skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're talking about Norsar right?

You know you can read the reports, they're all at internet archive: https://archive.org/search.php?query=Norsar . They even have a website: https://www.norsar.no/home/

Everyone loves a Tom Clancy secret spy story but here it gets substituted as if it were the primary sole purpose

It's true that one of its uses is to verify nuclear test ban treaties because that's how you got government money for research in the 1970s

You can see from the documents the myriad of scientific use cases for these systems such as moving towards a global computer based weather model

You can also see from say, the Wikipedia page, it was how people got SATNET up so there could be a European link to systems like JANET

The problem with the Clancy stuff is it's supposed hidden. So when the evidence isn't there that it's a central player, well that's because it was secret

Then in cases when there's really no evidence and it's genuinely absent well that's because it was super duper tippity top secret.

So we get these narratives of "well the real reason was a clandestine program with sunglasses and trenchcoat wearing feds that of course there's only rumors of and all of the computing time and resources are allocated for but I swear it's being downplayed"

Alright, sounds totally real
The 419 scammers intentionally make their scam emails/letters super obviously scams so that the only people who reply are those who are scammable. It's likely that something similar will develop in crypto scams.
You’re right - which is great.

General point still stands though as most chimneys were demolished.
How ice cream became the ultimate American comfort food (2021)
It doesn't have a laugh track to prompt you. Here is [Seinfeld / Laugh Track Removed: Soup Nazi](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=23M3eKn1FN0).
1. I’m incredibly glad this happened on a Friday night. That gives the actual market 2 days of relaxing before they really have to respond to this.

2. It’s interesting the author is saying the collapse already occurred (60k->20k) but also it will continue to crash. With stocks the company’s actual assets/etc create a price floor, but with Bitcoin the theoretical floor is zero?

3. All eyes on tether, it feels like that may be the final punch for crypto.
What increasing wall street investments in crypto?

Please do elaborate.
There is (perhaps unsuprisingly) a lot of overlap between what these scripts do and what Easy Data Transform does. But Easy Data Transform gives you the option to chain multiple transforms together and it runs locally (rather than uploading your potentially sensitive data to someone else's server). However it is commercial software, rather than free.
1. The crowd that bids up bitcoin and tech stocks do so with leverage.

2. Leverage becomes more expensive with higher rates.

3. The same crowd owns both assets (e.g. Bitcoin and Tesla)

4. Qs are low yield assets with high projected future cashflows. Low rates bring those cash flows to the present, high rates discount them more aggressively. Bitcoin has 0 cash flow, so the effect is worse.

Bitcoin proponents have no financial education. Bitcoin is not a hedge for anything (including inflation). Crypto is a high beta asset with an inelastic supply which makes it even more volatile in periods when everyone wants/needs to liquidate simultaneously.
Does this mean I can buy a graphics card now?
> not being able to dock the task bar to the side, though you can't do that on macOS either

In System Preferences > General you can set the dock to the left, right or bottom of the screen.
If nothing else the program inspired people to think about AI and NLP. I'm working on Natural Language Understanding (NLU) myself (https://lxagi.com/).
The article, and people in general, don’t seem to acknowledge that consumption has increased as well. For example my 795sqft house would not be on the radar of most families but it was typical for the area when it was built in 1946. Productivity gains have been directed to increased consumption rather than leisure as Keynes envisioned. If you ask people how much is enough, the answers are often laughable.

To be explicit, I don’t think individual consumption explains the whole story (e.g. inequality and wealth distribution) but normalizing for it paints a clearer picture.
I don't think it's as simple as scaling with wavelength, although I would be happy to be proved wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31769803#31790292
TFW when white collar professionals complain about the prices businesses charge in order to pay the white collar salaries necessary to make the products they use. And so many of these companies aren't even profitable, either.

It's like carnivores being judgmental of hunters.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fren

It predates the co-opting by the alt-right though.
It failed as digital cash (outside of some very limited niches), so they moved the goal post to "store of value." It's failed at that, and at being "digital gold" or an inflation hedge.

It has also failed as a medium for digital assets now that the NFT craze is showing itself to be hollow and is collapsing. It's failed as a medium for decentralized organizations (DAOs) since they've all either been hacked to death or revealed to not actually be decentralized.

Where do they find a new well of hype now?

I still believe that the concept of decentralized cryptocurrency is technically viable, but the entire current cryptocurrency ecosystem would probably have to be burned to the ground for anything honest and well built and not structurally a hyperdeflationary decentralized Ponzi/pyramid scheme to get traction.
Yo dawg I've heard you don't like noise? Put headphones with counter noise so you will not listening noise while not listening noise...
Lol, its going a lot lower. Probably sub $10K.
IMO, deepfakes are a public good because they reduce the sting of blackmail. Does someone have an incriminating video of you? Let them release it and then point out that the shadows look all wrong.
Red Line Through HTTPS
Sure...I never stated that self-sufficiency meant being alone. Hunter Gathers also had a relatively flat social hierarchy that was family & tribe oriented. The elders & leaders had direct skin in the game. There was no middle management or social abstractions in Hunter Gatherer society. They were healthy, happy, had plenty of game to hunt, managed forests, & had little pollution. There was no large scale wars. They were self sufficient as a community. Now we have multi level hierarchical control systems where the people benefiting have no direct downside to causing harm to other people.
Dueling electric motorcycles set new cannonball run record in race across the US
Simple, but cool
At least in the US, banks provide quite a bit less payment support. Chargebacks are a big one: with Stripe or something similar, you have to manually respond and pay a $20+ fee every time someone files a chargeback.
Sorry I did not word my question properly regarding my experience. I clarified in a later comment. I have worked on multiple languages like C#, Java, Clojure and have deployed code to production in all of them. Python is just my language of choice to reach for to solve a problem. I have no misgivings that it could be used for all problems.

I have also familiarized myself with formal verification and proof assistants. They are in the class of "weekend projects to get myself familiar with them but I dont see myself putting them into practice right away". I do love functional programming and most of the Python code I write has a functional style, since I have experienced immense benefits with that.
Facial animation is a real issue. This is facial mapping, which is an easier to solve problem, in that throwing artists at the problem is a solution.
Round number bias?
This fills me with dread.

It just dawned on me how disruptive this tech is. If you think we are drowning in a sea of shitty content now, just wait until this type of thing is deployed on demand and at scale into people's feeds.

This actually had me laughing which equals a dopamine hit. I can easily see people endlessly watching rapid fire equivalents of this in a hypothetical future TikTok ursurper.
But how many of them are very small?

It's easy to find "big things" on any platform, the question is which are successful for those trying to grow?
It seems that there is a lot of emotion in your assessment because you use sweeping absolutes to describe millions of people. In my experience the world is complex and nuanced. Do you really mean to say all rich people are law breakers ala crooks? When you define rich, are you using a global scale? For instance are most people in the developed world crooks? There are good and bad people in all walks of life, all countries, races, etc. More often than not, when you get to understand the forces that impact people, you realize that what seem like simple decisions from the outside to make the world a better place have unseen negative consequences.

On a personal level, I can say my managers try to be good people, although the may not always do the best thing. In my case, my wife has stage 4 cancer and they have been tremendously supportive.

Edit: I should probably mention for full transparency I work at Amazon as it is sited in the article.
Forensic Architecture: The Beirut Port Explosion (2020)
That makes no sense. People do pay for those things. They buy art and concert tickets. Teaching isn't super lucrative but they earn a decent living wage in most areas.
GPU prices have been dropping steadily since January[0], which is nice to see. Still plenty of demand, but I hope my poor GeForce 960 can hang in there another 6 months before I have to upgrade.

[0] - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-pricing-index
Seriously read the article it explains how to make the change permanent when needed
Was it the airplane game?
The way I put it is that with hardware, Apple had their "come to Jesus" moment a couple of years ago. With software, they're still Johnny Ive^H^H^HSwift: just as cocksure as to how perfect they are as they are actually bad.

It used to not be that way at all. They had OK-ish hardware that was basically a dongle for the awesome software.
I agree one would have a similar experience as the author when learning Flutter, but it is because on mobile you need to have all these shiny things so it's no wonder that documentation covers it in detail. However, you can perfectly write Flutter apps without animations, transitions and the like.
That is just PR. The thing with oligarchs is that the loot and power they hold is considered to be some sort of escrow to be used by the power structure as it sees fit.

Those who forget it, die or go to prison.
In Praise of Old-Fashioned Dads
If you scroll about 2/3 through the article you will see the author thinks it was a regression in Lion (2011).
Speculative debt fueled bubble enabled by low interest rates. One of many. Higher interest rates drive up the opportunity cost of speculation which pops the bubble. Bitcoin is pure speculation and very liquid so it’ll pop sooner and faster than other investments such as stocks and housing.

As far as I can tell, even gold tends to go down in the early stages of recessions as people use its liquidity to cover losses elsewhere.
Let's hear some of this "common sense" regulation that will allegedly arrest scams and illicit schemes.
> Judging by the shape of the economy, there is a lot more leisure time than before.

I'd argue that the size of the leisure economy and the amount of leisure time are only very loosely correlated.

For example, if I meditate for 1 hour it is leisure time with no direct economic impact.

One the other hand, one could argue that the more leisure time we have, the more we will spend in leisure related equipment, culture etc.

However, one might also argue that leisure related spending correlates with disposable income, not leisure time.
Yeah, Android is much more hacker friendly than iPhone with its closed ecosystem.

iPhones and Macs is more for people that don't want to tinker with their hardware/software.
Not sure if you just made a typo there, but that's 20GHz, up to 80GSa/s (GigaSamples per second).
Perhaps scrollyteller.
I need the Bill Hicks version as well
Surprised there have been so few comments. I’m not there but have contacts and customers, and go occasionally.

I’ve followed some of the press about attempts to bring in tech sector resources through tax breaks. One of the big issues is localized pressure on housing costs in prime areas, such as Rincon.

Bottom line seems to be that the scene is focused on the elite rather than creating an organic environment. I’d be pleased to read articles contradicting this view, if any.

Contrast also with some increasingly successful efforts to diversify and localize the restaurant and food supply sectors.

‘Crypto colonizers’ in Puerto Rico try to sell locals on the dream - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/01/13/crypto-...

The Rush for a Slice of Paradise in Puerto Rico - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/us/puerto-rico-gentrifica...

How Crypto Wealth Is Gentrifying Puerto Rico - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/10/business/puer...

Reclaiming Puerto Rico’s Food Paradise - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/dining/reclaiming-puerto-...

Is America's best restaurant in Puerto Rico? - https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220215-is-americas-best...
Apple used to be an oddity; a hardware company that was also good at software. If they are now reverting, it’s at least reassuring to see that the conventional wisdom still holds; i.e. that companies can be good at software or hardware, but never both.
It’s a fun calculation, glass is more than an order of magnitude heavier, multiply that by the $200B food packaging industry and you get some big numbers :)
Use it as the family ledger ?
Can you buy NFTs with regular, real, "fiat" currency?
Economics noob here.

Shouldn't very high inflation in US on goods priced with USD + rising global food prices actually bump up the price of BTC? I thought BTC has zero inflation baked in the algorithm, so it should actually move the opposite direction against any currency that experience high inflation right now. I want to be educated.
Coca-Cola competes not with Pepsi. If you chose Pepsi, you will not suddenly choose Coca-Cola if if shows a flashier ad.

Coca-Cola competes with: a glass of water, a cup of tea or coffee, an actual meal, a walk outside, a meditation, a nothing (just you chilling and keeping watching YT), your vision of yourself as someone who is not a Coke drinker (so e.g. Coke drinkers in adverts tend to be active, adventure-seeking, well-socialized and loved).

It advertises most certainly not to make the product known, that's done by putting it on shelves in stores. Invading your attention at home or while doing anything other than shopping is strictly banking on triggering an impulse and/or trying to adjust your self-image to allow the possibility of you seeing yourself as the type of a person who uses the product.

Similarly McD and SBX compete with local parks and benches, Netflix competes with woodwork (and indeed sex), YouTube competes with going out (and thus Uber, in locations with poor public transport), Uber competes with not going out (and thus YouTube), etc. to various degrees.

(Things are different with advertisements especially for lesser known products without IRL presence. An advert != an advert.)
I actually laughed at "I'm not going to start feeding my cat different foods depending on where exactly he is located".

That's a really great punchline.
Puerto Rico has massive problems, I’d highly recommend vacationing there before considering moving. It’s a nice vacation spot! But go outside of the tourist zone and the political corruption is dauntingly clear. Infrastructure just never gets repaired after hurricanes because politicians leaders/etc steal the funds. Half a mile from the hotel zone are beautiful homes that were destroyed a decade ago, and never were rebuilt. People still live in them.

Puerto Rico is a truly beautiful place. But it’s definitely not just another US state but in the Caribbean.
At the top of the function, "if [special input] return [special output]" is a great way of handling edge cases
'The Verge' says it all.

I've never heard of a company that let's you trash talk the CEO with no repercussions and as it goes, their firing was predicated on other employees discomfort with their activism.

Make your money somewhere else if you have a problem with the boss. NASA will give you a fair shake I'm sure.
Why stop at positive integers? Why not -3? A? Horse?
Exactly. Putin and his power structure are the ones with all the power, if they can kill or imprison any oligarch who steps out of line. They control the relationship
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavonoid
>Construction is a sign of growth usually, which is not entirely the same as life.

And unlimited growth is followed by resource exhaustion and death.
The theory was it was "uncorrelated" with traditional assets because the inputs to their price movement (economic performance, monetary and fiscal policy) were in theory isolated from the purely digital asset of BTC.

With hindsight it's pretty easy to see that's false, since the common tie is the same investors investing in both asset classes, with dollars they get from economic performance and monetary and fiscal policy.
> Isn't this kind of a dangerous sentiment, which precludes rational thought?

Here’s a proposal:

Convince me that the Norwegians, Vietnamese, or Chileans are the kind of people that would nuke half the world (as put forth in the OP regarding America and nuclear proliferation), and then I’d be open to seriously entertaining an argument that the same is true of the United States.

If the point here is to single out the US as a country and people that would nuke half the world if nobody else had nuclear weapons, I’m sorry but you might as well be trying to convince me that cows are made of lettuce. The premise is almost never starting from an honest place.

> I'm not entirely convinced the 'kind' of people is relevant when a government makes a decision to go to war.

Then why are we suggesting anything about the United States as though is unique here? Would New Zealand nuke half the world if they had nuclear weapons first and stopped proliferation? If your answer is no than your “kind of people” point is rather peculiar because what you’re really saying here is “we’re all the same” but under the same breath you are suggesting that the people of America aren’t because they’d, as the OP put it, nuke half the world. It’s especially peculiar because the United States has effectively held that option in the past, not used it even though it would have made strategic sense, and has fired multiple generals and military personnel during active conflicts who have suggested we should use nuclear weapons at all.
Yes I've seen those things. They are amazing technical achievements, but in the end they're just clever parlor tricks (with perhaps some limited applicability to a few real business problems). They don't look like forward progress towards any sort of true AGI that could ever pass a rigorous Turing test.
> who is thinking that this might be a sign of the end of crypto?

I think some billionaires may still be able to bail it out, I'm about 50-50 it dies.

> Tether collapsing in the next couple weeks will likely put Bitcoin under $10,000

I kind of doubt this happens, I think Tether is fundamentally structured differently than Terra/Luna and is all debt-based and won't face a run on the bank until crypto is basically a smoking hole in the ground. Everyone wants Tether to implode to take out crypto, but I think it is the other way around.

The Tether redemptions though are signs that the underlying value of the collateral (crypto) has gone below thresholds, and the redemptions withdraw liquidity that was causing inflation in the price.

Something else is likely to pop though, and eventually one of the really big exchanges is going to go under. Coinbase going full MtGox or something like that.
> But going back to what I was commenting, my point was that if I was a 10+ year investor as parent said, I would not feel fortunate about not having bought bitcoin throughout my years. Of course very recent years are different.

That's exactly the point. Most investors are happy to not have gambled on cryptocurrency over the last 10 years. That's why their money is in USD and not Casino Chips. You're only looking at the outcome. You don't control the outcome. What you control is your methodology for your deployment of capital.

If you regret not investing in Bitcoin because you've established some new thesis, then now is the time to employ that thesis. But if you regret not gambling because someone else hit 00 and got 35 to 1, that's not investing.
The point of the GP argument is that the lack of decent cross-platform GUI libraries is astounding to game programmers because games are much more difficult and involved than GUIs yet producing a game that runs on multiple platforms is mostly a solved problem.

The point is not to say "Why don't you guys do GUIs like games where you recompute the whole thing every frame?". Even the people who talk about immediate mode GUI are talking about the API of defining the UI, not the implementation details. It's perfectly consistent to have a GUI library that exposes an immediate mode API but retains a lot of state between frames and only does repainting when necessary.

Also I find this talk about battery life in general disingenious given that more and more tech companies are converging on implementing applications in Electron which drains battery life very quickly.
So what, giving up so easily on problem so obvious is usually done by people who are well off and actually have to lose, or those who for some basic reason don't understand they are also the ones getting fucked over (ie patriotism can push folks easily in very stupid positions and in the same time make them feel good about their actions).

If you traveled a bit around the world, maybe you could see that nothing is binary, and neither is this topic.

Elites always exist in some form, yes. They do not always have to be so disproportionally distanced from rest of population like in US, not in democracies, not so untouchable. There are tons of countries, ie in Europe who are managing this in much better way.

The wider problem/situation I see is that US is much more everybody-for-themselves-and-fuck-the-rest because it maximizes direct incomes of few (ignoring how much they will spend on ie healthcare or education of their kids, these 2 can easily wipe out aby gains for middle/upper middle class), rather than living in actual modern society.

The logic of 'contributing back and improving place you live actually comes back to you too and creates something better for future of you/your kids' somehow didn't click in US that much. I saw first hand rather primitive knee-jerk reactions in ie bible belt in US that equate well working society with socialism, (I guess phonetical step not too big, logical though much bigger) and well that's communism and you should be deported/jailed/shot on spot.
What are these guarantees? One is that they are easier to miss when reading the code.
Support if it's being approached from above, and resistance if it's being approached from below.

https://www.investopedia.com/trading/support-and-resistance-...
Previous discussion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpjPh1mtp-0
We are the poorer for having fewer Freds.

Fred Kummerow was another grave loss.
Hmm, is this a dig on Python? If so, sorry to hear that. My experience has been the complete opposite. Python in inherently intuitive to my way of thinking. And I have seen lots of Python applications where deployment, dependency management has not been a major problem (at least not worse than other languages). I see elegance in a lot of the Python code I read and its performance is good enough for the applications its used in (otherwise, it wouldn't be a good candidate).

Just mentioning that for every one of you, there probably is one of me :)