skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cryptocurrencies are nothing like cash for one important reason: they are not subject to physical constraints.

You cannot easily scam millions of people around the world out of their hard-earned cash in a couple of days. You cannot easily move millions of dollars in cash without conspicuously hauling objects around and/or engaging many people to help with that. You can reverse a cash transaction immediately by grabbing the person and calling the police. You cannot maintain anonymity when dealing in cash without giving strong cues to bystanders and counterparties and risking being recorded on video. It is not the purpose of cash to avoid any of those “downsides”; but it clearly is a feature of cryptocurrencies.

Cryptocurrencies are a qualitatively new thing humanity has never had to deal with ever, no matter how insistent are cryptocurrency aficionados’ in calling it merely “a digital version of cash”. This serves their wallets, by suspending deserved wariness and encouraging unsophisticated people to invest into a financial pyramid, but not truthful description of reality.
You can 'vouch' for the thread (or a comment), but only after it's been marked as flagged. Personally I think that's unbalanced, since flags accumulate for a longer and more visible period than when a thread can be vouched for.
A two week hospital stay is orders of magnitude more than $10k, so presumably the $10k representes the out of pocket portion of the care.

I suspect the maximum annual out of pocket.
> A monad is said to be a monoid in the category of endofunctors

I was expecting this answer :)
Which still doesn’t mean that patients aren’t trusting Eli Lilly. Given the fact that they are choosing to spend a lot of dollars buying its drugs indicates that they do trust the efficacy of the drugs.

Also, the fact that the drug costs a few bucks everywhere else on the planet but not in the U.S. suggests this isn’t as much of an Eli Lilly problem as it is a USA problem.
This is from a year ago. Please provide some context to your reply.
Sweet, I actually love that! Upregulating a plant pathogen feels like it could be disastrous. If I had a better grasp of ecology I'd have thought of more examples like, haha. Might include it in a future iteration if you don't mind!
They should probably replace that with 2 if statements to make the error path and the non-error path obvious:

if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if match {
return rule, nil
}
3. Every other app has to ask user to "opt in", default is "opt out" while for apples own prompt the user has to "opt out", default is "opt in". This alone is evidence they are not subject to the same restrictions.
So what will happen? Will we see criminal charges and prison times?
No, the draft requires the purpose of a software to be declared. So if you declare Linux to be a terminal emulator, not an operating system, and only sell/import/distribute it as such, you only need to comply with the somewhat easier self-certification requirements for non-critical software.

However, that declaration of purpose of course binds all other users/distributors of Linux, if they should dare to use or bundle it as a desktop, server or mobile operating system, they are doing so outside the original certification and need to have the required audit for critical software performed.

That, as far as I read it, also means that something like GCC, which is unambiguously a compiler, isn't critical and need not be audited, only self-certified, even if used to compile a critical software component.
No - it's protective against negative COVID-19 outcomes just if you consider cardiovascular outcomes, ignoring all the others.
>Popular vitamin supplement carries increased cancer risk, scientists warn

https://studyfinds.org/nicotinamide-riboside-vitamin-b3-supp...
FTA :
"Mr Whitehead added "as a journalist, whatever you do, someone, somewhere, is going to get upset about it".

However, this particular joke has seemingly been popular among locals and tourists alike.

"In 20 years, I haven't had a single complaint about Llandegley International," he said.

"Loads of people love it, some people might not get it. But as far as I know, nobody is upset or angry about it. That's a first for me."

Guess, we found the one person upset...
Like just about everything, I would expect myocarditis to have some distribution such that there's a group of people who feel bad, but not bad enough to see a doctor. For the vaccines I would expect that people would be less likely to see a doctor because the vaccine side effects were so widely talked about, and going to the doctor carried a risk of COVID exposure.

The second does of vaccine knocked my wife and I on our asses for three days. I broke a sweat unloading the dishwasher and then had to go take a nap to recover. I figured we were just unlucky enough to have an especially strong reaction and didn't bother a doctor about it. Was that mild myocarditis? I'll probably never know.
It seems like your primary concern with Nix is that there can technically be collisions in the hash identifiers in the Nix store (?). The probability of finding a collision in sha256 (what Nix uses) is negligible. We use this assumption all the time in modern cryptography.

Nix has plenty of flaws, but the probability of hash collisions isn't one of them.
I have no idea if the tweet was actually directly related to the price drop and lean toward being skeptical of it, but I don't think those other companies also dropping is great proof of that.

Assuming the tweet was believed to be real (by enough of the right people to cause this sort of stock move), the expected outcome would be drops in those other companies as well, since Lilly giving insulin away (the tweet was: “We are excited to announce insulin is free now.”) would obviously cause a large impact on their ability to continue to sell it.
Not sure about Robinhood being on this list. They actually have billions in cash on hand right now.

They also have some valuable IP that a lot of people don't give them much credit for. One example being a brand new, in-house trade clearing system. This is similar to rewriting an IBM core banking system from scratch.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/10/robinhood-launches-its-own-t...
here is the problem in the a nutshell, SBF hired fraud scammers, several bad actors from poker scams where part of SBFs crew...indicating that something other than skill level was the factor in hiring.
Does Sequoia do literally no due diligence on the companies they invest in?

This wasn't seed capital, this was $213mm. And it wasn't just a bet that didn't turn out, it was fraudulent at its core.
https://archive.ph/ORvP2
> But the firings are externally visible as well - and it's also externally visible whether the firings occurred with or without a hiring freeze in place beforehand.

Yeah, the key thing that a company this size has to take care about is to announce the news to everyone - employees, media and investors - at the exact same time, so no one can claim that "insider trading" has taken place.

> And one of those two options signals greater unpredictability and volatility then the other - which to investors means higher risk, right?

Yes but no at the same time. The playing field is theoretically the same for every investor, which means that there is always a non-zero chance of a company announcing massive layoffs.
Btw, this was all known with increasing confidence by July '21 (Israeli data showed increased myocarditis risk after second shot), and December '21 (Nature paper stratified myocarditis risk by vaccination status and age).
With the way the numbers around Covid and Covid deaths were cooked, there is no way to determine how many died from Covid.

Excess mortality is higher now than during Covid
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-are-excess-deaths-hi...

There is evidence of statistical lies perpetuated to benefit big pharma.

- The extreme false positive rate of COVID testing
- Blindly combining "of" and "with" Covid cases for cause of death based on those same broken tests.
- Influenza, pneumonia magically took a couple of years off during Covid
- PCR testing cycles at extreme highs

When all of the broken testing was finally admitted and discontinued, were the previous misclassified deaths reinvestigated or reclassified? Of course not.

The entire pool of data of Covid deaths has been poisoned. There is no interest in accuracy. But there does seem to be extreme interest in protecting the liability and profits of the pharma companies that coerced unproven, untested, ineffective "cures" that do not prevent infection, spread, or reduce symptoms.
Not really, unless you're only reading the threads that match your bias. Most of the higher-voted top-level comments are fairly substantial...unlike yours.
Did you look at the article?

The time frames for the graphs are not the beginnings of covid (EoY 2021). By that time the initial standards of care had improved to the steroid treatments (I can't say specifically which ones, because I do not know, but I do know they were generally the standard of care at that time).

The risk benefit analysis of the vaccine vs the disease is ultimately something that's impossible to do at this point, because it's impossible to be impartial to whatever side you think is riskier. In general, I think a disease is just always going to be riskier than a vaccine. Anything you say about the vaccine could be true of the disease as well until we have complete information about the disease.
> creating a document where I explain these concepts as if I'm teaching them to someone else

Tangentially, that is a marvelous way to learn something. I often find that in explaining a complex topic I uncover gaps in my own understanding.
When I was younger, I would frequently come up with reasons to buy something "early" because there was some perceived benefit. But I would carry a balance and end up paying more for EVERYTHING.

So I tore them up, used a debit card for everything and only bought things I had money for. When everything was paid off and I had no debts, there was a real change in my demeanor. Best thing I ever did.

I will say I tried to buy a car a few years after having made this change. When they ran my credit, I remember the guy saying - I'm having trouble getting you a loan. It's not that you have bad credit, it's that you have NO credit.

So at that point I got a loan for a couple consumer purchases to build credit. Later I caved and got a (costco) credit card, and paid it in full every month.

Now a credit card is not a big deal, but I think I had to get to the point where I was ahead (and maybe slightly more mature)
Was going to post this as well — I read this in the middle of taking my vector calc class in college (with a terrible professor) and really had one of those "ohhhhhhh" moments where you unlock an intuitive understanding of something previously out of reach
A good thing he is so young - seems like a good indicator for no lasting damage.

We really don't know much about this virus and by association it's vaccine - it does not behave like the flu - lost a colleague to Beta who was way fitter and way healthier than me (he did Murtai and BMI) - he ended on a ventilator and died, and I was just man down for week and a half at home.

It still took me weeks to recover back to myself again - still got the booster shot afterwards.
Former SoftBank COO on FTX investment, expresses regret, cites FOMO
Perhaps not ignorant but maybe inexperienced for the roles and responsibilities they assumed at their new company? This is from a piece about Caroline Ellison the CEO at Alameda:

>"Before joining Alameda as a trader in March 2018, Ellison spent 19 months as a junior trader at Jane Street after graduating from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 2016. In a podcast two years ago, Ellison explained that Jane Street was her first job out of college. A diehard mathematician and Harry Potter fan born of two economists, Ellison she hadn't wanted to go into trading but "just didn't really know what to do" with her life.

> "She was persuaded to join Alameda by SBF, who also previously worked for Jane Street. When she quit Jane Street, Ellison said she felt bad for staying such a short amount of time. However, this feeling quickly dissipated when she arrived at Alameda and discovered that she had "kind of more trading experience than a lot of Alameda traders," anyway."[1]

And similarly for Constance Wang the FTX CEO/COO:

>"Constance Wang joined FTX as chief operating officer in the Bahamas in 2019. Initially, she was chief operating officer (COO) of FTX's crypto derivatives exchange. In January 2022 she was promoted as CEO of FTX digital markets, with responsibility for the Bahamas HQ. An org chart published by the Information puts her one level below Sam Bankman-Fried.

>This looks like a big job. All the more so because Wang is only a few years into her career. Before she joined FTX, most of her time had been spent at Credit Suisse in Singapore.

>Wang wasn't an MD at Credit Suisse. She wasn't even a director or associate director. She was an analyst and she worked at the bank for two years, first in KYC in the private bank and then in APAC risk and controls. It was her first job out of university.

"Admittedly, Wang didn't go straight from Credit Suisse to FTX - there was an eight-month detour to Huobi Global, a crypto exchange in Singapore first. However, the fact that this was sufficient to land her a job in her late 20s running 'institutional clients servicing and operational procedure,' at a fund with $1bn of revenues last year, looks slightly questionable."[2]

[1] https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/11/caroline-elli...

[2] https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/11/constance-wan...
There is plenty of gray market for insulin near both borders. No large players (just individuals going over the border to buy).
How did Uluru form? (2017)
It became political, causing FDA heads to resign [1] after threats [2]. And now, the latest booster was approved with no human trials at all [3].

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/2-top-fda-officials-resigned...

2. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/11/white-house-threatens-to-fir...

3. https://www.health.com/news/new-covid-boosters-human-testing...
Not the OP but:

Covid definitely isn't over, it's just that we've gotten better at treating it and people have decided that they are over it. It is still killing almost 2000 people a week in the US and it's very possible that we will see a huge spike in that as we get further into winter.

the "next" booster is referring to the updated vaccine that more effectively targets the dominant "Omicron" variant.
Over the past year all of the paid parking lots in my city have removed their kiosks and replaced them with QR codes that open a website with a very unwieldy form. Very annoying if your phone happens to be dead or broken or you run out of data or something!
Excludes Hawaii, and Alaska (+ all other non state islands/territories)
Fair enough - I hadn't considered that the implication was it would take a conspiracy to do it.
If I am not mistaken, Telsa stock is currently worth more than all other car manufacturers combined, while selling a small fraction of the total vehicles, with no huge margin.
Alameda was supposedly a prop trading firm too.
I can remember arguments in the airport because people didn't like it when you didn't step away to carry on a conversation in public. Candy Bar phones, anyone? I now use the Samsung Flip and love how small it fits in my pocket, but I still enjoy the large unfolded screen.
People I know are getting COVID in the Bay Area -- multiple weeks sick (I can count at least 6 -- in the moment -- for the span of middle of October until now).
We are still in the pandemic.

The problem is it has to stop everywhere for us to get complacent.
Especially, given that everyone wants to travel
-- and travel abroad.

Pandemic is here. Nothing is over. We are distracted with other things. Things are "good" in San Francisco and the Bay now. No guarantee it will be so tomorrow.
because NR provides extra energy to cells?
Crypto.com sent $400M to the wrong recipient, but got it back this time
>> What changed is not discrimination, but that the industry first started asking for prior experience with computers, which men had more than women

>You don't see this as gender discrimination? Why did men have more access to computers? Why was the access to computers based on gender?

If this is evidence of gender discrimination it's by the parents, not by the companies doing the hiring. The companies are doing nothing wrong in hiring the most qualified even if that skews highly male.

The reality is that the autism spectrum is *highly* overrepresented in STEM, especially the solitary pursuits (things like programming where the job is a worker at a computer.) The autism spectrum skews highly male. That's going to skew such jobs male. (And, personally, I think this actually understates it--autism is not binary, but a spectrum. That means there's plenty more that lean in that direction without reaching the point of qualifying for a diagnosis.)

> Class discrimination is also important to fight. Access to opportunities shouldn't be reserved only to the rich. But women are in an even worse position if they're also from a poor family.

And the antidiscrimination efforts do virtually nothing about this. Companies neither know nor care what someone's class background is, they just care what they can do.

> Exactly, that's the other point, there's less woman in the pool, so you need to make sure they don't get starved out, and to increase the representation of women in the pool you need to go out of your way to recruit women, it's one possible way to break the cycle.

You're assuming discrimination perpetuated by the employers, yet the only sources of discrimination you cite have nothing to do with the employers. There's no cycle to break.
As long as the inverter keeps working, you are right; you still get some (reduced) benefit for just letting them run.

At some point the inverter (a separate box, usually inside the house) will fail and need to be replaced. At that point you'd have to balance the price of a new inverter vs. the expected return of energy from the panels.
uber and door dash
I experienced this same thing in 2020 when I was hunting for my current job. I lost count of how many places I applied to.

Over the past year, I have been on the hiring side, and I can offer a few tips as well, based on filtering through many resumes and doing many interviews.

1) Don't list 20 different technologies and claim to be an expert in all of them. There is no way for someone to be a true "expert" in many technologies/languages, and if you get specific questions about these technologies, you will be exposed (something that happened multiple times when I was interviewing).

2) Pay attention to what tools the job requires and tailor your resume/cover letter accordingly. It doesn't do us much good to tell me you have experience with something else that we don't use or care about. That being said, if you don't have a lot of experience with what we use, make it clear that you are willing to learn. We know that we will not always get someone who meets every requirement.

3) As amazing as it is to have to say this; be courteous and communicate. For instance, if something comes up and you can't make an interview time, let the company know ahead of time; ghosting will hurt you.

4) If you don't do well on a code test (Leetcode, TestDome, etc), don't blame the platform for not doing well. If you are not willing to accept responsibility now, what will you do when you are working for us and something goes wrong with your code?
As I said elsewhere. Sequoia needs to be thoroughly investigated and charged for their crimes if found.
I agree with your sentiment here, but the problem is that everyone else is also cheating so playing honestly is a losing move. Is there a grassroots way to undermine capital at scale? How do we remove the cheaters from the table? How do you make the system naturally resilient to grift?

Personally I think we should just outlaw rich people by way of direct wealth redistribution via taxes and see how that shakes out.
Online darts over the telephone [Tomorrow's World – BBC Archive] (1989)
People did run into Bill at the airport eating a burger like anyone else. The couple of times I saw him he didn't appear to have any visible security people.

> Even in the early '90s, Microsoft were operating at genius level for their control of public discussion about the company.

The company had been around what, 15 years, by then? They weren't newbies at business, and could afford the best PR people.
> Similarly, when I deposit $10,000 into a bank (be it a savings account, or money market account), the Bank writes down an IOU saying it owes me $10,000. The bank then sends the money to the market (and worst-case, to the Fed Overnight loans), and lends the money out.

Incorrect! My understanding is it would be illegal for them to give away your deposits. That includes the Reverse-Repo market (RRP), which is the source of the overnight rate you referring to. The RRP is a contract, not a transfer. Factional-reserve banking means they don't loan out customer's deposits.

Also, you are confused about the users of RRP. It is overwhelmingly money-market funds, NOT checking/saving accounts. This would include Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab, etc. which are not banks.

From:https://fedguy.com/the-on-rrp-will-never-be-a-floor/

"In practice, the vast majority of ON RRP usage is done by MMFs, who have $4.5 trillion in assets. That enormous pool of capital is the mechanism through which Fed policy is transmitted in the money markets."

ON RRP = Overnight Reverse-Repo
MMF = Money-Market Fund

And it is never "spent" by the fed. It is held as a liability on their balance sheet. The reason you see such a high RRP now is due to a shortage of low duration treasuries. They want the RRP to be high in case there is a run on MMFs like in 2008.
The argument isn't that these things are somehow intrinsically bad, they're just not good topics for HN. One reason is that they tend to attract a lot of repetitive advocacy which is normal for proposed legislation but is pretty bad for interestingness, especially for a forum with 30 front page slots.

It's really easy to make an argument for almost anything being somehow within HN's rubric or important in some way. These arguments are often true! But that also tells you they aren't useful criteria for deciding what works and doesn't on the forum since if you accepted them all, everything is good for the forum.

Repetition and repetition-generation is HN-bad. Another example are software release posts. Those are super HN-y by topic but the bulk of them are also not great HN posts and routinely get downweighted because they tend to produce the same generic discussions which are fine in general but not (for HN purposes) at the release cadence of most active software projects.
> Even worse is that it's not even really that far-fetched

Partizan politics aside... SBF's very mom was running a fundraising campaign. And after George Soros SBF was the biggest donor.

SBF had already siphoned $95m out of Canadian teachers pension funds.

> This is just reinforcing the worst conspiracy theories out there

At this point it's not just conspiracy theories anymore. BlockFi had already reached an agreement with the SEC (and SBF "bought" BlockFi when it was in trouble) and it's totally obvious that FTX would have been a licensed regulated exchanges once the current bill would have passed.

It's an undisputable fact that the chief FTX lobbyist was an ex-CFTC commissioner. He apparently also was an ex- colleague of the SEC's chair, Gary Gensler.

And as weird coincidence would have it: Gary Gensler was an ex-colleague of Alameda's 28 years CEO's father.

And you dare to say it's "re-inforcing conspiracy theories"?

Let the scum of this earth be exposed for what it is.

I'm not defending people because they happen to be leeches close to the political party I'm voting for.