skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My current situation is ok. FE dev making a relatively very modest salary remotely. Very little overhead and lots of agency compared to previous gigs. But, idk if I'd say I like it, but I've accepted that's not the point. It has its ups and downs, I work well with my colleagues for the most part, often times that's enough.

I got it by sheer luck after a stupid relentless gauntlet of interviews and happening to find one that worked out for no particular reason.

The spark is definitely gone for JavaScript or frontend related anything. I still enjoy learning new things that make a substantial difference in productivity or performance, but I've learned through numerous burnouts that it's just tech and things basically don't matter as much as you'd like to think.
I think the best thing that can happen is a lot people buy it and complain to amazon.

The one time I did buy a fake item Amazon refunded me and didn't even want the item back. That happens enough times and Amazon will start doing something.
Facebook in my brain sounds like a nightmare.
Crypto is a cesspool for scammers and a lot of regular people have lost lots of money.

This is coming from someone who genuinely hopes there will be real benefits coming from crypto.
I feel like that this point I know more people who have tried to speculate and given up on any kind of crypto altogether due to losing money, and/or have told me stories about people they know losing very large amounts of money from trying to speculate...

So surely it's getting to a point where anybody interested, if they mention it to one or two people will hear horror stories about people they know losing huge amounts of money and, and will probably stay away... Like an 'anti-network effect'.
That phrase refers to doing immoral acts and justifying it by the supposedly positive impact of that act in the long run. It does not refer to acting in the long term future's interest instead of the short term future's.
For batteries, memory/storage, and perhaps many other categories, better to get from a real distributor like Best Buy, Samsung, or WD directly.
> In this way, we can safely learn git via trial & errors.

Thinking about this and I realize it could be beneficial in a lot of software. No one RTFMs anymore, and giving them the ability to trial and error makes sense. I know I appreciate it (pushing buttons to see what happens), but I’m not sure how common this approach is in general.
On MacOS I use the fullscreen window shortcut (followed by browser fullscreen shortcut) to hide the UI for a more Vivaldi-esque experience.
I'm still seeing it.
isn't it likely that they won't do anything with the api, if it works currently why would it break? Seems like twitter would have redundancy built in. Barring someone hacking into systems and breaking them what could go wrong in the near future.
Mocking almost certainly is always the wrong thing to do. The maintenance burden alone from making sure the mock accuracy wrt. real implementation is high enough to guarantee high enough assurance should disqualify using them.

They also make the tests nearly unreadable and very hard to reason about IME.
This idea has been on product hunt at least once before. Just different wrapper. Can’t remember the name. It looks neat and I’ll give it a shot, even though it isn’t exactly “new”
Peter Singer happened to write primary source material, but your comment is like saying the EAs came from Jeremy Bentham. EA the organization began with LessWrong which, again, was all along a play to generate funding for AI safety research.

Edit: The original version of the comment implies LessWrong is the single precursor to EA, which is wrong. But it is a relevant and influential one.
Note that Coinbase does have lending business. The reason it's not visible in their balance sheet is because it's not popular.

https://www.coinbase.com/borrow
Thanks for pointing that out. I wasn't aware they had a backlog.
> In finance

Isn't low-latency trading only a subset of finance?
It's not that many of us long-time crypto users want people to suffer, it's the jaded "I told you so" moment.

Many of us have seen many "too big to fail" exchanges fall, have seen 2+ other "crypto bubbles" drop the price by 80%+.

When we told everyone "don't keep your money on an exchange" and "we've seen seen these 'too the moon' skyrocketing prices before - be prepared for the eventual crash" - they laughed and confidently said it was different this time, that we were just jealous, didn't understand defi/web3 etc.

I seriously do not enjoy seeing people suffer, I tried to warn people to prevent them from losing huge amounts of money. But when your warnings were laughed off - it's hard and there's some mixed emotions, and many of us are a bit jaded.

I do think crypto has a legitimate use, but this "buy crypto because you'll get rich" mentality just creates these detrimental hype cycles.
I hate mocks. But all testing is about writing at least your intention twice and hoping you got it right at least once.
I am sure it will get removed eventually. When things change, people change, systems change, the underlying cms changes articles are lost.
No kidding - get into x coin or y coin - it’s mostly pump and dump meme speculation with no dcf model worth anything
I find most attempts to hide how git really works with alternate commands just end up biting when something unexpected happens.
What do you mean "toy model"? It is how it works operationally. Banks have to settle up by end of each business day or they are out of the business. The fact money is created with loans in a fractional reserve system does not negate operational constraints.
20 years of "progress" and hey, C++20 is gaining the likely attribute.
The collapse of FTX will impact the whole crypto space negatively. Nothing is spared.

1. All the alt-coins in FTX/Alameda Reasearch holding will be liquidated. E.g. Solana has been down >40% already.

2. The value of the FTT tokens issued by FTX valued at billions has evaporated. The value of FTT were used to buy other coins, directly and indirectly inflated all of them, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. When the value of FTT evaporates, it can be thought of as billions have been sucked out of the crypto markets. The prices of all coins will drop, including BTC and ETH.

3. The cascading falling of the alt-coins. Some alt-coins will fail. Just now there's an incoming $1B+ Solana tokens being unlocked and will be released to flood the market. Other alt-coins will be impacted in a similar way. One can argue some of these coins are created out of the thin air just like FTT. Their value can simply vanish just like FTT.
Not a fan of Stevenson, but his « Diamond age » novel somehow stays with me and I reflect on our present thought some of that lense.
"progressive garbage" being something I guess you disagree with so it's cool that it disappears?
> Bitcoin's and Ethereum's prices are consistently higher now than they were 2 years ago

Which is something that will be true until it's not. Bitcoin dropped around 25% in the last week (though is rebounding a bit this morning). It only needs to drop around 33% from the current price to break your 2 year thing. Anything is possible here (in any direction), because it's an insane market propped up by all sorts of shady bull****
Maybe I'll give Brave another try. I don't really mind the invasiveness of Edge, but I know I'm kind of an outlier on Hacker News in that regard.
You don't get it.

There's an easy way to do this, which is having a config setting. They don't want to put it easy, and provide all these more convoluted ways, because what you describe is an "ideal" which doesn't reflect real life at most workplaces. That's the whole trick. "It's easy, just put this environment variable and ensure everyone on your team does it on their laptops and ensure every staging and production environment also does it and setup checks and scripts to automate it and alarms and improve your processes... it's just that easy".

Can you explain what's wrong with having a friggin boolean in a config file? Like VSCode does? Like any other non-evil piece of software does?

That's what I mean with being evil. That's what I mean with tricks.

Of course it can be disabled, and it "seems easy". That's the trick.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Player Piano by Vonnegut. It was one of his first novels and also one of his few science fiction novels. I still remember reading it in my teens. Great book and quite prescient.
There are two things that become harder with such architecture: integration, and security.

Integration is relatively easy to solve. I did not use foobar2000 for a long time; I can compare instead with Emacs, where various packages are aware of various other packages and will integrate if a counterpart is present, but won't require that.

Security is much harder; the need to isolate pages means relatively smaller customizable API surface, and, most importantly, greater trust to the components. It's much like web extensions now: you have to think well before giving an extension access to your web mail or online banking web pages.

XUL was an attempt to build a very flexible architecture, and it was great, but the (lack of) security killed it.
I previously didn't think the term metaverse was going to be widely used to refer to the collective of VR/AR/Internet. Now that it's the name of a company, I'm certain that it won't be. It reminds me of the word cyberspace, which has fallen out of use almost entirely.

My guess is that by the time VR and AR are widely adopted, it will just be called "the internet."
The Saudi royal family is the second largest shareholder in Twitter
Selling crypto is less legit than black-market booze.
That’s my understanding.

At the end of the day the banks need to balance their books. So if an ACH needs to be corrected, they figure out what went wrong and hash it out with the other bank.

I’ve had unexpected deposits show up in my account and then be removed days later. Likely someone fat fingered an account number.

But the system works because all the banks have an incentive to make it work and a requirement their books individually balance.

But you’re right. Unless it’s a bank’s mistake or obvious fraud where the bank played a roll, they generally aren’t interested in reversing ACH transfers over consumer issues.
Don't buy anything from there unless you're ok with it being probably a counterfeit, or a real product but with fake reviews.

Amazon is AliExpress with faster shipping and higher prices.
This is comedy gold from the reviews.

> I'm a big trump supporter I asked my husband for this for mother's day. I love to add to my coffee cup collection and it's a good keep sake to have for 2020!!
In case there are people who don't know what this is: It's a USB flash drive (say, 4GB) that reports its capacity as 16TB.
similar situation here. for me after a decade of professional coding the benefits - mental stimulation of discovering and learning something new, start to get outweighed by the negatives - fatigue from repetitive work and hamster wheel economics
> I think the cozy relationship between EA and FTX has done immense damage to the public image and standing of the EA movement.

And it couldn't happen to a nicer cult.
Again who wants to wear that? Normal people don’t.
How is the FTC not suing Amazon for fraud on a daily basis? A lot of this shit is sold directly by them, not by Marketplace sellers, so Section 230 concerns do not apply.
Boredom is real. You can always decide you’ve pushed enough and slow down. But if you get lazy and lounge around for too long, you may forget how to get off your ass and do something.

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” - Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding (played by Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption)
One day, when 13 year olds can use VR to meaningfully bootstrap their understanding of differential equations, I’ll probably wish the metaverse was around when I was a kid.
Keeping as in long term, more than a day or so
Don't think so. Starting WSL2 VM takes few seconds.
How are they insulated from each other? I always assumed that one holds the other. Correct me if I'm wrong?
If you attempt to write a review now, it warns:

> Amazon has noticed unusual reviewing activity on this product. Due to this activity, we have limited this product to verified purchase reviews.
They are talking about a different product
AAPL - $1.09M https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=AAPL+gross+profit+per+e...

GOOG - $907k https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=GOOG+gross+profit+per+e...

META - $1.32M https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=META+gross+profit+per+e...
> Exciting Boring

Ha, thanks for sharing, that is amusing!

On the one hand it seems like it almost could be the way people humorously transcribe Japanese accented English, of “Exciting Bowling,” and on the other hand in a purely English context that really does strike me as a quite good description of bowling when you think about it.
Given his business moves I wouldn't be surprised is all his personal debt is also collateralized by FTT. As wise Walter Sobchak would say: "Mark it zero!"
The State of Front end in 2022
In theory they make money on fees... They posted a net loss of $544.6M on a 64% decline in transaction revenue in the quarter ended Sep 30 [1]. This next big drop probably doesn't bode very well for them...

Coinbase may eventually run out of money and go out of business because their operating costs presumably exceed their revenue, but the customer funds won't evaporate if/when they do, unlike the shadier exchanges.

1. https://www.reuters.com/technology/coinbase-reports-third-qu...
This has been going on for so long that the only possible explanation is that Amazon makes money from this kind of fraud and has decided that it is worth it.
I didn't know that, but considering that half the page is disclaimers and legal notices I guess they at least somewhat know what they are doing.
FTT price was swinging from $21.09 to $32.51 subsequent to contacting the help level of $18.08-$22.50. Returning quickly from the help level, FTT is presently going sideways on the lookout and is supposed to return bullish soon.

In the meantime, our drawn-out FTT price prediction for 2022 is bullish since it can't break the help level. We can anticipate that FTT should reach $50 this year.
The key distinction between Bentham and Singer is that Bentham is dead (unless you count the auto-icon!), and Singer is actively publishing books about EA.

I have no doubt whatsoever that EA the organization, LessWrong, and MIRI are all instrumental in EA the movement. But my understanding, including from actually reading just about everything Singer's ever written, is that the applied ethical groundwork for EA was laid at least a decade before LessWrong or MIRI arrived on the scene.
Just call them Facebook. It’s your brain, you control what you call them.
Reviews do work :)

Does anybody can share an example of scam item on Amazon with majority reviews looking legit?
That's probably not what happens in practice.

1. You never got the BTC to begin with. Its on FTX's platform, with a little database entry that says "User Bob has -1 BTC on margin on the books".

2. The cash never leaves FTX platform either. Because FTX needs to "margin call" (aka: grab your assets somehow) if the market moves against the short position.

3. So really, you're trusting that FTX is going to give you the money back eventually when you zero out all your position entirely.

4. Also remember: exchanges regularly grab the assets. So its not really FTX's bitcoin either. They probably took it from Alice to lend to you.

5. If you wanna say "Well, why doesn't Bob go to Alice directly for this transaction??", its because Alice doesn't trust Bob, and Bob has no trust of Alice, so the entire scheme would never work.
I've been trying on and off to give Arc a try for the past few months. I've had trouble for all the reasons that the linked article names.

What brought me around was the Easel feature for scrapbooking pieces of multiple web pages onto a single page. For some kinds of research, being able to see everything at once beats anything I've been able to do with multiple tabs or window arrangements. I used to arrange screenshots onto a photo editor's canvas, but doing it in-browser is an easier workflow, and Arc makes it easy to get back from the clipping to the source.

I believe that Beam is similar to this feature, except (pro) better support for daily notes, and (pro and/or con) clippings are in a list instead of arranged in 2D.

That fact that these blocks can optionally be live also makes it useful for constructing ad-hoc dashboards.

[1] "Arc | Collect Your Internet with Easel" https://youtu.be/ukquBSOpmTk
Mostly would be bug reports I would like to see instead stay open, but depending on volume that doesn't scale.
I've been using both those features for a while with my own Nextcloud server
They haven't even published anything on the FTX debacle: https://www.scb.gov.bs/news/
About 40% of the SAFU is in BNB; their own FTT-like token. Its literally the same reason FTX collapsed; BNB just still has value.
Same reasons people use Discord. Convenience, herd mentality, discounting risk that's intangible from an evolutionary biology perspective (fraud and privacy violations don't activate the amygdala the same way a bear charging at you does), illusion of lack of choice (which is really just lack of knowledge of choice), resistance to change, apathy, stockholm syndrome, and basing decisions on emotion rather than rational and critical analysis.
We don't know what happened at FTX (if anyone says they know, they're speculating). FTX said, right up to the weekend, that they weren't leveraged at all. Maybe that was a lie or maybe the problem is elsewhere. It may take a few months for the truth to come out.
Since Amazons sales, profits continue to grow.

They've shown time and again that they don't bother and, apparently, are incompetent enough to fix this shitshow of a bait-and-switch wrt their reviews

If you really want to read some comedy, i'd recommend their seller forums - various sellers report fraudulent listings - Amazons response? crickets

Only way to fix it: vote with your wallet, give your money someone else. It's easier than it seems at first, especially if you notice that the days of Amazon having the lowest prices by default are long gone, next-day delivery is hit or miss (don't even get me started on videogame preorders...) and absolutely useless search results (seriously, when was the last time someone has found what they've been looking for?).

I've even gone as far (sigh) as canceling my Prime membership as of January - biggest use i got out of it was free shipping.... well, i guess, i've to think again and pile up orders until i'm over minimum for free shipping - guess i'll be saving the planet in the process...
Because the issue of fake reviews and scam products is blown out of proportion. Amazon remains one of the most convenient digital stores to shop on. I have almost never received a product that was different than what I expected. On the rare occasions that it did, it was because of a misjudgment on my part rather than misleading advertising. I have learned from my experiences.
This post really resonated with me and I sense a lot of commond ground in your world-view, confirmed by reading some of your other posts on HN. Super off-topic but I'd love to chat to you about your ideas on "government is a superstition", feel free to email me at wiriwiy221@lidely.com if you're interested :)
They have caused a meltdown on some servers. Others keep working fine. Also: the network is called the Fediverse for a reason - and the fediverse continues to operate as it always has more or less. Wired can only publish a story like this if it interprets "mastodon" to mean "mastodon.social and a few related instances", which is false on its face.
Not as much as I once did. Occasional flashes of the old magic; frequent enough to keep me doing it, and the money isn't bad.
If by "EA the organization" you mean the Center for Effective Altruism, it came out of the Oxford philosophy department.
We did that last year on a 3 million line / 500 person-year investment application. Quite challenging as everything from app domains to remoting, to call contexts and other unsupported things were being used. It was definitely worth it for performance alone as we were also using Mono to run on Linux.
Gold has industrial uses without even talking about jewelry. Even if everyone stopped valuing gold as a form of currency, it would still has some intrinsic value.
Yitang never publicly mentioned this but he was likely granted a green card under the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992. He was also involved with groups that supported democratic movement in China. This explains why he was unable to visit when his father passed away, and the obstacles he faced when he attempted to apply for Chinese visa after becoming a US citizen. He simply would not have been allowed to enter China had he not made the twin prime breakthrough. It was quite fortunate that in the end he was able to visit his mom just a few months before she passed away.
I would put the currency symbol after the number. Just like all other units.
Guarantee you that the same people espousing this use Net Present Value to evaluate their investments.
People still do play first person shooters (and other first person games) plenty. And in modern ones, you can generally look down and see your character's body etc.
Seen that many times, I think sellers somehow re-purpose ASINs

That leaves the ratings and reviews in place while they change the title, description, price, etc.

Amazon obviously needs to make that re-purpose impossible but oddly they never do?
That's not a bad idea. Pushed wrong is pretty hard to recover from (since you often aren't allowed to rewrite history on the remote), so I don't think there could be an easy 'undo' action for that, but the other ones could potentially be done.
Not trying to be off topic, but why is there fiction in a science journal?
Really good read, love everything you said and did - I can relate a lot.
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Assuming utilitarian ethics for a moment, I agree!

Maybe someone more familiar with the EA movement can answer this: why has rule utilitarianism disappeared from EA rationales for behavior? That seems to me a very natural check on these otherwise extreme (long and short-term) leaps of reasoning.
The problem with Google Glasses was that they looked basically like glasses (being AR), in many ways other than size - starting with the fact that they were transparent. A VR headset, even if it's equally compact, won't look like glasses - certainly not if the designers don't want it to.
Once smart glasses are the same weight and experience as wearing regular glasses I believe like many they are the next iPhone. The amount of innovation that can happen with smart glasses will be so cool and useful. I was just at a zoo looking for the small animal blending into it's environment in their glass cage ... I wished I had smart glasses that pointed out where in the cage the animal was.

While I was playing ping pong I wished I had smart glasses that kept score of the game.

Tons of ideas that many to millions will find very cool and useful! I can see why Zuckerberg is betting the farm on smart glasses! I don't think Meta will create the next iPhone/smart glasses, but good for him on trying.
It might have been an estimation task, akin to a Fermi problem.
He did get vivid death threats though
Never heard of FTX either until this whole implosion happened. I’m certainly not super active in crypto, but it seems to me there are worlds between Binance and FTX.