skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With every crypto collapse there seems to be an associated failure by the media to do any real digging. The same thing happened with Theranos where, with a few exceptions, the media fawned over Elizabeth Holmes.

It's hard to tell if the media has gotten worse at their jobs or they've always been this bad and I'm just getting older. There are plenty of earlier scams and bubbles (Enron, dot-com bubble) that slipped under the radar until thing went to shit, so I suspect the latter.
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So, i know a guy, who does the same job as ido, but does make more cash. His Cashfactor is 1.0

Now, i make half that which is aka 0.5

On top of that inflation which is * 0.86

And on top of that a deferal of * 0.75

1.0 != 0.5 * 0.86 * 0.75

Explain to me, in easy words, while posting your own numbers, why i dont need a union.
If there’s a moral obligation to fully vet the industry and operations of a company before accepting a short contracting job from them, why would one’s bank balance matter?
Nothing is really "free" - somebody is always paying for it usually via some clever marketing budget allocation from the store - they probably realized that too many people are redeeming their rewards (usually 20% don't bother) and it is costing them actual money.
The Five Ideals of DevOps (2020)
Why do you believe that is the case? How is this hypothesis explained?
While I don't think the universe is deterministic, the existence of evolution isn't proof of this. It's possible that what we perceive as "randomness" is actually just the result of variables and things happening that we're not able to perceive.

Take rolling a dice: which number comes up is determined by the starting conditions, the force you throw it with, what it lands on and any external forces acting during the throw. It's not random at all, just hard to predict.
It's unfair to call the dev lazy on this ground. Even modern browsers are far better than the old days, there remain many discrepancies between browsers and they are still hard to come up with solutions that fit all platforms.

Making a static web page work on different browsers is much easier than making a web app work on all the browsers. For a web app, even 1% of the API doesn't work, the whole app is a failure. Can you accept an app only work 99% of the time?

I've no idea what makes it incompatible with Firefox, but without knowing the reason, it's an offence to call it laziness.
Hi, co-founder of Openblocks here.

Sorry about Firefox flagging issue, currently we are on a very tight schedule on developing new features, so we only do a thorough test on Chrome then. We welcome our community to give us feedback about browser compatibility issues and we'll fix this Firefox issue soon.
After using vim for a year, I got the book "practical vim". It made everything fall into place, whole different ballgame after that.
Crypto exchanges are more like a bank grafted onto a hedge fund that happens to also do some exchange stuff on the side.
Can I ask where it's so cheap? In Austria it's 2000/eye.

Granted, my eyes are the one place where I'm the least likely to penny pinch so I'm definitely not gonna choose a place based on cost alone.
How to Do Drugs for Healing and Spiritual Growth While Your Kids Are at School
He's obviously quite knowledgable on weird codec trivia, but he's always had a weird chip on his shoulder about Google codecs to the point that his commentary doesn't make any sense. VP8 replaced with VP9? Releasing new codecs every 5 years instead of the hardware consortium's historical preference for roughly 10. Oh the horror.

Also "properly standardised" in this case presumably means the one you have to pay money to even read the spec for, and have no system for defending against abusive patent suits.
> Lately, stand-up comedians have been saying they're out of a job, because the absurdity of reality is escaping parody. Nothing stays funny for long, because soon enough it's true, and then banal.

I've heard them say that as long as I've been alive. I'm sure 3000 years ago traveling bards were saying the same things. There is a lot of comedic value from the statement, so of course any good one will use it from time to time. That doesn't mean it is true.
True, but then you can build an action plan.

And, OP says

> I have more than a couple years worth of savings.

They are definitely not a step or two away from the worst case
In case anyone was curious, United States federal tax receipts were $463 billion in FY1979 and $3.33 trillion in FY2018, a growth of a factor of ~7.2 = ~5.2%/year. The population has grown by a factor of ~1.44 = ~0.95%/year and the effect of inflation has been a factor of ~3.63 = ~3.36%/year, which multiply together to a factor of ~5.2 = ~4.33%/year. The receipts grew faster by a factor of ~1.38 = 0.82%/year.

This calculation does not consider the growth of expenditures specifically (as opposed to receipts) and similarly does not consider the growth of GDP (as opposed to inflation).
Why buy crypto at all? Irrational behavior.
It's free for early adopters. We don't have pricing plan yet.
> No node_modules folder by default (use --node-modules-dir for backwards compatibility). Modules are cached once in a special global directory.

This is definitely interesting. It will be nice not having to deal with that massive directory in each project.
Is there something you would judge people for? If yes, what is the difference between that and this?
In the USA the voters are sovereign, which means they get 100% of the credit and the blame for the results of elections. That's Rule 0 of democracy.

I don't know if you're a millennial, but you seem to have reinforced my point that they continue not to understand their own responsibility for the outcomes of their lives and fortunes.
How can it be a reserve to hold your own or other "coins" ???.
This sector really needs proper regulatory framework like banks.
Have you tried Budibase? For reference, I am the cofounder of Budibase and we're planning 2023 so I am super-eager for feedback.

https://github.com/Budibase/budibase
L-Tyrosine: A Cheap, Safe, Energy Boosting Amino Acid
Brent Yorgey's Introduction to Haskell: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis1940/spring13/

Rudin's "Principles of Mathematical Analysis" is a brilliantly lucid introduction to the topic that takes a completely unconventional approach.
I've ordered a couple from here and they're decent! Make sure you get the slightly better lenses, the cheapest ones are very reflective which is annoying.
My understanding is in the blade runner universe the off world colonies aren't somewhere you'd want to live & the replicants are banned on earth. In other words, two things to be avoided.

So we could easily advance past those points without touching them entirely.
> That isn't an argument for or against crypto. Crypto is a virtual object and that is desirable, makes it easier to get past a border.

Crypto is like a family game of monopoly that gets a little out of control. There is this long-running game, and the family are really invested in trying to 'win'. So much so that they were willing to pay with real money to buy monopoly money from one another just to keep playing. As the game progressed, the banker gave out more money as people passed go, but the agreed amount for the monopoly money remained the same.

Neighbours watching the game see the family playing the game and ask to buy some monopoly money seeing it will be more valuable in just a few throws of the dice. This increased demand for a limited supply of monopoly money, which saw the people already holding monopoly money profit more. This further attracted people to the game. Soon the whole neighbourhood is trading in monopoly money, and everyone who does sees a profit.

Off the back of this successful and profitable game of monopoly, others tried to replicate it in a nearby community. Services started popping up where people offered to hold the monopoly money for people, and would allow it to be exchanged for other monopoly monies. Secretly though, the monopoly exchanges were busy trading those people's monopoly money so that they too could invest it further in the game. They justified it to themselves, promising they would return it as soon as they made it back.

Some of these exchange services played way too dangerously, and lost all of their monopoly money. This startled players of the game, and they decided to withdraw their monopoly money investment for real money they trusted before playing the game. This in turn triggered those exchanges that also gambled monopoly money to have to admit that it was no longer there.

Now to current day. More and more people get startled by losses and start pulling out to recover what they can, as promises of returning to the glory days of high value monopoly money never materialize. Most of the exchanges have their liquidity in other monopoly money exchanges, and as these 'assets' diminish, so do their own. Some hold real world liquid assets, but the people running the exchanges quickly pull this out for themselves.

It's the future, and anybody left holding monopoly money once again has a token money for a game people stopped playing a long time ago. They hold onto it because they either couldn't get out before it all imploded, or they delude themselves into thinking everybody will come back to the table and start playing again.

The monopoly game is over, and the family no longer talk to each other. Some of the family are now mega rich, but this was at the cost of the majority of players that joined the game, mostly those with smaller amounts invested and those who turned up late.

> And they'd be able to afford a lot more of it if the investors would go away.

They wouldn't. Gold is super valuable because it has tonnes of special properties, and there isn't much of it.
Startups are following Elon Musk and cutting down on remote-only jobs
There’s been a 35% drop in the number of European startups advertising fully remote roles in the last 12 months — but why?
Logseq is what I use for that reason. https://logseq.com/
So if I've got this right, these journalists took "charitable grants" of money to toot their horns for the giver, who's ostensibly charitable acts amounted to giving money to journalists to say how charitable they were?

I guess none of them stopped to think "if you guys are so charitable, then why are you giving this money to journalists like me, rather than to charitable causes?"
It's all scams and frauds and you are upset... because you weren't in on it?
Writing my firs synthesizer made calculus click. I passed my 3rd year taking it after that.
I’ve gotten the same advice multiple times (short sighted, ~ -5 each), but I’ve resisted for a simple (stupid?) reason: I can take a very brief break from anything and everything simply by taking my glasses off. Bonus points, reality becomes acutely Impressionistic.
> It's a risk you take by leaving your continent and flying to another one without any permanent residence permit.

This is a catch 22 - a permanent residence permit is only obtained by living in the country.

> It's really shit, but that's how it is. It's always been the case

You entire argument seems to boil down to 'its okay for our companies to exploit foreigners because it's always been this way'.

You don't actually provide any information or reasoning for why this is right and proper, or even nessesary.
Putting money aside and living well below your means. Also, a year is a long time.. It's basically impossible to be unemployed for an entire year if you know how to turn on a computer.

Your real worry should be that there is no safe place to store value for regular people.. Real estate is not liquid enough.. Fiat devaluates quickly.. Maybe gold is a reasonable store, but it is still somewhat annoying and what guarantee do you REALLY have there anyway?
https://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain.html

When this came out, it made all the difference in understanding things.
I agree, even if he gets the same benefits, he is still left in very bad place.
Most of the exchanges are considered international and dance around laws and regulations. Some have versions of their site that are supposed to be dedicated to certain countries laws, but as we have seen lately that seems to be a lot of lies for a some of these exchanges as well. They make money on customer trades, but when the market is down, trade volume craters. If they were responsible with funds they would know this is coming and have planned accordingly, but most of these exchanges operate like its a perma-bull market. On top of all of that, they are leveraging heavily into other financial devices using customer funds on their books. Its a recipe for disaster.
Finally a valid use case to request someone open them
"Basic human decency" might be the only gate worth keeping. Without that, harassers and trolls have more effective freedom of speech than their targets, and I for one find that unacceptable. See also: paradox of tolerance.
It sounds like it "ment" you literally owned your wife and if she didn't enjoy being with you, you were justified in taking your rage out on others... So, kinda glad people can just get divorced now instead of having random psychopaths propelling around the country murdering with impunity
Chrome is better than Firefox. By a lot.
It's the same way every package manager has done this since the beginning of time.
A new website backed by Al Gore tracks big polluters by name
> This is just a fact of modern life in a society that's polarized along a division of wealth inequality.

This kind of thinking induces a highly toxic form of fatalism, and is not helping. The reality is that a tech worker in a western country (with a health insurance) is probably more secure than 95% of people through history.

Fatalism, though, often leads to people neglecting to do those things they actually can do to reduce risk, including:

1) Limit consumption to a level you would be able to live on for years, should your income go down.

2) Limit borrowing similarly. Don't borrow so much that you'd have to sell your assets at a loss if you're fired during the next depression.

3) Take care of your own mind and body. Exercise both, and continue to learn new skills continously.

4) Be careful when chosing a partner. Look for someone who is wise, dependable and a bit thrifty over someone who's exciting, overconfident or is wasting money and resources.

5) Once married, make sure you do what you can to keep the relationship healthy. Treat your partner with respect, and ask for respect back. It's a lot easier to face life as a team.

6) Also, take care of your extended family, friends and local community. Be there for them when they need it. Within limits, don't let them take advantage of you.

7) Treat your coworkers with the respect they deserve, or even a bit more. Build a reputation as someone who makes a difference both for company and the coworkers.

8) Be mindful about how to invest your financial assets. Spread the risk between asset classes. 25% each of stocks, bonds, real estate and cash/deposits is a very stable mix. But 30/30/30/10 or 50/20/20/10 are also pretty good.

9) Don't expect your saving to make you rich quickly. Consider it a store of value, not a lottery ticket.

10) Adopt a mentality of stoicism. Be content with the fact that you're already doing the things that makes the world safe and healthy for you and your family. Dont let those things you cannot change freak you out, nothing good comes from that.

Over time, your capital will grow, including your, skills, relationships and savings. This will take you from the 95% most secure in human history to the within the 99% most secure.

Now, if you LIKE risk and excitement, you can of course break any or all of the above. You will still probably come out ok. But that's for another personality type than the OP, I think.
It's impossible for crypto to have real-world utility because transaction costs are too high.
But why settle for 1% of trades when you can have 100% of assets?
The kind of person that risks billions of depositor funds to get obscenely rich might be the same kind that walks back their pledge to do good after getting obscenely rich.
Crypto very much follows the stock market. Interest rates are inversely correlated to stock market performance. After 2008 the stock market went into the longest bull run in history which has now reversed this year. Stock market is down and crypto is collapsing because it is the wild west. There are for sure going to be multiple exchange collapses not just FTX.
Is this your field or you just became a bit of an expert through frustration?
Higher interest rates mean that investors can earn money by buying bonds, which are lower risk. Riskier investments (stocks, real estate, cryptocurrencies) are less attractive to investors as a result, unless they can provide even more return to compensate for the risk, which is unlikely.
>I got lucky in that my response to TRT puts my testosterone up around 1,100ng/dL

Your "response" to TRT puts you at 1,100 ng/dL because you choose to inject enough testosterone to get it that high. TRT aims to restore men with under 300 ng/dL to a "normal" range of 500-600 ng/dL, and the dosage is adjusted accordingly to hit that target. If you're not adjusting the dosage and you're hitting 1,100ng/dL, it's not luck, it's because you want it at that level.
People often notice that moving to the cloud doesn't reduce your infra headcount and I think that's because after you move to the cloud, you can to take advantage of the tools available at a higher level of abstraction so they can become a high-uptime high-throughput saas essentially. Before you move to the cloud you have a bunch of infra engineers upgrading software and replacing hardware. After you move to the cloud. Well you're often still upgrading software, but you're finally free to do all the things you wish you could have done as an infrastructure engineer.

Test your backups. Improve High availability, tune your load balancer settings. Improve logging and metrics. Chaos engineering.
Maybe instead of blaming journalists for not exposing FTC we should wonder why multiple hedge funds invested millions into the venture without seeming to have caught on either.
That our minds skip many things is decently well known. The entire field of magic and marketing is basically doing that to people. People wildly make assumptions all the time, and do not necessarily see it all. If you can get someone to assume something or get to a base emotion it is easier to show someone something that is wrong and they will believe it.
I recommend going off and not going in on crypto, everywhere, anytime. It's what I told peers asking me about this crypto thing for years.
In practice for most projects being inaccessible for a couple hours is not the end of the world. And you loose less money than falling in the DevOps SRE hole where you pay for everything 5 times plus the people that take care of it all of that for it to go down anyway because of a long tail event.
Hungry Brain - Guyenet - You're not bad at 'losing weight', your body is exceptionally good at holding onto energy reserves. Managing hunger is at least as important as managing diet.

Burn - Pontzer - Similar to above, with more historical evidence

Haidt - Righteous Mind - What is wrong with the people on the "other side" - it's not about sides, it's about human nature. This is a difficult topic, don't expect easy or quick answers.

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Not a book, just a few thoughts from my own life about burnout, anxiety and depression:

Negative emotions are Ok, they are a part of life, they are not bad by themselves. When your negative emotions pick up friends - when you get angry at yourself for being upset; when you have a negative emotion about a negative emotion, and it becomes a cyclical, persistent or recurring feeling, consider getting professional help.

I got a lot of joy out of just trying things and seeing what happened. If it succeeded or failed, I learned something. Somewhere along the way, I lost the joy of discovery. If you have lost the joy of discovery, consider changing something about your situation, and possibly getting professional help.

A lot of the things we say about mentality are descriptions of the human experience, not mechanical or causal elements in the mind. Procrastination is not a cause for delaying tasks, it is just a description of delaying tasks - it is not one thing, the same way plastic or cancer is not one thing. There are many elements and many causes, and you have to address those things, and not the procrastination.

Willpower is similar - people talk about willpower like it is a substance that is used up to motivate decisions. That is a human experience, but any particular decision has it's own motivations. If you have consistent issues with a type of decision, look into your motivations and deeply held beliefs, look into the elements of that motivation; defer judgement about yourself during this process.

These things about mentality can't be conveyed with words, your mind has to come to them on it's own, but hopefully reading this will make the ideas more available to you.
Three months ago, FTX was offering 8% interest APY. FTX knew they were in trouble, and needed new deposits to stay afloat. This makes it a ponzi.
Electric vehicle makers burning cash, slammed by sky-high costs
+1 to the background trick. Faces were pretty convincing, but the generated backgrounds all seemed to have a generic filler appearance.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, I think this is a fair question to ask.

Crypto was founded on the notion that central banks were inherently corrupt and that we needed to establish an alternate financial system free from the power of banks. Well, here we are and look at how it's going. Fraud is everywhere and huge institutions are collapsing. This wasn't supposed to happen, but it does because it turns out that people with incredible amounts of money and power, whether backed by a government or not, are not very good at keeping the system in stasis.
I second this recommendation for lunettes pour tous!
The Rise of the Police-Advertiser
That's an interesting related problem - their costs are real dollars/Euro/Peso etc, but their revenue is in crypto. Eg they have to pay rent, salaries, AWS bill but their revenue is in ETH or BTC or SOL which is a fraction of what it used to be. Banks dont have that problem - their costs are denominated in same currency as their revenues.
Well except for NPM :D
Worth noting: killing the piglets by smashing their bodies against the floor or metal bars is considered humane in most of the world (including Canada, USA, Uk, etc). Similar to grinding live chicks, it’s a crude and sickening indicator of how deep animal abuse runs in agriculture.
We rarely see real faces any more in photographs or videos. On YouTube Biden looks like 60 and without wrinkles, everyone uses tons of filters.

Perhaps that is the reason people are doing badly in these tests.
yeah, why is firefox lagging behind? well you are stupid to use firefox, i only use muh brave, it blocks ads by default and gives you crypto in return to show their ads.

/s if you didn realize
“The media” is mostly just a bunch of 20-40 year olds with liberal arts bachelors degrees, trying to make ends meet and feed their families.

Serious investigative reporters with the smarts and experience to dive deep were always the exception, maybe a handful in the world at any given time.

So IMO, “they’ve always been this bad” is the answer, but it’s not entirely fair. Kind of like saying the cooks at McDonald’s have always been this bad; in fact it has never been their job to do world-class work.
The risk with this is everytime your earnings go up, your expenditure follows suit. If your motivation to earn more is because you spend too much - that underlying reason isn't going away once you get that big pay rise unless you really look at how and what on you are spending your income on.

One of the most relavatory phrases that really got me thinking (and changing) is "live under your means".
Yeah but they can get in real trouble if they market gapped over and went straight to 0 or illiquid