skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting that his "proposal to deal with questions about priming effects" was just a year later (2012): https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/7.6716.1349271308!/s...

> My reason for writing this letter is that I see a train wreck looming. I expect the first victims to be young
people on the job market. Being associated with a controversial and suspicious field will put them at a severe
disadvantage in the competition for positions. Because of the high visibility of the issue, you may already
expect the coming crop of graduates to encounter problems. Another reason for writing is that I am old
enough to remember two fields that went into a prolonged eclipse after similar outsider attacks on the
replicability of findings: subliminal perception and dissonance reduction.

> I believe that you should collectively do something about this mess. To deal effectively with the doubts you
should acknowledge their existence and confront them straight on, because a posture of defiant denial is selfdefeating. Specifically, I believe that you should have an association, with a board that might include
prominent social psychologists from other field. The first mission of the board would be to organize an effort
to examine the replicability of priming results, following a protocol that avoids the questions that have been
raised and guarantees credibility among colleagues outside the field.

His more recent (2022) retrospective on the episode is also pretty interesting: https://www.edge.org/adversarial-collaboration-daniel-kahnem...
https://archive.ph/UNPhb
He's mistaking the invisible hand of individual incentives etc for some sort of coordinated "attack" on "non-privileged". It's funny because in NYC you see tons of people of all different types of backgrounds making it, and also not making it.
Ah, thanks! When I remodel I know what to look for.
> Interbank nightly balance settlements between large institutions. A distributed cryptographic ledger would be great for this kind of thing. A private “coin” between mostly trusted partners with provisions for reversing transactions as needed.

But they’re already trusted partners who already have a functioning settlement mechanism that already has provisions for reversing transactions. Jamming a blockchain on top of this solves nothing not already solved.

The claim that this would reduce maintenance overhead is hogwash – we’ve seen an unending litany of unexpected bugs in blockchain protocols and smart contracts, while the existing transfer mechanisms are already debugged. Trustless mechanisms are harder to get right than trust-based ones, not easier.
But they were discussing a particular part, no?
Oh, I agree, it's a big one. It's just not "full scale" yet. There's a lot of room for it to get bigger.
I too spent the whole time scrutinizing the syntax and ignoring the values, since this is an intro to the language and not to Bill’s dotfiles. I was ultimately unable to deduce the presumed syntax error and independently came to the same misconclusion.
Credit cards, compared to Zelle or even higher-dollar direct-transfer things, have a pretty big moat:

* for people who don't have the money up front, it covers "spending money that isn't in their account today" (for better or for worse). BNPL seems like worth paying attention to from this front, though.

* for people who do have the money up front, why move to something with more of an immediate hit to my bank account in case of fraud? For large stuff (car downpayments or above), the fee was already significant and a reason not to use them, but unless BestBuy is going to drop support for CCs, why would I move off?

Is high-dollar consumer goods what you expect to move away from CCs? Will US consumers let them?
Government intervention reflects popular will, and The People will themselves a housing crisis. They don't like change, they don't like neighbors, and they certainly don't like neighbors from different income levels than their own. The New York and San Francisco housing markets might be better governed by the Viennese electorate, but that's not on the table. They are governed by their own electorates, badly, and these are the results. Increasing the intensity of that governance will only amplify their already-revealed and already-governing preference that their cities be exclusionary museum pieces.

Put another way, if you accept that housing scarcity is bad, going to the public and saying "How do you want housing in your city to be?" is only going to make it worse.
I can see hashtags like this start circulating shortly.

#NoBailoutsForCrypto
> Setting up shared folders cross-platform is non-trivial for the average person

It's nontrivial for me either. Until Windows got a native SSH client, it was the same problem every time: do I install like an FTP server somewhere and use Explorer, or set up a samba server on my linux box or how even do I copy more than a few megabytes... I don't understand how normal people can do this if even I have trouble, especially between two different OSes. Probably usb sticks are the answer, but then normal people don't have micro-to-female-A converters to connect flash drives to a smartphone, or know that you can even do such a thing.

And so that's why I maintain https://dro.pm and, e.g. when implementing encryption (which I didn't end up implementing because it was literally impossible given the ~2020 state of browser support), one of the main requirements is compatibility. If it's not going to work on any potato, I might as well not have it half the time, because on my own hardware I can usually just ssh. Unless you really want to transfer more than a few gigabytes of data, this works reliably (good old 90s <input type=file>, no JavaScript magic in that part) and the occasional wait is better than having to do sorcery with custom software on both ends, also because I usually don't own the non-linux endpoint.
Did you mean to reply to the grandparent of my comment, to which that would be responsive? I was asking why the parent of my comment “contributed” with an argument from “that’s a low status belief” rather than a comment more like yours.
I have one question about this. I am self hosting element and i have set up jitsi for group calls and this feature. Works great but unfortunately my kiddo instance is public.. is there any way to secure it easily or make it only available to element?
I have been recently looking for a program that does a similar thing, ie simplifies creation of configs. And I did not find a suitable one by Googling. Then I realized the PHP is perfect for that and I already know it! The output of PHP does not have to be HTML or other web stuff, instead it can be a config file.
I think the widespread consensus view is that function signatures should have type annotations. Local variables are more contentious, but even then, you don't strictly need type inference to omit the type annotation in local variables (except for disambiguation).

I could easily modify the compiler to allow omitting types from `let` statements. Maybe for development you'd use annotation-free `let`s, and when publishing or otherwise finalizing code you have to write the type annotation.

I could be convinced to add this as a feature, but I tend to favor the strict and one-way-to-do-it approach.
I bet most humans won't check. See the mindset of the author:

> ... I will not delve into the questions of code quality, security, legal & privacy issues, pricing, and others of similar character. ... Let’s just assume all this is sorted out and see what happens next.
Comparison with a related language (perhaps biased, since opinion is from creator of that language).

"Comparisons between CUE, Jsonnet, Dhall, OPA, etc." https://github.com/cue-lang/cue/discussions/669
I'm a backend developer and one project I've written a simple HTTP server a few times in different languages. I like it because it's not too complicated but at the minimum you're exposed to the string processing and synchronous IO features of the language, and if you want you can do things like write an async server or multi-threaded server.
The point is the scaling fundamentals are the same across databases.

Whether that work is managed or not is a different topic, and you can find plenty of managed offerings of scale-out relational databases.
I mean, I think you should read a book on parsing theory, just not that one. I like "Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide" but there might be a newer better one.

But clang and gcc both have handwritten recursive-descent parsers for C/C++. (C++ parsing of course is undecidable, or at least used to be.)
They were pretty open that the 9 release too longer because they were building out a new build system and infrastructure to support it and future releases.

I’d also say what really counts is time to release critical security updates which they seem to be very on top of.
Not every index fund invests in the whole economy. Lots of ETFs and mutual funds out there targeting specific indexes that represent only parts of the market. Even relatively broad ones like the NASDAQ, or specific ones for ultra short treasuries.
This happened with Hertz during bankruptcy. And apparently it wasn’t entirely nuts:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevindowd/2021/11/07/how-hertz-...
Sure, but it's still compensation that is now less attractive. I never called it a moral failing.
Learn as you earn.
Yes, Singapore is a very urban area, so would not by itself survive anything for long.

(Just like New York City or London wouldn't be able to feed themselves.)

Luckily, at least we don't have to worry about hurricanes / typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes or wildfire here. Flooding might still happen.

> In most of these scenarios, your energy budget to a substantial extent is your body's own muscle power. That might be supplemented by fire (do you have fuel), animal power, or (do you have fuel) engines or generators.

Depends on what kind of scenario you are planning for. Also, in Singapore you have plenty of solar power. So you could use some of that for evaporating water.

> Many regions have official or unofficial groups which provide training and coordination for disaster planning and contingencies. Participating in one locally might help in moving understanding from a theoretical to practical basis.

Oh, there's definitely groups for that one here. I'm actually happy to leave that to other people, and the government is also doing a pretty good job.

Btw, my original point wasn't actually meant to talk about Singapore as a city. I was just meaning to comparing water needs in Arizona vs some wet place. So I perhaps should have picked some place in rural Malaysia for our comparison. (Malaysia is a neighbour of Singapore.)
> These were tech-savy people and some people couldn't change paper role in the printer.

I work in IT, but troubleshooting printers scares me. I like to keep my distance from them.
> First in an intensive series of sketches and studies, and then on the giant canvas itself, Picasso’s tableau of horror, with its contorted faces and agonized animals, rapidly took shape; in just 35 days, the thing was done. For any painter, it was an improbable feat. For an artist in his mid-50s whose life was in disarray and who had, just two years earlier, almost stopped painting altogether, it was an astonishing, athletic act of self-reinvention.

Only 35 days?? What a force of nature…
I think writing a parser by hand should be reserved for when

1. You have users.

2. You can demonstrate a marked improvement in performance and/or error reporting with the hand-written parser.

Otherwise, deriving a parser from a grammar should absolutely be the default. Writing parsers by hand is error-prone, causes security vulnerabilities[0], and is very tedious work.

[0]: http://langsec.org/
What's missing from the current threads implementation?
Secondary markets exist for Stripe stock.
Flakes gonna flake. Chiselers gonna chisel. It may not be "balance of power", just... people do what they are. At least they told you who they are, and you believed them.
Doesn't it use WebkitGTK, at least on Linux? I expect it has the same problems, but it's less of a problem for developing UIs than for browsing to arbitrary web pages—it might get a bit annoying, but you can always work around the inconsistencies or limitations by tweaking your own HTML/CSS/etc.
Right.

Can we just run Docker containers in the browser and be done with it?
> IANAL but similarly if someone steals your bicycle/car/camera while you’re not using it and then brings it back in pristine condition, what damages would you claim?

But that's ... a crime. Generally you can't sue for damages after a crime unless you can claim damages.
In what way did it seem like a "legit serious business hedge fund"? I'm unclear how Celsius got scammed making loans to a hedge fund that is on record as investing exclusively in crypto since 2018 [1] - did the hedge fund lie about their positions?

1. https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/school-friends-start...
That only gets you some of the customers’ money, not all of their money.
So uh, notifications are malware now huh?
They are in a desperate situation. When you walked, the balance of power was on your side.
it would be easy to tell apart real vs fake ones
Rust should not have provided `unwrap`
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No it doesn't? In that context, "killing it" means doing a great job.
Is the difference that you can use gov-issued money to pay taxes but not private debt? I.e. government money printing is different to crypto printing in that the gov IOUs are legally acceptable by the government.

If so, they seem similar enough for the parent take to be accurate. The gov Bond has to be paid back eventually, so it's exactly like an IOU, even if the Fed can print money and buy shitloads of these bonds.
If banks distrust each other enough to want a blockchain to handle nightly settlements, then they are massively exposed to transaction rollback shenanigans. Interbank settlements can be very, very large, and I have trouble imagining, even in the wildest cryptocurrency fantasy land, that banks could arrange for all their different types of settlements to be on the same blockchain.
Who uses Windows NFS? I wouldn’t trust it and honestly, I can’t explain why, I just wouldn’t.
https://archive.ph/zcTJs/image

You can make one from any webpage by prepending archive.ph to the URL.
What's sad is that some pension funds have exposure to Celcius. Imagine teaching for decades only to find your retirement pension is reduced because the manager thought it was a good idea to put your money into a ponzi scheme
And yet the site apparently continues to accept deposits:

https://celsius.network

Business as usual. Oh yeah, check out our hello bar for that minor detail that withdrawal, swap, and transfers are "currently paused."

These guys are going to prison.
This is covered in today’s Crypto Critics’ Corner podcast: https://youtu.be/m6xkCDP1z2s
Your questioning here rhymes with what drove me from the church:

If God is good, why do bad things happen?

I never got an answer that resonated with me. Wound up not pursuing theology.
Nothing can really make creating and learning something superfluous
> Actual compilers tend to handwrite their parsers rather than using theory; parser generators aren't good at recovery and error messages.

The linked article recommends using a parser generator. However in my experience I agree with you, parser generators aren't great in practice, which makes me hesitant to read the rest of the post.
Yes. You can point it at your own instance of jitsi or at a public open one. I'm currently hosting jitsi as well but still trying to figure out how to make it not publicly available while still being usable in Element.
I have configured my self hosted element web to point at my instance but if a user logs into the matrix home server with e.g. the element app it will still have the public element jitsi pre configured afaik.
I feel like the word "confidence" needs to be followed with "game".
I'm an embedded/real-time/systems software developer. The realms I work in tend to be either the very small or the very large. When I wanted to learn Rust and Go, I coded the same application in both of them, one that I had previously coded in Java, C++, and C: I implemented the Generic Cell Rate Algorithm using a virtual scheduler. The GCRA is a traffic shaping algorithm that takes as parameters a desired peak rate, sustained rate, and maximum burst size, to meter or police traffic. I coded it as a library function, and provided a unit test to convince myself that it worked. I can only learn by doing, and that's what I did. One of the reasons I like this approach is it requires a lot of stuff: threads, synchronization, modularization, etc. https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2018/11/vamoose-rustler.html
It's not a down round, which implies that they raised money at this valuation. It's a 409a valuation.
I honestly don't feel like these things are about a balance of power, although sometimes they are. I feel like a lot of this is more about how they value you. Are you easily forgotten for whatever fire is there? Is it a form letter? Do they call you a week before you start and ask if you want to have lunch and if you're settling in? I've had all these happen - and they almost always point to the internal culture of the place.

In terms of money offers, I had one place that I interviewed for, and I nailed it. Like, really nailed it, walked out of the startup and they literally said they will work on an offer right away. They offered me $10k less a year than I was asking. After a weekend of not responding, they upped the offer to what I asked for. I didn't go there, and I don't regret it in the slightest. I don't want to be the cost you pinch. (And no, I wasn't even asking for a raise to go there)
I use their aloe pills for interstitial cystitis.

Stuff is amazing. Was getting up 5-10 a night and it stopped that.

It’s very popular on support forums for interstitial cystitis.

Now some don’t tolerate it.
> It's not even good for money laundering since the blockchain leaves a very public trail that lasts forever.

Not necessarily. There are cryptocurrencies that get around this by using ZKP to obscure senders, receivers, and amounts.
Meet the Lobbyist Next Door
> cryptocurrency exchange

Exactly what you’d expect from a company specializing in pixie dust.

> It appears the balance of power has shifted back to employers.

I respectfully disagree. Try getting a job at a more traditional organization, like a good old bank, if you’re interested in finance.
You may have answered this in a previous thread, or it may be a dumb question, but why not just wrap rsync?
People significantly underestimate how much cost there is at certain points in the chain.

Interbank transfers are very cheap. A lot of central banks have invested heavily in payments systems too (the BoE is one, Faster is very good). But at certain other points, this technology could be very valuable. Two examples that occur to me immediately are pensions and fund administration.

Obviously, Ethereum goes beyond that with a more generalized VM. From what I have seen, this is a ludicrously inefficient way to perform computations. If that is wrong, then maybe there is more. But just blockchain alone will have a huge impact (if you look at back/middle-offices in banks/fund managers/pensions/insurance, I remember working in this area and going to one of the largest pension admins in my country...I remember vividly opening the door to the pig pen, and it was just a sea of people, 95% just responding to very basic customer queries/doing incredibly basic computation work and costing huge amounts of money...because, of course, there is no cost pressure from "customers"...a parallel that more people understand is US healthcare admin, huge inefficiencies, pension admin is like that).

We are not even at day one with this trend. I am sure people will find other applications after, but applying blockchain/distributed storage/distributed computing/whatever to back/middle office in finance will be huge. It also isn't really a question about whether it is going to happen...it will.
A business or business bank account isn’t needed, so it doesn’t matter. It’s the same with many payment providers. I linked to references for Stripe on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=32102762

PayPal etc don’t require any business stuff. Being a traditional bank is unimportant for getting paid for online stuff.

There’s a lot of ways to get access to something that qualifies as a bank account. For example, Cash App got big because it provides what a bank account does and qualifies as one, even if it is not a traditional bank at all.

Once multiple apps are available worldwide as well as multiple ways to have a bank account or a bank account equivalent, why would cryptocurrency be the future?

Multiple apps are already available for the majority of the population. The west, India, and China alone are close to half the world population.
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Terra classic is still trading... at $0.00009 https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/terra-luna/ It had a big jump when Terra 2.0 was launched. (That coin is, inexplicably, still trading in the $2 range, by people who are looking to add a lot of excitement to their life.)
>not in the same universe

You're right, they aren't. Yes, thanks to decades of power-lobbying, viable wind and solar energy were both kept as low-key and forgettable as possible - and shut-down whenever possible. Apart from the vast sums of excessive money involved, lurking in the background was the fearful and sure knowledge that everyone, everwhere had potential and certain access to endless power ... without any constraints or arm-twisting politics.

Yes ... wind and solar ARE in a different universe ... one where all of humanity can and will survive and be free of the pernicious influence of centralized energy overlords, and their wars.
Unicode is a mistake that could only have happened in turn of the century America.

It is the distilled essence of the idea that you need to be inclusive of everyone along with a fundamental ignorance of what anyone who isn't American does.

The idea that Chinese characters are glyphs in the same sense of Latin characters can only have come from someone who has never written Chinese.

It is as stupid as demanding a glyph point for each possible integral, e.g. https://quicklatex.com/cache3/8c/ql_9739884527bd893429657272... and https://quicklatex.com/cache3/18/ql_c51509950f58a52253c696a4....

Solutions for English are not solutions for all languages. You can tell because the solutions that were natively invented by people who spoke those languages were _not_ unicode.
I'm sorry this happened to you, that is some bullshit. As said by others, you are better off.

One time I was offered a high-level architect position at a technical consulting firm, and they proceeded to make me a job offer. I gave verbal acceptance, then the next day they came back and said they still wanted me but with a lower title and compensation.

I was still young and naive, and was quite surprised and then really didn't respond well (super offended). That was the end of that.

Dodged a bullet, getting pimped out by a consulting firm and working on projects without any ownership isn't my cup of tea anyway. Some people are truly Thoughtless.