skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They did try the agent approach, called M. It failed.

It wasn’t a meta-agent, however. My guess is people didn’t like the idea of only sometimes being used if Facebook thought they should route to them, no ability to control end user experience or brand loyalty, every random service would need to be world class at NLP, and other miscellaneous reasons associated with being just confined to a simple textual transaction.

There are also probably less examples of this than you’d think — restaurants and movies are 101, but where else does this go? Even getting the next obvious thing — concert tickets - all of the sudden requires picking seats, looking at photos of the venue, constraining different options, understanding how many seats are together, etc. Even with crappy UI of Ticketmaster you want the breadth of options and probably to comparison shop. Things quickly get out of hand, and unless you trust the agent to make decisions for you and explain it’s rationale, there are better interfaces than just text.
Do you have news on Westinghouse? Is had filled bankruptcy, did they survive? how?
Are they in maintenance mode or do they pursue evoltution of their models?
China has bought their patent and is in the process of upscaling the original Westinghouse design, is westinghouse still collaborating with china? Have they abandoned their own models? It seems according to their website they are joining the small reactor fad..
Running only at night makes each kWh twice as costly, because a nuke costs almost the same, producing or not.

Same is true of renewables, but the cost is enormously lower.
It's cheap filler.
This article is spot on to what I saw in the VC space (I won’t name where). Tons of little copycat crypto “companies” taking VC money for tokens which were collateralized with BTC. I know this article is going after a16z but it’s not just them, it was pretty much everyone.
>Does this not describe CC fees/taxes/online marketplaces/etc?

No, because CCs exchange dollars and the dollars themselves are not worthless (or, rather are given worth via a nuclear arsenal).

The coins themselves are worthless, but accrue "fees" in fiat (ex. when you exchange USD for UST).
Anybody who believes that kind of logic deserves to lose their stake. Crypto has spent most of it's formative years riding an historic bull market and claiming it's immune to market forces. Now we have pretty clear evidence that crypto is just a multiple of the Nasdaq.
Morris: Earth's First Computer Worm
> They never did catch up on table stakes,

In what sense? The table stakes of boring functionality seem to me to be much better implemented in messenger than whatsapp. Everything from a more intuitive UI to a web option is better done in messenger.
Try to get a loan in crypto with 80% collateral and then we can talk

Crypto “loans” are just loans against existing assets and are all collateralized heavily - 150% is the standard.

There is still absolutely no way to get a real loan with crypto so far - one where you actually borrow more than you have.
How many units does the Model S sell vs its ICE peers?
I’m not sure tags died, TikTok certainly seems to be built around tags and it has over a billion monthly users. They are also key to Instagram discovery but feel a little less important there, though I don’t care much for that platform and could be wrong.
Is the math meaningful though?
It's a tragedy
Wishing doesn't work.
Chat bots usually are built by the end service, not acting as a meta agent.
> I think Go is a more interesting game than chess but the scoring is a little hard to teach

It's not just the scoring part, the goal of the game is somewhat elusive. Surround more than the opponent, how do I even get started? Chess, despite having way more complicated rules, has an immediately obvious goal: capture the king.
When an SPA feels snappy enough/works well enough that you confuse it for an MPA, it means they are probably doing it right.
Damn it, that logic Joe went on the fritz again! I don't know whether to fix him or take a hatchet to him, but until I figure that out I'm gonna unhook him and keep him locked in my basement, just to make sure he don't cause no more trouble...
Similar to how PoW distributes rewards: those with the capital to purchase mining power will reap benefits.

This model unfortunately also exists in stock markets and most aspects of a capitalist society. Arguably PoS returns in crypto networks may be slightly more equitable long-term as it is not a permissioned and closed-door system (validator queues cannot discriminate based on class, race, credit score, region, and family for example).
Take it from someone who lost his father’s money (all $11,000 of it) in 2014: it’s easier to just get over it as quickly as possible.

None of this will amount to anything, and you’ll feel awful until you give up. Then the healing can begin.

On the other hand, I’m not sure if I was mentally capable of hearing this advice back then, so…

But it’s true. It’s 2022 now. That’s almost a decade ago. In fact I forget when exactly Gox collapsed, which is how little it matters to me now. But back then, it felt like the end of the world.
Single player now
Unless Wells Fargo opens them back up
On Having a Todo List
There is absolutely no safe crypto. Full stop.
You’re right, it’s not always a scam. Sometimes it’s just useless.
I love the hubris people have in technology.
I completely agree with all of this. Stablecoin farming often uses a "secondary" coin which happens to be volatile (or some form of lending/leverage). The risk is obfuscated, but it's still there. My point was only that calling it a Ponzi is just lazy and wrong.
But why not just an app that isn’t confined to just text?
Society has chosen not to meaningfully incentivize addressing climate change. From that perspective, why not just continue taking the free energy from the ground? (Or use solar and other renewables, but only if cheaper.) Why bother with scary, expensive nuclear?
https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup

Under the current support model, each major version’s stable branch
is explicitly supported for 5 years, while each individual point release
is only supported for three months after the next point release.

You've got plenty of time for support. These days I only use FreeBSD for homelab stuff but… yeah you can go two ways really. Portsnap + rebuilding your packages to track updates or track an official package server that gets regular updates. Because I don't have to scale this shit out the setup I ended up with was to point pkg(8) at a varnish instance that queries a "latest" repo, and then the jails hit the varnish instance.

Unlike some debian-ish distros I don't think there's any security-update-only repo for ports/packages to track. Meanwhile freebsd-update(8) handles security updates for the base system.
The GP had a throwaway comment but yours is just wrong. Do you think the companies making all the masks did so out of altruism? Government mandates of various kinds, plus covid fear in general, made all kinds of people rich. They also made many people poor. Regardless of whether you support different mandates, there were massive profits everywhere from them
Yupp that was it. I guess that's the better result here.

I updated the the parent comment with the correct urls
I.e., the more you know about nukes, the less you like them.
"The Money Multiplier and the Myth that Just Won’t Die…"

https://www.pragcap.com/the-money-multiplier-and-the-myth-th...

"Banking and the Laughable 'Money Multiplier' Myth"

https://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2016/06/29/banking...
The VC drive to jump into the crypto world was startling to me. People hold varying opinions on various crypto products, but so many of the ones getting investment are making claims that should gather extreme scrutiny from a crowd that should be familiar with finance and returns. "We expect 10%+ returns for a long time"? Folks investing in companies instead of banks should know firsthand that guaranteed market-beating returns are almost definitionally suspect!

Even if you think it's not fraudulent on the part of the founders, the industry is frothy and unproven and fraud-adjacent enough that investing in many companies in the space should appear to be a huge potential reputational risk beyond just losing some invested money. The people putting up the cash should be looking long and hard at this whole story.

And then once you get into the details, the moment you hear about one of the use cases for defi lending leading to these high interest rates being "put up crypto collateral to borrow to buy even more crypto since it's appreciating rapidly"... run!
The Green party, who didn't bombard me with text messaging spam, managed to eke out a seat in traditionally conservative Queensland, with two more possibly to come.

It is clear that climate change was a big issue with many voters, perhaps unsurprisingly given the bushfires, floods and generally miserable summers we've been having. This was particularly interesting because neither major party really went hard on climate this time round, thus leaving a vacuum that was filled by third parties and independents
> There was enough in the terra ecosystem to come to a conclusion of avoiding completely

There is enough information in a ten or 20% yield to come to a conclusion. That doesn't stop unsophisticated investors from getting screwed.

When they do so because they bought magic beans, I have no sympathy. When are lied to and sold deposit-like products [1], it's infuriating.

[1] https://stablegains.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402680375...
This is a solid write-up. I particularly like this part:

> Most fusion concepts are just a more complicated way to heat water.

It's kind of wild that our means of power production do ultimately mostly boil down (pun intended) to turning a turbine with steam and, as the article notes, this is an inherent cost problem whereas solar is a direct form of energy. I hadn't really thought about it in those terms but it's true.

It's also kind of wild to consider that we want to heat up hydrogen to a 100 million degrees... to boil water and turn a turbine.

I'll also highlight this:

> As we've seen, traditional LWRs have a cost problem. That is why the PR ignores costs or focuses only on operating costs.

My own view:

1. There are several hundred nuclear power plants in the world. Not one of them has been built without government assistance. This goes to the capital cost issue;

2. Nuclear power plants take too long to plan, build and bring online. IIRC it's at least 11 years;

3. We still don't have a good long-term plan for dealing with processing waste at scale;

4. We still don't have a good long-term plan for dealing with fuel waste at scale; and

5. I just don't trust humans, particularly within the corporate structure, to build and operate nuclear power plants safely. The temptation is simply too high to increase profits by cutting costs.
> decentralized peer to peer value transfer, is a legitimate and useful use case.

I would contest even this. People don't want to transfer "value" they want to transfer money, now to use, say, Bitcoin to transfer money you need to do the following steps:

1. Buy Bitcoin. Let's presume you are already set up with an exchange for this so all you need to do is transfer your money some way to the exchange.

2. Transfer Bitcoin and pay the transaction fee.

3. The receiver wants money. So let's again presume -- despite this is a much shakier presumption -- they are already set up with an exchange then they need to exchange Bitcoin to real money and transfer their money from the exchange to their bank account. I am not mentioning here if they tarry then the exchange rate in #1 and #3 differs -- that could be automated although as far as I am aware there's no service which currently does it.

Turns out the challenge is not #2 but the bank transfers in #1 and #3: integrating with every national banking system in the world. Wise (nee Transferwise) shows this can be done without Bitcoin, creating transparency and predictable fees.

This does not mention the criminal aspects of Bitcoin, I am focusing just on the transfer aspect.
I think modern phone processors, as limited as they are, could be pretty fast at rendering classic HTML and CSS. I know we want more from our webpages now, but the rendering as a static image is part of what makes AMP feel so weird and not like a normal webpage.
The 20% APY provided by Anchor was way above the average yields for safe DeFi lending. Which indicated that even among crypto users, this was considered a degen play!

The whole Terra saga was a typical example of speculative bubble. Everyone knew it was risky, but its sheer size and the caliber of people endorsing it (https://twitter.com/novogratz/status/1478535972560195585) was providing an aura of safety. Too big to fail.

It's also similar to the stock market as a whole before it started correcting. Everyone knew valuations were detached from every fundamental except liquidity, yet everyone went along thinking the music just had to keep going.
See my other comment, the links were just improperly pasted, not taken down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31462851
> isn't that only true for digital assets?

Currently, yes. But even if we stayed only in the digital realm, isn't that already a huge improvement over the status quo? I can borrow and lend money quickly, without leaving my home. If someone has artwork to use as collateral, they can go to a pawn shop (or call it whatever fancier term there is for it), get the cash and use that to buy crypto tokens. No banks involved.
And again, refusing to sign a contract while presenting to a business as if you did for the purpose of getting out of the payment agreement is simply fraud. It's not even arguable.
> Is the math meaningful though?

"Meaningful" is squishy. Is it strongly predictive, and in some cases, definitive? Yes.
as a self-referential joke, hopefully!
My kid learned Super Mario Maker 2 on his own and he doesn’t know how to read yet.

He’ll be fine.

You can stop telling me what to teach him now.
LFG only said "a counterparty". https://twitter.com/LFG_org/status/1526126703046582272?ref_s...

They transfered 52,189 BTC between May 7th (When UST dipped to $0.9978, indicating the algo peg was under stress) and the 10th, and another 33,206 when UST hit $0.75. After the insiders were paid off, Terra was free to go to zero.

Presumably we'll only find out what actually happened when Do Kwon is in jail and people start testifying against each other in return for lighter sentences.
I can't tell if you're trolling or being serious?

> If you read the article, the hospital made a mistake, didn’t know she’s an out-of-network patient, so got the insurance wrong.

Surely you understand putting this with nothing else next to it is making excuses for the hospital and implying the patient is in the wrong?
Uh, oh, I totally missed that. Thanks.
> The problem with simple, fast-loading, no-hijacking web documents is that history shows quite clearly that they don't stay that way for long. Every single website owner could adopt that standard today. Every single website owner has had that same chance every day for the past two decades. We're still not there.

They wouldn't be adopting AMP either except Google put their market weight behind it and said you should adopt AMP if you don't want to be punished in search results.
I hope this tech comes to Philadelphia soon as well. The ATV's and other off-road vehicles making heinously loud noise at all hours is frustrating and unnecessary. It benefits no one but the egos of the riders. It'd be great for them to be off the road entirely, they consistently disobey traffic laws. But I'd be happy just to turn the noise down a bit.
Ser, there is really no such thing as a under-collateralized loan in crypto.

The “ease of access” of crypto loans is not really as big as you think - any lender will happily give you an instant “loan” if you front 150% of the collateral.

Its, infact, a wildly inefficient use of capital. Imagine if the rest of the lending industry worked on that premise - would you get a loan for your house if you had to first front 150% of the price of the house to your bank?
Its basis is in abandoned property that was likely illegally obtained, where they can't find an owner. Such as a ship in a harbor full of illegally imported goods.

It's been stretched to include having $2k in cash in your car while driving.
If I buy a share of a company, I own it. Buy enough of it, I can control it. Same can not be said for crypto. If I buy a token of BTC it guarantees me no voting rights, no shareholder rights, no FDIC insurance, no insurance whatsoever. When comparing investment instruments, crypto is the worst of all of them, including timeshares.
Yup same with Google Docs. And there are plenty of other SPAs like Google Maps that just work so well that way, that it's hard to see the argument for banning them.
This is why geothermal has not taken off. Anything that needs a steam turbine needs very expensive periodic maintenance.

All the other nuke expenses just add to that.
I think it's great. Obviously I would prefer everyone just drop the market segmentation and sell the fullest featured item at the lowest tier price, but since that's not how stuff works, this is the next best thing.

Without DLC they just make multiple versions with different feature sets. You often pay the highest amount for features you don't need just to get one important feature. And if you buy something, upgrading often isn't possible.

This should reduce the need to produce more physical artifacts.

The only downside I see is that less upgrading means fewer used items available.
It's literally in the posting guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

Hacker News Guidelines

What to Submit
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity
The movie is loosely based on one of the arcs of the Valérian and Laureline graphic novel, specifically the place where Laureline is kind of taking over Valerian in the character importance in this huge city with floating cabs and tons of crime, so wonderfully portrayed by Korben Dallas err... Bruce Willis that is. No Leeloo in the book though. A fun read for that French European charm, and updated books were released in lasr 10 years in both USA and UK, decent paper, great color transfers.
That's a great point. Even if there were actually legitimate products that could somewhat use cryptocurrency as part of their offering, they would probably get rid of it eventually just to avoid the association with the endless scams that fester in the ecosystem.
What about flying cars and hoverboards? I’m sure those have been pitched to the public too. Making a claim does not make a truth.
Don't need any Russophobia to see that Russia will have troubles to maintain it's fleet pretty soon if those sanctions keep on running. They are already missing significant parts which came from the West for all kinds of manufacturing and it will get worse and worse. While China can provide basic parts at a high price, they can't provide it all.

I wonder how long it will take until the nuclear fan club starts recognising the risks which will result from this development. Not only in Russia but also in countries which bought into a nuclear/energy dependency from Russia.

Same considerations should go for countries which buy into nuclear dependencies from China.
Yeah I didn’t give that enough nuance. I should have said do what you love to the extent that it can make you a living. The novel writer works as a technical author. I wanted to write games for the Acorn Electron when I grew up. Writing Typescript for web applications ain’t a bad second.
But not popular anywhere in the US whether it's suburbia or not. Japan still uses Fax machines the same way Europe still uses manual.
i disagree. i believe that aws is hard because it provides the feature set that is the union of the needs of all customers, and that the customers are massive company inc.

inside of that bloated feature set, there exists an essential core of primitives, operated by the best sre the world has seen.

i believe this core should be easy to use, and fun too.
> similar inequality issues to USD

Actually, cryptocurrency is almost two orders of magnitude more unequal. The top 1% owns 38.5% of the wealth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite..., compared with the top 0.01% of bitcoin owners.
From https://stablegains.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402687632...

> Our main stablecoin is USDC (USD Coin). For every 1 USDC in supply, $1 USD is kept in reserve.

> The other stablecoins we may use are, UST (Terra USD) and DAI.
Do you have any data proving those points? Both are highly questionable from economic PoV. USA is not doing the majority of research, for sure (e.g.EU does a lot too), and it’s not that expensive. Besides that, drugs and equipment are not the only cost drivers. In other countries those who cannot pay for the insurance get it from the taxpayer money, basically the same redistribution just called differently. This does not explain why in USA costs are much higher than in countries where redistribution is codified in the law.
I'm not sure about the other regulators, but Jaczko is hardly liked by his colleagues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Jaczko

>A report by Nuclear Regulatory Commission Inspector General Hubert T. Bell accused Jaczko of "strategically" withholding information from his colleagues in an effort to keep plans for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository from advancing.

>In October 2011, all the other four NRC commissioners—two Democrats and two Republicans—sent a letter to the White House expressing "grave concern" about Jaczko's actions at the NRC. On December 14, 2011, Commissioner William Ostendorff, a Republican, told a House oversight committee that Jaczko's "bullying and intimidation... should not and cannot be tolerated."
This rings true and I'd like to see a comparison of interest rates or curve steepness vs energy supply/construction
> The problem is that users dive into it without understanding the risks. Also, there should be (and will be) more regulations around it.

Correct. Only a few cryptocurrency projects will survive and the several meme cryptocurrencies or non-compliant coins will wither away.

This is why some companies waited for regulatory clarity to enter back into the cryptocurrency markets. This is what the absolutist crypto-skeptics or absolutist crypto-maximalists won't tell you.
The goofy thing is how quickly that term fell out of the vernacular, and how few people (other than you) even stop to be amazed at the ridiculousness of it all in hindsight.
The way I would interpret the article relates to my experience with lucid imaging. Sort of like dreaming but I'm really just seeing a scene rather than experiencing something. I can only do this in similar conditions as lucid dreaming (but I've very rarely experienced that). The thing I found is that you have to have no external perceptions for my imagined ones to form. Once I've seen the real world, it's near impossible to forget it and get back to my imagined one.

I suspect that tinnitus is similar in that the lack of an external signal allows for filling in with imagined sounds. Since there's no external reset the default could be simple tones (at least that's what I hear). For the analogy to hold the pitches of the sounds imagined should match frequencies of hearing loss. I tried to match up what I imagine I hear with recorded tones and it's close to the limit, e.g. I can hear faintly up to about 16 kHz and the tone I imagine is about 15 kHz--I don't recall the exact numbers but it was relatively like that.

I suppose with practice one could imagine hearing something while awake in those frequencies to the point it's indistinguishable from actually hearing it. I don't think I'd want to learn how to induce specific sounds or voices in my head that I can't turn off at will. At least you can know that the high-pitched sounds aren't real.