skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite phone ever is still the Sony Ericsson P800. It had a full touchscreen, jog dial and detachable stylus. The number pad was just an overlay on the bottom half of the touch screen and could be flipped open or removed.

I got so much flak as it cost as much as an iPhone, but in 2003.

https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/reviews/sony-mobile/67352...
> Crypto very much follows the stock market.

Is that based on observing a correlation between both or is there an underlying hypothesis/theory/mechanism why crypto follows the stock market?

I'm genuinely curious, not trying to imply this isn't the case.
I remember when WikiLeaks first decided to accept Bitcoin's for donations. Nakamoto cautioned that Bitcoin was not mature enough fr something like that.

I think that the problem with the Cryptocurrencies movement has been that the use peopel want to give to it has surpassed the technological advances that it provides. At some point, the ETH network will get there, providing "trustless" alternatives for a lot of the stuff that CeFi services are giving. But that is still several years away.
r/overemployed
OK, so to my untrained eye it looks like putting a road block for small software startups..
That's specific to one scenario for Python.

It's hardly the entire ecosystem, which is my point. Decentralization is there already and well-supported in the provided tools. You just can't abuse the official PyPI sources, and that's a reasonable approach.
Issue is they reinvented the wheel in the crypto space. Centralized or decentralized it's all on the same market is only a matter of scale. As even in centralized markets the concept of edge is just hitting parity.

What really surprised me about the space was the refusing of not registering as a speculative asset. As even if you look into the regulations, it's merely making the mechanisms transparent and creating reporting.

As if DeFi followed through with the true promise of decentralization and transparency. The FTX situation would never have happened in the first place. So with that, the crypto space actually went against its principles and we are seeing the result.
There's a difference between brutal totalitarian regimes in which an elite exercise absolute power over millions of people and actual ownership by workers themselves.

It's the elites of those countries which owned everything and controlled everything.

If you weren't part of the elite you had to follow orders.
Horowitz and Hill "Art of Electronics"
Print your private key on paper and lose it all when your house burns down.

vs

Give your private key to an exchange, and enrich the shitheads running the exchange when they run away with your money.

First option seems preferable. If you're going to lose your money, better for the money to be truly lost than to enrich a thief.
> The people who were pushing the fact that you'd have sole control over your wallet were those who wanted to be immune from the government seizing their money: scammers, criminals, tax dodgers, and exchange runners

How sad that you think the only people that cares about not giving governments control of everything are "scammers, criminals, tax dodgers, and exchange runners".
This is mostly an opinion piece that's critiquing issues we've only begun to solve.

Also, Elon has now shown us all the absolute danger of centralized platforms. Email and web servers are a federated system and function just fine, so I'm disinclined to believe so hand-waving about how this "wont ever work."
Less than 20% of Twitter's microservices are needed for it to work
Say Goodbye to Browsers and Passwords
Budibase.com
No, you haven't gotten it right.

Sam Bankman-Fried donated money to a wide variety of causes, the vast majority of which weren't journalists. If you want to read more about where he donated, here's the article where the quote comes from: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/8/8/23150496/effecti...
This is whataboutism
Supposedely, if this legislation passes then the EU will be in its rights to ask GitHub or any such platform to remove completely or to block OS projects that do not meet EU’s new security criteria.

Take what I’m saying with a huge grain of salt, cause I’m also not a OSS contributor nor do I work with tech-related legislation.
>But you realize that banks (and individuals) could have all the advantages of decentralization if they just chose to be decentralized too, right?

The closest you can get to decentralization with the traditional finance system is to withdraw and store cash, which is expensive/risky and causes inflation to eat away at your savings. Good luck with other parts of the finance system (eg. investments or loans). It's ironic how you portray centralization as something that people willingly engaged in because it was beneficial, considering that the disadvantages are all there by design (eg. the government refusing to make high denomination bills, or instituting a monetary policy that causes inflation).
> unless new real money comes into the system, the BTC taken out are worth very little

There is a lot of wealth and money being destroyed. These assets were pledged. People made spending and savings decisions with them in mind [1].

In a farcical way, crypto is doing a good deal to alleviating the pain of monetary tightening by concentrating it on its holders.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_effect
> All fundamental crypto values say this.

This feels mighty similar to the old "communism didn't fail people, people failed to do real communism" rationalization.
It sounds good in theory, but now let's imagine the following scenario, after Meta kicked me out and I also lost all my savings in FTX, I'm totally broke, and I desperately need $50 to pay for the room in the miserable motel I'm staying, otherwise that same day they are going to kick me out into the street. I go to one of the few friends I have left, and the guy, which is a little sadistic, offers to give me that $50 right now, or give me $100 depending on what comes out on the flip of a coin ..
Extreme Clarity: Percentages and Percentage Points
Understanding DSP by Richard Lyons. He made the basic concepts of DSP simple to understand. It should be required reading for all DSP engineers.
k8s is not really that complex by default, despite all the complexity hype around it (if you look carefully you'll notice a significant number of the people saying this have a serverless SaaS to sell). You can run something simple such as microk8s on VMs and get better results more quickly than any manually managed process manager and/or load balancer.

You can, of course, make it more complex by piling a ton of stuff on top of it, and most cloud provider offerings do that. But its not required.
Glad to see this comment - the Cambrian explosion analogy was the exact one that came to mind for me, and I actually think, as you put it, the same dynamics are in play. Lots of different approaches are taken until it is clear that, after time, one is dominant and the best. I remember when the iPhone first came out the whole "tapping on glass" keyboard was highly controversial, but it soon won out (and, IMO, especially because it allows swipe typing).

As an aside, this comment from the tweet thread is genius: "I call this one the Shyamalan because of the unnecessary twist".
I know this is a little out of left field but I couldn't understand why anyone was Atheist until I read The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan... quickly followed by The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Those two books together crystallized in me what it could mean to have a world view absent of supernatural forces.
Not all drug crimes carry a death sentence in Singapore. Only meth/opiate manufacturing and importation above a certain threshold.
that's not much compared to the $40 millions he gave to the democrats...
Seems bewildering. Including transport? So, buying tons of consumerism stuff from China with awful pollution policies plus transport, only impacts for 7.7% of our emissions if we repatriated it here with China’s level of pollution? That’s can’t be right.
There is at least one OS app working on a new kernel:

https://fornjot.app
Ah, there is this: https://deno.land/manual@v1.28.0/advanced/continuous_integra..., however I can't seen to find any specific page for a 'deno cache' CLI command aside from some loosely related pages that use the command.
I didn’t understand probability, until I read E T Jaynes Probability Theory: Logic of Science

It defines the base blocks of probability very, very slow. And never hand-waves anything. But it’s the “bayesian” view of probability; but it’s honestly the easier one to understand.

https://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-Science-T-Jaynes/d...
>You seem to have a lot unuanced, inflexible and strongly held beliefs about this all.

Peak projection. At least I provided arguments based on evidence, while you just stated your opinion which clearly ignores any evidence of corruption and abuse of power from the early history of (central) banking up until now.

>Perhaps consider if there's space for a world in which cryptocurrencies aren't a silver bullet.

Never claimed them to be silver bullets, don't put words in my mouth. Maybe you should consider a world in which you are not blind to the continuous and boundless abuses of power by (central) banks and proponents of fiat who benefit from this broken system.
- Feynmans Lectures (Physics)

- The Selfish Gene (Evolution)

- 3blue1brown (Maths)

- Primer (Evolution simulations)
[https://www.youtube.com/c/PrimerLearning]

- W2AEW's Back to the Basics electronics tutorials
[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkd_RnSvfYAjSHPGBvA-K...]

- Jonathan Clayden's Organic Chemistry (I hate orgchem. This is one of the few books I can stand.)

- Many more I can't recall now.
I honestly think it's a translation error.
Another fundamental that it points to is that we've somehow set up a system where instead of the general public determining (and funding) the public good through democracy, a handful of rich people simply decide what counts as a public good and steer their money toward those causes.
Whatever your opinion of crypto (disclaimer: I think it solves no problem and probably never will) you cannot deny that the FTX collapse has done massive damage to the integrity of the ecosystem. It is so large it may well take years to recover. What's interesting is that trust and confidence here is just as important as it is for TradFi. Regulation is not just important. It is required.

SBF & his polycule cohorts are probably going to spend decades in prison.

What astounds me is the lack of oversight from investors (regulation can be slow to catch up). The company literally has no CFO [1] and its books are prepared by a Metaverse accounting firm [2]. While I have sympathy for the customers who will bear huge losses from this. I have absolutely none fodr the investors.

[1]: https://www.ledgerinsights.com/ftx-warning-signs-no-cfo/

[2]: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/11/meet-the-metave...
> If everyone who just use cookies for session tracking (which is perfectly fine) woulds stop asking, we could better differentiate the bad ones from the good ones.

Agreed. My experience was slightly different: we used cookies purely for login, and our legal person still just heard "cookies" and so we needed a consent popup.
Am I the only one who feels like inserting emojis where text belongs/alongside text feels like elementary school reading? Are we really so illiterate? What a horrible trend.
Nobody said victims, that's your own lens coming into play there.

Everyone wants cheap, fast, convenient, and quick. Everyone. I suppose if you don't think this plays into corporate behavior then we don't have much of a chance of discussion here.

Perhaps I misspoke by saying consumers, what I should say is, more broadly, people. Corporations get away with it because politicians, local or otherwise, don't hold them accountable, because the consumers (people) don't vote people in that will, or vote the people out that are not. For what reasons? Laziness? Too busy being poor (yes definitely some of this)? Indifference? Imperfect information? A little bit of this and that? God only knows. We can only presume.

Either way, you cannot escape the web of relationships we all live in on this earth is my broader point.
back in the day (as in like 30-60 years ago) a popular scam was to create a situation where frontrunning trades was really easy. there are a million examples of similar things.

i don't think regulation is a good thing when a single person is trading with a single person. but, at some point an exchange becomes so big (they deal, seemingly fairly and with honestly, with many people) where people start to trust it. there is an inflection point where people can take advantage of that part of the human condition. then, you need regulation, not because people are stupid, but because we're human and it is easy to fall victim.

in these cases regulation helps to preserve the trust in the systems. otherwise, people just will not use them, or they will use them in ways that are not beneficial to the group.
There's no reason public education can't be religious, if that is desired by the population in a region. Both ethnic and religious public schools exist in many countries, to cater to minorities.

The problem is charity with the privatising of schooling as a condition. Not unlike charity with the purchase of a specific type of seed sold by a specific company as a condition.
Agreed that CI/CD should be explained, or at least hyperlinked. However, in their minor defense, they are following the example of GitHub Actions (https://github.com/features/actions) which also does not explain those terms. But at least GitHub Actions does explain it in the docs (https://docs.github.com/en/actions).

My problem is that I know what CI/CD is, I have used a handful of popular implementations of CI/CD (e.g GitHub Actions, BitBucket Pipelines). But after clicking through most of the pages on the Bob CD website, I don't understand what exactly Bob CD does or how to use it. Is it local (like Jenkins), or is it cloud based (like GitHub Actions)? How does it integrate with my local git repo, or my GitHub or GitLab account? How do I trigger the pipeline? How do I specify the actions of the pipeline?

It feels like Bob CD website makes sense only if you already know how to use Bob CD.

(edit: fix typo)
Which is why it makes sense for developers to license their code under licenses that guarantee user freedoms - so that they themselves can benefit.
Fun anecdote about the first: I was working through the course and dropped into an IRC chatroom to ask for help with one of the homework assignments. Someone gave me some helpful pointers that guided me to solving the question. Only realised later that it was Yorgey himself!
"They deserve their wealth because you keep buying and using their products."

Their products or the products of the people who work for them?
Centralisation isn't even a problem. Not getting any money is a problem though. Doesn't matter if the place where it's at is centralised or not.

The decentralised instances are experiencing all kinds of trouble.

I fucking love centralisation!
It's also denominator abuse. Most of the assets of the top X% are financial instruments whose nominal value drops sharply in a recession. Those who have liquidity rarely shed those assets. So their relative wealth looks much lower for awhile, but when everything recovers, very little has changed.

Meanwhile, they get the opportunity to buy cheap assets from those who did not have liquidity, which worsens both asset consolidation and wealth inequality.
Ask HN: How did the CFTC and SEC miss FTX and Alameda?
I remember all this stuff about Gary Gensler/ the SEC/ CFTC working hand in hand with SBF to craft "crypto regulations". SBF was going on and on about "embracing regulations" and "regulations are good for us" in interviews. Hell I was almost sold on investing in FTX because it seemed like they would be the juggernaut that plays ball with the US government. It was a big deal.

And now this clear, textbook fraud with FTX and Alameda. What are regulators good for? How could they play so nice with a 'villainous' firm? I dread to think of what those regulations would have been like. It seems like they're either unbelievably incompetent or complicit.

EDIT: My point here isn't about whether or not I think crypto should be regulated. My point is if crypto is going to be regulated, shouldn't regulators be able to sniff out a bad actor? Imagine if Madoff had started working with the SEC to help consult on policy. Wouldn't people have been upset with the SEC when he went bust since he was rubbing shoulders with them?
The LG Wing feels like the spiritual successor to the Sharp Aquos 912SH, where you flipped and then rotated the top half.
(mentioned elsewhere while I was trying to remember its name)
> since the exchanges aren't banks

These aren't anything though, they're made up by the founders. They don't behave like any typical financial institution. These things are just implementations of functionality, the fact that they are trusted with large amounts of money by random people on the internet is really good marketing and promises of riches.
Introducing Amazon Crontab (EventBridge Scheduler)
You're not incorrect but it doesn't feel very good to incentivize "bad actors" (tempted to say "assholes") with a carrot. Especially a carrot paid by the victims of the actor. Most people would probably rather see the stick being used
With the recent antics of Elon Musk & this announcement, it makes me reconsider my opinion of Jeff Bezos. I hope this isn't some PR & accounting trickery in the end.
> oil and gas fields in the US

Somewhat apples and pears comparison, Drax is burning wood pelets shipped from Canada to the UK (CO2 emissions). Oil/Gas Fields in the US emit Methane (CH4 emissions) which has 28x times more 'warming potential' than CO2 emissions.

But I agree that Oil/Gas methane leaks are a much bigger problem than what the media reports.
The $50 is because I dont want to have to get a cheap vps and maintain everything. I want to be able to load up a custom theme in some CMS and give her the login credentials.
OP here, thank you for this comment I've learned a lot
This author seems to not back up any of their claims. Like most technology you have to scale the services. If you want to look at complex examples look at how GitLab scales.
Like: "you don't gamble with other people's money that they didn't give you for that purpose"?
You're correct! The US government doesn't claim that their currency is backed by gold - they merely strongarm the rest of the world into using dollars to pay for oil.

This effectively pins the dollar to the value of a barrel of oil - without having any formal accountability of having to pay up.

Meanwhile they made corporations in charge of the money supply, which they use to erode the generational wealth of the middle classes.

If you're mad at what tether is doing, you ought to be mad at what the federal reserve is doing as well. That was my only point.

Edit: Upon rereading my original comment - I can see how someone could take it as just snark. But we gotta keep these snakes out of controlling the money supply.
Web Summit 2022: what you missed and how to be ready for next year
> Only if FTX and its founder found a way to create print money out of the thin air.

It looks like FTX volume was something like $7B/day in July [1].

FTX fee structure [2] was complex, but assuming they got at least 0.04% seems reasonable? In which case they were making ~$3M/day ($7B * 0.04%) or ~$1B/year in fees.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220725151202/https://www.coing...

[2] https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360024479432-Fees
So they are going to continue running development code in production then? /s
What does "FTX wrapped securities" even mean? Everything I've read says they invested in crypto-related stuff, not publicly traded stocks in unrelated industries.
The philosophy itself is solid. The implementation is another matter. The only reason to go monolithic is because of technical limitations or commercial and financial considerations IMO.
>But people do, why?

1. cash is bulky and risky to keep at home

2. inflation eats away at your savings

Bitcoin is designed to solve both issues.
That coin desk article is prescient!

How is coindesk funded? Rare to see a journalism entity that is so close to crypto be so critical without having to accept ads from the industry.
Finally understood inheritance concept (OOP) using the examples in the documentation of Delphi 7 (I miss .chm files).

"TObject is ancestor of all objects and components", it all made sense just with that.
That's a great quote. What's the source?

EDIT: Ah, looks like it's from wise Hacker News contributor gzer0:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32415093
Having sent $100k via traditional banks as well as crypto, I can add my anecdote that the latter was far easier. Some would argue that it shouldn't be that easy, and I agree to some extent.

Setting up our tax system to be transparent and auditable by any citizen would be the greatest benefit to a distributed ledger, but something tells me that the current institutions would heavily resist that transition, so you are correct that it has little current value.
Non-AMP link:

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/09/history-of-the-s...
Why not Zig though?
Around the Corner (1937), an explanation of differential steering in automobiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
I actually had the Nokia 7600 pictured at the top of the thread. It's often ridiculed, but I don't know anyone else who had one who can fairly pass judgement. It had genuinely good ergonomics - not disimilar to the fancy split keyboard philosophy. Each thumb had clear acces to specific buttons and the distance between them was maximised, easing strain on the wrists. In the era of T9, it was great. It was also hand friendly for phonecalls - remember them?

In response to sibling comment, comparing it to the iPhone is silly. The iPhone OS 1 was half a decade away when th 7600 was launched and started at $499. This was a cheap, fun phone using well trodden software on a budget. Nokia dominated the market and market segmentation is a natural strategy in that situation - especially before touchscreens allowed customisation/personalisation in software.
What's a pig butchering scam?
What happens with EU-based developers that work on OSS projects while on a company’s dime? I.e. said company doesn’t have any direct relation with that project, but wants to support it by paying some of its developers to put in the work. Or to developers that receive Patreon money based on their OSS projects? It can get pretty murky pretty fast.
Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciechanow.ski/

I especially loved the one on mechanical watches: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
I've been seeing a ton of Rivians around town recently so they are shipping cars. They just need to keep ramping up and hoping the higher interest rates are not causing too many cancellations. Their backlog is still 1yr+ though.
Or simply:

- CI can build your app and run tests on each commit or manually.

- CD can deploy your app (copy files to some host, pull newest docker image, do any additional steps necessary) on each commit or manually to dev/test/prod instances.

It enormously frees up your valuable brain cycles and you feel excited instead of "eh, there it goes again, how i'm not liking deployments..." whenever you want to deploy.

If you have `make build` && `make test` or similar script, that runs your tests, congrats, you have local almost-CI doing the hard work for you.

If you have `make deploy` or similar script that makes deployment easily, congrats, you have a local CD doing the hard work for you.

Except server software enables you to run builds/tests/deployments even when your computer is off or your colleague forgets to run make test.