skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All you need is a couple of index funds and bonds.

Ah, spoken like a true middle class Boglehead.

VTI/VOO will not change your life, even after 30 years. Broad market ETFs are not worth the risk.

You’re better off doing bonds (little to no risk) or crypto (high risk, more likely for life-changing generational wealth compared, even compared to FAANG SWE TC).
When they say "crypto", what do they mean. No, I understand that it's something to do with cryptocurrencies; but, confusingly, they must mean something more specific than that; because isn't bitcoin the OG of cryptocurrencies? And doesn't it still hold the promise of a parallel peer-to-peer non-inflationary currency, suitable for self-custody, which is totally orthogonal to the meltdown of a cryptoexchange? Does The Atlantic want us to forget about it as well? I am confused.
No, you can't. How many dialects of C++ are there or of Java.
there are over 12,000 OTC stock tickers, these are mostly scams. I know Schwab allows OTC trading. The NYSE+Nasdaq combined also have around 12,000 tickers. So 50% of the things available on Schwab are scams.
The point is that an unsuspecting/ naive user of malicious emails will be tricked into giving away their personal or banking info. Or sending money to “renew their car warranty” and what have you.

I don’t see how that’s any different that an unsuspecting/ native user rushing head first into some random scam coin they have no business paying for and getting rugged.

Some people are stupid. That will always be the case. And there will always be dirtbags trying to take advantage of them. That’s a part of life. Has nothing to do with the underlying technology of crypto.
Anyone can have any opinion they want to have.

But when they make it based on a flawed claim, like, "I can get an email account without first picking a server," don't you think it's better if they understand that their claim was false?
Force is a big part of it, but the flip side is that a vote is also consent to abide by the outcome without force. The force is there, invisible, and most people don't even notice it exists because they consent.

That's a delicate illusion and does not survive well when largish minorities declare the social contract void.
Don’t use altcoins.
Python/Django actually pairs well with React/Typescript - I've used this on a few projects. I was gonna suggest this as the pragmatic full stack approach but felt my comment was already long enough.
The best thing about Symbian is that "it was never actually Symbian, it's S60 or whatever".
Madoff's victims weren't bailed out with Government money, they recovered assets from Madoff. (It was with Government effort though, including "clawing back" money from other Madoff customers who had actual gains!)
Crypto will stay but not in the form of wild wild west where everyone can become a coin minter as of right now. It will morph into central bank digital currency, hope it means i can transfer my money away from private sector banks and into a non speculative financial institution like the central bank.
It's not about opensource vs closesource, it's about free *service* based on opensouce vs free *service* based on closesource.
> From a technical standpoint, how difficult it is to hack your own company?

It would be easy. If you're the founder might have special access to the keys, in fact you probably need to for emergency purposes. Whether that's a "hack" I don't know, it seems to just be theft.

The real question is what do you do with the fact that you have the keys? If you are tempted to nick all the money, you might end up in a bad place.
If you are investor and keep your money maybe you shouldn't do startups. It's completely valid answer and chosen more prevalently when the times come that encourage you to tighten your belt.
They likely thought they'd be able to front run any issues. VCs don't invest to build viable businesses, they invest to make money. You can make a lot of money as an insider to a Ponzi scheme.
I favor a conspiracy theory.

For me, Bitcoin (and the whole disappearing creator act and hints of NSA involvement) has always been a tinfoil moment. This is the perfect mechanism for total economic awareness not the supposed virtues, such as anonymity, that it does not really have. The Ponzi schemes seem to have been permitted to establish the necessary infrastructure (mining, exchanges, etc.) and normalize the technology. Next stop should be the regulators post MSM preparatory media campaign (“Explainer: why we need crypto regulations today”). Then it will likely support CBDCs transactions (the CBDCs being the actual main event here btw). You will get a ‘wallet’ at birth and say goodbye to banks and remember that all you spendings are now recorded for posterity. (Remember “cash is bad” & is also a vector of nasty viruses).

If the big 5 scammers go to real jail — double digit billions of dollars are involved here — and don’t end up suiciding themselves, i will reconsider my current take on this entire affair.
When listening to podcasts where EU politicians are interviewed it seems like this is less of a problem there. EU politics have a high impact but a low "fame" aspect. Maybe the people that care about impact and not about fame are higher quality politicians?
Yeah, but anyone who thinks about it realizes that a rate that high simply isn't sustainable.
Then what is this?

> This comment sounds perfectly like a PR piece.
You are being downvoted but you are entirely correct. Pricing for medications in the US, including insulin, follows an absolutely nightmarish set of rituals due to the need to gain access through insurers. Eli Lilly’s financials are publicly available, their revenue per unit of insulin has largely kept pace with inflation. The skyrocketing costs of the sticker price of insulin is entirely due to the lack of a universal public insurance option in the US leading to the horrific rebate system we currently have, which largely benefits insurers and PBMs. Pharma companies come out neutral (from a revenue perspective, definitely negative from a PR perspective), and consumers, particularly those on high deductible plans or without insurance, are gutted.
Yeah, I believe China doesn't even allow TLSv1.3
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I didn't consider CSS selectors as an alternative to Xpath, but really like the idea. Absolutely agree CSS selectors will be more convenient :)
I transferred my crypto out of FTX.us.
The pilot transaction was successful, but about the main transaction, while I’ve confirmation from FTX.us about initiation, 12+ hrs. Later, there is no confirmation of a successful completion of the transaction. I don’t see crypto in my either my FTX.us wallet or the target wallet.
Is there a way I can get my crypto? Thanks!
What if you already are in a bad place?
I've noticed "textured screen when charging" on a range of mobile devices which I've nearly always been able to correlate with cheap USB chargers. Other family members seem oblivious, though to me it's clear as night and day.
This might be a stupid question.
If WhatsApp wasn’t blocked in China and the second WhatsApp account (aka server side) was outside of China, could this bypass the great firewall?
As far as I can tell this bites 100% of iOS users and is objectively bad design.
holy shit, isn't Apple 10 times bigger (valued) than Meta right now?
Yes! Email James.martin@zelis.com with your resume and GitHub link if you’re interested.
There's an argument to be made for that. See, the UK.
I thought one of the two wires should be equal to ground?
I was kinda thinking the sell to investors was that only the depositors were going to lose all their money and that suited the equity investors just fine.

But seems like even that wasn’t the case.
Doesnt seem to support Safari on iOS, does WebKit not support WebRTC on mobile properly?
Thanks for the explanation.
If a huge number of "laypeople" flocks to Mastodon, it's very likely that the users will be clustered around one or small number of "major" servers. So basically the admins of that server will become the de-facto moderators of discourse, it sounds like. Is that a reasonable course of events?

Or will the idea be more like "lefties should go to $SERVER1, righties to $SERVER2" and then the two servers don't federate with each other because they find each other's content distasteful?
Here are three things that are extremely valuable about blockchain technology:

* Financial infrastructure that is transparent and does not rely on corporate CEOs being honest: Enron, Lehman Brothers, and now FTX have shown that global regulators cannot be trusted to protect ordinary people when institutions are corrupted from the top. DeFi markets are fully transparent—with code and data being open and replicated thousands of times over—and users maintain custody of their assets at all times.

* Instantaneous settlement for payments and trades: With blockchain tech, vendors and merchants don't need to wait for credit-card payments to be deposited in their bank accounts—tokens are transferred in real-time. Traders don't need to wait for the proceeds of their sale to be wired to them two days after the trade takes place—settlement happens instantaneously with each DeFi trade. In some developed parts of the world, these settlement delays are slowly being fixed, but blockchain technology does this out of the box, today, and works everywhere.

* Security and automatic transfer of lending collateral: Overcollateralized DeFi loans hold collateral on-chain, and will instantly liquidate any outstanding loan that dips below the collateralization ratio. This is one reason that even through all the recent turbulence in crypto markets no one who leant money through DeFi on an overcollateralized basis—including, for instance, to Celsius—has lost money. (Note however that the courts have not yet ruled as to the disposition of these DeFi loans in bankruptcy cases.)

I think it's also important to differentiate between "crypto" and "blockchains".
Cryptocurrencies are a type of application that can run on blockchains, and they play an important role by creating a unified market to reimburse providers for delivering the computation and storage services that blockchains depend upon. I would agree with those that believe that they have been overhyped, however.
New tech became a trope in Columbo episodes which I always enjoyed.

The robot episode "mind over mayhem" is amazing and I still pretend to be the robot from it occasionally when I'm down and alone.
Isn't the difference that banks have insurance for those hacks?
It is interesting you separate "immense tolerance for risk and a disregard for the exact definitions of rules". You can be infinitely tolerant for risk but not at the expense of (some) ethics: stealing other people money. So, there is tolerance for risk and there is: your are a f****** plain (white collar) thief. We can also include the factor of being an American citizen which makes could make things worse in this case.
I am skeptical of all the crypto schemes, and this is the only use case I find convincing. The small producer in China is paid by the American company via a digital currency. Faster, easier, cheaper.

Continued use of such a medium could over the long-term conceivably lead to widespread adoption, regulation, and a global currency. Fiat is disadvantaged when transactions cross borders.

I think we'll look back on this period as a painful learning process, which will set back such a digital currency by years. Perhaps it is inevitable, though, that some people will in the short-term exploit such situations for personal gain at the expense of the rest of us. Now we have to sort out the mess and wait.

It seems that both in the adtech (Facebook etc.) and crypto spaces, our industry has disgraced itself. We are at an incredible moment in history when our skills are pivotal - we're building the infrastructure of the modern world. We need to use our skills to improve things. The most obvious way to improve the situation is to carefully choose who we work for.
Coronavirus hit New Zealand in 2020, and by May 2nd twenty people had died. New Zealand implemented lockdowns and ordered vaccines, although they took a while to come. By the end of October 2021, 28 people had died of Covid in New Zealand. They had massively attended sporting events at the height of the world pandemic as coronavirus was undetectable in the country. Once pretty much any one who wanted to be vaccinated got vaccinated, they loosened the rules.

Whereas in the US you have immediate resistance from these Christian fundamentalists (Hillsdale is Christian fundamentalist). Over one million Americans are dead of Covid, lots of people have long Covid, and anecdotally hospitals were full and all hospital patients saw delays in care, so I am sure people who could not get cancer treatments died due to these nuts.
I noticed the same issue. But does the ground connection of the wall plug side of the transformer actually make a difference? I'm not good with electrics but I always thought the other side of a transformer is electrically isolated and the sides don't share a ground.
Is this just ICANN being greedy to get large companies buy and park these TLDs?
Unfortunately, the power dynamics between tenured professors and graduate students is very skewed to the prof. I spent some time in academics and for the most part things worked fine, grad students worked through the programs and support from the profs ranged from meh to excellent. However, every once in a while there would be case where the prof was overtly attempting to screw over the student. Just blatant abuse of power. Avenues for recourse for the student were weak at best, especially if the prof did things that was in their discretion to do, like evaluating the 'soundness of the science', but not break any actual rules. The only real solution was for the student to find another prof to take over as their supervisor, but it wasn't always possible for them to keep the same project because of funding and proprietary info, etc. So the student could just end of losing years of work.
Relative to what, though? It’s a garbage collected language running on a virtual machine. At the end of the day, if I want high level ergonomics I’ll use Python and if I want performance I’ll use C. If I want both at the same time I’ll use rust. I don’t see where Java fits in this outside of some case where I’m forced to use it due to some library requirement or deployment constraint.
BBB is an organization meant to scam companies. They provide no value or merit.
Isn’t that actually a success story where the community eventually converged around a single protocol that really works?
Indeed. It's web components and the shadow DOM that fix all of this.
Elizabeth Holmes Should Get 15 Years’ Prison for Fraud, US Says
I get your point, and it's worth pointing out.

It's just neutral infrastructure. Trying to think of an analogy, I thought... "It would be like saying 98% of transactions in $USD are scams, that wouldn't mean $USD are unsafe to use."

But once i said that in my head... it would definitely say something about a traditional currency if 98% of transactions were scams. (I know uniswap isn't a currency, that just came out of my attempt at an analogy). Something not good. About something. Maybe it doesn't mean uniswap is unsafe to use, but wow, it means something is a mess.

If it just means that there are a crazy ton of people trying scams with tokens, that sure seems like something to be aware of.
Weren't those three all sued out of existence due to copyright infringement? That's very much a different reason for failure than what's going on in crypto.
He explained his argument. I disagreed.

My conclusion reading it was, crypto tokens are 98% scams. Uniswap is an exchange. It's a utility, using an open protocol. It's makeup reflects the makeup of the domain.
Let’s say you are a journalist or wathever today profession that depends on reaching people. After the twitter fallout you went to this new journalist centric instance and managed to recover a good following. Months later and you had a bad intercalating with the server admin which ended up not being a level headed person as you previously thought. He deletes your account… not even a chance to use the migration tools to redirect profile.
This is a good idea. Thanks!
Just tried to do that exercise in FreeCad (0.20.1) and observed following issues with fillets.

Initially for one of the inner corners I had selected 2/3 edges for filleting. This caused fillet to bug out and some of vertices be position in completely wrong position far from where they should be resulting in visibly broken self intersection geometry in the are of that corner. Once I selected all 3 edges as asked in the drawing for exercise fillet was fine. But I don't see why it should have failed if the intention was to create model with 2/3 corner edges filleted. In other parts of model corners with such fillets worked fine.

Second problem was once I changed the angles and dimensions from phase 1 to phase 2. (I slightly cheated by not handling the bottom part properly but that's more of my failure read the drawing). After changing angle and dimensions fillets broke, and I had to reselect which edges are supposed to have them. (The topological naming problem). Which is slightly weird because the topology of model shouldn't have changed from those dimensions changes, but maybe there was a slight change in how boss intersects with bend, thus changing topology. In which case having to redo fillets is annoying, but slightly more understandable.

Third issue was that in the second phase it failed to solve fillets when radius was greater than 1.1mm (drawing asks for 2mm). Not sure why would it fail. I would understand if I asked something crazy like 10mm which would result in some degenerate geometry. But with 2mm it should still be sufficiently far from where it causes weird intersections. Again my best guess is the area with inner corner at the base of boss. There is short edge where outer cylinder of boss connects to bent corner instead of flat part.
Homeland security reaches the anus (2007)
At first I was excited to hear more about the process of “sending money” you had mentioned, but then I read your post, and realized that there weren’t any money involved, but “BTC/ETH/USD”...
> The companies would rather prevent Canada from funding competition, so they just jack up prices in the US to compensate.

If Canada raised their insulin prices, do you think Eli Lily would lower their prices in the US?
That’s how it could be done in theory but it’s never because you would kill people.

Instead one wire is neutral, one is phase, and the third, optional, is ground.
I just watched Sam Altman's talk at Greylock and was reminded of this article whenever he used the word Humanity. I am looking forward to what the author has to say on future of AI.

https://youtu.be/WHoWGNQRXb0
I don’t know what you’re suggesting here really but in general running an exchange seems like a reasonable looking business – you match someone who wants to buy with someone who wants to sell and collect a tiny fee – and FTX appeared to be well run and profitable. The risks would mostly be getting hacked, massively (unintentionally) screwing up the accounting or being outcompeted. I don’t think one could have easily predicted this from first principles and if you’d told me a year or 5 months ago that one of the big N exchanges would blow up before 2023, I wouldn’t have guessed FTX.
Making a Living Making Games – Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games [video]
Not sure about the others, but it takes a very long time to send Bitcoin (tens of minutes) if you care about waiting for one or more confirming blocks which most people do.
Sure. Might be hard for people to do certain manual labor jobs without access to sharp objects. I'm sure they'll figure it out.

We'll have to ban rocks next though.
ISS experiment will 3D print a body part in microgravity
House Form and Culture. Amos Rapoport. Foreword by Philip L. Wagner (1969)
In the Python world, most docs give a couple of usage examples but no type information (at best it will usually tell you that an argument is “a file-like object” with no information about what “file-like” methods are required). Moreover, Sphinx just renders everything onto one giant page so you have no idea which class a given method belongs to without doing a bunch of error-prone scrolling (sqlalchemy was the worst because every class had the same method names).

I will take Go docs all day, every day over Python docs.
> doesn't it still hold the promise of a parallel peer-to-peer non-inflationary currency, suitable for self-custody, which is totally orthogonal to the meltdown of a cryptoexchange?

In my experience whenever some poses a convoluted leading question like this, it's because they have already decided the answer.

But let me try a simpler version:

> doesn't it still hold the promise of a... currency

Did it ever? Has any crypto ever actually been successfully used as a currency for something other than the black/grey market?

That's my own convoluted leading question, and I'm fairly confident the answer is no. But if you feel I'm wrong please share a counterexample.
Seems to have worked for him so far.

Will be interesting to find out what his personal assets are and how much he gets to keep.

If he was smart, he bought everyone in his family a nice house at least a year ago.
The Resource Curse
These guidelines aren't specific to COVID though, and they are not conditioned upon any projected efficacy or disease severity.

They are laid out as a matter of principle, valid even assuming, say a 90% fatal disease and a 90% effective vaccine with only minor side-effects.
They're only valuable due to artificial scarcity, just like NFTs. You could always copy the cards (just like you could 'right click save' an NFT image), although you wouldn't be able to play in a tournament with them, and The Pokemon Company could print more official cards of the most popular cards, but they don't because they want to fuel this craze because it makes them stupid amounts of money.

And the vast number of collectors sure as hell aren't playing games with the valuable cards they collected the past few years. Logan Paul didn't spend $5 million on a Pokemon card just so he had it to play in a Pokemon tournament, especially since it's just an illustrator promo card anyway, doesn't even have a function in the game (at least as far as I can tell, I don't follow this closely, I did have a Magic The Gathering phase, though, which was the OG TCG and also has its own craziness).
If you use non-privacy chains, which are the common ones, you can get found out as soon as you try to do anything meaningful with it. Eg you move to some country, you want to buy a place, you find a seller willing to take crypto, ding-ding-ding, authorities will ask them where they got the coins from and there you are in your pool.
I agree, but a counterpoint: Dart from Google. Despite the resources poured into Dart, it does not enjoy Go-levels of popularity. Flutter + Dart is now the focus, but it's too early to see if the language will grow in adoption.
It's really funny how much people read into FTX collapse. As if it was the Bitcoin itself.

While the first time I hear about the FTX is when it collapses. And the first time I'm hearing about this "future trillionaire" is when I'm reading this article.

Collapse of mtgox was a big thing. Turned out to be at most just a blip in history of bitcoin. Same with any subsequent exchanges collapses.

Next truly significant event in Bitcoin world will be nothing short of full collapse of tether.
I think MTGox was actually worse just due to the small size of the market then and how much of a joke their security was. FTX just seems like a fleecing job that tons of crypto exchanges and businesses have pulled off. MTGox was sheer incompetence.
The Harry Potter part is actually one of the few positives. The whole operation was a drug-laden clown show.
Usually one and done with the occasional “can you refresh I need this for a presentation in <12, 24, 48> hours.”

They’re trying to justify some business value usually and once that’s been achieved you’re good to go