skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not very surprising that Cryptocoins would be correlated to GBTC (literally a pile of bitcoin trading as a stock), Coinbase (literally the exchange that does better when more volume happens), and TSLA (who bought a pile of BTC sometime last year).

Tech companies were playing with blockchain this past year, and are now getting burned. You've got cause-and-effect backwards here.
Anyone knows if this is some kind of proof-of-concept language ? Or is there any plan on getting this thing supported in the long run ?

I've always loved dave abrahams contributions on swift forums, and with the recent departure of chris lattner from the swift core team, i start to wonder : is this a first attempt at forking swift ?

EDIT : in case others were wondering, i've just looked at the code and it's obviously just barely getting started. Probably just a POC at this point.
Let me get this straight, you don't think she's pregnant, but she has the supporting documentation for pregnancy (from a doctor no less), and you think she'll manipulate data or sabotage without being able to prove it (in other words, without evidence).

To me, it sounds like to me you've gone through the cognitive dissonance to justify her relegation to a shit job on the basis of her sex.
Make it four. I'm unbooked until then.
Exactly. And in the end, 80% of something is still something (or better said, 100% of zero is, you guessed, zero)

A lot of people have been able to offer niche content through Patreon, so it's a net positive even if they fumble their offer sometimes
I'm glad to see there's barely any uptake of the term on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Mostly people talking about it, not using it.
Possibly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
Tulips have an inherent value and so do Bitcoins.

Bitcoins are a tool to transfer and store value. There are transactions that are more expensive in the traditional banking system. Determine their value and the time they need to stay in Bitcoin, and you know the minimum market capitalization of Bitcoin. On top of that, you have people who want to diversify their investment portfolio. They keep some of their value in Bitcoins and thus reduce the supply of available coins for transactions which increases the market capitalization because you have to transfer the same amount of value with less coins.
There's a lot of interest, and emotion. Lotta people were eager to see "crypto" fulfill promised possibilities and disappointed when it became a re-run of every financial scam in the book. Many points of view to discuss.

I haven't yet seen the "phoenix" take; where the CBDC's are unveiled as the promised nirvana and there's going to be butterflies and unicorns again. I'm sure it is out there.
Thank you! I appreciate the correction. Unfortunately, I cannot agree with this either:

> "They" is not commonly recognized as singlular.

Personally, I’d say that ‘they’ can act as both a third person animate singular and a third person gender-neutral plural pronoun, in just the same way that ‘you’ is both a second-person singular and second-personal plural pronoun. True, the singular usage of ‘they’ isn’t quite as common as the plural usage, but as a native English speaker I’ve never seen singular ‘they’ as particularly unusual.
Because at one point filter was implemented as a special form in the interpreter rather than in the library. As such it was colored with special forms. That has changed and it is now in the library, but I have not gone into the highlight plugin to switch the colors as it is not a high priority.
> If in two iterations of DallE it can do 30% of graphic design work just as well as a human, who cares if it really "understands" art. It is going to start making an impact on the world.

From an AI safety perspective, it is because understanding is a key step towards general-purpose AI that can improve / reprogram itself in any arbitrary way.
The present? The very vast majority of applications are ran in the browser nowadays.
People set up automatic sell orders for when a thing falls below X. And people generally prefer round numbers, for reasons that are not very mysterious.
> A bit tired of these “Bitcoin is dead” articles. They almost never adds anything to the discussion.

They surely add to the list:

https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
"I am looking for a return to VCs that invest in businesses with solid growth, unit economics, and cashflow."

I'd like a pony while you're at it.
It's deflationary when viewed as money for the same reason that gold is.
I've been trying to roll this myself, so it's pretty cool that someone build this.
Ok, thanks for the clarification about the calculation. (I should have seen that, as a gas stored at 1 bar will not pour out of its container very well)

That is fine to employ H2 technology if all is accounted for and the leaks are included in the big picture (at consumer end-points as well as producer end-points).

Because, as a reminder, about emissions, we do not only need to "do a lot better" than now, we need to do zero (scratch that, we need to do negative).

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As an aside:

> Airbus is investing heavily in liquid hydrogen fuelled jets, and it's not because they are stupid.

Well, I would not use that as an argument. For example Toyota invested a lot in the wrong direction (and now they cling on their hybrid vehicles even if it makes no sense). (Even worse, see the diesielgate with Volkswagen. Huge corporations can do stupid things)
I'm genuinely curious. What is the utility of Monero to you?
I would agree. Simple and old school, but with a dash of modern features was what I was going for. I used Logo a good bit when I was young, so I can appreciate the comparison.
it's not leisure if you don't like it. slavery in entertainment is still slavery.
You might be more closely tuned in to what's happening in those alt-right(-adjacent) spaces, but I am both seriously doubtful that the word originated in those places and also confident that it is used in such a large variety of ways that it cannot be reliable indicator that a person saying it has anything to do with those spaces.

For example, pretty much everyone I hear saying this word is a liberal. But that says more about who I spend my time with than who uses the words. It has more to do with being Extremely Online than with any specific political affiliation.
This can be true if those applications carry some intrinsic value.

However whenever I go down this thought experiment, I tend to find that the applications themselves also don't carry intrinsic value e.g. some tie to the real world outside crypto.

Are there exceptions?
That seems like some wishful induction.
We do not deserve Justine. We can only Give Thanks.
I guess most creators I watch tend to link to unlisted youtube videos to share with their patrons rather than use Patreon's built in uploads.
Also check out the Stanford NLU course about this topic: cs224u.stanford.edu

There's a section on Shrdlu there too
You've done that thing where you think the Anglosphere is the whole world when it's really something like 10%. There's plenty of room for growth.
The text said Innovation drives inflation up! So funny! Actually Innovation drives inflation down: Think when we need to send a letter and now we just send a text message, much less resources included!
I know patreon only because of youtube. Are there many creators not connected to youtube on patreon? My impression is if youtube would allow donations to creators, patreon would be dead. Am I wrong?
I would not qualify entry level MacBook Airs as “high end”, yet they are unmatched for the tasks that 80% of people require from their laptops. And it has been this way for 10 years.
The quits rate (resignation and quitting) is extremely high historically: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSQUR

The graph you were showing is about layoffs, involuntarily losing your job.

I am not sure what the numbers would be like for typical HN visitors/tech workers though.
The thing about an A/B test is that you don't have to put up with it because you don't know you're in it. So I don't think there's much friction in executing one as long as you're bucketing the population in a sane way (e.g., don't show two different things to the same person at two different times).

I hear you on the misuse of statistics, but unless you're running multivariate experiments, this isn't much of an issue. Yes, if you can't even describe an experiment in a table/matrix, then it's probably too complicated and the results difficult to parse. I think most A/B tests don’t fall into this category and are far simpler.

Let me try to offer a practical A/B test for this checkbox.

Hypothesis: We believe that making the checkbox animated and reactive will result in people creating more to-do list items right after using the checkbox because they love it so much.

Test: To verify that we will deploy the new checkbox to half the users, and half the users get the normal one. Run this for a duration of two weeks.

Metric: We will measure the amount of to-do list items created right after someone completes a to-do list item.

Criteria: We are right if people with the new checkbox create 1.2x more to-do list items than the ones with the old one.

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The above is not a difficult experiment to create or analyze.
Which run command lines?

Godot can export to web.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/export/expo...
Nick Lane's book The Vital Question is a masterpiece. I reckon he's figured out the origin of life there. I hope he gets on some podcast like Lex Fridman to talk about it all, because his ideas are just waiting to explode into the public imagination.
Oh. I wish more did that.
You can do a single-income family and successfully, but you have to make some choices to do so. I know many who do it, and not all with no kids (some with many).

Things like older cars, smaller houses, location differences, etc. But there are major cost savings that offset, especially with the kids. Single car may work out, less gas, less tax, even less food expenses (many people faced with two incomes eat out more, and prepare food less).

Seeing people do is on $40k salaries means it should be entirely possible on larger ones. Note that if you want to try, it is almost always best for the lower earner to be the one who "stays home" so as to maximize income and minimize tax.

Also "not working a 9-5" is not synonymous with "no income" - there are actual non-scammy work that can be done at home in spare time if desired, and things like teaching exercise class, coaching, also exist.
"AI is not going to ... destroy the world."

Bare assertion fallacy? This question is hotly debated and I don't believe it can be so easily dismissed like that. It is not obvious that aligning something much smarter than us will be a piece of cake.
We get the day off for it at Updater.
So, they treat them like dogs?
> Apple: Great hardware, barely tolerable software.

I think this is more accurate:

Apple: great hardware, software better than the low low bar set by everyone else

Linux ships with 2394230 desktops, and Windows apparently isn't even designed by people who use actually use Windows: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307
macros werent necessary for me and the language is for me. I can always add them later (as the other comments mention). Not having them makes things simpler and easier for those with less programming experience that don't need power features. Those that end up needing them can always move on to scheme, clojure, common lisp, etc.
I still find myself reflexively mistrustful of Wayland because there's no real multi-OS implementation. Apart from some Steam games, there's nothing tying me to Linux as opposed to e.g. OpenBSD.
Not for housewives
That depends. If we can have back and forth with aliens it gets easier, or if they provide a Rosetta Stone (e.g. contact.)

Otherwise it’ll be pretty hard if not impossible
If you've been around bitcoin during all the other rallies and corresponding "crashes" and "bubble bursts" one thing rings true: It usually crashes to just below previous all-time-high to some extent, usually 15% below (ie: previous ATH $4000, ATH $22,000 in 2019, then retracted back to $3500 before climbing to latest ATH of $64,000. Some call it "crypto winter", it usually lasts for a good amount of time before gaining traction again and climbing past - usually after everyone has sold out and declared it dead, and media and the general public largely forget about it and stop talking about it for a year or two until it comes back into the news cycle as it picks up.

I would say it's not guaranteed to repeat exactly - but for reference $18,600 would be that point. It could go lower, due to other market factors (recession, defi time bombs, stablecoin insolvency, etc) but it seems to follow this path.
We have the day off at Notion.
All the tradesmen I've talked with say get up or out as soon as you can. Many aspire to be inspectors or managers. A few do it when retired, out of boredom, though they don't seem to do as good a job and work at their own pace.
Making cheap, flimsy stuff that you trash (or worse, abandon) and rebuild every few years is very wasteful of resources and terrible for the environment though.
The really beautiful art in engineering is not how capable of crunching numbers you are, but how much you can decrease the complexity required. In this example, the numbers are calculated using pencil and paper. Which modern engineer is able to do that and build something which will stand a century?
Most people cannot consider taking the status hit from that even if objectively they’d be much happier.
Eukaryotes don't do so much of that.
Right now not good but I have a plan for the web version. I'm going to overlay text fields, buttons and other things on top of the cells where they're being rendered. This is doable because nimwave has all the semantic information.

For terminals there is no way to do this. I think we need a new standard to represent terminal interfaces that preserves this info. I have some ideas on how to do this in a backwards compatible way but I'm on my phone at a BBQ right now so I can elaborate later :P
Yes because startups outside of crypto have had profitable business models for the last decade.

Most of the non crypto companies were not profitable when they IPOd the last few years and many still are barely profitable.
Different standard library, different focus, similar-ish core interpreter. However, it doesnt need to be different. This was not built for folks other than me and a few friends to use (I didnt post it here on hacker news, and am not looking to "grow a userbase").
Big Clive just comes across as Scottish to me.

- Another Scotsman
> I thought BTC has zero inflation baked in the algorithm

Only if it were the only currency in the world, and the amount of value in the world doesn’t decrease significantly.

As soon as there’s more than one currency, the market could decide the relative values of the two changed overnight.

Also, if the amount of value in the world were to decrease significantly, you still would see inflation (as, for example, one can see in times of war, when the amount of money doesn’t change much, but supply for some goods falls, while demand stays the same)
> clever lifestyle … not spending … cheap region

This is easy to do alone. Bring a partner into your life and slowly but surely you will be seen as a resource to be maxed out and consumed.

I know billionaires that share your dream. Do it. Save yourself. Go now.
there's also the obvious parallel to software.

they're never done. or, rather, if they no longer get changes or improvements, they've probably reached EOL.
One of the big benefits for single-income households is the "homework" is not counted as wages even if it's definitely work - you have to earn more than the cost of daycare or the gardener to pay for them, for example.
It's been right around the corner for 2 years now. I have little faith in that date, but the actual real crypto market crash has at least contributed to the fact that GPU prices are back at normality.
This game has some rather obvious flaws in terms of an economics simulator. Because the is only one product that means any changes to the price of apples is the inflation rate. Additionally, the demand for apples is basically fixed and 0% unemployment will guarantee a supply surplus causing the price to drop (immediately causing deflation). When deflation happens the only way they don't shut down orchards is if the interest rate is below 0%. If inflation hits more than about 5% all of the orchards shut down causing 100% unemployment. This model clearly assumes that if an orchard won't hit a predetermined ROI that it shuts down and won't re-open until it will get that profitability rate, but wages are largely unaffected by deflation, so the price of apples has to constantly out strip the operating costs of the orchard which are entirely variable.

The econimc model here couldn't be more supply side if it tried. It's a perfect analogy for how Republicans think economics work. Either you subsidize businesses to guarantee high profits, or the rich people will instantly take their ball and go home, and everyone will starve. Businesses don't instantly shut down if they think they won't post a profit for a quarter. Seriously, Amazon literally posted a loss every quarter for its first 10 years and they stayed open through investment so people would receive dividends after they finished establishing the scale they needed.

Whoever made this didn't put enough effort into thinking about the difference between a single product economy and real life. One market having a hicup doesn't cause 100% unemployment and a complete shutdown of all production in that market. This game fails to simulate a real economy for many of the same reasons the stock market rarely remains stable.
The behaviour based api that Fyne is designed with will degrade to a text UI, if anyone implements that driver ;).
I always thought I would but it’s never reached high on priorities…
Don't forget Ethereum for money laundering through NFT auctions.
I disagree. Rotating 90 degrees a phone is a lot easier than doing the same with a 27" computer screen. They assume everyone is using a phone completely disregarding people with computers; for that matter vertical videos are in my personal delete/ignore/never produce/never share list.
You mean like the derivatives market?
C++ game dev is certainly fun. I feel like the push to more managed languages in engines is making it a smaller and smaller field, as people are transitioning to C# with frequency.
I once was interviewing for Amazon, and one night just after I had passed the initial coding test the recruiter called me drunk at like 2am imploring me not to work for Amazon (and for advice about his cheating wife? Weird).
Did you see the inflation going down drastically between the period of july 2014 and jan 2016? This is not about the oil only!
The article says 500K people work in tech. The province employs 1.9M in total. Hence 25%.
I live in bay area, haven't made less than 100k since 2002. Obviously pay in Midwest is lower.
Most people would probably agree the latest models generalize better than flatworms. Mouse-level intelligence is more challenging and the comparison is unclear.

Flatworms first appeared 800+ million years ago, while mouse lineage diverged from humans only 70-80 million years ago. If our AGI development timeline roughly follows the proportion it took natural evolution, it might be much too late to begin seriously thinking about AGI alignment when we get to mouse-level intelligence. Not to mention that no one knows how long it would take to really understand AGI alignment (much less implementing it in a practical system).

To be more concrete, in what aspects do you think latest models are inferior at generalizing than flatworms or mice, when less known work like “Emergent Tool Use from
Multi-Agent Interaction” is also taken into account
https://openai.com/blog/emergent-tool-use/?
Why do we all fall for AI-generated language?
I’m at Curebase. US employees have the Monday off.
Based on experience, I would assume all of the components in the Acer laptop are lower quality than the MacBook Air.

Once I learned about “binning” years and years ago, I stopped paying attention to specs and instead just pay attention to commercial/business line branding. Or Apple in this case, which does not have a business line, but has earned a reputation for not using bottom dollar components.
Thats wild - was this before they released gold/silver abroad? From what I remember it was a solid 1-2 years before the english release.
Care to tell me where in the world you think BTC has a chance?

El Salvador? Hong Kong with Three Arrow's Capital collapse? Russia with its collapsing economy?

I admit I'm ignorant about many parts of the world. But the parts of the world that "matter" with regards to propping up the price of BTC, are the parts that have money. That narrows the list significantly.

* In Asia, there's China, Singapore, Japan, Philippines and a few others. I'm watching anime make fun of Blockchain (Japan), Three Arrows Capital blow up in Hong Kong, and Axie Infinity completely screw over working class Filipinos.

* Europe largely knows English and are just adjacent to the Anglosphere. (I'd expect the French and Germans etc. etc. to know about this whole crypto-nonsense by now as well)

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I guess I'm ignorant about India and some other corners of the world (and Indians know a lot about English anyway and would be adjacent).

Who in the world do you think can be brought into this cryptocoin nonsense now? Where can the cryptocoin world find "new converts", who have enough money to make a difference?
In theory, you can do it all in assembler. But it probably wouldn't be very convenient or a good use of your time.
Even in a third-world country like the Philippines, Bitcoin is already well-known with a local exchange (Coins.ph) operating locally.

Majority of people who would want to invest in Bitcoin has already done so.
The bit is structurally similar to this routine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeJxfqodQE4
I’ve done this exercise, and the non-Apple laptop always has a worse screen, or way slower SSD, or slower RAM, or a combination. Just looking at the top-level numbers isn’t a great comparison.

I looked at the 2020 Acer Swift 3 you mentioned and it’s the same sorry: 1080 250-nit display, and IT Pro’s review says it’s “mediocre in several areas – the screen, build quality and design are all underwhelming, and the keyboard and battery are middling.”
Assuming they drove for 14 hours a day, that's "only" about 45 mph on average while moving. I'd have assumed higher. Still very impressive, don't get me wrong.
Perhaps, but even the old stuff needs to be constantly maintained. I grew up in Rome, the eternal city, and everything was constantly under scaffolding, and the cobblestones on the streets were always being redone.

There were some facades of buildings that I had never even seen until I was aged 10, and all of a sudden a square that I always thought dull would be revealed with the scaffolding removed and the building looking beautiful.
And how were crypto startups better in any meaningful way?
You don't have a choice when you trigger an automated liquidation due to leverage position.

If you had $1M on loan (to pump some shitcoins of course), and your collateral is $2M of bitcoin at $40,000 - and the coin drops to $20,000, the system will automatically liquidate the bitcoin to cover the position. This, combined with automated stop losses and people getting out by selling (whale outs) leads to huge dives like this.
If you have solid growth, unit economics, and cashflow, you don't need VCs; you can just get a business loan from a bank. Or do an IPO.
Blue Planet produces coarse and fine aggregates containing sequestered CO2