skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Celsius seems to have been either a ponzi scheme, or a group of morons doing dumb speculative investment on margin, or (most likely) both, but I'd like to point out that MakerDAO is down 70% YTD, Aave is down 60%, Uniswap is down 60%, etc, etc.

You'd have been better off just buying bitcoin on margin (Since BTC is only down 53% YTD).

The point of this post is that you can't make something out of nothing. None of these tokens/firms/etc have any idea of how they can make money in the crypto space, because there is no way to make money in the crypto space - because it doesn't produce anything. It's all just negative-sum speculation, and shitcoins investing into other shitcoins, and it all evaporates as soon as the Fed tightens its purse-strings.

Miners make money, people selling shovels make money, everyone else is just trading baseball cards around.
We did this a bit at a previous workplace. Essentially sending out a formal offer letter involved a lot of HR, approval meetings and exec sign offs. If the person wasn't interested there was no point in going to the effort.

Just corporate procedure and trying to save busy-work.
Tesla gets clicks. Apart from that though, probably because Elon has been marketing them as having FSD soon for nearly a decade, plus numerous claims that autopilot is already safer than humans. Sure, not every Tesla has that but most people are more ignorant than you might think. The number of people I've met who think a Tesla can actually drive you hundreds of miles while you sleep in the back is alarming.
If it's terminal brain fart by an active driver, that sux. If it's an example of auto-driving having issues, or worse, a Darwin award from somebody uninterested in paying attention, that's a datapoint for the argument as to if/when we'll see auto-drive.

While it's possible to design fault-tolerant systems that are quite capable, I feel they're at a level of cost and effort that's not being used for current-day programming in pretty much any form. I know they've been working on computer vision since the 60's so I assume that's solved (enough) to trust its data.
Fleecing non-Israelis is legal in Israel.
Better isolation and drivers that don't need to live in the Kernel.

Just a better security model really.
Hit the nail on the head. The major problem with NN is that they are completely unexplainable black boxes. The algorithm spits out a piece of code (or recommends clickbait videos, or bans you from a website, or denies you credit) based on a mishmash of assorted examples and a few million/billion parameters, but can neither explain why it picked it, nor verify that it is correct.

Formal methods and theorem proving on the other hand, place a strong emphasis on proof production and verification.
Han Unification was invented by Chinese people (in Hong Kong iirc), not by Americans. And even before unification, the national standards also had one code point per kanji/hanzi rather than building them up out of radicals, as opposed to the way eg flag emoji are done.

JIS did this in 1978 for instance.

It does appear that computerizing CJK languages has made them very different from handwriting them; native Chinese speakers now constantly forget how to write hanzi. But they did this to themselves.
Poison Pill
If anyone ever calls me up to tell me the person that is going to interview at my company is a bad apple, I’d see that as a huge red flag for the boss.
Schadenfreude, probably. No other car manufacturer encourages people to take their hands off the wheel, light a blunt, and watch the world burn (nb: egregious poetic license).
With very little regard to language or engine, it's time to make that indie game T_T
Things are cyclical. We've had it sort of rough for the past few years, but when Covid finally fades into normalcy, and the economy perks back up, things are going to feel *terrific*.
In all fairness sometimes it’s a huge pain in the ass depending on how HR set up the req 2 offer process (even worse if a ERP is involved), and having some vague notion on if you’d accept would help.

Plus as a hiring manager, and this is minor, I’d feel kinda embarrassed if out of sheer statistical luck multiple candidates turned down written offers, which would indicate maybe something is wrong with us as a hiring entity.

Not sure there’s a playbook here. Another commenter suggested being untruthful and pulling the offer out of them. Given how many times companies screw over employees that might be the game theory rational thing to do here even though it’s not great ethically.

Just my 2 cents.
I mean... from context, it's probably a mistake, but on the other hand we don't actually know the structure of that filesystem or the author's intentions.
> I've long thought that the old tradition of having leaders in the front of military charges needs to be brought back

This rarely happened - they weren't that stupid.
Buddy, you have accused me of lacking critical thinking twice. I believe you are projecting. Critical thinkers generally don’t reduce an argument to “evil corps”.

I’m intrigued by why I would want to go back in time?
The whole 3AC story hasn't come out yet, but the rumor is that they were able to use the same collateral with different lenders. On top of that, they offered to "manage" portions of their vc investment treasuries.

So, a scam.
I'm pretty sure I remember hearing my dad tell me to buy sp500 index funds much longer than 10 years ago.
It wasn't a ponzi scheme. It was just a business that failed to make a profit. Not all investments will be on winners.
Probably that it doesn't have ambiguities
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How is this different than a programmable thermostat?
If people lock their doors all the time, burglars probably prefer to avoid the houses with unlocked doors (because they are more likely to be occupied houses).
Because they can't be sold. If Stripe never goes public they will never be worth anything. It's funny money until you sell it.
I think they are claiming they can mine something like 10k bitcoin/year (https://twitter.com/ThePrivatier/status/1547613977231798272) going forward but I have no idea what the COGS/cost between labor/maintenance and electricity is to mine that. If it's say 50%, then those "mining assets" will pay back in 7 years.

Seems like people are going to take a large haircut on whatever they deposited and then maybe get back some incremental cash over time.
Blockchain solves it by making it so that all that goes away. In return if something fucks it up...well look at every crypto project that has ever crashed. I'm not being glib. That's the solution.
Of course Russian bots should be blocked. Why would anyone else support LESS defence by Ukraine?

What a bizarre idea.
You may enjoy this:
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
Apart from the languages that were taught in college, I've never learnt a language or framework in the 'abstract'.

I learn a new language/framework while trying to solve a specific problem. The latest I picked was Nodejs/Vuejs/Electron while building https://nocommandline.com. A year ago, I basically had zero to little knowledge about them but now I know a whole lot more.

Also, I'm not a professional developer. I'm a Product person who basically writes code to solve specific problems I encounter (at work and outside of work).
> I remember it being major news when a few houses were burgled when I was a kid.

On a per capita basis "a few houses being burgled" in a rural area is probably more burglaries than NYC sees.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new...

You are less likely to be murdered in NYC than the average rural area. I don't know where you live and it's possible that your rural area is safer than average, but in general the myth that so many smug rural Americans subscribe to that the typical rural area is safer than big bad New York City is just totally, completely wrong.
>Still waiting to see even one single useful use case for cryptocurrency

Sending funds to people outside of the country without being reliant on gatekeepers is extremely useful. This is especially true if you want to send funds to people and/or organizations being blackballed by the US financial establishment (either because of their function, such as Wikileaks, or their location, for living in a frowned upon country).

I still find it somewhat astounding that people, especially techies, can't see the extreme utility in this function. But, unfortunately, ideology often trumps logic.
Are You Taking Advantage of the New Freedoms?
Correct answer. If it can't earn, I don't learn.
I assure you, you will have no trouble selling Stripe stock at what its worth. There is a big appetite for Stripe shares in the secondary markets even if the company never goes public.
I work adjacent to payments in fintech. I’ve had conversations with largish merchants who have mentioned their intent to attempt to move payment flow to these new rails when available to reduce CC processing costs. Will they? I cannot say for sure, I speak the lens I see through. A real recent quote from a CFO: “why am I handing over 2% of my revenue just to take a payment if I can avoid it?”
Looks like i hit a nerve, so i'll repost what gets "flagged"

Fake news, american propaganda

You can't access Wikipedia from China, it is blocked ;)

And now a reply to your comment:

They didn't know that, hence it is not mentioned, wich proves my point ;)
I’d love to count profits and losses relative to the best possible outcome in hindsight rather than the difference between what was spent to obtain an asset vs. what I got for it, but generally that’s not how the IRS sees things. A loss is not relative like that.
It's also far easier to debug handwritten parsers.
“Growth potential” lol.

Yeah guys that’s why you’re not paying 100% cash and getting years of liquidity being withheld to your advantage. Tell you what - pay all cash and I can invest it in the stock market myself in the meantime.

Plus they don’t all work out.

It’s in the employers best interest a lot of the time, not the employees.
Very good. Now what's the current trust level between banks? Please no speculation. I want to hear it from bankers, not cryptopontificators.
> resumable software components as black boxes that you could buy off the shelf and integrate in your own products.

Wasn't that one of the goals of CORBA? [D]COM?

I know it was one of the lynchpins of OpenDoc, but that took it even farther, with a document-centric approach to applications.
They used to be solid before, they changed owners, maybe that influenced. I worked with them years ago and it was good, then recently and kind of didn't like it as they were snobby and didn't really deliver much.
Another great tool for cross arch development is qemu-static-user. It allows you to run your nonnative architecture docker images on host using a qemu container for translation and only requires about one command to get working. It’s life saving for me when I need to test but setting up a full VM or native server is too time consuming.

https://github.com/multiarch/qemu-user-static
Way more infectious that the vaccine, though, and probably not any more effective. Nobody's caught the vaccine from the exposure that I've seen mentioned.
Came here to give this answer.. it’s not an entire way to learn anything but it’s a good start and flexible enough it can actually apply to pretty much any new tool or tech component you want to learn… can do database or vitalization or most things it can think of can adapt some aspect of it to work with life as a simple toy problem. I think I discovered my favorite functional version of life adapting game of life to Apache Spark to find a way to describe the next state from current in a unified way without conditional logic or something, though memory is fuzzy as I never did spark again and it’s been 7 years now…

Also second someone else’s suggestion of Exercism.
Nah, I think it is more of a "here's this other thing that never caught on, and you probably don't know about that will live on forever because it is part of DNS."
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That’s incredibly classist and condescending. Any adult can understand that for example rare meat is somewhat risky, but not very and that risk may increase with ground meat. Anyone could understand that some masks are better than others.

This sort of disdain for average people is exactly why the CDC is being criticized here.

[Edit] to anyone who disagrees, I’d love a justification from principle for the government treating the poor and uneducated like they’re stupid.
I wonder if this is the media calling text messages and meaning "signal messages" or some other app.

I'd be shocked if the SecServ was smsing at all...
I live in Canada. I can send a wire transfer internationally in 5 minutes from my couch on my laptop without breaking as sweat. The 40 year old technology works fine from a website.
Were you meant to reply to me? I didn't mention either party and I'm not an American. It may be a serendipitous mistake though, as it has uncovered an obvious bias that you should address.
>2. Transferring money internationally as groundbreaking uses for crypto? Seriously?

You are confusing, "groundbreaking" with, "useful and convenient". It is much cheaper, faster and easier to send small international payments via crypto than it is via any legacy financial service - this is beyond dispute.
idk people do weird stuff with windows servers and nfs.
Do you run filters to "sanity check" for continuity breaks, data noise bursts, etc, and setup for feature detection, relief highlighting?
Just out of university, Intel offered me a job, pending a cursory background check & I would have been getting the onboarding details. Since all the hoops were checked, I declined other pending offers and negotiations.

They declined it at the last minute citing internal replacement.
How about WikiLeaks insurance files, pretty the only reason Assange is still alive.

They stuck them in there around 2012, during the dust spam (which wasn't dust spam, it was a dos attack which failed)

The use cases are there but you've made up your mind to ignore them and act smug about it.

GLHF!
Different Generations Are Responding to Volatile Markets
The graphs are created using kgjs which is on github:

https://github.com/cmakler/kgjs
I think it might still have issues figuring out that it needs to apply CRDs first: https://github.com/grafana/tanka/issues/246 Besides that, I found it super-handy for deploying https://github.com/prometheus-operator/prometheus-operator and https://github.com/kubernetes-monitoring/kubernetes-mixin

LE: The "garbage collection" feature is very interesting, but I didn't get to experiment with it enough yet: https://tanka.dev/garbage-collection
Introducing Flutter 3
> It's that you have to close each file handle individually.

My emphasis. This is where the problem creeps in. Let's see that again:

> In C++ you might iterate over the bunch, close each file, and then deallocate the whole thing.

In Rust or C++ actually the Bunch will destroy and thus close all the files. Not me, I just destroyed the whole Bunch, not my problem how that works.

> There doesn't have to be a performance difference between the two

If your description had been more precise it might be apparent where a performance difference comes from. The Bunch knows the intimate details of its internal workings, so it may be able to do significantly less "housekeeping" while it is cleaning up. Without that knowledge however, when I am cleaning up the Bunch has no idea what my ultimate intent is and so it needs to do proper housekeeping.

I think you could try to mitigate that, at a cost of further language complexity, by introducing another Linear type, the ToBeDestroyedBunch which knows it is destined to be destroyed and is just here while the caller destroys the Things which were in the Bunch.

So, when I want rid of the whole Bunch I call a function with a Bunch, and I get back a ToBeDestroyedBunch. This needn't do all the housekeeping on each removal because we're obliged to dispose of it properly after we're finished and we can no longer do any other operations on a Bunch because we don't have a Bunch only a ToBeDestroyedBunch.
This is done partly to prevent people from using written offers as leverage to either negotiate a higher compensation at their current job or another company they are interviewing with.
I have OneDrive sync both ways. Odds my machine is fried at the same time M$ decides they hate me is a risk I'll take.
Gave me the runs something fierce. Turns out I didn't need drugs, just
an occasional lay.
Sounds like more of a symptom of bad meetings. Maybe no one cared and only attended because they felt pressured to show up. Ime a more common complaint about meetings is along the lines of "why am I here", not "I'm to scared to chime in".

In your situation, someone doing some unsolicited sales pitch of something that I probably don't need doesn't automatically deserve my attention. They aren't entitled to any acknowledgment from me.
"Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead" - Benjamin Franklin

It's generally true even if money is not involved. Another reason I tend to keep my own counsel.
Why do you need to build them in when you can just load your favorite libraries that do these functions with https://www.quicklisp.org/ , especially for http the great libraries by Fukamachi: https://github.com/fukamachi parallel processing: https://lparallel.org/ etc.

I'm very grateful that common lisp does not version up (like python), but you can always load a new or newer version of libraries with no impact on your core production code. (Such as a rewrite when the language gets a new version - this never happens with Common Lisp)
A use case that I wish authorization service providers would talk more about is support for "list" queries e.g. What resources of type foo can the user read?

In really simple cases you may model this as a one-shot check on a logical collection resource e.g. If I have an organization, and an organization owns many repositories, I may check for action:read on resource:/organizations/:id/repositories. It's very limiting though. What if I want to list all repositories across all organizations I have access to? What if I have multiple levels I want to cut across? Do I need to do all the sub-queries and aggregations myself? Do I need to do a one-shot check on every potential resource? What if the answer is "no" for every one, and I end up doing a table scan of the entire DB just to produce an empty result set? etc.
My university had a "school of computer science and software engineering" which was a joint school of the engineering department and the maths department.

Although the degree was very much a Bsc, I don't think getting a Beng was an option.
Raptor 1 vs. Raptor 2: What did SpaceX change?
Their tokens are down, but you don't have to buy them to use the platform, they're basically like shares in a company. I constantly use all those platforms without ever buying their tokens.

AMZN being down 30% in the last 6 months has no impact on how useful Amazon or AWS are as products.
I think from the part of the sentence that you took out it was clear the point was about consoles.

The Atari Pong console was also successful but I tend to not count it as I was only considering programmable consoles.
Crypto cheaper? Seriously? I pay $0 in fees for doing an EFT (or ACH) from my bank account to another bank account. Wire transfers via a currency trading platform I use don't charge a percentage either. If I tried to do that via crypto, I'd be paying a few points in exchange fees to go from fiat to crypto then back again in another country. It isn't cheaper if you're using the right banking platform.
Think preferences - there’s no way a vc is getting diluted on the back end
that's unrelated and doesn't make any useful point
I’m not sure this scales
A >> means right shift, except when it doesn't in the example.
I don’t think this is the _best_ advice but it may be a good starting point for you: do you have a LinkedIn/online portfolio or attend code meetups (virtual or in person)?
Whenever I start interviewing again I use leetcode to learn a new language.
Just because it's a third browser that I happened to have installed. Separation of concerns and all. I keep Spotify and Brave in their own workspace on sway/i3, and have YouTube and SoundCloud loaded in Brave.
As someone who's been recently waved some promise of sponsorship for my open source project (self hosted payment gateway for crypto currencies), mind if you share the name?
Within Canada Interac e-Transfer is fast and easy (except when Rogers is down). Takes a few seconds to go from one bank via email, click on the link and have it in another bank.
This is based on a common misunderstanding of Blockchain. Yes transactions are immutable, but reversing is not necessary. All fiat backed stablecoins run on decentralized infrastructure but they also operate on smart contracts that give the creators the ability to mint and burn coins at will in order to credit fiat deposits and burn tokens for fiat withdrawals. The fact that it runs on an immutable Blockchain just means transactions themselves aren't reversible but it doesn't mean new transactions can't be made to rectify a problem with loss or stolen funds.
I don’t need to do that. But it’s an accepted currency, so why shouldn’t I use it when it’s offered?
One, why would you ever want more of a growth company that is shrinking 13 years in with no exit in sight. Two, you miss out on 3 years of upside relative to a 4-year grant. It’s a terrible deal, but I see why they’d want to give it.
Airbnb’s new mechanism to report listings violating HOA or city guidelines
> using a more traditional language like Go to solve some of our configuration/deployment and data templating problems.

Have you looked at https://github.com/kris-nova/naml ? :)
Show HN: Robin: A terminal-friendly, dead-simple file server. Written in Go
> not a single major DeFi protocol failed during a period of enormous stress

Was Terra/Luna/Anchor/Whatever not a DeFi protocol?
Honestly, I suspect that cpp macros will outlive us all
Paying bills isn’t a useful usecase?
I never said blockchain was a solution. I literally just said there are features of cryptocurrencies that are useful.

There are features of cryptocurrencies that would actually be useful in today's financial services.

The main one would be near instant settlement.

PayPal makes billions offering this service, when it could be a feature of the financial system.

You seem to be doing this weird thing where you're trying to imply cryptocurrency is solving a problem, but still wanting to have take backs when people say "cryptocurrency doesn't solve this problem".

If your position is that instant transfer would be useful, there is no reason we don't have that already at a technical level. It's purely a financial system construct that we wait and have settlement periods for the ability to reverse transactions, have added security, etc.

If your position is that cryptocurrency somehow solves a technical problem, I'd be interested to hear what you think that technical problem is.
I did see a counselor for about 6 months, and I was kicked out in June, as they believed I required a higher level of care, such as an intensive outpatient program and/or an SSRI.

I've attempted to read books on OCD. I've attempted Exposure-Response Prevention on my own with limited success. I reach a wall. I don't want to experience the seemingly endless stress that I'd endure from the most significant exposures and I shutdown.