skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time there's a bull market a hundred new operations spring up. And some of them always present themselves legitimately, and most of them always fail when the downturn comes. This is a run of the mill downturn, it happens every single time. A ton of "crypto giants" don't survive the downturn, every single time.
fwiw they release about monthly in the dev channel
I would postulate the belief in-office is more productive is somewhat akin to 3d chess. AFAIK the data is mixed and I've seen some data that suggests WFH is more productive (but the jury certainly still seems TBD on this debate)
Much less? Can you explain this immediate threshold as soon as the moral hazard is non-zero?
FTX also bailed out a ton of crypto companies. Now I don’t know what those deals were like but it’s likely some of these will fold soon
I was hoping the related techniques would themselves be organized as a tree! But doesn’t seem like it.
We can have an international unit of account through, e.g. Special Drawing Rights. This makes plain the political bargains struck to ensure international economic stability. Crypto alternatives would have the same political valence as a return to the gold standard, which was abandoned to avoid the crisis potentials peculiar to it.

The most influential statement of your proposal is Hayek's article "Choice in Currency: A Way To Stop Inflation"[1] which he later expanded on in "Denationalisation of Money".

Hayek's views have an admirable internal consistency, but his political premises are contrary to the core values of almost every pre-industrial society, and of the social democratic tradition in Europe which has been internationally influential.

Very few people understand the full scope of Hayek's political vision, which is premised on a thoroughgoing skepticism toward the very possibility of rational democratic deliberation. If they fully understood his proposal's implications, I doubt they'd support them; but certainly there are some who are willing to fully own their anti-democratic implications.

1: https://iea.org.uk/publications/research/choice-in-currency-...
I'm sorry but this is a take I completely disagree with. Fundamentally, I do business with people I trust. If I don't trust someone, I'll simply never do business with them. No amount of bullet proof mathematical constructs will change this.

Now, I may trust someone now, but circumstances change. People change. I don't trust the universe to be constant. I thus want to enshrine agreements in contracts and and I want there to be institutions that can offer objective (within reason) arbitration in case my counterparty and I come to disagree in the future.

I don't know what sort of business you operate in, but in my industry, trust is paramount and is practically equivalent to capital. You'll simply not even be employed unless you are trusted. It takes a long time to build a track record and you can lose it in the matter of seconds if you make poor decisions.

So yes, IMO the world operates fundamentally on the basis of trust. I don't believe for a moment that long term successful business can be conducted in an environment without fundamental trust between counterparties. Again, trust does not equal blindly taking people at their word or neglecting due diligence. "Trust, but verify" is the saying.
> Jobs was highly successful 3 times (Apple I, Pixar, and his return to Apple). Once could be luck, twice is highly unlikely to be luck, and 3 times? fuggeddabootit

So someone who flips a coin an gets heads 10 times in row isn't lucky, they must be good at flipping coins? Jobs certainly had certain talents, but luck was definitely the bigger contributor to his successes. However, lots of people lose sight of that, and almost join a cargo cult centered on him.
Email only took off among the non-nerd population when easy-to-use webmail sites like hotmail became available.
Ask HN: Why isn't there a video-only Twitter?
where posts and comments are all video.
>If you look up the top producers of insulin, more evidence that investors know how vulnerable the insulin grift is.

All insulin producers crashed because of this? To me, that points it to being another cause.
Used to do this when we were driving up and down the AlCan. Not while we were driving so much but an 80s Suburban has plenty of thermal mass to cook a loaf of garlic bread once you've parked at the campground.
From the perspective of employees it's also terrible to see the product being worked on for years get cancelled.

Sometimes there are no easy choices.
My takeaway is that Apple wants its customers to be happy even at the expense of its employees, but Google wants its employees to be happy (product launch => promotions) more than it wants its customers to.
I would definitely not want the behaviour of undo/redo to depend on the current position of the cursor; that’s what paste is for.
Do popular compilers ship with an option that forbids the use of all memory-unsafe constructs?

If not, then "modern C++" is still not memory-safe.
Cars can last 10 or more years. If you buy a car today you're making a bet that Tesla and its standard will still be dominant over all other car and charger manufacturers in the year 2032+. That is an extraordinarily foolish bet.

My bet is that within two years Tesla standardizes on CCS for its US cars (thus getting rid of an annoying upgrade/adapter/retrofit problem) and then what'll be left is the sad minority (AKA me) who are stuck with the dying standard and an annoying dongle.
This is the natural outcome when you optimize a society for 1/ lowest taxes in the developed world, 2/ no expectation of a social safety net, 3/ biggest possible upside to start a business, get rich, and become a millionaire or a billionaire.

Planet Money did a whole series of trying to set up an offshore company and realized that despite their reputation, Cayman Islands and the like actually do more due diligence of new companies than Delaware does.

The US is the best place in the world to start a company and get obscenely wealthy. As long as you take the risk that if you are unemployed you might die on the street destitute.

This incentivizes all sorts of antisocial behaviour like whole industries dependent on the lack of structure in the rest of society (the legal field, insurance, healthcare -> none of which are nowhere nearly as big or as lucrative in the rest of the developed world).

It also means every construction project is an opportunity for the enrichment of someone, rather than being done by the state for the betterment of society. Rail infrastructure and good transit in general is an incredible societal equalizer, and works best when it's basic, cheap, but reliable, frequent, and consistent. Which the US is just not incentivized to provide.

So instead, these projects become vanity opportunities to suck up as much wealth and at least help some middle class construction workers make lucrative bank. Good for them I guess. Don't see any other possible outcome in America today, such as it is.
I'm doubtful it will go that far. My guess would be forcibly removing them from the appstore and having ISPs delist the domain. That's enough to break the network effect; I don't think enough users are going to sideload/customize DNS for creators to bother making content for it.
I don’t understand, was there ever an option not to put a stop in Palmdale? Skipping Palmdale would honestly be a huge lack of vision. There are like 3-400,000 people that live in the Palmdale / Lancaster area that would be in a nice transit distance from that station. The current Antelope Valley metrolink linke services like 6000 daily commuters even though it takes like 2 hours. Shortening this distance to like 20-30 minutes will surely increase this number by a lot.

This is also the logical location for a connecting station to a future train to Las Vegas.

Also this station will have passing tracks, so not every train will stop there. Even if only 2-3 of every 10 trains stop there, it will be a huge improvement to so many people. Honestly, if they were to skip it, they would probably realize that mistake and add it as an infill station, which would be even more expensive.

I think the Palmdale station is kind of a non issue if you compare it to true cost drivers, such as UP and the city of Hanford, both of which have forced giant mega structures to the project, structures that didn’t need to be that large, but were made to be just so that existing infrastructure didn’t need to be relocated with temporary disruptions.
Each of those "dozen different services" is analogous with "a server".

You choose a service (server) and then sign up there. The sign up belongs to a server, not the server to the sign up. You can't ring a door bell before picking a door first. ;)
Or you could change the wage laws and be prominent in announcing it and then people can stop tipping on a known date when the law changes
Grammatical Error Correction: A Survey of the State of the Art
I'd love it if it were even just "public source". There are some features that I want to add, for just my own personal use, that can't be done with the python plugin system.
It is not at all clear. Union contracts vary widely state to state, country to country. I don't think you can make this claim.
Of course this begs the question why they aren't represented by some sort of tree visualization.

Tree visualization is one of the best-studied areas of information visualization; researchers have developed more than 200 visualization and layout techniques for trees. The treevis.net project aims to provide a hand-curated bibliographical reference to this ever-growing wealth of techniques. It offers a visual overview that users can filter to a desired subset along the design criteria of dimensionality, edge representation, and node alignment. Details, including links to the original publications, can be brought up on demand. Treevis.net has become a community effort, with researchers sending in preprints of their tree visualization techniques to be published or pointing out additional information.

-- Site itself is a paper (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6056510)

Very interesting. I especially like the filtering and the older examples. Too bad most are behind paywalls.

Edit: Somebody else had the same thought heh.

Bunch of other types of visualization collections in the dropdown top-left. Appears to be suffering from link rot.

OP any backstory?
I thought Kale was Algae - good to know.
Trump did successfully get 3 conservative Supreme Court Justices on the bench. Overturning Roe v. Wade (despite at least 2 of the 3 claiming during testimony that it was settled law) wouldn't have happened without them.

Trump's got to share that blame.
How does “blockchain” prevent a document from being falsified?
That's great if you live in a part of the world where you can grow lentils and rice.

Even down south here at 57°N it's still more ecologically sound to eat meat and potatoes, because potatoes grow pretty well and tough heathery grasses and sedges grow pretty well, and we can't eat those but sheep can.
I forget the exact phrasing, but something along the lines of: "Leverage almost always works out. But when it doesn't, you die."
As someone who got both degrees from a pretty prestigious US university, this was my reasoning too. I haven't worked a day in Civil Eng since graduation and I don't regret it one bit
AWS IAM Roles, a tale of unnecessary complexity
Yep, Apple apparently runs the largest Solr search cluster in the world.
Thanks, I'm new to Twitter and didn't realize there were helpers like this!
Comparing different types normally is a type error. But for interfaces the non-interface value will be converted to the type of the interface value. This conversion gives it a boxed dynamic type. This is different type than just assigning nil, which is the untyped nil, which sets the interface to its zero value.

Normally one would not compare two interface values, so this issue really comes up when comparing an interface to nil. If Go had proper option types then this issue would go away.

https://go101.org/article/nil.html

package main

import "fmt"

type Err1 struct{}

func (m Err1) Error() string {
return ""
}

type Err2 struct{}

func (m Err2) Error() string {
return ""
}

func main() {

var err error = nil

var myErr1 *Err1 = nil

var myErr2 *Err2 = nil

fmt.Println(err == myErr1) // this is false
fmt.Println(err == myErr2) // this is false
fmt.Println((error)(myErr1) == (error)(myErr2)) // this is false. requires the cast to do the comparison
}
Those dozen different services are servers, that you chose from.
Crowdsourced Datadog monitors, dashboards, and troubleshooting guides
Nothing, which is why there are lots of independent eyeglasses websites selling cheap glasses.
Which every financial institution and western government keeps trying to get rid of because it is essentially impossible to regulate or police?

And which cops have a nasty tendency to seize on sight in the US if seen in any significant quantity (outside of an armored car) because ‘proceeds of crime’?

And pretty much every drug transaction, illegal sexual transaction, whatever is done in cash? To the point most major crime shows and drama shows have scenes involving some massive pile or duffel bags or whatever of cash as a plot point?

Cash on the barrel head is the textbook definition of ‘difficult to regulate’.

Also, most people buying person to person used cars and doing yard sale transactions use it too, of course.

It’s not a requirement that Cash transactions involve a crime at all. Same with crypto.

If your transaction is illegal though, using Venmo seems pretty dumb.
You may call something that does not exist anything you like except the name of a thing that does exist. Anything that you say about a thing that does not exist is vacuous.

It is objective fact that all female former US presidents can fly by flapping their wings.
Desktop pets: discussing the inhabitants that fill the void of our digital space
Dev build of Twitter in prod that is bad
Just think that if Twitter collapses, nobody will know where "Milkshake Duck" came from.
And that's great, but how far do the lentils travel to get to your kitchen?
Where in that link were LFP batteries mentioned? One of the advantages of LFP over nickel-manganese-cobalt chemistries is lower heat evolution when punctured or ruptured. Do you have other evidence for your claim of very high heat fires from LFP batteries?
"It's also worth noting that private sector contractors in CA know how to game the bidding process and often politicians or their families have stock or personal relations with the contractors."

This is something that only occurs in California?

FLORIDA CONTRACTS GO TO COMPANIES THAT FLOODED RON DESANTIS CAMPAIGN FUND

https://theintercept.com/2022/09/27/florida-ron-desantis-cam...
> There could be something to the structure or organization of US unions that impacts things here, but it's clearly not the root cause.

Yes. US unions are very different from European unions. Without getting into the details, US unions can be very destructive, while European unions are far more wholistic or cooperative.

To be clear, this is not about union members. It's about union leadership and the "mafia" how they do business. Union members are along for the ride, are sold entire narratives they have to support and can end-up losing big. Entire industries have been seriously damaged by our unions.

Source: I was in a union for about a decade. In addition to this, I have had this conversation with members of other unions, some of them as post-mortems after years of union damage caused job losses to China and, ultimately, the companies they worked for to shut down.

Solution? I can't think of a single simple idea. These are engrained cultural things. People rarely wake up to the reality of what's going on until the are suffering, take the time to think it through and ultimately realize where the pain came from.
Is CCS really that slow and clunky? I don't have direct experience with it but everyone I know who has says it's at least as easy to manage as a gas nozzle.

On speed, CCS supports faster charging than an Supercharger built to date so if you had a bad experience with charging speed it was the car or charger, not CCS
That's not what the article shows.

The article shows the use of third-party solutions none of which are GDPR compliant: not the cookie banners, not the data storage, not CDNs. And every step of the way the authorities explained all the issues and waited for solutions (quote, google translate, "There was neither a court judgment nor a fine actually imposed.")

As a business you are responsible for user data. You can't use some third-party business, point at them and say "it's them who are responsible, not me". The responsibility of properly handling user data is yours.

GDPR was adopted in 2016, 6 years ago. You'd think this was enough time to learn it by heart by now, or at least not make mistakes about the simple core things of the law. It's not as big, or as hard, or as ambiguous as people who have never even read it make it out to be.
Probably because unions in France and Germany aren't as powerful as US construction unions.

Also in the EU there is internal competition between countries for construction projects that brings costs down overall. Unions in Germany jacking up your costs? Maybe there's a construction company in Poland or Czechia willing to do it for less. In Austria I see many construction sites are full with companies from Slovenia.
Oban is great. (I subscribe to Oban Pro.) It's also seemingly very superior to Sidekiq-like solutions for job management.

But you don't need that. It's certainly a nice-to-have.
> In the UK you very much vote for a person

We're talking about the PM here. You vote for a person who then votes on the PM, so it's an indirect system.

> using the arcane first past the post system.

FPTP sucks, but I've never heard it called arcane before. It's arguably the default normal way to vote for anything.
I used PayPal to remit money to another country just yesterday
How does FDIC insurance play into this?
Not sure where any of these suggestions come from. Superchargers have the highest utilization and uptime in the industry.

Thinner means more accessible/easier to use. CCS is wholly unreliable if it is even slightly at the wrong angle, which is common due to the bulk of the plug and cable.
Grifter "visionaries" with messiah complexes can indeed find common ground across "party lines".
Apple Design Awards
I enjoy the dulse leaf product from these guys https://www.amdulse.com/products

Not as a substitute for something else, but as a snack on its own, for which there is no substitute. Unfortunately prices have nearly doubled in a little over a year.
What I Learned from Getting My First Paying Customers Before I Built a Product
I think a lot of people look at the world and think that the people that designed it were executing a well laid out plan, or before they executed anything they had to have deep understanding of theory. What Jobs was saying though I think, was that the world around us is full of inventions that didn't come about that way, but came about through tinkering and being curious. Anyone can tinker and be curious, that doesn't take any credentials. As for the author's comments on today's leading entrepreneurs, everyone's biased to think they'd make the right decision in hindsight. Good decisions today don't look at all the same as after they've been validated.
That's because soy isn't really suitable for human consumption, and about 80% of the soy plants that you grow consist of stuff that humans can't eat.

How do you plan on solving the problem of eating the bits of soy plants that humans can't eat?
Where there is no need for a native pointer to be used, as almost everywhere, and no pointer is used, that code is objectively more modern than code that uses the pointer anyway. It is very rare to need to use a native pointer in modern C++ code. The need for one is strictly less common than a need for an unsafe block in Rust.

Your argument applies equally well to Rust: any Rust program may include unsafe blocks. That any program may contain unsafe blocks does not make Rust implicitly unsafe. That a Rust program does (transitively) contain unsafe blocks does not make it an unsafe program. All substantial Rust programs at least transitively contain unsafe blocks.

Thus, your argument is invalid.
> In Athens, they selected by random lot. A much better system.

IIRC, an important corollary to that was they designed their official positions so literally anyone could do the job. That would also have certain benefits regarding oversight, because with simple jobs anyone can check if they're being done correctly (without corruption or incompetence being hidden behind jargon).
That is if the land there actually wants the traffic and is ready to adapt. Here in SF it feels like no one wants public transport to get to them, and they definitely don't want to build housing or reserve ground units for shops and restaurants
A corollary: since "the world is run by people no smarter than you" then it's a good idea to be:

- diversified :: so errors and horrors by a country/cohort of people can be a lesson for others without hitting anybody at once;

- not centralized :: as above, so a "chief" who happen to be an i*iot would cause issues to a small cohort of people, but not to all at once.

Now try imaging: all Roomba and Amazon Ring IN THE WORLD goes TFU due to a centralized system mishap https://eminetra.com.au/people-cant-vacuum-or-use-their-door... or the famous https://youtu.be/JqoGJPMD3Ws or also https://arstechnica.com/?p=1848769 and countless others.

ALL such "issues" are SPOF by their own "modern" design. Perhaps it's a good idea re-evaluating such way of doing anything from just-in-time productions to home food stock in the freezer to car's spare wheel instead of crappy ideas to spare a kg.
He nominated three SC justices who voted to overturn roe v wade. I'm sure he didn't personally handpick those justices, but they, and their decisions, will continue to be attributed to him.
I think you missed the point. It’s about saying “this is different, the rules don’t apply and we can do whatever we like”

The actual tech is sort of irrelevant, it’s the hubris and exceptionalism
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To the user, Mastodon is the service. But the very first step of sign-up, Mastodon says the user must "choose a server". They just did! It's called Mastodon.

Now, you may see it differently and want to offer an explanation. I'm sure your explanation would be coherent and rational. But your explanation means nothing to the average user. They click 'sign up' and expect to sign up and get to using this new website called Mastodon they heard about. And when they realize it's not that simple, many will abandon the process. It's a simple as that.
> For the peak crypto years it was almost impossible to lose money AS AN EXCHANGE.

She wasn't running an exchange. You're confusing Alameda, the trading outfit, with FTX, the exchange. She was the CEO of Alameda. She was not the CEO of FTX.
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So essentially, the squids are alright?
The sign-up process doesn't actually begin until you pick an instance and go to it directly, just like with email. It's like complaining about a website that explains what email is and gives you a list of service providers to choose from.

The email service of your choice is the "server" you've chosen. If you go directly to a mastodon instance (the "server") the sign-up process won't require you to choose a server.