skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How would billions of new users get bitcoin to start using it if the supply is limited? They would have to buy it from people who already have it, driving the price up and with it the the ceiling on electric costs for profitable mining -- these scale together.
What's wrong with the source and paper ?
Is Bitcoin an asset or a currency? Because right now it is being traded and used like an asset not a currency.
Why is this recent GPT-3 resurgence on HN? It's already one year old now. Just curious.
Author could have chosen any title. He chose this one. I wonder why.

Nice write-up though, kudos to him.
Oh I agree. For me it was a purely financial decision of "Should I keep paying $100/month for this service I haven't used in weeks or should I put some of it towards another streaming service or two?" And, while I'd like to have it every now and then for live sports, that's not worth $1000/year to me.
I love letting a Biz Analyst handle that. It's a nice luxury.

I get a nice spec delivered to me to code. instead of translating from business people who don't even know what they want? Yes please.
Anonymous money has existed for thousands of years in the form of coins and pieces of paper. Existing laws work for money laundering in cryptocurrency just as well as cash. The problem is not moving money, but being able to spend it. Basic methods against structuring, round-tripping, gambling, black salaries, transaction laundering, work against cryptocurrency just as well.

Just because it's digital and uses cryptography does not change anything fundamentally. If you want to spend any significant amount you need to show yourself. Business must show their crypto assets and transactions in accounting. Financial forensics needs to change very little.

What is called "mixing" in crypto is just form of structuring.
The ability to store actual assets on the immutable public blockchain probably isn't a very desirable feature, lest some joker uploads something illegal.
Very insulting response. Notification fatigue is real, and it’s heavily abused by all apps. Regardless of your age.
Legal limitations are inherently anti-engineering and not useful.
Unfortunately the original doc introducing the feature makes an explicit point to say that the feature does not enable AOP.

First question in the FAQ section:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-c-source-g...
Rust itself for sure. And rust-analyzer. I'm sure there are more. :-)
There are lots of similarities with the early discourse around torrenting sites and links I think. A common argument back then, was that torrenting sites were just like Google, they only contained links to files and had thus were not violating any copyright laws.

If I mint an NFT that just points to some artwork hosted on IPFS have I infringed on the copyright of said artwork? My NFT only contains URLs, not the artwork, after all.

Twitter seemed to have thought of this for their pfp implementation, they have the user upload the image rather than pulling it from the URL referenced in the NFT which puts the copyright violation onus on the user, not Twitter. It was pretty amusing when Twitter released their NFT integration and people started complaining that they weren't verifying the legitimacy of the NFT collections. Of course, the notion of a "legitimate collection" implies the existence of some centralised authority to distinguish between the real BACY and a copy.
First question in the FAQ section:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-c-source-g...
> and you have decent relationships, and you don't have to worry about "am I successful enough?" all the time. "

So the correct thing is not to look for love, money, or being well liked. The correct thing is to be well liked and be well enough of that worrying about success is not needed.

Given the ability to contradict itself in a few short sentences has someone tried to start a GPT-3 for president campaign? It is an American product right?
I really like Discord, but maybe its cus I grew up without internet. If you joined some club (like geology club or something) back in the day, you would show up and ask questions and whoever was there would answer your questions and ye would chat. They wouldn't respond by simply saying "RTFM!!" or "Someone already asked this!"

I think that attitude (like on stack overflow) That they are building some kind of perfect repository of knowledge for the ages from these various question and answers is delusional and has ruined that site in recent years. Most stuff on the internet seems to be highly transitory, constantly getting taken down by DMCA or some other bullshit with new stuff being uploaded in its place. Also the questions and answers themselves quickly become obsolete as tech changes.

Also, simply RTFM is not a good way to learn. There's plenty of evidence suggesting that asking questions and interactive learning is superior to simply learning by rote out of a book. When I'm learning (especially at the beginning, I really wanna ask loads of dumb questions and chat to someone who is already versed in the subject)
False equivalence, of course.

The fact that random groups people from the Old World decided to start colonies without any prior experience or preparation precisely shows that they didn't consider America to be "super-hostile".
That's why I suggest to be wireless
> I noticed that there seem to be more "elsewhere" than "browser" applications of the technology. But we already have e.g. the Mono engine with a proven, standardized IL which already offers most of the WASM features planned for the "elsewhere" use case.

Well, yeah, that is the thing. The idea and similar tech existed ever since P-Code for Pascal (and perhaps earlier) and of course the very popular - at the time at least - Java and its JVM, all of which predate Mono and IL and already had several open source implementations.

However just the tech isn't enough - in fact, if anything, the computing history shows that tech is rarely the winning factor in what gets accepted and becomes popular, it is largely social and political factors. In this case the "social" factor seems to be that this isn't just "more 'elsewhere' than 'browser' applications" but actually "'elsewhere' and 'browser' applications". The fact that browsers support WebAssembly natively (as opposed through some plugin like it was done for JVM/IL/Flash/etc - ie. similar tech) is a big social and political boost that it has. This is where the hype currently comes from.
I've played around with this quite a bit and ended up dejected. You have have to regenerate and cherry-pick pretty hard to get anything resembling an interesting, believable, or funny result. But I am genuinely excited and optimistic that maybe 5-10 years down the line when we can make our own comedy, like a text-only MVP of the Holodeck. Exciting times.
In this case:

> because people were selling tokens of content that did not belong to them

There seems to be some lack of social consensus about whether an NFT is "supposed" to be this or is "fake" if it is not.

I am curious if any/all of these NFT market platforms make it clear in their UIs that the "rules" are you can only sell NFT's referencing content you have rights to?

But in particular, I don't think there's usually any UI about what rights you are supposed to be buying, if any, in the content referenced when you buy an NFT? Different people seem to have different assumptions.

This is one aspect of the whole thing being a ridiculous mess that many of us don't understand why people are spending billions on.

I think this story is not just "bad actors" it's, well, more-or-less intentional ambiguity on the social expectations and/or legal requirements in use of NFTs. Where do sellers on most market places promise that they own the content? Where do they agree they are selling the buyer any rights? If nowhere, then how are they even violating any rules if they don't and aren't? I think they aren't?

But the profit comes from the ambiguity, so the ambiguity is more or less intentional. Making NFTs seem like something they aren't, if you spelled it all out it would ruin the mystery, if the seller has to promise they own the rights, and agree to transfer them, in some legally enforceable way... then what's the NFT for? And why am I paying more for it than I would the legal purchase of ownership of bad art or slighty amusing cartoons in the first place?
One of my biggest issues is that the principles and ideas that come with the open source community are practically shutout by the use of discord. Information does not flow freely, it's locked in a server and it's not easily accessible by other people. It's not indexed by search engines. It might as well be missing completely. Half the time I plan to learn an open source project and learn that the majority of the discussion goes on in Discord, I already know that I'm going to have a horrible time finding answers when I need them so I just search for alternatives.
For what it's worth, I'm even younger but completely agree with GP.

I now only use Discord for voice with two or three friends in a specific "channel" (or is it room?) but even then I would gladly use Teamspeak instead if possible.
Yes, 100% agree about avoiding dogma. Have had that same complaint about certain Austrians, despite finding a lot of it sensible. You’ve definitely convinced me to branch out and check out Varoufakis. I should really try to trudge through Das Kapital at some point as well, given the importance and the seeming misinterpretations. I’ve heard enough people talk about the core ideas and have read books that gave what seemed a decent summary, but I should really slog through the original source.
I can also sit on the beach in VR, but I'd still rather go in person.
Fair and good point, but this depends a lot on the structure and health of the organization.
> being steeped in Emacs Lisp traditions is hardly an advantage.

I used to think this, but sometimes this determines how deeply your package integrates into emacs.

The obvious example here being seamless tramp support.

IIRC this is demonstrated in this very interesting blog post[0] about debugging why opening a remote file is slow in the projectile package, likely didn't exist in the project.el alternative that is more steeped in those traditions.

0: https://www.murilopereira.com/how-to-open-a-file-in-emacs/
Wow that’s a really good idea. I love it.
A few other folks and I have recently reverse-engineered and built open source firmware for the Emporia Vue 2. Supports 16 + 3 clamps each, works together great with Home Assistant.

- amazon page (even if you buy from their website, they just order it to you off amazon): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CJGPHL9/

- install instructions: https://gist.github.com/flaviut/93a1212c7b165c7674693a45ad52...

- source code: https://github.com/flaviut/esphome/tree/emporia-vue
Ask HN: How to Get Good at Emacs?
I have been using (vanilla) Emacs as my primary editor for the last 4 years.

I have an elaborate setup for writing Clojure, Javascript and Rust [https://github.com/shivekkhurana/.emacs.d]. But sometimes it just breaks down.
Either it throws an error that I can't debug.

Or it stops activating modes that I hooked to specific buffers. TBH, I don't even know what major and minor modes are. And if two major modes can be active at the same time?

1. What are some good resources on Emacs?
2. If you use Emacs as your primary editor, how long did it take you to understand enough internals to be able to debug issues?
3. If you use doom/spacemacs, do you feel the bloat?

Thanks
>Replaced crypto with stocks, how does it read now?

It reads like a false equivalence.

I do own stocks in companies such as Woolworths (retailer), BHP (mining company) and Westpac (banking company). The fact that they produce goods or services that they can sell at a profit was a huge decision in my decision to invest (and a big reason why I didn't invest in crypto).

I don't have data, but I suspect this is how most stockholders think. They accumulate shares over their lifetime and rely on the dividends to pay for their lifestyle during retirement.

Yes, Wall Street Bets exists, but the average person with stocks is not a day trader leveraging themselves up to their eyeballs to gamble on some crazy contracts.
In my experience discord servers will scale up to about about 20 people at most. I don't think that's the use case model discord is trying to push, but I think there's a large long tail of small friends-only discord servers in the order of 3-20 people.

Within those parameters discord does work well. Nothing else has the necessary creature comforts (by default). I think most of my friends have misgivings about discord, but I don't think there's anything else that fills this niche well at the moment.

Big discord servers are a completely different world, I don't understand how people put up with that.
https://www.photopea.com/
STM32 for Stereovision – Open-Source
Reaper. Seriously, it's amazing and solid and professional. Do a few tutorials to figure out its quirks and you are set for life.

https://www.reaper.fm
>Despite its shortcomings and Google connection Flutter is really nice to build and Android apps with one code base, and l'd prefer it even for just an Android app by now.

Have you tried building android apps with Compose? It's significantly better than the old view system in android.
Given the constraints llvm frequently does a relatively ok job with the pieces it has to work with, but the results are usually poor in absolute terms vs what manual optimizations would allow. The language semantics of c/c++ don't support the required leeway of optimization transformations (eg optimizing data layout hand in hand with it's access patterns, parallel semantics).
The big question is how many people benefited from having stem cells frozen. If that number is large enough then this might be an important development, if that number is very low or even zero then this is essentially a scam.

There is no proof that if your brother had had such a precaution taken (which were already available at the time, so this is not something novel) that there would have been a benefit.

At $29400 CLTV at current life expectancies there had better be some very clear benefit, especially given that the vast bulk of those will never be used. If one in 100 actually gets used then you're looking at $3 million per treatment, and that's the cheapest plan.

Also, I could not find any terms of service nor a way to cancel the service.

> Side note: plancentas are so valuable that physicians - especially in Europe - sometimes prefer to take them for themselves to sell to cosmetics research for ~$50k.

Is a pretty strong accusation to make, do you hide behind the undefined value of 'sometimes' to be able to walk this back or are the statistics such - and the amount so specific - that this is well known and supported by evidence, and subsequent removal from the roster of practicing physicians because of gross breach of medical ethics?

edit: I just found your video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M64L_Koe8Vw

Which claims this is just hearsay, so I'm calling BS on your claim that this 'happens especially in Europe' or even at all.
The book (So Long and Thanks for all the Fish) was published in November of 1984. At that time, there were only two models of Macintosh - the 128 (released in January) and the 512 (released in September). Numbering and naming didn't start until the 512 was released so the Mac 128 was originally named simply "Macintosh".
Around a certain age one's tolerance for such bullshit goes to zero.

Discord, slack, et al would be doing the world a great service if their tools had notifications etc SWITCHED OFF BY DEFAULT so that they don't disturb other people in the same room as the user. Such notifications are designed to break your concentration / get your attention, but they have the toxic side-effect of polluting the environment of other people physically around the user, by breaking their concentration / getting their attention.

Being in the same open-plan hellscape as people using Slack means having to wonder who the hell thinks it's ok to be using a tool which makes 'knock-knock-knock' noises, and having to be that guy who goes around asking people to silence their shit. Yes, this is a human problem, but don't tell me the product designers didn't consider this. Either they did, and chose to leave it on by default or they didn't. Both betray a certain contempt for the user.

Another point for working from home is that one cannot easily distract others.
Are you accounting for population collapse? Increased energy consumption corollates to wealth correlates to below-replacement birthrates.

If that doesn’t solve the problem, a culture capable of generating and using that much energy will just build space colonies, which solves the problem too.
It originated as a minecraft mod. It grew, like a factory must.
I don't know: I'm running a "native compilation" branch of Emacs and everything is really fast. I'm not saying once in a rare while something chokes a bit but I made sure to eliminate some of the usual suspects in my init files (for example not launching lots of minor modes on gigantic files or on files with very long lines).

In my experience Emacs, over the years, kept getting faster and faster. The "bloat", if any, is progressing way slower than CPU ares and certainly way slower than the bloat in other IDEs.
Banks have less transparency and therefore less accountability with how they manage funds. Another thing to note is that the miners are not the only decentralized aspect of Bitcoin, the nodes are. Nodes can be run from any computer with an external terabyte HD for the ledger and it takes a trivial amount of electricity to participate. Additionally, there’s no restrictions on running one and the ledger can be requested by anyone who wants to see it. The history of the ledger (a commonly ignored aspect) is also secured by all the work that has already gone into the chain which would make it infeasible for a majority of miners to rewrite significant portions of the chains history (51% attacks are mostly concerned with the future integrity of a chain).
Hey author. This looks like a very approachable book given the subject.

Still on chapter 2, but really enjoying it. Instant buy for me.

Thanks for your effort.
It’s interesting that Adams didn’t have a particular model in mind, that Apple Macintosh could be a generic reference given that Adams did do HyperCard development. Maybe he saw that from the eyes of a storyteller and not a technologist.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777599

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777599
True, but the first sentence is :

“In this series (see Parts I, II, III, and IV), our resident Bay-Area psychotherapist takes us to the depths of the professional-managerial class psyche.”
It probably makes it a lot easier for people with ridiculous amounts of money and strong capital controls to transfer assets abroad.

Like, the Chinese government cracked down hard on Bitcoin, and while the energy stuff was definitely a factor, I'd be really surprised if cracking down on ways to to take money out of the Chinese economy wasn't also a factor.
For pretty much all of these, the answer is the same: yes, randomly generated stuff can be awesome - if you have a human to pick out the good ones
Thank you; i feel better about "just under" 3,000 hours now.

I've only really played 2 games. Started messing with making mods and decided I'd better stop playing that game for a while.
>Stock markets is a game, designed to methodically transfer wealth from the peasant pockets to the ultra-wealthy that write the rules of the game.

What the fuck are you talking about?
If the stock market didn't exist, it would literally be impossible for average people to own (parts of) extremely productive and profitable large companies.

The average Joe would just fall even further behind.
I still can't believe Google wanted Dart to replace JavaScript, and still you can't express an object's interface in it.

https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/783
If I had to bet on one path forward, this would be it. Shared-nothing View layers and then building the rest of the layers for sharing with KMP. I have yet to give it a serious try, but it seems to be the least bad alternative out there.
The solution to high prices is more competition, not less.
IPFS itself is often just a transient cache of S3 - someone has to host the content somewhere to "pin" it to the IPFS network, that somewhere is often S3.
>Mr. Wog93

Thank you for using my correct title.
Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. Pay once, own forever.
Some merchant pissed off the wrong politician.
The paper shows that their model first overfitted the data. By overfitting I mean 100% train dataset accuracy and ~0% validation dataset accuracy. The model never gets any feedback from the validation dataset trough the training procedure.

Everyone's expectation would be that this is it. The model is overfitted, so it is useless. The model is as good as a hash map, 0 generalization ability.

The paper provides empirical, factual evidence that as you continue training there is still something happening in the model. After the model memorized the whole training dataset and while it still has not received any feedback information from the validation dataset, it starts to figure out how to solve validation dataset.

Mind you, this is not interpretation, this is factual. Long after 100% overfitting, the model is able to keep increasing its accuracy on dataset it has not seen.

It's as we discovered that water can flow upwards.

Grokking was discovered by someone forgetting to turn off their computer.

Nobody knows why. So, nobody is able to make any theoretical deductions about it.

But I agree that fig 3. requires interpretation. By itself it does not say a lot, but similar structures appear in other models like in the one where we discuss elements sequence prediction. To me, the models figure out some underlying structure of the problem, and we are able to interpret that structure.

I tend to look at it from Bayesian perspective. This type of evidence increases my belief that the models are learning what I would call semantics. It's a separate line of evidence from looking at benchmark results. Here we can get a glimpse at how some models may be doing some simple predictions and it does not look like memorization.
Mostly, yes, but it comes down to moderation and subreddit culture. Reddit - as a company - doesn't take moderation seriously, as evidenced by it being left to unpaid volunteers.
There is a difference between the concept of a computer being a "clever pencil", which you are referring to, and the computer generating weapons and gear to generate a drop from a selection of "$ELEMENT $LEVEL $WEAPON $MODIFIER" (e.g. fiery epic hammer of orc skull crushing) which is equivalent to generating all of them (not copyrightable).

Now, the individual visual components of the weapons could have a copyright but the computationally assemblaged work based on the components would not because they've just run a job to "generate all the permutations".

For something like No Man's Sky, which is extremely procedurally generated I reckon it's very grey and they could try to make a case but the actual world they generated for people to play in would not be protected by copright. I don't think it's well tested in court.

In the case of the monkeys the hat, the basemonkey, and sunglasses could have a copyright but the assembled monkeys generated by a computer with no creativity would not. But it's a derivative work of things with copyright so that aspect becomes super grey.

The UK government issued a call for views to figure this area out and try to legislate it. Hopefully something useful comes of it. https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/artificial-intel...