skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another note about Rivian's later arrival to market is that it will have a harder time selling regulatory credits to other automakers. This profit center is decreasing over time but has averaged about 300M/Q. This is far from making up a 1.7B loss, but shows how Rivian doesn't have some of the first mover tailwinds.

Additionally, while Rivian is a premium vehicle and may presumably attract a substantial number of cash buyers, increases in interest rates can't help sales.

https://tesla-cdn.thron.com/static/WTULXQ_TSLA_Q3_2022_Updat...

https://ir.tesla.com/#quarterly-disclosure
> 1 character, in 2 places ;)

Moving a single character from one place to another. :-)

A good explanation of why "fire the developers with the lowest 50% of lines added" is an idiotic thing to do: this sort of deep analysis takes a lot of time and expertise, and frequently results in tiny changes.
You absolutely do NOT see real life through a lens. This is one of the first things you learn in film school.
Because on-chain transactions are expensive and exchanges offer cheap off-chain transactions. If you could transact on-chain as cheaply as you can move money between a checking and savings account of course people would do that.
Storing a 12/13 word string in your head for a cold wallet puts it into territory a lot closer to a bank account, and in the US normally words in your head can't be seized via court order (there are some exceptional circumstances, but they're far more limited than freezing bank accounts).
Good!

You should not keep cryptocurrencies on an exchange.

We have been saying this since the early 2010s. Ten years, minimum.

This is exactly the point of cryptocurrency.

If you're not doing that, you're messing about with IOUs.
This is an extremely common mistake in reporting performance numbers. That the old version is 70% slower does not make the new version 70% faster.
this path has been partially trodden, elementaryOS. The first versions were snappy don't know now.
The venn of arts and crafts, paranoid delusions, and blockchain.
I agree in general. Crypto winter is here and appears to be getting worse. But I also am a frequent listener of Darknet Diaries podcast and basically every shady exchange of money online is facilitated in crypto. So it has a non-zero value.
So much this. This morning I was thinking about the supposed CIA handbook to ruin companies, at this stage I wonder if it wasn't done for states.
My wife asked me why I don't create startup, well it's all due to these bullshits.
That's a good tip. Maybe I'll try that and include reading algorithms when necessary. Thanks
We're in a downtown for the tech industry most other industries are fine
Check out our 17 year of expertise in medical software
Sometimes, you gotta do things yourself. My music library is a bunch of tagged files in a large music folder. I set up a Funkwhale[0] instance for myself, but I rarely use it. I mostly play transcoded files on my phone, tablet, or MP3 player (Sandisk Sansa with Rockbox).

[0] https://funkwhale.audio/
It's AGPL so might be bit hard to adapt outside of homelab (unless that's the intention for the free version).
Yes, it's a risk. If a contract or protocol is several years old, processing billions per day, and the code is un-upgradeable, you might say the risk is lower.

I'd rather gamble with Uniswap protocol risk than FTX human fraud and greed risk.
Enron was unlike Theranos, in that Enron was originally a legitimate company while Theranos was a scam from the beginning. Enron was a company that sold natural gas, a real product, that became a scam as they used increasingly dodgy accounting practices to push their stock ever higher. Theranos on the other hand never had a real product, and before Theranos even started Holmes was informed by experts (particularly Phyllis Gardner) that it would never work.

In the early days of Enron, an investigative journalist would have found a real gas trading company. But at no point in the history of Theranos would an investigative journalist worth their salt have found a real company.
Honestly given HackerNews I was wondering if that was the actual rock at first.
The genius of Steve Jobs was simply that he had enough taste, vision and authority that the company was actually focused on delivering _products_.

The state of the average enterprise, like Microsoft and Google, is that various business units and departments have devolved into cargo culting process to satisfy the petty career needs of their managers and workers.

It's not complicated. The people in charge not only do not understand product development, but they fundamentally don't care and will get uncomfortable if you try to make them care. It is far too tall an order, and too much work.
It's now safe to admit we have been in one and don't have to play the strict interpretation and can carry on with the colloquial interpretation which had been good enough since ever.
I love this observation, because I think it's the perfect wedge point. Will most people fail at this? Yes.

But -- will every single entity that actually does follow "fundamental crypto values" be destroyed? Almost certainly not. That's where the good (and healthy) action is. Follow THAT, everyone.
Would this spell the end of SerenityOS?
Futhermore, the pollution regs here are 100x what they are elsewhere (e.g., China). The myth is jobs get offshored for labour costs. That helps, but it's the loose environmental regs that make manufacturing so attractive.
There was an issue while I was giving a presentation for a cryptocurrency startup I was a part of and I started telling jokes. Afterward people asked me if I did stand up and I said well I do now.

Absurdity will find a way .
I started this habit by getting a kindle, putting it next to my bed, and promising myself that no matter how tired I am, I need to read at least one page before I go to sleep. Which is easy - it takes 1 minute. But it gets the ball rolling. I've finished 30+ books since I started doing this, and more importantly I'm reading every single day.

In general I recommend reading [Atomic Habits](https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits) to learn how to pick up habits. Maybe that could be your first book.
Time to share this masterful piece of audience interaction from the Live show:

https://youtu.be/NjQD9zpAcGk

RIP Rik.
crypto has a lot of traits of a bank without the bank. Fast transactions (as opposed to carrying money to different locations), secure storage (as compared to having guards for your hoard of gold), it does not rot/burn (if you backup keys adequately) and many others.

All of those are more convenient than storing dollar bills or gold bars. So, yes, fiat has options, crypto is another kind of option and probably the most convenient for self custody, hence a very good one to avoid trusting institutions.
Rivian has tons of inefficiencies in their system sapping away precious capital

Munro had a video [1] just for a single item, seats, and comparing the Ford F150L vs Rivian on a component-by-component basis, and even accounting for slightly higher luxury setting for Rivian, the over engineering and related cost and supply chain issues is astounding.

Rivian needs to greatly simplify processes.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV2e1gokYik
My take is more like "We might technically be in debt since our system recorded exchanges of now worthless crypto for other denominations, but we're going to manually go back on those orders and claims its due to system errors."

But lets see how this turns out.
Covid Misinformation Group Implodes over Extravagant Spending
With online payments I had a different experience. Tried to pay in a store that had coinbase payments with a binance account. So many issues:

- The QR code to pay didn't work with the binance app

- Had to find a way to copy the hash tag of the account from desktop to mobile to pay (luckily if you have a macbook pro and iphone this is easy)

- Initially chose the incorrect network for payments on binance so the transfer didn't go through. Had to read online which network to select.

With a card payment is normally just putting the cards details and in a few cases do an additional authentication.
You could stick a keyboard down there, if you're... I dunno, running a really wide text processor?
"Another perspective is to consider training junior engineers to be a core job responsibility of senior engineers. There are always going to be tasks that need to get done even if we don't "derive energy" from them. That's just part of being a professional. Most engineers who complain about teaching and mentoring shouldn't be promoted to senior level in the first place; in the long run they would probably be happier and more successful as independent consultants."

All fine and good but you need to actually get the time and be recognized for the time you put into mentoring. In the companies I have seen senior devs are still measured by their output and setting time aside for mentoring younger devs doesn't really help their ratings. A lot do it anyways but the incentives are against doing so. .
I don't know. I have ADHD and this seems impossible to me. Good luck.
Suggestion: if you're trying to make a point, state it. Linking to 40 page article about the theory behind monetary creation in the modern world is not exactly a good way to make your argument against the statement that "banks take deposits and make loans".

I honestly don't know how one can argue against that, it is simply true to anyone who has used a bank. I did not make any larger statement about the mechanics of modern-day money creation.
Too bad. It was hilarious when influencers talked about how awesome their Samsung THC HD XTREME PRO 4K 2000 XXX LSD PLUS PRO edition is ... posted from their iPhone.
The real problem is IP/DNS.

Until we decentralize those we're going to have problems:

http://radiomesh.org
The Nokia 8110 [1] was literally nicknamed "banana", at least in Finland, due to its shape and its being available in yellow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_8110
You realize much of the billions of crypto at these exchanges belong to market makers and quanty hedge funds at this point right?

Their capital is there because they use instantaneous electronic trading venues to make money.

Most of them would rather trade on swap than have to settle in cash. And they couldnt give a shit if they're trading Bitcoin or magic beans. They don't care about the Blockchain.
Will do, in the same way I boycott every sport that's not MMA or competitive Fighting Video Games: by not watching it and not buying its stuff.

Ok, I may click in some news about results from my country's team. Which leads to the question: what is the definition of boycotting here?
I know this type of comment (and my own) is more common to reddit and commonly frowned upon in HN threads, but by god this made my morning thank you.
Sounds like the buttons are all real, there are just only 10 of them.
Well yeah - but they still won't be decentralized.

If that proves to be important in the long run is something that we will see in the future, of course.
If nobody can withdraw their funds the Crypto prices can only go up, not?
Too bad, as I know some things have been brought back stateside simply because shipping costs are too high (think: plastic trashcans at Walmart) so I'd suspect the shipping of Chinese goods is a major portion of the total carbon cost.
Looks like a lot of new people will rush to http://www.bestpaidremotejobs.com again.

The latest wave of followers came due to the latest Twitter and Meta layoffs.
What's the long term play? The climate is so hostile that any success is likely to be rewarded with a regulatory response that mandates giving up any competitive advantage.

I don't see it as attractive for any for-profit investment. Maybe it's the right incubator for open source / nonprofit alternatives?
Is there a correlation between the knock-on effects of the recent collapses and an increasing in exchange hacking? Is the idea that hackers would prioritize these targets while there are still those fractional reserves left?
I've recently picked up reading for a second time, after being an avid reader when I was younger.

Like any habit, start small and keep at it for a while ! I started by reading more long form articles on any subject I was interested in, or reading Wikipedia articles when I wanted to find some information. I then moved into a few 100 pages ish novels (Roadside Picnic is a great sci-fi read) and short stories (Stephen King is great, things like Running man for example), and then I found one larger book at a time that I wanted to get through, while reading shorter stories and articles every day or so. Focus on being interested in the book and the way it's written more so than what you are getting out of it - you'll get there!

I'd love to give you recommendations if you have any things that interest you!
Strangely enough, I took a whole degree in mathematics, and never felt comfortable with the epsilon-delta proofs for limits. It was only by reading Everything and More a Compact History of Infinity, by, of all people, David Foster Wallace that I understood the motivation behind it!

He explains how the ideas of infinity were developed, and which paradoxes and absurdities forced 19th century mathematicians like Cauchy to put the whole thing on a more rigorous footing.
I don't think it's surprising to anyone how much apple tracks its own users. They actually have a page on it and what they're tracking, https://www.apple.com/privacy/labels/. It's also clearly stated that a lot of data collected isn't anonymized at all.

You're right there is no oversight for compliance to their own terms and that is the real issue. It is also an issue if they're getting a competitive edge by bypassing their own rules. It wouldn't be surprising to me if they were but based on the articles there isn't a whole lot of proof.
It’s not just the media. The investors are the primary ones to blame here, in my opinion. They literally gave hundreds of millions a of dollars to a company with a compliance officer with a history of financial fraud and scams and then touted the CEO as a boy wonder. The fact that they invested lended a lot of credence, for better or worse, to FTX.
I've been using Plex for this purpose and it's been great. I self-host it on a NAS server, but I'm noticing a number of consumer products coming out with the server pre-installed (Namely the NVIDIA Shield).

If you're willing to pursue the self-hosted root, there are loads of options beyond just Plex:

https://jellyfin.org/
https://funkwhale.audio/
The problem with fiat is a completely unknown monetary supply function. Gold makes a lot more sense IMO in your scenario as there's a finite amount in and on the earth, and it would take a scientific breakthrough to economically create more than that.
Prospect Theory: How Users Make Decisions
Google Pixel + GrapheneOS is an excellent alternative to an iPhone in terms of usability, privacy, and security, and hardware + software longevity.

I know it seems weird to recommend a Google phone, but one can completely eschew the issues around Google tracking, by not using Google services, or using them within the on-device sandbox giving them standard privileges.
To anyone else confused while reading this. They lost 1.7 BILLION, the author of this comment mistakenly wrote 1.7 million. It's a simple typo.
did you go through the course or used the book independently? I got a couple of chapters in but fell off
How many "journalists" wrote glowing puff pieces about Holmes and Theranos, when they could have simply written about other companies and people instead? Quite a few as I recall.
After being caught, they called erasing Brian Lovin’s credit from the LICENSE file as “A huge oversight on our part”

https://twitter.com/nym_hq/status/1592176933445701633
This part is not actually that much different with respect to banks, where the cushion is the equity (the stock). Also, if I'm not mistaken the debt securities (bonds) issued by the bank are below the bank account claims, so that's your regular customer cushion too.

Bankruptcy is essentially drawing a horizontal line across the pyramid of liabilities, where everyone below the line gets nothing, everyone above the line gets fully paid back, and everyone on the line is the new shareholder. This line is called "fulcrum".

The difference is in government oversight (regulations) and the social agreement that bank accounts will be bailed out. Because of the former the latter rarely happens (yes I know, 2008, but this concept has been around for a century and a significant minority of protected liabilities such as bank accounts have had to be rescued since then world-wide).
Republicans are about de-regulation. Whatever they may do for optics temporarily means nothing for their actual focus and goal. Democrats are not much better but I’m not hoping only one of the two parties is going to do legit sustained regulation against the way they actually behave in the medium and long term.

Why are you only looking to the Repub party? Ilhan Omar for example doesn’t care much if Biden was given corrupt money. She’s not going to suddenly do everything centrist Biden does. Biden has more in common with your average neoliberal Repub than a progressive Democrat, who themselves are normally only center-left.

> And in fact stronger regulation on the financial industry generally.

Both parties and neoliberals across the board have done the opposite since Reagan has been in power. Republicans specifically are publicly about deregulation while Dems will flip how they talk but are also about de-regulation and keeping class divides.

Look at the top donors on both sides. They are all non-working class. They all make more money via de-regulation and a capitalist society where the rich have more power than others. They already show their hands. They vote for the establishment to maintain their money and power.
This used to be a really common service about 10-12 years ago. Amazon, Apple, etc, all offered 'digital lockers' where you could upload your songs and stream them.

These are no longer popular, so not many services are doing this anymore. It's such a wasteland that Wikipedia has a page for closed services [1]

A few small services like medialeap.com still exist, but it is anyone's guess how long they will stick around or how good they are. But I guess you could try that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_music_loc...
Then they might lose a ton of money, because they didn't understand what they were buying.

Want to buy a Ferrari? Buy a Ferrari. Not a photo of one, not an "NFT", not red paint and some axles, and not a promise that someone has it in their garage - the real thing.

IOUs are the entire problem cryptocurrencies aim to solve. You can trade without giving a third party full access to your funds.

Hedge funds should _demand_ this.
The author claims decentralization is a questionable goal, but fail at explaining why. Claims we need something in the middle, like what?
He tries to link decentralization to cryptocurrencies and defis, etc... very sneaky, but lazy argument. Decentralization means freedom, self determination and power, power to host your content on your own terms, or in a place that is friendly to you, and exchange ideas with people in other communities, where they also own their data. You can have people on @socialist.social talking with @billionaries.social , but one party can't make the other disappear just because. His other argument is against Mastodon technical design, I agree , I wouldn't pick the stack the Mastodon team chose, that said, there are many activitypub enabled projects, GoToSocial, Misskey, etc... which are more resource efficient, so the failure of one project , is just a learning opportunity for another newer projects. Regarding "unpaid labor and opsec", people can rent a server from a provider that guarantees updates and uptime, or host their own, in the same way is done across the industry. I'm not claiming this is what the author is saying, but most of the criticism I see of the Fediverse comes in the flavor of "Look all those people I don't like and can't get banned, how dare them to share their ideas, let me start complaining to make them disappear".
If only we had some kind of electronically transferable currency, in which there was government regulation to guarantee this kind of thing, and secure your deposits...
Your hard drive
Youtube Music (which replaced Google Play Music) allows you upload your own library of songs. The app UI makes it fairly difficult to find them and play them, but it does work. If you can tolerate the app's UI, that's one way to go.
Yep, it all boils down to who has the most guns. The Bahamas pirate ship is outclassed by the ship of state.
Do you think the same about the US states?
Not only that, but he got it totally wrong. It's not that people change what they want, it is that they think they want something, but then they discover that they were wrong.

Also, what you want changes over time, but not because you decide to want something new, or to stop wanting something. It just happens. The best example of this is going through puberty, where you develop desires that you didn't have before. This is not a decision that you make.

Figuring out what you want is a process of discovery, not of decision-making.
Buy a PCloud subscription. Upload your music, mount over webdav or rclone and enjoy.
Set multiple stop losses? $6, $5.99, $5.75, etc, etc. if one fails one of the others will catch it. Hell as long as it sells before $5.01 I'm profitable. Simple as.
> The interesting part is that this completely unoptimised fully fledged Java MVC framework ranks overall 12th in the Fortunes benchmark with an incredible 404k requests/sec.

wow, expected java performance to be really similar to .net
Of course it's still a thing, both regular robberies and digital ones. And people lose savings to online thieves and cheats who take control of their accounts, or manage to perform transfers on their behalf.
Rivian has produced about 14,000 cards YTD and they seem to be on-pace for annualized production of 25,000 cars. That's not an overall impressive number, but getting a car company off the ground seems quite difficult and capital intensive. Rivian seems likely to survive. Some of the others... not so much.
Amazon took nearly a decade to become profitable, and seven years after its IPO, and that was during the crazy growth of the dotcom era. The article seems to try to make something of the company being around since 2009, ignoring that they were on a shoestring for multiple years until they had the idea and raised enough money to build their R1 prototypes which sparked significant interest. They're hardly hurting for orders with over 100,000 reservations still in their queue.

The article seems to want to pain as negative a picture as it can, taking the position that the Mercedes partnership may be a negative because Rivian cautiously (and properly) caveated the investment as not factored into their operational capital flow, when ninety percent of the companies I've seen would be fundraising on that fundraise. without shame and without looking back.

As for treating their initial reservation holders better, I don't think the CEO will ever be forgiven for the way he sprang the price increase on them, regardless of his quick about face on the matter. The company most assuredly could do better communicating actual useful information instead of warm and fuzzies with nothing actionable.

And finally, they need to come-to-Jesus quit shipping at a rate that doesn't allow absolute quality of assembly and requiring multiple service center visits. Whomever convinced the CEO that shipping anything to be repaired later did the company absolutely no favors.

I don't see many companies trying to build a multinational manufacturing operation from scratch these days, much less starting just before Covid kicked everyone's asses. Rivian will, eventually, be fine.