skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a mid sized scam by a company praising algae as the future in Germany a few years ago.The company claimed that they would soon produce huge quantities of algae for nutrition, cosmetics, fuel, etc.. They collected money from private investors (which how they did it was illegal), but they had nothing but a small prototype that did not even work well, is was all smoke an mirrors. A very nice but gullible friend of mine lost about 5000€ in that.

Since then I am VERY sceptical about articles praising algae as the next big thing.
Gallagher, Comedian Known for Smashing Watermelons, Dies at 76
True, network effects are hard to beat, but one better hope the network builds around the product one themselves built around their federated protocol.
dare to ask, why is a Trademark used as standard name for someting
and
who owns and makes money of this trademark, is it again the same "them" (big bankers & black rock etc.)
https://archive.ph/0tg3q
Eee hardly a practical use… blockchain things.
This is really smart. Building a custom environment for deep work. This is the first time I've been even a little bit interested in VR.
Doesn't it seem likely the cost of the material directly relates to the size and difficulty of creating said hole in the ground?
Correct. Same for WebP. Both were enabled before their specs were even finalized.
We may presume that, coming in C++, competent modern C++ developers could be found, unlike for immature languages.

Building everything performance-critical with immature languages is not a viable alternative. But building with modern C++ is one.
What other inanimate objects (that can’t kill us easily, like an industrial press or firearm) do we talk about “respect” for?

I think this is a special case of emotional transference.

I don’t personally see a reason to treat cadavers any differently than any other object in a lab. They’re not people. Do we need to be careful to show respect for our mobile phones? How about our coffee mugs?
I predicted maybe 5 years ago that C was going to reach end-of-life due to memory unsafety issues.

D has been making steady progress towards being 100% memory safe when not using the GC (it's already memory safe if you stick to the GC).

The biggest memory safe feature is array overflow checking, and D has had that since its inception.
The Donovan book is fine. It may be slightly outdated in places but nothing that would trip up a developer with prior experience in some other language. One of Go's virtues is it's simple enough you can be comfortable and productive with just a weekend of learning.
>Some banks care about collecting deposits because the interest they earn on short term paper is more than the interest they pay on deposits. Some banks don't accept deposits at all -- these are called investment banks.

LMFAO. I want to go to Goldman Sachs's Balance sheet and then tell me how much they have in deposits ($394 billion!!!). I want you to go to Morgan Stanley's and tell me the same ($338 billion!!!). Nearly all banks use deposits as an easy source of capital that they then invest/lend out.

You are confusing retail deposits with deposits.

Like sure, there's boutiques like Qatalyst and Allen that limit their deposit base for one reason or another, but they are marginal in scale vs. real investment banks.

>If you want to really understand banks, you should stop talking about deposits, which aren't particularly important, and instead focus on mortgages, which dominate the entire financial industry.

This is such a wild conversation! I am talking about mortgages, which are funded by deposits!

>But they don't need your deposit in order lend someone else money, because they borrow from the capital markets at one rate, and lend at a higher rate, and this has nothing to do with borrowing short term and lending long term. Rather, the primary risk for banks comes from leverage.

Yes we agree! And one form of extremely cheap borrowing is taking deposits! That's why they pay interest on it! It's borrowing! It's a liability on the balance sheet! How is this not clicking for you?!?!?!
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> From another angle, I would argue that the eyes and face are part of what makes a human, as are the hands.

I also agree with this take, though in the moment at the lab I didn't interject with a critique of mind-body dualism. Either way, it seems the brain has some sort of primacy over other organs, in terms of contributing to personhood. Pretty much everything else could be lost or transplanted, yet we'd still consider someone the same person. The brain however seems essential in making you you.
Auto loan delinquencies rise as loan-accommodation programs end
Isn't this exactly the tivoization that RMS warned us about?
> If you don't send any of those coins out, there is no risk, no liquidity crunches, no liabilities whatsoever.

If you don't send any of those coins out, there are no profits for the exchange operator, either. Look at how Coinbase does everything more-or-less by the book, and barely makes money. Trading fees just don't cut it.

Yet, some fly-by-night exchange incorporated in the Bahamas is offering wild signup bonuses and lower fees and yield that would make Scrooge McDuck blush.
I saw someone compare what's happening to twitter as less like the fall of myspace and more like the fall of AM radio, where basically those who were willing to pay for propaganda basically took it over as other sources of cash withdrew (leaving mostly talk shows, religious interests etc). It feels less sustainable with twitter somehow.
Tesla mulls exporting China-made EVs to United States
I've wondered if the move to get rid of livestock to reduce wasteful resource consumption can just be focused on getting rid of beef. Poultry cultivation is far less water intensive than raising cattle. If everyone just ate chicken and pork that would be a significant improvement.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/beef-uses-ten-...
If you like Lando, there's also https://ddev.com/. Since switching from vanilla docker to it I haven't had to faff with any configuration; it just works. Amazing!
I’m not sure if there’s a The Book (probably though… look for industrial automation course materials); I mostly learned by example, by reading standards (check out NFPA 79 “electrical standard for industrial machinery”), and by reading automation vendor literature.
A recent video on co-op and social housing, that makes simlar points, with the somewhat clickbaity title of:

The Non-capitalist Solution to the Housing Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKudSeqHSJk

The video seems to switch to "non-market" as a description.
The land itself is worth about 35-50 percent of the house depending on location. So there are never situations where the value of the house is worth zero.
You may have run into a counterfeit FTDI chip, then. The normal $5 arduino clones from reputable manufacturers often have genuine chips. The $2-3 ones are trouble.
D already has a borrow checker in prototype form.
Why is leveraged long even legal? I'm naive about finance.
It can, but they are like trying to solve memory corruption issues with the ultimate weapon, because all other mitigation efforts from the last 50 years have failed.
My understanding is that Alameda was a market maker, which should have less exposure to down / upswings.

What kind of bets was Alameda making? Why would it need so much leverage?

I understand why loaning money to Alameda could be rationalized a risky, but not sketchy move (if Alameda posted collateral, paid reasonable terms like anyone else would, etc.).
Just anecdotal, but some older people I've known who grew up on farms are probably the most indifferent to animal suffering, as long as the animal provides meat or whatever their utility is. Animal welfare is only a thing kids are concerned about that they need to grow out of. Combine that attitude with the growing scientific revolution and desire to partake in scientific experiments and such, and I could see how this emerges.
Considering that's how people tend to get raises... he might be very smart for doing that!
I swear to god, half of the problem with cryptocurrency is Americans not understanding what a functional personal banking system looks like. The big American banks just never bothered to move beyond the 1970s, and so otherwise fairly well-informed Americans in tech assume you need some sort of completely mad system like "consume the power of Spain making a distributed merkel tree full of partial hash collisions" to make bank transfers work.

in every other rich country, you just log in to your bank's web ui thing, click "SEND MONEY TO MY MUM", and then it sends it, for free, to your mum, with no risk of your mum being able to take more money, no random intermediary, no worry about if it actually gets there, no third party holding it in a non-bank cash account, no pre-authorisation, etc. you enter a bank identification number and an account number (and a name, usually, to avoid mistakes) and it just happens and it just works. in most countries this is quick, even, e.g. in the UK it's almost always < 5 seconds.

FOR FREE.

no blockchains, no multi-billion ponzi schemes, just a boring and simple service offered by every bank in the country.

making the Fed make banks just introduce free, instant bank transfers could have saved the world tens of billions of dollars and apparently tens of billions of tons of greenhouse gases.
I would totally imagine a beans and rice drive-through focused on getting healthy family dinner for lowest possible price. Call it “Bowls” and allow upsells on toppings.
I acknowledged “something you can exchange for money” - that was not the objection.

It doesn’t solve the underlying difficulty of exchanging physical goods and services that are not tokens - you, know, the actual hard part. It also doesn’t solve the laundering aspect once you try to get those tokens liquidated to something not volatile as fuck.
What were the side effects that were no joke after so long? I started taking Wellbutrin recently.
this member of the anarchist enclave berlin is paying 750EUR per month (plus the 750EUR my employer does) for these treatments. solidarity ftw!
> what I'm describing has nothing to do with fixed or variable costs

I linked to an admittedly terrible Wikipedia article. What you're describing involves leveraging working capital, a form of operational leverage. Every business does this. Restaurants are operationally levered--they serve you food before you pay. In your example, services were rendered in anticipation of payment. None of this is financial leverage.

> offset it, you continue to transact in way more money than you put in

This is netting. The loan is explicit in a way distinct from operating leverage. These differences are meaningful in both how we measure the phenomena as well as the law.
"Many people" is an understatement. A VP will normally have a couple hundred people reporting up to them. Google has 30-40K engineers, so one can do the math. There are 100+ VPs at Google. Plus SVPs, EVPs, presidents, even a few CEOs.
What are some good keywords to search for if I'm looking for some of these knockoff PLCs?
Are There Transgender Proclivities in Animals? (2016)
NIST Dual EC DRBG never really gained adoption. As far as I could find, some did use it for FIPS conformity until 2014. The attempt is still egregious though.
>Why would they use that font for displaying C code?

Using ligature fonts for programming became popular a few years ago. As in some people even use them in their editors.
> and I can clearly see the revolutionary potential of blockchain.

I can not.

It's been 13 years and there's still nothing.

It was never anything else but a scam and can not be anything else but a scam for all crypto"currencies" with a transaction fee are negative sum games.
As a sidenote, many of the commitments that SBF made to the FTX Future Fund were either in FTT or paid in installments, which means that they will never be paid at all. Huge impact on the EA movement and their grantees.
I think they thought they were honest and doing things properly, and didn't realize that their holding of FTT was making them as bad as the other frauds before. I think these ouroboros are complex enough that even main players don't necessarily understand the position they've put themselves in.
Rest in peace. Perhaps a twist of chance that he died during the watermelon renaissance of southern Ukraine, there have been watermelon emojis all over Twitter and other apps.
You don't need to preemptively apologize for criticizing or questioning a particular data structure. That certainly does not make anybody a luddite. Also luddites had some decent reasons for their activism given the mass unemployment as a result of factory work, which I don't think we're facing with the 'blockchain revolution' any time soon, unless you operate a casino maybe.
It was a very hard to get into music torrent site. They had a rule you could only use the first letter in public. They didn’t give out invites too often so it became really hard to get. Which is why I think those who did have it raved about it so music. It focused only on lossless formats of music.
Thank you for translating the analogy.
I worked on code that used a Merkle Tree before any of us had heard of a Merkle tree or this blockchain bullshit came around, so I never got starry eyed about any of this stuff.

That project was in an environment where chain of custody is an established mechanism for ensuring public safety. Layering a web of trust over the top of that was something the users could mostly digest. Consumers can only use software signed by a particular department or person, only approved software is signed, and approval requires a chain of approvals before it going back to an original signature that says "these are the bits we gave you".

That's a useful application of the Merkle Trees. But you'll note there's no distributed consensus, and there's no Proof of Work. Or rather, the proof inferred, backed by process and in this case legistlation.

Blockchain admits it's only barely a Merkle Tree right in the name. Our graph looked a lot more like trunk in a git repo. Slightly more tree-like but people only care about the last node.
It's called value destruction. The coins value dropped very quickly, the counter parties then where either 1) Most likely nobody, (as in nobody cashed out, as the myriad altcoins approached the limit of worthless) and 2) traders on FTX who cashed out other ,"more valuable" coins they were lent after depositing altcoins as collateral.
I recently bought some red dulse from a seaweed farm on the Oregon coast (Oregon Seaweed in Garibaldi, Oregon). Bought it right from the farm. The guy who was growing it said it makes a great bacon substitute. I tried frying it up and while it didn't taste much like bacon to me (maybe I needed some liquid smoke?) it was an umami bomb. I had it in a sandwich and it was actually pretty good.
> I mean Twitter already had process like that in place and many people trusted them with that.

And those executives responsible for that division have left the company, complaining about user privacy issues and security violations.

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-privacy-security-executives...

This is not the time to be trusting Twitter with your personal data.
I don't know that anyone likes how moderation is ever done. If you try I bet you struggle to find folks who have ever liked twitter / the ecosystem for very long ... ever.

But the law here hasn't changed in any way...
Maybe not in those terms.

But the Queen and GC have dissolved (or prorogated) the Canadian Parliament as recent as 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932009_Canadian_par...
I know this is a low value comment before I write it, but I just cannot see any possible future where americans buy smaller cars. This level of societal innovation feels inaccessible now.

In the face of severe climate and weather events, I can hear the buyer still thinking "yes, but the larger model is safer in a storm or fire..."
Pipelines as code is the way to go, no matter whether it is CI/CD, data or ML. It’s unfortunate that a lot of pipeline tools use YAML. Glad to see projects like Dagger that use Python instead.

However it is not clear for me what is the benefit of using it instead of calling commands like docker, pytest and kubectl from Python with Plumbum or similar library. Add Fire and it is trivial to create a complete DevOps CLI for your app that can run locally or called from GitHub actions.
This... is not for kids. Sorry, but it's very boring.
Heck, let's pick up adult beginners. What is var? Why animal equals something? Why is there a dot after chat? These are concepts which need explaining, they make no sense for beginners or especially kids.

Block coding with graphical elements works because it's: a) fun, and b) visually introduces abstract concepts for non-programmers.
I taught programming to 1st year CS students and wrote my dissertation on this subject. The number of elements to make programming studies engaging and memorable was overwhelming!

"..closer to Javascript or Python" is very boring and unnecessary. That's why kids play with plastic tools and models before they are mature enough to use a hammer and drive a car.

I don't mean to put you off, but please try to find another market segment for this project. It's dead end where you are heading at the moment.
> land itself is worth about 35-50 percent of the house depending on location

This is not always true. (Trivially: your land is declared a superfund site. Less trivially: fire sale.)

> there are never situations where the value of the house is worth zero

I guess a decade and a half is all it takes to forget.
After you account for the environmental costs, they are probably paying people to remove it from their country
Well technically...

[1] - "How Mainframes Keep The Financial Industry Up And Running"

"...92 of the top 100 banks use the mainframe to provide banking services to customers, and other types of financial services companies depend on the mainframe, as well. Visa, for example, uses the mainframe to process billions of credit and debit card payments every year. According to some estimates, up to $3 trillion in daily commerce flows through mainframes..."

[1] https://blog.share.org/Article/mainframe-matters-how-mainfra...
This has been a wonderful social experiment, enabling people who didn’t live in the 19th century to see what happens when banking and investing is treated like the wild west

For those who can read long books, see Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_We_Live_Now

The 2001 television version was also excellent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_We_Live_Now_(2001_TV_s... , and only four episodes, instead of 100 chapters.
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/local-history.html
If we're going to change time standards then we might as well just get rid of our current system of leap seconds altogether; I have never been able to find a good practical reason for them and the current UTC system doesn't even solve long-term time-keeping issues very well. All things considered it doesn't really strike me a problem that perception of time drifts by a few hours over a period of thousands of years, but if we really want to account for that then we can do it with a regular system – the slowing down of the earth's rotation is not completely regular in the short term, but it is in the long term.

But realistically, just don't use leap seconds and check again in a thousand years or so. Who even knows what the world will look like then.
That song was always more about the narrator of the song, to me.
Can't prove a negative. But you can show a counterexample.
> The fact that Starlink helps Ukraine

Its not helping them in Crimea. Communications have been cut off there.

If the Ukrainians can't trust their communication systems, then its worthless. Starlink was a big mistake, the USA should have never gifted it to the Ukrainians.
> Yes, I do think one of them applies. 10 points if you can figure out which one.

Unfortunately I am not convinced by the argument you refuse to say. Your way of debating is unconventional, I will give you that.
Author Nick Abadzis got a lot of responses about the factual, sad fate of Laika in his graphic novel. So much that he wrote several alternate (entirely fictional) endings to the story to make readers feel better.

https://www.bigplanetcomics.com/category/comics/the-alternat...
I wasn't aware of this before reading your comment. It looks like both of his parents actually teach at Stanford. His mother is Professor of Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Fried
How did you determine that the market is fine if layoffs at smaller/boring companies wouldn't be visible anyway?
Most of that localized pollution comes from stuff like tire dust which is increased as we buy new heavier vehicles to do the same old getting around. The big win with fuel air quality was the move away from leaded gas and the clean air act, for decades now the major sources of pollution from a car have not been from the tailpipe.
Well, no other way, but atm it is not exactly city center property close to the Agora. I wonder how many of these links are still alive, anyway.

I have enormous nostalgia for Del.icio.us that @joshu created.
The cost of getting rid of the house - or other liabilities - is sometimes higher than the value of the land itself. There are situations of zero and even negative value.
Relatedly, the Punch Brothers recently cover-albumed Tony Rice's cover of the track:

https://youtu.be/DhTRNU1mnVA
On Safari the 'notequal' is double-width, and you can select just half of it, which I didn't expect.
In the Czech Republic, they have an oldie 50s style rock tune based on "Rock Around the Clock", with lyrics mentioning the Laika.

Sovětští mužici Those Soviet chaps
vypustili družici Let out a satellite
Lajku do ní nacpali They stuffed Laika into it
a nažrat jí nedali. Not giving her anything to eat
Na kytaru trsaj rock'n'roll. Strum rock'n'roll on your guitar

Lajka letí k Měsíci Lajka's flying to the Moon
hlady žere družici Eating the satellite out of hunger
Lajka volá SOS Lajka's calling "SOS"
ať tu chcípne jinej pes! "Let another dog croak here!"
Na kytaru trsaj rock'n'roll. Strum ...

The Prague Spring events put a damper on this kind of thing.
Snake oil comes around every couple of generations once the people who lived it are too feeble or too few to get the message out to the latest crop of people with enough income to grab the attention of con artists.

These are in theory lessons that are meant to be passed along by the Public Education system but ours is pretty broken.
In Spanish it's the same. Ano = anus. Trajano, Adriano...

Yet we still have names ending in -ano. Mariano, Emiliano, Cipriano, Maximiliano...
can be a useful feature (in some scenarios) that crypto is permissionless (unlike the bank that has to approve vendors, limits, nations, etc.)
The CO2 that it absorbs has to be stored. Measure the change in weight.
I'm sure that many of old videos has been removed. And the more I use the Internets the more I consider to save as much of stuff as possible (webpages, videos, everything) maybe on another machine with a really giant disk.
EVs are barely making a dent into the problem, even coupled with everyone going fully vegan (a pipedream). The economy still continues to occupy any new room available under "we must grow" incentive.

You'll die out with the others at this rate of token changes.
No, that doesn't seem likely to me at all. Lithium prices are high because the industry is not very well developed and the demand is skyrocketing. Borax is co-located with lithium deposits (in some places) and is extracted by a similar process at similar scales and it costs 100x less than lithium. And for some reason nobody looks at the gigantic land scar at a borax mine and starts screaming about the environmental cost, because there's no oil billionaire astroturf fund dedicated to whining about boron.