skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is a 10€ donation profit? Is a recurring 900€ donation profit? I already have to pay taxes on these donations.

Donors get “perks” for the donations, so the receiver is essentially selling these perks and services.

At what point am I responsible for every single module I’ve ever produced because I received X000€ in donations this year?
If I steal your life-saving medication resulting in your death, do I deserve jailtime?
The thing is that the people that are most active in crypto and typically have the largest stacks are traders. They grow their stack by shorting/longing, leverage, staking and DeFi, all of which require an exchange.
This still directly contradicts the original claim, though. This graphic shows aggregate tax burden was at its highest ever in the late 90s and is currently on a slight downward trend. "About as high" isn't great if you hate taxes, but it isn't what was being disputed.
No, that was the whole point of Bitcoin. Crypto > Bitcoin.
I was gonna say. This is very much discourse. It's someone's musings. What's so cringy about this? It never claims to be scientific; it never attempts to persuade or even really argue.

100% your twitter reference.
Does that include the shipping? Maritime shipping causes about 3% of global greenhouse emissions, IIRC.
> How often do you actually hear a ringtone begging for immediate attention?

More than I would like. Apparently there is a problem with my SSN and my warranty is about to expire.
That makes a ton of sense. We currently have a freemium with 1 free channel, but could be good to increase that limit so you can get it into your workflow early on
I haven't tried "Lunettes pour tous" yet but I usually go to "Générale d'Optique" [1] where the basic glasses cost 25€.

Your advice has less shops in France but it seems very interesting and I'll definitely buy from them in the future if I have to. Générale d'Optique has a very restricted choice of frames which is why your link seems better.

[1]: https://www.generale-optique.com/
I've been playing on and off for 3 decades. Finally started winning when I used the iPhone and Android versions.
Something about the UIs makes me better than that PC interface.
Ask HN: How to manage studies when you have a lot of interests?
I have a lot of interests. And this goes byeond tech. Math, science, history, etc... A bunch of things that I would love to grab a book, or take a course on just for the hell of it. And all of this interes sort of create a cripling anxiety that doesn't bother a lot, but its there.

I know that I could find a way to balance and prioratize them in a way that makes me confortable which is a valid idea. Heck i even considered re-reading "Refuse to Choose" or getting into "The Education of the will" and it sort of developed into another interest :D

But this lefts me wondering, how do you guys manage having many interests?
> devote the bulk of his wealth to fighting climate change

Fine, or at least OK, but that seems to me the kind of thing that $100,000,000,000.00 isn't enough to move the needle on.

He'll probably have better luck by continuing to build vanity clocks and buy newspapers and sports teams.
> Hard disagree with this.

From me as well.

> You can use any email provider and interact with any other email provider effortlessly. This is undeniably an improvement over internal direct messages within a centralized service

But the general public went for siloed systems instead.

So I’d say you or me want decentralization, but I don’t think that holds true in general.
According to the FAQ you can use it to report spam as well:

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/#/faq
Chemist here. TIL McQuarrie wrote a mathphys book and engineers read it. His books on Physical chem are exceptional.
> Are Haskell lists actually implemented as linked lists?

Yes, the type "[]" from the Prelude is a linked list.

> I would have thought they were compiled as "array lists" like Python (arrays of pointers, but with extra space pre-allocated to make extending cheap)

No, and that doesn't quite work for immutable types, since there's nothing you can do with the "extra space pre-allocated". You can't mutate it! Nonetheless, rope-like structures will work fine, and there are surely plenty of them floating around.
Well maybe we should find a new term, because atleast in the US, bank runs on actual banks aren't possible anymore due to the fed mandated reserve requirement being 0% and banks being able to print new $

These events are the closest we can get to bank runs today
Anything aside from BTC and ETH is worthless. It'll be interesting to see what happens to their prices. I suppose it will depend a lot on interest rates.
No one, and (though I'm not sure this is true in the UK as well, though I imagine it is) it's pretty much 100% private equity's fault. They bought up every local paper they could, saddled them with the debt (how that's a thing that's allowed in accounting I will never understand), and then claimed the Internet killed them.

Yes, news orgs could have adapted faster, but most privately held papers were in the black. Only when the debts and insane growth expectations were added were they dying.

Private equity is ruining modern democratic institutions.
> The NYT is in the advertising business. Google, Facebook, et al are direct competitors.

The NYT is in the "providing content to lure people to advertisers" business. They don't sell ads to third parties. They could be very symbiotic with Google, for example. If Google was searching their content, bringing readers in, and supplying ads. But, instead, Google scrapes their content and helps people never visit their site at all.
> The ‘world’s largest floating wind farm’ produces its first power

I'm waiting for the second and the third power. /s

I thought that in Amerika they teach English as she is spoken.
Good. The only secure way of owning cryptocurrency is to have it in your own wallet. You should not be storing it on exchanges.
yep, and accepting donations are not charging for a product, much like my tipping a bartender isn't paying for a drink.
Decided I don't need a truck, buying a mid-size electric SUV.

The Lightning Pro seems positioned really well for price; I did see a Platinum trim at a show which I liked a lot but it's way more cost and vehicle than I need.
You're right. Instead he should have shamelessly claimed his Peace Prize and then proceed to bomb the sh*t out of Afghanistan - often killing civilians - all the while keeping that I'm so lovable smile on his face.

Or, he should have told you how wonderful he was for signing the Paris Climate Agreement, yet - per Naomi Klein and others - it was a nonsense agreement (i.e., nothing binding, soft commitments, etc.). And then on his watch of 8 yrs, USA fracking production ramps up to the point of the USA becoming a net exporter of fossil fuels. How green is that?

And these things compare how to your example? You have lost your compass as well.

But thank you for proving my point.
I can see that working. Private instances that only invite truly trustworthy people are probably much lower risk, the only risk being account take-over and the static files are are not accessible by bots then the bar is set much higher.

I should clarify that I was referring to forums and IRC servers that anyone could join. The Mastodon model in this case would be public instances that are not strictly private and are linked to other instances. Private instances would be much safer. The risk of linked instances would map to the weakest link.
So one theory about Musk’s approach is that you cut down twitter to just it’s core functionality. So what do those other 80% of micro services do? Content moderation, spam, analytics. Presumably some of that infrastructure is related to advertising. But so far all of his numbers seem random and inflated, but I’m guess his strategy is going to be shut a bunch of stuff off and see what you don’t need. Fair enough when they’re in the dire financial straights they are.

Is it just me though or is part of this bike shedding on micro services vs monolith. Not really enough information to determine.

Edit: I hope all their circuit breakers work correctly.
I don't think this is true.

Christianity's Genesis directly involves both nakedness and being covered and directly relates the latter to the knowledge of good and evil.

Before the fall, we didn't know any better. Afterwards, they "knew they were naked" and the immediate response was for Adam and Eve to cover themselves—before being given the skins of a slain animal for clothing.

This is literally a story as old as time.
This sounds like future I'm not sure I would like to live in... Would Linux be developed if such legislation existed..?
The US government could overturn the "pickup war" instantly - just make vehicles under a certain (small) size entirely tax-free in various ways.

The market would adapt quite quickly.
A big part no pun intended. I'm an average looking man, but skinny, and I could go on a dating app and find a larger woman to have sex with in a couple weeks or a month tops. They aren't exactly uncommon on there. But finding a woman my weight or even a few bmi units above me is essentially impossible. They never match - too much demand for them.
As I said, algebra is difficult for journalists looking to cheerlead in hopes of getting spoils:

https://ir.nasdaq.com/news-releases/news-release-details/nas...
Wait, really? That sounds weirdly counterintuitive. Do you know if there's any public information about this? The only thing I could find from a quick search was [0] which doesn't provide a huge amount of info...

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/algotrading/comments/2c1r4e/how_muc...
I guess the bigger the company the more interesting niche problems and processes there are that are worth spending a lot of time improving/automating etc. And yes a big company has more "high end" perks (better hotels when travelling, priority boarding, more expensive company events). But I enjoy a cheap beer with an enthusiastic group of colleagues more than I could possibly miss a fancy hotel.
> Sam was very close to Bill Clinton and Tony Blair

So were Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislane Maxwell - it didn't save them.
The problem with all these current Crypto "projects" is that they don't want to be boring. Banks and other typical financial institutions are boring; and there's a good reason for that. There's a reason why you have all those audits, certifications, compliance programmes and red tape. We (as developers/workers) may like it or not; but as customers we love it.

Banks are audited every month to verify that their reserves are there. They are also audited to see the balance between their risks and assets. Their systems are audited to ensure accountability (everyone must take at least 5 days of PTO a year, to ensure no single point of failure/fraud).

But the kids that are creating these new Crypto CeFi companies hate being boring. They got in because of the millions and the whirlwind of excitement that the Crypto space brings. And for that reason they have a mess in their internal ledgers.

I love Blockchain technologies, Bitcoin and Ethereum. But I couldn't care less for all the "cool kids" wanting to get into this train without proper adult supervision.
Perhap similarly, on an arduous journey to better my mental health and character I have found much to learn with paradoxical situations arising in zen koans. A good book with plenty of koans was Mumonkan/Gateless gate, in a compilation like this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/593516.Two_Zen_Classics
They've been helpful as a reinforcement (and contrast) to more logical things, as well as therapies (DBT, CBT).
Hey, if all the exchanges die, BTC won't be able to go down any further!
Is SEO worth it for early-stage products in 2022/23?
With big companies pumping a ton of money into snatching up keywords, can a small player really hope to make any gains?

And is playing the long-game of SEO really worthwhile for an early-stage company or is it best to just focus on building, and worry about SEO once you've got some revenue to throw at it?

Curious to hear everyone's thoughts/experience. Thanks!
I enjoy that most instances are small and will remain that way. There are a few that may grow to the point where scaling could become difficult, but there are ways to combat that.

What the author sees as problems with mastodon (decentralization, moderation differences between instances, etc) to me are the strengths of mastodon. It's the whole dang point.

Most mastodon instances aren't trying to be another twitter. The ones that are and do want to scale will inevitably run into scaling issues that any large platform full of user-generated data will run into. I'm just glad that there are different instances so when one big instance runs into scaling problems, other instances can just keep rolling along unaffected by it

I think talking about mastodon as a singular entity is fraught with problems because it's simply not that
Or, the foundations could come together and provide a compliancy/audition foundation that does these audits, letsencrypt-style, for (nearly) free.

A fund sounds like a great idea as well, but who would decide who gets the money? You don't want overseas companies syphoning the fund because they have 0.01% of their userbase in the EU.

Overall, as others have stated: how unreasonable is it if you create a 'critical' product, and you make money off of it, to invest some of that money to show it is secure.
And one of the great innovations of crypto is sending untraceable money to corrupt politicians.

The Chinese banned it. Unfortunately Americans genuinely believe they are above corruption.
Lets not forget, bill gates is also saving world while giving away money. But in reality its another money making scheme with ton of shady dealings in the background.

More recent example Patagonia, also given away to charity to benefit the world, in reality a charity on the paper designed to avoid inheritance tax.
I wish I could ignore it. It seems many web designers, even at major companies, don't consider PCs anymore.

Google's new carousel features aren't proper links and don't respond to middle-clicks. If you want to pop out an image into its own tab you have to first click it, then pop it out from their more-info panel.

Azure has similar problems, where listings collapse to nigh unusable sizes on desktop and Ctrl-f is broken horribly since many of their page switches actually just slide the current page to the left while keeping it loaded, so that when you go to search, the interface starts dragging back to hits on the previous page. Not that Ctrl-f really works in the face of the "only load just enough of the content that fits into the undersized box" anyway.

They'll push megabytes of javascript to avoid server-side rendering kilobytes of source, making the whole thing harder to use than it needs to be.
As in what were my priors and what is the threshold I have for credence in such an idea? I don’t think it’s like that. It’s a story. A fiction. It happens to be a recursive fiction, in the sense that it makes statements about what kind of things are fiction and how we interpret fictions. You can take it or leave it.

As the original poster said, what clicked wasn’t some cosmic sense of religious belonging, just wtf people might be talking about when religious gobbledygook falls out of their mouth.

I also like The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and A Christmas Carol and We Should All Be Feminists but I don’t know that I “believe” in these stories so much as they are moving and change my outlook.
"The lamestream media, whom I never listen to, failed to warn me!"

Anyone else remember those folks who suddenly realized climate change was actually happening and immediately started whining about how the media failed to tell them?

People failing to think critically about how media works while simultaneously whining about how the media works will never cease to amuse me. It is almost exactly like taking a bus to the end of the line and then yelling at the driver for taking you there.
Cool to read for the layman or requires previous knowledge?
you vastly overestimate the competency of many hedge funds. Its no surprise at all
Yup. 10 commits, first commit was just 4 days ago. Same with their public website & docs. On Github, it's all barely 4 days old.

Brian Lovin has released his work under the MIT license. AFAIK I believe this leaves it open to others to take the code and just run with it.

Even so, looking at their value proposition, it's just a landing page that leads to https://nymhq.com/join where you can subscribe to a "waiting list" to join a server. They claim "Nym is currently in private beta with limited servers, but is accepting waitlist requests now."

The "showcase" on the front page are just content fodder (AI? Web 2/3/5?) with quick, unstyled instances of their blogging software. The rest of that landing page seems to contain a lot of fluff as well.

Frankly, I'm extremely apprehensive about supporting this.
There's some flaw there if people are saying "YOU'RE USING CRYPTO WRONG" in response to these issues and in defense of the tech, but the "WRONG" way of doing it is so popular, and there aren't alternatives.
Awesome! I love to reading about this projects. I built my own a while back and every post somehow explores the design space slightly different.

My version[0] uses the 7.5 b/w ePaper that the author replaced, renders using LaTeX and addresses the bw font uglyness by rendering without anti aliasing in an okayish looking font. Looks good to me from a couple of meters away.

[0] https://irq0.org/hacks/epaper-calendar.html https://github.com/irq0/comporellon
Any thoughts on building a widget for on-site issues? I could see our company adopting this right away as we're heavy users of Slack connect to interface with our customers. We migrated from Intercom to FreshDesk and our current workflow in Slack is very reactive where a customer brings up an issue and a ticket is created later. However we do still get some tickets created from the on-site widget and it might be a non-starter to migrate without that functionality.
I hate how so many of these are 1 year at this pricing, and then balloon to $9+/mo.
This kind of cascading failiures are great to see, it's making the whole space move towards defi and makes it more resillent. We can only imagine if anything in the legacy financial sector was allowed to fail this hard, how much better we would be in the long run if we werent forced to bail out banks.
You underestimate the amount of degens in this space.
Whenever you have a space where boundaries are not imposed and actions merely have externalities rather than consequences for the actor, malicious actors that find it difficult to act how they want elsewhere flock to this space; this makes being in that space more and more painful, and so if the space remains lawless, people who can exist elsewhere abandon it, until the space is inhabited mostly or only by malicious actors.

We see this in online communities. We see it in the real physical world. And, yes, we are seeing it play out in crypto.

An online community without restrictions or boundaries doesn't look like one's fond memories of university dorm chats over a glass of wine; it looks like 4chan or the dark web.

A country without effective governance doesn't look like the romanticised media depictions of the wild west or your favourite science fictional post-scarcity anarchy utopia; it looks like Somalia.

A financial system without regulations doesn't look like your family kitty; it looks like, well, the crypto ecosystem.

Humans can't do better unless we all start to consistently choose cooperate/cooperate in prisoner's dilemma, and one quick look at, well, any community anywhere today shows we are a long way away from that.

This is not a technical problem, and cannot be solved with a technical solution. Humans do not know how to solve it. I wish we did. Historically, the most aspirational attempts to solve this problem have been the ones with the most gruesome outcomes.
I don't think that's true. If they masked out the backgrounds on training, how would the model be able to synthesize a background at all?

The problem is there's too much variety in the backgrounds of the training set. They don't follow a pattern the way growing a human does.
Every legitimate company also collapses this exact way.
Yes, I agree with that.
To me the difference between this and the current changes is that TS support seems to have been a decision done quite early.

Meanwhile configuration and npm support was something that initially (pre and at 1.0 times) was something considered a bad thing.
Now, not so much.

I would lie if I said that such a hard stance on these things wasn’t what initially drew me to the project.
Full builder game w ui, not ui builder :D
Recent exchange shutdowns have spooked investors who are taking out money in droves. These crypto exchanges maintain fractional reserves, instead of acting like a wallet and holding 1:1. As more people withdraw their money, more exchanges will shut down and that will lead even more people wanting to withdraw their money from crypto. What we are seeing is just the beginning.
PG becoming a Lacanian.
Then they‘re no longer working for free. That‘s exactly the issues this article is discussing - but that‘s not the point the parent poster was alluding to. They specifically mentioned „for free.“

However, if you build security critical software and get paid to do so it‘s not entirely unreasonable to require some sort of certification. You can‘t just build medical devices for money either without some sort of regulation. Or produce food for money. Or repair cars for money.
Might be coming sooner than you think: https://theankler.com/p/hwood-ftx-frenzy-as-michael-lewis
Any attempt at BTC going higher is quickly sold off. I think we're a loong way from any hope of recovery. When one considers that every asset class has failed, combined with high inflation, 2022 has been probably the worst year ever for investors, possibly worse than 2008. 2008 had a deeper bear market, but bonds and gold did well and inflation was low.
That's because you're only one side of the equation (ie. imports). 7.7% is the net effect, so you have to consider the other side (exports) as well. If each american is importing 5 co2e of cheap plastic shit from china, but you're also exporting 5 co2e of high tech shit to china, then the net result is 0.
It's the media's fault if they cannot be bothered to Google for two minutes that the chief lawyer at Alameda/FTX happens to be involved in a big poker scandal which... defrauded players.

Especially when there were tweets as old as 2018 at the very least describing the very scam Alameda/FTX/SBF was pulling.

@bitfinex'ed, a Twitter account which exposes tether for the scam it is since maybe a decade (and tether shall eventually fall), has been posting proof of all the wrongdoings. Including the ties between Alameda an Deltec (tether's bank in the Bahamas) since the very start of the scam.

It's also the media's fault that they re copy/pasting everywhere that it's "leveraged trades gone wrong, sending SBF in a death spiral".

That's not the story at all yet that's what these scummy media are publishing.

The story is that the goal was, from day one, to not only defraud people/investors but also to do a regulatory capture of the crypto exchanges market by greasing politicians and working hand in hand with officials and ex- officials who all knew each other.

If there were still investigative journalists around, there's material for quite a story.

But it's better to present SBF as an altruistic woke kid who, sadly, was sent into a death spiral after a few bad leveraged trades.
I put my money into a bank because the bank is FDIC insured. The risk is less than keeping it in a safe in my house.
> I could believe that they know exactly what materials the disks are made from and they know how stable they are and that the materials don’t react with each other.

Without tests, i find it very hard to believe. Even testing cannot always predict real live behaviour.