skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Traditional banks, for the most part, have DNA built around protecting customer interests and customer money.

I don't think we're living in the same world :) Traditional financial institutions are just as bad, if not worse, than most crypto companies. You just have look at all the financial system crashes and exchange frauds. A key difference is that the government is there to bail them out because they are tightly linked, and that traditional institutions know they'll be punished because of strict regulations. It's not about the actors, or some kind of fuzzy DNA/culture, but about government and regulation.

I think it's also important to note the discrepancy in transparency. Yes, FTX was just a centralized exchange that had little to do with the blockchain, but you were still be able to see some of FTXs balance movements on-chain, simply because they are forced to use ETH/BTC/FTT/etc. If we hadn't, FTX may have gotten away with what they're doing a lot longer. Nobody may have found out.

With traditional financial institutions you have almost no transparency. You have absolutely no idea what they're doing behind your back. All you can do is trust the government to eventually bail them out if they mess up. Or trust that they're scared enough of going to prison that they don't try shady things.
Consistently being able to grasp the problem very fast, and then write a solution is what impress me the most.

If you check the results for the events the last couple of years, you see the same set of persons being up at the top 10-20. Basically solving hundreds of problems. Problems that span a quite a large set of CS, math problem domains.
Well, my friend study in university for Nuclear Physics, yet ended up working for the Toronto Stock Exchange programming monitoring software of the trades.

They also paid a full year's bonus for working in December for Y2K, so yes, there is the money.
Because there’s not been a large obvious reminder for some time. In fact the last such reminder was before most currently living software developers were born.
Isn't the usual advice to never make a game and a game engine at the same time, because you'll only finish one of them?
You just need Lisp then, and you can have all your DSLs you want for the problem at hand, instead of writing a new tokenizer, lexer, parser, interpreter every time. ;-)
I know why I'm taking it personally. Some people work hard to make the world a better place, and some people sit on the sidelines making comments about working harder.
For me there's a horizontal slider in bottom middle of the screen which controls the auto-scrolling speed.
There are several 'web3' projects in this space, vast.ai, already mentioned, is focused on renting out GPU's from servers hosted pretty much anywhere.

For low cost server hosting and egress bandwidth, Threefold (https://www.threefold.io/build/) and Akash are two new startup web3 ecosystems looking to radically bring down the costs of cloud compute, storage, and bandwidth with GPU support on both of their roadmaps. Still very early, but at 80-95% raw cloud cost savings even beating out Hetzner/DO, its an interesting niche of token incentivized physical infrastructure networks (called TIPIN for short).
Stay civil.

This is not an argument against programmers, like other professionals, learning the aspects of the law which are relevant to their job. Why should programming be the one profession where this is not required?
Which is my point exactly. Relentless focus and unlimited budget and you only get to see the tip of the iceberg in the news. Can you imagine that Mossad is like "we only hunt old Nazis but the countries benefited from their gold we leave them alone and don't meddle in their politics"? Because I don't.
NO, No no, I saw this on The Big Bank Theory! Now you will never know who you are kissing. :)
> const doesn't count because you can't initialize it with a runtime-computed value

In what language? C's const is an unmodifiable runtime value for example, as is Zig's. Go is one language that I can think of where const is compile-time though.
Strange title for an otherwise interesting video. Why expect anything else than an organic growth with interesting quirks? It's more fon to appreciate it than deride it
article says fungible raised $300 million (_not_ at a $300 million valuation)
In my experience audiences are usually proud they got sponsored instead of resenting it too, though I haven't checked the numbers.
In this case, they got over $300 million in total funding, not just valuation, so your point doesn't apply here.

> In this case, yes, it could be that they are wiped out, but the employees got a salary and the investors will lose money overall. so the employees come out ahead of the investors.

Except, and this is what a lot of startup employees don't really grasp, is that a VC is always widely diversified while an employee can't be. At any given time a VC will have lots of investments, and they should expect most of these to be relative losers. Employees, however, can only work for one company at a time, and for startups they usually take significantly under market rate given that they're taking a chance on their equity.
Given that you didn't go into details about this "list", there's not a lot of weight in your argument. Be it for privacy reasons or not, if your don't share at least some high level information about these alternative marketing strategies you are talking about, I can't really believe you.

Are your businesses local, allowing you to just use physical flyers or something?
Lockheed Martin Is Bursting the Bubble with Inflatable Habitats
RFML seems from United Airlines, and seems to mean: easy to digest. No egg, no dairy, probably no meat? Its for people from places where food isn't processed or where they had not eaten much for a longer time, so a change in diet content and quantity may be problematic for the passenger.
Attention is the most important currency in this world - at least since Edward Bernays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Of course no company is perfect, and I don't expect perfection. Github is owned by Microsoft, so I have very low expectations of their morals.

But gitlab say that they value open source. So that was the standard that I was holding them against. If a code forge claims to support and value open source software, why would they hide all the open source code on their platform? Why would they consider deleting stale open source repos?

I was just holding them up to their own standards, but I see they don't care about that.

It's similar to holding Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers to different standards. Google doesn't claim to give a shit about privacy, but Mozilla do. So when Firefox does some privacy blunder people get upset. But when Chrome does it, people don't care because they already had such low expectations of Google.

Some people try to live their lives by their principals, and not just "as a bonus".
sorry... my question was for residential internet connection ISP doing DPI
Thanks, but I could probably save time by just using Stripe with the existing Tauri app. Tauri already supports notarised apps, auto-updaters etc... What it doesn't support is generating a properly signed .pkg file.

(this can be done using regular shell script, in my case there is, however, some weird, hard to debug issue with AppStore validation)

The missing bit is making the app paid, which normally should be trivial with the AppStore.
99% of your comments on HN seem to be just ads for your website. Please see the guidelines:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would say both who benefits and who pays is key.

So it is better for me if it is X Corp's stockholders who benefit money wise and I who pay, than some spyware company like Google paying.

The problem is that companies now seem to want to make me pay and still take money from Google et al. Like Samsung's TVs. Or Microsoft becoming like Google in their consumer products.

There probably need to be some regulation in the IoShit space to keep it from eating away all "dumb" spyware free devices.
They are big, but not that big... I haven't used any meta product for a couple years now and I'm only missing the seldom update from a couple of companies. Tbh, I don't miss it that much. However, I can understand some people are "hooked" on it and have stopped looking for alternatives.
That's disgusting
IGE/IPI was established[0] in 1888. And I think most of the "outcompetition" came due to avoiding the neighbours' strife. (the watch industry originated with Huguenot refugees from France, and relatively speaking, the difference between Heidi's depiction of an 1881 poor country contrasted to the rich people in Frankfurt, Germany, and todays perception of a rich country, lies in not having been bombed to rubble not once but twice during the last century)

[0] https://www.ige.ch/en/about-us/the-history-of-the-ipi

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi
Also Nim.
A couple of days ago there was a consensus group of Republican commentators confidently asserting SBF’s Democratic donations and connections meant there would no investigation/prosecution at all. Perhaps now this have pivoted to saying they’ll go easy on him?

It seems to me, all these assertions say nothing about the process of justice for SBF, and instead only illustrate that the people making them can’t conceive that there is a section of the political class who believe the law should apply equally to rich people as well as poor people.
Well, it seems they did, at least according to this source mentioned in TFA https://www.semianalysis.com/p/fungible-dpus-are-dead-carcas...

> ... an unannounced incestuous funding round that had preferred equity and liquidation preferences, which was mostly the founder’s money.
> The offense committed by the Chinese company is hiring the

> employee of the American company who continued to use IP

> that was sold to ASML.

In the except above, you've described the means by which the company stole the IP and is using the IP illegally. How can you possibly believe that the company didn't steal IP after writing this? Did you forget a word/sentence/paragraph that explains this obvious contradiction?
> Nuclear weapons are terrible

You hold this view but also that actively performing research and development to support their future use is a price worth paying for maybe getting some unexpected benefit?

How dear a price on the means you willing to pay for an entirely hypothetical end?
Mostly Skamania county.
> Occasionally people put the space in the wrong place, like 0207 77777777 for a London number

To expand on this, the codes have changed a lot over time. London used to have separate codes for inner and outer London, which at their last iteration were 0171 and 0181. These were replaced in 2000 with (020)7 and (020)8 respectively. At this point it still made sense, if inaccurately, to group the first four numbers. There was also some perceived prestige with having an inner London number.

In 2005 (020)3 was included due to a shortage of numbers and (020)4 for the same reason in 2019. With the portability of numbers and the extra ranges it no longer makes sense to group the first four - and the number of people who want to infer location from a landline number is probably much lower these days anyway.
> I wonder if the liberal west mentality is the only way to make technological progress. I dont think in an autocratic society people can really thrive. Maybe a bit. But i dont think China would ever be able to pass the US and Europe with high tech. Everything is copied and stolen.

Nah, this is exactly what Japan did post-WWII until they didn't anymore. You copy until you catch up. Once you've caught up, you innovate. There's nothing fundamental that will hold China back.

There are even benefits to authoritarianism - for instance Chinese infrastructure is in many cases far better than US infrastructure and built far more efficiently. The US has about 49.9 miles of high-speed rail while China built 25,000 miles in the last few years. They've even got maglev trains. We've got the diesel Caltrain (for now! electrification is finally happening). [edit] (And soon the Bakersfield-Merced Express - stopping at every cow paddock along the way). The PRC built a bridge from Hong Kong to Macau, 34mi long, and built islands along the way to support it.

Never underestimate your opponent!
"Only in darkness are we revealed. Goodness is not goodness that seeks advantage. Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit, without hope, without witness, without reward." -- Nardole
> keeping unreasonable sums of money on hand has been the primary downfall of the majority of crypto exchanges

That is unconvincing. If they had the USDC in cold storage they could easily see the uptick in withdrawals and prepare the necessary funds. The only moment you become dependent on outside parties, such as, as they claim, the opening hours a random bank in New York, is when you don't have those assets at all and need to repurchase them on the market. If they can't manage a cold wallet, they have no business being the largest crypto exchange, there's nobody more qualified for that task and most certainly you wouldn't outsource it to some smaller provider.

In fact what Binance does is they convert any incoming stablecoin to their own native stablecoin, BUSD. This simplifies operations (as they don't have to maintain multiple crypto-stable pairs) and injects liquidity and reserves into their token, but also exposes depositors to any issue with BUSD (and Binance) itself, because any run will likely extract all liquid assets first.

This is exactly what happened during the FTX crash, they frenzy sold bitcoin, USDC, USDT and anything liquid they could get their hands on until all they had left where "billions" in worthless crap like FTT and related garbage tokens.
The way I read that article, people can just refuse to give out licenses.
They most likely don't care... :)

Also FWIW most software you use has 5k+ line source files in it.
That's exactly what this law also targets that by forcing big messaging services to open up to interoperability with other services.
They're still a good choice for most perf critical code due to the reduced memory use.
A colleague of mine came back from a trip to China —decades ago, IIRC— and was asked by a somewhat insular neighbour "are the ChiComs still Communists?"

His reply: "yes, but they're the sort of communists who all dream of becoming millionaires."

All economies are different. But some are more different than others.
I mean, physicians are still people and can hold stupid beliefs. Our family doctor, who is otherwise fully licenced medical professional and finished actual medical school not some quack university, would regularly recommend my mother herbs and various folk treatments, maybe in a belief that it's better to prescribe us a course of herbal tea(which will do nothing) instead of yet another course of antibiotics for what appears to be a normal cold.

Obviously the show is fictional and dramatized - but I could totally see a normal doctor who knows better telling a grieving mother that this is what happened, that her baby absorbed radiation in order to save her - even though it is a complete lie, it might help her with the grieving process. I don't think they should do it, but I think it's believable enough.
Why the Feds Chose Right Now to Bust Sam Bankman-Fried
Ask HN: Looking for article that mocks complexity of modern frontend development
Hi HN; I once read an article (I believe on HN) that described the struggling of an "old-school" JavaScript developer with the complexity of modern frontend development. It sort of went like "Ok, I simply use jquery to make this AJAX call, right? Oh, jQuery is no longer the way to go, I need Angular? Alright, lets download Angular; what are you saying, I first need npm?" etc.

Anyone who is able to recall this article and could provide me a link? Unfortunately it's really hard to find via Google. Would be much appreciated!
(Just so we’re clear, that’s “billion” with a “b”, so 20 times the age of the universe)
I once asked it to write a bit of code for me and it didn't give me the whole file and when I said: "please send the whole file" it said "I gave you the whole file, but here it is again" and then it gave me the whole file
Japan arguably resembles a liberal western country though.
Well that's a judgement call I'm afraid you have wrong. JS is a great solution to some problems, as is Go, as is Rust, Ruby etc etc. I love JS for what it's good at - things like making web apps a reality, allowing a single language to be a start point for devs etc. I certainly don't use it exclusively.
If someone is forced to sell their house and stays in the same area, rental prices should go up I would say.

As seemingly everywhere around the globe interest rates have gone up, the influx of new home buyers have gone down. Those people have to compete with each other at the rental market. Unless your country is able to create a new big supply of rental homes to somewhat balance the market, the rental price is definitely not stable, but trending upwards.

In the Netherlands we are getting stricter rental controls to keep the rental price to not increase that much. Some people are sitting between a rock and a hard place now: not able to buy, not able to save due to high rents.
Doesn't work in Firefox

Uncaught
Object { message: "assertion error", stack: "C@https://oimo.io/works/life/main.js:31:459\nze@https://oimo.i..., g: {…}, value: "assertion error" }
main.js:37:66
> We haven't seen any meaningful increase in real earnings in the last 50 years

Who's "we"? The world as a whole has experienced rapidly growing real earnings throughout the last 50 years. Real earnings worldwide have doubled since 2001 alone! [1] Of course, most of the growth has happened in developing countries (where, honestly, it's most needed) rather than in rich countries where you and I live. But even in rich countries real earnings are rising, just more slowly. [2]

> In America, go to any city and you'll see a massive number of homeless people

Only in the rich cities, not in poor rural areas. And that's because homelessness is a result almost solely of high housing prices due to political building restrictions, not low incomes (or mental illness or drug use). [3] Increasing incomes won't actually decrease homelessness significantly - higher income just means housing prices will have to rise higher before poor-er people are forced out. The same number of people will be forced out either way, because a fixed number of housing units can accommodate a roughly fixed number of people, meaning that everyone additional person has to leave.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-median-income?tab=c...
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-median-income?tab=c...
[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/homeles...
Any idea why?! I find that the modern WinUI is impossible to use from any language other than .NET.
Microsoft have had similar for years. Last I heard it was an FPGA with some ARM cores attached, with the former offloading networking and storage, and the latter running various services that the Azure backend talks to, on a custom Linux distribution. The main processors are all still x86 though, typically running Windows Server to host whatever VMs have been provisioned.
I have a collection of >500k historic transport photographs which I have collected over the past 25 years. Some my own, some are old photographs dating back to 1900 or earlier. All are categorised / tagged.

It concerns me what will happen to them when I am gone. At the moment I have a web site where they are hosted but I don't expect my children to be able to admin that once I am no longer here.

I would be more than happy to donate it all to Flickr Commons.
> China does not recognize patent law, therefore they could not have stole anything.

Here, an actual IP theft (as in "files on a USB stick") is involved. Not just violating patents.
Yeesh this really kicked off but thanks for the defence. For clarity I identify as a male programmer with Lego loving tendencies. JS is simply a tool I actually mostly enjoy using. I also use a lot of other languages, but really JS is one I'm always happy to come back to!
Solidity. The Wikipedia article has some more information on the problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidity#Criticism
Considering that React with function components is popular and their hook mechanism is seemingly weird, should people also learn algebraic effects as the beautiful theory behind it?

Also, if React hooks is the way to describe UI components, I think the mechanism behind it should be either formalised as a proper language feature in JS or in some new language used for frontend development. For example, I noticed this teaser bit in the first materials about Verse: "The full Verse language also has a statically-checked effect system, including both mutable references and input/output." https://simon.peytonjones.org/verse-calculus/ Discussed earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33946933

Or is this something that e.g. ClojureScript with Reagent already formalises and we all should study that?
This made me wonder what the oldest go-link (from inside Google) discoverable on the public internet is. The earliest I've found is from Nov 2009: https://github.com/google/closure-library/blame/11ed104958a2.... (The second closest I've found in another repo is in RE2 from Mar 2010, https://github.com/google/re2/blame/954656f47fe8fb505d4818da... - and yes, both of these existed prior to the listed date, but I'm going off associated timestamps.)

(Fun fact: go-links are so critical to Google ops, that they're expected to be accessible in a "everything is down" scenario.)
Looks like they have patent law to me? Even ignoring treaties and such:

"Article 42 The duration of an invention patent shall be twenty years, the duration of the patent for a utility model or design shall be ten years, counted from the date of application." [1][2]

[1] http://mg.mofcom.gov.cn/article/policy/201910/20191002905592...

[2] http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/c30834/202011/82354d98e70947c09dbc...
Software in its natural state is not scarce, is freely copyable instead of transferable, and is not capital; just like the ability to start a fire or shear a sheep are not capital.

Ownership over software is scarce and transferable. The thing that lets you use software as productive capital is the exclusive right to it. That right is entirely manmade.
Yeah its not as simple as putting two limit orders and collecting your fee. Market makers take huge risks when there is a big market move. When Luna crashed for example Alameda provided exit liquidity to traders and was left holding the bag.
"Yes, the US was / is doing bad things, so other countries should be allowed to do bad things too!"
LosslessCut works great if the keyframes of the video are not too far apart and if you already know where you want to cut. I posted something similar (a web app for automatic silence removal) a few months ago in Show HN: https://www.savvycut.com.

We also use keyframe based cutting for lossless cuts and a smart-cut mode that only re-encodes parts around keyframes (at least for h264 and vp8 codecs). I see that you also experiment with a similar smart-cut feature: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/126.
That seems to work quite well if you re-encode with the same parameters as the original but I guess there are a lot of edge cases.
I use go a lot and also love it. I did find it odd in the early days to not have a package manager, but they seem to have mostly built on the experience of NPM and got it right.
I dream of the day in the future, possibly in Eden, when I'll have opportunity to discuss the things I've reverse engineered with the guys and gals who actually engineered them. This conversation in enlightening to witness.

I will have an especially hard time phrasing questions in a respectful manner for the Adobe devs, though ))
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