skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should've added this comment from the SEC, the entity that just authorized this ETF:

"""

Though we’re merit neutral, I’d note that the underlying assets in the metals ETPs have consumer and industrial uses, while in contrast bitcoin is primarily a speculative, volatile asset that’s also used for illicit activity including ransomware,[4] money laundering,[5] sanction evasion,[6] and terrorist financing.[7]

"""

- https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gensler-statement-spot-bi...

What other ETF exists for an asset that the SEC closes its statements about like this?
Is there any guarantee that if this goes wrong (let's say ETF's are hacked and lose their BTC) then assets in other ETF's are safe?
Let's say BlackRock ends up on the hook for billions after their BTC ETF goes wrong. Are my shares in iShares NASDAQ 100 ETF safe?

I want to make sure I don't have any exposure to crypto world by owning stock ETFs. If there is any scenario that I am on the hook for crypto nonsense going south I am going to sell and just own selected stocks instead. I would greatly appreciate someone providing clarity on this issue.
Most people don't have nearly inexaustible amount of energy, so they need to rest and recuperate (merely just sleeping will not do it for them). So, if they have a demanding job, the 40 hours of week of having fun outside of work will largely consist of vegging on the coach in front of some TV show, or some similar low-energy activity.
It’s very common in Norway. Many IT people are member of NITO (Norwegian Society of Engineers and Technologists) or Tekna (Norwegian Society of Graduate Technical and Scientific Professionals).
Maybe it's a marketing issues.

Actors and other have "Guilds", lawyers have a "Bar"...

(sure the other two you mentioned have unions but...)
If this is merely the result of a change in weather, then Sundar Pichai must be the god of the winds.
I'm certain that they will soon release anything that promises more subscriptions. ChatGPT for Family, ChatGPT for Gov, and so on...
Your post-script is something to consider.

I should've added this comment from the SEC, the entity that just authorized this ETF:

"""

Though we’re merit neutral, I’d note that the underlying assets in the metals ETPs have consumer and industrial uses, while in contrast bitcoin is primarily a speculative, volatile asset that’s also used for illicit activity including ransomware,[4] money laundering,[5] sanction evasion,[6] and terrorist financing.[7]

"""

- https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gensler-statement-spot-bi...

What other ETF exists for an asset that the SEC closes its statements about like this?
Never knew about this link, I have requested not to train on my data but can we even confirm if they will honor it?
That's why we now have the Vimes Boot Index - https://www.vimesbootsindex.co.uk/
The reason they ran out of money is because they were spending more than they had - and then spending even more, exactly the same as today. That has nothing to do with deflation. For instance one obvious cause is that the Roman Empire kept increasing the size of its military. By the time it collapsed, it had its largest military ever, by a wide margin. Again, table [1] here. Note also that is just nominal forces, it doesn't include the e.g. Barbian forces Rome also began integrating into its military machine to try to keep everything going just a bit longer.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size_of_the_Roman_army
If they can't win the not-war they're fighting against Russia, what is their huge military stockpile supposed to do? If it isn't useful here, they can't use it.
> Why not in the US?

How many large tech. companies has Europe produced ?

Why would (or even: could) anyone start/build a cutting-edge tech. company in Europe given the hell that labor laws are over there ?

Labor laws in Europe are a giant hindrance to economic growth.

People in most European countries have made a political choice: safety and stagnation over wealth and growth.

That's their choice, fine, they're free to do as they please in their own house.

But when you make a choice, you can't ignore the consequences of these choices.

That's why "not in the US":

Different political choices, betting on growth, agility, innovation, running fast, and yes -- ooooh, what a terrible thing -- taking risks, and among others that employment may come and go because the world is not a static place.
I once pondered about a much stronger version of this problem, where not only you don't know which segments are faulty, but also you can't tell one state from the next state that is identical to the previous (i.e. no forward button, nor known update interval), and you don't know which variant glyphs for some digits are used. I was partly motivated by digital clocks in a bus, which I could never continuously observe, explains those changes. Obviously they had a great impact on the number of possible states---somewhere around ~100K states---and my attempt to draw a reasonable graph out of them was futile.
Even if technically Apple is capable their predatory business models will never make me consider any of their products worth it.
Print tether then. Same result.
> if bitcoin were to go this way

It is already strongly headed this way. I have recently seen an auction by the respected house (Sotheby's? maybe) that was heavily marketed as the first one with crypto currencies accepted.

Turns out, as it is customary with marketingspeak, in their terms and conditions they mean something entirely else: payments are only accepted from a couple of US crypto exchanges. So, no blockchain and no crypto at all.
I'm fairly certain I used one pile for functions that were broken down to multitude of poorly named ad-hoc helpers.

Bringing in the logic into one place then enabled me to eliminate dead code, redundancy and pinpoint bugs that were hidden deep inside helpers but could only be recognized as bugs in the context of the rest of the algorithm.

Sometimes veritable forest of helpers reduces to a single short, clear function.
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yes, both of these things happen! I don't have the studies at hand, I remember I read this as part of Slime Mold Time Mold series on obesity
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I actually had Sweden in mind when writing it.
The idea that you must retire from tech before 50 is so incredibly false I have difficulty believing this view is even shared here.

Perhaps in some of the "trendy" "bro-culture" startups you'd have a more difficult time as an older developer but even in those places, the level of experience and skills older devs bring can be extremely valuable.

But say you were laid off in your 40's, now what? Well, there are so many bigger, less volatile companies out there with solid pay that are desperate for senior people with experience. There's also consulting for those who have spent a career building up a network of contacts. You can still leverage those old contacts for future opportunities as well.

Governmental work and such is also a place where age is not a concern. Here I agree you might not make as much money but employment is always available to developers who are skilled, experienced and flexible.
I wonder what does this mean for the "Everyone can code" movement (bootcamps, initiatives within Google and the like, government funding). They keep saying that you can get a high paying job if you do a 9 month course. When the best of the field are getting laid off, I wonder how long will the "Everyone can code" movement survive
"x did bad things, therefore, x is responsible for this other bad thing" is a fallacy.
Plastic industry explosion is last 40 years. I think today almost nobody remembers Pepsi or Coca Cola in glass bottles. Suddenly it has become more expensive to wash bottles than to poison people and the planet.

If you enter "pepsi" in image search then all it's there is plastic bottles or aluminum cans.

Apart from "water producers" (sic!) the largest plastic-producing industry is kids' toys. Think all the guns, kiddie bikes, cars, dolls and a lot more. Plastic toys wrapped in plastic, breaking after 1 day, or a week, then thrown away. Or kids growing up and toys thrown away as well.

Or parcel shipping. Even the smallest item sent wrapped in enormous amounts of stretch wrap with bubble wrap inside.

Or theft protection: a micro SD card a size of nail wrapped in 20-cm long and thick plastic to prevent it being easily stolen.

Governments around the world are more than happy to tolerate all that.
That is a valid point. But no, the company has been around for 31 years and I have only worked there for just over 8 years. I am confident however that no large-scale layoffs ever happened there, because I have heard all sorts of harrowing stories from "back then", abusive managers and the like, but layoffs were never mentioned.

Might be survivorship bias though because the people that could have been laid off in the first few years cannot be there to tell the tale, of course.
Re "we have access to top line numbers".

Consider that that's only a part of the picture. Revenue minus costs, combined with the growth dynamics and constituent nature of both tell a fuller picture. Top line alone is almost meaningless
+1 super curious
That website is built on rails, no js stack (beyond stimulus). Our newer, embedded version, is built on Elixir / Phoenix.
A lot of discussions around AI replacing devs but AI can really replace management. It won't happen by itself due to conflict of interests.
All of us? HN is quite a big place. Is HR ready to be DDossed with applications?
Of course, io_uring has had many security vulnerabilities, as it essentially forms a new ad-hoc programming language with its sequencing operations and doesn't seem to have a cohesive story around security. It will likely suffer many more vulnerabilities. This is presumably why many corporations, including Google, limit its use in production.

As a lot of complication and issues seem to be around sequencing and the adhoc language, hopefully the community will eventually settle on using eBPF for all programming within io_uring [1].

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/847951/
Huh, it really looks like it's not coming back this time. It has been offline for ~6 months. At least most of the quotes are backed up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230701000000*/bash.org

https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes
Wiktionary seems to suggest that wholistic is an acceptable alternative, and, futhermore, that both are neolgisms

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wholistic#English
I can only speak for EU (Ireland) domiciled ETFs, but there shouldn’t be any possibility of such contagion: something highly liquid like NASDAQ 100 will be 100% physically replicated with the assets held by a custodian. The collapse of a separate ETF that happens to have the same manager will not have an impact on the rights of shareholders of another ETF to the assets backing the fund.

I know nothing about the legal vehicles used for US domiciled ETFs, but I would assume the situation is the same.

Talk to a financial advisor before making decisions based on this information.
> It only means they're doing one thing right: income > expenses. Beyond that, revenue tells us nothing about how they're increasing it.

That would be profit, not revenue. Still, in terms of profit they went from $25M to $4.5B.
Honestly as long as a company has enough variety internally I (slightly) prefer staying with until they "go bad".

Now I also prefer startups and my carrier isn't yet that old (like ~8 years) so never is still the answer.

Through companies being often way less likely to give a trusted long term employee a payrise or trust them with more responsibilities then they are to do so with a new hired employee they have hard times to properly judge the skill of is still an (absurd but not IT specific) issue.
> they can never stop you custodying the bitcoin yourself.

They can and will stop you from actually using real bitcoin stored onchain. It's a strong trend and one that is quite troubling.
As someone who follows AI pretty closely, this was unbelievably helpful in understanding the parent post. It's crazy how much there is to keep on top of if you don't want to fall behind everything that is going on in AI at the moment.
On PC the natural emojis are added on hover. When you hover again a different emoji is put in its place.
global warming is actually peanuts compared to worries of previous generations, like the cold war, school kids got instructions on what to do if an atomic bomb would fall on city!

stress and worries are from all times
Not that I am insensitive to one’s predicament, but who takes 9 years to become familiar with a domain? Unless it’s some kind of software that runs a special kind of nuclear submarine that no one knows how it works and no one want to change more than one line of code per year.
Given that we're talking about the US, this:

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...
> increased Wind power

It will depend on what kind of storm are we talking. Depending on wind speed, wind turbines may need to lock their gearboxes to avoid falling apart.

But arguably yes, increased wind power before and after a large storm perhaps.
Its unmanned; even if it should crash its not catastophic IMO
Correct. We dropped adsense as soon as we could. We now work with, and integrate directly with, the super funds themselves. Often it was those super funds that were advertising on the site via google adsense. We've effectively cut out google as the middle man. But we also now offer a lot more than advertising for the funds.
> it would have skyrocketed

How so?

Costs were cut, but cutting costs doesn't do anything to increase gross revenue, nor does it do anything to increase the user base.

You can't just cut your way to making a profit on a $44 billion investment.
There is a chapter about coupling in the free sample [1].

And it is essentially your point.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38944611 -- https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/dead-code-getting...
You are correct. They regularly pass laws and regulations with the clear intent to hobble renewables rollout.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/power-grid-adviso...

They'd likely be doing much better if not for that.
Not to nitpick, but it was US-EU-satellite, France falls into the second group not the satellite group. A better example might be Montenegro, or even Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine which have all chosen to head towards the EU (at varying speeds).

Australia, NZ, Japan, and South Korea are potentially better examples of direct US satellites. They still have plenty of sovereignty, and their own cultures, but would I suspect, end up in difficult place if US vanished in the blink of an Eye.

A lot, but not all, of it is shared values around democracy. In a lot of ways the US doesn't actually lead this at all. It's the biggest player on the block, sure, but not the best example.
What a weird thing to get offended by. It mentions kqueue, sure. OP is just noting that it's a near ubiquitous thing nowadays.

Cool your wits.
As opposed to the US dollar, or euro, or ruble or ...?

I will never understand how people fault crypto for not somehow magically solving the world's financial ills, as if humanity has ever had another (successful) plan for wealth distribution. How's that communism working out?

Crypto is meant to solve the trustless distributed ledger problem, nothing more, nothing less. Expecting human nature to somehow change because of this technology is ridiculous.
Exactly right. The malls in Asia fit the lifestyle very well, being well integrated into the daily commute and easily accessible to so many within the community. These malls are some of the nicest places you can go and offer tons of restaurants options, boutiques etc that make each one feel unique. It's incredible how much better it is than what we have in the states IMO.
Nah, Spain has crap salaries, and I have never heard of unions here.
My bad—I meant GPL.
I've swam with dolphins there. It's really beautiful for how accessible it is as a snorkeling spot
let me understand: you played with a software vaguely related to the topic for 5 mn and it was enough to decide that 50 years to make happen a mission that was never done before is a scam ?
> Why would ETFs become a main way?

About 70% of the S&P 500 stocks are held by mutual funds or ETFs rather than individually held.

If you trade stocks and would like to buy bitcoin (as an investment) are you going to do it with an ETF through your broker where the money is protected fairly well by law and insurance, or manually and make sure you don't loose it, or through an unregulated crypto exchange?

Use of Bitcoin as a currency (for buying things) has dropped from 57% in 2019 to 32% in 2023, the rest is speculation and inter exchange transfers
You might be interested in a pure Zig implementation of these primitives by Mitchell in his "libxev" event loop library: https://github.com/mitchellh/libxev
> What makes you think that the kids of tomorrow are going to give a damn about today's notions of what's valuable?

Why would this change my assertions?

In any case there are a myriad socio-political views and values represented in blockchain/“crypto” projects. It’s not all hypercapitalist libertarians…
Are you saying that "BigHead" kind of devs are doomed? And why does Google keep laying off people? You would think that they would do the relevant calculations and fire everyone they need to keep the costs down. The multiple rounds speaks of incompetency at Google. Given their unssuccessful attempts at besting OpenAi, it is not surprising. But still it is kind of scary to see how Google has become the old Microsoft and how the OpenAi is now the new Google
Well, on port fwd, maybe if you forward the mosh server port would work. If you use SSH itself as a tunnel, the setup it's far complex, as mosh is just a remote shell.

Still, mosh curb-stomps ssh on latency, input guesssing, data saving and bandwith usage.

Using that over 2G was a literal black/white difference compared to SSH which was nearly impossible to connect and the latency was unbearable. Under mosh I could chat, email, nntp (they still are some good newsgroups), IM over jabber/telegram, read news over RSS, code in C/TCL (jimsh) and read the docs with links, among reading books (novels and essays) with some CLI epub reading script.

Yes, I also used tmux on the remote machine too, mosh+tmux work great with each other. Albeit mosh resumes a potentially lost/dropped connection just fine (even without a running remote tmux/screen), I think tmux itself would send less data over the wire.
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There is Aldi in the US. Trust me when I say that it isn't comparable to Wal-mart.

Walmart is more like a bunch of stores. You can buy car tires, clothing, food, a playstation, vitamins, diapers, curtains, house paint, alcohol, tobacco, a gun, a coffee pot, a mop and a sewing machine in one stop.

Now, I understand that I'm in Norway, an immigrant, and haven't been all over europe, but I've not seen such a place that sells such a variety under one roof and one brand name.

And about the crime rates: Malls in the US started their downturn years ago. It wasn't the crime rate - I suspect it is just the assortment of stores and location and the increase in online shopping. Unlike here, I'm not usually going to find a grocery store in a US mall - traditionally, they didn't tend to sell practical items at malls. It generally isn't going to be convenient. And ordering online probably is cheaper, considering the travel time and stuff.
I don't see this comment going down well here regardless of how much truth there may be to it.
http://lua-users.org/wiki/SandBoxes

There is a lot of information there, but it doesn't seem to be able to handle resource exhaustion, execution time limits or even give any guarantees. It does indicate that it's possible to use as a sandbox, and has a decent example of the most restrictive setup. But I would for example compare it with Luau's SECURITY.md.

From https://github.com/luau-lang/luau/blob/master/SECURITY.md:

> Luau provides a safe sandbox that scripts can not escape from, short of vulnerabilities in custom C functions exposed by the host. This includes the virtual machine and builtin libraries. Notably this currently does not include the work-in-progress native code generation facilities.

> Any source code can not result in memory safety errors or crashes during its compilation or execution. Violations of memory safety are considered vulnerabilities.

> Note that Luau does not provide termination guarantees - some code may exhaust CPU or RAM resources on the system during compilation or execution.

So, even luau will have trouble with untrusted code, but it does give certain guarantees, and writes specifically about what is not covered. I think that's fair. And then libriscv.

From https://github.com/fwsGonzo/libriscv/blob/master/SECURITY.md:

> libriscv provides a safe sandbox that guests can not escape from, short of vulnerabilities in custom system calls installed by the host. This includes the virtual machine and the native helper libraries. Do not use binary translation in production at this time. Do not use linux filesystem or socket system calls in production at this time.

> libriscv provides termination guarantees and default resource limits - code should not be able to exhaust CPU or RAM resources on the system during initialization or execution. If blocking calls are used during system calls, use socket timeouts or timers + signals to cancel.

So, it is possible to provide limits while still running fast. I imagine many WebAssembly emulators can give the same guarantees.
> And this goes both ways, employees can go out as they please.

Spoken like a man who never needed healthcare, who never had dependents, who never lived under the cage of a visa.
Low salaries in tech in EU is not related to unions. Most software jobs are outside of unions. There amount of money in the EU industry is lower and people are ok to low salaries. It is an open market: people are getting paid bare minimum.

Covid and remote work shift changed a bit, though. Salaries in the EU tech grown dramatically.
The Mono VM is about twice as fast, V8 is even a bit faster: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon/blob/master/testcase...
> he's not more prominent in Indian (or international) politics.

The general Indian public does not like intellectuals.
https://nitter.net/SteamDB/status/1745190618781962662
This viewport is very misleading. Startups don’t produce the most innovative tech _because_ they’re less secure.
Fair enough – there's nothing wrong with expecting systems to be able to be ran in dev mode suitable for running locally or within test containers, and that would be my expectation as well.

As you say, the inner monologue writing style of "I have this server and this thing and tried this and also I don't like this" may have led me astray as it didn't feel particularly focused, so it wasn't super clear what the complaint actually was.
Yes, you need to stop hiring, great call.

Have they stopped hiring? Uhhhh...

That really tells you all you need to know about the cynicism.
Lol, Bitcoin is p2p.

Ignore this at your peril.
One of my employees once wrote a specification for his vignette correction algorithm in Postscript.

The illustrations and charts were actual examples of his algorithm, being executed at render time.
The average male height is 176cm, but I'm 187. LIES I TELL YOU! PURE LIES!

aka, some folks on HN don't know about statistics.
Being an asshole while in charge and then back to nice, empathic person once he doesn't have any power over other people any more
I think this will likely last at the very least until the end of 2025 if not more. Companies seem to be delaying laying off all the people they need to layoff. To become strong, we must first experience weakness