skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think SBF really cares about UBI. That’s pretty clear via his actions.

The problem with trying to put EA alongside post communist thinking is that actually identifying socialists and communists have huge issues with EA and can’t see how EA is the same as their ideology.

Being a capitalist is one of the biggest issues. Completely supporting the current structure of society and being able to selfishly take advantage of it by making the most money possible [and donating some of it] is not close to communist ideals. It’s better than being someone who is just selfish, but EA still allows one to selfishly take advantage of capitalism and privilege without issue. In the name of supposed altruism. Just the name is troublesome. Seeing oneself as so good.

Then going as far as celebrating this selfish behavior and making that a core part of the ideology. As well as fawning over overly rich classist and uber wealthy millionaires and billionaires who donate to one of the two major party presidents is not post-communist ideology.

To give some credit to EA, actual socialists and communists are be able to view EA people as allies at times. Not more than that though.
Finagle: A Protocol-Agnostic RPC System (2011)
This is just a long winded sarcastic restatement of what parent said.
https://getcryst.al/site is a little light on details -- is there something that talks about the philosophy of crystal Linux, or whatever makes it special / unique? If you're happy with your DE on Arch, is there any reason to consider switching rather than just installing amethyst? (EDIT: forgot to mention I'm already on BTRFS root with snapper for auto snapshots.)
A new poison? Crypto is the latest promise of fast, easy money. There will be new ones.
Conveniently, I currently have exactly the same frames, so I’ll be able to compare.
Wait, wasn't the NYT supposed to take a very critical look at everything in "tech", as a matter of editorial policy? Why were they giving such a glowing (no pun intended!) endorsement of crypto, of all things? Something doesn't add up here.
Looks neat! Bringing work in to the tools people naturally collaborate in seems like a huge win.
Except those are the same companies bringing in all the buyers of crypto that prop up the price. Without scammers, the price drops like a rock.
A short seller who does that faces jail however. Compare that to journalists who have no such downside to sensationalism or "errors" in their facts.
> billionaires with market manipulation power, like the Winklevoss twins

The Winkelvoss’s net worth [1] is less than half of FTX’s shortfall alone [2]. These folks didn’t get rich by giving their money away.

[1] https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/tyler-...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/sam-bankm...
I'm not sure it's accurate to characterize everything going into crypto "disposable income". The Celsius Network collapse yielded some pretty devastating appeals[0] to the bankruptcy court for the return of people's life savings.

[0] https://blog.mollywhite.net/celsius-letters/
I'm from the UK, where people on public transport go to great lengths to avoid ever making eye contact or talking with strangers.

I remember my first Greyhound bus experience about 10 years ago, travelling from NYC to Boston. I'd just moved to the US and had hardly any friends. I remember sitting next to someone on the bus - he looked over and realised that we were both scrolling HN on our phones! We struck up conversation and, long story short, he ended up inviting me to a meetup group at MIT from which I've made a few lifelong friends.

There's a lot that's weird about the US but I really do miss the cultural openness to forming new human connections that's much more prevalent there. I wonder how many interesting conversations and experiences I'm missing out on by staying silent and putting headphones every time I take public transport here...
7-10 days for a so called "system upgrade" lol
It opens itself up to interesting interpretations ;). god(s) aka the simulation developer(s) playing with outcomes of quantum events in order to manipulate your/my behavior, punish the bad, reward the good, make the bushes burn etc.

Since quantum events can have macroscopic outcomes, this should be possible? :)
Thanks for your kind words. I'm glad you like it.
> Given the level of secrecy and reality of a nearly 90k person company - it's highly doubtful that the people involved in the hiring process had any idea of the impending layoffs.

This is a reality of the world that many commentators on HN seems to miss on these layoff threads. The circle of knowledge on layoffs starts small, and stays small, and only expands slightly maybe a day or two before the event as you bring into the fold key personnel that might be needed to support the event.
Incorrect. There was less violence overall in the wild west. Modern America has insane violence at much larger scales (inner city gang violence in Chicago, millions of civilians killed over the past 2 decades via Iraq, Drone programs, etc).

The wild west was only wild because Hollywood needed a narrative.
More likely it's a question of resource. I expect there's more crimes than people available to prosecute.
Market makers aren't in the business of keeping prices up.

Market participants that do this aren't market makers anymore.
Disgusting stance.

From climate catastrophe to treating other empathetic beings, as soon as there is beleive of any impact to our current luxuries (even if not even proven): Economy over all!

Humanity IS doomed. And deserved..
I completely agree with this perspective. Basically, they are procrastinating on their action to success. Just by thinking that they have a good plan, or once I have X -> I will do Y. But in the act of planning, they fail to act on the plan and live in their fantasy of I am good, but just don't have the right resources or the right time.

As much as planning is important to success, I also think, action is equally or more important. If one acts, one may fail, but they would also be closer to understanding why did they fail, and they can course correct. And if one repeats this enough time, I believe, long enough, one will eventually succeed.

I feel the 2 main things that paralyze or keep the people in fantasy world is
1. Fear of failure
2. Not knowing what they really want.

They want something, but they don't want it enough (or) the expectations of the society overpowers their own motivations / desires.
Maybe we need more calling people out.

No prominent political pundit is going to see one bit of long-term skepticism after the "Red Wave" stuff of the last couple of weeks. They'll just happily keep going on all the news programs to offer their "expert opinion".
To feel secure in these times you need to know how your company makes revenue, and specifically how you fit in to that picture. If you can't answer that question, then you are at risk. Once you know how you fit into the picture, you can gauge how your company will be impacted by what's going on in the world.

A lot of tech companies out there don't have a real business plan and it's going to be hell for them.
Unnecessary reference to Nazism. I agree with your general idea, but being intolerant and unempathetic isn't something only some people in the 30s started to do.

Below average empathy is pervasive and a pretty common human characteristic, like being tall or having curly hair.
Reminds me of the American phrase "What exactly were you expecting?!"
> This place has become a joke nowadays.

I wouldn't go that far. The signal to noise ratio is worse than it used to be, but there's still nothing else like HN and there are still a lot of interesting technical conversations to observe or to be had. I continue to learn more here than anywhere else. I'll cope with putting in a bit more effort mentally filtering out the unproductive conversations.
So what I see is I have a DB which is scattered, huge and slow.

And beyond anyone's control. If anyone does gain control over a majority of nodes, then it is no longer "decentralized" as it's integrity depends on the controller --- just like any other db. Back to square one.

The central, crucial problem of blockchain is how to incentivize others to operate a node since it is not cost free to do so. The primary solution being employed currently is to "mint" crypto in order to reward the operators.

Is anyone aware of a truly "decentralized" blockchain that doesn't involve crypto?
TL;DR from https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v1.7.0

>I'd like to inform users that I'm seriously considering changing the mold's license from AGPL to a source-available license unless I secure big funding. The new license would be something like individuals can use it for free but corporate users have to pay. mold started as my personal project, and I've been working on this full time for two years so far. I thought that I could earn a comfortable income if mold become popular, but unfortunately, I'm still losing my money. I think I need to take an action to make the project sustainable long term.
Someone with a couple years worth of savings probably isn't Dave Ramsey's target audience.
I also got 10/10, but by looking at ears and facial hair. There's a long way to go for a test like this. That said, if I didn't know I was looking for artifacts, all of those pictures would be passable at a glance.
Tether has similarly been caught in the past using the funds behind their supposedly "fully backed" tokens for highly speculative investment. So far it's just such a big scam that no one has been able to create a large enough run to topple it... so far.
Google’s resistance to 3rd party Play Store payments eases further with US tests
Seems nice but I would be afraid of basing my business on another product. If successful, there is nothing to say that Slack wouldn't simply copy the functionality and launching their own feature.

Happens all the time with these popular services within other popular services.
Aspirational desires, like wishing you liked a band your cool friend did so that you could have that in common are real, but the object of desire (what is wanted) is not the band, it's the affection of the friend. You could say, "I wish all these things I had made me happier," but they haven't, and therefore do not.

However, is this just not the logical artifact of the phrase "want to," relating to its subject as a negative counterfactual? To desire to want something is like trying to be funny, where if you are, you aren't - hence to want-to-want, or wish you wanted, means you don't actually want it. Maybe the solution is for each thing I want, to say out loud, I do not want it, and hear which statements give you the most peace?
And it's the same argument as Santa Claus in the movie The Elf. So long as enough people stand in Central Park singing the same song, all is well, just be sure to leave before the party is over, the Clausometer goes to 0, and the police horses trample you.
The problem is quantum effects are random. Even if they impact our behavior, RNG is not what most people think of when they say "free will".

In my opinion, any coherent definition of "free will" implies a supernatural force - since it must be non-random yet not bound by deterministic chemical and physical processes. At this point it becomes a matter of faith/religion whether we have free will or not.
There will never be any firings, government jobs in India are very different to those of the US. Best case, someone sues the government in supreme court, and they lay out some guidelines/bounds for the concerned department/ministry against doing such things in the future.

Even then, the government could pull such things off again easily in the name of national security. Just look at how we blocked Chinese apps in the wake of Galwan valley clashes of 2020.
I don't think the 1000 bounty would be feasible nor help much. Still need to verify, etc. And most people capable of doing it are already doing it for free.
interesting, sounds promising, i guess the reason why we do the current way is just simplicity or just local optimum kind of situation?
I get where this comes from, and there's truth in it. But if you want to speak with people and connect with them (especially on longer journeys rather than a seven minute Tube journey) do try it. I regularly speak to people on train journeys, especially if I'm travelling alone, and have had great fun conversations and learnt about the person. If you're generally okay at picking up cues you'll be able to tell when people don't want to talk or when they're done talking for now. I live and was born in the UK. I suppose my point is don't let a sense people don't do it here hold you back: lots of people have said they've had real fun talking on an otherwise dull journey.

It's given me some great journeys and little windows into lives I haven't lived.
Haha lol XD
I was looking for options that are more towards individuals and not MNCs :p
Mocking disabled people is bad. Bragging about sexual assault is horrific.

But let's talk about the stuff politicians do that is truly wrong and evil, like waging wars that kill people?

Let's talk about the War on Terror and how many people died. Remember that the media and government sold the American people a bunch of lies to sell these wars.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/ir... 100,000+ civilian deaths

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/af... 70,000+ civilian deaths

Thanks for mentioning regime change, which coups do you blame on Donald Trump from this list? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
As someone who has done this, both for version upgrades and for substantial refractors of the codebase, I have to prefer monoliths. Atomic commits are cheaper than adding and releasing version support across a system that doesn't have it.
> If I start typing newSeq, give me the option to auto import from std, etc.

Good idea! I've made a proof-of-concept Neovim plugin: https://sr.ht/~xigoi/nvim-summon/

It wasn't difficult, so if you use a different editor, you can make one too (feel free to reuse my documentation scraper).
Better versions considering the illusion of free will:

https://www.radiolab.org/episodes/revising-fault-line

https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-illusion-of-free-will

It could be there are others..
Good about 10 misses in a row, never once had the correct one (and I was trying)...
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past – Is Link Wearing Pajamas?
That's great, I'll definitely check it out asap.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33584651
Eh, this article touches on something important but 1. the material aspect of determinism is the most boring one, if everything is materially determined then so is our feeling of freedom therefore it doesn't really change anything. Strawson has a nice article about this called "Freedom and resentment" which shows that the thesis of determinism doesn't really change anything about our ethics. 2. the programming lingo seems to me to make the issue more obscure rather than clear but the problem he is mentioning is discussed under the name "second-order desires" and is quite important since it leads to much more interesting problem of determinism - the psychological determinism. Usually we believe we have certain freedom in choosing our beliefs through weighing and choosing our interpretations of what is happening. The issue of psychological determinism is threefold. First proposition is that our beliefs change due to some causes, they don't simply pop into our head. Second proposition is that our given beliefs will dictate what interpretations will make sense to us. Therefore every cause will make us believe what our current beliefs allow. Third proposition is that our actions are driven by combination of beliefs and desires. So ultimately we can't chose our actions since we can't choose our beliefs and the hope for "freedom" is lost. What is left is the will which is not free but driven by beliefs and desires that are outside "our" control.

Now I don't know if I believe in this formulation of the problem but among all formulations of determinism throughout history this one is in my opinion the only one worth arguing about. I learned about it by reading two texts by Bernard Williams and I would say that he should be named the author of this formulation even though he never used such name. The first text is his book "Ethics and the limits of philosophy" and the second is the essay "How free does the will need to be?". If someone is interested in this issue then I would recommend following the citation trail of the essay.
> Binance found the truth, not the NYT or Twitter

Coindesk found the truth [1]. Binance reacted to it [2] in a way that made people notice.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/02/divisions-in-sa...

[2] https://mobile.twitter.com/cz_binance/status/158928342170429...
The Importance of Naive Solutions
I would give a pass to any celebrity that was paid to be in advertisements. They are paid to make an appearance and say lines convincingly.

We don't have written accounts of the tulip craze but I would imagine there were a lot of nefarious activities underway then. This is more global and the movement of money is transparent but anonymous in some ways. I think a hard part for a criminal enterprise like a drug cartel is the cash to crypto laundering that needs to happen in the amounts that it needs to. My guess is it was easier for shady banks and other crypto products to do shady things since its all just bits and bytes.
I found the professional headshots hardest to tell since real ones purposely bokeh blur the background which gives the glowy edges around the hair
God I love seeing crypto chuds lose "money"
A variant of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_disease probably.
Consider it such: there is a company that wants bitcoin to stay above 15k. Every time the order books show a significant decline below 15k, that company issues new tokens that are treated as dollars by exchanges in order to buy bitcoin.

This stays very much viable. Right up to the point that it isn't. Then, people will wonder what is backing those tokens, and if they want to risk the event that they aren't worth their advertised value. Then, a liquidation crunch happens and the company collapses in onto itself.
Banks get most of their capital from equity, which is an infinite-term.

Short term loans have higher interest rate, usually, but have transaction fees.
I'd be stunned if there aren't well-funded groups working on this as we speak.
Meanwhile, the UK government provides countless services to its 68M citizens and has claims to their future taxes.

What's your point?
I guess you don’t have any junior engineers?
Literally anyone can approach a state High Court and obtain a blocking order on any pretext.

They block first and ask questions later.

This has been a problem for years.
Sounds to me like "We're running out of cash, so we want to prioritize our friends withdrawals and delay everyone else".

Next week, we'll announce insolvency, and all those withdrawals in the queue that haven't been processed never will be.
I've had a store credit card (via Comenity Bank) having "system maintenance issues" since early June, refusing to pay out the money owed per their rewards scheme. No one at either the store's corporate office can tell you anything nor will the backing bank say anything other than "We value you as a customer and appreciate your patience."

It's a common industry tactic, sadly, to scapegoat IT operations for internal failures.
So they're next?
Which part do you see hinting at it? To me it looked like a regular "we hack things".
> journalists who have no such downside to sensationalism or "errors" in their facts

There are multiple libel and defamation cases in play in almost every competent jurisdiction at any given time.
In case you're not being facetious, Sam was the single second largest donor to the Democratic Party.
>all the exchanges I have used have ended up dead,

The fact that MtGox was run by a bozo was obvious from the day Karpeles gave his first interview.

Hinsight is 20/20, but the very same could be said from the FTX crew.

See this for what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTFhnpf-IE0

I've been using Bitstamp since 2013 ... they're still here and ticking along nicely.

They were hacked once in their entire history and they swallowed the loss and customers were made whole.

Also: in spite of me liking Bitstamp, I've never left any amounts on there, be it cash or crypto for more than a couple of days.

What is the point of owning crypto if you're going to leave it on an exchange?

By doing that, you're basically eliminating the one key characteristic of the medium that no other financial instrument has, save perhaps gold buried in a hole in the forest.

Repeat after me: Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins.
Ask HN: Are you boycotting Qatar World Cup?
It's more about what happens once there is an issue. I agree if something works and remains unchanged it will probably stay reliable, the issue is once you introduce a change, even nowadays you can possibly break something that isn't easy to undo (or troubleshoot without taking services down).

For low traffic stuff, might seem OK, but no redundancy for a service that users pay for seems irresponsible, however Gitea might just be for them to track internal stuff, so maybe a little less so.
But multi-year CD ladders are common, which can provide a runway for adjusting risk.
"The FileSystem API looked promising, and then google killed it."

How do you mean? They're doing blog posts about web access to the filesystem just this month.
believe this at your own peril.
Domino effect perhaps
Forgive my ignorance but it seems that one major problem with crypto-exchanges is that they don't necessarily have any assets other than the crypto that has been deposited there, which means all overheads (which I am assuming for some of these guys is $Ms/year) can only come from trading crypto unless they are charging reasonable money for the privilege of using their exchanges.

In the FIAT world, banks make tonnes of money from things like loans and mortgages so they can handle some risk by holding onto cash.

If this is true, how does it get fixed? Is there any reason someone would take out a loan in crypto and pay interest on the repayments?
The warning bells should be going off in the entire crypto sector right now. If you have money in crypto, I'd strongly recommend going off-exchange
In the current climate, I'm left wondering who still has their crypto on exchanges. Which maybe thats the problem - people withdrawing funds causing even more bank runs.
Even without quantum effects, determinism doesn't enable us to do much with it, except statistical ensemble predictions. We can never know the initial state of a system to infinite precision, as is needed to predict its trajectory. [0]

[0] Light-ish reading on nonlinear dynamics: James Gleick - Chaos: Making a New Science
You should really have Typescript definitions and ESM exports if you're creating a modern nodejs package
That's not a cause of inflation. The lack of workers is the main cause, which won't change because of one farm closing.
>There is honestly no price I could buy it at where I would be willing to hold.

Really no price? Even given the opportunity to buy at $10, you still wouldn't hold?
"Crypto" is useless. Bitcoin isn't. Maximalists have been warning against this stuff happening for nearly a year now. Ever since Luna collapsed, those voices grew louder, but the yield-farming degenerates chose not to listen.
Having empathy doesn't mean loving everybody. That's a common misconception.