skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s silly that you’re being downvoted because this is absolutely true. The idea that it would go to zero is mad, it will without a doubt go back up to similar numbers again. This is just a little gift
https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/BTC-QF.pdf

"Comment 1: Why BTC is worth exactly

Gold and other precious metals are largely maintenance
free, do not degrade over an historical horizon, and
do not require maintenance to refresh their physical
properties over time.

Cryptocurrencies require a sustained amount of inter-
est in them"
Your comment intrigued me as I am new to Oculus; Have any adventure game suggestions for Oculus?
A lot of people are rooting for Bitcoin to crash so it will stop pumping carbon in the atmosphere like a middle sized country.
> (not always)

Doesn't this work: consider the call graph of all possible argument lists (with an edge A->B if f(A) calls f(B)). If the function terminates, there are no cycles, so this is a DAG, which puts a partial order on the set of argument lists which strictly decreases with each call.
I think it depends on your perspective. If you believe the options are bitcoin goes down or bitcoin goes up, then you're rooting for more pain if you're rooting for bitcoin to go down. But if you believe the options are bitcoin goes down now or bitcoin goes down later, then bitcoin going down now is minimizing pain.
Sounds eerily reminiscent of the SpaceX letter.

Disrespect management and you will get fired.

Be mindful what you put in writing until exiting the building.
I disagree.

Bitcoin is hugely wasteful. Estimates on the power usage of the Bitcoin network have it using more energy than Sweden.

Now that might be fine if it provided more than a modicum of utility but it doesn't. The only use case I've seen is to bypass laws on where money can be moved. Some of this is moral (eg totalitarian governments with capital controls on the poor) but most of it isn't (eg scams, ransomware, otherwise illegal gambling, drugs, child abuse material and so on).

I'll agree there's probably a little schadenfreude here because of how many Crypto Andys have pumping crypto so hard for many years pretty much for no other reason than their own gain.

Most don't believe in any utility here. It's just a get rich quick scheme. AGain, that would be fine if it wasn't so horribly wasteful.
Lego’s new $400 Lion Knights’ Castle is a love letter to my childhood
Paypal lets you do micropayment charges for 5 cents plus 5%, and I've seen other services claim to have similar numbers.
Resoto – create an inventory of your cloud, and react to changes in your infra
BTC is currently UP 650% over 5 years.

but thanks for coming clean about the root of your criticism. Honestly it's refreshing that it wasn't couched in some reductionist economic fundamental jargon.
Evolution did a terrible job there. So many diseases linked to mitochondrial dysfunction nowadays. We have this amazingly complex machinery, and a single point of failure, no redundancy whatsoever.
If you count Git, then “blockchain technology” is also used for Evidence Records: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4998

There’s probably a number of further Merkle-tree-based technologies in current use.
I use DonorBox for supporters of my indie conference [0] and I have a healthy revenue stream (would be healthier if I had a Patreon.)

Is that an OK choice given your preferences? It seems low friction, with the caveat that you have to remember my random website URL.

[0] https://handmade-seattle.com/donate
Looks cool! Recently I've found this one too - https://github.com/ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI
Lots of support in $11-$12k range. Be hard to break that.
Wow, this is fascinating. I wonder if hardware could be designed to do this really efficiently.
The thing to watch is the hashrate, once the bigger miners start pulling out it will get interesting.

https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate
Thanks for this. Agree it depends on the context. And we like boring too ^_^

In our case, it's an optional / configurable preference, so I think we check that box.

Put another way, this isn't a blanket policy applied to all numeric input fields. Instead it's just for one particular input field, where large numbers are entered.

Now we don't want the users to have to enter the thousands separator manually (and besides, the raw integer is ultimately what is stored too).

So what we've currently got is the input field, with the formatted preview adjacent to it, kinda like so:

[123456789 ] Formatted preview: 123,456,789

And as the input box is keyup'd, the formatted preview is refreshed.

I personally think this strikes the right balance, but I was curious what other good solutions the folks here on HN have seen to this problem.

Thanks for your comment ^_^
I bet I could've made a lot of money as an early adopter in Herbalife or Amway too. I don't care that I missed out and I'm not jealous of those who did get in. I don't want to be near it and I hope they collapse too.
That's not "the infrastructure", then, that's one piece of it.
> Blockchains just add to Mixmaster-like networks a shared reputational-currency ledger

They absolutely do not, at least not successfully so far.

Which blockchain has solved the Sybil attack (a precondition for establishing any kind of reputation/rating system)? Which blockchain has successfully bridged physical and digital trust?

Proponents keep coming up with the wildest use cases, like "decentralized carbon emission tracking" or "trustless logistics". I absolutely agree that these would be really nice things to have, but so far I've seen absolutely nothing that would convince me that there is a solution somewhere in there.
Why would one work for a company evil enough to commit such a crime?

Surely if it would be wiser to ponder the unethical acts you have helped such a company commit against the public, not which unethical acts it is capable of committing against you.
Carter is a really nice man. He was not a good president though. Granted much of the badness was out of his control, but such is life.
Don't forget:

- voter suppression[1]

It doesn't really matter what percentage of the public favors X, when people who might vote for X are systematically blocked, coerced, or dissuaded from voting. And when one party tends to benefit from low voter turn-out, as is the case in the USA, it should be no surprise when very popular politicians or proposals that poll well, fail due to voter suppression.

1: https://www.votingrightsalliance.org/forms-of-voter-suppress...
Most pension funds probably had an exposure somewhere on the order of 0.05% AUM or less so it should have no significant impact. It's the crypto hedge funds and other businesses that were holding huge chunks of BTC/ETH that are in trouble.
A pension fund with significant Bitcoin exposure is not 'investing' they are recklessly endangering the funds they have been entrusted with and the fund managers ought to be held personally liable.
No, what I am saying is that if you reduce the methods for fraud, the cost of dealing with it are lower.
The difficulty of mining blocks is a self-adjustable value. It will go down once the number of participants drops, making it profitable again.
> loved the design of the [product] visually [but it was a functional failure]

Is Ive's trademark.
Crypto doesn't reduce the methods for fraud.
> They have traveled farther and lasted longer than any other spacecraft in history. And they have crossed into interstellar space, according to our best understanding of the boundary between the sun's sphere of influence and the rest of the galaxy. They are the first human-made objects to do so, a distinction they will hold for at least another few decades.

They will be the ones that have traveled the farthest until faster objects catch up and surpass them. It may take time until we send anything faster, and it's going to need time to catch up, so it will take decades.
I used the old Touch Bar in my profession daily - used it for debugging command shortcuts.
Minimum COP for the competition is 2.1-2.4 at 5°F. No idea what the actual COP for this unit are.
It is an actual area of research, mostly around scalability.

I don't know what happens in computer science departments, but you can watch Ethereum be developed in the open. They cite the research they're implementing.

For example: https://notes.ethereum.org/@vbuterin/proto_danksharding_faq#...

I'm not quite smart enough to follow all the cryptography, but there are a lot of unsolved problems being worked on. It seems that doing trust and accounting at global decentralized scale is trickier than chaining blocks together.
oh no! anyway.
Isn't the WEF the same group that published that video saying "you'll own nothing, and you'll be happy"?

What is your opinion on the WEF?
You should probably have a chat with them regarding the stuff they put their retirement money into then. For their sake I hope it was only a very small fraction of their total holdings.
I fought inflation in SimCB and my economy produced 446243

The best way I can conceptualize it is running counter-cyclical monetary policy, essentially tweaking supply via cost of capital for orchards.

Rates fluctuated between 4-7%. I tried to keep inflation and menu prices between 1-2% consistently.
In the mid 90s I bought some VHS tapes from Playboy. They put me on a subscription to the magazine. Never subscribed, was never charged for it. I had just gotten out of college and so was still living at my mother’s place. That was a little embarrassing. Once I made it clear I wasn’t actually interested in the magazine, her husband grabbed them as they came in. I forgot about it.

My mother eventually divorced him and one day I was visiting and she pointed out that Playboy was still being delivered and that she certainly didn’t have any interest in it. That was 8 years after they were first being sent. Got on the phone and thankfully the unsubscribe process was easy.
They all require militaries with guns to protect them, to the extent they're worth anything of consequence.

Obvious, exaggerated example to prove the point: Ukraine is the center of the Bitcoin universe. Every computer that powers the Bitcoin network resides in Ukraine.

Does Bitcoin require a military to protect it or not?

I guess the electronic stock exchange systems of the US don't require a military to ultimately protect them either according to that premise.

Bitcoin is also a physical asset in the end, because it can't exist without the hardware. It's exceptionally obvious that you have to protect the hardware with a military (both the ability to defend and respond if need be, to an attack). This is particularly an issue if you're going to build an economy around it, or otherwise allow Bitcoin & Co. to become a supersized asset class (such that your economy could be severely damaged if that asset class is severely damaged).

Oh hey there Latvia, your domestic systems are holding $13 trillion worth of Bitcoin (which has become the globally dominant asset). You're the Switzerland of the Baltics. No need to protect your systems with guns, don't worry about it, you don't need a military for that, because Bitcoin is magical pixie dust that only exists in the digital realm. Oh whoops, the digital realm exists on physical hardware (that someone somewhere has to protect with guns).
That depends on whether the Mitsubishi and LG units meet the other requirements of the competition.
At some point, it would be great to use a natural gas powered engine to run a heat pump. You could then use the exhaust gas as a heat source for the heat pump, possibly eliminating the need for a pre-heater.

Cooling the output should increase the Carnot efficiency of the motor.

Heating the outside air intake with that heat should be sufficient to avoid the need for an electrical resistance pre-heater.

This combination could also run on propane, ethanol, gasified wood, etc. Anything that gets burned now could be used to create far more heat output than straight up combustion.

There's got to be a flaw in this idea, math/physics wise.
The full quote with context makes it pretty clear that the author is talking about crossing into interstellar space/leaving the solar system. It certainly could have been better worded though and should be fixed.

“And they have crossed into interstellar space, according to our best understanding of the boundary between the sun's sphere of influence and the rest of the galaxy. They are the first human-made objects to do so, a distinction they will hold for at least another few decades.”
celebrating the downfall of strangers especially when the majority losing out are ignorant and were just trying to find some way to retire from their meaningless wage slaving is not a good look. Sure some of them were pretty unpleasant but to yearn for their downfall is a you problem my friend, not a them problem. I have no dog in this fight, have maybe 2k in crypto which is not a lot. Anyway all the best and hope you learn to find joy outside of the misery of others.
It’s energy usage is indeed terrible. I’d love to see it move to a proof of stake model.
That depends entirely on the specifics. The Japanese aren't so crazy they'd toss good buildings to the fishes once they hit the 20 years. They just don't put the same value on old building materials as Europeans and North Americans do.
I don't think it's that romantic. When I moved between Europe and China for work every few months you could see this in action. There was a building close to my apartment that I think got rebuild three times in just a few years with a new business every time. My hometown in Europe basically looks (and feels) like a museum.

And it shows in the people. There's a dynamism, young people moving in, upwards mobility, low cost of living, jobs that you lack in many of these static, affluent places.
The old laptops had mini display port - you didn’t need a dongle to connect to a screen.
Generally a pension would put 1% or less to such investments. So while the absolute value of the loss may be large, the percentage of portfolio loss will be little.

The loss of S&P and equities at large impacts them much more greatly.
Without the DOJ lawsuit, 3 things off the top of my mind:

Apple would not exist.

Google would not have android as part as their Berhshire Hathaway-esque portfolio of technologies/companies. They'd have still beaten Microsoft in the search engine business.

Somebody would have killed Bill Gates or at least tried to, like it has happened with many POTUS. The person who is perceived as #1 will get all sorts of lunatics after them. (You could argue that is a safety system that nature installed in humans in order to avoid one person to monopolize decisionmaking) . Kinda like a more severe and irrevocable DOJ.
Where's the take? As it stands it's a silly flame-bait.
Here are some ORM-related libraries:
- https://docs.racket-lang.org/mongodb/ORM_Operations.html
- https://docs.racket-lang.org/racquel/index.html
- https://github.com/adjkant/sql-sourcery
- http://tech.perpetua.io/2022/01/generating-sqlite-bindings-w...
- https://docs.racket-lang.org/deta/index.html

I think the last one, deta, is the most mature.
Should we give them another chance to avoid the dark timeline and reset them to pre-Harambe?
I'd say the problem is that no-one can easily predict where the bottom lies right now.

We have Celcius with frozen withdrawals and in an undetermined state having called in restructuring specialists. We have 3ac apparently not talking to their partners with a lot of loans outstanding and margin calls due, then we have all of the other people who were partners/customers of those organizations, who at the moment either can't access their funds temporarily, or may not be able to access their funds ever, so are essentially schrodingers companies right now, until they can get accurate information about what's happening

Once all the companies that go down have gone down, then there's a reasonable chance that a bottom can be called, but at the moment I don't think there's enough information to know.
FYI 'house negroe' was a rare occurrence in the Antebellum South. Majority of plantations weren't big enough to support distinct labor pools, slaves largely and for the most part rotated tasks depending on age, gender, season, etc (the gender aspect is also why 'house negroe' is meant to suggest an effeminized Black male, which is an entirely other problematic discussion). Never mind the much higher rate of sexual assault and abuse when in close proximity to slaveowners. The political distinction this dubious dichotomy is meant to imply (Black folk loyal to slave owners, as suffering Stockholm Syndrome) is largely an effect fabricated in Malcolm X's 1963 speech given at Michigan State University and has persisted via constant repetition in popular culture.

Distinct labor pools were much more at hand in places like Jamaica where the average plantation was much larger than in the American south.

This is a similar distortion to the way people use 'Uncle Tom' when, ironically enough, the actual literary character is the opposite of the political distinction implied by pejorative use
Is it one side of the aisle that hates Carter? Because from what I've seen/read from the outside (Canada) looking in, I saw nothing but praise for his humility and humanity. I saw conflicting opinions on what he did or didn't do during his tenure, but only positive with regards to his person and character.
Huh, I've always heard the "heat pump efficiency > 100%" but never really understood what that meant. Thanks for the explanation.

So the ">100%" comes from the fact that you're spending less thermal energy than you are moving?
Maybe more like prolog?
If larger miners pull out, what will that mean for the smaller miners?
Glossary, Acronyms, and Index capability within Org
Link 16
Video conferences. You can create a 3d world projecting 3d avatars made from images from peoples web cams. Creating a 3d sense of being in the same room.

Acting in 3d recreation of your favorite movies. If you can scan faces you could play in rendered 3d recreations of movies.

Video games you could from a web cam image play a 3d avatar of yourself in a game.
As my very conservative, East Texan father says, Carter is too good a man to have been any good as president.
I had plenty of opportunity to "get in" on the bitcoin - I did some trades back when it was in 1000$ range and thought it was an interesting peace of tech with potentially great future.

I even did a POC of a smart contract back when ETH was <100$.

Ever since then I've seen very little practical applications and soo much bullshit - I would never "invest" into anything crypto related even if the payout was guaranteed - for the same reason I wouldn't go work for a betting company, hack people for money or run scams - that's not how I want to make money, and I do feel contempt for that entire "movement".
Why would you create new technology with natural gas these days. It seems such an energy source of the past. Europe is jus suffering from the dependency on it and seeks to get away from it as soon as possible.
the proportion of criminal activity with crypto is estimated to be an order of magnitude lower than the conventional economy:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/haileylennon/2021/01/19/the-fal...

most crypto is actually not well suited to criminal activity. it is pretty appealing as a savings and transaction medium when your alternative looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/JcaAbC4.png
Cold Showers
The Age of Credulity: Believing the Unbelievable in the Age Enlightenment (2013)
A lot of gun restrictions can be very different as presented versus how they are in practice. Especially when it comes to the sort of "edge cases" that don't actually end up being edge cases.

Universal background checks sound like common sense to a lot of people, until it's pointed out that they mean that they suicidal person can't give their guns to a friend for safekeeping - or let a buddy borrow a hunting rifle for the weekend. (It also means implementing a national gun registry to actually enforce anything, and registries have led to confiscation too many times for comfort)

Ditto with red flag laws - everyone wants to let the police take the guns away from the next school shooter, but a lot of people are justifiably wary that the police will just take guns from "every black man", "everyone that criticizes the local police department" or even just "absolutely everyone". (Or that potential home invaders will do this to their victim before invading) All Cops Are Bastards, but we can trust them to not abuse new powers over guns?

So when the actual wording of the policy that gets shorthanded as "red flag laws" or "universal background checks" makes it to a referendum, you can see some of that come into play.
My new “oddly satisfying” fixation is taking an ad infested web page like this and switching to reader mode in Safari.

I feel like a Roman reading todays paper
I blame the death of the defined-benefit pension.

Basically, Wall Street created a "You're locked in here with me" scenario for the entire American public. Everyone has to throw their money at some speculative asset category, typically stocks, to have a meaningful chance of beating inflation. (Yeah, real estate, fine art, and Yu-gi-oh cards exist, but they're far less fungible and liquid at the scales required)

This creates a political feedback loop: the S&P 500 must keep going up in perpetuity because we're all afraid of being 82 years old and in failing health but having to still flip burgers to afford our medication. Ergo, policies like super-low interest rates that make alternatives like bonds ever less compelling and focus ever more interest in an asset bubble.

TBH, I feel like there's a real opportunity to ask "why are we investing."

For people forced into the market for things like retirement and educational savings, maybe we need some sort of contribution-based scheme, rather than a market-price-based one. Sign up now, contribute an agreed-upon sum for N years, and you get your retirement condo/kid's tuition at Harvard prepaid in 2044. Make the institutions-- the ones with teams of actuaries on staff and the financial backstop to handle it-- eat the inflation risk instead of the individual with a net worth of $650 on a good day.

That sort of program could remove a lot of the "mere mortals who stand to lose everything" from the market. The political benefit is then it returns Wall Street to being a casino for the rich and distasteful, and makes it much easier to propose regulation or managed-growth policies. When not everyone is chained to the market through a 401(k), the threats of a market tank don't bite quite as hard.
That's a good point. What if enough miners quit such that suddenly one of the big mining groups gets a majority?
Is Bitcoin is as wasteful as say, poor zoning rules where N million Americans have to commute to job centers from suburbia, burning Y gallons of gas per year? We often talk about the environmental impacts of Bitcoin but look at how grotesquely wasteful we are in virtually all aspects of our living in the west. It's like when someone is hotly critical of a $10B portion of the >$2 trillion dollar national budget. I get you have to start somewhere but eliminating crypto alone won't solve any of our environmental problems without other material changes to our way of life.
Cyc? It's still a going concern - www.cyc.com
This is nothing more than romanticism for the jack hammers of poor decisions. A vibrant arcology can take many different forms, but constant redecon isn't required.
I think it depends on the level of skeumorphism — a button doesn’t need to be a bitmap a-la Bryce or Kai’s Power Tools or Poser to be skeumorphic, it can be a bevelled rounded rectangle like MacOS 8 or a more complex but still procedurally generated 3D effect of the Aqua UI.
You're only going to see the salty and bullish takes, the truly neutral have nothing to say about it.
But those examples were built as temporary buildings until real Communism was established and everyone could live in nice houses.
...or suffer a more pedestrian fate of getting vaporized by bored Klingons.
Taking your point, the title should probably be "How we fall for AI-generated language."