skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best analogy to this field and the many, many problems it might run into is biotech. This is actually
quite funny because in the early days the main analogy to biotech was the computer / state-machine.

For some background, biotech has undergone many booms and busts in the last half century; unlike the last tech bubble, these booms and busts have flown somewhat under the radar.

In fact, Jurassic Park, written in 1990, is actually
a book /about/ the late 80’s biotech bubble. There is a really fun part in the book where they are talking about making miniature dinosaurs that will only eat Ingen-brand dinosaur pet food (Ingen was the company behind Jurassic Park).

Anyway, with biotech, the problem has been, again and again, the assumption that a system is radically simpler than it. Biology is so incredibly complicated that it puts the largest engineering book I have, a 1500 TCP/IP protocol book (No Starch) to shame. I mean at least we know how TCP/IP works. With biology, the manual might be closer to 900,000 pages and we only have 40% of the table of contents and maybe 800 pages (out of order) so far.

BEST EXAMPLE: In the 70’s, once large portions of the genome started to be identified and linked to specific genes that were known to cause traits or diseases, it was widely assumed that creating/reading/updating/deleting genes on DNA would be relatively straightforward, particularly as more of the genome was uncovered. However, as was later discovered, many traits or diseases might be the result of 200+ genes that are also used elsewhere. Turn off just 1 gene for a disease, and 1). it won’t do anything because you didn’t turn off the other 199, and 2). oh wow that gene was actually used for something else and now you’ve lost the ability to form eyeballs / are born without anything in your eye sockets.
Curious what you mean by "There literally isn't enough electricity in the world."?

BTC uses the same amount of energy to produce an empty block as it uses to produce a full block.
yeah they only let most people withdraw 10k a day. some guy owed millions on taxes but couldn’t withdraw it fast enough to pay..
> The crypto space is being refined, which is a good thing

Honest question, is this a parody account?
Robin Hanson recently wrote a non-fiction book on the topic looking at what standard economic and sociological models say would happen if this were possible.

http://ageofem.com/
Yes. The implication is come to Vegas and do wild stuff with no one at home the wiser. The contra is a favorite t-shirt I’ve seen at the airport: What happens in Vegas stays on Facebook and YouTube forever :-)
My personal (unproven) theory is that the non-profit model works well for ventures that require very little entrepreneurial judgment, but poorly otherwise. Vanguard basically follows that: they mainly sell index funds, which a well-trained monkey can run.

Similarly, it makes more sense to have a non-profit coffee-buying employee group to buy coffee (at places that don't provide it for free) rather than pay a vendor to bring it in. But that's not because profit-making is an inherent drain on efficiency, but because the "judgment" that those profits are "buying" ... doesn't add much value.
I'm surprised you found creating attributed strings and CTLineRefs was acceptable. These are the main bottleneck in iTerm2's renderer, and I ditched them when rewriting the renderer in Metal. Since ASCII is an important fast-path for us, and other than ligatures in fonts for programmers there's no need to go through all that machinery. Did you do anything clever to get around the slowness of creating NSAttributedString's and CTLineRef's?
>Trashing the planet for future generation is certainly reprehensible and not particularly clever, but it isn't narcissism in the official psychological sense. (DSM edits aside.)

I absolutely agree. My point is more that, the hidden criterion in basically every entry in the DSM is, can they make it work?

If you're in and out of jail, psychiatric care, or homeless shelters, you're far more likely to be of interest to a psychiatrist than somebody who is 'high-functioning', simply because the notion of treatment only makes sense in the context of suffering, and treatment only works if the patient actively participates.

My point wasn't that older generations are narcissistic. It's simply that, those in younger generations who have the same mindset probably would be - since you would find them in the aforementioned homeless shelters, or at the very least, in deeply dysfunctional material circumstances.

Equally, as culture shifts, so do attitudes towards what we consider appropriate empathy, self-love, grandiosity, or self-involvement.

So across the generational divide, sound strategies like 'follow your heart' become things that only people who are severly, practically dysfunctional would say - since it's neither in keeping with the material circumstances of the new generation, nor in keeping with their discourse.

EDIT: I just realized I thought you were responding to me, then realized you were responding to the poster above.
I agree. Async is critical. It's very important to catch the need for async early on, and then implement as async from the get-go. Going from sync to async is pretty much a rewrite, and no fun at all.
>There is nothing inherent/unfixable in Bitcoin ... bad for payments in a technical sense

I would agree, but the point seems to be more about the current state of Bitcoin. Without technical changes that incorporate lessons from other currencies, Bitcoin is indeed terrible for transactional payments.

I only follow this stuff casually (never had any Bitcoin), but it seems that Bitcoin maintainers have heavily resisted changes that would allow Bitcoin to become transactional. And discussions about implementing technical changes leads to some of the more political fighting I've seen on HN.

Therefore, Bitcoin may not have technical limitations, but there are political limitations on what is technically possible with Bitcoin.
I have the choice between using a slower processor (96 MHz) without an FPU or a faster one(120MHz) with a 32 bit FPU. I might use the slower one but with a fixed-point implementation.
Thanks for your tips!
This is similar to the old eBay scam where the seller bid on his own items under a different account. If the price was too low, the seller could always bid to drive the price up. If the seller won, it didn't matter. The seller is just relisting the item again after paying himself or cancelling.

I can't imagine how anyone thought this would work; Google participating in their own auctions. At least on eBay, sellers tried to hide the fact that the game was rigged.
That's a patently ridiculous straw man. No single payer system in the world operates that way.
They raised $11. So basically everything went fine. They tried to scam, but it didn’t work so they exited with penis.
4D compiler? That sounds amazing. I imagine that could be extended with a Kafka stream of errors from staging and production. I guess that would require a ‘system aware’ compiler.
So, it's better to sell BTC when the market is higher, and convert BTC back to paper currency. Then USDT could in fact be solvent and possibly earn a profit with the a jump in BTC price. If they have billions of dollars in BTC, it might not be infeasible then to print USDT because their profit would guarantee people would get their money.
> The anonymous Pineapple Fund has donated $1 million worth of Bitcoin to promote and defend free software, computer user freedom, and digital rights.

Question is: when those bitcoins would be converted in real $ money?
The article you linked is specifically about latency. There are other factors that contribute to overall terminal experience such as high frame rate and high throughput. Once latency reaches a "good enough" level, it becomes a non issue, and frame rate and throughput remain. Alacritty excels in those areas (there's even a table in that article demonstrating Alacritty's high throughput).

There is also a plan[1] for making Alacritty's latency best-in-class.

[1]: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/673
Research? Largely no, although they crop up now and then in clever ways. They are still very relevant in industry, however.
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> Contrast that to national currencies, where fundamental relationships between rates, real GDP and other factors relating to the economy can be measured, forecasted and compared.

You can measure the exact same indicators for Bitcoin, with roughly the same amount of usefulness. In fact, if you go measure Bitcoin velocity you'll see it's basically zero, what means it's mostly not a currency, but something people are speculating on.
It's also worth noting that the creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was shocked that the software was suggested as a replacement for real psychiatrists - so history repeating itself?

Quote from your wiki-source:

> Lay responses to ELIZA were disturbing to Weizenbaum and motivated him to write his book Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, in which he explains the limits of computers, as he wants to make clear in people's minds his opinion that the anthropomorphic views of computers are just a reduction of the human being and any life form for that matter. [...]
Thumb-2 immediate encoding is even better (and cooler)!

The following classes of constant are available in Thumb-2:

•Any constant that can be produced by shifting an 8-bit value left by any number of bits.

•Any replicated halfword constant of the form 0x00XY00XY

•Any replicated halfword constant of the form 0xXY00XY00

•Any replicated byte constant of the form 0xXYXYXYXY

See page 92 here: http://hermes.wings.cs.wisc.edu/files/Thumb-2SupplementRefer...

There is also MOVT which will set the top 16 bits of a register to any 16-bit value and not affect the bottom 16bits

And there is MOVW (MOV.W) which will set the bottom 16 bits to any value and zero the top 16 bits

MOVW + MOVT allows loading any 32-bit value in 2 instructions (8 bytes)
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> record yourself and see what other shit you say and how you say it, and maybe you'll see what they are really offended at

That's not a point, it's an Ad Hominem.

From Wikipedia: A fallacious argumentative strategy whereby an argument is rebutted by attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself

And no, I didn't think it was worth commenting on because it's one of my most-encountered fallacies and it just gets tiring.
I still don't know what you're talking about. The phenomenon is limited in the sense it doesn't support some of the claims being made. If you can't "talk about a fraction of space where an infinitesimal phenomena is happening" this also would supports that these claims are not credible..
A regular regex doesn't need to be optimized how it is written if the matcher is dfa based because the minimal dfa is unique. Regex engines however are more complex than that, and the structure this shows isn't going to be how it is actually recognized.

This should reallt only be used for understand what regex matches, not as am optimization tool. In that regard it should display the simplest graph possible to aid understanding.
I was thinking of locksmith. It's nice, as you say, to be able to have no more than N nodes per pool restart at any time, so that rolling updates are automatic and in the background. You can't replicate it easily without a cluster-wide etcd and ignition. I forgot about matchbox. There was also good old fleet, but that one is dead.
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Wouldn't it also be possible to see that as rural residents putting on a brave face? The general trend has been towards urbanization globally for the past century or more, and relatively few young people growing up in rural communities seem to be interested in staying in them in the US[1].

1: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-20/rural-ame...
Don't ever keep coins on an exchange. Use a hardware wallet. If you don't have them in your possession they're not really your coins and you can get "Goxed" - ie. the world's largest exchange at the time, Mt Gox, disappeared with most of the user funds.
It's price fixed at the US Dollar.

So if I own USDT, I should be able to convert USDT to BTC (e.g.) or paper money. If everyone converts their USDT to paper money, the organization that backs USDT has to refund USDT to dollars. If there aren't enough dollars to cover the price of USDT selling, then the USDT market goes belly up.

BTC is buy/sell driven through some kind of exchange so the price can float.
As someone who grew up in the shadow of what once was the "Big Yellow Box" I cannot emphasize this enough -- Kodak has very little still going for it and has shrunk greatly. At this point it's probably worth the gamble to them, as that's how dire things are.
lol I actually came here to comment on “what’s with the inserting <Google> into the headline”.

I don’t think it was a bad idea 7 or 8 years ago but now it’s become 1). not clever since it’s been done to death and 2). not likely to generate goodwill since public opinion against some of tech companies, particularly those engaged in advertising, has shifted
I think people are starting to also notice cracks emerge in Amazon's e-commerce quality as it scales, whether/when it becomes enough of a problem to change shopper behavior is another question, but here are some examples I've seen:

- Blatant fake thumbdrives - this entire section is thumb drive scammers using the hack that makes a drive appear larger in system info https://www.amazon.com/s/s/ref=sr_nr_p_n_size_browse-bin_8?f...

- $23 knock-off magsafes rife with fake reviews, that break/fry in days - https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_7?url=search-alias...

- The level of chaos in shopping categories effectively prevents you from doing things like sorting by price or reviews.

In my experience, Amazon is always happy to refund on these things and chalk it up as cost of scaling, but when does it start to become too much, similar to what happened to ebay?
> My point is more that, the hidden criterion in basically every entry in the DSM is, can they make it work?

That's usually not hidden; criteria involving degree of social problems are associated with other of the symptoms are openly part of the criteria for many disorders.
More like betting it all on a single number. Black has a nearly 50% chance of paying off for you; this cryptocoin gamble is way worse than those odds.
Why don't companies just come up with their own designs?
> Skia is definitely capable of good performance, as it resolves down to OpenGL draw calls, pretty much the same as Alacritty, WebRender, and now xi-mac.

This claim is a bit surprising to me. I was under the impression Skia is an immediate mode renderer which ends up issuing a lot GL calls that could be avoided with a retained mode renderer.
Yes, I am confident that there are as many good actors in cryptocurrencies as there are in any other multi-level marketing scheme.
I don't actually. I can publish the emails if you'd like. Not sure what sort of "low quality" comments you have been referring to for the past two years, I'd be happy for you to point them out over email.

And how is this thread "borderline"? I explained some info on LibreOffice, as I'm a contributor!

Incidentally, this was on the front page only about an hour ago, and now it's on the third page. Curious how this came about?
An aside: the title is a great example of context sensitivity. On first glance, I interpreted the title as some serious bug in garbage collection algorithms/Systems (as in, they open some library that was an abandonware).
For my small ventures ( <1000 euro) I've used bitonic.nl.
A dutch site using the standard dutch banking system iDeal.
First time I bought it took a day for a test transaction of 0.01 to confirm my holding the account.
When I recently sold (back to that same account) I received the money by 13:00 of the next business day.

Not sure how this works for non dutch citizens. Presumably a dutch bank-account suffices.
They don't seem to be an exchange though. Instead they are essentially market making, keeping their own supply. You don't have an account there. Instead, when selling they present you an address to send to, and when buying you give them the address to send to,
Moving 500 BTC there in a single trade would probably exhaust their supply. At the moment they report 250BTC+, I've seen ~150BTC the last few times I checked.

Still, it seems to be an actual functional on/off ramp for BTC - EUR.
I entirely agree with you, other than your interpretation of what Krugman was getting at. He never brings up this as a political/leadership problem, and the great discussions that this would bring. He also is making a general argument against cryptocurrencies elsewhere, which makes it appear that he thinks that this is a property not a state.

If I were to write an article criticizing the cryptocurrency space, I'd talk about politics, regulations/lack there-of, currency risks/lack of cheap risk mitigating instruments, and how bearer instruments are crazy risky. He addresses the issues that I'd expect someone who hasn't observed the space enough to address.
Yeah, but that has nothing to do with the service they're offering. It's a service with random blockchain stuff grafted on.

If you want to use tokens as store of value or medium of exchange, go use something like Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.
Tether offering 0.2% interest PER DAY to shore up more USD
Did you perhaps mean to write "pennies"?
One thing that maybe differentiates it in the way you’re defining it: you can really see it.

Gold jewelry, trinkets have social significance, and have for quite a long time. Crowns, regal adornments, religious altars, etc. are all ostentatious displays of gold, and whatever power structure exists to show it off.

The counterpoint to this Is maybe that all of the US gold is housed in secret? Most nations don’t actually display gold wealth in the ‘traditional’ way? These aren’t rhetorical questions, I’m genuinely curious if I’m seeing this from a sound point-of-view.

Nobody’s wearing bitcoin crowns or sitting on bitcoin thrones. Is there an equivalent? Does it even matter?
A fully loaded X is $151,000 + taxes and license. My fully loaded Odyssey was $48,000 including all fees.

I've been in other $151,000+ cars before, and the X isn't anywhere close to that.
> So instead of people saying that Bitcoin is inherently worthless all the time, maybe we can just agree that it's going to take a lot longer than ten years and a lot of swings both up and down in the price before we start creating enough of a "heritage" to come to an informal consensus on how much they are worth

The history of non-fiat money (like gold) is that of candidates being knocked off, practically never added to, the list. Over time, new financial technologies (e.g. better refining, bimetallism, paper money, central banks, deposit insurance, et cetera) were demonstrated to be superior to gold (and its subsequents) in the context of a growing modern economy. People debated--extensively--each shift. Rational arguments were put forward, tested (and rejected), refined and, when fruitful, propagated.

Each of gold --> bimetallism, commodity money --> redeemable paper money, redeemable money --> "backed" money and backed money --> fiat had a rational argument (and demonstration) for their transition. Those arguments are one way; they don't work going backwards.

Gold remains as a legacy, a memory of where we came from. It's here, and has been replaced. (Analogous to old programming languages which remain in light use because of legacy code. You wouldn't clone their obsolete elements, justifying said clone with the legacy language's use.) There is no argument for "neue gold" because the same arguments that worked, cumulatively, over the centuries as society progressed, against gold work against the new thing. The comparison to gold is one of false equivalence; hence the fallback to "whatever we feel it's worth."
Actually I've yet to find anyone who has successfully done it. I suspect that they pretend to do it but don't actually do it in practice.
This sentiment comes up in almost every crypto thread and I think it's a bit misguided. It's referred to as crypto because...that's how people know it.

Google trends explains my point better than I ever could.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
Doubt it.

https://twitter.com/thelateempire/status/957527371221028865/...
they did not.
When the top comment is (at least partially) made-up anecdata, it deserves calling out, even if the tone could use some work. Perhaps next time I'll quote pg.
Sure, that is always the case. But the historical process of a board choosing a CEO has no comparison to an external figure running their strategy in a new, largely unregulated, wild wild west industry.
Product quality issues of the above types leave me deeply skeptical that they are ready to be a health care provider.
I'm guessing this was their address: https://etherscan.io/txs?a=0x931d387731bbbc988b312206c74f77d...

It was a very small ICO, something close to 2 ETH.
> Turn off just 1 gene for a disease, and 1). it won’t do anything because you didn’t turn off the other 199, and 2). oh wow that gene was actually used for something else and now you’ve lost the ability to form eyeballs / are born without anything in your eye sockets.

Certainly not on the same scale, but this resonates with my experiences with legacy code.

I think this similarity is more than superficial. Energetic systems evolve over time to become tangled, correlated messes, without some other force counteracting this tendency (ie. refactoring). I wonder if DNA has analogous mechanisms.
Yes but... any other company could do that instead of paying dividends? What makes AMZN so special?
Well, one anecdote doth not a trend make.
I'm not the biggest fan of Keynes, myself. I'm assuming that's what you're referencing - since of course, the rest of the industrialized world also enjoyed unprecedented prosperity.

But for my sakes, I honestly think the idea that blowing stuff up just so you can build them again is a bit more abstract than the question demands. After the war, many nations, the USA included, produced large and comprehensive social programs. This undoubtedly wasn't that great for the economy in general (the US share of global GDP steadilly ticked down for the entire period, putting an end to a century of rapid growth). It was however, undoubtedly great for Americans in general.

Between 1975 and today, until a few years ago, American share of world GDP hasn't gone down all that much, indeed, it's descended less than it did in the period between 1945 and 1975. The USA is richer as a nation than it has been at any point in its history. It's simply unwilling to pay for all the New Deal stuff.
> David Chalmers has spent the better part of his career trying to arrive at a consensus definition of consciousness. It's not exactly fair to fault the author of this article for failing to do so.

It is, however, fair to fault everyone who purports to make claims about the relation of “consciousness” to anything else (much less everything else) who cannot define how “consciousness” is used in their claim (which need not be a consensus definition.)

Such claims are inherently without substance and impossible to even meaningfully discuss, much less prove or refute.