skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The practical use case is pretty simple - being able to hold large sums of money yourself securely while being able to move it to who/where ever you want in less than an hour, 24/7, no questions asked.

Before Bitcoin it was practically impossible to do this without a bank as an intermediary and even then would require large fees, talking with people, lots of hang ups, just to manage your own money.
Thanks! Haven't been working on it very long, but it's about at the point where I should be starting to show people.
Great article overall with many good points worth considering. Nothing is one size fits all so I won't get into the crux of the article: "just get one big server". I recently posted a comment breaking down the math for my situation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32250470#32253635

For the most "extreme" option of buying your own $40k server from Dell I'm always surprised at how many people don't consider leasing. No matter what it breaks the cost into an operating expense vs a capital one which is par with the other options in terms of accounting and doesn't require laying out $40k.

Adding on that, in the US we have some absolutely wild tax advantages for large "capital expenditures" that also apply to leasing:

https://www.section179.org/section_179_leases/
It will get fixed just as soon as the socialists and neo-marxists obtain power, and then ... create an oppressive, centralized, and corrupt authoritarian regime, just like everywhere else they gain power? Like, seriously, what are you talking about? The US is designed that way as compared to what other society?

In every society under the sun, money translates to power, and people with more money tend to have more power. The trick is to try to balance freedom to make money and spend it how you choose with limiting bribery and corruption, and no country gets that perfect because it's a hard problem with serious tradeoffs.
Feel free to reach out at my gmail [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stevenjgarner
It cured my imposter syndrome 10/10
I'm thankful that the school that I attended forced us to take electives outside of Computer Science and Engineering. I took some Psychology classes. The list of stressful events was very surprising to me. The author alludes to it in the post. I recall that typically "happy" events are stressful, too.

Here's the list [0]:

Death of a spouse (or child*): 100

Divorce: 73

Marital separation: 65

Imprisonment: 63

Death of a close family member: 63

Personal injury or illness: 53

Marriage: 50

Dismissal from work: 47

Marital reconciliation: 45

Retirement: 45

I recently went through a layoff, like probably quite a few in our industry lately, so it rings very true to me.

[0]: https://paindoctor.com/top-10-stressful-life-events-holmes-r...
I'm sorry, but I can't disagree more strongly.

Getting laid off is a traumatic event. It is not a hero's journey except in so far as a hero's journey is exciting because it talks about a path through dangerous times where a person can fail.

I, and likely many of us, have a family. We are blessed to work in technology where we earn more than we make and can put up savings for rainy days.

The average person with a family who gets laid off will not sense adventure - they will have despair. Utter despair and worthlessness and the hope they can get things back together before their family suffers.

Heck even us tech workers can feel that way. The most depressed time of my entire life was after I had been laid off. It was bad enough that I was having negative thoughts almost every day nonstop. It was traumatic enough that it fundamentally changed my approach to savings, life, and risk (likely for the worst).

I am better now, have a family, a career I enjoy, but I now know how easy it is for the veneer to be ripped away. Its not a hero's journey - its a nightmare.
Sanctions will always be a two-sided sword. But that doesn't mean you should not enact them, even if they hurt.

It's just about the only action short of war that might cause a party to think twice, though, in practice it tends to harm the populations much more than it ever does the leaders (who in fact may find a boost from them).

It's a blunt and imprecise tool but it's what's in the tool drawer and there isn't much else in there other than war.
Another tip: store your unopened jar upside down.
It's a little stressful but a reminder that real wealth is the freedom to not be employed for a little while.

Keep six months expenses on hand to deal with this kind of thing and you won't have to be afraid of being laid off. Like you say, if you're prepared it's a free vacation and and opportunity to be picky with your next job.
It's not intentional against legitimate users, but it is intentional against people abusing the system, because telling them how they got caught will let them adjust what they are doing, to avoid getting caught in the future.
In the UK, there is Cazoo (which is a direct clone of Carvana).

My experience with them was incredible - I picked out the car and paid for it online and they brought it on a truck at exactly the agreed time. The whole purchase took 20 minutes of my time, including delivery. When they delivery person started to explain the car's features, I said I was familiar with the model as I had rented it before and researched it. He said great, he'll leave me to it. The price charged was exact, to the cent. The car's condition was exactly as shown online.

Hopefully those types of start-ups will be successful and will become more popular. It was exactly what I wish all car buying was like.

My past experiences buying cars in the US from dealerships was always a nightmare. Even if you walk in with cash to buy a specific car, it was always somehow a 4+ hour process with all the hoops they make you jump through and all the add-ons they try to tack on.
> Sooooo hard to get hired here.

Did you apply and get rejected?
If you've ever worked in retail or the like, perhaps in high school or college during the summer, you can just draw on those experiences. If you haven't, I'm sorry you missed out. If you can afford to hire, you will not find it at all difficult to find someone who is very good at this; half our economy in the US is oriented around this so there are a ton of people skilled in customer service. It is a skill, and handling the emotions is a big part of it.

The thing that is going to make it difficult for you to teach yourself customer service on the job is that you are the founder so you have no detachment. In order to handle all this you have to be able to detach yourself behind a veil of professionalism and that's WAY easier when you can remind yourself that this is "just a job" and that you are "just representing someone else (the company)" and that this moment is just as much a success for you regardless of the outcome.

None of that is actually true in your case so it's much harder. Hire someone to do customer support if you can afford to, and if you have kids be sure to encourage them to take some random summer job working with the public in high school at least once.
> I once figured I could improve my chances of getting a job if I shave my beard.

When I was an SDE 2, I kept contributing (what I felt were) consistent, marked improvements to my team and our products, but I didn't get a promo. Then I let my beard grow out and I appeared a good deal older. Shortly thereafter, I got my senior promotion.

Of course, there's no counterfactual. Maybe I just needed more time under my belt for my promo, or maybe other people were getting their well-deserved promotions before I got mine. But it felt like shedding that babyface helped me out back then. Maybe in a few years (I'm in my 40s now), I'll want to shave again to stay in the sweet spot appearance-wise.
Yes, as I said elsewhere the equity portion in startups is decidedly non-competitive for anybody but founders.

"tldr options" @ https://equity.ltse.com/calculators/tldr-stock-options is an eye-opener to see just how meh the packages offered are.
Absolutely. I know someone who considers "different domains" (as in web domains) to count as a microservice!

What is the point of that? it doesn't add anything. Just more shit to remember and get right (and get wrong!)
It's unclear to me what kind of answer you expect. It seems like you're being skeptical of the concept of news itself, except that which one has personally verified.
I agree with basically everything here. There two fundamental problems here:

1. Crypto is being designed by smart engineers who fully understand the financial system. Specifically they don’t understand why it is the way it is. It didn’t just magically appear this way full of obvious flaws. It grew over thousands of years; and

2. Most of the people pushing crypto are honestly just trying to get rich quick. Most missed out on the Bitcoin wealth transfer so they are eager to jump on or create the next Bitcoin. And pretty much all of them have a vested interest in convincing you.
Here are some more ports of LLVM and clang to wasm/the browser:

* https://github.com/kripken/llvm-js

* https://github.com/tbfleming/cib

* https://github.com/jprendes/emception

LLVM just does pure computation, really, so it's not hard to port to wasm - much simpler than say Python (which has also been ported several times). The only challenges with LLVM are the build system (which has self-execution), working around some issues like clang wanting to open a subprocess, and adding some ifdefs.
>Taleb

He already had a PhD so it's not surprising he was able to enter Academia. But outside his books I'm not aware of anyone talking about his Research much.
> Any technical decisions about how many instances to have and how they should be spread out needs to start as a business decision and end in crisp numbers about recovery point/time objections, and yet somehow that nearly never happens.

Nobody wants to admit that their business or their department actually has a SLA of "as soon as you can, maybe tomorrow, as long as it usually works". So everything is pretend-engineered to be fifteen nines of reliability (when in reality it sometimes explodes because of the "attempts" to make it robust).

Being honest about the actual requirements can be extremely helpful.
> We have a cultural problem in the West that is underpinning all of this.

And what is that, pray tell?
More politically important, The Speaker is 3rd in line to become president if something happens to the president and vice president.
What's your point? That you disapprove of the concept of separation of powers? That you disapprove of the idea of the executive president?

Neither of these are exactly unusual or extreme positions w.r.t systems of government.

Or is this just a whine about the U.S.?
> Wouldn't Rand Paul count as a fiscal conservatives who hasn't been kicked out?

Rand Paul is more of an isolationist libertarian. America First was really his slogans, before Trump made it cool. Alas, its becoming more obvious that he's a stooge for the Russians these days.

> It's impossible to ask one side to balance the budget without punishing the other side for not balancing the budget.

Name one time under Republican rule that the budget became more balanced. It literally has never happened in our lifetimes.

Regan cut taxes and raised the deficit. Bush cut taxes and raised the deficit. Trump cut taxes and raised the deficit. They're the party of tax cuts, not of fiscal responsibility.

Fiscal Conservatism is just a talking point for Republicans. Actually, it ain't even a talking point anymore. There's nothing fiscally conservative about "build a wall and make Mexico pay for it", complaining about gay people on TV, or anything going on with Dilbert (bringing us back to topic).

Dilbert, the comic strip, is simply a reflection of today's conservative sphere. Republicans want a culture war, that's their #1 focus.
Easy answer (to get the job offer, anyway) when asked "We sometimes work long hours. Are you OK with that?" I answer, "I've pulled 80-90 hour weeks (just last year) & luckily my kids are old enough that they don't need much attention on weekdays or weekends. Also, (to emphasize my "partying days are over" advantage), my friends don't drag me into as much nonsense as they used to."

Once you get the job (although, I highly recommend you avoid taking a job if you get a death march software plantation vibe), you manage high demands by nailing management on requirements and milestones and then out-plan and out-deliver your work so you have an answer for "hey, why are you leaving when we're all working overtime?" If you put in overtime at the start, assist other people and show you can deliver, then they can't give you much grief later.
This has given me a brilliant idea: deferring maintenance downtime until some larger user-visible service is down.

This is terrible for many reasons, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear someone has done this.
There is only one use case and that is the originally intended use, as a currency completely decoupled from any one country’s monetary meddling and thus liberating the populace from poor central planners and/or authoritarians. That’s it. That’s all there is to it.
I agree! Our "distributed cloud database" just went down last night for a couple of HOURS. Well, not entirely down. But there were connection issues for hours.

Guess what never, never had this issue? The hardware I keep in a datacenter lol!
If you want a VC-funded "free" PostgreSQL db (500MB, 2GB egress/mo, paused after 1 week inactivity), check out Supabase.
The problem with this argument is it assumes the differences are due to discrimination, but when we try to measure that we almost can't detect the effect of discrimination because it's so small. The differences are not skin deep like that, but usually have deeper roots. To be clear I'm not saying there are no biases like racism, but that it doesn't seem to be the dominant factor causing differences in outcome. Often the roots are deeper, like higher divorce rates, worse schools, differences in parents' socioeconomic status. Between men and women the salary difference is almost entirely a difference between women with children and men and women without.
So it does not really work in B2B.

I don't really have much to do with contracts - but my company is stating that we have up time of 99.xx%.

In terms of contract customers don't care if I have Azure/AWS or I keep my server in the box under the stairs. Yes they do due diligence and would not buy my services if I keep it in shoe box.

But then if they loose business they come to me .. I can go after Azure/AWS but I am so small they will throw some free credits and me and tell to go off.

Maybe if you are in B2C area then yeah - your customers will probably shrug and say it was M$ or Amazon if you write sad blog post with excuses.
Here's one of my favorite explanation for how mechanical watches work:
https://youtu.be/FhVGyvpLoxU

Mechanical design is something that completely baffles me and leaves me in awe.
I can comprehend almost anything electronic/digital, but I just can't fathom how one would conceive of a complex mechanism (let alone package it in a compact form!), despite understanding the physical concepts behind them.
> I can't judge that from an outside perspective, but to be fair, having nothing to show for two decades of work is an intrinsic occupational risk of science.

How? In today's academic environment you won't survive even a few years without publishable research results.
That evaluation isn't about security; it's about durability -- does the database actually save your data under all circumstances?

In this Jepsen analysis, we develop new tests which show the MongoDB v0 replication protocol is intrinsically unsafe, allowing the loss of majority-committed documents. In addition, we show that the new v1 replication protocol has multiple bugs, allowing data loss in all versions up to MongoDB 3.2.11 and 3.4.0-rc4. While the v0 protocol remains broken, fixes for v1 are available in MongoDB 3.2.12 and 3.4.0, and now pass the expanded Jepsen test suite.

It does look like it was fixed though.

I remember some mealy mouthing but maybe I got them confused with others subject to Jepsen tests ...
> Really, are you also more likely to be athiest as well?

Surprisingly, this has been studied -- here a broad introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence#S...

> why do so many communist nations end up massacring their people

I always assumed it was because Communism/Leninism/Maoism countries as implemented were authoritarian rather than democratic and encouraged "Animal Farm" type power distributions. Adoption of communism probably doesn't make people smarter, causally. But rejection of evidence-based worldviews can certainly have consequential results for individuals and communities.
False choice. The article is about racial diversity, as is my comment.

Economic diversity is important as well. You don't have to have one or the other, you can have both. Unless the school is only admitting one person per year, as in your scenario. Please don't try to distort the issue.
I really don't understand how carbon capture can make sense, in terms of thermodynamics. Burning hydrocarbons releases energy, plus carbon dioxide and water vapor. Capturing the carbon dioxide back would, in some way, require an equivalent amount of energy to be spent, right? Where is this energy coming from? In this case, it's actually mentioned in the article (unlike many other carbon capture proposals): add regenerative braking to trains -- plus make the engines work harder by adding a lot of extra air resistance for the filtering system.

Meanwhile, the European electric grid -- and therefore its electric trains -- is partly ran by burning fossil fuels (not to mention the manufacturing processes for the proposed batteries and filters). So you're burning carbon in order to get carbon out of the atmosphere -- there's no way that equation comes out as a net negative for emissions, there are inefficiencies everywhere.

This is honestly one of the most compelling carbon capture proposals I have read, and it still doesn't make sense to me. What am I missing here? Why is this being taken seriously?
ENS (Ethereum Name Service) [0], Handshake (An experimental peer-to-peer root naming system.) are so far the only valid use-cases and a need for a blockchain.

Unless you want a repeat of this [2] or this [3] with .io or someone on the other end changing the domain or address from one to another whenever they want to.

[0] https://ens.domains

[1] https://handshake.org

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611677

[3] https://thehackerblog.com/the-io-error-taking-control-of-all...
Having some experience in the field, I think you could probably just replace "organ transplant network" with the word "healthcare" and still be correct.
California’s strawberry fields may not be forever. Could robots help?
Yes, and Imagination Technologies has been around for a while, designing, among other things, embedded GPUs (dating back to PowerVR days).

They've always had nasty drivers and no documentation, but this is apparently changing, with some new mesa driver funded by the company itself announced recently.
If you bought a DVD, would you consider it wrong to get around the region lock on it?

If you bought a BMW, including the heated seat hardware, would you consider it wrong to activate your heated seats without paying BMW more money?
I was not intending to imply that the Russians did not protest. They did and generally faced far higher consequences for doing so.
Why are you being so hostile to people from other professions trying to make it in Web Development?

As a web developer of 20 years, this has always been a field of self-educated professionals with widely-varying backgrounds and abilities.
Pre-seed fundraising report on 2021-2022 trends
Plus if you are US based communicating in real time with Europe is a pain. And many EU countries have strict labor laws that limit working hours. Managers don’t want to have to get up at 6am just to meet their reports.
The Daily Mail is merely repeating a local article: https://www.eltribuno.com/salta/nota/2018-3-22-0-0-0-sergia-...
So illegal stuff. Ok.

While there might be cases you consider moral or ethical even though they’re illegal I’m not sure I’d consider this a net positive or any reason to think crypto will enjoy mass adoption.
It is much less of a nightmare if you're prepared for this kind of predicable eventuality.

If you're living paycheck to paycheck it's a nightmare, if you've got months saved up set aside for exactly this kind of thing it's a vacation.
In my experience many of those "statisticians first and programmers later" "data-kids" aren't great at programming. Yes, they can build models, but when they need to build code around that model it's often pretty awful in my experience having worked with some of them. They still need us oldsters to help them out of the messes they make.
makes me wonder how many SIKE engineers have NSA connections...
Because when they were mostly poor railroad workers, they were easily manipulated, and now that they're middle-class professionals, they aren't?
I agree insofar that the engineering solutions are not designed to diminish commons or otherwise add to the problem. Also, I find my criticism analogous to yours in that my other main point is how engineers promote their solutions as alternatives to a “broken” system, and this pessimism is negative sum thinking which is highly destructive politically. Finally, I’m an engineer who works on these problems in ways that meet these criteria; not an academic or policy maker.
The hero's journey is about facing a nightmare and emerging successful. So that sense, it is a hero's journey. Not everyone succeeds, but if you emerge, you are better for it.

Being so dependent on your employer that it would ruin your life if they terminated your contract is probably not a good thing. A hero's journey is about remediating that deficiency. For some people, being laid off may have been a good thing.
They idea was that they were going to hire an army of data scientists and become google...magically.

Reality smacked that shit down hard. I left data engineering because the projects were all over the place, wildly undisciplined and unfocused.

You were lucky to have source control let alone an understanding from the business that these projects were in fact software development.

I switched back to software engineering because at least there is a faint realization that we are...building software.

I might go back when the dust clears.

"Why do we need to hire programmers...I thought we needed data engineers?"

"Because the data pipelines are all built with thousands of lines of code. Java, python, Fortran, you name it...and your job post only mentioned SQL and data modelling"

I could go on forever.
This is absolutely ridiculous, maybe they should start by reducing his salary.
Personal experience can be source of bias in evaluation, News @ 10! /s :)
Another ouch

>Messages popping up in public Discord servers of random people grabbing $3K-$20K from the Nomad bridge - all one had to do was copy the first hacker's transaction and change the address, then hit send through Etherscan. In true crypto fashion - the first decentralized robbery.

https://twitter.com/FatManTerra/status/1554258880380772352
Definitely use a big database, until you can't. My advice to anyone starting with a relational data store is to use a proxy from day 1 (or some point before adding something like that becomes scary).

When you need to start sharding your database, having a proxy is like having a super power.
it's turtles all the way down. people will simply say the roots of the other problems that cause disparities are discrimination. And if you try to disprove that.. you see where this is going.
Correct. I like to ask "how much money do we lose if the site goes down for 1hr? a day?" etc.. and plan around that. If you are losing 1m an hour, or 50m if it goes down for a day, hell yeah you should spend a few million on making sure your site stays online!

But, it is amazing how often c-levels cannot answer this question!