skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty dangerous though. Even though crypto is mostly on the way down and out some coins will predictably lurch upward from time to time.

If you hold an asset long you have a finite potential for loss but infinite potential for gain. Short it's the other way around. Algo traders and hedgies often treat short and long positions as symmetrical as they almost are when linearized but over long periods of time and large princemovements that's wrong. It leaves you with the hedgie viewpoint that it's as bad a "risk" that the stock market goes up too much as if it goes down which is not the way most people think.
Systemd's Out of Memory killer kills every process in scope
If he did, I think it'd be the first time a top 3 Democrat donor goes to prison. If I had to make a guess, I'd imagine the current government which he helped fund will be kind to him.
Agile is like communism in that it never fucking works, and whenever it fails (which it inevitably does), the apologists always say, "well they just weren't doing it right."
it is blockchain
> I've no idea what makes it incompatible with Firefox, but without knowing the reason, it's an offence to call it laziness.

If they didn't bother documenting the compatibility issues, even if only so that future roadmaps can review and take stock of any changes in browser functionality down the road -- or to allow others to work on/around the problem, that's laziness and it's fair to call it out as such.
I found graphics programming impenetrable until I found https://learnopengl.com. Going through the articles there was enough for me to feel comfortable working in all the other graphics APIs, even Vulkan.
In that vein, The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles.

https://www.nand2tetris.org/
Perhaps closer to “we buy software that hacks things for us”. But yeah, no ref to hardware backdooring.
The bank only has 100k though. They can’t loan out 1m because they don’t have 1m to give out.
FTX fiasco sparks billions of dollars of outflows from exchanges
How does one buy Bitcoin or Ethereum outside of exchanges?
1.3M modules...

Node developers be like:
"Oh that function I just wrote is so beautiful, let's make a module!"
The funny thing is Michael Lewis (Moneyball, Flash Boys, The Big Short) has been following Sam around for the last six months. He just got an incredible ending to his book.
Or does he have so much free time because of how wealthy he has become through YC that he has lost touch with reality. Now he spends all his free time thinking you can't want to want what you want. Or is it you can't (want to)* want what you want?
I don't know if taxes are higher now vs some point in history (probably higher than some, lower than others) but your implicit claim that 'taxes' == 'US Federal Income Tax Rate' is so laughable I can't believe you can make it with a straight face. Not everyone is from the US, and the people from the US know that there are like 5 levels of taxation, from local sales tax to property tax to state income tax, state personal property tax, taxes relabeled as 'fees' to circumvent state rules about new tax creation, tariffs, payroll taxes, etc etc etc etc etc. Then there are taxes like social security, disability insurance, unemployment insurance, etc.

Even if all we look at is US federal income taxes, you don't include them all. Social security is a sum of 12.4% of your income (and it is regressive!). Medicare is 2.9%. These have gone up considerably since 1979 (8.1% total in 1979, 15.3% now)
Do you mean bun??

There's still a whole lot of confusion around which is actually faster. Both have published counter benchmarks to prove that they are faster than their rival.
Steroids are rampant among fitness influencers
I think bun was built by a solo dev
Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++ (2019)
Lol that's not true at all. Why spout nonsense?

First our cities today are as safe as they have ever been. Crime is slightly up from 2018 but 2018 was the lowest ever. Small bumps in crime are not usual.

Second, googling murder rates in that region is possible and they are an order of magnitude greater than even the worse US cities.
They may be next. It's not 100% sure but very plausible.
> I like to "calculate" how things should go wrong for the worst case scenario

I like to calculate, too. When I bought my house, it was just far enough from the closest large city that I would probably survive if that city was hit by a typical thermonuclear bomb....

;)
It can be that cheap, or same order of magnitude, if you have a good complementary health insurance.
I got mine done for 1500 per eye, reimbursed 600 per eye, but you can probably find cheaper
This whole thing sounds like a Netflix movie waiting to happen.
> How do you reconcile being a machine made of matter with the feeling that you're free to choose what you do?

We have a soul, unlike actual machines or animals.
It's not exactly clear to me based on the article or the ones linked if they are out of line with their own privacy policy. Denying app tracking on a specific app doesn't actually prevent the app developer from collecting analytics data. If they are breaking their own rules that's not entirely surprising and hopefully they are forced to follow them as well.

It is kind of sketchy that they have a way to turn off "device" analytics which one would assume is tied to apple's apps but that doesn't seem to be the case.
we already do this with our design partners and b2b customers. it’s manageable at a small size but tedious at a grander scale. great insight to build on!
Read levines last newsletter. He goes over how your interpretation of what was said is wrong.

In fact he says he came out of that podcast bullish on SBF and ftx.
Fake images seems to always carry artifacts on them. I just looked for them and got 100% right.
SBF spent about 33% Republican / 66% Democrat

EDIT: Not accurate ^

Yet 18 of the 25 top donors were Republican leaning. Billionaires comprise 20% of Republican funding vs. 14% for Dems. Most republican megadonors were entirely republican. The big ones are from hedge funds.

So yeah, SBF donated to the dems. We need more regulation to get money out of politics. But let's not kid ourselves into thinking the republican party is immune to this. They are in it. They tend to be more in it.

96% of house seats were won by the party that spent more in their race.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221113221316/https://www.nytim...

https://web.archive.org/web/20221113013307/http://www.opense...
-75% in 1 year is a more impressive number.

-0% in 2 years is a less impressive number.
> would be massively deflationary and that seems to have come true

Bitcoin makes Argentina and Venezuela look like bastions of hard money. It’s lost purchasing power, i.e. inflated, at an astronomical rate.
It's very risky. The price has a tendency to jump up briefly when a large short needs to cover its position.
Package managers end goal was the user to use the package, so it was good that they were installed globally. npm goals, as a tool for devs, includes having projects self-contained and not interfere with each other, which is pretty different goal and thus having a local node_modules has multiple advantages instead of installing everything globally. Kinda how docker or virtual machines work, but just for packages.
Along with its dependencies, yes.
What if there is no forest?
Not who you asked but I think in this context a lot of non meat eaters mean it more like “I won’t condemn you for it”, but I suppose judgement is inevitable. It doesn’t have to prevent discourse, and the reality is that most people who don’t eat meat did at some point as well. There needs to be an element of humility or things fall apart.

I suppose vegans and vegetarians are judged likewise, and that’s okay as well. It just doesn’t need to be condemnation or critical in negative ways.

I think most importantly because we can’t have conversations about these things otherwise. This post is already flagged, but if we’re constructive and curious, there can be excellent, meaningful conversations about these matters.
Crypto Exchange AAX Halts Withdrawals, Says FTX Put Immense Pressure on Industry
I request that as your style seems to be to attack details, which goes nowhere as each reply gets longer and less relevant until every reply is a marathon and you’ve lost sight of the actual issue being discussed

speaking of that, you’ve moved the goalposts. you said that it would be easy to catch the people taking this style of bribe because of the more abrupt job change. I said that it’s almost impossible to legislate against that

now you’re trying to argue a separate issue: whether reps will take these bribes at all

however, your initial comment assumes that they might take these bribes, and my reply is based on that assumption. when you abandon that assumption, you’re not actually responding to me

if you’d like, you can reread our original two comments, but I’ve laid out the bones of it here:

your claim: easier to catch takers

my disputation: yes easier to catch but impossible to convict

your response: but takers wouldn’t take in the first place

do you see how that doesn’t follow?
> "Crypto" is useless. Bitcoin isn't.

What unique properties does Bitcoin have that makes it useful that other cryptocurrencies don't, beside first mover advantage?
This should be shocking, but after hearing that bears do it in the woods, nothing is going to surprise me...
> When police are involved there is too much opportunity for something tragic to occur out of misunderstanding.

You do realize that the police have influence here? Having the police not come and help because what boils down to "we might shoot someone" is asinine. If they are so afraid of causing something tragic, let them leave their toys at home when they confront the potential phone thief.

> If I had seen that device on my own "Find My" and requested police support to retrieve the device based on that information--that would have been a grievous wrong against that person.

Clearly find my shouldn't be used as sole evidence here, but it sure is enough evidence to ask for the phone in question to be handed over to the police so they can do some quick ownership checking. Heck just the IMEI number for the phone should be plenty to verify the true owner, don't even need the phone in hand for that.
We might be talking about two different things here when using the term "staking".

I'm referring to coins that are staked by validators in a proof-of-stake chain. The "other side of the trade" is not someone borrowing the coins, but are the transaction fees on the chain and for some chains also the artificial inflation (due to newly created coins).

There is risk involved, but not traditional counterparty risk (when excluding the exchange itself), as nobody is "borrowing" the coins.
https://i.imgur.com/fsCmqVh.png

I just don't understand all of the "BTC will never fall below <some level not far from the current price>" thinking.
So they steal the user terminals, give them back to the Ukrainian soldiers, then intercept their (probably TLS encrypted) traffic, and then send that information back to themselves?
> How can it be a reserve to hold your own or other "coins" ???

It isn't. They're defrauding folks.

Tether got caught doing exactly this, passing money around between themselves and Bitfinex (same ownership) to pad out reserves for an attestation.

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...

> In the face of persistent questions about whether the company actually held sufficient funds, Tether published a self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserves, in 2017, that it characterized as “a good faith effort on our behalf to provide an interim analysis of our cash position.” In reality, however, the cash ostensibly backing tethers had only been placed in Tether’s account as of the very morning of the company’s ‘verification.’

> On November 1, 2018, Tether publicized another self-proclaimed ‘verification’ of its cash reserve; this time at Deltec Bank & Trust Ltd. of the Bahamas. The announcement linked to a letter dated November 1, 2018, which stated that tethers were fully backed by cash, at one dollar for every one tether. However, the very next day, on November 2, 2018, Tether began to transfer funds out of its account, ultimately moving hundreds of millions of dollars from Tether’s bank accounts to Bitfinex’s accounts. And so, as of November 2, 2018 — one day after their latest ‘verification’ — tethers were again no longer backed one-to-one by U.S. dollars in a Tether bank account.
Nand2Tetris - https://www.nand2tetris.org/
Yeah India doesn’t work like that. Most of the world doesn’t work like that.
> All of these merchants don't push these things because they're doing you a favor

Generalized, this is good advice. If somebody is shilling something to you, it's not for your own good. Ads aren't PSAs and even many PSAs aren't really PSAs.
If you can get them.
Which you can't if you are under sanctions, and nobody likes that the entire financial world is controlled by single entity.
This all seems like less a problem of crypto as such, and more that exchanges are making a virtual fractional reserve currency by leveraging customer deposits for loans/investments.

ie it's a 'banking' problem, specifically a 'fractional reserve banking' problem, not a crypto problem.

This is exactly why fractional reserve banking is heavily regulated.
You can still take breaks afterward, I promise !

Bonus point, if you're into sports, it's really a great change for ball games and skiing.
Oh but there is!

> Living & Working in Canada: A Survival Handbook (Living and Working)

https://www.amazon.com/Living-Working-Canada-Survival-Handbo...
It is only an attractive investment when the world is awash with excess fiat currency.
Related: Tooljet is also an open source alternative to Retool

https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet
> Smart contracts and stablecoins can continue to work the same no matter market volatility.

Even ignoring the constant hacks of smart contracts, work for what purpose?
I'm a software engineer, but these have been instrumental in my success in a way no coding book can compare to(though John Ousterhout's "A Philosophy of Software Design" would have, if it came out earlier in my life).

Personal time/task management- The classic, Getting Things Done(https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Produ...). The power this has on people cannot be understated. Turns out that most of how life is conducted is rife with forgetfulness, decision paralysis, prioritization mistakes, and massive motivation issues. This book gives you specific workflows to cut through these in a magical way.

Personal Knowledge Management- The equally classic, How to Take Smart Notes(https://www.amazon.com/How-Take-Smart-Notes-Technique/dp/398...). Where GTD(above) does this for well-defined tasks/work, this book does it for open-ended work, giving you an amazing workflow for introducing "Thinking by Writing", which is frankly a superpower. This lets you see things your friends/colleagues simply won't, lets you deconstruct your feelings better, learn new/deeper subjects faster, and connect thoughts in a way to produce real insight.

For Product/Business Management, Gojko Adzic's "Impact Mapping"(https://www.amazon.com/Impact-Mapping-software-products-proj...) feels like it could make nearly every software team/business 10x better by just reading this book. I've personally watched as enormous portions of my life were spent on things that barely moved the needle for companies, or merely didn't keep the metric from rising. So many projects taken on faith that if you work on X, X will improve, without ever measuring, or asking if you could have accomplished that with less. The world looks insane afterward.
Downside is you can't use patch-package

Even the --node-module-dir flag just creates a symlink to your home directory cache so you can't do per-project package fixes (besides forking and rehosting the package)

I'm also not sure how/if it supports packages that require compiling binaries like sqlite or playwright without post-install hooks
Yeah I mean we’re all participating in dumping an industrial mess on the future.

I’ll take the pearl clutching more sincerely when your calls to “human decency” target your own moral failures that matter.

It’s not JUST you treating the planet like an open sewer, but you do it too. Low effort “thoughts and prayers” outputs are not good enough.

Oh no; snarky words!!! chucks another plastic bottle/phone/laptop in the garbage
Not really but it’s a long discussion. In any case in this sense the author coul also throw other kinds of conspiracies unrelated. True journalism ! Add your sauce
Some middle manager at Apple is shitting themselves right now for causing this.
But no one knew ftx had written the shitty loans until last week. You can speculate that he was risking billions in depositor funds but there wasn’t really any evidence.
Maybe Trump was right about TikTok
Fwiw BigQuery support is what kept me from testing budibase and using retool for a project just 2 weeks ago.
>but there's still nothing else like HN

yes there is, lobste.rs is exactly HN but with a lot more selective membership and hence better comments.
No. They say it in interviews, on podcasts, etc.

Most comedians refuse to play shows on college campuses now (once a highly lucrative venue for them) because of the audience
For mapping, I really enjoyed working with Openlayers.
You're not taking crazy pills. It's become abundantly clear that the vision of everybody being their own bank will never work.

People don't want to be their own bank, just like they don't want to be their own bakery, or their own farmer.

Sure, some people do bake their own bread, but they do it either because they have to, or because they enjoy it.

So the people who control their own keys need to have a reason to do so. Because it takes more effort than not managing your own bank.

What exactly are the reasons to run your own bank? What problems in your life are solved by it?

I can think of a two:

* You want to hold more cash than FDIC guarantees.
* You think the government will seize money out of savings accounts, as happened in Cyprus.

These have to be weighed against the facts that while not literally in your mattress, the money becomes pretty easy to steal, for anyone willing to point a gun at you. And being your own bank comes with obligations, too, so the government will come after you if they want to drain your bank. And the justice system can put you in a box if you don't comply.

Basically: If you already have a bank, why would you not just use it? And if they refuse to do your thing (like order a hit), then buy tokens and pay a hitman in tokens.

If there were FDIC for tokens at your real bank, redeemable in same number of tokens, then any general public that wanted to use cryptocurrency would likely just use that. Because outside of fringe LARPing nobody wants to run their own bank.
Really impressed with Deno's overall vision and execution. They are taking the slow and steady road. I remember everyone criticizing them for not supporting npm at the start but I was sure at some pint it has to happen. You can't live without the npm ecosystem if you are writing code in javascript.

I am still not using Deno as my main production runtime but at some point I might make the switch.

Personally I'll use Deno if I can use it with Next.js which with this npm development I can see Next.js support coming soon. Next.js and Deno are both focused on executing code on the edge so it's just natural for it to happen.

Great work Deno team! You deserve all the credits!
SBF likely hired a PR firm that pitched the story to a writer they're friendly with.
I’m the same exact way. Nvalt opened things for me. I now use Drafts as entry point too with Logseq, Noteplan, and Devonthink (all synced in weird ways) for organized info and daily work notes
Sound Cards: Worth Buying or Just a Niche Product?
Why? Honest question...
Palliative Care
Julius Sumner Miller - Physics demonstrations

I had been exposed to many of these physics concepts in school. Some of the topics never really clicked for me. Revisiting these physics topics with demonstrations brought clarity to several foundational concepts. Lots of moments of realization getting to view demonstrations of concepts like Force, Mass, Acceleration, and more. Newton and Bernoulli. While included, the series is not too heavy on the math. Enchanting series to watch through.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjzW1w9hKBnz2i90rRoZD...
Wittgenstein's "On Certainty" helped me finally grok some major problems in philosophy. Needs a good tutor to go through it with though.
HN is a place for curious conversation. What if you approach the topic from that perspective; what is curious and interesting about animal welfare? Did you know these things are going on, and that they’re actually quite common? What does acceptable animal welfare look like?

There’s plenty to explore on this topic. There are also interesting ways technology has factored into animal welfare (I suppose a famous example would be the work done by Temple Grandin in the USA).
Composer also?
Most people hold Bitcoin these days in the hopes of making money. The distributed consensus nature of crypto is irrelevant.
Funny that you mention another Stanford online course. I was going to say Andrew Ng's material on Coursera. Incredible educator.
The core truth in this day and age is that nobody (understand this a non-significant minority if you prefer) wants to host their own stuff. It's way more convenient to use centralized services that do the heavy lifting for you. If you don't have that convenience, you can't have mass adoption.
A long time ago, I wrote a program for personal use which I called "FileHasher", or something like that.

FileHasher (or whatever I called it) -- was basically a "poor man's antivirus utility" -- that is, it didn't scan memory, didn't check boot blocks, didn't scan system [E|EE]PROMS like BIOS, and it knew nothing about rootkits -- or how to detect them.

But what FileHasher did do was to take a point-in-time "metadata snapshot" -- of all of the files on my PC -- their path, their filename, their size, their date, and a custom 16 or 32 byte hash of their contents. This data was put into a single simple space or tab or comma delimited text file (a "poor man's database" <g>) which contained in its filename the date and time (as a string) when this file was generated.

The idea was, I'd run a completely fresh OS install. Then, as the absolute first thing I'd do after the OS install, I'd copy "FileHasher" onto my PC via USB drive, and run it to generate a metadata snapshot file of all of the system's files...

FileHasher could then be run at any time subsequent -- to generate an additional "point-in-time"
metadata snapshot information file.

Once two such files were created from two points in time -- FileHasher could compare them -- and list ALL files that had been created, deleted, or modified -- since the initial or previous run.

The idea was, that a virus, if it were to exist, would probably create/modify/delete at least one file -- and FileHasher in reporting mode (if used with diligence, say, before and after software installs, and at various other dates/times) -- would help a person with a keen eye -- in finding/identifying/fixing what the problem was, based on the list of created/deleted/modified files...

Tracking the Software Dark Matter in the various layers of container(ized) images -- sounds like a very similar (and good!) idea!

Will it solve every possible container security problem?

Probably not -- but it's a good step in the right direction!

(Was my "virus checker" perfect? No! But it was better than no virus checker! <g> ("A Little Bit Of Something" > "Nothing" -- you know, from Philosophy 101! <g>))
Bankman-Fried was paying journalists to write nice things about him, so surely he was a public figure.