skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I look over at my wife sleeping in our bed and think about how I am sleeping next to a skeleton.
If I was alive in 1923 and stashed away $8 million in ̶c̶a̶s̶h̶ (Edit: 100y bonds) would only be worth about $140 million today.

Had I put it into some fancy ETF (Recall Vanguard dates back only to 1975, but whatever) I'd be a billionaire.

That's it, that is the entire difference of less than an order of magnitude. Don't reckon the nickels and the dimes matter much to centenarians.

Most people don't even have $8000 to invest so they plow it all into crypto and beanie babies and we scoff at them trying to x10. Food for thought. Memento Mori.

Edit for clarity: I obviously didn't mean stash cash under the mattress. Sorry for the confusion.
A study in primates/human glaucoma patients is underway (~next 2 years).

Randomized clinical trials are not as golden a standard as they seem and methodologically they are designed for human cattle, who do not choose what to consume and do not care to read a Wikipedia page or more about the drug they're taking or its target receptors they have, let alone any research on it.
Thus, in an instruction label for an approved drug you'll see dozens of adverse effects, established in randomized clinical trials, yet close to zero information about the probability of you personally being affected by these adverse effects.

Likewise, there are ~thousands of "biohackers" taking the safe metformin off-label, for "anti-aging" purposes. And any interested individual can choose an experimental treatment, taking all the risks etc.

As per Hippocrates Oath [1]:
1) I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
2) I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required
3) I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

How would you ensure a physician is employing the best of their ability? By their brain oxygenation level? Or dopamine receptors occupancy in prefrontal "executive" cortex?
Thus ~90% of physicians regularly violate at least 2) and 3) statements of the oath, by not offering the possible experimental treatments in relevant sets&settings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
That could be a reason to use Wise. You send money to Wise (in the same country), and they transfer money to the account in the other country. I think it works in part by assuming that they have currency in that other country, so they can avoid conversion fees.

Although I have no idea if that works for Ukraine. This page has some interesting bits:
https://wise.com/help/articles/2932349/guide-to-uah-transfer...
> For example there are lots of nice paid services out there that look great, but eventually I’m going to forget to pay, or the company will go under, or whatever.

Right, that's why I think there should be an option for a $500 permanent email address, or maybe $50 one-time payment that doesn't guarantee permanent access but does guarantee that the email address will sit there as long as it takes for you to be able to pay to restore your account, without being deleted or reassigned.
Western Union being free is the outlier here.
> getting rid of dividends makes no sense and is borderline intellectually dishonest just to make the point

How so? Once you retire, you don't let dividends reinvest. Makes perfect sense.
All my UEFI BIOSes were buggy, even after updates: I was fed up and I have been dealing with bootx64.efi for my low level code since.
> presumes an investor who never needs to spend the dividends or interest received. No real investor, individual or institution, has that luxury.

I don't understand this. It's like saying: I don't have the luxury to sell off some of my growth stock. It makes no sense, you sell when you need money, and you re-invest the dividends unless you need money, same thing.
Makes sense! The only way I personally found to deal with this is check different websites manually. It's either that or some extension that can automate this process in return for all my data.
> Allowing customer service to bypass customer auth requirements is just weakening your system

I disagree, in regulated industries such as banking this is a solved problem. A combination of onshore staff, good career prospects, pay and working conditions and audit logs means I haven't heard stories of bank insiders breaching into accounts to steal. I'm sure it happened but nowhere near as frequently as fraudulent SIM swaps for example.

TLDR: don't outsource your customer service to the third world and you're already 80% of the way there.
This actually reminds me of something I've been thinking about lately. What we call honesty is actually two different things: truthfulness and openness. Americans are probably truthful and not open.
"I think they also tend to see less employee on employee violence."

Increased shared hatred of the employer leads to increased employee cohesion?
there was an infuriating segment on the local news last night that single-use/disposable coffee cups (e.g. keurig) are somehow "greener" because they supposedly use water/energy more efficiently than "traditional" ways of making coffee. of course, zero mention of where these things end up after their 15 seconds of fame.

https://wgnradio.com/the-business-of-food-with-steve-alexand...

it's like CO2 is the only impact to the environment that matters. you can always find greener ways to source the energy, but you're not going to find a lot of ways to reduce plastic trash.
Since when was it pay walled? What were you having trouble with because it seems to be available to me when I look at it.
I would support good training requirements for gun control.

You can get long guns in Europe, just that there isn't a gun culture and proper training is required. That's how it should be. I staunchly and vehemently oppose California and New York state zeitgeist on "gun control". I would not support California-style restrictions on arms that cuts citizens with a thousand paper cuts and infringes upon fundamental rights. Absolutely stupid laws that are designed for appeasing out-of-touch voter base than actually preventing crime.
Fuck centralised exchanges.

Just use Bisq or similar P2P exchange. Much less fucking around.

https://bisq.network/
If you're using a password manager, you probably have one-time secure passwords, so the only probable way someone gets it is by stealing your password manager.
You're on the side of the company with crap support ghosting its customers? For your users' sake I hope you're never in charge of running a business.
Which non google 2FA app would folks recommend?
I mean, it sounds like something a US based crypto exchange is going to AML/KYC the shit out of you for, imho but I'm American.

I have extracted more value from Coinbase than most though. I had (and had to wait through) my withdrawal limits being raised during the 2017 bull run.

Hammering your bank daily for 30+ days because of withdrawal limits ain't cool.
One issue could be, let's say the war turns and it looks like Russia will gain a lot of territory and drastically reduce Ukraine - their currency will then crash and the payments made to the contractor might become nearly worthless. At least with BTC it will be mostly unaffected by the war.
The new goals for impact giving are something that Jeff Bezo should personally live by. Leave the grassroots giving to us happy consumers (former consumers?)
Normal and Friendly Robot [Tweet]
I gave a big long speech on security to my company, mentioned that SMS 2FA was junk and to use authentication apps instead, then made 2FA mandatory on our Google accounts… only to find out that you can’t even enable good authentication without enabling SMS 2FA first.

Absolute madness.
Probably very heavy and the dual lenses might lead to very annoying reflections and double images.
etcd is strongly consistent, it will only be available if you have a majority of nodes up and reaching each other (CP over AP). If you don't have a majority it will not be available (but won't get inconsistent).

This is more resilient than SQLite of course, which runs on a single node, and therefore can't remain available if any node (= the only node) fails.
The Paradox of Goals
As a pilot of single-engine airplanes, I disagree that mowing is useful. I need to look at the runway I'm landing on for obstructions no matter what. The time of year when mowing might occur, I might also have to contend with deer, who are just as hazardous and don't file NOTAMs before grazing near the runway.
Coinbase is a hit & miss.

1) For a corporate account, try Gemini or Kraken.

2) Also you should consider paying in USDC (I see in your response that recipient requests BTC), but paying in stablecoin will make your accounting life much much easier. The recipient can convert to whatever crypto they prefer after.

3) There are multiple companies that can help with international payroll. If you don't need your own crypto account and don't want to manage it, consider a service like Bitwage (https://www.bitwage.com/) to handle payroll for you.
Coinbase sucks but this isn’t the way bitcoin was meant to solve your issue. You can buy bitcoin anywhere and send it freely. You don’t have to use a dumb exchange. It is not decentralized anything at the level you are doing it—you are simply using coinbase to act as an international banking platform
I think their “dog-like” robot has such a program. You can make it walk by a joystick, but actual path-planning happens on the robot, so it won’t walk into a wall/avoid obstacles even if you just pressed forward, etc.
Okay sure, but this seems kinda janky, no? I have to go to a cafe, hand some stranger some cash for btc and sit around for what an hour with them, so it can clear/propagate.
Yes and no, it is definitely easier for the state to build on existing 19 century traditions then to invent a new religion..
You can critisize many things about bitcoin, but it is definitely decentralized...
> Studies are always falling behind real world needs.

That's very very true. Not gonna deny that.

> Also, your words could be rephrased as "I don't expect to learn at work".

I like to learn technical things. Studing whether Mary like red button or green, I don't find it appealing. Likewise, I don't like to see where or who is gonna use my product. I know, a lot of people "hate" this attitude. But, I know where I'm good and where I'm less stressed yet still provide engineering service for my salary :).

> Or a mindset of an engineer that wants a higher salary. You seem to recognize that shareholders have a demand for those types of engineers. And trust me, the supply is extremely scarce.

I know, but this is my experience. I value more free time. Money should be just enough to sustain my lifestyle. And doing all thing not related to software engineering takes more time and leave unhappy. That's just me. And I just hope people don't silenty expect more from me and then be unsatisfied.
Any possible way to upgrade to a paid account, personal or business, that would grant access to the proper level of support to fix this?

I realize it's paying the people holding the account hostage, just thinking of practical solutions to get in touch with the right support level who could assist.
This is not correct in the US. Don't know what country you're in.
> Well sure, not the meat itself, but the nitrosamines used to cure it, that's the bad part.

Burger meat isn't cured, though.
> Maybe it's because I haven't used a 2FA code on this account in the past year?

Oh dear. You're almost certainly off the critical path of integration and end-to-end testing and may have hit a legit bug.
What a delightfully insane project. AWK is under-appreciated IMHO. Read the short manual and you'll discover a world of functionality in a highly orthogonal interface. Pattern Match->Manipulate. An incredibly useful workflow for many tasks.
I read it like you read it. But I'm just a stupid American who gambles.
A METAR* is the weather message, not the observation system (AWOS, ASOS, etc).

* METeorological Aerodrome Report
Move over Internet of Things, I Built the Internet of Memes
A fun project for remote teams to interact with one another
FTX’s new CEO says there’s possibility for exchange to restart
There is no way Microsoft is not actively trying to push people away from Windows
> Peter Daszak is pictured leaving the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China on February 3, 2021, as a members of the World Health Organization COVID origins investigation team.

You can’t make this up. Then they wonder how/why the people lost the trust in the institutions.
I hope you read the post, where he says that he can buy on his personal account but not his business account.
Probably worth mentioning there's a trojan on this site.
I don’t think saying all black people should be killed is construed as instigating immediate violence, but you can change it to any stark racism you want and the outcome will be the same. And people are being censored for racism, homophobia, spreading harmful misinformation, and all sorts of stuff that will have the same outcome if you started yelling it in a restaurant. Listen, I know it must feel really lonely holding views most people find offensive to hear. No one can stop you from holding them or sitting in your basement muttering to yourself or even going out on the sidewalk and muttering it to passerby’s. But no business owner is going to let you offend their customers. Mega-globo corp or the coffee shop next door.
i feel like I'm asking a dumb question but why not just use a password manager that syncs your stuff and handles 2FA like 1Password? Break the phone? no worries you've got the info on your desktop. House goes up in a fire, no worries, they've got it on the cloud and you can access from a friend's house / library / whatever.
I call her Grandma LUCA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor
I have Google One and tried their support once or twice but wasn't impressed. I strongly doubt their ability to help with any somewhat technical question.
No, it allows you to attempt to moderate all illegal content, and not be punished if you miss some. It doesn't have anything to do with curation vs dumb firehose. It was made to allow websites to have user generated content without fear of the obvious result of user generated content. Without section 230, or the protections it provides, website operators are liable for the crap that users put on their website. Zuckerberg would not open himself up to liability, he would lock down posting anything on facebook that wasn't extremely, obviously mundane, and probably try to pivot.
Twitter’s data leak response is a lesson in how not to do cybersecurity
It's just a PR stunt. The bill already died in committee.
I just checked, and my MS Authenticator is backing up to... my Google account.

So, I thought I'd better change that... but it looks like you can't change your recovery account.

Why are 2FA apps so obtuse!
rejecting cookies ≠ giving them a short lifetime

Cookies aren’t inherently bad. If a second party asks me to hold on to something while I’m actively engaged with it, that’s typically fine. At the end of the day, though, I’m deciding what to take home.
They can't send a link to a colleague?
meanwhile thirteen years ago, high speed robotic hand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KxjVlaLBmk
Never struck me as weird. Trying to think of why you find it to be so. Is it because it theoretically distracts them from pursuing their profit motive with a "total war" mentality? I don't believe that's actually true (either that they have that mentality or that charity is a net loss for them).
Russian Spy or Ukrainian Hero? The Strange Death of Denys Kiryeyev
Some customers are more hassle than they are worth. Clearly Coinbase has some business customers, and they have responded to this guy multiple times.

They have no obligation to keep responding to someone who isn't even a customer yet, and appears incapable of transferring money to them in a legal way that their policies support.
DALL-E for Playlists
Natural language playlist is an AI tool that generates a Spotify playlist based on your prompt.
Don’t trust any apps to handle backup and syncing TOTP keys for you. Gliches happen.

I encrypt and back up all TOTP secret key, which are used to generate six digit codes, to my local offline password store (usb key and paper). In fact, I mostly used my laptop as the second factor because it is more convenient. My phone also has the TOTP key and in case it is lost, I can just regenerate the QR code.
I don't think I've had too many quality issues. The vast majority of the brands you buy at Amazon are also at Walmart or Walmart.com. If you're having issues, then you probably need to start evaluating brand vs seller. For your current discussion, you need to compare buying the same exact item from each. The big win in my eyes is being able to buy from Amazon Warehouse for a big discount.
My limited experience with Western Union and MoneyGram was awful. This was a decade ago, so maybe things have changed.
10x matters quite a bit in generational wealth terms. If every generation doubles the number of plausible claimants to the wealth, thats about what is needed to balance out.

On the other hand:

> If I was alive in 1922 and stashed away $8 million in cash it would only be worth about $140 million today.

Why would it not be worth $8 million?
Well, in a way this is the core/low-level plumbing on which further abstractions can be built. This is an essential and very complex problem in and of itself, that’s why I dislike comments like “it is preprogrammed”.

Adding “dumb” intelligence on top is not too hard. (Of course, the holy grail would be AGI on top)
US arrests Russian crypto exchange owner for allegedly laundering over $700M
It's like a party trick with you, isn't it?

I don't know what this is supposed to mean.

Can you point out what you think I don't understand?

Electric stoves don't give off harmful radiation.
The Current Secrets Rotation Process Is Broken
They probably didn't expect backlash because whenever a giant megacorp ceo says "We are going to change the world (and make you pay for it)" people freaking cheer and their stock goes to the moon.
Half my screen is allocated by ads, picture-in-picture video, a menu & another navbar under it asking me to subscribe.
You could also consider offering your contractors payment in Euro, if they're able to setup an account that can receive it. That way you'll avoid the issues caused by exchange rate volatility, although you might still run into KYC issues due to recipient location.
I agree, but cats out of the bag.
The billionaires are speaking through the masses. The information on these platforms are essentially limitless. To moderate a limitless and fluctuating sea of information is essentially speaking without speaking. You can make it "say" whatever you want.
> Nicotine gum won't ever replace cigarettes, nor will people who don't smoke start chewing it.

There are non-smokers who use nicotine gum; I'm one of them. Similar effect to caffeine with a lower half-life, so it's suitable to have later in the day. I'm sure that we're a small group, but if nicotine didn't have the specter of cigarettes hanging behind it, I'd imagine it could be quite a large market.

Plant-based meat is sort of the opposite. Real meat has the specter behind it, so there's a good funnel of people into the product. Furthermore, any kind of taste that's above "edible" eventually gets people acclimated; they expect and learn to enjoy it. I can't prove that on an individual basis, but the plant-based meat market is growing at a healthy clip and has been around for several years, which suggests a lot of repeat buyers. You'd have to provide some kind of evidence to say "eventually they'll graduate", as there's no indication of that so far.
I was reading this book, when the ideas of function spaces, functions as vectors, functions as elements of vector spaces, functional analysis clicked on me.

I am not sure if this book is particularly good or better than other books. (Well, it still looks like a very gentle introduction to the topic.) But as per your question, this was the book at the right time for me.

"Fourier Series and Orthogonal Functions" by Harry S. Davis. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486659739/
There are enough “cash cow” securities that maintain a same / similar share price by distributing heavily for this to make sense. The price wouldn’t show the whole story and the cash could go much further over 100 years than just sitting in a bank account.

I don’t know many people that spend 100 years in retirement.
Interesting! I use a very similar process for creating exams and student projects, but am the only one in my department who does so. Are any of your processes/tools publicly available? (Mine are basically cobbled together in Haskell and Python.)
That's funny. I thought the purpose was to avoid living in a hyper Industrial dystopian Wasteland once nature collapses.

I thank you ecological collapse is far more likely to lead to this outcome than widespread subsistence farming
Presumably the outage doesn't affect all of Actions. The whole thing being down would raise a lot of flak.

I wonder if actions on github pages are a canary. Like, do they roll out Actions changes to the pages service first, and let it sit for a while before going to business-sensitive tenants?
You’re right! My bad
What return are you assuming for cash?
Jesus, 0.06g? That's weed residue at that point.
> And how would I log into said cloud service to retrieve my key?

Yeah! It'll probably end up being the same weakest link as everything else - an SMS recovery code.
And to head it off, no one is censoring conservatives. They’re just censoring conservatives who are saying generally offensive stuff. Being a conservative isn’t an excuse for being an asshole, and no private business is obliged to amplify assholes.

I miss when conservative meant “let’s not spend so much money” instead of “I hate a lot of people and want to be as offensive as possible”
>> Are you arguing

No, I'm highlighting the hypocrisy of the claim of "American values", showing how private billionaire control exists in many political influencing aspects besides social media-- and yet now how ironic it is that the SCOTUS (who are non-elected and non-accountable) is interested in reviewing the legality of such a thing.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/paxton-st...
Even better would be Aegis which does backups for you, and (at least in my opinion) has the best UI for an aithenticator app. Also available on FDroid.

https://getaegis.app/
I think that Beyond is feeling the pinch more, because it just tastes terrible. Impossible isn't as good as a real burger, but it's significantly better than Beyond, and Impossible is fine (discounting the cost) for filling out a spaghetti sauce or something where you can't taste the meat that well. So I think it's consumer preferences at work here
Centralized exchanges should only ever be used to convert between fiat and crypto. Once you've bought your crypto, get it the hell off the exchange.

I also had a terrible experience with Coinbase once in the past where they locked my account for no reason and wouldn't let me purchase or sell. Thankfully it self-resolved in a couple days, but left a pretty bad taste in my mouth, though I haven't had any incidents since then.

Unfortunately centralized exchanges all seem to have atrocious customer support and are a risk. Not sure what can be done as a customer other than to minimize exposure to them as much as possible. Coinbase definitely needs more serious competitors in the U.S>