skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What if the economy is "broken" but not in a way which produces a "crash"? Prices are higher now, but many companies have improved margins; they're raising prices faster than their costs are increasing.

There is a less charitable and more realistic explanation for that: quantitative easing injected a massive amount of cash into the economy, and low/negative interest rates are pushing said investors towards riskier investments to park all that cash. Consequently we see a massive volume of institutional investments in things like real estate, the stock market, and even crypto.
Montaigne said that he didn't understand why someone who was writing a book would care whether they died before finishing it.
Not Bitcoin itself but the price did - and this aged perfectly well: [0][1]. Did people really think that last year, Bitcoin was going to $100K?

Actually, we are going back down to earth again. After all, this is even before regulations are coming for cryptocurrencies. So who knows which ones will survive this.

As for those who jumped into Bitcoin at >$60K, you are going to be waiting for a long time. I hope they didn't FOMO all in with their life savings, loans and everything they had at $68k last year then.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27206314

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26937131
Nobody who knows what they are doing, and uses statistics, can flip from something being definitely true to definitely false. At best, they can find overwhelmingly convincing probabilities close to 0 or 1.

Honest scientists who use statistics do not make such a claim that an effect does not exist. Rather than the experiment that was conducted did not produce sufficient evidence (to a numerically defined standard) which justifies believing in the effect.

That is to say, that the existence of the effect, given the results of the experiment, has a low likelihood, and that low likelihood can be statistically quantified.

What that means is that exactly the same results as were observed will, or would, with a high probability, also be observed if the experiment occurs in the null hypothesis universe: the world in which the effect is absent.

So even if we are not in that universe (the effect is real), the experiment didn't show it.

The experiment simply doesn't discriminate between the null hypothesis and its negation to a level that could convince one to hold a probabilistic belief in the existence of the effect.
It's not so bad now.

You might be forgetting how bad it was at first. In fact I'd argue it was worse than initially feared, and the developer's supreme arrogance did little to help.
That does seem the kind of thing that upsets religious people. It wouldn't bother me, an atheist, except it's part of a broader targeting of muslims that occurs across western europe and at every level of society.

It is, of course, a total coincidence that most muslims are brown.
I wouldn't call it a bubble. This is just what human species always do – building a pyramid of classes (castes). With a chain of command. And with the only sense of life in it – climbing to the top. Everything else is secondary.
For all the hate Bitcoin gets because it’s obviously in a bubble market, can we at least agree that it is an astounding engineering achievement that an anonymous individual and a small group of researchers were able to build a network capable of transacting billions of dollars of value with only 2 service incidents in 14 years? All without any meaningful service costs and no hacking of the network, despite huge incentives.
Well, you described it as a "windfall for the OP" which really isn't accurate. Accidentally charging customers is a nightmare, and payment processors (rightfully) see large numbers of chargebacks as a red flag which can result in frozen funds / locked account. I'm not sure that the gem authors are benefitting from this either; it's open-source and they've probably lost users as a direct result of this article.
For folks that are living under Internet censorship regimes, would you be able to bypass these blocks by changing DNS servers?
The idea being that you can have a local :53 resolver on your network, and resolves these names over an encrypted channel to cloudflare or other DoH (DNS Over HTTPS) encrypted DNS provider.
This will prevent the internet provider from messing with your unencrypted DNS traffic.

Some options here:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/encrypted-dns/dns-...
This will only work for a handful of very nearby exoplanets, unfortunately.
What's the motivation of building this?
In my experience it's usually JVM at these companies, not specifically Java, and certainly in recent years more and more teams use Kotlin for backend services.
At this point I’m averse to anything from non free nations. I’ve started to take that into account when shopping.

That’s not a criticism of the individuals there, just a recognition of the conditions.

Admittedly that’s not any easy thing to define all the time.
> I can print a piece of cotton/paper that looks like a US dollar bill, manipulate it and with enough effort make it look convincing enough to fool someone in to thinking its a real dollar, then go to the store and exchange it for some good. I simply cannot do that with a Bitcoin.

This is true but rare because it’s harder to do than it might seem and the U.S. Secret Service is quite good at shutting down counterfeiters. This costs less as a fraction of the economy than operating the Bitcoin network does, and it still provides true anonymity.
I've never been one for being hyped about telescopes, but I am particularly excited about the images that this one will come up with.
I second that. I've been using Startpage almost exclusively for about 5 years now and love it. The only time I use DDG is for image search because that's the only thing where I find Startpage lacking. Since I left G+ around 2015 the _only_ Google domain I ever visit is YouTube (in a container).
The parent comment suggested that Matrix would support stories and the first implementation (which I guess could be considered the reference implementation) is called "FluffyChat"...
My ponderings: central bank economists are truly confused why the real world is not following text book examples, and they are still reluctant to admit mistakes.

(factoids I don't remember sources for:) Chinese export volume is higher now than in 2019, meanwhile there are fewer US jobs. If true, the actual cause of inflation is money printing; supply chain overload is an effect. Everyone knows the effect on asset prices.

The central banks can reverse these trends ("bursting the bubble"), but what will break if they don't? At some point social stability starts to break down, more riots, political movements gain momentum, and so on. Either that, or they have to take down the stock and housing markets.
The 1890 law that’s blocking thousands of Black Americans from voting
Some of the incumbents have existed for more than a century, saying that they're not capable of changing manufacturing technique is quite silly.
> Find the smallest prime number that is divisible by 7 and 13.

A truly intelligent machine would parse that question as:

Find `the smallest prime number that is divisible by 7` and `13`.

then answer with the correct set of integers:

7 and 13
with the caveat that if the embedded on motherboard security chip/crypto key repository inside your apple device has decided to lock/freeze/brick your phone, laptop or tablet, it's basically become a hunk of garbage.
Interesting suggestion. We're not interested in advertising, but would consider collaborating with law firms that work in this space (consumer protection / privacy). I have a lot more to say about this so message me if you're interested.
I have Xiaomi. I doubt it can "censor" me as the only time my phone connects to internet is to download map updates to OsmAnd offline navigation software. The rest of the time it functions as just a phone. I do not even have data plan. I have another spare phone where I keep software that controls my various gadgets like drone etc.
Redshift and mirror diameter. There is very little old light, so to see further, you have to collect more light to have a chance of catching those ancient photons. Also, due to expansion of space, the older the photon, the less energy it has, so you have to look deeper and deeper into infrared.
Amazing feat of engineering. NASA can be proud of achieving something that no other space agency could do. It took courage to keep shovelling money and effort into this project and some amazing science to get it deployed into space.
Operating by fiat? Because they can.
I‘ve often heard that Tesla had to built much of their automation machinery themselves because there were no suppliers that could build „the machine that builds the machine“. This seems contradictory to your statement, do you think there is no truth to this kind of stories?

Edit: I’m also wondering why Tesla is supposedly able to produce a car in 10 hours vs. about 30 ours for the traditional manufacturers? E.g. https://www.torquenews.com/14335/elon-musk-manufacturing-wil...
Proving Douglas Adams correct. The question is harder than the answer.

This makes the "at scale" claim in the abstract clearly false IMO. Any AI system that requires that much human intervention is not scalable. When they have a second AI to produce the prompts automatically from the original questions, then they can claim to have achieved scalability.

But even without that, a system like this can still certainly be useful. And I expect rapid progress in the next few years.
I wouldn't touch BTT. BitTorrent is owned by some private company now.

The creator of BitTorrent has gone on to invent a new type of cryptocurrency (proof of space+time)
You can buy goods and materials with visa though. Not sure people want to wait 30 minutes to buy a cup of coffee with bitcoin.
Except that webhooks are often client-private. Consider, for example, GitHub repository webhooks, particularly for private repositories. Storing /events in a global CDN cache is a privacy nightmare. The GitHub API has strict usage quotas and I'm sure that the engineering effort for doing that at GitHub's scale is non-trivial.
DDG is Bing. You all know that right? This is just another alternative Microsoft product like Ecosia and Yahoo.
It's humid. It can't be comfortable in a mask while outdoors. Will be interesting to see the science on the impact of not being able to communicate with facial expression for a chunk of your developmental years. Maybe it will be nothing, but probably not

Yes, I'm in Austin. Love it. Knew I'd love it. Was just a matter of time before we got here. Yes, there's a broad political spectrum with people here, but by and large, people are kind and friendly. Glad I bought a house 1.5 years ago. Can't see things slowing down any time soon.

Thinking about a move?
Using the broadest of definitions sure.

My point is that there’s nothing artificial about crypto. These are real people buying real assets from other real people. Not some banks hawking bullshit assets that are artificially rated by some corrupt pseudo government entities.
I don't necessarily agree with it, but market cap is essentially the standard metric for how we measure value in our economy. If Apple goes down 10% people care because they're worth trillions and lots of people lose money. If a mid-size company goes down 10% a lot fewer people care.
While using your appleid as your system login?
I don't think most or even many programmers would say it is "impossible" to write a Forth interpreter in Bash. If you changed "impossible" to "worth the effort", I would agree. For the same reason it's (in the absence of real constraints), it's not worth the effort (nor impossible) to write a Forth interpreter with a hex editor.

From an interviewers perspective of "value", I would be both impressed at the perseverance demonstrated, but horrified at the deliberate masochism.

>completely maintainable

This is far less maintainable than a clean Forth interpreter written in Java. Maintainability is relative, so saying that something "is maintainable" has no meaning unless you compare it to something else.

>absolutely there is value in creating something as a vehicle for developing your abilities

I agree, but applying that to this is like saying "let's learn to build a house by using a hammer that has no handle, and a saw that is made out of raisins."
https://www.manning.com/books/api-design-patterns
Because China is well know for keeping their censorship within their borders. Right?
but if mistake is made, and you wrote down L instead of 1, and sent me in a e-mail. I, knowing that it is crockford 32, would easily deduce what mistake was made.
Wish I had one so I could troll them with offensive search terms.
Contrast a chain with double links, where if any link fails another is entirely capable of holding the load.
Is there a reason that those foreign investors like Vancouver specifically so much? People have been talking about the sharply increased prices in Vancouver for some time now -- so I'd think if you were looking for a safe place to park 1.5M you might prefer to buy 4 houses in Winnipeg or something?
I went up x,xxx% from basically nothing though. Going up the same percentage in the next five years from the current price is another story. I wonder if this might be contributing to the popularity of NFTs as a new, alternative thing for people to risk their money on.
UK Census 1921 – 100-year-old secrets revealed
It is a lot of volatility, but it's also weird to compare an index to a single security.
> I'm guessing there weren't any real experts in the group

You're right. It was overwhelmingly SV types.
The Codex Input was written by a human.
No, I'm not missing that. First, you're not "dark" -- it's pretty easy to get a sense of what the market will pay. There are tons of resources. The average company is not getting better information than you are about regional salaries, which is all you really care about. If nothing else, you can find this information by just going out and negotiating a few times.

Second, the big companies will (sometimes) pay for salary data, but this information falls in the "what the company is willing to pay" bucket. Again, that's 50% of the information to make a deal, and you don't need to know it. From your perspective, it doesn't matter if they got their salary band by consulting a survey or a magic 8 ball. Maybe it affects the level of faux outrage they show when you ask for more, but then you're just back to negotiation.

Said differently, if you know you're worth $X, and the company believes that the statistical average human cog in Barnsville, Nebrahoma is worth $Y, what do you care why they believe that? Your job is to find the highest number between $X and $Y that they will accept, based on your unique value. Their job is to convince you to join, and maybe get that number closer to $Y. Their justification for $Y is not your concern.
Thanks, I think I kind of get it now. But now my follow up question is, what stops me from just recruiting, say, nine other people at least as old as me, give them each 10 strawberries, and then collecting the payout afterwards?
Oh, I thought that one of the projects to build a real-world replica Titanic had finally succeeded.[1] No such luck. It's just a 3D model. Nice 3D asset, though.

The effort to restore the S.S. United States is still stalled. Latest scheme is to make it into a stationary hotel, but that was three years ago and nothing happened. Sad. The problem is, even if the ship were fully restored, few would ride on it. It's a passenger liner built to warship standards. It was able to cross the Atlantic in 3 1/2 days. 20 watertight compartments and watertight to 40 feet above the water line. Redundant engine rooms. There's none of the recreational stuff, or open interior spaces, of cruise ships. It's for getting there in a hurry, not recreation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replica_Titanic
Bitcoin is down ~40% from its all time high in October 2021. It may still be in a bit of a bubble, but there's also an argument to be made that gone down enough that it's now oversold (or nearing oversold territory). And when bitcoin goes down, it takes pretty much the rest of the crypto market with it, with very few exceptions. I personally don't think we're currently in a bubble for crypto.

The rest I do think are in a bubble and are probably overdue for a nice correction. I'm not sure what will trigger it, though. Maybe if/when the Fed raise the interest rates? I don't know if that'll be enough by itself, though.
You can move the region and thus move the mouse actually:

From: https://www.semicomplete.com/projects/keynav/

> The following is the default configuration:

h : select the left half of the region
j : select the bottom half of the region
k : select the top half of the region
l : select the right half of the region
shift+h : move the region left
shift+j : move the region down
shift+k : move the region top
shift+l : move the region right
semicolon : Move the mouse to the center of the selected region
spacebar : Move the mouse and left-click
Congrats on making and launching this. Both of those things are quite difficult.

As kind of an acid test, I searched for "Repo Man" (in Films). It doesn't seem to be included in your database. 21 other films were displayed instead, none of which seemed particularly relevant.

This isn't a complaint. This aligns with my interests, and I hope you succeed. But the back end needs more work.
Like many Node dependencies
Where is the link saying that is even their token?

Anyone can launch one
All fiat currencies go to zero eventually as well. Good luck timing it.
> Now if we have to think of Apple as a hostile entity that is doing the same shit as microsoft, it makes me very disappointed.

It's sad and disappointing but not surprising in any way. The immutable truth is we simply can't trust these companies. We need to cut them out of our lives as much as humanly possible.

Linux is flawed but it's ours. I hope we continue to have unlocked computers to run it on forever.
Please don't quote me on that, as it was academic work in a given language and a given library and might not be representative of the whole ecosystem.

But in a nutshell, on OK-ish CPUs (Xeons a few generations old), we started seeing problems past a few thousands points with a few dozens features.

And not only was the training slow, but also the inference: as we used the whole sampled chain of the weights distributions parameters, not only was memory consumption a sight to behold, but inference time quickly grew through the roof when subsampling was not used.

And all that was on standard NNs, so no complexity added by e.g. convolution layers.
Disclaimer: not a cosmologist. We can see back further with other instruments, just there's less to see.

The universe's history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_universe#/me...

- We can see the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the earliest photons after the big bang still observable. This is ~14 minutes into Jan 1 if the whole age of the universe is a year. Satellites like the WMAP have done a great job of that.

- The dark ages that follow had few photon sources.

- JWST will be observing the earliest stars following that era.

There's a proposed radio telescope (that would have to be on the far side of the moon!) to observe neutral hydrogen photon emissions from the dark ages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_Radio_Explorer
Homestead: A startup to help homeowners split their lots and build new housing
A monthly report I read[0] predicts a crash this year.

[0]: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/mtec/chair...

[1]: https://er.ethz.ch/financial-crisis-observatory.html
I like this approach of creating a token to play with and see what comes out of it.

How easy or hard is it to do something like this?

What would be the legal implications in Europe if you do this?
Earlier I felt like we are in a bubble and I was expecting a pop and for things to come down. Now I’ve changed my outlook due to the mass printing of money and lowering of interest rates. I just think we have higher inflation than we are being told and it’s even worse in specific areas. Will the market “pop” if your dollar as significantly less buying power but the original asset has kept the same value? Maybe inflation speeds up and the market keeps growing double digits.
Any time I get garbage on DDG, the same garbage is on Google with identical query.

Only reason to use Google for me is some extra features like site:xxx (it looks like they added this one to DDG finally).

I am honestly very happy that DDG is so great and I can't stop supporting dark Google patterns.
Some people were stuck for over twice that long.
Handling “None” values in Rust (web comic)
2016 called and wants its arguments back
> if anything bad happens you're just a drop in the ocean and the company couldn't care less about your issues

This is certainly true for companies like Google that very famously refuse to provide customer support.

However, companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Apple provide robust, free customer support.
Hehe yes this site aint trustworthy at all… just wanted to make a joke :). But bananas are rly in the top 3 cargo shipped goods on most lists

Art is used to lounder money … I dont know how much of that makes it via cargo but it has to be something. And sometimes cars and other big things are art. One artwork could easy fit one container … oh and 3d printed stuff. Company have to ship that too …. But arts ranking seems way to high….but searched for us imports and found this … https://www.titlemax.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/the-most...
This has changed and now the last author in a long list is the most valuable.
One thing thats really strange is duckduckgo is getting a boost of traffic from antivax people. Go on twitter and most every post is antivaxers/conspiracy people encouraging users to try DDG vs google because DDG doesn't suppress some random posts.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22duckduckgo%22%20&src=typed_q...
This one was really interesting to me because this kind of observation didn't exist when JWST was being specced out. We didn't know there were that many exoplanets around that we'd want to look at.
Thank you for the article. It says that BMW doesn't economic reason, but Audi and Mercedes are adopting it.
Who would pay my profits if it all blows up?
Bigger market caps means bigger market makers with far more liquidity, so an average trade is much smaller in the grand scheme of things. When there isn't as much liquidity and smaller volumes, the market will move more quickly.
>It simply points out that buy and hold crypto is not guaranteed to be better than something like SPY

There are no guarantees in life, much less in financial markets of any kind. The whole concept of markets is that different investors make different assessments of different assets.
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4lzxs3/why_did_a...

quote:

"What most systemd critics consider "bloat", I consider necessary complexity to solve a complex problem generically."

endquote
There is a meaningful service cost, it's just paid for by mining. Environmentally there's also a massive cost, one that is not offset by the benefits bitcoin brings - which is primarily financial speculation and scams.

Cryptocurrency is probably one of the worst inventions in recent memory.