skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mortgage-backed securities weren't exactly the problem, it was merely the vehicle in which a trans-Atlantic banking regulation arbitrage trade was carried out, and the trade accidentally became fully self-financing. US mortgage originators and banks were allowed to take risk if they sold it off onto the capital markets, and EU banks were allowed to take risk as long as it was deemed "safe" by ratings agencies.

The truly pernicious part is the self-financing spiral. Banks issued mortgages, which deposit cash in the home seller's account. Seller puts the cash into a money market fund. MMF gets short-term interest by financing AAA-rated securities. EU banks use this financing to buy senior tranches of MBSes. These MBS purchases allow banks to issue more mortgages by freeing up their capitalization.

Like, zero-sum alchemy will only generate small frauds and relatively limited losses. You need large amounts of leverage and some kind of self-financing spiral to generate catastrophic de-leveraging events.
> Podman has developed a heap of systemd hooks that effectively use that as the daemon.

Does that mean Podman is not technically ... rootless?
That sounds like a meme.
Lice are very special animals, and are not given enough credit.

Head lice are not known to carry any disease.

They help modulate the immune system. At the same time, they are hypothesized to improve immune response to tick-borne disease, such as Lyme.

They are fascinating to observe if you have the time and patience.

They are not much trouble to take care of and to control their population size.

One of the sweetest pets I've ever had was a head louse. I miss you, Bob.
It was The Electric Company and the woman was the legendary Rita Moreno. That show had an impressive ensemble cast, which included Morgan Freeman and Bill Cosby (who is not so much legendary these days as infamous).
I don’t disagree. I just hope we get to a place where the product does what’s on the tin and no more.
i tried cosmodread on a friends quest 2 and it made me shit my pants oh my gosh
This might say more about the effectiveness of antidepressants than anything else.
Indeed. But you should try to put yourself in a position where you can define the struggle you want to triumph over.
Here's how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks
I'm not sure why I do it, but I regularly remove all the stars from my GitHub project.
you're looking at the wrong thing - it's the platform that meta wants, not the "product" they demonstrated (that looks childish from your POV).

It's like saying, back in the early days of the internet, that showing an ugly, unstyled text with pictures on a webpage is worthless. The platform has grown to become a cornerstone of human civilization!

Facebook wants to own something akin to that. _If_ their bet works out, they will be so very powerful. I think as a netizen, it's my duty to make sure their bet doesn't go the way they want. Platforms should not be owned, but be federated and compatible, and open.
Everything he says except the second paragraph seems spot on to me. But I'm worried (for him I guess) that he's ignoring lots of evidence that VR just can't work - like, it's natural seeming in theory but every time it has been done it makes our brains and stomachs confused.
5 invites if anyone need:

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“The price of this book will fluctuate”
Wikipedia:

> In the United States, Mexico, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Pacific Island nations, and English-speaking Canada, the sign is written before the number ("$5"), even though the word is written or spoken after it ("five dollars", "cinco pesos"). In French-speaking Canada, exceptionally, the dollar symbol usually appears after the number, e.g., "5$".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Prefix_or_suffix

The linked article appears to be talking about U.S. dollars, and all evidence points to it being written in English, so I don't believe the regional usage is relevant.

It's hard to argue what the accepted usage will be in future generations, but using the dollar sign as a suffix does not appear to have become accepted by any institutions I'm aware of at the moment. Distinguishing a simple mistake from a visionary act of linguistic prophecy is beyond my capabilities.

If you can point me at a reference that makes a good case that the linked article is the accepted usage, I'd be obliged.
Casady & Greene published "Conflict Catcher", which would help you figure out working stable sets of extensions, and quickly enable/disable big groups of them. I remember I had a group of extensions that I would reboot into in order to play a particular game (though I don't remember which one) that had high memory requirements, but needed a couple extensions to be able to do network play…
So if I go to the loan shark, borrow money and stick it on a donkey the 10:15, if I get lucky and the donkey wins, I was just illiquid, but if he collapses half way around the course, I was actually insolvent.
It's a UX thing. The "auto-close" behavior makes the policy obvious.

And presumably the maintainers are not bound in any way to not re-open an especially good/important bug. It just makes makes non-patron support opt-in, instead of opt-out.
Bots in this context are always referred to bad bots. Like just go on twitter and type 'Metamask, need help' and see 100 replies to your tweet within few minutes.

There are also good bots on twitter, reddit, telegram, but the context in which we are discussing bots while naturally refer to scam bots along with useless spam bot.
No car has a 7 square meter roof. 1 square meter would be common, but not 7.
Alameda messed up in the same way that three arrows did. That’s not necessarily Sam’s fault, because he did not run Alameda at the time. However, it seems like you build them out by providing them with a ton of FTT collateral so he’s pretty much complicit.
By that logic it works the other way too. They miss out on interest on funds that were delayed in being sent to them.
I used to work in a semiconductor industry before. My earnings this year is 25% of what I used to earn 8 years back (literally, not adjusted for inflation). However, this is still more than enough to pay my bills ;)
FYI: the Washingtonpost article;

Mysterious company with government ties plays key internet role : https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/08/trustco...
It sounded bad, but how much donations that you'll receive don't actually always link to star counts. Stars on GitHub is more like "how many people added this project to their bookmark" than anything else.

That said, as how things goes, there are "high value" projects as well as "low value" ones. If you want to make money out of your open source project, target those "high value" use cases might help. Some fields just don't make a lot's of money even if you tried really hard.
Yes, just one of many schemes laid bare. Always about trapping customers and holding them captive.
“ federated and compatible, and open.”

So - who’s doing it?
It's really hard to make electrical conductors transparent, though. Indium tin oxide is the only significant exception and you probably couldn't make a microchip out of it.
I agree. And yet I still took this story as a reminder to buy some AAA rechargeable batteries.

They were double the price at my local big-box/hardware store.
> Declarative systems work by generating the desired state 'from scratch', often with some kind of efficient cache.

This is an option, but it is certainly not a requirement. If I say "I want cheeseburger", it is irrelevant to me if the cheeseburger is made from scratch or had been partially assembled ahead of time.

You are concerning yourself solely with configuration that can be generated not only declaratively, but also fully deterministically, but configuration systems can indeed exist where the environment isn't sufficiently deterministic. In such cases, taking the current state of the world, the user's request, and then determining the appropriate (and preferably minimal) actions to take to harmonize those without having to have them specified by the user is a declarative approach.

For example, I can go to the AWS console and turn up a job with a set of parameters, or I can have a configuration file and a daemon and if

{
cpu: 5,
mem: 20,
image: "my_docker_url",
}

is present in that file, I can then assume a job meeting those specifications exists, and if not present the job will not exist. The daemon might do this by shutting down all the jobs and starting new ones every time the file is parsed, but that is probably not great. Approaches that only restart changed jobs, or which can dynamically resize jobs that support such things might lead to significantly better performance of th esystem as a whole.
Musk is banning people who make fun of him... I don't think anyone is under any illusion that Twitter is somehow becoming more open lol

Anyways I think the biggest concern is obviously that blue checkmark tweets will now be prioritized by the algorithm. Making it a pay-to-influence media platform. That's definitely why I quit (or at least unfollowed every single blue checkmark) and that seems to be the biggest concern amongst my friends
> If Oculus had stayed independent, I can guarantee we'd have better (probably more gaming) oriented content.

I agree with this. We would also have more competition because other players in the space wouldn't be as intimidated to go up against a business like Meta/Facebook.

I think a crucial miscalculation was trying to EEE the space. Zuck clearly states that he wanted Meta to "own the space" on every platform. Basically, he wanted to carve out a niche like Adobe managed to do with PDF, but on a scale that rivals full blown platforms like the Android ecosystem. Such an ambitious plan sounds great on paper, until you realize that you're trying to EEE the exact people who wrote the textbooks on EEE. When you sound a horn that loud, on a megaphone as big as the one Meta was using, you're only painting a target on your own back.

Another drawback to the path that Meta selected is they basically internalized the entire hardware industry that was just starting up. If Oculus had stayed independent I believe they would have had to partner with other hardware vendors to establish some sort of regulatory body for writing industry standard specifications. With one serious player in the field developing and harboring all the tech for themselves, this space could be barren for a long time if Meta folds. All the work by third parties that went into this proprietary technology and platform will basically be for nothing.
I think there’s a real issue here, but it’s not looking stupid per se. Facebook and similar addictive products get very very large per-user engagement, and this works because people use their phones while being just enough present in the real world to walk places, ride public transit, drive (!), go to restaurants, go on dates, etc.

For this to work with a device like the Quest, users need to simultaneously be present in the real world and consume content in VR/AR. That could work in pure AR applications (albeit potentially quite awkwardly), but VR might have fairly fundamental issues such as losing the feeling of presence in VR and motion sickness.

VR is neat. AR is neat. Getting people to use VR for 10 hours a day while pretending to do something else may be a challenge.
You're not going to contribute to all 2500 them though. Definitely not in the same year for the duration of the whole year.
It doesn't work if the project hasn't had any new issues in a while. There is no incentive to be part of the OpenCollective if the project is completed and has no bugs.

I've been struggling with this issue with my project. It's a completed project, no scope creep, no bugs, just occasional update once every 6 months or so. The docs are complete and detailed so nobody needs extra help; no one will pay for support

At the same time, I know for a fact that if the project was buggy or had gaps in the documentation, nobody would use it; they would use an alternative solution from a big corporation.

The level of competition is so intense that there is no room for profit, no room for missing documentation and no room for bugs on my end. Competing products are backed by a big name brand tech corporations; so they can have bugs and gaps in the documentation and users will forgive them.

Branding is extremely powerful. Once people trust a brand name, they will ignore reality. If you don't have a brand name, you need to be 10x better to be perceived as the same quality.
L.A. Drops Criminal Charges Against Election Software Executive
Or airplane builder…
> I think the most important job for a browser is to stay in the background and let the user focus on the website.

Incidentally, this is why I love the macOS Safari "Compact Tabs" feature [0] -- this is the most compact browser UI I've come across.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22686070/apple-macos-safa...
The work doesn't show up on a diff, what I was getting at. Merges are from master in this example and already reconciled.

Commits don't matter either, because they are being squashed. Was responding to the grandparent perhaps more than the parent.
There are multiple ways to accidentally overwrite or delete a file that wasn't committed yet.

There are also situations where you need to use these commands and you're not ready to commit everything.

The safe way to handle this is generally making a stash commit and immediately applying it, but if you don't know that, or don't think to do that first, the result can be data loss.

Git is very careful about commits but if you never staged something then git can be ruthless.
I remember them being nicknamed DeathStars.
> all payment systems will just be Paypal

I wonder if Warren is trying to intentionally accomplish that?
7400-Series Integrated Circuits
https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/subcommittee...

https://youtu.be/30_H33mS76Y

https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-...

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/13/1080494838/economist-explains...
The indictment got some attention in HN so I'm this gets seen. Timing this dismissal the day after the election is certainly interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33099707
Liquidity means something though. Think of a bank. If everyone withdraws their funds at the same time they may not have the liquidity to pay out. In order to be able to pay out everyone at the same time, they would need to keep it all uninvested/unlent, and then charge you a banking fee instead of paying you interest on it. So there is a tradeoff there.
With Apple allegedly joining the space in less than 2 months, and multiple sunglasses-sized devices out there already (nreal, rokid, etc), I think we'll know very soon whether XR has a chance of going mainstream this decade
Any of these would work fine for your idea and not be very difficult to do. (Assuming the site doesn't have any anti-bot measures). You'll need to create a cron that runs the automation script or opens a browser with your greasemonkey script installed.

Sometimes you can even do these with pure curl. POST the login form, get back the necessary cookie or token, then request the download URL, if it's easily predictable.
One of the greatest writers in history. An actual literary genius.

He (and maybe Mark Twain) have this ability to write sentences that burrow deep in your head and stay there forever.

A sample: "Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
I remember using a 3rd party control panel that used a kind of bisection method to diagnose bad extensions. It would disable one half of your extensions, reboot, and ask if you could reproduce the problem, you answered yes or no, then (depending on your answer) it would disable the other half (or one quarter) and re-enable the first half and so on, narrowing down until the problematic extension was located.

I don't remember what it was called! Funny that such a bizarre problem could get so bad people developed sophisticated tools to deal with it.

Edit: Ahhh, I think it was Conflict Catcher! Thanks sibling comment!
About "We just need to make the syntax a little more human", see for instance http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=sierpinsky4
The fundamental theorem of arithmetic is defined over "every integer greater than 1", not "every whole number" as the post says.

(and that makes sense intuitively -- what about negative numbers?)

The idea is cute, but the the wrong theorem definition in the premise really spoils it -- can't recommend this page to anyone.

Edit: that blog is has wrong math sometimes? Like this page https://alok.github.io/2022/09/22/h455524/ which talks about finite fields and claims "Many results are not true if the underlying field has exactly 2 elements."... but GF(2) exists and is a full-featured field with all theorems being true.
1. You may find interesting https://beamapp.co/. Browser + hypertext note-taking tool (webkit based)

2. I was first engineer at https://meetsidekick.com you may find it interesting too. (as engineer with 14 years of experience in this area ready tell you about best way to architect js app in isolated environments like main/render process of electron, background/view pages in chrome extensions)

3. > I am a big fan of relatively-small websites, personal blogs, and any website that is free of the usual bloat.
I'm indie/solo making linkkraft browser (to make a living from it). To let myself observe intensive web in a non-intensive way.
It could be useful for someone who make decisions (and money) from processing a lot of information from mass of tabs. (product managers, hr head hunters?)

Linkkraft visualizes your steps as tree and auto-makes html snapshot for your each step. So, you can pause your research confidently (or part of it to free CPU/memory) and restore full context even offline. (Ping me if this would make you effective)

linkkraft tree vs chrome tabs
https://arestov.github.io/linkkraft-notes/comparing/linkkraf...

offline snapshots for each step in twitter SPA
https://arestov.github.io/linkkraft-notes/trails-tree-plus-o...
Is it possible to run newer versions of podman and/or buildah as a container?
Ask HN: Any sites to learn bodybuilding that isn't an ad?
I want to learn about everything from improving flexibility, diet, and exercises, but I feel like all the things online are trying to sell to you the entire time.

For example:
Why would I trust a site that is selling supplements to tell me how much of which supplement I should have?

I know that if something is free, you are the product, and so I'm willing to pay for memberships or subscriptions as well as free resources
Anyone may purchase a domain name from a registrar (such as 'example.com'). That is not a 'lower platform'. It's just a domain name. Sure, it's not as popular as 'github.com' but in every other way (in the DNS) it is equal. And unlike github.com, you have full control of that domain and its DNS records.

There are no unique legal issues with regard to buying a domain name and writing and publishing source code on that domain. Using 'github.com' to host your source code does not give you more legal rights or protections. Copyright is copyright and a license is a license no matter where you publish it.

You should not be afraid to buy a domain, write source code and publish it there. It's not illegal to do that and you are not at more risk (although these big central social platforms would like for you to believe that).
Yeah, Electron and Chromium fill a close enough niche that I don't think the market is really demanding what I envision.

Try giving foobar2000 a spin or checking out some screenshots to get an idea for what I mean. Unlike Chromium, the browser should be extendable, at runtime, via a component system and editable layout tree. Runtimes, backends, common libs, fonts etc should be managed using a repository system.

Chromium requires recompilation (and know-how) in order to make any big change. Comparatively, a user should be able to completely reskin their browser, switch JavaScript engines, etc. on a per-domain, per-group or per-tab basis in seconds without restarting the browser.
seems like a perfect time to load up on more ETH, self stake, and activate my own validator. All of the shady investors and crypto bros flee while I sit pretty and earn rewards.
Failing to the top is a very important skill to learn.
Now do an ultra-marathoner
It's the iPad concept that came first, in the early 2000s, and they had a prototype for multitouch display.

Then they decided to work on the first iPhone for several years after that.
For years I have wondered why all the big names pushed Unity in favor of Unreal Engine. Even before UE5 and before Fortnite, UE4 had better tech. than Unity.

Fortnite is the Metaverse currently.
Prisoner's dilemma. slow-slow is the stable equilibrium point, even though fast-fast is just as good or better. The other 'prisoner' can always beat your fast by going slow, so they pick slow so they can't lose.
I think I've been misunderstood, in my mind the client sends all the details about themselves to the server, the server builds up the search results and send them back.

Yes, the server has access to the information the client has, but it doesn't have any way to confirm that's true. It also could avoid storing that information all together if the client sends it again every time
Yup. I have a Mac Pro 2019, 12 core Xeon, 192GB, and the Desktop app and VM location reside on a RAID0 M.2 array that can throughput 6GB/s. Still a minute+.
That article says nothing about Europe after WW2. Seems like an outdated term.
Zip Function Solution: Haskell, Elixir, JavaScript, Python, Vlang
> FTX is currently unable to process withdrawals. We strongly advise against depositing.
Neat and Simple!
I've made this comment before but you can correctly time a downturn and still end up worse off than people who buy at the height of the market. You lose upside, low interest rates, and continue paying rent (which has zero return). It depends on how long you can hold out during a bear market and what exactly interest rates do.

Plus there's the quality of life factor if the home you purchase is a better fit for your life... spending 10 years in a home you don't enjoy has a mental cost to it.

FWIW we borrowed $2m at 2.5% (thanks Bay Area prices!)
Thanks to that low rate even if the house drops in value by 30-40% we still come out ahead on the mortgage cost assuming we stay in the house. And it is likely any money not spent on the down payment or paying it off early can be invested which thanks to the current market and interest rates can take a risk to get a good return (stocks are discounted right now) OR easily find safe investments that exceed the mortgage APR.

Plus we have a house that fits our family way better with a lot more space. We also have knock-on effects (installed Solar with a <5 year payback, something renters can't do).

It is hard to imagine a scenario where waiting out this downturn would have worked out better for us.
> Most people are tired of being lectured on what's offensive/not inclusive and constantly walking on eggshells, and it's beginning to show

The first time I heard this from the political right was about “political correctness” when I was in grade school nearly 40 years ago.

I don't see any evidence that it is any more true now than it was then.
> This is a systemic crisis, and there is no white knight to save it.

Fortunately, unlike 2008, the global economy doesn't depend on this stuff working.
Everything about it is funny. Humans are absurd, and Cat’s Cradle revels in the absurdity. It’s funny in the same way atom bombs are funny, that our species would hate itself so much as to make a weapon that could destroy us all, and like, we ignore it almost all of the time? Bokonon and the dictator becoming their roles is absurd, but aren’t people this absurd?

Also, there are a lot of chapters. Every single chapter break is there to let a punchline sink in. It’s a literary pause for laughter.