skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I get what you're saying, it is important that it has dipped a significant amount because I think it questions the value of BTC as a store of value and it allows a lot of discussions on the level of volatility, and likely invokes a lot of emotions in people who do believe in the goals of BTC as an alternative store of money.

One of my colleagues is from north Africa and worked in Europe to send money to his family and friends, investing in BTC as it was easier to handle the international transfers. This was a great use for BTC in my opinion and it helped him raise his close ones out of poverty on paper :)

But with the dip, and people believing in the staying power of BTC, a lot of those funds are compromised now. They're not ruined and people are still better off than others, but there's a real concern on if it will be worth it to continue with BTC; the buy-in price is now higher than the current price by far and the total investment has devalued greatly and continuesto devalue without a lot of insight as to why or what can even be done.

So I think the personal stories like this emphasize the importance of the drop, especially since 20k was a fairly signofjcakt growth point for BTC as I remember it.
> Bitcoin has value for the same reason Visa has value.

No. Visa has contracts, offices, and cash. They have over $81B in assets, over $12B of which is cold hard cash.[1]

Visa also has employees who know what they're doing. Bitcoin has cryptocurrency industry people working on its behalf. It's not the same thing.

Bitcoin has people and companies invested in it (emotionally and financially). Visa has almost a hundred billion dollars in assets, and the market believes they'll be able to make even more (hence the almost $400B market cap).

Visa's market cap is just 4-5x its current assets.[2]

Bitcoin has no assets. It's just speculation. It can't be liquidated even in theory.

[1] https://s1.q4cdn.com/050606653/files/doc_financials/2022/q2/...

[2] ok, so it also has liabilities. But my point stands. Visa has value in a way that Bitcoin doesn't.
AI Wrote and Performed a Jerry Seinfeld Routine [video]
I did include a graph of production in "coins worth per month" for those who would like to try to stabilize NGDP.
Yeah, that's the thing, there are some domains that aren't going to ever move away from C and C++ dynamic duo no matter what, at least until something like quantum takes over (how many decades still?), so any help to improve their security is welcomed.
Agreed. I don't understand why designers like it so much. It's awful.
Making avatars without the 3D camera thing that phones do. Could also make avatars of famous people, deceased loved ones...
Thanks for nice words, though I do suffer from above average affinity to beer (and Rust) I consider myself decent person.

As I'm using audioserve myself, I try to evolve it continuosly, however my view of good simple audiobooks streaming server might be quite optioned (prefer textual information to covers, strong preference of opus codec, etc.), but do not hesitate to share your experiences and ideas via issues on project.
shared_ptr is just a code smell.
There aren't really many good use cases for shared ownership, using it is just a cop-out because you can't design code properly.
This electronic mail scheme just sounds like a slower and worse version of connecting to an IBM mainframe in Poughkeepsie.
Checkout Patrick Boyle and the Plain Bagel. One of them gave convincing arguments that precious metals are not great inflation hedges. They tend to be academic yet practical about explaining financial markets.
I agree. Also if people really believe goto is bad, lets not forget the 'hidden gotos' like early return oder state machines.
What would you prefer? CBDC or Bitcoin. One or the other will be the future.
The question was if it's technically possible - and it is.

Projects like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec were based on the cost estimates at the time. Now solar panels are much cheaper and it's a good thing.
You're writing OP, an almost perfect put. Although I have no interest in BTC, and would never take someone up on a bet like this, there's almost no upside on this bet for you.
Many arguments boil down to the definition of a word. Talking about definitions seems worthwhile.

We've all heard there are facts and opinions, but there's a 3rd category I think: definitions.
But when you start with that, it's turtles all the way down. Who guarantees that the Rust compiler is correct? Who guarantees that a kernel implements syscalls correctly? Who guarantees that RAM bits don't flip? Their point wasn't about the implementation of JS (which can always be improved), but on the definition of the language.
dumb money is exiting at a loss. who do you think is buying on the other side? not the dumb money that bought 60k, its the smart money that sold it who is buying right now.
No, that's not possible. Not only that, Fyne makes some questionable layout choices in conflict with platform UX guidelines. For example, it insists on underlining multiline text edit fields to indicate focus, which looks horrible and confuses users.
The WebGL display is really cool :)
Cafestol extraction yield from different coffee brew mechanisms
While it’s cool to see this, if you’ve been to DMT hyperspace you know it’s indescribable. Impossible to put into words, explain or visualize.
This just makes me incredibly sad when I see new programming language that does not even an tiny effort to improve syntax. Always the same old mess of {}[]() all over the place. And even ; to end the line. Sad.
Last Call BBS, the final Zachtronics games
C++11 introduced APIs for optional GC and since no one has ever fully provided one, it is going away on C++23.

The way C++/CLI, C++/CX and Unreal C++ work isn't based on those APIs (naturally, given their domain), and are even used on the C++23 motivation paper as why those GC APIs should be removed.
Do I need to exercise if I’m already fit and healthy?

It’s quite plausible that some countries are peaceful because of the deterrent effect of their (and their allies’) military.
Usually when a question is asked in a headline one would expect the article to at least attempt to answer it. This piece doesn't guide you on how to make trade-off decisions between privacy and usability, it doesn't even give concrete tips on how to improve privacy (apart from a single mention of password managers, where it doesn't even say whether they should be used or avoided). This is as useless for beginners as it is for experts, how did this make it to the front page of HN?
>This position sounds so self-serving on the part of the billionaire

It sounds more self-serving to the author of the article. The single sentence quoted does not necessarily imply what the author says. And rather than ask for clarification, the author goes on to make the assumption that Cowen thinks that humanism is the end-all be-all and does not care about keeping natural systems and environments intact.
Would be interesting to see what would happen if you set the interest rate below -0.5%.
Agreed. Seeing const vs let when reading / writing TypeScript gives me a clear, explicit indication of intent. I like having this be explicit.
While there might be an upvote/downvote symmetry, the way I look at it is:

1 upvote: 50 people agree

1 downvote: 50 people disagree

I have no data for this simple model. If I had, then it would be updated already ;-)

According to my simple model, I’d venture to guess that more people disagree than agree.
We don't get to decide what others value and work towards. We get to decide what we value and work towards.
Semi related question for those more familiar with current AI capabilities:
Has there been any attempt to "see" what dinosaurs looked like from their fossils? Using existing known animals and their skeletons as a training set.
No unless somebody will make plugin for it - audioserve has it own API. I though about implementing Subsonic API, but it's design is much different from how audioserve works, so it'll require too much "interface code", so I doubt I'll get to it.
Nicely written, but I don't fully understand your logic here. The bricklayer's wall in your comparison is precisely analogous to an "update" a developer has to do. The work is not complete for a bricklayer nor a software developer. Just as there is "one more revision or update" as you put it, there is always one more house to build walls for.

What I think you may be feeling though, is that working on software sometimes feels "endless", but that's really what happens when a project is poorly managed and no "strategic milestones" are reached. This is particularly severe in web dev, less so in the game dev scene where there are more of those "definite walls" to reach.
As one of those people, I’m saving now so I don’t have to worry about money in retirement.

Whatever’s left over was indeed wasted in the lens of my life (and that is bad), but makes for less such waste in my kids’ lives (which partially offsets the previous).
Uber drivers have to pass an examination by the state which usually requires many hours of lessons and supervised training. How is that unskilled?
Given that I used a rather different strategy (typically 0, 4% in good times, slowly cutting back and running at -0.5 later in the game) and got 443419 maybe the lesson of the this is that central bank policy doesn't make as big a difference as we think?
Working on OpenAI instead of trying unconventional options such as decentralized models governance might increase inequalities . Why would the community decide to repeat what they denounce in big tech?
Well, your comment is certainly interesting :)
Elon Musk pressured Twitter for access to a 'firehose' of data to evaluate bots
There's a case to be made for an UBI (Universal Basic Income) for researchers. You pick 0.1% of the population of a country (US: 330M people, 0.1% would be 330,000 researchers) and give them a generous salary for life. Some of them will retire to the Caribbean. Most, I'd guess, would feel encouraged to work on more ambitious ideas.
WTO approves package of trade deals, prompting cheers
No, we have a negative interest rate in Switzerland and for the average person it basically means over a certain amount of cash in the bank they will take some. So kind of like a bank account fee.
I just stood up a BirdNet-Pi[1] instance underneath my deck[2] and it's a super fun project. I designed a 3d printable enclosure[3] to mount an rpi in a bird-hut looking thing to try and keep the water off the device. I'm currently using a 4-mic array on a Seeed Respeaker hat which is notionally designed for far-field 360 pickup to be used on voice response devices (alexa et al). It works but it's not great, so next stunt is to try and build some more suitable microphone solutions[4].

It really is an interesting use of TensorFlow at the edge and the somewhat accidental side effect is that I'm learning the birdsongs of all the neighborhood birds which is an extra delight when I'm out and hearing their calls in the broader world.

[1] https://birdnetpi.com/
[2] https://i.imgur.com/xxugaVN.jpg
[3] https://i.imgur.com/ycLVD6u.png
[4] https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi/discussions/39
Given a failed, decades-long effort to decipher Linear A, how likely is it that we will ever be capable of deciphering a purely alien transmission?
> It's very in-world.

Thanks that is what I wanted to hear.
I guess that statement is comparing C++ with other high level languages. Not assembly. After all, one can drop down to assembly from any language. But "theoretically" is not interesting. What's more interesting is what is practically possible. Even Python can be made as fast as assembly by writing everything in the latter inside a Python shell, but those are unrealistic comparisons. Practically speaking C++ is difficult to beat, in terms of speed, from other languages at a similar level of abstraction.
Do the birds consider this an invasion of their privacy?
I think this could be used as a great basis for next generation video conferencing. Rather than compressing raster images of people speaking, we could send a model as an initial payload and subsequent instructions on how to manipulate it as the conversation progresses.

Most current networks can handle video conferencing (relatively) well. However, if 8k video or something like Light Field displays ever catch on, then we might end up needing orders of magnitude more bandwidth to drive video conferencing, so this might be an enabling technology.
FCC says requests for funds to replace Chinese telecom equipment are deficient
It just needs to be easier than Rust and C++, and more expressive than Go while being nearly as performant. If it comes with a good stdlib, even better.
Go is none of those three. It looks easy on the surface, but it contains a ton of paper cuts and nonsense, people do what looks logical and then every expert Go programmer on HN point and laugh at them. It's not even as fast as Java (for a comparison look at how much careful engineering goes into Java's low latency garbage collectors while Go just hyped the shit out of their inferior version which they had to replace in due course), and calling out from Go is dismal in performance. As for safe, are you kidding me? Go has all this green thread stuff with not a single safety mechanism by default. It's all up to the programmer to implement it by themselves, and they don't get any help, they can't even say that something is immutable. It even regresses on C in that there is no way to declare an enum type. So if you have values representing a bounded set of choices you can't enforce it.

The worst thing is that this travesty of a language will win and lead to decades of stagnation.
It's well known, that understanding how the economy works, was never a requirement for CB Governor:

"Nobody Really Knows How the Economy Works. A Fed Paper Is the Latest Sign":
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/upshot/inflation-economy-...

Greenspan: There was a "flaw in the model of how I perceived the world works.":
https://www.propublica.org/article/greenspan-says-i-still-do...

"Greenspan Says I Still Dont Fully Understand What Happened":
https://youtu.be/R5lZPWNFizQ
Reality vs fiction
You're right; I looked it up.

The direct order has to be something important that is part of your job.

Less-serious insubordination should be dealt with by means of formal warnings, and processes to help the employee improve. But if, for example, I'm ordered to attend a customer meeting at 10:00am, and I refuse on the grounds that I'm planning to stay in bed until 11:00am, I can be fired summmarily. The employer would be well-advised to document everything scrupulously.

Ultimately an employer can fire anyone they want; HR processes and procedures can be rigged. In a legal dispute between an employer and a worker, the employer has the upper hand. If a worker wins an employment dispute, they might keep their job; but they now have a hostile employer.
what if the exchanges shut down ??
Looks like Amazon is retiring Alexa?
Audioserve has generic web client - but not sure if it works on Alexa. If there are problems try with transcoding set to None.
I always set it to US English because I don’t like translations, yet I pretty often get translations.
Afaik the time window for that (going to war with USSR) was very narrow. As well, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki the US had not enough material to build another bomb in short order. Which narrows the window even more.
we already know they killed several through their inaction
Dan, over the years you’ve baselessly accused me of misrepresenting how the NHS system works, without any substance. The UK NHS’s use of QALY is well established: https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/... (“The U.K. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) currently uses a cost-effectiveness threshold in the range of £20,000 to £30,000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) for reimbursing new drugs in the National Health Service”). I also mentioned to the cancer drugs fund.

And the US system, unlike the UK NHS, is a highly fragmented contractual system. Obviously there’s going to be a wide range of experiences with willingness to pay. But I cited specific sources for the median insurance reimbursement of glioblastoma being over $180,000.

So please tell me, with particularity, what part do you disagree with?
Learn Elixir. Enjoy!
Not sure what would you like me to elaborate on. I'm just saying that there was widely held stupid belief that it's not possible for BTC to fall below $20K. Hence the "interestingness" of this level.
I got into BirdNET recently and really enjoyed it. I’m now able to identify the species in our neighborhood and learned some facts about them. It really is pretty amazing app. Building a BirdPi is on my list- I’d like to ID the owls we hear some nights.
Mitochondria and the origin of eukaryotes
I'd be curious if there are sources showing that solar panels could improve agricultural productivity, but I have doubts, since plants and panels compete for the same resource, sunlight. In terms of cooling, it should be noted that contrary to popular belief, solar panels heat up whatever is underneath them, they don't cool.
I believed all of that until the day I actually tried to accept it as currency at my business.

It doesn’t work. Other things do the job much cheaper and faster… and without burning a small country worth of energy.
I’ve literally never watched a Jordan Peterson video.
Flags represent countries, not languages.
Throughout bitcoin's entire existence, the Federal Reserve and central banks globally have been in a posture of monetary easing and accommodation. There may be some reason to believe this crypto winter will be deeper and longer than the prior ones, and that the absurd heights of Ponzi speculation that were reached this time will not be seen again for a long time, if ever.
I don’t make bets I can’t win. But you aren’t the first person to tell me they would 100% win this bet if only they weren’t morally opposed to gambling or something.

There is no cash upfront. It’s perfect.
Possible to put in words, slightly possible to explain to experiencer of other psychedelic substances, and theoretically possible to somewhat visualise but not as a picture, better as a filter being capable to distort a video stream. And it is definitely not a hyperspase but a kind of deprivation which works significantly better if user manages not to go into sleeping while being under influence.
Some concrete advises: https://prism-break.org
I guess the authors used a raw allocation in the example code to show the simplest possible use-after-free.

Any software with complex object ownership written in a language without GC has to balance between user-after-free (freeing an object too early) and memory leaks (keeping an object alive longer than needed). Maybe constructing secure code here would mean simplifying object ownership, but that doesn't seem practical for a beast such a modern browser with millions of lines of code.

MTE with the heap scanning sounds like a real solution for the user-after-free problem, not merely a mitigation. The trade-off is that the memory is not immediately freed, but the measured increase of only 1% is promising.
ladder runs out 15 feet from the top - oh thank God he's made it

"All that's left is shunning up the mast" - sorry, what? I'm just going to hide behind this sofa
To me, I use the reader mode on my browser because it allows me to have a consistent view for every article I put through it. I can have a font size, and background colour that is comfortable for me to read. I do however notice that reader modes seem to be used more so for making horrible looking websites like this readable.
It's a great resource but I don't think SICM is quite comparable to SICP because it's not aimed at complete beginners. If you know or remember nothing about Physics it will be a tough read and you'll be lost quickly.

Personally I like the Theoretical Minimum lectures [0] - they are very clear and concise.

[0] https://theoreticalminimum.com/
Pricespy had excellent filters for the produxts they listed, though I guess it was more focused than amazon. I would say maintaining is possible, especially if they let retailers define the fields and responsible for filling them for the products they list.
As mentioned previously it is odd that the page is rendered in HTML and not pure plain text.

For anyone interested in spinning up their own plain text blog/site, feel free to check out Shinobi (shameless plug)

https://shinobi.website
To be pedantic, the ai/ml approach has no concept of the protein folding process, merely the structural motifs that result when it is complete. These are the X-ray or cryoEM environments used in the training process. The 50-year hunt has been to be able to understand and simulate the dynamics involved in folding itself. This seems so complex to simulate yet nature finds it almost trivial. Protein homology, deriving structures from similar proteins, is the “parent” of this, not molecular dynamics.
I think it’s more about expectations that dishonesty. One might expect something is a once-per-generation event, but then things happen, stuff changes, here we are less than a decade later hoping to do it again.
As a medium of exchange, the price of one bitcoin should be kind of meaningless. As long as you can quickly do the transaction and cash out on the other end, it shouldn’t really matter if BTC IS $100 or $100,000.
The fact that Bitcoin behaves like a stock is itself an argument against Bitcoin.
For sure. Ever tried to go to bed immediately after sending the last email, your mind still preoccupied by work? It's impossible to get a good sleep like that. At least for me.

A hour or two of unwinding with a book or a Star Trek episode, talking about vacation with your SO or something else to get your mind off work is essential.

Which makes excessive work even more problematic. You have to commute, shop, do chores AND unwind.
I currently live with only a cat. Although cats are more chill, I prefer dogs because they are more interactive and make you get out of the house to take them for walks. The exercise is good for me too.
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This displays well in Safari 15...

http://galgot.free.fr/bookfiles/Bouton/index.html

No idea what level of satisfaction it gives :)
If people are doing any kind of leveraged positions on Cryptocurrency then who the hell lent them the money?
Bitcoin is not supposed to behave like a stock.
Taking the cost of hardware as a sunk cost is foolish it’s one of the largest costs
There are already non-self-driving cars that get speed limits from signs. I’ve seen that feature in a Honda for example. I imagine you’d have multiple sources like a max speed for that type of road as a fallback. And you need to read speed limit signage due to temporary limits. There’s also variable speed limit roads near me now and so you have to read those electronic signs unless the database is updated very often (though no humans seem to obey those limits).
Sure, if you ignore the difference between 8GB and 32GB RAM and other specs.

And considering the shameless prices Apple lists for Macbook upgrades those $5k are going to shrink fast if you want more than the measly base configuration. A decent upgrade of storage and RAM will quickly double the Macbook's price.
Nice hardware but I'm not going to spend 920 Euros for a 2TB SSD.
Someone will want to enslave people. This has been so for almost all of history for sufficiently large civilizations. In general humans exploit one another when they can get away with it. In the absence of government/societal regulations slavery will occur and thus the “market” minimum wage is 0.

Government regulations can be good and they can be bad. In enlightened countries enough good ones are in place to prevent a minimum wage of 0.