skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically this is exactly what bitcoin fixes. Fiat currency is the main cause of these issues (look up the Cantillon effect as an example). It's a cancer on the world, slowly destroying it.

I highly recommend reading "The Creature from Jekyll Island" which explains everything that's wrong with central banking/fiat currencies and will help you understand the devastating effect it is having on the world.

Sure, there is a transfer of wealth while bitcoin is monetizing. But you buy bitcoin at the price you deserve. Michael Saylor deserves everything he's going to get. He's a visionary with balls of steel - he's laid it all on the line. If you try to avoid making bitcoin whales richer by not buying bitcoin, you'll simply be cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The people who are the best at bullying will win in that system, and that typically aren't the weird nerds. Nerds can bully people, but such systems tend to filter those out in the long run in favor of more socially skilled people who are much better at bullying.

Note that the worst bullies tend to be very popular people, popular bullies are harder to deal with since everyone will side with them.
Yeah, I know. That's why I specifically said a preparer and not CPA despite the thread topic.

I just searched the site of the person I used (it's a private family company, not one of those cubicles set up in Walmart) and there's no mention of "CPA" anywhere on their site.
Gold's value is mostly disconnected from it's utility. We've just decided it's valuable for a longer period of time so less people question it.
> What makes you think your architect can't draw on the blueprints?

Nothing until the architect hands them to someone else in violation of both the CCSA and the EULA which the distributor claim apply to all of the published material. I can’t believe you linked to that nonsense and can’t understand why it might be objectionable.

I’m not saying anyone would come after you or care if you add some different dormers to your cabin or whatever; I just maintain it’s unreasonable to think that you can fold CCSA content into the existing framework of architectural IP and expect that everything is gonna be cool. It’s incompatible.
I agree with your point, but I do think he raised something you're not addressing. Because i'm paid, bank, etc. in USD inflation means someone else (whoever is given the first access to the new money) is in effect stealing some of my wealth. I don't really see how this is true with Bitcoin. Nobody is forced to engage with it
That's also not true. Home insurance in rural areas is insanely expensive, assuming you can get it at all. The insurance companies explicitly refuse to subsidize high-risk houses with low risk premiums. This is why it's also becoming unaffordable / impossible to get flood insurance in parts of Mountain View / East Palo Alto.

On top of that the California state government has allowed the insurance cartel to form an artificial monopoly, and then funnel new plans into it, where they can charge a large multiple of fair market rates to homeowners (due to their monopoly status, and the fact that they're an association that was formed by the companies that conspired to refuse to cover the house). Of course, they provide terrible customer service and refuse to pay out after natural disasters.

Here's their web site:

https://www.cfpnet.com
Do you need multiple files? Since you can store credentials for multipl users and host combinations in the same file.
It’s not the first time Valve are doing something similar without any action from Nintendo. Nintendo is notorious for its lawsuits and Valve is not taking any chances. Earlier they took down Dolphin emulator from Steam, because they were worried they’d get sued by Nintendo, despite Nintendo hasn’t contacted Valve on that topic in the first place. While it seems wrong, it might have saved Dolphin team from any troubles with Nintendo legal team beforehand, since they were shipping Nintendo’s encryption keys with the emulator.
As a hedge of what against what?

> if the Feds keep on printing USD under political pressure

Have you looked at the economy in the last two years? The Fed has been burning USD at an unprecedented rate!
It's a blog post with a bit too many pictures, but the gist is:

This is the other way new living space is carved out of a wildly overpriced city. It works because it doesn’t exist on paper and the authorities haven’t yet discovered all the ways it violates a thousand cherished regulations.

Since housing costs so much (in the SF Bay Area), people are (illegally) living in buildings which aren't supposed to be used as housing.

But this eventually leads to situations like the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire.
This is the ultimate idiotic abstraction of financial capitalism that I have seen yet. What value does investing or trading in bitcoin bring to the economy? Absolutely none! And you all wonder why there’s rampant inflation and the huge separation of wealth.
This works only under the assumption Github won't change the current DNS setup that happens to work this way. A trivial example would be adding a record for the specific subdomain one used directing it to some completely different IP address. Not something I'd be willing to bet on, especially considering the much cleaner solution from the original post.
Some things to think about:

1) You still have a job

2) The company is still in business

3) Just because there was a round of layoffs doesn’t mean there will be more

4) But of course there may

5) But that is always the case, your job is never totally secure

6) If you do not already have a backup plan in place, thank the stars for the headsup to get started on that

7) A plan is a good antidote for anxiety, and in this case may consist of: savings, ability to lower expenses if needed, building and maintaining a professional network, being interview ready

8) Making a decision is another good antidote for anxiety. Decide to stay or decide to leave. If you stay and get laid off, use your plan.

I’m not sure I agree with the suggestion to quit and find another job simply because your company had layoffs. There is no guarantee the new place won’t have layoffs too.

If you don’t already have a network, you have a perfect opportunity to start one here by reaching out to keep in touch with some of the laid off folks.
This course is a great intro to some of the “workhorse” models for recommendation systems: https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/recommendatio...

The same general methods are also relevant to other matching problems, like search.

Disclosure: Work at Google, but not on anything related to this course.
Feigned confusion
For us Netflix has been replaced, we don’t keep subscribed to it as everything they have that we want is available elsewhere and with better deals. So personally I would say it could be the Steam of streaming; if Steam was split into many more platforms which all provided a large chunk of desired content while Steam wallowed with the scraps for revenue via price-gouging and account limitations.
>... but I never understood what many on HN have been so cynical about Bitcoin.

Eh, I think you actually might! Hell, you said it yourself - the mob always wins in the end. It doesn't matter what Satoshi made, the mob took it and made it into something else. It's what Bitcoin turned into that HN is collectively cynical about.
Micron unveils compact and power-efficient laptop memory module
“The US is more diverse which is why we have more problems” is just an old racist talking point.

It’s such embedded racist trope that it’s hardly recognized as such - much like how the vast majority of Americans conceptualize Africa a monolithic country. [1]

Nothing more and it’s not even based on reality

[1]Derwent whittlesey famously remarked: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2293706
It's also clear that the floor between levels doesn't have insulation. I'm not sure where the OP got that all the blocks/insulation was the same.
most cryptos are just like Bitcoin.... not sure what you mean
The article refers to posts simply sympathetic to the Palestinians. Are they trash too?
Most notably, almost all of them seem to be using Coinbase. This makes them a probably unprecedented target for attacks of all kinds...
Thanks. I've been using these sites as well to watch the trends:

https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/senior%20software%20en...

https://www.trueup.io/job-trend
This is a great reference. I hadn’t seen this before. Thanks. No idea about the effectiveness now vs then.
> I believe more than 20% of Israeli people are non-Jewish.

You are giving them the benefit of the doubt. The domestic realpolitik calculus would rapidly change if e.g. they grant all Palestinians full Israeli citizenship. It's easy to be "nice" when one side is a minority.
I find I have to do my taxes with turbo tax twice just to make sure I get it right and inevitably there is a problem the first time.
I know very little about USB-C or PD.

Two of my laptops give me a physical 'buzz' sensation when charging via USB-C. Is this because they're not grounded? Should I be worried about the issue at higher wattages?
Oh those were the days of my youth...

ex. 2:5077/7
You lost me at "enterprise-grade".
I'm pretty sure the current shrink in the job market has nothing to do with AI.
In most states, with regulated utility monopolies that present a very limited menu of options for regulators to select from, the politics of the utility management and the regulatory board are important drivers on the generation mix. But also profit, and utilities make more profit with higher prices under the regulated monopoly model.

In Texas, with an open market for generators, profit is the primary driver of the generation mix. But the difference is electricity generators make more profit with lower cost generation methods, the exact opposite of regulated utilities.
You sign a message with your private key. This has been solved since day 1 of bitcoin's existence.
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> That's like Robinhood users telling me they pay zero trading fees. Then how does RobbingHood make money?

I was reading a book about that recently, it boils down to: "You're not [just] the customer, you're [also] the product."

Key term: Payment For Order Flow (PFOF) [0], with the book-paragraphs I was thinking of down below:

____________

> Retail investors have one hugely attractive property when considered by a professional – they’re dumb money. Not only are they unlikely to have private information, a lot of the time they haven’t taken care to consider all the public information. When the party on the other side of the trade is a small investor (or a lot of orders from small investors all over the country, ‘bundled’ by a retail stockbroker), you can be reasonably sure that you’re not taking too big a risk that the person selling stock to you knows something about it that you don’t.

> This makes retail orders very valuable to the market. One of the reasons why stock brokerage commissions are so cheap these days is that retail brokers have actually realised how valuable they are. They charge a quite substantial fee to players like the high-frequency traders for the privilege of dealing against their order flow, and they rebate some of this fee to their customers. But the retail orders would eventually dry up if the customers lost too much or felt that they weren’t being given a fair chance. And without a steady flow of ‘dumb money’ lubricating the wheels, the professionals would find it a lot harder to trade, as they’d always suspect each other’s motives for buying or selling.

-- Lying For Money by Dan Davies

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/paymentoforderflow.asp
Curb was good. Havent seen the newest season.

Gomorrah, haven't but thanks for the suggestion, ratings look great. It'll go on top of my list.

For foreign stuff, I can recommend Persona (original title Sahsiyet) -- I got distracted so never finished, but it was well made and highly rated on imdb.

You have good taste in shows. You're welcome to message me, if you want, email in profile.
It's hard to make that promise too, what happens when the fork requires that you expose 200 bits of your private key to make a transaction?

What happens when the fork snapshotted the chain at some arbitrary point in the past such that it's not possible to match it up with ownership of the ETF?

There have been 'forks' of altcoins made where the 'official' software was expressly backdoored. They even lead to some fringe exchanges being robbed.

There was a brief flurry of forks when exchanges felt compelled to list them-- they were a way for altcoin creators to avoid the huge listing bribes demanded by exchanges (which also has made it so that only premined altcoins are viable to create anymore)... but after exchanges decided to stop listing them (and esp Archer v Coinbase established that exchanges could just keep the fork coins, if that was their policy) most of the fork creation stopped.

(somewhat to my saddness: diligently dumping fork coins made me a lot of money...)
A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death (2020) [video]
What do you mean? self-custodying BTC is still unrealized gains until you sell, so no tax either.
Bitcoin's value lies in its potential as a secure means of payment for microtransactions and its integration with advanced technologies like the Lightning Network. Its worth is tied to its perceived future utility in various domains, particularly in facilitating transactions over APIs. The recent ETF news contributes to its liquidity and stability, essential for its role in digital transactions. As the technology and applications around Bitcoin continue to evolve, its true value might become more apparent, potentially transforming the landscape of digital commerce and AI interactions.
I was happily paying a CPA to do my taxes for maybe 6-7 years. He charged me something like $400/yr, which I thought was very reasonable.

He decided it was time to retire, recommended another accounting firm in my area, and they charged me $750, and all it was was an Intuit frontend where I had to fill everything out myself. I did that one year, then I switched to FreeTaxUSA and was super happy with it.

I probably would go back to an individual CPA if I could find one like the guy I had, but I've been burned by the first CPA and this most recent one. 1/3 isn't a good prior.
That's a good thing in my opinion. Don't give me a set of 25 controls, instead make it easy to make my own. Because no matter what you include in default controls, I am going to need 12 more.
That sounds like you are totally winning!

If everything is urgent, that is a strong symptom that you completely lost control and you should not be running a project.

The value you add as a decision maker is making decisions that mitigate the risk of being in a scenario where everything is urgent, that is, a crisis. If you are constantly in crisis mode running for your life because you failed catastrophically.
If only the "systems" we were considering were meant to provide limitless and virtually free electricity (nuclear), which is congruence with the "systems" of reducing poverty.
Sure, being able to rebalance without incurring a tax bill is nice, as is not having to worry about procuring the right type of tax forms since your brokerage does most of the work for you.

But is there actually a difference for pure buy-and-hold investors in most jurisdictions?

I know of at least one jurisdiction where an ETF is actually disadvantaged against physically holding cryptocurrency.
Having lived in Texas for a long time, I know many folks who never saw any racism there.

I've seen racist things happen in Texas, often, but many of my friends who live there (including many smart, kind people who I love) have not see racist things and don't think it's an issue in Texas.

I can't comment on Israel, I have never lived there.

I can say that living in a place doesn't guarantee that people will see oppression in a place.
NTSC DVD native max resolution is 720x480 (ignore more depth like overscan) that isn't 16:9. So most 16:9 titles uses non-1:1 PAR to display 16:9 that isn't ideal for quality. Though anyway any DVD quality is now considered poor regardless of aspect ratio.
Good point, I should have said vertical oval bokeh. Desqueezing will produce slightly horizontal oval bokeh, but the tiny bokeh balls that smartphones are capable of being ~25% wider (not 33% as advertised) is going to make fuckall difference. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV-GGmTiyyc
In addition to AI and macroeconomic factors, I think it’s very much related to the Section 174 tax changes at least in large part.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-75

This was discussed on HN the other day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38931860
A toy-inspired kirigami pattern and its kinematic performance (2021)
the doc site doesn't have this problem because it doesn't make a giant single archive of code that loads slowly on a single core. lighthouse doesn't even record the flash. most of the pages are getting 98/99 performance scores.

i'm sure if you webpack the crap out of it bundling hundreds of dependencies into the same parse, it'll perform poorly, but well, stop doing that.
Funny to think back on all those HN/Reddit stock threads parroting “anyone can put a video on a CDN Netflix is doomed lmao” as if being responsible for a double digit percentage of the entire internet’s bandwidth was some intern project.
"Break in" in a modern web app pretty much happens the moment you access data you aren't supposed to access. Not damaging anything is irrelevant. I mean, no one destroyed anything in the Equifax hack. They just retrieved all the data.
I visit Thailand frequently with my family and drunk driving is rampant there. I never drive there after dark due to the danger.

Anecdotally I have also noticed an increase in driving aggressiveness there over the last couple of years (mainly, how aggressive passing behavior is on two-lane undivided roads that are prevalent there).
One of the reasons to have a mono repo is to avoid the mirroring of PRs between repos. If you have 40+ repos and each time a package gets updated and you need to raise 39 PRs to bump the package. It's getting really old to do mirroring etc.

Not sure how this is an improvement over using a mono repo
It's not a "trick" just an acknowledgment that overbuilding wind/solar generation capacity does nothing but waste money and fail to significantly improve outcomes.
I didn't know what submechanophobia was ,
Is it really common to have a word for itself ?
That complexity, and the administrative growth that has risen to meet it, is not endogenous to academia.

In the US, it's a reflection of the regulatory environment that colleges now have to operate in, vs. say, the early 1960s.
“The way is shut. It was made by those who are dead.”

- A senior engineer’s message to a junior engineer, probably
My experience is that nerds are perfectly capable of bullying other nerds. Or, more accurately: nerds are able to convince Nerd Group A that their contributions, merit, etc. are worth whatever deleterious side effects Nerd Group B feels. This is not the case for non-nerds, who aren't liked by either group.

(I think this entire framing is misguided: nerdiness is a marginally meaningful social category, and there are plenty of academic departments that are toxic without a single "non-nerd" being present.)
The AI angle is so silly, the lump of labour fallacy will apparently never die. Every layoff article that comes out needs to include a pre and post-pandemic headcount, because many large software companies over the pandemic looked like this:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273563/number-of-faceboo...
Paying monthly to Netflix vs. paying per use with Amazon isn't a subjective difference. If you are only watching 2 movies a month of average, then Amazon is objectively a better deal than Netflix as you not only pay less, but have more options. (Amazon movies are generally $4 or $6 to rent.)
course repo with code and assignments is at: https://github.com/sourcery-ai-bot/MIT_OpenCourseWare-Perfor...
For a small business, floating the difference for that extra time period can be painful.
Or maybe I'm made a hasty generalization. I've used my GV number for years, including with line, and I still make calls from wherever with it, but maybe that's because of its age and that it was ported from a regular cell
I don't understand what makes these different. Are they using custom data sources, or is the only difference the starting prompt that the creator made to tall ChatGPT how to respond to answers?
Ah good point about the recent R&D tax mess, I heard about that. Thanks for the info!
Is that true for sodastream too? Presumably.

I’d hate to have to pressurize a glass bottle. Seems like a not amazing plan in amateur hands even if many beverages come that way.
This 1000%. As an investor, if interest rates aren't zero, why would you put your money in a risky startup when you could park it in a load of other places and still get a decent return? It's also not 2007 anymore, the low hanging fruit has been picked, most things that can be digitised and turned into services have been. You're going to have to come up with something extremely original and brilliant or utilising some kind of new tech in order to succeed on a big scale.

It's got very little to do with AI. Other industries are far more affected by AI than software engineering e.g in my opinion, the amount of graphic designers and copy writers are both going to shrink massively.
Storing the current working directory, exit code, timestamp, hostname, run duration, and nearest .git directory path (workspaces) alongside each command is revolutionary, always wondered if there was something off-the-shelf that can do it.

Its fuzzy searcher seems to start up super fast, even after importing a very large zsh_history.
This should actually be quicker and easier to prove than something like gold ETFs (e.g. SPDR) or other commodity ETFs.

The custody provider (e.g. Coinbase is the custody provider for most of these ETFs) should be able to simply show wallet addresses for all the Bitcoin they hold.
Bitcoin was supposed to be available to anyone. By definition, that also includes banks and speculators.
You must have missed all the recent news and controversy lately.
Sure, any kind of relatively short duration dividend/interest yielder, to give an example. Though it's possible to make extra money with t-bills by trading against rates, no one can say thats a primary driver. Likewise for much of the bond market.
There aren't really that many, not when you compare it to the total number of python/ruby functions that would be roughly equivalent. (Ignoring the fact a lot of k functions operate by default on matrices and other nested structures in ways that python/ruby/etc can't really do at all)

Yes, it's dense, but that's by design. And in a vacuum it may seem like replacing @ with amend wouldn't have much of a difference, which is true. But replacing every character with the same word (which is tricky - because it's hard to precisely define things, and some characters have multiple meanings) would end up with a line of k turning into a page of prose, losing the mathematical nature of it in the first place.
No, I’m saying I’m making no claim on that because I very much don’t want to get into the (very) subjective and context-dependent argument about whether a diet is a good idea for someone or not. My claim is much narrower: CICO works if you follow it. Whether it’s right for you, I can’t say.

(For my part, CICO worked amazingly well for me, and I was able to follow it without much trouble. But that’s just me.)