skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3) The article seems free of any actual empirical examples of its main claim.

Yeah, I gave the article an honest read, looking for real evidence, because it runs entirely counter to my experience. I'm a mom of a kid in grade school, and I've talked to a lot of parents and teachers about this topic. I'm in the very liberal Vancouver area, and my same-aged friends are spread across Canada and the US. Nobody I know is seeing anything like the racist trash that tastyfreeze and Areo are spreading.
I don’t think that’s the point. Copper and most other commodities are productive under Buffet’s definition because you put them into pipes and other things. They are manufacturing inputs. Their price is set by the demand for the things that you make with them. Housing demand goes up => copper price goes up.

Gold is used in manufacturing but not as much as it could be, because the price is set much higher by speculation/hoarding. So Buffet’s point is that the price is set not by its productive use but by its unproductive use.

Bitcoin is the same as gold but without the productive use to set a price floor. If the speculative market for gold tanked you’d settle on something like 5-10% IIRC as the imputed value based on manufacturing uses. Bitcoin has zero value for manufacturing uses. Maybe there is a price floor for smart contract usages if the speculative market evaporated but I think it’s much lower than 5%.
The short answer: It's financial engineering. It hasn't invented anything cool since the credit default swap.
> I'm not sure there's any reason to make that assumption.

analog clocks are modeled around the idea that the time is circular because that's the natural cycle of day and night (same concept of the meridian, plus dark hours, when there is no shadow).

I imagine that any alien civilization that lives on a planet that rotates around its star and has a light/dark cycle would measure time in a similar fashion.
Thank you for posting this, I wanted to ask HN about it sometime.

I have no clue why somebody thought this was a good idea.

In 20 years of using computers everyday, I have never, EVER, had the need to copy the source format into whatever thing I'm doing. On the contrary, every single time I open Notepad, paste it there and copy it again ... I know about ctrl+shift+v or something, but I never get it right and also I already have developed muscle memory for Notepad.

Also, who decided that pasting w/ format should be the default behavior, sorry but, wtf.

Is there any real use case for this? Anyone finds this useful? Any scenario where this is actually useful and I'm missing it because I'm not familiar with X?
Criticism must bring substance as well. Sure, anyone can sit back and say “I don’t believe this, prove it better.” But without specific claims, such criticism can’t ever be answered and the conversation is not constructive or particularly scientific.

One constructive approach to criticism here would be to take the documented imaging process and apply it to other data. If it produces results that don’t match existing evidence, that would be evidence it is flawed.
So…if the deal goes through the stock cannot “correct” because there will be no open market for twitter shares.

Elon is proposing to buy all the shares, not just a controlling majority. Twitter would no longer be on the NYSE.

So twitter can be saved from general market trends indefinitely, as long as whoever is bankrolling it can continue feeding it cash whenever twitter operates at a loss.
Nothing could be worse than the crap reddit has been doing for the last year or so to force users (or from their perspective, useds, as rms likes to say) to download its app or login. First they outright blocked viewing posts unless logged in, then they disabled that, and now brought it back so that random posts are blocked from viewing with a message "This hasn't been reviewed" whatever that means.

Someone at reddit said, hey we can't be honest with users that we're trying to force them to use our app, we need to lie to them while we're doing it!
Not for me, doesn't look like it's changed. But also, it is hilariously unlikely that Parag went "hey I really hate the login wall, you're fired!!"
I found that it's best to avoid most of these webpage explanations that pop up in Google (often on Towards Data Science and Medium). You can get a better understanding by reading intro sections of actual research papers.
> 166% collateral doesn't seem so safe in a market where swings of 20%+ are not uncommon and 50%+ are not unheard of

If vault gets below the $1 + X%, then it is automatically auctioned. You can imagine quickly being able to switch the collateral backing to USDC by voting to raise the X for ETH while vaults are being liquidated in auction.

basically, if ETH falls like this, demand for Dai will skyrocket due to the auctions, and the only collateralization left will be the stable collateral.

The people most likely to be screwed are vault holders whose collateral is auctioned at a discount to boost the price of Dai, but the Dai will remain stable.

> why not just use USDC then?

Because being diversified is good and USDC is entirely centralized.
Look into the the other political parties in Russia and their views towards the west and you'll get your answer
And still some properties of humans are innate and you can't "train" on them. So brute force imitation is limited as a method for producing content.

An erotic novelist has their human brain and human instincts to guide them in writing their work.

An AI learns by examples, or at best on a dataset of works labeled by humans. But it doesn't have a human brain at their disposal to query directly and without interfaces to define what's something erotic like a writer has.
Thank you so much guys for your love and supports
So in a way she is coming from the perspective of starting off with some basic assembler like functions that build out to more complex function in higher languages. Obviously there is the Ring 0 security model built into OS's to be aware of, but it all starts from machine code, and even then, do you class the minute voltage difference which can flip a bit as code or hardware?

On the point of music, just like some chemicals react to light (serotonin blue light) or darkness (melatonin), and some react to heat more than others besides the obvious reaction to other chemicals in the body, I do wonder if some chemicals react to sound to stimulate the release of (nora)adrenaline and dopamine aka the catecholamines. Certainly infrasound increases anxiety and we get this around earthquakes which can affect the vision I think, based on my own experience of seeing walls going flexible in a (minor) earthquake whilst the logic side of the brain kept reminding me the wall is still solid as they have not broken apart and not liquified in any way.
Good news then - he doesn't have to focus on some stupid web app anymore! And lord knows he's not worried about providing for his family.
what would they do to regulate it?
Symphony in Acid – Max Cooper, Ksawery Komputery
Games for Problem-Solving – Gamestorming
Normally, trading institutions which have custody of customer assets do so as fiduciaries, meaning that customer assets are not the bank's assets and aren't subject to forfeiture in bankruptcy.

Retail investors thought that Coinbase had similar fiduciary responsibility with respect to customer assets but it does not, so customers are actually lowest priority creditors in the event of bankruptcy, and risk losing all of their assets if Coinbase goes under.
I wish we had a better phrase than "pyramid scheme", because IMO anything that's a "scheme" has people who know better at one end, and I really don't think there's anyone involved in crypto that is deliberately "winning". What's a phrase for when everyone is getting scammed, and not by any one person, but by an idea? Where there are no winners, only lucky and unlucky.

Pyramid trap? Pyramid quagmire? IDK, but "scheme" implies something I don't think is there - control.
>the vast majority of users want to paste with formatting

Oh, I highly doubt this is the case.
Where I live, housing scarcity is mostly drive by rich-investors and then in general supply chain issues.

I am sure reasons vary locally all over the place.

But at my location if you could stop investors from buying houses it would help a lot.
Were you redeeming at Tether, or were you redeeming at Bitfinex and they were selling the Tether on the open market to someone else and sending you the proceeds?

I think what the OP is saying is that there is not a reliable account of someone going to Tether with 100k USDT and having Tether give them $100k USD.
Funny to see such a post from a project with a whitepaper that starts with "It enables communities around the world to issue and manage their own currency-as-a-service (CaaS), to circulate among their local population. This leads to stronger communities, greater sustainability, less poverty, and more productivity."

Does intercoin cure cancer?
It could be done in incremental steps:

1. python3.x nogil as a compiler flag

2. python3.y nogil as a runtime flag

3. python4.0 nogil as the default (if we’re really ready for it)
Also, gold has actual utility as a product that is needed to manufacture certain things and is also desirable for cultural reasons like jewelry for enjoyment and social signaling.
Why do we have to fix an old problem when nobody wants to live in this so-called hellscape?
Same for me. My house had loads of analog clocks when I was growing up, I had one for a watch for over a decade, but still it was always a little bit harder to figure out than digital for me.
I can feel pity for someone who suffered a significant financial loss. But I can't imagine being a degenerate gambler and pissing away my life savings with an instrument that makes no sense.
Not really it's just crashing because there is derisking going on due to the unstable period we are experiencing along with the upcoming rate hikes, so to me it looks like there is going to be a comeback and no one will learn anything.
If you are being fired, you generally do not "defend" yourself. Also, people at this level are very well-compensated, and the comp generally prices in the risk of things like this. Whether you are on leave or not scarcely matters unless you can show that you are fired because you are a parent (and that's an employment law issue).

It is my experience that people taking time off to be parents also take time off from the machinations that will lead getting promoted (at certain levels), thus hampering their advancement, but they are usually not fired, in tech anyway. Now the treatment of women, who already get a pretty bad deal even if they aren't mothers, is another matter altogether...
People don't buy USD to HODL, they spend it.
It is a goal of ours to become a standard multi-table storage format! However, today we are still in beta and have made some breaking changes in the last few releases. (Exporting from the old version, then reimporting your DB in the new allows you to upgrade!) Those should happen less often as we move forward (the storage format was genericized a bit and is more resilient to future enhancements now), and locking in our format amd guaranteeing backwards compatibility will occur when we go to 1.0!
Another would be that this person was doing something that could derail the deal (deliberately or not), and the CEO felt the best thing to do was to protect the deal by firing him. Given that he's on paternity leave, and "Parag asked me to leave after letting me know that he wants to take the team in a different direction", that doesn't seem likely.
These kinds of articles give me the creeps. As interesting as the science is, I imagine this also encourages a bunch of silicon valley millionaires and billionaires to essentially become vampires.
It seems to me that the general paradigm is that the copy/paste operation copies over everything, if the receiving app supports it, and degrades gracefully, otherwise. In other words: copy over as much as possible.

Mail supports rich text, so that's what's copied.

Agreed though: in the scenario you describe, it's often not what's desired, but that's why there's another key combination to support this use case without breaking the consistency of the general paradigm.
While trying to read the Head of Consumer Product's exit Twitter post which was split across 8 or 9 separate Tweets, I was prevented from reading them by the login wall pop up. For me this sums up a lot about the state of the product.
Parags role has changed from ceo to hatchet man
Elon isn't going to hold 100% of the shares. He already has a ton of VCs and other outside investors (including some funds) lined up to finance the deal. So Twitter will still be active on private markets.
A law inviting Texans to sue social media companies over ‘censorship’ is back
What is your point? Defending your country against an invading force and self determination of a republic are not provocations.
So I suppose when Buffett purchased 130 million ounces of silver in 1998 he was thinking about the manufacturing inputs?

I do think there is in fact a "productive use" for cyptocurrency, which is transacting on the dark web. It has been earnestly used as a currency in that context for a very long time... it's just that bitcoin boosters would rather not talk about it.
Stop Soros-funded DAs. Alvin Bragg, DA of New York, was funded by 'Color of Change' PAC, which received a $1million donation from George Soros:

https://nypost.com/2022/01/04/alvin-braggs-green-light-for-a...
> increased development time

In my experience it is only increased initial development time.

I find that initial development time is frequently conflated with development time overall.

So obviously worse is better languages will be preferred.
> Now there is an argument for Tokyo-style tiny apartments (i.e. subdivide existing housing into smaller units) and little houses to lower prices and house the homeless and so on, but these approaches aren't really that profitable in terms of return-on-investment.

How do you figure? Japan has one of the most laissez faire real estate markets around. I would assume whatever steady state the housing market assumes is most profitable
Yes I think so, Java(JavaEE?) did the same with jsessionid.
It’s also a bank with low Tx fees and fast Tx at any time of day, anywhere in the world. Something that is bafflingly still hard to find.
Whereas permanent poverty is a built in feature of non-market economies. Seems like an easy choice to make.
if everyone followed that logic France would still be under nazi rule
This is very true. There was a period I had to live in a tent on some un-used land that was accessed through a residential neighborhood and I managed to live there for several months without any problems or complaints. I came and went as I wished and whenever I saw anyone whether walking a dog or driving a car I smiled at them, waved, made direct eye contact, and said "hello" or "good morning" if we passed close enough for conversation.

I tried to keep myself clean, but even on my poorly groomed days people just assumed I was some random neighbor taking a walk and moved on without suspicion. Most people don't want to talk to their neighbors so if you look friendly they will avoid you.
Genuine question, is a Procfile really that preferable to a Dockerfile with equivalent functionality?

> cmd: python helloworld.py

doesn't seem massively less complicated than

FROM alpine
CMD ["python", "helloworld.py"]

FWIW, I've never used heroku in production so maybe it's more about the constraints of heroku than the number of words, but it just doesn't seem like a huge deal to me.
He is far more inspiring than the rest of business leaders.

I find him genuine, funny, atypical and giving a hard time to people that want him to conform.

Progressives hate him. I’ve never seen any logic behind it. It is just that Elon doesn’t share their vision of scarcity driven, alarmist, stagnant, crime ridden, woke, depopulating, unionized and equal-outcomes based society.

The entire progressive platform has been hijacked, not the Obama era left-wing. Obama was pro-Elon Musk and privatization of Space industry.

IMO there are no leaders that inspire more than Elon and late Steve Jobs.

So here… I laid out the entire problem in plain words why people hate Elon. 100% political.
> Now the company has to continue to operate without his influence until the deal actually closes.

What do you mean by "have to"? Do you mean there is a legal obligation?
It existed in the lab because it was the lab that collected samples from the wild bats. So by definition you are incorrect.
This points out something very related that I think about a lot - can you prove to me that you do any of those things? Can I prove to you that I do any of those things? That either of us have a will? When would you be able to believe a machine could have these things?

In Computing the Mind by Shimon Edelman is a concept that I've come to agree with, which is at some point you need to take a leap of faith in matters such as consciousness, and I would say it extends to will as well (to me what you've described are facets of human consciousness). We take this leap of faith every time we interact with another human; we don't need them to prove they're conscious or beings with a will of their own, we just accept that they possess these things without a thought. If machines gain some form of sentience comparable to that of a human, we'll likely have to take that leap of faith ourselves.

That said, to claim that will is necessary for intelligence is a very human-centered point of view. Unless the goal is specifically to emulate human intelligence/consciousness (which is a goal for some but not all), "true" machine intelligence may not look anything like ours, and I don't think that would necessarily be a bad thing.
> not clear how to get audio into it

In terms of wired connectors, it has USB-C, line in and out sockets, and a 4-pole audio jack for headset or mic support. OP-1 also has its own mic built into the body as well.
A bit of a clickbait-y tweet. Exact same thing happens with any OS and Wi-Fi device when briefly scanning for surrounding access points. In the case of my setup (2017 MacBook Air running 10.15/Catalina) the penalty seems forgettable - avg. ping jumps from 2 ms to 25 ms during 1.5 seconds, on 802.11n/5GHz with about 20 other 2.4GHz/5GHz access points in my vicinity. My Asus ZenBook running Linux Mint and equipped with Intel Centrino Wi-Fi suffers a lot more from the same procedure.
Wild. Technically is that legal?
He would only be trading it for the chance to go to court and argue over who owes the $1e9 and to whom.
Blood boy -> brain boy
A commodity is a raw material that has a wide amount of utility in creating different products. Corn become corn oil, ethanol, cornstarch, etc. Gold becomes jewelry, computer chips, electrical connectors.

Crypto isn’t so much a commodity as a collectible like a stamp or a beanie baby.
I don't think there is much demand for JAS Gripen in Nato countries at this day. 4th gen fighters do not have much lifetime left in them, and F35 is increasingly taking the role of the current-gen fighter for advanced nations.

But Sweden is already member of the Cuture Combat Air System (FCAS) initiative to create a 6th gen air war system of systems, alongside nato members. And this kind of colaboration will be even more natural when/if they join Nato.
Perfect play, by definition, evens out. If everyone plays perfectly, then the ev should be zero (modified by position around the table). So it should balance to zero if everyone plays an equal number of hands from every position. The payoff would be adjusted by the rake.
I kind of like how it's relatively explicit. Compare to say C#'s namespaces are anywhere, as long as the build tool sees the file. I can only imagine how much work the development extensions/tools are and it's probably a large part of why, for example, the .Net/C# extension for VS Code feels so slow, quirky and broken compared to other languages, including rust.

This isn't a knock on the C# language, just that I can understand the explicit nature and how it makes the tooling simpler and more consistent.

Also a recent example that is even more explicit is Deno's module system where you tend to explicitly specify a given file/url. It irks me to no end that using this behavior with TypeScript in Node is so broken by comparison (can't reference files with extension).
Yep and it fails out even after the tick box shows up.
Cyberpunk is a call to action: seek social reform before this happens. Solarpunk is the opposite, Solarpunk encourages people to believe that everything will turn out well in the end after green technology saves us from our past follies.
>It makes absolutely no sense that anyone would want to transplant styling/formatting into an email

I do it all the time when I need to email a small table from excel instead of attaching the whole sheet, especially when it's backed by data that should never be sent in an email. It works fine.

I used to not be able to do this. Content didn't paste nicely, or recipient clients didn't display it nicely. These days it's no longer an issue, clients mostly seem to handle it without issue.
I think the closer expression is "actions speak louder than words."
Facial Recognition is a great solution when compared to hiring FTE's sit and watching videotapes or hire crappy cops to patrol areas.
Likewise - Similar age, time, and place. My parent were vocally concerned about the danger of cars, as it's a Northeast US town with narrow winding roads, but the only rule was to be back before dark or call them to pick me up.

The funny thing is back then there were no sidewalks or shoulders at all, and kids biked everywhere until old and lucky enough to drive. Now, there are extensive sidewalks on all the main roads, but the only people using them are middle aged dog walkers.
But what's changed? If Parag wanted to go this direction why didn't he do it when he took over as CEO?
I didn't, just added a self-signed cert to my keychain on macOS and launched the app as downloaded from App Store.

I guess Airbnb doesn't use cert pinning.
Kind of makes me nervous that both black holes we've imaged are pointing right at us. I'm imagining some super advanced civilization somehow using black holes as powerful telescopes that are for some reason intent on mapping out our region of space. I know M87 is 55 million light years away, so that makes no sense, but I'd really like to see some black holes that are looking in some other direction.

Is it at all possible that the glow is more of a spherical cloud and the black spot would be visible from any angle you look at it?
holy crap man. What a story. Glad to hear you are bouncing back from that.
Will read those with a lot of respect since they helped you go through such a difficult time.
That's a good point. Metaculus estimates 85%. If Parag thinks there's a non-trivial chance the deal falls through his actions make sense.
If you're moving sections around in a spreadsheet or a word processor, would it be more annoying if the copy/paste kept the formatting or stripped the formatting?
My experience is different.

When I am at the train station I can have an immediate idea of what time is it just looking at the analog clocks around (they are digital displays mimicking analog clocks) even if I can't read the numbers from afar.

Digital clocks are harder for me because I have to parse the information: is that a 6, 8, 9, or zero?

It doesn't make much difference in the end, bit having to actually read the number forces me to be precise and I can't rely on intuition.

The more I age, the more my vision deteriorate, the more I find analog clocks easier to read.
No. Those ALSO have string interpolation!

#"\#(expression)"#

That is exactly the point.