skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, Elon might be a nitpicking boss from hell, but it does result in some excellent efficiencies in tesla manufacturing process, from the super bottle to the octovalve, some amazing stuff has come out of it.
A comparatively tiny group of outspoken people switched. And it's not even clear if they'll stay.
Well, run a full bitcoin node. I am doing thwt.

It's close to just running your own email / fileserver etc. IMHO.

So while possible it's also annoying and not worth it for most people, and I get that.
How to spin a new con coin in 4 easy steps:

1. Mine a bunch of new hashes.

2. Fake liquidity by selling to yourself - bonus points if you make it appear that the price is rising by selling/buying for more $.

3. When naive folks shout "it's raising to the moon!" and buy the crap - drop all what you have from the step one.

4. Profit - Lambo is yours!
This feels like trying to match physical-world regulations to software products... I'm skeptical about this legislation, it feels like another step for policy makers to conquer software domain which is still very open for anybody to enter... I remember living in London and talking with friend who is electrician, the amount of papers he needed in order to be able to do his job was mind boggling...
Actually, if you want something to stay, you should go for stone rather than metal.

Stone have low market value while metal can always be melted to do something else (like weapons).

It's one of my main take away of my art history lessons -> most antic art done on metal has been lost, but the stone remains!
>it's still risky to keep (whether with a 'trusted third party' or at home on some physical device... at the end of the day it can't be better than physical possession.. i.e. cash).

I'm not sure how you can conclude that password protected, geographically distributed (eg. 2 of 3 multisignature) storage "can't be better than physical possession.. i.e. cash".
For me it was the book "Teach yourself C++ in 21 days" by Jesse Liberty. I know it has a funny title however this book allowed me to finally understand Object Oriented Programming.
> Fixing wealth inequality doesn't necessitate throwing out the entire legal and economic system we have

I don't think anyone's suggesting that. More likely they are advocating for higher taxation on the highest earners and perhaps on the largest businesses (notably, we already had this in the 60s/70s/80s). This would leave us with largely the same economic system, except with a counterbalance to a key a flaw in the current setup: that in a given time period, those who already control capital can typically turn that into more capital with much less effort than those who don't start out with that capital.
US GDP was up 2.6% annualized in 2022Q3 (https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product) and unemployment was 3.7% in Oct2022.
from the proposal:

"(13) In order not to hamper innovation or research, this Directive should not apply to free and open-source software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity. This is in particular the case for software, including its source code and modified versions, that is openly shared and freely accessible, usable, modifiable and redistributable. However where software is supplied in exchange for a price or personal data is used other than exclusively for improving the security, compatibility or interoperability of the software, and is therefore supplied in the course of a commercial activity, the Directive should apply."
I mean thats the whole point of federalism and is why we have a Senate which represents states equally (no matter their size) at the same time the House represents people.

If something isn't popular enough to pass muster for the majority of people and the majority of states, it should stay a state law instead of a federal one.
Agreed, these recent moves are not a great sign, but the dot com crash was so much worse from a people and company perspective.

The moment that sticks with me is (former) employees wheeling all the Herman Miller chairs through the parking lot with the facilities guy holding the door open saying "Take it. Take it all..."
Has Bezos specified "they" as preferred pronoun?
News begets more news. I am not going to fault a reporter for getting in on the current zeitgeist.

Unless you are comically bad at crime, bad actors will maintain some level of misdirection to conceal their malfeasance. There are only so many hours in a day, there is not time to do a deep dive report on everything that comes across the desk (most of which would match the official narrative). Theranos took years of concentrated effort to expose, with a large amount of risk (real or implied) to those involved.
The other concern here is that, as an Alphabet product, you need to try to guess when it's going to be canceled, which basically means having an alternative already on day one of use. And if you have an alternative, why use the product that's going to be canceled?
Thanks! It's just a few dozen lines of CSS. The body font is Inter and the monospaced font is JetBrains Mono.
The US law is almost entirely based on the same set of laws that originated in 1710 with the Statute of Anne (down to literally the same 14 period).

The scope has been modified and changed (mostly in favor of extending the rights of copyright holders, and the duration of the copyright).

The two aren't co-existing. Modern copyright law doesn't actually say jack shit about libraries except for a minor footnote that allows libraries limited ability to "preserve" works that are no longer available for sale, even if they are within their period of copyright. Libraries operate almost entirely under the doctrine of first sale... which is also under attack in the US right now.

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Have a good one, I don't think you have enough context on the subject to be worth discussing it with further.
> it's presented more as mathematics than as computer science: you can work through the whole thing with pen and paper

There's so much in software development that is shallow if you understand the motivation, or a key bit of context, because you already understand all of the hard parts. You "learn" a hundred things like this every week, mostly without trying, and there's a formula for helping people who get stuck: you find a concept that most people find trivial but a significant minority get stuck with, you figure out the bit of context that they're missing, you write a blog post or a Tweet or a HN comment supplying that bit of context, and bingo! Everyone who takes a few seconds or minutes to read it has an "aha!" moment and is suddenly, irreversibly enlightened.

Math has this kind of learning, too, but most of the effort in teaching and learning math concentrates on concepts that require a slower approach: the concepts that take some time to build up, or that require repetition for your brain to achieve the level of fluency needed for an idea to be useful. The "aha!" moment when it finally clicks is just the cherry on the top. It's a dramatic moment, but it has no value that can be separated from all of the prior work put in.

It's good to be able to recognize when you've been looking for the first kind of explanation for the second kind of concept.

Burritos, anyone?
Windows Kerberos authentication breaks after November updates
>these systems are negative-sum

that kind of assumes the tokens produced have no value which in the case of stuff like bitcoin seems empirically not to be true. Even after all the crashes etc. you can sell them for >$10k each

And if you say the people paying $10k+ for bitcoins are just mugs, it's all 0s and 1s, it is hard to differentiate from regular currency which is also just bits of paper or 0s or 1s. Both have value because in practice you can exchange them for real stuff.
Exactly. Given enough time the inside of the safe will be the same temperature as the outside.
> But it's mostly just a return to sanity at this point,

That's what the word "correction" implies: That it's going down, not because the business itself is bad or anything in the market has fundamentally changed, but because it was valued "incorrectly" (where "insane" would be an extreme form of "incorrectness"), and that its value is being "corrected".
I took German in college, and I'd say without hesitation that my German, even right out of college, was worse than your English.

However, I found when I was there that attempting to speak at least a little bit elicited sympathy, and they would answer in English. It was probably easier than finding some German words I would understand.

So yeah, you don't just walk up to someone and start out speaking English.
Show HN: I created a website builder for audio/video creators
Hey HN,
Over the past 3 years, I've been building Podcastpage.io, a full website platform for podcasters and audio/video creators.

I've seen many website popular solutions over the years, and those are really great generally (Webflow/Squarespace/Wix/WordPress) but are also very broad/generic. This makes it a little more complex to use, and also these lack support for niche use-cases.

When you need more flexibility and automations around media, it simply gets too complicated. Imaging syncing a podcast or YouTube channel with 1,000's of episodes to an existing website (with their own page URLs), and making sure all future episodes are going to be imported too. Then, setting up an audio/video player could be a challenge, and you'll end up spending more time and money with a generic website platform.

That's why I decided to build Podcastpage - It's laser-focused on helping podcasters and creators with their projects, and establish their online presence via a proper website.

Being focused on one niche doesn't mean the product is necessarily limited or very basic (a-la LinkTree). I've worked hard to ensure the user gets full flexibility when building the site (by using a drag & drop page editor) and at the same time, make their experience flawless and easy.

If you have a podcast / YouTube channel, give Podcastpage a try - you won't regret it.

Let me know if you have any feedback or questions!
Frankly there's parts of life where this resonates more today than any time I've been alive.

I've followed US political news since I was a kid. 2016 and onwards shit started getting really weird. Political satire from 2015 was no longer relevant by 2017ish not due the passage of time, but due to the fact that the events that followed are more ridiculous.

I imagine this has happened before. For example, my mom's generation always says 1968 was a crazy year in politics and culture. I imagine early 60s political satire looked tame by the late 60s. But I don't think political satire from 2008 looked ridiculous in 2014, for example.
A lot of electric buses in North America, and worldwide, are made by BYD.
They still do, it's just the thieves have the backing of the court system.

https://ij.org/report/seize-first-question-later/
GTA Bike V – Ride around in GTA V with an indoor bike
Xbox proactively suspended up to 4.78M accounts in just six months
>"the pandemic pushed all these tech companies up artificially. they hired in record numbers to meet demand and thought it would be permanent/the new floor."

This is the really surprising thing to me - many(most?) of these companies are data driven companies. Companies with teams of analytics folks, data scientists, modeling-experts and teams of engineers working on tools to do ML and large scale data analytics. Do none of them actually use their tools and internal expertise to model their own hiring practices and historical market trends? Or maybe they did and always knew they would need to do mass layoffs when inevitably the cheap money pump got shut off?
> You have the option with Fiat too - you can get paper currency and store it yourself in a secure location. $10,000 can be stored in $100 bills in as little as c0.03 meters^3.

That's really not the same though. With crypto I can store on a hardware wallet that requires a pin to unlock (and resets after 3 attempts) with a backup seed stored elsewhere (potentially split up in n of m shares). How do I backup my cash? How do I lock up my cash in a similar way?

In addition, I can setup "smart" wallets that require an approval from another person to initiate the transfer. Or forces a cooldown period on transfers. None of this is possible with cash.
Came here to say this. Often I give too much credit to the "last" source, but it's a bit like "your keys are always in the last place you look".

You definitely get good sources and bad ones, and discovering a good one after weeks or months of wrestling with bad ones is hugely satisfying, but sometimes the journey really is the destination.
At least when you do, you’re fdic insured up to 100k typically
FYI, that's what the little arrow next to their name is for.
Controversial statement - with the amount of scrutiny, hate and FTC oversight over companies like Facebook I have more trust in their privacy than Apple. Apple weaponized privacy to be able to enter their competitors market, all while very openly lying it’s all about the user.
Some of these arguments start on really odd premises:

> Imagine you're a rather small server and suddenly Eli Lilly and Company joins your instance. Today they have around 140K followers on Twitter and they are a publicly traded company. First of all with an account that large, every one of their posts will cause a lot of load on your infrastructure. Secondly though, they are a very interesting target to attack.

Why would Eli Lilly join some small instance? Why wouldn't they make their own instance? They have their own email and website after all. why be lilly@someoneelse.social when they could just be their own thing?
Amazon always seemed to claim they could have been profitable in the years after they IPO'd but simply chose to reinvest in growth and development. Investors believed in high future returns on this re-investment and preferred it over extracting it via dividends.

I'm not sure Rivian is making similar claims or investors would believe them if they were. Most likely, investors in Rivian are anxious for them to become profitable now that they're finally producing and selling cars. The "hard/expensive" part should be over for Rivian now that their production lines are operational.

These are very different companies operating in very different industries.
Well, the financial crash of 1929, while resulting in some good financial regulations being enacted, also created such levels of misery and want that people ended up thinking it to be a good idea to engage in the deadliest conflict in the history of mankind. Those who survived were left scarred for the rest of their lives. I think we should be wary of trying something like that again.
By "profit" do we mean turning a profit? Or simply charging for your service?
For me, the only way to get things "click" is through exercises and small projects of my own. No amount of passively absorbing the material delivers the sense of a complete understanding.
Do you feel "mayoral" level issues act as a domino effect for national level politics to that extent?
Tell HN: Employers are not desperate to hire developers
I'm in the middle of a job search and wanted to share my impression after discussions like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33563083.

I'm an unemployed mid/senior-level developer in the U.S. with a mediocre but solid portfolio and passable social skills. I've applied for many jobs at normal non-FAANG places, almost all of which were a decent match for my background, and employers don't seem desperate. Lots of no responses or form rejections, several places where I was rejected after either the initial or tech screen. I haven't gotten to the negotiation phase yet anywhere. When I asked, most seemed serious about hiring: they just got a new round of funding, there was a backlog of work, something, but still no hire. Also almost no response from external recruiters, and very little inbound LinkedIn messaging from anyone.

I'm not complaining, it's just how the grind is. I'm getting enough traction that I'm sure it's just a numbers game. But the employers are not desperate.

If you are a candidate without a golden resume or big network and need a job, then definitely don't get complacent because of HNers telling you that $100k-150k jobs are falling off trees. Put together a decent portfolio and then get those applications numbers up from day one. My personal goal is at least 100 applications before seriously considering pivoting to something else.
Because the idea behind it is that commoners like me and you shouldn't be able to start a business without backing of an investor blessed by the EU officials.

That's how they are introducing neo-communism by the backdoor. Technically private initiative is still legal and possible, but it is not in practice.

So if you have an idea, your only option, eventually will be to get hired at one of big corporations and try to sell your idea at one of their start-up incubators.

Difference is that you'll always be a salaried worker (and remain in working class) and shareholders will profit from your idea not yourself.
London loses position as most valuable European stock market
Gates pledged to give his wealth away before he dies, not immediately. And that's good - the world will be getting much more money than it'd get if Gates just gave away all his money the moment he announced it.

> Then your net worth is $110 and when you give away $10 your net worth goes down $10.

Gates' wealth fluctuates all the time. There was a time when he was rather low due to his donations - multiple 10s of billions down. He got back over $100B from cca $50B - that's $50B more for charity than if he just donated everything he had left.
I think the italics indicate that these hacks are premedititated and engineered by the founders to look real when in fact they are a clever way of explaining away a liquidity trap.
The same thing has happened with git over time, no? Decentralized source control, forking whatever you want/have access to when you have a flash of inspiration, etc.

Now everything is in github, gitlab, or bitbucket, and centralized there.
I saw this in a Twitter thread a couple of days ago: https://twitter.com/lennysan/status/1591470516178948096. In that thread there are also links to related podcasts and more endorsements.
Do publishers not have legal insurance for exactly these cases? If not, they should.
The only thing since the Young Ones that really got that zany vibe just right is Aqua Teen Hungerforce.
I just don't see the path to profitability for Alexa. Like, sure, it's neat, but how does it make any money?

Do they sell the devices at a profit?

Does usage of the devices lead to increased sales on Amazon.com? Are those sales that wouldn't have taken place on the app/website otherwise?
I’ve only be learning for a year or so — will the mapping of tenses from Latin to English ever make sense?
Hackernews is not one person, the people saying it should be regulated are different people fron the ones saying it should be unregulated. For better or worse, this is the "discourse"
Having worked on a crpyto exchange myself in the past, it's almost never a technical issue; the traffic isn't bloated with media resources or anything, and those requests were just thrown in a backend queue until they were pushed to the chains.
The delusion part is believing that it would still be worth $100k after an amount of time that would warrant burying something in the ground.
Google Launches Health Connect in Beta with Peloton, MyFitnessPal
I can't really follow the comment. You seem to start a thesis about

>In a fixed money supply currency, fractional reserve banking should be illegal and banks should instead make money off fees

Which, ok... But then jump to

>The housing market booms and busts because of the wildly fluctuating availability of credit caused by the money multiplier

Which seems to be a thesis about our current world. I can't figure out the connection between them. Are you saying this is evidence of why the first thesis is correct? But USD is not a "fixed money supply currency", which was how we started out.

I understand that easy credit induces demand for housing which has inelastic supply and somewhat sticky prices. This doesn't seem to be a problem of Fractional Reserve banking though. The VCs in your proposed system will still invest in mortgages as a fairly safe bet, because people are highly motivated to have a place to live.

And mortgages are an important tool so people have a place to live _before_ saving for 30 years. Given our current population dynamics and everything else...
Trading is addictive. Like all forms of gambling, it lights our reward centers up.

On decentralized exchanges, you pay each time you trade (gas fees and such). That cuts right through the endorphin rush.

Centralized exchanges keep those fees low by making everything centralized. It's akin to casinos keeping their guests comfortable and liquored up.

As a person who works in crypto, I'd like to see us engage with this more forthrightly. When we cut out gambling, how many use cases are left? How many are viable today?
> 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.

Curious, since you seem knowledgeable about this: do you truly think the CEO is choosing to ship products that aren't quite right? Or is someone in the QA space not doing their job thoroughly enough? Or do you feel like those things are indistinguishable, since the root cause doesn't matter and at the end of the day Rivian is shipping broken products?
Asking as somebody who does not really get this law jargon - if you distribute your software, which might be a little bit of glue code putting together some freely available open-source libraries, then would you be liable for auditing only this glue code or libraries as well? (since you would have to distribute them with your glue code, otherwise your product would be incomplete)
Wow.

So, the judge should forget about all the people who she fired and tried to silence who told her, "hey this is impossible". Pathetic.

She needs prison time. We don't ask teenagers who commit serious crimes if they are immature, poor or were influenced by someone else.
> Share [Device] Analytics is a bigger issue, and is the problem

Personally, I've always assumed that Device analytics (which I always turn off) referred to iOS, device and network performance, what apps are launched and crash etc. and that it didn't cover in app usage analytics.

The description is a little vague: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/device-analytics...

But the App Store privacy notes still state they record usage so they can personalise ads (which are optional) and show trending apps and searches etc (I think not optional)
D) Because they’d be kicked out China if they didn’t give user data to the government
Machine Learning with Unix Pipes
that's what the EU does

all legislation is designed for Mittelstand (medium sized german companies)

tax, privacy, communications, employment, now software

this was seen with the VAT changes: it was raised that this would badly affect small companies, so they passed the legislation then penciled a meeting in for 3 years time to maybe think about small companies

in general: if you're a small company: fuck you
This. But it's the same with everything in Europe - sky-high income tax and VAT, but zero to little inheritance tax, property tax, land value tax, capital gains tax, etc.

Like the idea is to punish workers (skilled and unskilled) and keep the power and wealth in the hands of the aristocrats.
> In the FIAT world, banks make tonnes of money from things like loans and mortgages so they can handle some risk by holding onto cash.

Also, IIRC, conventional stock exchanges make their money from transaction fees on trading volume. Are there cryptocurrency exchanges not doing that? I suppose even if they are, they're probably in trouble, since once the bubble bursts there will be a lot less trading activity going on.