skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why something that has a finite supply would be viable as a currency.

Since it's deflative all the incentive is holding, not spending. Why buy a house for 5 bitcoins now, if I can get it at 4 bitcoins 3 months from now..What if I could get it at 1 bitcoin in 3 years...crazy right..?

And no one spends, because the incentive is not here.

Our economies are all based on people wanting to spend or invest rather than stock money.
Tachyum Prodigy is 3x faster than upcoming Nvidia H100
If you haven't yet caught on that cryptocoin are Ponzi schemes and a medium of exchange for criminal enterprises, then... you haven't caught on.
For one thing, we could try to come up with safety measures that prevent the most basic paperclip maximizer disaster from happening.

At this point I almost wish it was still the military that makes these advances in AI, not private companies. Anyone working on a military project has to have some sense that they're working on something dangerous.
Ah I see, I agree that GAN-generated content has inhuman tells. But I don't think that necessarily speaks to the creativeness of the work.
Reading the hash doesn’t sound like much of a flaw to me, could you elaborate or provide a link?
Ha nope, just occasionally playing around with it. No video acceleration, but still usable for web browsing and development. It's amusing to drag a window around and see all the CPU cores spike to 100% as they frantically pretend to be a GPU.
Could you link some of these models? An interesting perspective that asymptote.
And that’s when Asimov’s Laws of Robotics come into play.
Outlook used the (still uses? dunno) Wingding font to display smiley faces. To be able to copy paste that would mean copying the formatting as well. Not sure if that's the original reason for it, but it's definitely a use of this. Lots of users would be confused to see their smiley faces turn into "J"s.
At least in theory, stocks and housing are underpinned by intrinsic assets (i.e. things that exist in the real world and/or intersubjective agreements whose value and status are enforced by people with guns). Crypto doesn't have that quality even hypothetically (except to the extent that people insist it does), which pushes it toward the same category as many of the well-known financial scams (which were characterized by people obscuring the lack of assets propping up the value of the scheme).

Edit: I was being overly general with the term "pyramid scheme"
Can you share any more information about the medical device that showed efficacy against Alzheimers in the 200-patient trial?
I agree with your point on economic value.

But on other uses of the energy you can't really do these things,

desalinization - in the middle of the country with no salt water plus inconsistent energy

metal smelting - doesn't work with rapid turning on/off

direct air carbon capture - doesn't work with rapid turning on/off

Bitcoin miners can be turned on/off quickly and don't require much infrastructure except an internet connection. How would you ever run a big plant with unpredictable times/days that it could actually run?
>Part of the deal with being an executive is no job security.

I would say that in the US labor market having no job security is the norm rather than the exception, so it seems peculiar to couch it as "part of the trade you make for gigantic compensation".
Actually, it is true.

When you buy a share in a company, you own a slice of that company. You have voting rights, access to shareholder meetings, annual reports, bod meetings etc.

What that share is worth is what others perceive it's value. what it's market "worth" is completely irrelevant to the fact you own a share.
Or you could change your tech reduce your compute need by 10X+

There are plenty of blog posts around about that for X->Y
I mean there is no secret that Teenage Engineering is very inspired by the European early and mid 1900s design movement. I remember hearing an interview with Jesper Kouthoofd the lead Designer about how they approach product design in the same way as graphic design, just with more surfaces then a paper. Everything is based on a grid (Josef Muller-Brockmann and the International design movement), with focus on simple shapes and a few primary colors (Bauhaus). And just comparing the OB-4 speaker with the Braun T520 radio I think it's safe to say that Dieter Rams has also been a great inspiration.

So for sure there is a lot of European design heritage going in to these products. But personally I think the main reason we don't see this kind of design coming from the US right now simply comes down to the fact that minimalism as a concept goes against typical North-American culture.
He used to be an English-to-Japanese translator, so his books tend to read like they were translated from English. That might be another reason they're so popular outside the country.

In fact they're so popular that everyone seems to have the idea he's going to get a Nobel Prize someday, but I don't see why they'd give a prize to a novelist who only writes "women are so mysterious, truly men will never understand them" novels like him.
I supported Ukraine with crypto. (in < 30 seconds, Sunday night)

I've bought actual stuff I liked on Internet with crypto (the only other option was PayPal which is blocked in my country).

There is sure a lot of dirty things going on on crypto but there are definitely totally legitimate use cases. You can gamble with fiat, you can gamble with crypto.

You can donate/buy with fiat, you can donate/buy with crypto.

I'm an opportunist who is in web3 and NFT space too, which is literally a free economy, and no one has to participate. Anyone can happily buy their NFTs if they find a value in them, and anyone can use crypto to transfer/donate money or buy things. Things can surely crash, so can fiat, stock market, or whole country economies.
Well the authors have at least proposed a plausible mechanism that B-ase is important for arousal so they are detecting that the baby is less able to rouse in response to emergencies.
If it's for cause, some or all of the severance package might be off the able.
> but if you can't predict when the music will stop, the smart move today is to keep playing.

The smart move while the music is playing is to sell the tickets, not buy an instrument of your own.

It's like selling spades during a gold rush.
He's welcome to up and move the company, or just build new plants and close or let the existing ones atrophy. He's welcome to become a Chinese company, although he better talk to the head of Alibaba(?) before doing so about their economic retreat properties. Or, given the unrest in the market over the last week or two, he better complete his Twitter purchase and return to caretaking Tesla before he's way poorer.
Absolutely, that's how you replace the team, the old leader fires everyone then leaves last.
This may be Parag's hail mary play to appease his new master and keep his lucrative job.

I would not be surprised if his next move is to publicly extol the virtues of Free Speech and the First Amendment.
I don't think many people were making the claims that AI can't solve any scientific problems or can't perform creative work at all. That sounds like a big strawman. Before ML was getting big there were AI systems that created art.

What sceptics have actually been saying is that the first step fallacy still applies. Getting 20% to a goal is no indication at all that you're getting 100% to your goal, or as its often put, you don't get to the moon by climbing up trees. For people who work with gradients and local maxima all day that idea seems weirdly absent when it comes to the research itself. In the same sense I don't have the impression that the goalpost of AGI has been moved up, but that it's been moved down. When Minsky et al. started to work on AI more than half a century ago the goal was nothing less than to put a mind into a machine. Today our fridges are 'AI powered', and when a neural net creates an image or some poetry there's much more agency and intent attributed to it than there actually is.

I think it was Andrew Ng, a very prominent ML researcher himself who pointed out that concerns about AGI make about as much sense as worrying about an overpopulation on Mars. We make models bigger, we fine tune them and they perform better. I don't think many AGI sceptics would be surprised by that. But I don't think there is any indication that they are moving towards human level intellect at some exponential rate. If DALL-E suddenly started to discuss philosophy with me I'd be concerned, it making a better image of a bear if you throw some more parameters at it is what we'd expect.
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I'd like one of those for my apartment lease
Was there a time in the past few years where Musk wasn't actively investigated by the SEC? Hasn't hindered his business ventures much, so far at least.
Aren't these black hole images based on ultra sensitive radio telescopes?
As a Finn, do you think it was smart of Mannerheim to join Nazi Germany against Russia?

[EDIT] Appreciate the downvoting, but would appreciate an answer even more.
Well, refrigerators killed the ICE industry :D
If you've heard of Truffle or Graal you probably know that it can run as a JIT or produce a standalone executable, but there's actually so many more configurations it can run in - it's a true universal runtime system.
Following the author's "How many men have exposed themselves this year?" logic, if nobody's called the police on your kids, why are you worried about it?

I know you want to roll your eyes at the middle-aged woman as being a hand-wringing looky-loo, but maybe that's just what the social safety net that makes free range kids a possibility looks like.

My elementary school-age kids walk to school. They know they might get approached by an adult asking where they live; they know how to answer: "I live up the street. No, I don't need help." NBD.

A counter example, I pulled over on my drive home from work to ask a five year old in pajamas wandering the streets near dark what he was doing out. I walked him home. Mom was horrified to realize the little dude had wandered out of the house.

One final thought on the original article, I think the author is willfully ignoring the banal reality of the situation to make their point. I'm sure the school representative wanted to say, "Listen lady, I've got 30 kids I need to monitor at recess and while you're probably a nice person you're another variable I need to keep in the corner of my eye. Take a walk."
Unless you're volunteering to let scientists poke at your brain, mice are the best option we have. https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/why-use-the-mouse-in-resear...
That's why the option exists. But a vast majority of the cases, it's harmful, not helpful, so it shouldn't be the default.
Ask HN: Code Dependencies – how much of what you do relies on them?
Over the last few years I've moved from using many packages, libraries, and frameworks in my code to the point where I barely use any now except for things like cryptography, or company SDKs.

I'm curious how similar or dissimilar this is to the rest of the HN community. What do you do/ what are you working on? and how much of your code are you pulling in versus writing yourself?
Interesting, I solved it differently, by just randomly selecting the order in which belowLeft and belowRight are checked, inside the updatePixel function:

updatePixel(i) {
const below = i + this.width;
const belowLeft = below - 1;
const belowRight = below + 1;
// flag to indicate if we checked the left side already
let checkedLeft = false;

if (this.isEmpty(below)) {
swap(i, below);
// check the left side first with 50 % prob (ltr)
} else if (Math.random() <= 0.5 && this.isEmpty(belowLeft)) {
swap(i, belowLeft);
// indicate we checked the left side already
checkedLeft = true;
// check the right side first with 50 % prob
} else if (this.isEmpty(belowRight)) {
swap(i, belowRight);
// if we haven't checked the left side earlier, check it now (rtl)
} else if (!checkedLeft && window.sandgrid[belowLeft] == 1)
swap(i, belowLeft);
}
The crypto market was worth $3 Trillion in November, and it's worth 1.5 Trillion today. It's A LOT of money, but it's a popped cyst at best in comparison to the smallest securities market.
So it's a seismic event, for sure, but it's not systemic. Comparing it to the banking system collapsing with no insurance doesn't make much sense.

The market crash is the inevitable consequence of stopping the pandemic liquidity faucet. We were waiting for this for quite a while now, and with the FED having to rein in two years of crazy, a massive market correction was inevitable. The fundamentals of most companies are still firmly there, so they're mostly underperforming. There'll be casualties, but this was a much needed purge.

Just don't check your 401k balance for the rest of the year.
A lot of "Americanization" sucks.

But I want to point out some counter-examples.

1. Digimon Season 1 English Dub is far superior to the Japanese original. Many people choose Cowboy Bebop as the "Better in English" anime, but... Digimon S1 is night-and-day. Stronger script with better jokes/puns, cooler attack names (English "Pepper Breath" vs the Japanese "Baby Flame"), everything is straight up better in English.

2. Cowboy Bebop is probably the better known example in anime community.

3. Final Fantasy VII -- Perhaps it is more obvious that "Cloud" and "Earth" would have a doomed romantic relationship if we stuck to the original Japanese. But "Earth" was chosen as a name for the Japanese audience because English sounds exotic. To return that feeling of "exoticness", they transliterated it into "Aeris", and suddenly we return back to the original exotic feeling name.

4. Power Rangers -- Okay, I don't know how to think of this one. Power Rangers took the original Japanese stuff and changed it so much, it no longer looked anything like the original Super Sentai.

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Saban Entertainment knew how to do dubs / Americanizations. (Digimon S1, Power Rangers, Samurai Pizza Cats, Dragonball Z '96).

Just because other companies failed where Saban succeeded doesn't mean that "Americanization" is bad. Its that "bad Americanization" is bad.
Except Chrome, which is often where people are using gmail.
There are a lot of people with no skills that are richer than you. Are you hating all the people who inherited money? Should any person born in poor country hate people born in rich countries?
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30183465
Thank you for this!!! I’m sick and tired of seeing emails with 4 different fonts/style/formatting. I hate stupid Microsoft programs (I’m looking at you Outlook and Teams) that insist on copying all the stupid info from a message. I have no problem with copying the style, but they should use a new key or option for it. Leave copy paste as it is (yeah I know about paste special and paste text only and almost all other tricks mentioned here).
> Humans have an intrinsic need to scam other humans.

I reject this hypothesis; only assholes have an intrinsic need to scam other humans. And rather than accept this as an inevitability, the assholes should be regulated and ostracized to the point where their impact on humanity is negligible.
Community moderation doesn't involve someone else coming in and swapping content on you.

Generally speaking, you'll get an upvote/downvote/color mechanic, and a bunch of other people's responses, perhaps with some admin or moderator actions/annotations.
That there is high compensation attached to this job is unrelated to the principal of firing an employee on family leave.

Companies are having to hold the line on what we value in this country, as legislation from environmental to health is not keeping up.

Twitter is specifically of note because the CEO recently had a child and rightfully took paid leave himself.

Whatever your personal opinions are on Elon Musk, he is very influential.

The man has six children and a varying track record on how he has communicated his views and personal use of parental leave and the role of the father following the birth of a child.

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/59806585473604403...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/12/elon-m...

The culture and policy Twitter matters. It doesn’t matter if the individual experience is that a janitor or senior management.
You may want to reconsider this assumption. The cloud companies may be relatively "recession proof" because more companies are migrating to the cloud.

However, their customers are not. I've helped several companies reach 80%+ reductions in compute/storage needs, which then translates into similar cost savings. No reservations needed, you have to provide deeper value and changes to achieve this.

> Usage does take on all the risk.

Seems like a great way to get 3-year commitment prices without the risks. Are you worried about assuming all that risk? What about abuse of this relationship by your customers?
With the ATM taking some of your money for its convenience...
> As property prices soar, many native Hawaiians — or Kānaka Maoli — are being squeezed out, unable to keep pace with crippling property taxes and skyrocketing rents.

Crippling property taxes??? Give me a break. Hawaii has the lowest property taxes in the USA. With high income taxes and high business taxes, the entire state is set up to encourage non-residents to buy and hold land. And no, mainland folks aren't running the Hawaii state legislature. They could fix this on their own, if they wanted to. Just changing the revenue mixture would make a big difference. Don't hold your breath, though. Native Hawaiians are getting rich on this, too.
Interesting business model. You're essentially loaning companies money for the RIs, right? So if all your customers sold them back to you you'd be in trouble, like a loan company?

Either way, an interesting idea. Since you're fronting the money for the RIs, I assume you have a max spend that you won't go over (like, you won't take Netflix as a customer)?
Wifi positioning does not actively talk to the network you‘re connected to, but rather does a beacon frame sweep and then matches BSSIDs seen with some database.

One side effect of this is that in order to scan all possible wifi channels, your baseband needs to tune to different frequencies at least for a short period of time.

Theoretically this interval should be short enough to avoid any disruptions – practically that‘s apparently not always the case.
If Amazon makes a million or trillion dollars, none of that money goes to shareholders. The only thing that affects the value of the amazon stock you hold is the willingness of someone else to buy that stock from you at a price higher or lower than what you purchased it for. Your return on investment on Amazon stock is 100% reliant on the purchases of future suckers. If tomorrow every one just decided not to buy Amazon shares anymore the value of that stock is 0 as it relies on future suckers for exit liquidity.
Yes I did mean flare. Though I always try to flare with flair. :)
Nothing to see here, folks. This article has been declared “political propaganda.”

The article deviates from the establishment’s position. We don’t want you reading this.

The Totally not dystopian thing being proposed is definitely not dystopian.

Move along.
OpenSSF Announces 15 New Members to Strengthen Open Source Software Supply Chain
And removes lines and leading spaces. Turns colons into emoji....
If only! Maybe when the patents finally expire, it'll take off like 3D printing did.
Remittance by the Barrel
Derinkuyu: Mysterious underground city in Turkey found in man’s basement
> An erotic novelist has their human brain and human instincts to guide them in writing their work.

An ML agent trained on all the erotic novels written, weighted by critical and popular success would might be quite capable of generating sequels, "original" stories, or even stories bespoke to each reader.

Good Will Hunting suggests first-hand experience is irreducible: "You can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel." https://youtu.be/oRG2jlQWCsY

To which Westworld counters: "Well if you can't tell, does it matter?" https://youtu.be/kaahx4hMxmw

I think the cowboys have it. For the moment though, it's still up to humans to decide how this plays out.
both fiat and bitcoin currencies are purely memes when you really think about it.
Yeah, we got one when our first child was born. A little sock with a pulse oximeter that charged via micro usb, wireless base station, and phone app.
> There is some very interesting and fun maths involved in this process that is beyond the scope of general investing.

Are there some search terms or resources you would recommend looking into to learn more about this fun maths?
British GDP in 1992 was $1.2 trillion. $10 billion was therefore roughly 1% of GDP. That's a damn lot of money for a government and likely way more than daily volume of traded GBP (or GBP used in trade, on an average day).

I think the fact he seems to suggest that "we" were trading more than their position ($15 billion vs. $10 billion) does suggest that there was another company or financier involved. May be my misreading, but then again, I don't believe that there is any real controversy in that this was discussed and coordinated between several trading firms.
I assume it's because AWS doesn't let you buy no-upfront RIs without an established billing history.
Refocusing on 1:1s
Yes, I am. I called the top on roughly the day over a year ago. You'll be mad about this part though. It will find a bottom. I will buy that bottom. And it will make new all time highs. Then a few years after, you can post your anger / relief thread cycle again. It keeps oscillating higher and higher. There's some real innovation hidden in the mess, and it still truly is the best performing asset class that has ever existed in history. BTW, everything is crashing, so hopefully you don't own any of those things, or someone else's post about being happy the things you owned crashing might seem crass to you right? lol.
Thank you! I will now use pbpaste|pbcopy
Many states in the US have family leave (including paternity leave). California is more than 10% of the US population and the rules for paternity leave are extremely broad:

- Welcomed a new child into the family in the past 12 months through birth.

- Paid into State Disability Insurance (noted as "CASDI" on most paystubs) in the past 5 to 18 months.

- Not taken the maximum eight weeks of PFL in the past 12 months

Insinuating that 99% of the US lacks paternity leave is disingenuous.
well coinbase was an example. You can simply 'sell' yourself the ethereum. I just don't see the need to involve NFTs after you already own the crypto.
I’m glad to finally be able to enter in it :)
This happens on my M1 Macbook Air running 12.0.1 and is extremely evident when playing games on Stadia, unless location services is disabled.
The concern is that there could be a chilling effect resulting in people not taking this leave. If people expect to be fired for using this benefit, they won’t use it.
Only if you consider top 10 coins and top 10 stocks to be of equal quality / stability. IMO, only Bitcoin and Ethereum are "blue chip" cryptocurrency. All others are pink chip.
I see. So you’re just one of these fringe libertarians who thinks property rights are so strong they admit no basis for taxation and you want to call all taxation to be both arbitrary and theft. I consider it a privilege for my thoughts to be immoral according to your warped and twisted worldview.

People arguing for higher taxes on property are arguing an admissible public policy. The right to private property in land is contingent on taxation and there is a long-established moral basis for either property tax or land tax. I’m very curious for you to provide a definition of property rights that is more concrete than whatever you want them to be.