skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1) Dividends are one way to extract value. Another is mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs. For example, if Musk had bought Twitter with no dividends, shareholders would make money. If Google were split into 50 mini-companies, and Microsoft acquired one of those, shareholders would make money. There are many other ways to extract value

This doesn't fix the issue. Unless one of those spin-offs eventually makes a profit and pays a dividend, you're still engaging in a zero-sum game. You just offloaded the bag to someone else, either the owners of the merged company, or the acquirer.

> 2) Like dollars, shares act as a fiat currency of sorts. We can all keep our saving there if we all keep believing.

That doesn't stop it from being a zero-sum game, though. We already have fiat currency that is superior in every way, so what actual benefit to the shareholder over holding fiat?

> That can be a pool of small investors, or they can be bought by a Berkshire-Hathaway, who can reorganize them for profitability, and resell them.

Right, so you mean, eventually the company can be made to pay dividends, which is kind of besides the point?
You are attempting to redefine mental illness to suit your own irrational biases in a way that doesn't align to modern psychiatry.
We also haven't recently had a short president, or a woman president, or an Asian/Indian president...
> What happened to that?

NAT did.

There are many people advocating to keep using network address translation, refusing to let go of this workaround for a problem that IPv6 solved long ago.

Inevitably they either think that NAT == firewall, or that carrier-grade NAT is needed for their privacy. (I mentally translate that last word to "illegal activity".)
Torture. Getting beaten with a rubber hose.
>committing genocide in Ukraine.

False. The current actions are not genocide by any means. Even raping of civilians is unproved. Ukraine even fired their human rights chief because of lie spreading https://www.newsweek.com/lyudmila-denisova-ukraine-commissio...

>There is no reason for Russias war of aggression other then because they want to capture a country that they claim doesn't even exist.

False. The expansion of NATO to the east, 2014 anti-russian coup in Ukraine, the refusal to follow to Minsk agreements(guaranteed by western leaders, who failed them too) and militarization of Ukraine were the major reasons of the events.

Another false: Putin never claimed Ukraine doesn't exist.
> I've found it better to carry with me a small Linux device running an SSH server. This can even be a Raspberry Pi.

What a beautiful demonstration of the utter failure of both parts: The iPad is so useless that people end up carrying around an entire second computer just to remote into locally so they can run useful work. And the hardware ecosystem outside of Apple and parts of the software ecosystem on Linux are so bad that people are willing to carry around an entire separate device just to be the user interface to all that power.
I don't know any of them directly. But they do have an email on their github readme that you can send a request to for an invite to their discord. And if they don't respond on that, you can reach many of them in the Eth R&D discord.
A lot of people draw the line at plastic surgery, which I guess hair transplants count as?
They're arguing against "big water", and shouting that we should all have local wells.

Well... umm... okay, if that makes sense. But it doesn't for most people most of the time.

People as a rule like centralised services, because they can innovate and iterate faster. Centralised services have efficiencies of scale, round-the-clock support, and other perks that decentralised systems generally cannot afford to replicate many times over, at least once for each instance.
What a waste of time to read.

Blogger randomly selects other bloggers garbage article to hand select a comprehensive list of projects no one has ever heard of and rightly bashes them. Of course, ostensibly this is representative of all projects (even those that actually have a following)

Beyond a bore.

A ledger is the oldest (Sumer) recorded instrument used in organized society. We now have an immutable ledger that requires zero intermediaries.

How is it possible for people to fail in understanding that value?

Can anyone speak to the timeframe after 99-00 implosion of the internet when people finally stopped claiming it was a sham?

I just want to know when to expect this kind of boring shortsightedness to taper off
The paper describes how to mitigate eavesdropping:

> Changing the fiber adapter connecting to the modem from a flat PC end face to an angled APC end face can reduce the echo, which is also a practical method to avoid the risk of being eavesdropped.
There is a lot of pioneering work done in Java and the JVM. GraalVM, ZGC, Shenandoah are but a few.
I'll ignore the unwarranted insult for the sake of conversation.

Shares have no durable inherent value outside the expectation of profit. Without a dividend, or some tax-efficient simile to them, the expected value of a share you don't sell is exactly zero.

If all the expected value of a share comes from selling for every actor, then selling and buying that share is a zero-sum game by definition.
I was surprised that this was not correlated into softening/peaking housing sales. Is that not a factor for less demand and lowering rates?
It’s a bit of a leap to go from “sure we steal your money and everyone is poor” to “hey we are going back 20 years and stopping all communication”. I think it’s a bridge too far outside of North Korea. Even China has a die hard and widespread crypto base despite their “banning” of exchanges and their great firewall. I worked previously on tech to get around it (rapidly cycling domains that are registered often and flip when the neutral list blocks a domain temporarily) and that was so normal people didn’t have to get one of the easy-to-find VPNs.

If crypto skeptics on HN were right then crypto would have died during one of the prior busts like beanie babies did. But it has an ideology underpinning it (Austrian economics and individual freedom) that keeps it growing.

While there are many who get in for a quick flip there is a large, possibly the majority, who see it as a movement rather than a get quick rich scam. This is why it doesn’t die.
> If publish or perish is going to continue to be a thing, maybe just switch to publishing negative results. It's not sexy, but it's valuable too.

If we are to be allowed to publish papers from negative results then I should go and dig out my PhD notes and get writing!

Seriously, though, I started noticing the many broken incentives early on, after a explanation about "impact factor" from an older PhD student in our lab.
> For my first salary job, my commute was about 4 hours or so

Sure, but I think you were an outlier, very far from typical.

> More junior people, say an entry level employee who still lives at home, will have longer commutes.

Longer, sure, but I still don't think anywhere near 4 hours.
Very good article. Whatever happened to Beaker Browser, Blockstack etc?
The 85% number seems to have been quoted for at least a decade or so, cited in some cases I can find to a 2013 book [1]. Here's a summary via a 2019 open-access book chapter about leaving the Amish [2]:

> Contrary to the persistent myth that they are dying out, the Amish population in North America continues to grow at a rapid pace. Numbering over 330,000 in thirty-one states and four Canadian provinces, the Amish population doubles every twenty years (Young Center 2018; Donnermeyer et al. 2013). While over 60 percent of the Amish still reside in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, home to the four largest Amish settlements, population pressures are increasingly resulting in out-migration to areas where land prices are more affordable. Because the Amish do not actively seek converts, this population surge is a result of two major forces—large family sizes and a high retention rate. Though family size differs by affiliation, Amish families still average approximately five children. At the same time, the retention rate is at an all-time high. Fully 85 percent of Amish youth get down on their knees in front of their congregation and pledge to uphold the Ordnung, or unwritten code of conduct, of their local church district (Kraybill, Johnson-Weiner, and Nolt 2013).

[1] Kraybill, D.B., Johnson-Weiner, K.M., and Nolt, S.M. (2013). The Amish. The Johns Hopkins University Press.

[2] McConnell, D.L. (2019). Leaving the Amish. In: Handbook of Leaving Religion, ed. D. Enstedt, G. Larsson, T. Mantsinen, pp. 154-163. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004331471_013
Some people are very savvy about course selection and credit/no-credit usage. These people optimize for GPA and end up having a much easier time getting into certain graduate schools (law school comes to mind).

Other people take classes based on what they're actually interested in, and feel bad about using credit/no-credit elections along the way.

If your post-college aspirations would benefit from a high GPA, consider being savvy about this stuff. Many of the kids I knew who went to top grad programs were not smarter than other kids; they were just more mercenary about it. It's not that they didn't want to learn for the sake of learning — they just realized that their ultimate goal was HLS or whatever, and so their college goal was 'optimize the chance of getting into HLS'.

Also, don't get hung up on first impressions. Some kids who rubbed me the wrong way at first ended up being decades-long friends.
Since JavaScript is the only way to interact with the DOM in a web browser, you literally cannot use anything different than JavaScript, which makes your point to use other languages quite hard to follow.
This really should be a setting in the head unit.
Sadly even if it was there, I doubt I would trust it to fully disconnect.
What is a Sneaker Proxy?
My problem with nuclear is the lack of a solution for waste. Geologic sequestration sounds like it could work, but it has been politically dead in water in the US. There are few success stories in this category internationally and lots of little nuclear waste depots. Some pose catastrophic risks to the communities they are stored in. The clean up efforts at these sites are often endless feast for government contractors way behind, insanely over budget.

I want to see modular reactors succeed, but the prospect of more nuclear waste depots with no long term plan in the US comes of to me as brazenly irresponsible.
At roughly ~"10 years now"
The dot com bubble burst shatterjng the 'internet' and the thousands of companies founded upon it.

I can only imagine you held the same beliefs then as now
Generic specialization is being worked on.
> If everyone but you voted for cake and ice cream on wednesdays, but you’re clocking in at the gates of hell each morning, will you accept defeat and join them?

This reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1170/ - if everyone but you is voting for that, there's probably something going on other than that you're the only sane one.
The horrifying stereotypical faulty AI answer is that the dead are violent only in fiction. Which illustrates the ironic essential hypocrisy involved in getting a stable solution. I don't think it is a routable solution or achievible even if we may see the path. Like how we can easily see "be born a billionaire" as an answer to personal fiscal woes.

Slightly less extreme and horrifying than omnicide but persistent are somehow inflicting widespread learned helplessness that somehow persists across generations. Even if we could all be "honey-beed" and all die from inflicting serious harm, any defect would make the "violence capable mutants" monarchs.
The TempleOS guy was probably one of the more memorable ones though you'd need showdead on to see a lot of the comments from his accounts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=templeos
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=TerryADavis
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos

Posted a lot but had fairly meagre karma.

Some background about him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112887
Pennsylvanian Dutch is more likely since they shun fancy things like electricity. https://ohiosamishcountry.com/articles/amish-faqs But, the concatenated type names deep in any inheritance hierarchy would tend to be a scary sight (there be dragons) in agglutinative languages.
Isn't this just another step in evolution?
Cliche, but keep your door open. You'll probably make some lasting friends.
I have an issue with ".net", it really seems like someone was asked to pick the worst possible name and did a good job.
Hmm.

1. Nice idea but the TVM is tiny because its healthcare adjacent and built upon the straw foundation of healthcare startups and their backers. This functionality isn’t needed for most and is impossible to build where it’s needed — specialty medicine.

2. The true opportunity in the healthcare tech space is capturing a piece of the actual transaction either upstream like CoverMyMeds (marketing dollars) or downstream like RelayHealth, Change (Rx dispensing) which is what Plaid is actually doing. Nowadays this means capturing a piece of the specialty market which is extremely difficult due to the complexity of specialty medications.

3. New people to US healthcare don’t understand that outside of price transparency, the biggest fundamental issues in healthcare are actually time to therapy and patients remaining on therapy which is impacted by things like authorizations, lack of therapeutic support, and of course price again.

What does this mean? I as a patient have my data per HIPAA. It is easily transportable by myself or my providers however there isn’t a whole lot I can do with it for the reasons I mentioned above.

This isn’t the same problem as Plaid where theres a huge market because there’s a ton of choice and utility for the end user and also for startups looking to simply process a financial transaction.
I have lost whole consecutive weeks to WebPack. It made me wish I could go back to something wholesome and healthy, like template metaprogramming in C++.

"I'm making progress, boss. The error output from the build is smaller than the input source code now."
Surprised that about 15% of the sites don't/didn't work.
Interesting article!

It's probably a lack of imagination on my part, but how could this possibly work for any but a tiny minority of people? Or, worse, how could this not become a new form of indentured servitude?

It does seem curious to look at the world and think: this has insufficient financialization of people's lives. But then, while we can buy life insurance policies, we can't, say, buy a policy insuring against being poor by middle age. Not a pension, not shares in one's future: insurance. That seems more likely to work as a product. That could work now.
I read Blindsight based on a recommendation here.

Honestly… I think it’s a great book, but one that I would have to read multiple times to fully understand.
Keep in mind it’s tens of millions of dollars of recurring monthly revenue. While first month sales are inflated compared to the average, it would be just as notable if their monthly revenue were to fall below 8 digits in the months (or years) to come, and would be treated as evidence of a major blunder on Blizzard’s part. Unlike buy-to-play games, whose launch sales are the majority of its lifetime revenue.

Besides, it was never an either-or thing for Blizzard. They’re currently positioned to launch Diablo 4 while continuing to milk Immortal, and profit handsomely from both. The backlash from “core” gamers is only encouragement at this point, telling them that they’ve managed to tap a brand new market instead of cannibalizing their traditional business.
It is not me as the remitter that is regulated. It is the contractor receiving the payment that is restricted on what they do with it in their foreign country. My understanding is that most of the countries involved have severe restrictions on hard/fiat currency transfers but not (yet) on crypto currencies.
It seems that the list is not comprehensive since Walter's website is not included [1]. Fun fact, the most famous Jacques once posted Walter website on HN [1]:

[1]https://walterbright.com/

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7825763
Money is always just a proxy. People have been evading responsibility for murder by tossing dead bodies in wells and rivers for millennia.

Whey is an example of ease of rationalization "you're just feeding the fish".
If the "double every 20 years" holds, it means 6 million or so Amish by 2100.
I'll be sure to read up on the latest regarding that matter. I could be outdated. I don't think it was something like apple has a key escrow.

Regarding the price of a 0-day, it is clear that the fbi bought it. (maybe it wasn't 0d at the time but it was an exploit.) The cost is irrelevant considering it was a state actor. In context of this discussion, apple resisted.

I'm all for more security and will take your recommendation for a vendor with more integrity. I think we have to weigh integrity vs capability, though. Good intentions don't confound tough adversaries.
Unless I'm massively misunderstanding your setup, that Docker image contains an entire OS and runtime, not just your website. Reasonable people can disagree about whether that entire paradigm is sensible but, having chosen to use Docker, complaining about image size in this way seems an odd choice. More to this point, most of what is in the image will be little to do with Node or its build systems..
One thing I've been curious about with FDB (need to find time to try this myself) is using FDB as a way to easily implement replication with consistency.

For example: You have 5 Postgres instances. You send the query "SELECT * FROM TABLE" to FDB, you want the result of this from any of the 5 Postgres's (first to return wins). When you insert, you want to insert into all 5 and make sure that all 5 have actually finished the transaction before telling the client.

Seems simple enough to implement via FDB?
They better stay away from Electron apps then.

But seriously, they shun electricity‽
ftio's comment spells out "slavery". catchnear4321's comment spells out "consume".

I'm not sure why your shareholders would want you to consume. The more time you spend consuming the less time you spend producing value for your shareholders.
> Recent-ish advancements in tech here have made it possible to continuously measure the amount of exhaled CO2 from a patient's breath, transmit EKGs wirelessly for review by a physician in a hospital, and automatically cycle a blood pressure cuff at any interval we want.

None of these things mentioned require any recent tech advances. This could literally be done in the 80s.

It’s more a testament to how slow meaningful progress has been made in healthcare tech for economic, political and scientific reasons - the non cynical aspect is that for a lot of the cost involved the benefits in outcomes are not necessarily there.
If you invested in bitcoin ten years ago, you are happy.

I invested in bitcoin five years ago and I an happy.

Ukrainians are heavily invested in crypto and consider crypto (at a governmental level) to be a significant contribution to their efforts in maintaining their sovereignty.

It's tiresome waiting for the unimaginative and uninsightful to open their eyes
I faced the same choice when at a very young age I realized I was not neurotypical. Just like the hikkomoris, I have made an active choice to not be like the others and while that costs me dearly in some aspects of my life, it has definitely helped me in other ways.
Do cars with police packages have data collection?
What does “neuromorphic” mean today?
I believe this https://sqlite.org/src/doc/json-in-core/doc/json-enhancement... is more up to date, as json_nextract is no longer in the core functions.
I really thought this was gonna be about carbon atoms and molecular interactions, in some kind of geeky, programmer-friendly analogy.
Karma scores used to be visible next to each username in the leaderboard.

Somewhere down the line, I believe dang hid it, but I forget the reason why.
You don’t have word for ganth gobi?
> My problem with nuclear is the lack of a solution for waste

Waste management is pretty much a solved problem [1][2]

> Some pose catastrophic risks to the communities they are stored in

"catastrophic" would have to be qualified here, and I think you are being hyperbolic, but essentially the only waste sites that have major risks are those from decades ago before we had good solutions. Nuclear is incredibly safe [3]

1. https://twitter.com/MadiHilly/status/1550148385931513856?s=2...

2. https://twitter.com/MadiHilly/status/1552655863751421955?s=2...

3. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
To be fair, the compatibility is a design goal, not a complete feature as such.

Even C++ struggles to be compatible with C++. I expect Carbon to have at least as hard a time with it, especially given the "bazaar" that is the C++ build and packaging ecosystem.

I also expect that Carbon will have a hard time tracking C++ as it evolves. It could freeze C++ feature development? Or it could target an old and aging C++ standard?

Point is, I'm not taking C++ compatibility as a given. It seems very hard and may require a lot of big tradeoffs.
This could be framed as taking care of your mental health. Long term investors would still be in I imagine...
I'm not based in the US, so I'm wondering whether people meet ex-Amish in the general course of their lives? Do they go on to lead otherwise ordinary modern lives and have office jobs?
Open Soil Spectral Library
> > people in all seriousness suggest Spivak, or Rudin

> What's wrong with them?

They are excellent books in their own right, and can be excellent books for mathematically mature students looking for a mathematically mature perspective, but their likelihood of serving well someone who is struggling with an introductory calculus course is, I would suspect, vanishingly small.
it's odd because all you have to do is click on the name to see the karma, so why not just list it along with the other 90 names and scores visibly shown on the page?
New third-generation Formula E car is fastest ever electric racer
It may have been a compromise from my request that we replace numeric karma scores with something like "lots" after some threshold.
I think Kafka is enough for this use case? FDB should work too but sounds like overkill.
>>What will happen if West would allow it? Will it collapse? If not, why censor it? If it will, what's the difference between West and Putin? Both will collapse without censorship.

>If you're wading int moral relativism, then what is the point, really?

It's neither moral relativism nor whataboutism to ask for the principle that divides our "good" censorship from their "bad" censorship.

Once that mechanism for censoring RT is in place, what is the principle that will keep bad actors who gain the reins of power from censoring inconvenient truths or political opponents?

The mass adoption of some terrible idea by the populace in history nearly always accompanies control of information or censorship.

Unfettered access to all ideas, even bad or nutty ones, will lead to some bad or nutty people adopting those ideas, but collectively people understand what's true.

This is why it's shocking that Europe is adopting the tactics of control that dictators use.
The Google Pixel’s squeeze for assistant was a button without a button
You forget a lot of colleges are businesses. That stuff is just too expensive, they won't do it. Also, failing too many students looks bad as well, so they won't enforce anything too seriously.
"The company explained that advertisers saw a 62.1% conversion rate from customers who opted in to personalized ads in Q1, compared to a conversation rate of 62.5% among users who opted out."

Assuming those ridiculously high conversion rates are correct, it sounds like the unpersonalized ads are more to the users' tastes than the personalized ads. Why bother?
Couldn't selling <50% of yourself get around this?