skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that doesn’t need to be a bad thing. This all depends on what risk behavior does in a societal context and how much a particular leader is actually contributing to the business.

We actually have a reason to believe that the standard risk attracted business is a net-negative for society. These businesses tend to rely on government bailouts when their risky behavior doesn’t work out, or they lay off a large number of people, or they cause massive environmental damage, etc. I much prefer a business that plays it safe and doesn’t risk our environment and our economy while maximizing the profits they give to their shareholders.

Secondly, there is no reason to believe that a CEO is any sort of supreme decision maker of a company. Perhaps a democratized workplace—where the workers have a say in whether the business should engage in a risky behavior—is better at evaluating the risk. If that is the case then a CEO dictator might not want to lead the business into a risky endeavor at since they might get sued if it goes wrong, but workers who have only their jobs to loose might vote to do exactly that.

I find the society-wide stagnation prediction lacking in imagination.
yes you keep them in the same kind of wallets as other cryptos

you can convert them on DEX’s to other cryptos

you can sell them on OTC desks

you can redeem them for their underlying collateral if using onchain collateral, or with the issuer

stop using exchanges. in crypto they are occasionally part of the journey but people act like they are the destination.
I'll happily buy Bitcoins from you for $1. In fact, I'll even give you $100 per Bitcoin. Deal?
It's good asset to own and buy in a recession. Just bad asset to sell. Just as any other. Gold is going down since march too.
Will it connect with Gnome Online Accounts by default?
Impersonate Elon Musk without specifying parody.
Crypto isn't systemically important, that won't happen.
A high level of personal interest generally trumps the earning differential, unless it's a work-week unsustainable interest/passion.

As an example of work-week unsustainable, if it's better as a weekend thing for you in practice, or you get angry after doing it / trying to do it all day long, that's more of a passion activity and generally risky as a money-maker for the work week.

Focusing your work on your interests should also provide you with suitable energy/bandwidth for developing a supporting financial plan that identifies--and this is important--the minimum you need to make to live the life you want to live, house and all. (This can also include a minimum growth rate for your total wealth including savings & investments)

If you are into higher-level thinking IMO you also owe it to yourself to get into the theory of whatever you're working on, and conduct some simple informational interviews with people in industry working groups and so on.

Just some thoughts / experiences, good luck with whatever you decide. Keep in mind there are also multiple types/levels of interest, including the meta-interest of trying out various careers and roles.

Source: Am an independent career coach
MtGox had over 80% of volume during its peak.

However there wasn’t really any competition. Bitstamp and handful of crap exchanges. Coinbase was an OTC frontend.
I would create a system where big companies could interact with followers for a price. Example: Starbucks could send their followers coupons or giveaways. Since the users are followers they can actively post tweets to them instead of ads which can be blocked.
> But nothing about what they [Hackers, Painters] make, the purposes it serves, or how they go about doing it is in any way similar.

This is actually untrue. There is a lot of overlap in how hackers and painters get better. For example, both of them need to separate themselves from their work, and approach the craft with humility, so that they can maintain an open mind, listen to criticism, and find opportunities to make their work better over time.

For more examples of how they are similar, try this exercise. Watch this brief and amazing 10 minute video from one of my favorite painters, and listen to his advice on how to be a better artist. You'll find that every single one of his suggestions are equally applicable to how to become a better software engineer. One other thing about this video that also applies to code: his painting starts off ugly, but in the end, it's beautiful.

Check this video, and see if you agree that it all applies equally well to being a good programmer: "5 Things I Wish I Knew as a BEGINNER ARTIST" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEq6BfEY0ak
In other words, banks shouldn’t be allowed to drop those protections to provide a cheaper service. And the fees are mostly just profit. Banks are responsible for knowing their customers.
Outside of the geeky cool factor, what precisely is the value proposition? You say you have solar on your house. So is it that you don't have to remember to plug in? Is that a big deal for most people? What if there was some kind of auto-connect when you pulled into your parking spot? Would that be better than carrying around solar panels that don't point at the sun?

I read through the absolute technical limits of solar cars once and promptly crossed the idea off in my head. Might as well just have 1000w of folding panels in your trunk that you can set out if you really need off grid charging.
I agree with most of this, except:

> 5. When merge happens a dev's PR is squashed into one commit that gets appended to `main`

I don't know if GitHub supports this, but GitLab has a semi-linear history feature. When enabled, it won't let you merge unless a fast-forward merge is possible, but it never does a fast-forward merge.

This give you (IMHO) the best of both worlds: your history is pretty linear and easy to reason about. The "first parent" of each commit on the main branch is a linear chain of the main branch history. However, for more complex changes you don't have to squash. Those intermediate commits will be on the second parent of merges, so they're easy to filter out:

M─┐ [main] merge
│ o commit
M─┤ merge
│ o commit
M─┤ merge
│ o commit
│ o commit
M─┤ merge
│ o commit

> If you want interactive rebase then make 2 PRs.

What do you mean?
Running in a VM is there for very good reasons. If you look at where things are going to be installed on the base system, how you can reset the environment, how you deal with variations with other things installed on the host, and more. It's difficult to do this all well outside of a VM.

Also, there are many people who want that VM boundary. We found this when designing for Linux in Rancher Desktop and talking with people about it.
> Bitcoin cannot be confiscated by the government, specially third world tyrannical governments that seem to always be trying their hardest to impoverish and screw those under their administration.

This just seems apt: https://xkcd.com/538/
Practically every crypto organisation has been planning on offering some kind of proof of how good its reserves are, real soon now, right up until it went bankrupt.
The one thing which is satisfying for me about this crash is that, as a developer working in the cryptocurrency space, I was constantly looked down on by the mainstream FAANG tech crowd. They kept telling me "Crypto is a bubble, there's nothing behind it" and I would say back to them "Yes, but with all the money printing that's been going on and distorting the markets, how can we even know which company in the stock market is backed by real value?"

And now look at what's going on; big tech stocks crashed faster than crypto did. In a realistic economic environment, could these stocks be worth less than 'worthless' crypto? The effect is even more dramatic than I thought. It confirms my beliefs that the economy of the last decade was a kind of lucky lottery system.
King dollar has been disagreeing with you.
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If bitcoin is gold, shouldn't it be moving in the opposite direction? If it isn't, why not buy AMZN, GOOG, AMD, or META, who are all doing as good or better?

And since bitcoin isn't a tech stock, but a "currency," why wouldn't you compare it to the S&P (down 19%), DJIA (down 10%), or the USD (up 17% against UKP, 15% against EUR)?
It's not like he's depriving them of a job, they can go work somewhere else.
I’m sure there is a lot of great theoretically sound stuff out there, but be honest: were you using any of them when you actually made your money? Or were you just playing the same old game but with a new uniform? The problem is not the tech itself, it’s the way it is sold.
BUSD is issued not by Binance, but by Paxos that is regulated in the state of New York under BitLicense.

It is one of the toughest licenses to get in the world, so I would be surprised if BUSD somehow collapses.
It's true. It would be a lot more difficult with something like a privacy coin. Someone could write down a 12/13 word phrase as a hot wallet and have a cold wallet with a memorized phrase. No one knows how much are in either wallet or that the two are even linked.
It's flat out amazing how often people want to complicate git.

My current company, everyone is in love with git flow. I pointed out the person who originally created it literally wrote a blog post explaining why it was designed for very specific needs that most projects don't have, and yet ...

I constantly see people doing presentations on how this is all supposed to work. And why? You can get away with very simple flows.
The WHO published a paper estimating the aggregate IFR to be ~0.2% and suggested social distancing measures targeting the most at risk [1]. Essentially the WHO changed its stance to match what Jay was arguing for.

1. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/340124/PMC7...
What you saw as a history lesson, I saw as a deconstruction of the anatomy of a four-year cycle. Interesting how we all see what we want to see.
Simply tweet "I'm Elon Musk. The real one. Not joking." ?

Somehow I doubt anyone will notice.
> outside of fixed costs, it isn't possible to lose money with an exchange

It is, e.g., if the fees on the average transaction are lower than your variable costs. It is just extremely improbable for that to occur accidentally.
No, we understand it pretty well and the "core advances" in signature and blockchains haven't obsoleted anything.

Nothing has been made obsolete, nothing about Bitcoin replaces any existing financial institution.
Two days later this hasn’t aged very well, has it?
Maybe so, but there was another article not long ago talking about how, while originally bitcoin was expected to act like gold - ie go up when people worried about the stability of the financial system, what happened instead is that it's basically just correlated with the stock market. So in that light, the GP comment is useful context. Even if you think that long term it's a pyramid scheme, its short term performance is basically explained by the stock market, and is not evidence of the scheme unravelling, or whatever you might call it
> What is it about bitcoin that brings people into these threads to say "good riddance! I hope it dies because all of it's negative externalities."?

The negative externalities.
I don’t see how it answers those questions.
exchange failure? this is a very small player with $500m daily volume only

it's a noise https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/crypto-com-exchange

it's the failure of all the suspicious exchanges for sure
There was a recent bug fixed, specifically on YouTube, due to ad-blocking causing a constant loop fetching and reloading an icon or something to that end, I believe - it was fixed in a recent release.

I suspect that was what you were seeing, and if so, updating should have addressed it.
Sorry, fresh out of BTC (I was all in on this Celsius get rich quick scheme!), I'll have some tulips in the spring though. $100 each, sound good?
> stop using exchanges. in crypto they are occasionally part of the journey but people act like they are the destination.

If you ever want normal people to use crypto, exchanges or banks or something similar have to be part of it. Securely storing crypto is just too hard for normal people.
She did and has done a handful of other great things from her Senate seat. She also does very strong finger wags with the rest of them. Not aware of my denial of said org. Can you please quote? Or did you just do a strong finger wag at me :)

I want to add a rule to Senate/House committee procedures that you can't say a damn thing that isn't followed up with action. Their job is to VOTE on shit, not give their opinion.
A good DSL is not easy to implement, of course.

But the point here isn't just that it can be more regular than SQL. Integrating with the syntax of the host language is also a considerable advantage, ideally with static type checking.
The only mistake was hiring too many people in the first place, way way beyond what was really necessary. I suppose that gave them false hopes of being forever employed by Fb, aka millionaires in the making. I know being fired stings like hell, but it just a job, a limited time contract. Hopefully some good startups will come out of this whole situation.
The WSL2 backend is pretty broken from my experience, it will often lock up using 100% CPU after I put my laptop into sleep/hibernation, and the only reliable way to bring it back seems to be killing the VM in task manager and restarting. Dunno if this is Windows' fault or Docker's though.
I live near a Great Lake and have always enjoyed looking out over the seemingly endless expanse of water to put my problems into perspective.
Real world scenario I witnessed recently:

1. subject had a bank account with the ability to link to Zelle

2. subject turned on Zelle to receive money from a family member

3. several high dollar Zelle transactions were made - subject claims that they were at home with covid and no one had access to her phone

4. she calls bank to cancel transactions, bank refunds money

5. bank investigates and claims face id and her IP address was used and takes refunds back

6. subject takes bank and zelle to court

7. Zelle says: we are just a middleman - not our responsibility

8. bank claims that it can't investigate where the money went because it was instant transferred

9. banks settles for some of the money

Conclusion? If you have to use Zelle or Venmo, attach it to a bank account with limited funds in it.
FWIW I think I have seen most of those titles posted to HN over the last few months.

e.g.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33357289
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33379932

Anyways, a sharp decline in cryptocurrency markets caused by the continuing house-of-cards is almost certainly going to make front page HN.
The only alternative I see is that you're proposing bitcoin's price should generally rise faster than inflation when inflation is positive.

Is that really what you mean, and what you think my parent comment meant? Inflation is a mechanical thing; to get that effect, you'd need a financial instrument that was specifically defined to produce it.
Probably the gap in FTX balances, $10B, was much more than anyone estimated. Maybe even FTX themselves did not know.
(I have not downloaded it.)

Q: How long does a run typically take? 60 seconds?
I once played a very sophisticated online mmporg ... the amount of information I possessed about all the skills and equipments dwarfs that of cryptobros) Let them play)
That may be relevant when you're writing a program. When you're writing a _library_, the "discovery" has already happened. But you can't just use the minimum level of generalization useful for your own program(s), you need to consider the conceivable needs of fellow programmers.
It sounds like you use the internet way different than me. I can't remember the last time I searched something where the end result wasn't mostly objective. Documentation, directions, tour information, movie times, programming questions, patch notes. Maybe seek contrary views out in the world. The internet is a terrible place to form a world view and to really communicate in general.
make a second account, DM the gamer word from your main, then report yourself

but that's more trouble than its worth
what is `tag-ish`? Having trouble googling it
Thinking it is harmful is different than "don't care for it".
And money laundering is basically a fancy way of saying money was moved and/or privacy enhanced in a way the government didn't agree with. The truth is government could eliminate KYC and AML and bitcoin would largely die.
This would not have happened unless Sam had gambled with customer deposits. Hard to blame CZ here.
Can you use BTC to pay taxes in the US and settle debts? Can BTC be used to purchase oil? No? Then this argument doesn't make any sense.
It's terrifying that a small change at a single URL controlled by a single national government can censor content on five billion machines.

Is there anything else on the entire internet so centralized?
you are displaying a lot of foolish ignorance and compounding it with misplaced certitude but in good faith and a spirit of wide eyed curiosity I applaud your lack of understanding of finance. also you get a lot of credit for using the word "nuance" as if it somehow changes the definition of the word finance.

finance, trading, barter, humans will not allow collusion to continue unchecked. so finance being defined partly as the lack of check against collision is pure propaganda by Buterin and you are his mark. the only reason the collusion rife in the crypto space is so unchecked is because its a big casino constructed for you to play in by people like SBF, CZ, V. Buterin. The whales represent a huge cartel. The drama of the last few days is a parable of collusion, retail being tricked into gambling their life savings, retail being fed lies about how the word is and how the world is not, lies which are easy to disprove.

you are a classic retail mark, being fed and regurgitating marketing and propaganda to encourage you to play your part.

look up retail FX trading manias in Japan in the early to mid 00's as recent past as prologue.
It depends on the government.

"Crypto Currency Now Accepted For All State Tax Payments"
https://tax.colorado.gov/cryptocurrency
Borrowing shot up in Tether, and with it, the interest rates on lending dapps. The same didn't happen with USDC:

USDT: https://app.aave.com/reserve-overview/?underlyingAsset=0xdac...

USDC: https://app.aave.com/reserve-overview/?underlyingAsset=0xa0b...
plain old ruby object. basically you take your truth from the database and you plug it into an object that takes the data and functionally produces a data output that you feed to your view.
Most of what you said there isn't actually true. I don't doubt you believe what you're saying, I'm just pointing out it's not true.

My favorite is how apparently rebasing causes developers to write better code. If you say so.
FTX had staff of 300 earlier, so it has grown.
> This isn't a problem with Docker, which has tight control over what is deployed.

That contention is heavily dependent upon how Docker was installed. Docker desktop, yes. Command line Docker on Linux? That used to be much more complicated and depended on if you had an OS vendor provided version or had a Docker provided repo install.

RHEL’s repo version always seemed particularly out of date to me.
That was me, and they aren't that far apart. Is 41% of the area under a lot more than 32%? Not really, see this example[1] Norway here has a coefficient of 27.5 and the US was at 41.2 but the graphs are barely different except that you can see that the US has a sharp bend on the far right hand side. The gini formula is really sensitive to that in a way that doesn't tell us much.

[1] https://wol.iza.org/uploads/articles/495/images/IZAWOL.462.g...
I've personally written thousands of lines of code that does (or did) something yet is currently worthless.
<< the value of it should be close to $1 or less.

Value ( and by extension price ) of anything is what people are willing to pay for it. Some digital cards in a Blizzard game were purchased for thousands of dollars. There is some digital real estate that was purchased for millions. We can argue all day long whether it makes sense and what the value should be, but that is the wrong perspective to begin with.

<< will never give dividends

Even now I can easily point to stocks that never paid dividends.

<< it's a pyramid scheme

At this point, it is a pyramid scheme the same way US dollar is a pyramid scheme.
The article said they reduced costs by not using glass for the solar panels, and by limiting the color options to a single color.

I don't know anything about car manufacturing, but that seems logical I guess. The car is ugly, but $25k for an EV with 190 mile range seems like a pretty sweet deal, even if the solar panels turn out to be a useless gimmick.
Are you confused about why the HN community would be more interested in big moves in the first cryptocurrency rather than in BLK or AMZN?
The employees don't have control of the company, and they agreed to not have control when they signed on. If they want to control, they are free to start their own company, invest capital to get more voting rights or provide enough value that the company wants their input enough to give them voting rights. Also, just getting another job is an option... But I admire what seems to be a very generous severance package, which is not legally required on the part of Meta.
> I will personally buy every last bitcoin on the planet before it gets close to $0.

At some point during that process you will run out of the actual money you're using to buy bitcoin. It will then crash from being worth a fraction of a penny to zero.