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ah interesting that this axiom is that old and it certainly rings true. boring stacks are still in heavy demand.

I could be wrong but you know when you sign up for services you have option of signing in with github or other oAuth providers? I think they used this to gain access to various private repos, npms, cloud credentials.

So it seems like if your company had some super secret project running on github, heroku, AWS, they had full access to it.

This is my rough understanding just skimming so could be wrong.

the order books are very thin. if you tried to cash out $100 million on monero it would collapse prices.

I don't think its possible for Musk to ever attain 51%, everytime the price sinks and he accrues shares, they would just choose to issue more shares diluting his equity.

really think Musk knew this ahead of time...but what's his end goal i can't figure out. is it to profit off his purchase? because if he wanted to acquire 51% this is the worst way to do it (creating a hostile board who can at will issue infinite amount of shares)

problem is that it's very hard to cash out. monero for instance.

I wonder if these guys were on r/wallstreetbets, I am seeing more and more blatant pump-and-dump schemes, this time in claiming "short squeeze" and writing call options that never materialize.

i think the biggest point is that it's hard to find developers in a special niche even if it allegedly offers productivity gains, this is negated by increased costs.

clojure was cool, I used it mainly for datomic, but the gains really dont justify relying on public slack channels and mailing lists to hire and find devs.

I really see this from an economic point of view. I could be mistaken based on my own experience dealing with clojure and datomic in particular. I'm just not sure the gain is there anymore as other databases built on conventional tech stacks increasingly more or less take away the gains.

this is like the 7th or 8th inactive HN accounts (haven't posted for weeks or months) suddenly posting on this thread to offer snarky retorts against criticisms of this blog.

my biggest gripe are purchased aged accounts, awards, and coordinated manipulation of opinions in r/cryptocurrency r/wallstreetbets in particular.

there's clearly pump & dump scams happening here. but its impossible to regulate and prove (VPN).

there will come a point where you just can't straight up trust what somebody says anymore on reddit, unless there's some sort of consensus...but even that can be manipulated.

if you go to regional subreddits like r/japan or r/korea, you will notice its not even natives jumping on like r/singapore, its mostly expats and surprisingly quite very prejudiced and biased. You would think people exploring other cultures to be open minded, its not in these circles, its an echo chamber for whatever demographic it represents.

all in all, reddit as a product and value is as good as 4chan. there's no defense or nuanced balanced views with active moderation like you will find on HN.

Hackernews, with its current moderation, that can possibly allow "subreddits" would be far more valuable for me. But lately I also see that HN is not immune from astroturfing and manipulation. It's not hard to see this, you have accounts that aren't active suddenly becoming activated in a particular thread (recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31015328) I suspect these are run by the same person trying to "win" or feels they have something to lose.

tldr: Text based, anonymous discussion platforms are problematic and rife with manipulation and unreliable trust vectors and don't see any good solutions

monochrome monitor here. something about that display that is so calming and work inducing

I really do not like these type of articles. I did X, Y, Z and therefore it is justified enough for me to make overreaching claims.

Video games are still very fun and very profitable for the rest of us. Wish I could mute HN accounts like I mute ppl on twitter, not enough to signal an explicit exclusion but enough for me to ignore whatever they have to say in the future because of misalignment of values in the present.

I'm no lawyer but I can only dream that they might find more stuff to throw the book at him but somehow i doubt this.

How you go and help a country that your own country is at war with, starves women and children, sends a prisoner's entire family to prison camps for three generations where do all sorts of horrible things and spend only 5 years in prison.

People have been sent to prison far longer just because they had a bag of weed on them.

How in the world do you see this victimless? North Korea has been violating human rights in it's own borders and South Korea. It has nukes pointed at Seoul holding it and US troops hostage.

I can't believe he only got 5 years in jail for this. It should've been life imprisonment for aiding and abetting terrorist organizations like North Korea.

Can you say the same for someone caught laundering money for Hamas or ISIS? That it's a victimless crime?

there's just no way to buy em if you are not American as i found out.

You could but you could also hold inverse SPY tickers can't you?

I understand the risks of shorting but its not clear to me say what I stand to lose with $SPXU for instance, is it designed to lose value with time due to the underlying futures contracts?

Good point I guess 2.75 is better than 1.25. laughable that its "inflation protected" but bummer...you need a SSN

I'm okay with 1, 2, 3. This is far better than anything offered by Canadian fixed income products. The reason I'm wary of equities, especially indexes is that its severely overvalued and due for a major correction (30~50% seems to be the consensus by famous bears), and that it feels like its running on fumes post 2020.

So $900 USD * 0.75 = $675 USD risk rate return after 50% capital gains tax ain't that bad. Wish wise I might be able to get back $840 CAD on a ~$12000 CAD investment.

Would be great if I could get the extra 5k limit increase by going the paper option like somebody mentioned in the comments but unsure how that plays out for Canadians.

Do you have to be American to purchase this? What about Canadians? This is absolutely bonkers that this exists, the GIC account I put in pays a measly 1.25%.

Update: so according to this site looks like it is possible but we will be taxed on the interest (50% capital tax!!!)

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/funds/can-canadians-have...

Is there a way to avoid this by putting it in TFSA or RRSP?

it seems they read wallstreetbets as well

I've favorited this comment but why 1.5%? Why not 2 or 3%? I guess that is a big enough move to suggest some shift in fundamentals or some major event in FANG

I am just starting my journey with PyQt6 coming from React/Redux madness. I have a slew of questions if you don't mind me asking to more experienced PyQT developers on HN:

How does the development experience compare to React/Redux? Is there more or less or about same amount of work involved? Learning curve?

What is the general timeline of QT -> PyQT downstream of features like? ex) quick compiler in QT 6.3

Have you built a major application with PyQT? What about QML?

How do you deal with application state like Redux in PyQT?

Are there noticeable performance gains and efficient resource uses vs Electron?

What advice do you have for someone like me venturing into PyQT? I've used Python in backend only so far.

Have you shipped with the fman build tool from mherrmann? How has the process been like?

Is there a browser or "WebView" component in PyQT6?

Much thanks!

Depends where those UIs are on. If you have some sort of agreement set in place where they won't update the interface, then this is very much possible.

If it is relying on an 3rd party platform that you can't control and not know when UI changes are coming, then it can be bad for criticality.

However, I fail to know how urgent criticality is in ETL space, especially when UI changes can be as simple as "theres a new button" or "margin on form changed". The key process features and UI related to it would rarely change.

if you have to ask you are not in the need to know, this is an automation tool for non-developers at various organizations

i wasn't talking about groceries when i mentioned that number

this really is a "let them eat cake" sort of attitude.

its really shocking just how far detached most HNers are from logistics that is hidden. literally the comfort we enjoy is run by people who don't work from home, who are most impacted by prices.

Across the board? At least 25%, 50% in some sectors like foods.

They keep, and some people on HN, keep calling it a conspiracy when you mention actual inflation is a lot higher than reported, my question is what is this crowd's reasoning? Are they so well off that they are not able to see the rapid rise in prices because they use maids to do the grocery shopping?

Why is it a conspiracy to suggest actual inflation is far above and beyond what is reported by the Feds, who are stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to controlling the money markets now?

If they raise rates to match actual inflation they are going to cause the asset bubble to burst. If they don't raise rates than they are going to find hyperinflation that will certainly damage USD's "exorbitant privilege"

and right at the top of CNBC we see

    BREAKING Stocks rebound on hope inflation is peaking, Nasdaq adds 1%

On top of the defaults with China now looking like it won't be able to avoid Russia's fait down the line, with no end in inflation (prices keep going up across the board), with Shenzen and Shanghai in indefinite lockdown impacting supply chains, with BRICS + OPEC signaling they want alternative to USD + crypto/stablecoins impacting financial markets.

We are headed for unprecedented market deflation.

happy to hear that brother, I also note that this might be geographically related, I saw at one point (posting outside west coast 9~5pm) rise to 20 upvotes, and then downvoted (during work hours in west coast).

consequently when I type some comment near the end of the work day, it gets downvoted initially but then drastically attracts upvote outside the said work hour.

those founders were not big enough but Ryan's story seems pretty consistent in highlighting this repeated pattern of ousting founders to create giant returns to justify Sequoia's own raises.

I'm absolutely appalled by Sequoia's behavior and it will be remembered by many. I'm more afraid for Ryan now and thus speaks volume for the elephant in the room.

Don't know if this means I will outright reject Sequoia but most certainly if an alternatives comes along with a good track record, they might undoubtedly receive my attention...

might be unrelated with overall strike but one thing that I never understood is their double standards towards sellers in certain categories, specifically my friend who saw CBD oil being sold on their website, tried to do the same but was rejected because it was an "prohibited substance"

then he listed those existing listings and they were removed but not all, just the ones he pointed out.