skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and you can't reneg or claw it back in any way

>it will cause the smart contract to settle incorrectly, and there's no recourse or claw back possible.

"Smart" contracts are subject to applicable contract law, and are susceptible to all normal causes for invalidating or reverting a contract under such law. Try telling a judge in a contract dispute case that code is law and they have no authority to rule on the contract, maybe they'll thank you for the laugh.

>but they don't depend on real world law enforcement to guarantee settlement.

You're missing the parent's point: smart contracts can't teleport objects to you, or compel people to perform services for you. If you pay for a good or service and it's not delivered or performed, or you believe it wasn't adequately delivered or performed in accordance with the contract terms, you would go to court to enforce the contract as with any other.

I will never understand why people believe these things have magic powers to alter the real world.
I’m looking forward to planting my first Ozark Chinquapin this spring - the seedling is in my refrigerator right now, happily chillin’ out in a Ziplock baggie of moist soil.

It’s not “engineered” in the colloquial sense, though - it’s the descendant of hand-selected trees that didn’t succumb to the blight.
There's a difference between adaptation (you do your best to fit in, knowing yourself, but you accept your difference) and camouflaging (imply you're afraid of how you look to others, so this is paralysing you, it creates anxiety, etc..)
Blood transfusions from younger people in remote countries where seafood consumption is low can also be a good option. Nepal seems to be a viable choice for anyone considering it.
Hire me now or buy my company later. You choose.
Yes, a government or corporate issued device like a Yubikey with NFC is my ideal. Just tap to the phone to verify. Payment cards got it right, everyone else is just catching up.
Let me look that up on my rotary phone.
> Of course there aren’t.

Indeed

> we would have to build it as a PWA for Android and native for iOS. We’ve consistently chosen not to do that.

Translation: PWAs and their purported advantages are a myth

> But, with these recent Safari changes, it might be enough for us to finally consider building PWAs.

And they will invariably suck.

Edit: It looks like the only "argument" for PWAs is "but on iOS the people have more money". (They also use much more powerful devices than most Androids out there). So the "argument" for PWAs is "we can't even pretend to care about 70% of the addressable market, and even with the purported advantages we can't even begin to think of building these amazing PWAs that would open the doors to people on non-expensive devices etc. because those people have no money and those people dont have powerful phones"
It’s unethical to offer a bribe, it’s only unethical to accept a bribe if one actually follows through on the action the bribe is intended to encourage.

Unfortunately, policing the second part is practically impossible, and the effect of successful bribes is too harmful to risk - so accepting a bribe must be condemned in the same breath as offering.
HJTA is extremely powerful in California. Voting demographics skew towards anti tax property owners and they have zero problem crushing everyone else.
Those 30 transactions per second settle multiple billions in value per day. Even in a bear market folks are spending about a billion per year in transaction fees to have those transactions settled. And a good chunk of that power usage is just the value folks get out of being able to read the state of the chain without writing any transactions to it.

I get that you don't see the value, but plenty of other people do.
> Maybe I have something to learn, but isn’t that obviously true?

Many things which people find intuitively to be “obviously true” turn out, and structured investigation, to be false (often false apparent effects from some other cause, etc.), so structured confirmation of the intuitively “obviously true” is valuable.

OTOH, I think that this isn’t obviously true to most people, independent of background and lived experience. Maybe to most people with a certain experience pattern…
I assume you are referring to the Chinese military there? They certainly have been stirring up trouble lately.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/china-sends-71-warplanes-...
I encourage you to seek out communities online even without a diagnosis! Many identify as self-diagnosed for the same reason you stated. I've learned a lot of tips and tricks that have helped me (and my wife) deal with it.
This isn't an acceptable excuse.
This is strange. I've had an eBay account since 1999. I've used it very irregularly over the years - sometimes I'm buying things regularly, occasionally I'll do a "burst" of selling for a few months, then go for years without selling anything. I've never seen anything remotely like this suspension.
For people hoping that this will ensure a longer sentence, likely these charges will run concurrently with one of the bigger ones. That is usually how it's done. He's probably still going away for a long time, likely.
You'll have no problems getting by in English, either professionally or in day-to-day life. Most software business is officially done in English, and most people you'll interact with speak very good English!

But if you're planning on living in Norway long term, I strongly recommend making a serious effort becoming at fluent in possible in the language. As in start learning now, take intensive classes while there, set aside 30 mins every day for structured learning, and keep all that up for a few years.

• It's isolating having every new person start speaking to you in Norwegian, then you having to interrupt them and ask to switch to English. A group of Norwegians talking will change languages when you join them, which can make you feel guilty or make you feel less like socialising.

• Many Norwegians are nervous or self-conscious to speak English (even if they speak it better than some native speakers!) so you won't get to experience their true chatty self.

• Children learn Norwegian before English, so if you have kids in Norway with a Norwegian partner you may not be able to communicate with them as well as your partner until they're a bit older. You also won't be able to communicate with your kid's friends or other children.

• Lots of humour, pop-culture, memes, puns, graffiti is gated behind Norwegian.

• If you're looking for a relationship, not speaking Norwegian limits your options.

And finally the obligatory: really think this through. It's a massive life change to live in a new culture, perhaps unimaginably large if you've never done it before. That you find Norwegian women hotter than your local dating pool is (aside from being gross) such a small factor compared to all the differences between your life now and moving to Norway.

Spend a month there in an Airbnb, read the local news every day, follow local influencers/subreddits/tiktockers, watch local tv. Again, the effort of doing all of this is miniscule compared to uprooting your whole life and moving somewhere you have no ties.
Are they copying american companies again?
If you took a job like that, were you really one of the best minds of your generation?
> He instilled in me the lesson of knowing approximately where you are going to land and not do anything now that would jeopardize that landing.

Thanks for sharing that.

> object storage

Is this like S3 or more like DynamoDB, or something else?
a thé gafam : it use to taste really good but now it taste awfully bad, yet we cannot stop drinking it!
We (The Team) did it. The good King puts his people first, like Marcus Aurelius. One example of a bad King is the Tyrant.
Yes, I phrased this badly. I meant that instead of using the phone's NFC for verification, we can use a small NFC device that we tap to the phone and which the phone reads via NFC to verify our identities. Just like we tap our cards to payment terminals.
I apologize if I misunderstood your original comment. I read it as you saying SBF hedged his bets by giving equally to both sides so they both are just as guilty here.

In my original response I was pretty clear I was specifically saying we only have SBFs word that he donated equally. I mean that is the sentence I wrote. You responded by insulting me, implying I do crack, and saying the article has the proof from the prosecutor. Which is funny because the article does not contain a single piece of evidence that shows he donated equally to both sides. I guess maybe you didn't actually read my first comment and were just chomping at the bit to be able to insult me and call me a drug user?

You then accuse me of spreading partisan fud when in fact that is exactly what I pointed out you doing. The idea that he donated equally to both sides (which is how I interpreted your first post and clearly listed as the thing I called out in my response) is partisan fud.

As for you last point. Yes the fact that he donated 2x times as much to the left than the right is absolutely relevant to his behavior. Its completely reasonable to assume he donated to the people he though would be able to help him in the future.
There are plenty of potential work reasons to have TikTok. Public affairs, event planning are most obvious.
Doesn't OLED tech (in TVs, screens) also works by having a blue emitter with filters for white/ colors (which is what the article covers) ?
You can’t Google so it didn’t happen. OK. That’s unfortunate but I guess you’re stuck.
Everyone does this, except maybe narcissists, sociopaths, and people on drugs.
ClickUp, Monday.com, Linear, Wrike, Asana, Smartsheet, Teamwork.

There are lots of good modern alternatives to Jira. The reason people still use them is the same as why Oracle DBs are still so popular – they have a large sales team and corporate contacts, and so their products are pushed down your throat.
My class used the textbook, but we never built minix from scratch or even used it in real-life. Still a lot to be learned that way.
Expected, and welcome.
>obesity/T2DM
That's the gorilla in the room. Most type 2 diabetes is treatable via diet and exercise.
I have talked to a lot of people in the last few months who have AI-related startups that are pre-funding. I am hearing that the big VC funds are pulling back, I don't know what is going in terms of angel investing and how (and if) these startups are going to get on the funding train.
I sent it from Canada in a normal envelope. Just wrapped with a few sheets of paper to be sure it wasn't obvious there was cash inside.
Thankfully the author explicitly stated it's thoughts on startups... He can't be accused of trying to promote workaholic lifestyle.
> The primary reason they're a bad idea is they make widespread election fraud easy.

They make fraud easier. They do not make it easy. Lots of election data is public and analyzed by all sorts of people. Any big jump in turnout or shifts in the voting pattern of specific communities will be noticed and investigated even if it is just by hobbyist and journalists. Therefore the fraud would need to be incredibly widespread and only change the results subtly. Since elections are run at the local and state levels, at least in the US, it would need to be a huge operation in order to make enough small changes to accumulate to a result changing level of fraud.
I don’t think you can build Go’s coroutine API in Kotlin because Go ensures you can never starve the scheduler. For instance, blocking system calls in Go spawn new OS threads so that they can be pre-empted by other running go routines, and most of the standard API is built with stuff like select, poll, and epoll so you never have to worry about blocking the scheduler. That’s not how Kotlin works, right?

So, while you can have a similar syntax in Kotlin, the overall systems will have different semantics.
This was the first thing I thought of when I read that. I was like, "Is this the author being cheeky and not really saying what the phrase is, or did someone who works for the bank think they were being clever re-using this line that a 30 year old movie shows is super-easy to spoof?"
I've had two jobs at pre-Series A startups in Houston with salaries near the low end of that range. A higher-profile, more capital-intensive SV startup looking for someone with a very broad skillset ought to be able to pay more, shouldn't it?
"My voice is my password" brings back memories of hacking banks, only in Uplink. What?!? How is this security? Even back in 2000 this is a bad idea. It's even worse today.
It goes both ways.

If you win the lottery starting a company at the right time, are you really the best mind of the generation or just lucky?
Probably both. It’s fairly common to be able to add your work email to your personal phone. That gives the Outlook administrator the ability to monitor what’s installed and remotely nuke data.

It’s extremely useful to get your work email on your phone when your job requires you to be somewhat available all the time which represents a lot of senior jobs in the EU institutions.
https://birdvibes.com/what-kind-of-cookware-is-safe-for-bird...

https://www.thespruceeats.com/is-nonstick-cookware-safe-2246...

https://pets.stackexchange.com/questions/20434/how-why-is-no...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3276392/

https://www.liquidimageco.com/is-any-non-stick-cookware-safe...
> I have, in my younger years, where all the non-geeks seemed to have satisfying social lives and I didn't.

Note that while I agree that autists are often isolated, the phenomenon you described exists for neurotypicals too. It's the social network paradox: most of your friends will have more friends than you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
I encourage people interested in this topic to read up on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level. I flippantly refer to it as "MMT without the magic". But it really did a good job of explaining our current situation.

When you have a long-term fixed rate mortgage, only some of the value is paid off by principal payments. The rest is being paid off naturally by inflation. Imagine paying off a mortgage made in 2003 dollars with dollars you made in 2023. The payment is the same, but only a pittance of the same value.

The theory goes that inflation is not completely a result of monetary policy - there is also a market adjustment of the dollar to the amount of government debt issued. To oversimplify, government debt will be paid back - if not through taxes, then through inflation.

The implication is that MMT gets it partially right - worrying about debt to GDP is somewhat irrelevant. And if it can issue debt at less than the rate of inflation, the government can get free money! But we are clearly well past that point.

The silver lining is that default is not really a risk here (maybe a political one) - inflation will cap out whenever the value of the money "catches up" with the debt level. (That said, if we continue to add to the debt, that means inflation will never stop).
I think expecting first class rail travel during a major war is probably the most entitled attitude I've ever seen on HN.
I got laid off in November (not faang). I was going to wait until the right position came around, but as the lay offs kept coming in January I jumped on the first non-terrible opportunity. If the music stops I don't want to be without a chair.
Please elaborate on what you mean.
> “Most Googlers will now share a desk with one other Googler,” the internal document stated, noting they expect employees to come in on alternate days so they're not at the same desk on the same day. “Through the matching process, they will agree on a basic desk setup and establish norms with their desk partner and teams to ensure a positive experience in the new shared environment.”

If only, there was an easier solution.
This is a really great point.

I feel like I have three levels of thought - unconscious, unprompted and active. Unconscious are what you'd imagine - I don't actively think them (like I don't hear the thought in my head), but clearly something's happening in my brain that's affecting my actions.

Unprompted and active are both things that I hear in my inner monologue or picture in my head. The former, as the name would suggest, are things that I'm not trying to think about - intrusive thoughts are certainly an example. The latter are things that I am purposely shaping my thoughts around.

Active thoughts are almost the only thing that come out of my mouth (if I'm very surprised, an unprompted thought might come out). Would I have that same level of control here?
I think you should stop sending crickets. It might annoy prospective employers.
> what safeguards to we have

We have the government and mainstream media and big tech all telling us that it's totally impossible for anything like this to happen and penalizing us for talking about it.
I went from London to Barcelona and back by train. On the way down, a sleeper from Paris to somewhere like Perpignan, then a morning express from Perpignan to Barcelona, and on the way back, daytime TGV from Barcelona to Paris.

The return leg was far better.

Getting the sleeper train means hanging around in some dingy third-rate terminal waiting for it to leave. I didn't really sleep on the train, because even though they run it slowly, it's still pretty loud and bumpy. I shared a cabin with a well-behaved friend, so i wasn't even mixed in with strangers. Changing trains in rush hour was not fun. In the end, it took me long enough to recover in Barcelona that i could have stayed over in Paris, got a TGV that morning and not been far behind.

Whereas the TGV back was a TGV. Comfortable, nice scenery to look at, decent bar for a train.

If you sleep more heavily than i do, or if there is some real value in being at your destination earlier in the day, a sleeper might be a good choice. But in the age of high-speed rail, i don't think it makes much sense.
Which the feds can always do since they can issue money.

The relevant question is can the US continue producing goods and services that are desirable on a global scale, one of which is a trustworthy society where you can mostly depend on the judicial system keeping things in order, for better or for worse.
Apple Arcade on Apple TV is pretty good for kids. There’s some really nice actual games there. My seven year old has enjoyed Sneaky Sasquatch, Assemble With Care, Simon’s Cat, Alba, Lego Builders Journey and What the Golf.

All have had interesting aspects to them. Exploration of large world maps, manipulation of 3D objects, spatial and physical reasoning. There’s plenty of reading too.
> Do these companies not expect to grow in the future?

Yes and wages were outpacing that growth, so as soon as someone took the first step, all the big tech companies piled on in short order. And, low and beyond, offers appear to be down right now. Mission accomplished?
What was "good change for Russia"?

Provisional government had a lot of decisions or rather "undecisions", for example regarding land policy. For which there was a huge support from peasantry. Then it's questionable position on war.

Provisional government was what it is -- provisional. There were a lot of disagreements between majority of people and old elites. At the end, old elites lost.

And what " murderous genocidal shit" are you talking about? I will not argue about excesses in repressions, as they clearly existed. But can we call them genocidal? Then, if you talk about Holodomor -- it's very controversial topic, surrounded by Western propaganda. You can easily find and read Stalin letters to Kaganovich, where you see that they actually tried to solve the problem of supplies but due to poor government organization failed to do so. So in no way it was "murderous genocidal shit", but just a system failure which lead to catastrophe.
The increase of those doing remote work 80%-100% of the week should allow companies to allocate more floor space to each employee in the physical office. Seems like it would be a good way to lure some back into the office as home isn't always a productive environment to work in. Since these workspaces wouldn't be allocated to any specific individual, using a hotelling system with online reservations for a particular space on a particular day would be a nice feature. But they'd need to be productive and attractive spaces, not just an extra ten inches marked out on a fifty foot long table.
> some English speakers will use a possessive form even when no possessive is being conveyed semantically, eg: "I'm going to Burger King's", or "Wal-Mart's is a good store".

I might type "walmart's a good store" in an informal setting (not as a possessive, but as a contraction for "walmart is"), but no American / British newspaper editor would let that through. Its against the rules of english grammar.

I'm curious whether kids in Indian primary school are taught that "the layoffs is" is correct grammar, or whether its just a common mistake (like walmart's).
> Why make illegal donations to politicians or outright steal an election when you can just spend an unlimited amount of money on propaganda to brainwash people into supporting your agenda

Exactly. Election fraud and vote manipulation at the ballot box makes no sense. It's cheaper, much easier, more reliable, more scalable, less risky, and perfectly legal to just use propaganda and media saturation to control/influence voter behavior.
Those short form programming videos perpetuate the parts of this industry I really dislike, particularly the "look you install the latest dependency and things go :rocketship: :rocketship:". They never convey much nuance and are just frankly uninteresting, unless you want to just have passing knowledge of things existing.
Agreed, especially very early stage startups. I'd not work for one of those unless I was the (co-)founder.
I'm often perplexed when I hear people complain about cloud costs. I can't tell if people just have really different workloads than I've experienced or if they just haven't considered cost when they pick their compute, databases, etc. If you use object storage, some serverless database, and some serverless compute a small company (by which I'm thinking "normally very low volume with occasional, very important, often large bursts") can keep their cloud spend to tens of dollars per month and save considerably by not having to manage all of the stuff that goes along with running VMs, database instances, or physical hosts.

Like, I assume I'm the one missing something because people swear up and down that it's the other way around, but I haven't found the happy path for managing hosts (virtual or physical) that delivers on the promise of simpler-than-cloud. There's a disconnect somewhere because I'm sure there are a lot of people who can't find the happy cloud path that delivers on the simpler-than-diy approach.
More than half of YC startups don't have a dot com
Confusingly, while this betting strategy is the original "Martingale", it's not really what's meant by the term in probability theory.

An intuitive explanation of martingale in the more technical sense is simply that "your best guess for the future value of a series is its current value". I.e. on average it won't deviate up or down from where it is now, regardless of past values.

But, crucially, that applies at any given time. It means that every time the value moves up and down, you should reset your expectation and believe that whatever value it is now is the new normal.

Some things that are not martingales are

- processes that are biased to move more up than down, or vice versa,

- processes that are mean-reverting, i.e. when they have gone up for a while they are likely to go down again, and

- more generally, processes whose future value can be predicted better by using more information about their recent past.