skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would have hardly any effect. Soot would, though.
I heard exchanges hold a bunch of the stable coins in lieu of holding actual real currency. Not sure if the statement is true or not.
I’ve been reading the Economist digitally using their app for years. They had a few issues over the years - I think they prevented copy/paste for a minute. I was pissed about that.

But now I love the app. The typography is decent, they support light/dark themes, you can play human-read audio of every piece individually, etc.

I’m curious, what are your problems with the app?
Rather than waiting for replies to my comment, like Wolfram, I will just proceed with my own train of thought.

There's arguably scientific value in what he sets out here. So far, our definition of intelligent alien life has just been: we will know it when we see it.

iiuc Wolfram provides a framework with which we can measure and classify "alien" intelligences in their myriad forms. And we can begin that process right here. Working from home.
This is not reductive. This is slavery.

When you call Hitler Hitler, you're not being dramatic, you're just pointing out facts. Sometimes there's nuance, sometimes there's "the state preserving slavery".
One Country, Two Systems
EMPs are cheap to produce.
So you have read a chapter of a book debunking Zinn. But have you read any of Zinn’s books?
I subscribe to The New Paper, it's good enough to stay up to date while still being concise and non-partisan 99/100 times.
> Everyone who thinks Bitcoin is old news presupposes that you can do something like Bitcoin, but better.

For most people's everyday purposes, all those things the parent mentioned are doing something like Bitcoin, but better.

The one technical problem that cryptocurrency unquestionably handles better than any other technology is solve a problem that is only experienced by people who choose to use cryptocurrency.
Recently discovered drawings for Statue of Liberty hint at a last-minute change (2020)
I'm agree with you about lead is bad, but only oldest designs of aircraft engines depend on lead (they use it as lubricant for valves, as it deposits on surfaces when gas evaporate).

Because of this, leaded gas still produced in commercial volumes.

Modern aircraft engines could work on unleaded gas, and especially Celera use aircraft diesel engine, working on basically aviation kerosene (with tiny addition of lubricants for diesel equipment).

BTW diesel add about 30% of Celera range.
wow, lots of negativity and criticism in this thread for what is explicitly called out as a fun project (that’s what hobby means, linked in the language description on the front page): https://slope.colorfield.space/hobby.html

Creating a programming language, no matter how robust, is not a trivial endeavor—I’d rather celebrate the existence of this language and its pretty explicit posturing that it’s just for fun rather than criticize it immediately for its lack of utility.
Reversible debugging is great. Have spent too much time in my life doing "Finnegan" search ("poor old Finnegan had to begin again...")
Hey, thank you for taking the time to compile this feedback!
– Undo/Redo: funny thing, it works on Cmd+Z / Cmd+Shift+Z, but is not wired in the menu (don't ask why, it's sort of a tech debt, haha)
– The scrolling issue in the Finder is due to the Finder's way of quirky overriding scroll events in this particular mode. I'm not sure how to fix it tbh.
– Upload to the private server: I don't plan on monetizing the app and would gladly replace uploading to my server with something else. Which protocol would you prefer, FTP, SFTP, SSH?
– trying to put all the options in the toolbar might not be the best way: yeah you're right. I thought it works ok because I mostly use key shortcuts for everything, but for the mouse users it should be a nightmare. I plan on fixing it.
– How can I pan a big screenshot with a mouse: there's also a Space+Drag trick.
— discoverability should be optimized: poor discoverability here was somewhat of a conscious choice. It's always a balance between intuitiveness and efficiency for experienced users. I'm building the app mostly for myself and favor efficiency whenever possible. But now that I have a decent user base, I guess I need to accept some compromises to improve experience for others.

thanks again for the feedback!
> But actually I think there’s no lack of “alien intelligence”; indeed it’s all around us. But the point is that it really is alien. At an abstract computational level it’s like our intelligence. But in its details it’s not aligned with our intelligence. Abstractly it’s intelligence, but it’s not human-like intelligence. It’s alien intelligence.

I'm not buying this explanation. Maybe the reason isn't so much about intelligence as it is about motivation. Perhaps intelligent aliens have no desire to make contact, or already have on few rare occasions but isn't interested in pursuing more than those random events.

The implicit assumption that's here is that alien intelligence is similar in advancement, only different. It's likely that the alien intelligence is far more advanced, since we are only barely venturing out. If aliens were about as intelligent and had similar motivations to make contact they would do similar things e.g. generating mathematical patterns not typically found in nature. The ones that are probably have signals too weak for us to detect or our surveys not detailed enough to pick them out, and vice-versa.

A conversation with alien 'abstract computational' intelligence being indistinguishable from nature means we're not the capable target listeners, who should recognize that it's not the noise of nature. Their intelligence isn't necessarily different, but they have more technology at their disposal and the one they chose to use we don't have, i.e. they're more advanced.

My take is that humans are either viewed in the universe as "bees can count!", don't have the tech to listen to the discussions, or both and then some. Everything to me points to humans lacking intelligence in the universe not the other way around. Thinking otherwise is believing Hawkeye is a capable Avenger.
The most important thing to remember in these cases is that ETH and BTC are likely the only top 10s to survive.

Maybe Doge because it's the original meme coin, but everything else will die. Just like the billions of random tokens I hold from 100s of ICOS from 2017. They're all worthless.

The casino will be back in another 3 years.
Isn't the reason buying international shares is slow that they don't want you to do it and therefore have regulated it?

There's no technical merit in crypto that actually makes things fast, it's just a regulation dodge. It's necessarily slower and more expensive than TransferWise.
The site in today's submission seems to have copied the original article wholesale and slapped their own byline on it, along with a bunch of ads.

The only credit to the original author is at the very bottom, and that's probably accidental (it was mixed in with the article content in the original).
I can use shopify, is that what you would recommend? The goal is just to get something that looks nice and works for minimal cost for the client, and to learn some professionally applicable skills for me.
If crypto bubble bursting is what precipitates the next recession I'm going to be beyond upset. Getting burned by something I purposefully stayed out of is nothing short of enraging. I'd legislate it out of existence out of spite at that point.
Whenever a company pivots to another tech without publicly proving the original tech, i get the heeby jeebies.

If laminar flow tech worked as they claimed, you wouldn't need hydrogen to be a market success.
You can buy a pallet-load of 45 350W-peak panels for under $7000 nowadays. A used Nissan Leaf at 60% battery capacity is another $7000, and a converter/inverter to charge/discharge it is under $1000.

Furthermore: personal nukes will never happen. And, solar does not destroy biomes. And, its cost to fabricate is still falling at an exponential rate. So, you are zero for three, and paid too much.
Bitcoin is the new John McCain.
As long as we're talking about the switch, I love the design of the actual switch OS. It's so minimalist and snappy, everything feels clicky and does what I expect. There's nothing extra added in just for the sake of it.
While I use Firefox as my main browser on all systems (i.e. Linux and Android and occasionally MacOS (only for testing purposes)) I also have Bromite around for those sites which just refuse to work in Firefox/Gecko and to test whether things work as intended on the Blink engine. I keep my own blocklist to feed to Bromite, based on the same lists as I use in uBlock on Firefox.
But this isn't really new; this is what the managerial class of the 1970's and their deregulation enablers in the Reagan era wrought, multiplied. What if nearly every large American industrial corporation hadn't been financially engineered into oblivion in the 80's and 90's? What if private equity hadn't been allowed to turn healthy brick and mortar retailers into debt-riddled zombies over the past four decades?
That's true, and there's going to be a spectrum of measurement, from very measurable roles to roles that are almost impossible to measure. I'd say even in the sales case, something that isn't getting measured is how much a good salesperson can rely on other parts of the organization to answer questions for customers that can make the difference in landing the sale or not. That attribution usually goes entirely to the salesperson, when someone else's knowledge was key to the transaction. It's a team effort.

This is most obvious when you take the extreme case of looking at the department level - sales and marketing are "responsible" for 100% of the revenue, but if you delete legal, support, R&D, HR, and finance, your revenue goes to zero pretty quickly.
As far as I can see, https://wise.com/us/ is in all ways a better way to simplify cross-border flows than crypto. When working with overseas teams, it is literally how they ask to be paid.
Not my computer and auto fill just kicked in. I hadn’t actually realized it posted because it said I was logged out immediately after posting.
Be lucky you live in 2022. In the 1500's the Aztecs routinely sacrificed children for Tlaloc. And these weren't clean deaths. The children were tortured by the high priests and crowds to induce hysteria and sobbing before having their hearts ripped out of their chests. They were then skinned and the priests would wear the flayed skin for 20 days. And it goes without saying that these kids weren't willing participants.

https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/acrobats/319_1.pdf

There's a reason the Aztec had so many enemies and why the locals embraced a religion where the sacrifice was Jesus.
Humans barely live to 100 years, and "each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.” I don't think we need to invent further volatility than what producing new children already does.

Every advocate of Progress I've read or spoken to sees it as managing and extracting value from other people - and not establishing a basic stability from which others can be free to actualize and thrive. Even basic income is really about putting the managers of such a scheme at the centre of it, and it's to the point where even the very word 'free' is triggering. I'd argue that belief in Progress is not a benevolent, charitable, or altruistic sentiment.

It's said that change is the only constant, and I can sympathize with the idea that people imagine by aligning themselves to change for its own sake, they percieve themselves as aligning to the most powerful force in the universe, and are therefore on the right side of history. But the archeological record shows humans have made physical structures that are several thousands of years old, and as a human value, stability has a very long track record. So much so that the artifacts of stability outlast human culture's ability to remember them through periods of constant change, which suggests to me that what progress really reduces to is just leveraging chaos in a single lifetime for ephermeral, symbolic, materialist power.

The axiom that history itself is a force of progress is a pretty big leap of faith, and I think the iterated logic of that idea is designed to unmoor people from a stabilizing belief in the existence of truth. In that sense, I would say Crawford and Cowen are just iterating the ideology of that axiom, and people who place themselves at the centre of solutions for 'all humanity' are really just expressing an infinite will to power over all of humanity. Progress isn't a thing, it's the artifact of an ideology.

When someone tells you they represent change, what they tend to mean is they're here to take your stuff, and they've already moralized it to themselves, regardless of what you might believe. We should absolutely rethink the meaning of progress, but we should start with whether it is desirable at all, how much, compared to what, at what cost, and whether to build on our inheritance of stability, or continue to destroy it for the temporary feelings of power the destruction provides. There are thoughtful ways to engage this, if only we can get past merely litigating ideas and start actually using them to navigate and locate truth.
They do, they prep supply chain to not depend on them already, and are moving some parts elsewhere, no fire, no explosion needed, can't do 2 Beirut

https://www.asiafinancial.com/china-risk-sees-taiwans-tsmc-m...

And it's not just TSMC, they are already, yet again, forcing their supposed "allies" from EU to comply

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4472168

Perhaps to get replaced with Wallmarts? for more US presence
survive.
What do you mean "pre-iPhone era"? Bitcoin was released in 2009.
What's happening here isn't causing the recession, it's indicating it, for the most part. Crypto was never really disconnected from the public markets, not like it claimed it was.
If you're a KDE 3 fan, https://trinitydesktop.org/ is actively maintained.
The HUGE is the only peripheral I liked so much that I bought a second one for home. Been using them for over 4 years now.
Jeez I hope they are hacked...what a fall from DIY to crypto scammers, so sad
The original vision has some questionable assumptions. Being deflationary by design practically guarantees speculation and undermines any utility as a currency.

If broad adoption was an actual goal, cryptocurrencies wouldn't be fundamentally structured like ponzi schemes.
Their revenue is proportional to volume. Which we can expect to eventually plummet as people are skittish to enter and happy to exit.
I believe that was sarcasm. The point is that, in the real world, big shots will continue to jet off to Davos, and expect the rest of us to adopt a 1950s lifestyle.

And, given how we saw quarantines and masking play out, I suspect sentirism is right.
Yes, it was understated. Given SP's general trend of exaggerating things to extremes I thought that made it all the more emotionally impactful. It was like: if we exaggerated this reality, it would not be funny, it would be unwatchable.
That's the kernel. DE's are their own beast.
What do you so heavily dislike about systemd? It's pretty useful.
... which would then also benefit from the presence of floating solar panels. Panels floating in a canal would need to be anchored against current, easily done.
It might be. It's hard to say, probably even by legal experts (and I'm definitely not one).

I think a sticking point might be that the letter talked about bad behavior by Elon Musk in public, and a problem with the "no assholes" policy being vague and inconsistently applied -- but there weren't any concrete examples.

Possibly some things Musk has tweeted might reasonably be interpreted as creating a hostile work environment or something like that. But maybe he just shared an opinion the authors of the letter don't agree with. Or they're annoyed at him for smoking weed in his Joe Rogan interview. It's hard to know for sure. (Maybe SpaceX employees already know what all the elephants in the room are and it wasn't necessary to enumerate them, but as an outside observer it's hard to know the full context.)
> that's by definition exploitation

I think you're just factually wrong about this particular part. If I understand you correctly, you're claiming that the definition of "exploit" is "derive net profit from", but I've never seen any definition like that. Generally, I think there are two definitions:

1) use / utilize

2) use unfairly

The first is typical when describing resource exploitation. The second is typical when describing relationships between humans. In neither case does net profit come into it.

That's both my personal understanding of the word (but who cares what I think), and also what I see in three different online dictionaries that I just checked. So I ask you: where are you getting your definition from?
I have no idea if this was a bug or a failure model but it seemed I was doing decent until everything started failing all at once. Orchards running out of business etc.

LE: I tried another round. Put the interest rate at -0.5 and just left it there.

> I fought inflation in SimCB and my economy produced 442486 :apples:
> I'm sorry, C++?!?

C++ had a defined multithreaded memory model and 2's compliment behavior before C did. Since you're all about UB, that kinda matters. A lot.
2. Seems sad to me, his job was to make sure you are inspired, or at least informed to make a wise choice, but not scared off. But maybe he didn't know.
I don't understand why so many people have a hard time understanding this even though it has been repeated like a million times at this point. Are these people illiterate or using some kind of TSLAQ block list like in Twitter, because they're afraid of seeing any dissenting opinions?
Because iOS doesn't allow Firefox. I.e it's not the real browser, they can't use their own engine (gecko).
what timing, just last night I was wishing for a low level ML style language with manual memory management (and/or a borrow checker). Definitely going to take a look!
You should take a look at Rex Kruger on youtube. He likes to focus on making his own tools, working with older unpowered tools, and looking at historical building techniques. He also is great if you are not looking to do a huge investment in woodworking, and just want to learn how to get by with working with some scraps: https://www.youtube.com/c/RexKrueger
All other miners drop out of the market because it's unprofitable. That leaves you as the only remaining Bitcoin miner.

Wouldn't this leave the network extremely vulnerable to 51% attacks though? If the recovery mode is that miners keep mining in the hopes of being the last man standing so that they can control the chain afterwards, then...

Nevermind, just answered my own question. Multiple miners are likely to keep mining in the hopes of being the last one standing and being able to 51% Bitcoin, which will keep mining competitive and get you to the block difficulty adjustment even if it's momentarily unprofitable.
There are some good resources here including some nicely formatted HTML versions of the book: https://github.com/sicmutils/sicmutils/wiki/SICM-and-FDG-Lea...

^ The Github repo contains a Clojure version of the Scheme library used by the book.
Fyne, a cross-platform GUI toolkit written in Go
If they are anchored a ways from shore, then it would not matter if the water level goes up and down. You don't routinely let reservoirs get that low. When you have free power, you can pump water up to it. Desalinating, even, if necessary.
You don't need anything to start a business claiming to be a hedge fund, but you need a guy with a series 65 license to do investment advising in most US states.
For the same reason that if your partner comes home drunk at 5AM and offers a flimsy story about where they were it matters a lot if this is the first time it's ever happened of if they were unfaithful 7 previous times in the marriage.

We all understand on a fairly commonsense level that the number of prior offenses tells you something about the likelihood of future offenses and also informs one's willingness to tolerate the marginal offense. If this last of your partner's indiscretions drives you to leave the marriage and your friend says to you, "wow, man, you left a marriage because they came home late one time?" we all understand why that's a ridiculous characterization of what happened. And, yet, when someone with a long rap sheet commits a relatively minor crime and is punished harshly because of their prior offenses we have to endure headlines like, "Man sentenced to prison for stealing candy bar." This headline makes the same mistake as your incredulous friend.

The modern backlash against 3-strikes laws, etc, seems to me to be deeply confused. Our language is full of idioms like, "the straw that broke the camel's back," because our willingness to tolerate an offense is obviously informed by the number of previous offenses.

How could one's priors possibly not matter?
Sick rap, but $11bn is hardly a rounding error in US economics.

A larger issue is the prison industrial complex, not the involuntary servitude within it
WaPo's opinion articles are by far the worst thing about their paper, and some of the writers are worse than others (Thiessen is a master of bad faith arguments and dishonesty), so I've been avoiding reading them. I wish they had a way to permanently hide them in the app.
"Hobby" probably means that it's meant for learning -- i.e. I'm sure the author learned a ton by putting writing this.
Cool stuff. It would be interesting to have a simulation with three levers: interest rate, taxes, fiscal spending.

But in the end, the problems with most such models is that the outcome ends up being determined by the assumptions built into the model.
It's only two sentences, so I assumed neither of them were fluff...I interpreted "the legacy media" being mentioned adjacent to your personifying the US as someone carrying out foreign policy as implying they are closely related.

If you didn't mean it that way, ok, but I think it's a common view and common to express it like this.

If the media is an arm of the establishment, the rulers of the country, with a singular purpose of supporting it regardless of policy changes, that is what I'd call a totalitarian monolith.

Now if you don't view things that way, fine, but it seems like maybe half of the politically aware US public is more or less on board with that worldview, except that they identify the "monolith" with the left.

Literally every day recently, I hear, on the radio that is always playing in a convenience store I go to, an ad for a famous person's new show on Newsmax, that is somehow rebelling against (I forget the exact phrase) major media outlets. I guess the phrase "mainstream media" is tired, but the concept seems to remain.

The baseline here is the assumption that there is no free press, that there is no diversity of opinion, and I see that sort of claim made everywhere, every day. By, you know, the brave dissenters.

I wonder if it's so ubiquitous that you have stopped seeing it as a background?
Ask HN: Entry-level customer success jobs for career switcher?
Howdy, y'all!

A friend of mine recently expressed interest in breaking into the customer success field and asked where they'd start, and I had absolutely no idea what to say. All of the places I've worked now do all of their CE hiring outside of the US.

What would you tell them if you were in my position? If anyone happens to know decent companies willing to take the chance on career-switchers, I'd love to hear about them so I can pass it along.

Thanks!
> when those contracts were signed (and paid for), layoffs seemed like an impossibility.

The decision makers at Coinbase might have thought so, but they were clearly wrong. A massive crypto collapse is probably the most predictable financial crash in decades.