skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cash is great, cash is the new gold. Before they were printing money, last millennium. This millennium, they just shift numbers to the left, on a computer. It's all numbers in your app. This is currently considered better, but is much worse.

$20 at most, bigger denominations aren't worth much. I wouldn't accept $100 as payment without someone to verify it, or going together to a bank to deposit it. And like the bills have to be in pristine condition, always complain if someone is trying to give you a damaged bill, that limits its spendability. Gotta know the bills well, maybe ask your bank if they can let you see for yourself the difference between real and fake bills so you can tell the difference. Banks can always get fresh bills by turning in your old ones, to keep up their condition. Plus newer bills have better copy-protection, and are therefore easier to verify.

And guess what? Your purchases will generally not be traced if you pay cash. This is important for books, stationary, electronics, medicine, and charity.
What it means is I should back myself more.

About 5 months ago I was banging on about the actual trend suggesting a price of $15 and wad laughed at by the lazer eyed cult.

Either it will hit that level, and the speculative fever will have subsided enough for it to be a stable gold alternative, upon which new layers will have the chance to be built.

Or it will go to de facto $0
15% is not a deep cut.

That’s a totally a reasonable cost for smoothly running the infrastructure necessary to support a creator with a monthly subscription model.
iPhone and iPhone-like devices.

The iPhone era describes mobile computing, touchscreens, app stores, etc.
Two things:

> You can't just compare bitcoin to a corporation and get something that makes sense.

1) I agree. I was replying to a comment that did.

> Cash just as well "has no assets".

2) USD is backed, ultimately, by the full force of the nuclear armed state and multiple branches of the biggest military the world has ever seen. If you think the US government will allow USD to become irrelevant then you are going to be very disappointed. Bitcoin has no such thing.
This is such an idea I never had! Am I some randomly generated episode?!
> One of them is philosophy. There is a great deal of benefit and pleasure that a person can derive from learning about about and understanding the arguments that have been made across the centuries.

Do you just enjoy reading about it and that's it? Or how do you make philisophy interactive and interesting beyond satisfying curiousites? I got kind of into some sub topics of philosophy, but lost a lot of motivation once i realized no one cares about what you have to say or even really wants to cater to you unless your part of academia
Do you get the magazine as well?
> Inflexibility

What you mean here is that the hard-fought gains of the labor movement over 100 years or so were drastically cut or eliminated, because what used to be economically infeasible (using overseas labor, moving capital overseas and repatriating profits) became not just feasible but desirable, thanks to specific legislative and administrative changes enacted by the US government.

Without those changes, the workforce of the Industrial Belt would not have been characterized as "inflexible", but rather smart employees who had negotiated a respectable cut of their employers profits and were able to enjoy life a little more because of it.
Inflation is where the value of a dollar decreases and the cost of products increase(or inflates). You can see inflation as a monetary phenomenon where they increase the supply of dollars and you need more dollars to exchange for the same product. This can intersect with the other source of inflation where product prices increase due to supply constraints.

People thought that BTC would be treated like gold. Where it would act in opposition to the stock market. If you ignore all the terminology and equations, then you can focus on the behavior of the investors. If investors buy, sell, and perceive BTC as a type of stock, then it will behave as stock. As inflation occurs, it will project into the crypto market via speculative investment.

The "inflation proof" concept of bitcoin is that there is a fixed supply. So, monetary inflation cannot occur within the currency itself. However, in the context of the larger financial market, it will be affected by systemic inflation.
Your first sentence doesn't answer any question. The second is irrelevant. Please make some concrete suggestions.
> Either normal people or small companies will be able to afford a VAX each

Well, that is what happened. PCs were definitely as powerful as the older VAXes right around time the Internet opened for business. They just weren't running the VAX OS.
Oh, I missed that, I read it as war in Ukraine. I'm guessing calling it the 'war in Russia' is an attempt at political correctness. Similar to calling Russia
'ruzzia'. I think my brain automatically converted both to the point I didn't notice either.
The problem is the absence of leisure during leisure time rather than loss of leisure time. True, there is more time today for hobbies and other such activities than there was previously, and less responsibilities. But the increase in the pace of life sort of compensates for this.

I technically waste a lot of time on the internet that could be better served listening to classical music or reading a novel. Yet, I find it very difficult to get in the mood. I know that it is a very enjoyable and enriching experience, and once I start reading/listening, I enjoy it. Yet it is a struggle to get off the internet.

I am slowly working towards consuming media (movies, music, books) in a much slower and repetitive fashion. Strictly restrict what you watch/read. Read books you like more than once for better absorption.
The BBC is one of the few news and content outlets that survived the Great Cataclysm that destroyed British journalism and turned The Telegraph and The Times in tabloids that publish articles about Theresa May being sexy or BP conspiring to bring immigrants to the UK (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/09/24/bp-sparked-f...). Many BBC shows are still watched and sold everywhere in the world.

> the people of Islington

For the non-British reader, the person of Islington is a negative stereotypical character often used by right wing media. It is supposedly a rich hypocritical leftist that is out of touch with the hard-working person of Britain, another stereotype. Its use became more frequent when Jeremy Corbyn, who lives in Islington, became the leader of the Labour party.

Some recent examples:

Here the journalist is getting upset because, allegedly, a person of Islington thinks violating the European Convention on Human Rights is wrong:

> https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/rwanda-immigration-plan-is-fi...

> And now we’ve got a country that is desperate to get to grips with illegal immigration but a few people from Islington think this is a terrible idea, we don’t do it.

Here the journalist is upset because, allegedly, the person of Islington would not fight to defend the UK if it is invaded by Russia:

> https://www.gbnews.uk/gb-views/patrick-christys-the-younger-...

> I think we’d end up relying of the fair people of Carlisle and Leeds, while the Islington snobberati packed up their herbal tea and legged it to their second homes in Provence.
I personally believe we need to remove all agricultural subsidies, while at the same time raise the price of food to reflect their real value, including the farmers’ labour.

But I always get pushback saying that farm work is not valuable because it is unskilled and can be done by anyone. Yet, we have a shortage of farmers.
I assume you mean "isnt continuing"
But that also doesnt seem to be the case. The question apparently is where that money is going. As long as it remains outside of the real economy it seems to be irrelevant. And even if it starts seeping into the real economy, it seems that the efficient market hypothesis is more of a belief then anything else. Which is no surprise if you realize that market inefficiencies allow you to make enormousness profits. Especially if you need to be a certain size to exploit them
Keep in mind that the sovereign individuals of the United States have only permitted congress the ability to coin gold and silver, and that legal tender "laws" are criminal.

I have every right to make "Hitovst Nickels", and you have every right to not accept them. The crime comes with the gun in the room forcing you to accept them.

"Dollar" is a term that includes silver. When corrupt US government debased the currency, it was no longer a dollar, but counterfeit. FRNs are not dollars. No fiat currency is a dollar."

People, scam artist or no, should be free to create whatever currency they want.. it's the forcing others to accept it that is a crime.
Long covid is ongoing chronic illness symptoms following a covid infection, including but not limited to fatigue, heart problem, lung problems, brain fog, and auto-immune problems.
That’s the classical neofascist view.
I need a smarter person than me to explain what this means please.
Drummer – an outliner for web and Mac app, by Dave Winer
If you’re converting to XML, you presumably wish to transform the data, in which case you should be using XPath through XSLT or XQuery; JSON conversion is now a built-in feature.
Just tried all of the prompts from the OP's post on OpenAI's DALL-E 2 - https://harishgarg.com/writing/generating-origami-images-usi...

DALL-E 2 beats Mini in almost all of them.
Because it'd be totally weird for someone with otherwise high intelligence to "just be bad" at something basically everyone else with normal+ intelligence is good at. Like, you wouldn't expect there to be an explanation? What does "just" even mean here?
Pushing Buttons: Resolving Ambiguity in Video Game Controls
How would we have made it to the moon, if employees took surveys, sent letters, and posted numerous signs about their disagreement with upper management? Why do they work there then? I don't see how Elon has really changed much since 5 or 8 years ago to have fooled anyone who signed on for the company's mission. He wants to go to Mars. If he makes them uncomfortable, these people should not be in mission-critical positions, and possibly not at SpaceX.
Have you considered that it's not LeCun who is missing something? The AI safety community seems to be unfortunately almost completely separate from the actual AI research community and be making some strong assumptions about how AGI is going to work.

Note that LeCun had a reply in the thread and there was a lot more discussion which GP didn't quote.
This assumes the construction of these 50-100 year buildings were evenly distributed over a given time. If 90% of a towns or cities 100 year infrastructure if built in a decade, then it'll just lead to a lot of replacements starting in about 90 years, not continuous small replacements.
I think what they mean is that if I'm making $1/month contributions to 20 different creators, and they're all on the same platform, I can pool that into a single transaction with a single $0.50 fee, meaning that fees eat only 2.5% of my donations.

If I were donating to creators on different platforms, it would be 20 transactions, each with a fee of around $0.30, so fees would eat 30% of my donations.
My guess is they corrected for the # of people reporting these symptoms before covid happened.

But I didn't read the article.
Very true, as construction is not just new builds but also renovation and maintenance. Even a theoretical city with completely stable population still needs to keep its structures up to date and renew infrastructure.
> Most people would probably agree the latest models generalize better than flatworms.

> Flatworms first appeared 800+ million years ago

Surviving for 800 million years seems to me like a pretty good indicator of meaningful generalisation.
This and private feeds for podcasts
Seems strange to me that this wasn't what Pine and Librem chose to start their mobile endeavors with. You simply can't yet compete with 15 years of smartphone developements by the biggest tech companies ever. Having a completely open landline, dumb cellular and feature phone should be the logical path. Especially to let the developers build up their expertise and then finally move to touchscreen gestures, animations, haptic feedback, etc.
I think the key thing missing is that gold has a few thousand years of cultural inertia behind is since humans have used it as a store of value, show of ostentatious wealth, and cross-jurisdiction medium of exchange for about as long as we have records. It may not still be well-suited to that purpose, making Buffett right on the fundamentals, but it could take centuries for current practices to reconcile with that reality. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has none of that historical advantage working in its favor. It's more like discovering some new kind of volcanic rock that only exists in one place, can't be artificially manufactured, has no industrial applications, and isn't pretty when made into jewelry, but is guaranteed to stay rare, and trying to convince people they should treat it like gold.
I don't know. If this was a margin call, doing it so quickly and at a time of relatively low liquidity (2:30 AM on Saturday) exposes them to a lot of risk. I mean they dropped the market over 6% instantly and as much as 8% once the market reacted. That's a great way to lose your capital. I guess it's possible, but extremely sloppy if it is a margin call.
How is this different from decentralized currency with a fixed/limited quantity? I wonder what Friedman’s opinion would have been in todays Bitcoin/crypto environment.
What We Still Don’t Know About Emmett Till’s Murder
> “Immutable variables”… (from the GitHub link)

This is something I will never understand. Why is this not a constant (e.g. “Const”) instead? is there a difference, and how should someone new to the language understand how to use one over the other ?
Why are such tools meant to be native? Browser JS is pretty fast for certain tasks and it runs everywhere
I wonder if it is possible to design buildings that are made to be changed and improved on without having to use jackhammers and raise a ton of dust. Same for the streets - have modern stone pavement that is rearranged when you need to dig under the street.

There is a lot to be improved in construction - it is horrible for the environment, a lot of the buildings don't last, labor productivity has grown more slowly compared to other industries or even fallen.
I feel this misses the point of the article a little. It's not saying that everything must be constantly churning, or that infrastructure is dying if it's not being ripped down or built, just that if nothing around you is being fixed or rebuilt then the whole area is dead.

Dead doesn't necessarily mean useless. It just means passive, static, unevolving.
Finding any would be a first step.
South Korea's Health Obsession
This is not the common definition (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation), but a narrower one (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_inflation). Semantic difference, but one that remains a little confusing and harkens back to old economic debates. Focusing on policy causes of price changes is preferred among authors who want to tie inflation only/mostly to central bank actions, but mainstream economics, with Friedman etc., works with a slightly wider model (money supply is a key lever, but other things matter as well).
What GP is saying is you can only get a note of 10% size of your trailing 12 months revenue, this is quite different to 10% APR.
That’s like saying there’s no way to medically confirm that someone has a sore throat. Of course we may wish to determine the underlying cause of the sore throat, but even if we can’t that doesn’t mean that someone doesn’t have a sore throat.

We don’t yet know the underlying cause of long covid symptoms, which is what research like this is trying to uncover.
You are right that they seem confused about monetary economics and also don't seem to have heard about monetary policy transmission channels. But fyi, mortgages are indeed money - the new money shows up as a balance on an account of the borrower at first, and then as a balance on the account of the house seller. From the perspective of the seller it makes no difference whether that money came from a mortgage or from the buyer's equity.
> I think you want to be blinded by this because the war is not happening on US soil (not after WW2).

I know. I was in the United States Army :). I’m very much anti-war and I don’t like the excursions we’ve made across the globe. On the other hand, maybe we should leave NATO and stop putting ourselves and our values in a position where they can come under attack? These two things go hand in hand. You cannot have one without the other.

Anyway, my point wasn’t that the US doesn’t do bad or dumb things. It’s that I do not accept singling out America here when someone is claiming we would literally drop nuclear bombs on half of the world if only those pesky Russians and Chinese didn’t have nukes too. It’s especially irritating when the United States has had that opportunity and rejected it, meanwhile regimes in both China and Russia in the nuclear age have killed millions of their own citizens. And moreso, historically many countries that we would talk about here have been far worse actors on the global stage. Personally, the past is the past. But if you (not you specifically) are going to single out the US it just doesn’t sit well with me.
> I found Yellen's comments staggering - having to apologize for not seeing inflation coming - after the US increased money supply 40% from 2020-2022.

The problem with central bankers is that they don't have any consequences for their mistakes. No one will lose their job or any detrimental effect on their career. In fact, the system will select for people that have a orthodox view on economics that allows politicians to increase spending, cut people a few thousand dollar checks and give huge handouts to the largest corporations all while obfuscating the actual effects of their policies and robbing future generations of wealth
Well for a study trying to find biological markers of a condition, I imagine the only way to source people is by self reporting. Because they haven’t found the markers yet…
Which is going to lower conversion. Significantly.

Whole reason why any service is paid monthly is because it's just makes more money over customer lifetime.
But it has nothing to do with performances.
We've adopted single entry / single exit except for short functions (< 10-15 lines), where all the returns are clearly visible at once. It seemed to placate both sides, and it allows you to write that simple 'findFoo' function that returns 'foo' as soon as it finds it.
What’s wrong with the current front-end world?
Amazon DynamoDB Lock Client
There could be. There absolutely will be pretenses of it if the slavers think it will work to herd us in the direction they want us to go.

Slavers don't have points or principles, only pretenses meant to enable their crimes.

Freedom is for the brave. There are only individual rights. They want you frightened collectivists, so you can be divided, and conquered, and you will forfeit essential liberty for the illusion of security.

Just remember, safety is not possible without freedom. Whatever their pretense, assure them you won't be willing slaves, and then sit back and enjoy the show.
Same here, the only ones that don't do that upload to Vimeo and link that in the Patreon update.
Seoul Cheonggyecheon river restoration with highway removal
Am I weird that I enjoy HTML/CSS for GUI and Layout? With CSS grid of course. Hell I love Godot, but the fact that you can't do something as simple as give a component a max width is so annoying.
>In NYC the scaffolding is eternal.

Wendover made a short video about that: https://youtu.be/lphKvTqovHs?t=1m56s

TLDW: It's the Law of Unintended Consequences -- The sidewalk shed (aka "scaffolding") is a hack to get around a law requiring building facades be inspected every 5 years. Instead of actually inspecting the building masonry and making any necessary repairs, just install a sidewalk shed and leave it there year after year.
Ah yes, the "put your head in sand" approach to problem solving.
At the places I've lived, construction is a symptom of chronic architectural / civil engineering problems caused by lack of vision and poor maintenance. At those places construction is also life, but it is life that would have been more constructive (no pun) somewhere else.
This paper was from the journal "IOVS - Investigative ophthalmology and visual science". So, I sent a copy to my ophthalmologist and asked his opinion. He replied that he couldn't understand any of it.

Should I start looking for a new ophthalmologist?

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Source? Is this because QE isn’t entirely to blame and there were legitimate supply problems because of the pandemic. Similar to how Friedman explains wars can have an effect on prices that are perceived as temporary inflation?
I'm still looking to understand the difference between recursive definitions and inductive ones...
The thought of automotive lidar units being repaired in the same manner as other automotive parts, with dodgy parts ordered off ebay, terrifies me. Advertised power rating and filtering of lasers sold second-hand online only have a loose relationship to reality and can give people permanent vision damage very quickly.
Assets don't prefer anything. The people placing orders have a bias for round numbers. Why? For one, it's just human psychology to round. Second, liquidity is good at those levels, amplifying the effect.
My parents' generation definitely didn't need to do most of what you described, and so did most of my grandparents' lives. They also had a much easier time retiring whereas young people are expected to work almost to their 70s.

Not sure what generations you're talking about, but as sibling said, location and age matter. Boomers had it extremely well here past their 30s and more than enough services available to do the things you described, unless you want to save a bit of money or do something for fun.
Related:

How SHRDLU got its name (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24102610 - Aug 2020 (16 comments)

The SHR-DLU AI Natural Language Processing System (1970) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21880043 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)

SHRDLU resurrection - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19138825 - Feb 2019 (4 comments)

SHRDLU – a program for understanding natural language (1968) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17028731 - May 2018 (1 comment)

SHRDLU (1971) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14351485 - May 2017 (30 comments)

Shrdlu resurrection – A 1970 artificial intelligence system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8927043 - Jan 2015 (2 comments)

SHRDLU - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8219409 - Aug 2014 (19 comments)
Covid may trigger autoimmunity though: [https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2020.5893... Hyperactivation and Paralysis in Severe COVID-19 Infection Revealed by Single-Cell Analysis). I wonder what long covid might be then...
https://astronomy.com/news/2018/10/apollo-7-nasas-first-mini...
Yes! I tried to cancel some PRX monthlies and there was no way to do it.
Ntt has 320k employees. I wonder what the other 290 will think?
I watched this video from Friedman just a couple of days ago and found it insightful on the topic of inflation:
https://youtu.be/B_nGEj8wIP0
They’re probably more talking about the IPO part.
Which is far more strenuous than any VC’s process.
It would be overwhelmingly cheaper to enslave each other.