skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Selling isn't just about the phone call, it's every interaction your prospects have with your brand.

You probably communicate a lot of the same information on each call. Package that up into blog posts, landing pages, and YouTube videos. Talk about it on podcasts. Recycle this content for social media.

Make sure prospects see your content on their journey before they hop on the phone with you to pre-sell and qualify, and after the call to solidify and reinforce your value prop.
But bypassing the original restriction would.
In order for a balance to be transferred on the chain, it MUST be included in a mined block (the longest chain one/aka the primary blockchain).

So there is always a middleman, unless you’re on your own chain. But it’s distributed, no one can reliably pick who is going to be the miner (or always be the miner) because of the POW algorithm, and everyone can trust the outcome because of the way everything is structured. There are very strong incentives for everyone to try to mine, for instance, and the more mining power there is, the more difficult it is for anyone to have a controlling interest or monopoly on mining, barring special economies of scale in mining hardware, anyway. (Which do exist, but not enough to make it doable to get a monopoly right now)

Worst case, the miners can ignore your particular transaction indefinitely, but the counterparty can see that too, and it would require active collusion from a very large percentage of miners to even attempt that.
The capital of Venezuela is Caracas.
So ... it was sus from the beginning, and you still had money in it? How does that compute?

It totally collapsed, but not a big deal, because you were smarter than others, so they took the loss in a zero-sum game ("who gets to take the remaining liquidity")?
It's not. Ask anyone working on MMO server emulators. Once the server is gone, that's it. With thin browser client you might as well create a new CAD software from scratch. Having actual software on pc means you can at least attempt to crack it.
Here’s my understanding:

In Christianity, god extorts adherence through the revelation that there’s eternal life after death and the threat of eternal damnation as punishment for insubordination. The requirements to enter Heaven are acknowledgment and acceptance of Jesus’ crucifixion as atonement for your transgressions (and possibly repentance).

In Islam, god extorts adherence through the revelation that there’s eternal life after death and the threat of eternal damnation as punishment for insubordination. The requirements to enter Paradise are not explicitly defined (aside possibly through dying in a Jihad) so strict adherence is arguable more crucial than in Christianity.

In Scientology, god extorts adherence by eliciting confessions of past transgressions on videotaped counseling sessions and threatening public exposure for insubordination, among other tactics.
I guess the trolls are out today. Thought I was on Reddit for a minute.
Ask HN: Private group chat with no registration
I'm looking for recommendations for a private group chat service to plan an event. Some folks are on Skype but not Facebook. Some folks have WhatsApp but nothing else. Some folks have only email. Trying to coordinate all the communication is a challenge.

Features I'm looking for:

- No registration needed for group members. If one person has to register and own the chat room that would be ok.

- A way to easily share the chat room. I can't think of anything more convenient than a link, but I'm open to other solutions as long as non-technical people would find it easy.

- Persistent. Folks can enter and exit the same chat and see the history.

- Chat room can eventually be deleted when no longer needed.

- Browser based with no additional software to install.

- Open source is always nice.
If I want Crypto to avoid my money being seized, to pay for porn, to send across the globe, then surely I also don't want it to be a high risk investment?

Where's the crypto with high stability and low changes? I guess stablecoins seem to fit that niche the most but they also seem very centralized and owned by specific companies?
Neutrino telescope detected a signal from a nearby active galaxy
Twitter won’t ban you for personal reasons. Can you vouch the same for a server admin?
In some countries you can sell your excess solar electricity at decent prices, this may have been a part of the motivation.
"All in all, we didn’t find any critical security issues during our investigation. Though there is probably room for improvement in a few areas. For example, we would have had a much harder time getting root access"

This always gets me: "secure" meaning "the manufacturer remains the owner even after selling the device".

What does getting root access have to do with security? Does the threat model include the buyer of the device? If the box is physically opened by a random person, the damage has already been done - they can mess with the electrical installation already. What's the benefit of hiding the software in that situation?

Exercise your rights as the owner and ask for the sources instead. Linux is covered by the GPL.
Care to explain why US drug companies are so profitable?

If High US prices was subsidizing others, where does the massive profit come from?

This is why drugs in the US cost so much reformulations to extend patents:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4865781/
No; just that it wouldn’t be news these days.
> Do you know this is the majority of the internet? Are you aware that a lot of innovations (the internet included) took off and became mainstream because of porn

You really think that billions were poured into the Internet infrastructure to deliver porn more efficiently?
I doubt they feel safe, and twitter is a unique case.

In general the cut once advice is not to make people less skittish immediately, it's to avoid the long term mistrust that comes from cutting repeatedly. When you do that, the message is you are either incompetent or you hid information from them the first time. A bigger one time cut is more shocking, but things settle down after and you have an opportunity to start building trust back up and put the company on an upward trajectory people will want to stay on.
Maybe it's not amazing that the letter writer thinks that the solution is yet another letter?

Agent A: “hey Bob, this one has something medical-looking anally attached. Should we get a medic to take it out for inspection?”

Agent B: “No, they’ve presented us with a Doctor’s Note. Let them in through.”

I suggest that any patient with a seton who is planning to travel to the USA or any other country where they are likely to be searched in this manner should carry a letter from their specialist explaining the nature of their condition and treatment.
The LoL reference (apt acronym in this case) was an enormous red flag for me. It was a loud and clear signal about the type of 'investor' that SBF was being marketed to.
> military is such a pure testing ground for leadership

Can't agree. You talking about very special type of army - democracy army, but it is just one subtype, and is of smallest share over the world.

Unfortunately, largest armies are totalitarian and communists, which have very different habits.
Having not run the numbers, that sounds like it would never be profitable for a home installation to solar->hydrogen->storage for months->burn as needed. Lot of capital on the various required components.

Edit: I guess if you wanted to go fully off-grid, this would be a useful option.
FYI -- Hillsdale College does not have a public health program and is not an accredited school of public health (SPH). Their document on "Ethical Principles of Public Health" feels more political than oriented around public health. There are people at actual SPHs that work on public health ethics, it might be worth focusing on those instead of amplifying whatever this is.
Security theater at its finest. I'm at a loss for words.
Imagine you want to trade your gold for silver. You literally possess the physical gold.

FTX/centralized exchange: deposit your gold, counterparty deposits silver. FTX possesses the physical quantities and gives you both receipts. You agree to you exchange rate and FTX issues new receipts for what you hold, old receipts are void. You can use the new receipt to withdraw your gold and silver[0].

Uniswap: You take the amount of gold you want to trade to a building. You get to the building and exchange your physical gold for physical silver directly. You leave with your physical silver. You spent a little gold on the way to afford gasoline for the trip.

These are technically inaccurate but give an overall correct idea of the difference.

[0]most crypto users don't understand how to possess their own crypto (control private keys) so they skip the last step and leave the 'gold/silver' (crypto) in the physical custody of the exchange.
>Robots still have a hard time navigating terrain and manipulating stuff

The author argues that doing things at higher pace should be cognitive intensive. But robots are not bad at doing things fast: if they can do things, they can do them also "fast" (at my understanding)
They would use one, but they wouldn’t complain when it went down and swallowed customer funds.

Is there a “Every Man a Scotsman” saying?
I hope sync with apple calendars will work out of the box. It’s just a pain right now (events disappearing randomly without any way to debug)
If it took 7 days it was probably due to AML/KYC issues. Bitcoin would have been faster, of course, because it doesn't do AML/KYC, but that just means it's unsuitable for conducting business (other than businesses that are outside the law).
> There’s a very beneficial reinforcing effect of saving a high percentage of your income: you have lower monthly spending, meaning not only does your savings/investment accounts’ balances go up faster, the amount of annual spending you need to replace is lower.

The caveat here is that some things are just more expensive in absolute terms. A car or a computer that I want to buy won't cost that much less just because of my location, because location based pricing applies to a limited set of goods and services: like food, clothes, rent or heating/power bills.

So while saving and not living above your means is good, also optimizing for absolute income values is probably a good idea. Thus many seek out ways to work for well paying companies or in well paying careers, while also living frugally in an area with a relatively low CoL, or maybe make lifestyle choices like forgoing owning a motor vehicle (if possible).
I'm guessing it's an equivalent to an expensive watch, fashion label handbag, reddit gold, video game skin.
The thing is, a central bank digital currency isn't distributed finance, and doesn't even need to be "crypto" (the trust mechanism will be the central bank, and the ledger will almost certainly not be distributed, nor fully public). And a central bank digital currency will inevitably be pegged to the bank's underlying fiat currency, or at very least, explicitly supported by the central bank using the fiat currency - no central bank in any functioning county is going to sponsor speculative arbitrage opportunities of the sort that litter the Defi world. So, overall, a central bank digital currency is just not crypto in the sense we have been using the word.

Note that in some respects, the Federal Reserve already operates a digital currency pegged to the dollar, but it's accessible only to chartered banks. Every US bank (depository institution) has accounts with the FRB that constitute those banks' reserves, and through which interbank transfers of "hard" dollars (base money - that is, dollars issued by the FRB, as compared to those created by bank lending - is ultimately effected. Those accounts are functionally digital dollars.
Not sure if I understood, but how is it a pun?

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
they weren't back when the reason people bought them were dividends, now the only real exit is if the company goes bankrupt or is purchased. The intervening time is hard to describe as anything other than pure speculation and piling dupes on top of each other
I have never understood what problems crypto/Blockchain/web3 is actually supposed to solve. I know it gained traction during the Libertarian/Austrian economics zeitgeist following the 2008 financial collapse. There was fear that the traditional fiat system was irreparably broken and couldn't be relied on. In reality regulators and central bankers did a pretty solid job (not perfect but they eventually got it right). DeFi was basically saying regulation is impossible to do without corruption so let's make transactions possible and regulation impossible. Not a great idea and now a fully failed experiment. Crypto as an asset class for profit was only ever an emergent property fueled by speculators. Crypto as actual currency is still valuable (mostly for criminals) so it may stay for a while but it's not going to make anyone rich ever again.
He is jewish, I'm wondering if the law of return would apply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Return
As a caracan myself, it's actually "caraqueños" :)

Regarding the subject, it is indeed very popular. You can go to restaurants, car parts stores and clothing stores and find the Binance QR code prominently displayed.

And a LOT of freelancers working online have no way of receiving payments from abroad other than through Binance (verifying Paypal here because of currency controls). No one wants to receive the local currency.

I wouldn't say that you'll see grandmothers in the grocery store buying stuff with USDT, but it's definitely used.
Thank you! That's awesome, so much nicer to read than in the terminal.

'man-preview' seems zsh only.
While I understand the downvotes, I want to see the cartoon script that led up to this line :D
this guy is fraud
For context they removed the profile yesterday (hence the archive link) after FTX collapsed and he resigned.

It appears he may have been a little too altruistic with the deposits of his customers.
Different opinions. That’s what makes a market. You saw one thing and I focused on other aspects.

We don’t need to convince each other. The market will tell us who is right.
Bankman Fried
such a well grounded and scientific opinion. sure to attract similar anecdotes and make valid conclusions

Incidentally, is it well grounded that exercise prevents aging, and at what level? We should be watching aging research more carefully
> what started out with altruistic motives, [...] is being derailed by opportunists.

See: all human history.

The essential trust anchor will always be transparency that directly affects a person in society. Anonymous money and anonymous power will be exploited.
https://youtu.be/5HgSnS-z4JU

I promise this is highly relevant and worth hearing, even though it may not seem directly related.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception

> The Free Software Foundation states that, without applying the linking exception, a program linked to GPL library code may only be distributed under a GPL-compatible license. This has not been explicitly tested in court, but linking violations have resulted in settlement.

So yes, what constitutes "copies of such a program" does include how it's been compiled/linked.
Non-technically, it was a horrow-show. I worked at the company from 2005/06 to 2012, when I quit after witnessing shameful behaviour towards women, a party-culture that literally lead to rape allegations, and a CEO who looted the company for money and shipped it to tax-havens.

One of the area managers - Kaveh, IIRC - also had a double morale on line with Trump. He was very "don't put your pen in the company ink", and proceeded to get one of his subordinates pregnant.

I remember there was an "anti Meltwater blog" at some point, but I can't find it now. I don't remember the URL either, so I can't look it up on archive.org. However, this site[0] seems to contain copy-pasted stuff from it.

As said, my experiences are 10+ years old, and hopefully things have improved.

[0] https://meltwater66.rssing.com/chan-11517474/latest.php
My first job out college was at PTC first in tech support for Windchill and then as a dev for Windchill. Windchill is PTC's PLM/VCS for CAD files. I never really touched CAD. I launched PROe a handful of times, but mainly to test some integration into Windchill.

Over the course of 3 years there, I saw maybe 6 or so companies bought by PTC and nothing ever really done with them. Probably the most successful was FlexPLM which for some reason was built on Windchill to offer PLM type software for the apparel industry. It only survived because PTC ignored it.

PTC is a company full of too much bureaucracy and managers all trying to push features over completeness.
Did you just reply to your own fucking message? Lol
You shouldn't call it "losing 5%," BTC price is not an exchange rate, it's a measure of exchange volatility with an integral component tracking trust in ECC, network availability. It's silly to try and compare software to what is essentially a government-financial-corporate feedback loop and it's behaviors.

Every country could severely limit mining, and the supply would continue its steady velocity, whereas sometimes executive behavior spurs financial institutions to simply make the federal banks buy everything.

Fractional reserve banking is an inherently unstable system.

True federation is not.

Ethereum crossed a similar threshold at the merge reducing the calculus, but it's not clear to me if there are any more "difficulty bombs" built in where executive control can be expressed, say in the consensus layer where unilateral control can be expressed over supply.
A few I agree, but TWTRQ had a tiny float. Doesn’t take much to move the price.

Eli Lily has market cap of $335B and 3M shares traded daily.
Because big data is valuable and little data is generally not, admins of small instances have little incentive to dig into the DB.

Because humans are moderating the small instances, they can do a better job than AI moderators, albeit with more work.

Moving from one Mastodon instance to another taking follows and followers is quite easy. Admins usually announce plans to close with enough time for people to make the move.
Its really a viewpoint common to tech workers. They see and solve the technological aspects of a problem while remaining blind to the larger more complex social aspects that remain unsolved, but think the problem is solved.

Here are other examples:

- promising self driving cars (driving is more than a technical activity, it's a social activity. AI is nowhere close to driving the easier technical aspects, much less the more complex social aspects)

- AI is already better than or will replace doctors. As of all doctors do is look at symptoms and up with diagnosis. The social part of medicine is the larger job by far, not diagnosis.

- algorithms can't biased. My AI predicts some function that has some real life impact. That the input data is biased, and therefore the output data is just as biased or even more biased. Well that's not my problem. I only build models, and lines of codes are not biased. But the result of your work is being used in the society to perpetuate bias. It's not okay to remain wilfully oblivious to that.
What sides are represented here?
How do you deal with the human ability to never take responsibility

I suppose it depends on the underlying causes and how extreme the end effect. There are psychological issues [1] that are more common in adolescence that most grow out of but some do not. One can not encourage others seek help especially if they are in denial so perhaps the only solution is to distance ones self from them or try to tune them out.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppositional_defiant_disorder
Can anyone explain what is special about this number?
It works on multiple levels. After a month without chocolate you might find it much easier to avoid buying it, and if you don't have it in your home it will be easier to avoid eating it.
I heard a whole lot, but what’s the solution?
I'm not arguing with you, I think most SPAs are unjustified, it's just that 15/20 years ago people really wanted to get rid of whole page refresh and all the problems that brings, which is a laudable aim, but has morphed into "why don't we make our own back button" and nonsense like that.

The justification nowadays seems to be (in truth) "if you take away my tools I don't know how to build things so I'm going to run npm init and go from there".
> I think it’s hilarious that you think your wire was slow because of the geographical distance the message had to travel (“halfway across the world”) as opposed to the fact that it had to travel across jurisdictions with different laws

Condescending straw man here.

Being able to use BTC to do this, routing around the various jurisdictional settlement layers, is a huge practical improvement.

Those 7 days don't make society better, they're a drag on the economy and the wallets of anyone who doesn't have access to quicker mechanisms.
Funny, I’ve moved hundreds of thousands of dollars between the UK and Australia this year, and it’s never taken more than a few hours. And I got useful money out of the other end, not Bitcoin.

This idea that it’s both useful for large international transfers and a highly volatile investment also seems contradictory.
Looks great! If they want to compete with zoom, the should make the free tier a bit better for individual use.

Maybe add a 240 minutes for up to 3 people option? That covers the “get a beer on zoom” use case, which is good for word of mouth.
over 20 minutes had gone by - way too long for an edit.
Tell that to Kathy Griffin and Jeph Jaques. And even before that, I doubt that people getting banned were considering it as "not personal".
Great. I don’t want to sound lazy but can you give me a time stamp to the relevant part? Thanks in advance.
Common! My example of people who don't want to think at all was clearly not in the context of developers. I'm talking about factory workers or sometimes even office workers.

For golang there's certainly devs how just don't mind a certain amount of repetitive work and are happy to use Go until retirement. And I don't think that's a problem at all. People are different and I think we should embrace that. If you think being called a "factory worker" is not flattering, then that's more your personal judgement than me being objectively disregarding factory workers.

Again: Try to read my response in the right context. I'm explaining why some people dislike (or even hate) the language. It was a response. Please try to keep that in mind when you reply.
So, if it gets crawled by an aggressive bot, the image disappears in a day?
As far as books goes, aside from The Path Made Clear, read those that help you go deep into whatever it is you’re exploring so you can quickly get over the discomfort of learning something new.

If you’re over 40, read From Strength to Strength. If you don’t already, learn to meditate. There are many different methods. Find one that feels right for you. Move your body in the way you naturally wanted to as a child. For example, I loved riding my bike and doing cartwheels so I bicycle and do yoga.

I recommend Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. The next book on my reading list is Soulcraft by Bill Plotkin.

As far as happiness, it’s not a destination. It comes in moments. You have happiness. We all do. The trick is to be present when it happens. The key to happiness is decreasing the moments of unhappiness, learning how to let go. A mentor of mine told me to figure out how to only give 1 fuck a week. It changed my life.

Journal, analyze what brings you moments of unhappiness and structure your life to eliminate as many of those as possible. Write what brings you more moments of happiness and how to increase those.
Therapeutic, please make it an app for the apple watch