspect he was yelling in chats about the situation, not blaming a particular person or team. Something like “Why the hell have we stuck?” perhaps even with f-words. Boss expressing himself in such way is rather common in Russia. If such yelling is followed by reasonable suggestions, it is not even perceived as offensive, but as the way to emphasize the gravity of the situation.
Sorry, I've read this again and now I think this has little to do with Solana and entirely to do with Solend, and I think they're separate. Maybe someone who knows more about the space can clarify things. I now presume the funds needed to be deposited in Solend's smart contract in order for the trader to borrow the funds against his collateral, and Solend is pushing a patch in order to modify the code so they can seize the funds that are held within their own smart contract. So the Solana team may be totally innocent. But it's still news, because Solend doesn't look much like a "decentralized" lending platform where no one can seize your funds if they can seize your funds and modify the loan and partially raise the liquidation price, and I assume this is the biggest market on Solana. It's quite reminiscent of the ETH split / DAO hack.
And @patio11's take : https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1538601104098852865 which is illuminating as well. The whole "crypto is speed running through the finance playbook" theme is fascinating to me.
commonly the cost is externalized to millions of people who spend hours waiting on the thing.
This is a question outside the scope of webcams alone … Most people, consciously and subconsciously, judge people by their appearance.
> The proposal succeeded hours after it was proposed, with one whale providing 1 million votes out of the 1.15 million votes in favor.

Decentralized my ass
Use it exclusively to talk to crypto exchanges. Use Signal for personal use
I actually haven’t heard of this approach. Could you explain more or point me to some further reading if you read this and have a moment?
Interestingly, Telegram by default is not even end to end encrypted.
people finding excuses against your suggestion are choosing to ignore history.

PDF won the text presentation format war because among other things, PDF embedded the user's font.

for consistency, and if you care about not using google's CDN, just self-host your fonts.
Make people login on you service to be served. Those interested in privacy won't bother, and even if they do, you can get your metrics without cookies.
I upgraded my video and audio setup during the pandemic since I figured even at up to $1k it was cheaper than the office space it was replacing.

After about a month of research I was surprised to find how difficult it was to evaluate options and how few of those options were plug-and-play.

I had assumed the explosion in livestreaming over the last few years would mean best practices would be easy to find and great high quality cameras purpose built for streaming would exist, but didn't find that to be the case at all.

Ultimately I took a chance on a heavily discounted open box ZV1 but it wasn't until I married it with a 4k capture card (USB streaming was meh), a key light (lighting matters so much!), a mic (& arm to hold it), AND an ali-express battery-to-dc connector (so it could run all day) that I finally hit the sweet spot of "clearly better" and "easy to use all day".

Worth it in the end, but a lot of work.
A completely new design, typically breaking away from the previous design (AMD's Zen microarchitecture being a more recent example).
I don't know if this is still an issue but the last time I used journald the logs would occasionally become corrupted and journalctl would refuse to read them. The fix was to just delete the logs. I have no idea how logging got so screwed up that corruption in part of the file could make the rest of the log file unreadable. I mean, it's a journal, it's right in the name.

Ever since then I switched to rsyslogd and the like. Rock solid.
Many university group chats are in it, for some reason.
1. I am looking into them but my current metrics are self made and cost little. It's this cookie consent bullshit that is causing trouble, I want users to have to accept all my cookies (no 3rd party trackers though) when they sign up.

2. No just my own cookies but there are separate non-essential ones that I do 1st party.

3. Why would I want to do that when I get better with all customers tracked?

This is a bad analogy, I am not seeking to sell people's data or send targeted ads. Literally 100% to improve customer experience and sales.
Well, not quite. They are forced to stop hiding what they were doing. They could make everything opt-in, and it could be simple single checkbox or button, they are not forced to do any of what they are currently doing.

And if it makes people angry at the legislation, the lying back-stabbing “your privacy matters to us” arseholes in marketing are successfully making that goal backfire.
How did the "whale" have so much invested in the market but such little voting rights?
Trolls will keep trolling(you).
I've worked in both kinds of companies and plenty inbetween and I have to disagree. In small companies having a good handle on the business requirements is even more important, and it's frankly even more the case that it's not a simple matter of "how" you program but "what."

In a small company a frankly larger percentage of company revenue can be wasted through crappy project and product management. Coding it poorly is often the least concern at places like this. It's getting the right thing to market.
The original discussion was around price-performance of physical servers vs cloud VMs. That being the case, it's not a clean a distinction as you describe it. It would be more along buying a few trucks and taking them to the garage when needed (which is rare in small numbers) vs renting many more vans, for higher margin, just to avoid the garage.
A lot of other people have flagged the remarks about "yelling in chat" and the like, and those are certainly red flags, but I think what you're pointing out here is the biggest problem. "Write code on paper" and "write code unattended" are not the two only available options. Worse, from the description of it as "a very simple change", it kind of sounds like he was giving them the same type of problem to solve in both cases.
> defi at its best. zero upside of centralized finance with all the downsides, after all.

DeFi definitely over promised, and under delivered: the part that I take issue with is why build these tools on centralized alt currencies? I mean if you think NFTs are the extent of DeFi (much of which is what web3 hinged on) than this was predictably going to fail just like the ICO craze did.

Smart contracts based on oracles are likely to be the real big advent, and I foresee it to be what Dorsey is proposing with now the absurd titled 'web5.' I just can't see why anyone would place this much trust in a PoS coin with a central governance and with major stake by VC in SV. The whole point was to get away from these gate-keepers, not allow them to have a major share of the coins in existence where they can, likely have, cornered the entire market.

Whatever, a purging was necessary: I hope this makes CONbase fold once and for all.

I just wish I had kept my cash and been able to take advantage of this major dip in BTC: I made major purchases back when we hit mid 30s (~50% of ATH) after liquidating some positions in late Nov.
My entire family and my D&D group use it, easily the slickest UX/UI of any chat app I have used. It is feature rich without feeling cluttered.
"Better cycling infrastructure" should mean an effectively car-free network of streets. Yes this can be achieved while still allowing cars to access residences on these streets.

This is what has been frustrating for me as a life long advocate for decades. People think bike lanes are a solution. They are not, bike lanes are for cars, not for bikes. Bikes and public transit should each get about 5%-10% of car-free surface streets to create a safe, fast, reliable network for alternatives. Ironically, this would reduce traffic, as the main reason why traffic is so terrible is because automobiles have monopoly power over the infrastructure, so nobody can actually choose alternatives if they want to.

I'm a mod of /r/bicycling, and wrote a free ebook on how to get into biking years ago. Here is the chapter on safety:

http://howtobike.info/thebook?section=chapter3
Why does Amazon have so little confidence in its hiring?
I'm not so sure, and I'm a native Russian speaker, who had read the original Russian language post just to make sure of this. That guy genuinely sounds unironically arrogant to me.

It's much harsher in Russian than the English translation. Compare:

> You'll sit next to me and memorize the way the work should be done.

and

> А ты, бездарь, сиди рядом и запоминай, как работать надо.

which literally translates to "And you, bungler, sit and watch how the work is done [right]."

And I utterly fail to see any self-deprecating piece that would turn this into a joke. If anything, author treats those "Google"-programmers as trash.

Even as a joke, I would say it's very poor and distasteful one, especially for a public blog post.
Don't know why are being downvoted. This matches my own experiences. Then again, given people's general response when I bring this up it feels squarely in "What You Can't Say" territory[1]. I no longer bring it up in casual conversation.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Strong/weak is definitely another axis. I'm not sure they could never be strong developers. I'm not saying they couldn't generate code at all, just that the first couple approaches they write miss fundamental constraints causing the code to either not work or have horrendous properties, and they sort of jiggle their way into something that works. Sometimes the initial tries come from a Google result, sometimes they came up with it themselves, the important part is they don't fully understand the code in its context.

Anyway, regardless of whether they're really strong or not, the couple I've mentored have become tremendously valuable to my company, with performance outstripping my own (I think because of the higher tolerance to shitty repetitive frontend work).
Can you tell more? How that worked?
"it’s the only popular messenger that is actually easy to programmatically interact with."

Let me introduce you to Matrix SDKs https://matrix.org/sdks/
This needs a title change. The main effect this would have on the Solana network would be congestion due to so many liquidators trying to claim the collateral. It is not related to the price.

>Additionally, liquidators will be incentivized to spam the network in an effort to win very lucrative liquidations. This has been known to cause load issues for Solana in the past which would exacerbate the problems at hand.
Logitech dominates the market, and it dominates it by marketing spend, not on making a better product, since they know that the average consumer will never know the difference.

I bought a C920 on the basis of many shilled reviews, and I kneel to the power of their marketing department every time I turn that piece of junk on.

I use the bad Mac onboard for almost all work conferencing because it's right there and doesn't require me to occupy a port on the laptop for in the end just different bad video quality.
I'd highly recommend re-reading 1984.

When dealing with those supporting authoritarian governments, you need less bigthink and more simplethink.

Worlds like "spectrum" are bad-think-party-no-nos that lead to job-ouchies.
>"Their "scientific expert" source list looks suspiciously like a group of the loudest voices on Twitter."

That's probably where the journalists find people to interview, likely because a large majority of journalists are active on Twitter.

This definitely isn't the only place, because there are free services like SciLine by the AAAS (source: https://www.sciline.org) and many others for connecting journalists to researchers. Many universities also have their own expert directories set up, and journalists can also find papers and contact their authors.

However, for many journalists on deadline, it's just far less effort to message vocal professors on Twitter, so this may be a reason for this effect if it's true. The people who market their research more on Twitter may be more likely to get covered in the press, and thus interviewed.
Only if that means using twice as much metal - I would expect instead it'd mean adding a thin strip of metal around the circumference of the lid. That would add a few grams, I'm sure, but hardly doubling.
Solend DAO passes proposal to take over the account of a large holder
This is not shady. I am not selling data. I want to run my business without dumbass eurocrats telling me I have to let the site function for people who reject my analytics cookies. Also, do you give your colleagues at Meta or Google the same shit? Because they are selling data and targeting ads, I am not, I just want to minimze the amount of $ I waste on stupid compliance rules from people who exist to hinder business. That is not "shady".

Also you did not help with the question or point at answers.
On the contrary wrestling with the computer allows one to internalize those things through experience.

For anyone that struggled with pure math because memorizing seemed less "big brained" than informal proofs, computers making thing concrete let alone gamified can help immensely.
Designing a laptop by sacrificing portability for camera quality is absolutely not rational design. No one is walking around taking photos with their macbook.

It's only purpose is for the occasional video chat which, until recently, most people would use very rarely.

Sacrificing portability for camera quality in a laptop would very much fall under irrational.
There's nothing to address. Telegram chats are encrypted to and from the server, they're not E2E encrypted, they do not claim to be by default. They do offer E2E chats you can opt into, and there has not been a single example of an E2E message being cracked.
>The vast majority of calories our bodies burn are upkeep related and this upkeep does not change significantly based on our diet.

Apparently it does if you went on too many yoyo diets. Look up reverse dieting to increase your sustaining calorie level again, it works in both directions. Its more or less the efficiency with which your metabolism functions

I liked Jeff Nippards Video with Eric Trexler on the topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiYJW9pViaM
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eric-Trexler

From 2019
As someone from Eastern Europe I can relate the comment of @projektfu to myself and I do not think the comment is derogatory. There is some work ethic in Warsaw pact countries that is totally absent elsewhere. A topic for a PhD in anthropology, for sure.

OTOH, Dutch are notoriously blunt as well.
Not when the rest of the piece was describing his mistake as, essentially, trusting that other programmers were as good as him. He goes on to suggest that the training of these other programmers makes it impossible for them to perform up to his standards.

> They only followed the laws of their own world. And I was the fool for not seeing these laws — I did not understand them, did not realize their seriousness. The seriousness of superficiality.
Account gov'd. All my SOLs gone.
The reason "have a union" is high on the list of potential solutions to the need to improve both the work place and compensation comes down to having power, and that boils down to being able to present real costs and risks to management they need to respect.

As for mistrust, not necessarily. The basic idea of a better balance of power can simply insure good people stay good. In the case of newly formed unions, the overwhelming majority already have mistrust and cause for it.

Hate towards management is simple and works like auto mechanics do; namely, there are enough shoddy ones to give the good ones a challenge to maintain a good reputation. At lower wage scales, there is a lot of bad management.

Your last statement varies considerably by industry. Let's just say making people replaceable or even making them feel replaceable or have the perception of being replaceable is very high on the priority list for a lot of management.
“Container-Optimized OS is maintained by Google and based on the open source Chromium OS project.” [0]

[0] https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs/concept...
New reddit's even worse. Here's the better mobile version: https://i.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/vfszpt/solend...
If software engineering is not the 'hard part', why are dev salaries so high?
I see no mention anywhere of yaft. Not an in-kernel framebuffer console, but one worth knowing about nonetheless, because it offers features like sixel support which probably won’t be landing in kernel any time soon.

[Also the title is ambiguous. While technically correct by referring to the kernel as Linux, I thought it originally meant GNU/Linux (the OS) because it didn’t say (e.g.) “consoles in the Linux kernel” or “consoles in GNU/Linux”]
Misleading title. This is Solend, not Solana.[1]

Not that this would be entirely surprising by Solana itself, which is a centralized chain that has been struggling to handle its network uptime and throughput in recent months.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/solendprotocol/status/15384413504...
The whale has been inactive and almost certainly didn't vote on this proposal. The Solend team tried to reach out to them via socials multiple times and they never responded. You can see their attempts in the "What We've Tried" section here[1]

[1] https://realms.today/dao/7sf3tcWm58vhtkJMwuw2P3T6UBX7UE5VKxP...
>Your comment completely lacks morals

Nah, copyright is immoral, bypassing it is the morally right thing to do.
Keyword is popular.

I’m a proponent of matrix, but it’s absolutely not popular.
Sorry, I misattributed this in a big way.

> nor was the purpose specifically to protect Solana's price.

I think it was. What else would the purpose be? Note that I think the true purpose of "preventing Solana network downtime" would be to protect the price.

They're trying to avoid cascading liquidations down to zero, because everyone involved in the governance is holding substantial amounts of Solana. I think letting the liquidations happen on-chain, and even cascade, is much more in the spirit of crypto. But an argument could be made, just like with what happened in the LME Nickel market, if you think that letting people wrestle for control of the chain is true decentralization, or if you think that the true goal of a market provider is to provide stability above all else...

Forcibly "partially liquidating the position" above liquidation price is pretty indefensible. Are they going to point to a line in their TOS that says that at the end of the day they always have the right to do whatever they want?
That is a good point, and one I struggle to understand why more people don’t.

However! The pace can be the same by day or week. But the average speed while moving is different. One not necessarily better than the other.

Travelling by car will eg allow more time sightseeing, walking around a city at lunch. While travelling by bike is more like you get to see a little bit of lots of things. And you can stop wherever and lift the bike off the road if necessary.

For some trips, a car is better, for other, a bike. For other still, hiking or taking a train or a plane. I’ve done all five, and all have their pros and cons.
To the extent there's self-deprecation, it's that he believes he made the "mistake" of assuming that these "Google programmers" could be taught to do better.
Sure, re-reading it I do pick up that the author was perhaps attempting humour and self-criticism throughout. But there's still boatloads of red flags starting with the interview process (toss them in a room and get them to write some code as the measurer of the value of the candidate) and ending with the whole concept of "re-interviewing" people.

It doesn't matter how humorous or humble the author might be, these alone worry me. Y'know, me, that arrogant guy who likes grapes.

In any case it's clear the original author does not live in a tech job market anything like North America, where a request to "re-interview" someone would be met with a confused stare followed by a middle finger.
Again, I still believe you are confusing lower-case CLR `object` (top-type) and upper-case BCL `System.Object` (root-type of "reference types"/"heap types" and below the top-type; they are confusingly named to allow for some abstractions where considering them the same thing makes it easier to reason with, but they are different concerns). Value types in stack space (function locals/small scoped variables) that fit entirely in stack space (size restrictions; "short arrays") never get "boxed" to the heap. `stackalloc` is an important need to restrict such types to the stack, because things like Span<T> require stack types and stack types only, but the general JIT rules apply that value types that don't leave stack scopes often are never "boxed" to the heap, including "short arrays" in function local scopes. (With the complicating caveat that things like async/await change what "function local" means and will increase boxing as things move to async state closures.)
I've been working on a game for Ethereum for a while. In recent times, "I" has become "we" and we're getting a fair bit more serious about it. In the last year, we watched a bunch of local startups with relatively weak game concepts get heavily funded to build with Solana. It made me sad and, admittedly, a bit jealous at the time. In retrospect, I couldn't be more happy that we're still building for the Ethereum virtual machine. It turns out that pumping tons of money into a developer community for a half-baked platform isn't the best approach.
This view only includes actual apps that launch on startup, it doesn't include agents, daemons etc. Many popular apps have one, if not many, that the users are usually not even aware of and can't turn off via the UI. To see what I mean, try running `launchctl list | grep -v "com.apple"` as the user you're logged in with. It will list jobs loaded into launchctl not owned by Apple, and that isn't even the only way to make things run at startup.
Secundinus should be happy he didn't get the full ostrakon treatment, which involved carving a person's name on a pottery shard and using it for post-toilet scraping.

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