skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look man, what do you want anyone to say? ByteDance are private so we can't know for sure. Given the ARPU for Chinese users I've seen in various industries I find it entirely plausible that they paid for this out of profits.
> give you something

Eh? You can’t like give me anything - you can give me a token - which can also effectively be money. The latter usually occurs due to some other trust relationship needing to be established - we are back at square one.
For scripting on my Linux systems, including scheduled utilities, I use ABS a lot. It has been enjoyable and straightforward.

https://www.abs-lang.org/
> nobody was doing anything obscene with body parts

Yes, same with my anecdotes. I was talking about dark humor, not doing anything obscene with body parts. I think nobody else mentioned anything obscene, either.
How is it currently run? From my layperson experience, every time I do a wire transfer, I feel like I'm inputting data into a mainframe or something...
Only got through a few paragraphs before the paywall. Theoretically, from a "big food chain" perspective, it is true that eating algae directly at the bottom of the food chain is more energy efficient, since each link in the food chain only transfers about 10% of its energy upwards. But the reality is not that simple. China tried to implement the consumption of chlorella during the famine years decades ago, and it proved to be a complete failure.
Lakers seem to have unusually long lives for ships because of the unique nature of the cargo carried, and the lack of salt water. As far as I can tell, many are retired because metal fatigue reasons, or an ship that cannot be upgraded to diesel propulsion.
>. Don't sell user data left and right, and boom! Your poor small business is in the clear.

And the article shows that this is not true.
Do you believe that Bernie Maddoff lacked connections?
Java is the new Java :) With features like records, virtual threads, pattern matching, sealed types, string templates, and more to come, it's shaping up very nicely.
... or they are off promoting "web 3", the definition of which changes as the weather does.

For me, enthusiasm for "the blockchain" is a quick way to identify a) people who promote technologies without bothering to research the fundamentals and b) crooks/charlatans.
Signed git commits, as per the parent.
Then you have no state power to deal with misuse of money.
>I’m about to enter the job market, and I’m terrified

You're getting a highly biased view of what is really going on in the job market because some high profile Tech companies laid off people. Their leaders are not liked so everybody has an opinion about it.

I've been at companies in the past that had huge layoffs, but they were boring companies that nobody cares to talk about on HN or Social Media. If Cisco, Oracle, Siemens, Coca-Cola and a bunch of boring companies laid off 50K+ people over the course of a year the news would not care and nobody would realize a ton of people just landed in the job market.

Is the job market worse than Jan 2022? Sure. Is it bad? I don't think so.
I also prefer pleroma, plus they just have larger instances (like poa.st, which had more active users than mastodon.social before Elon bought twitter, although I'm unsure if that's the case now). Sites like Gab started off on Mastodon but found it was too hard to scale and moved off it.
Although apple maps has had the better client for quite a while, it can still be whack sometimes in actual directions.
That coastal habitat could also be used to support stocks of fish that people will actually want to eat.
Spirulina is not algae. It’s bacteria. [0]

I avoid it, possible ALS risk.[1][2][3]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_(dietary_supplemen...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanotoxin

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295368/

[3] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/1748296090327848...
For motte-and-bailey reasons. Food insecurity in my country means not being able to access food in "socially acceptable ways". It has nothing to do with hunger, it means collecting money from the govt or food stamps etc. But when invoked, it's meant to convey that a large fraction of people are going hungry, incidentally often calling for an expansion of spending which would also not reduce food insecurity because by definition it's not "socially acceptable". Better wages and employment addresses it.
DBpedia Ontology Browser
Nice writeup. A good popular discussion of leverage is in the movie Margin Call, regading the 2008 meltdown:

> "Well, as you probably know, over the last 36 to 40 months, the firm has begun packaging new mortgage-backed security products that combine several different tranches of rating classification in one tradeable security. This has been enormously profitable... Well, the firm is currently doing a considerable amount of this business every day. Now the problem, which is I guess why we are here tonight, is that it takes us, the firm, about a month to layer these products correctly, thereby posing a challenge from a risk management standpoint... Well, we have to hold these assets on our books longer than we might ideally like to. But the key factor here is, these are essentially just mortgages, so that has allowed us to push the leverage considerably beyond what you might be willing or allowed to do, in any other circumstance, thereby pushing the risk profile without raising any red flags."

Running the money printing press was the government response to that situation, i.e. 'deleveraging the bank holding companies (BHCs) via quantitative easing' - which does illustrate how a government controlled by financial oligarchs operates in practice. The actual homeowners could have been the recipients of the bailouts - i.e. the government would have taken over their loans, provided a zero-interest period, converted the loans from adjustable to fixed-rate, sold them back to the banks (or just set up a separate institution), and then the homeowners could have stayed in their homes and continued to pay off their mortgages at an acceptable monthly rate - or some combination of the above. The BHCs would have suffered much more significant losses under that scenario, and perhaps more would have gone the way of Bear Stearns and Countrywide.

Notably, this illustrates that regardless of whether monetary policy is tight or loose, the government's fiscal policy can be engineered to support the financial oligarchs. For example, today's high interest rates are going to be used to justify government fiscal policies that benefit the oligarch class (i.e. pushing for mass unemployment to bring down wages to 'fight inflation', etc.). Similarly, large banks are not being forced to raise personal savings interest rates as the Fed rate rises (as that would benefit ordinary people, even if inflation is outpacing interest rates).

https://thehill.com/policy/3656474-lawmakers-slam-big-bank-c...

As far as cryptocurrencies, it seems fairly unlikely that crypto funds will be the beneficiaries of quantitive easing or other government largesse, as crypto hasn't yet bought enough corrupt politicians.
I am convinced that him not believing in it, getting paid a boatload to do a commercial stating he doesn't believe in it, then it failing is definitely the plot for a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.
> digital signatures used in transactions rather than disclosing secrets such as credit card numbers

Credit cards also offer this. I can go to my CC's website and generate virtual cards which can be handed to vendors and individually managed, frozen, or deleted, all without exposing my actual card number.
cruel and unusual if you ask me. we have rights damn it!!!!!
I marvel at it’s succinctness to represent information about Antarctica. Chef’s kiss.
Okay. "site" makes sense. But if a search on the main site also shows results form the music site, then problem solved - right?
>Your comments about what "people" were designed to eat also sounds pretty ignorant, since we're not genetically homogenous for starters. ...

Source for this? I don't doubt that there are groups with genetic adaptations to food (eg. genes for lactase persistence), but I'm not aware of anything for carbs.
Researchers develop a material that mimics how the brain stores information
Hah, they definitely didn't apply this criteria when they enabled AVIF by default in Chrome before the AVIF spec was even complete.
"By using PET scans, the presence of tau and amyloid in the participants' brains could be visualized."

This is good, but still makes me queasy. Would you really want to know ahead of time?

On a related note, maybe dogs can provide an early warning via smell:
https://www.yalescientific.org/2016/04/sniffing-out-alzheime...
The Father of the Underground Railroad
> you’ve got a lot of correlated risk sitting on one side of a nasty liability

Not only was WeWork's customer base dependent on VC money, so was WeWork itself! So it's really VC money going around in circles until the music stops, which is now.

It reminds me of that old joke: startups are an inefficiency imposed on the transfer of wealth from VCs to landlords.
FTX US is such a distinct entity it is... included in the bankruptcy filing.
Extremely overplayed, "American Pie" by Don McLean is about the plane crash that killed 4 American rock stars all at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died
never attribute to 3 dimensional chess what could be explained by one dimensional
You might be forgiven for thinking that Musk, who arguably incorporates the Silicon Valley spirit like no one else, is taking a 'fail fast' approach to his Twitter adventure.
> Allow anybody to get verified, they just need to present their passport and then their display name is fixed to that name, or if its a company you verify that.

It's not quite that simple; there are plenty of individuals whose public name is not the same as their legal name. Some examples:

- Violet Blue (journalist) https://twitter.com/violetblue

- why the lucky stuff (Ruby coder) http://twitter.com/_why (defunct)

- CGP Grey (Youtuber) https://twitter.com/cgpgrey

- Alaska Thunderfuck (Drag performer) https://twitter.com/Alaska5000

- Lil Nas X (musician) https://twitter.com/LilNasX

- Jadi (internet activist) https://twitter.com/jadi (suspended)
IMO, looking at the state of Siri, I'm not quite sure about that. Siri has always been not as good as alexa or google and has been getting worse over the years with weird ass bit flip bugs interpreting a 'turn off' as a 'turn on' or similar and the rest of the 'smart assistant' stuff throughout the OS usually not being very useful.
Git guy took the server offline. You want to refer to the commit to give someone else the token but now you can't.

You can't trust the git guy.
> if the house is worth zero dollars (never true)

There are numerous real-life scenarios where a house is worth zero dollars.
Honestly, from my experiences in medical school, cadavers smell strongly like formaldehyde, and all the tissues are brown, atrophied, and hard to distinguish. I remember realizing my understanding of anatomy (at least abdominal) increased way more from watching surgery on healthy tissue than an entire year of clinical anatomy courses...
No, what I'm describing has nothing to do with fixed or variable costs.

What I'm saying is that when you separate the action (fixing roof, hooking up with computer) from the payment, you're in debt, you're creating an implicit loan.

If you then clear this debt not by opposing transactions but with just the minimal set of transactions (similar to ring clearing after a poker game) then you have allowed transactions with far more money than any party actually produced cash for.

That is financial leverage.

That is exactly what happens in future markets, too. You don't need cash corresponding to the full value of a 5000 bu wheat contract to buy one. All you need is enough to cover the mark-to-market payments and then a little safety buffer. It's all an implicit loan until the contract expires. If you offset it, you continue to transact in way more money than you put in. Financial leverage!
> The article has since been taken down, it’s still reachable through Web Archive.

I've skimmed through it, and by god, I was surprised Sequoia wasn't crediting the sun rising each morning to SBF.
The Cypherpunks
Let me guess, you live in the US/North America? I also live in a developed country in Europe and here you have to go to the doctor in person for almost everything except COVID, people still go to the cinema (at every new blockbuster the cinema is almost full), people still go shopping for groceries as grocery deliveries aren't a thing here or most people can't afford the extra costs, WFH is very rare so everyone still goes to work in person, car sales are up, etc.

Your bubble does not reflect the worldwide situation.
I would have assumed separating money and state simply means the state can no longer control money creation. So yes it would be similar to using gold as a currency. Just high tech. Though with all the hype I'm sure there was a lot of craziness imagining more beyond that.
an IP address...?
> there have been publications that straight up found that rent control did not reduce housing stock meaningfully

Really? Would you build an apt building that rent control ensured would be a poor investment? How do you measure investors being reluctant to build more housing in a rent controlled area?

Rent control is good for the few people who get a below market rate. It's bad for everyone else, including those who can't find a place to rent because of it.
No, I agree with you that it is quite the opposite, I think the culture war stuff that absolutely pervades all of the major ActivityPub implementations is a pox on the network, a serious problem that hampers the stated goals of the protocol designers and may completely doom the experiment in the long run
There are two ways to approach this:

1. “I am leaving the org. If you’re interested in selling this part to me, I would be interested in buying it.” Absolutely be prepared for that to be your last day and for them to say no.

You should have financing lined up and a business entity prepared to acquire the IP, pay for infra, etc in the event they entertain the offer. You’re an insider who wants to perform a divestment and M&A transaction. Include the cost of a good M&A firm to advise you in your cost estimate. /r/fatfire has some recommendations here.

2. Quit. Build it yourself. Compete against your old employer with what you know. Be prepared to grind and still fail.

Your first (absolutely mandatory) step is to talk to an attorney. Explain the situation, and bring your employment docs with. Which path you take will be governed by what you agreed to when you were hired, your risk tolerance, your jurisdiction, and your resources available to you. Expect to spend ~$500 to have the conversation.

Good luck! No risk, no reward. Everything is negotiable.

https://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/batna/translate-your-batna...
Author Nick Abadzis created a graphic novel of the story of Laika [1]. While I expect it includes some fictional elements, a lot of the story in the graphic novel was true, including Laika's unfortunate demise. He got so many comments about the sad ending that he wrote several alternate endings to placate his readers. You can se them in reference [2].

[1]. https://www.nickabadzis.com/laika-graphic-novel

[2]. https://www.bigplanetcomics.com/category/comics/the-alternat...
Nobody's tried Brave Search?
And the third definition that you are conveniently ignoring is the one that matters here: "to attract (someone, such as an employee or customer) away from a competitor"[0]

I wonder if this pedantic nonsense on HN is ever going to stop? "Poach" is a perfectly fine word to use here, everyone knows exactly what it means, and for the love of god it's not depriving anyone of any "agency."

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poach
This has been a wonderful social experiment, enabling people who didn’t live in the 19th century to see what happens when banking and investing is treated like the wild west.

Maybe something could have been different this time? In the end it wasn’t, and it proves the necessity of regulation and institutions.

There aren’t very many other aspects of our society where we get to have that kind of experiment and find out whether our approaches to past problems were really correct. Letting us do that may turn out to be the true value of crypto, after the coins go to zero and we start mentioning it in our history books alongside tulip mania and the South Sea bubble.
You're the one making a non-sequitur. Capitalism is an ideology about maximizing profits. You can make a lot more profit if you externalize all your costs. "Privatize the profits, socialize the losses" is a way of saying that corporations have a lot of magical legal devices that let them avoid responsibility for externalities they themselves created once the revenue stream is no longer flowing.

Can't you think of time and again examples of this? For instance, all fossil fuel using companies are participating in this exercise in real-time today; they certainly are not paying anything for the massive pollution damage they are creating. Corporate fraud never leads to meaningful punishment of the executives and they often make a profit even after "punishment".
> Your messages in this entire subthread add essentially nothing beside quote without context

That's not true. I invite you to read my messages again and note that I've made 5 comments, all of them timestamped before yours, and only in 2 of them have I referenced quotes.

> about how great and smart Elon is

That's not exactly accurate and seems tinged with your interpretation of my intentions.

I've supplied quotes to show that Elon is well versed in rocket science.

> add essentially nothing beside quote without context

A commenter claimed that Musk did not understand rocketry. I replied with quotes from industry experts declaring the exact opposite. What more context do you need?

I'm not a fanboy and have anything invested in proving how great he is. Personally, I think he can be a big jerk at times and at others brilliant. The issue I'm trying to address that I see over and over again are the false claims that Musk has no idea what he is doing technically and steals credit from the engineers he hires.

When I see a ubiquitous false claim that is easy disproven in 3 minutes with a Google search and copy and paste, then why not? I believe HN is a place where truth and reason are valued and misinformation corrected, so I think my comments and references have been valuable in that respect and apparently so do the 30+ people that have upvoted my first comment with the quotes even though they are "without context."

> your messages have the opposite result on me than the one you intend

My intention has been to present information to counter misinformation about Musk's technical skills. If you still believe he doesn't have technical skills, that's your prerogative of course. I'm just supplying information that looks authentic to me and leave it up to the reader to decide.
These can be bypassed trivially, it's a Google search away.
"I am vengeance! I am the night! I am Batman!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4xbbpH-20ak
Luckily there's a fairly liquid market for the things we're handing around (usually)
Centralization is inevitable.

- https://subconscious.substack.com/p/centralization-is-inevit...
Was obviously cope at the time.

If the guy is dipping into supposedly segregated client accounts to run his prop trading, and lying about it.. why would he not do the same with FTX US money.
It's good on simple and humorous analogies and bad on explanation (and plotting).
Please demonstrate that it "never" works.
Most startups don't get a $10B leash. You need to gain some amount of traction and revenue to get investment. And not just money, they are spending credibility. No one would be paying any attention to this if Zuck weren't pushing so hard.
Yeah, but I think the term "self-host" is a little bit conditioned on the HTTP model itself. If we had some sort of Usenet-style distributed infrastructure, you could imagine two ways of publishing content, either running a static site generator locally and using that to push content to the world (and you would be directly negotiating with people about whether you're a spammer), or using some helper online tool a la WordPress to render the content and have them do the push (and they would take responsibility for making sure it gets pushed). In that world, where the end-to-end model of our world's HTTP is uncommon, I think people would still call the first way "self-hosting."

In fact I think we do use the term "self-host" in exactly that way when talking about "self-hosted newsletters." I can (and do!) run a newsletter where I generate the HTML and the MIME document locally, find an SMTP provider of my choice, and instruct it to directly mail recipients. I maintain the mailing list (in a text file in a Git repo) and pass it to my SMTP provider every time I do a mailing, and people contact me directly to sign up. I could also use Substack/Tinyletter/Buttondown/etc., which would have various advantages and disadvantages; the hosting provider would handle most of this for me, including maintaining the list of subscribers. You can also talk about "self-hosted Mailman," etc. In these cases, the self-hoster sees the email addresses of subscribers but not (necessarily) their IP addresses.

I don't think I'm conflating TCP and HTTP. NNTP, UUCP, and SMTP all use TCP, but they're designed in a way that doesn't have this property. In fact it's not even HTTP per se that's a problem. It's mostly about what I called "direct HTTP" - though you posted your comment to me over HTTP, there's no HTTP (nor TCP) connection to me.

(Also other comments claim that the CLOUD Act means that if GH the US entity runs EU servers, that doesn't actually solve the problem - it'd have to be a non-US entity not subject to US jurisdiction. That's why I think the old-school-web model of mirrors is a better example; they're generally run by universities or other entities with no legal relation to the site they're mirroring.)
Commodore 64, il computer immortale: tre cose che possiamo farci ancora oggi
The Most Advanced VR Headset Has Me Questioning Reality [video]
Just to note, that is making pretty questionable assumptions to get to the conclusion that there are not enough metals. For example, they assume that there is a set need of cobalt/nickel per kWh of lithium batteries, which obviously is completely false (see LFP chemistry). They also use 2018 reserves as the yardstick, completely oblivious to the fact that already by 2021 the lithium reserves had increased compared to 2018 by more than what their own numbers say a generation of EVs need.
On the whole, at this point in time, I agree. For general purpose NVM stuff you're better off going with the less exotic, but SRAM isn't suitable for this specific use case. Some eNVMs are essentially analogue (CBRAM, OxRAM, PCM etc) whereby you can partially set a single memory cell much like a variable resistor. MRAM obviously had its specific two states so is unsuitable for neuromorphic computation, and SRAM is the same.

I disagree though that 22nm is the limit for (STT) MRAM and ReRAM, they both have excellent scalability.

SRAM scales nicely but is volatile, takes up lots of area and obviously isn't BEOL compatible. You can stack MTJs between metal layers just fine.
They’re directly quoting text from the article. See the section “ Why is lithium extraction bad for the environment?”.
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