skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to the false positives, automated linters pick up on the little errors that blow right past manual review. It's no substitute for human editing for content, but it is better for nitpicking and cleanup.
> I never got support via the old PayPal donation button like I have via Patreon

Sounds like Patreon helped you after all.

I'm not saying that they promote or market you, but having the name (much like Apple) seems enough to encourage people to pay you.

OTOH, I certainty don't think that their cut sounds like a good deal; rather, it sounds more like your options are a bad deal or no deal at all.
As another data point as we chart our path to the singularity, I entered the same prompt into the API playground and got this response:

> A Jerry Seinfeld routine about cats.

> Why do cats always land on their feet? I've never seen a cat land on its feet. They don't; they land on you.

> I was at my friend's house the other day, and his cat was walking across the room. And I said to him, "How does that cat always land on its feet?" And he said, "Well, it's because they're lighter than air."

> And I said, "No, it's because they've got nine lives."

> And he said, "No, it's because they're lighter than air."

> And I said, "No, it's because they've got nine lives."

> And he said, "No, it's because they're lighter than air."

> And I said, "No, it's because they've got nine lives."

And then it just repeated those last two lines until my browser crashed. It cost me about a quarter.
It will reinforce the gate keepers. AI will destroy mediocrity.
Likely explanation is that money used to buy Bitcoin came from the JPow's free money reflected from the 0 rate. When that stopped so does the Bitcoin purchasing.
Intuitively maybe. In practice definitely not. Creator of xxx with 100 stars has obvious and easily understood impact where "contributor" could mean anything
What financial reasons do you mean, exactly? Tax Act 60? https://www.the2022actsociety.org/act-60/

There are many considerations you need to make if Act 60 is what you're referencing. To name a few considerations:

1. Cost of living in Puerto Rico is quite high. Expect to pay roughly double for the same foods you would anywhere else in the US, in terms of eating out OR the grocery store.

2. Applying for Tax Act 60 is a fairly lengthy process - depending on what service you go with, it can cost upwards of $20,000. This is just for the application, not for the other requirements it has such as becoming a "bona fide" resident.

3. This one is fairly minor, but worth noting. Puerto Rico moves at a difference pace than the rest of the US. Many online services we take for granted just don't really exist here. Schedule a doctor apt online? Buy car/medical insurance? Bank services? All of those either happen on the phone or in person. If you don't know spanish, this can be difficult to navigate.

I don't say this to dissuade you, just to recognize there are unexpected considerations to make that might not be immediately obvious/expected.
This is solid! I'd like to hear Jerry Seinfeld's take on it.
Maybe it is true, but I think it is somewhat ok. Patreon has enabled business that simply were not there before.

Some of these telemarketing companies that raise money for charity takes in the hundreds of percent more of the donations than this in fees btw. That something to be outraged about.
One emergent process of the technological age is the drive to optimize ourselves (humans) as if we are machines for increased productivity. Think of all the ways we measure aspects of our behavior, goals, accomplishments.
have to agree, why this concept wasn't dropped once they shipped ssd is beyond me.

The number of iops and throughput shot up overnight and most people are still playing catchup...
OP here - Yes, and they were talking nonsense. You should assume that literally every claim a hodler makes is just marketing. Bitcoin was uncorrelated right up until you need it to be.

When NASDAQ sneezes, bitcoin catches COVID. The sort of tech stock buyer who also gets a bit of crypto will tend to be easily squeezed (because they are the sort of person who buys crypto). So when there's a stock market dip, do they sell their stocks? No, they sell the frivolous crap first.

So NASDAQ goes down 3%, bitcoin goes down 10%.

Mostly though, bitcoin is unregulated, illiquid and tiny. So the main force on the market is internal shenanigans - not outside forces at all. There's a paper to this effect (which I can't find right now), showing that BTC and ETH hardly respond to outside events.
Years ago on /r/aww someone posted their black cat named Jerry Seinfeld. This sounds like the kind of comedy that this cat Jerry Seinfeld would come up with.

I remember this cat because I improvised a similar comedy bit for him in the comments. Like "Humans, huh? You never see them hunt or fish, but they have all this meat just lying around!"
There is software that can download the blockchain to your computer
Ok, rich uncle penny bags. [Or you're and have found a community that edits each other's posts for social bonding]
One takeaway I've gotten from cryptocurrency is the sense that money "wants" to misbehave. It "wants" to scam, pump and dump, make bubbles, and especially to gamble.

It's incredibly difficult to get money to do things that are constructive.

Of course money doesn't "want" anything. That's a metaphor. The real driver is human cognitive biases and the dopamine loop. Gambling and scams provide a Skinner box type environment that plugs right into our closed dopamine loop systems. Productive investments often do not. They take too long to mature, are too risky (individually but not necessarily in aggregate), and are too hard. The path of least resistance for economic activity is something like those casino-like loot box games but with markets and pseudo-investments.

Without heavy regulation money will just gamble and scam and gamble and scam. The only way to get it to do anything productive is to systematically block off the other avenues, which is an endless game of whack a mole against both the natural organic tendencies of human beings and the large number of hustlers and sociopaths who love to take advantage of them.

As the USA has demonstrated, this does not require a fully planned economy with a total loss of freedom. It just requires that there be barriers in place to prevent people from advertising casino chips and pyramid schemes as investments, and requiring that such things be gated at the very least by disclaimers that explain what they actually are. The term investment should be reserved for actual investments.

This is actually protecting people from fraud, which is a legitimate function of government in a free society.

Our execution of it has of course been flawed and sloppy, but that's real political systems for you. It's better than nothing. Absolute anarchy is not freedom. It's the rule of the nearest thug with the biggest stick... or the best grift in the case of markets. The "big stick" is a deceptive pitch that hooks your dopamine system and drains you.
Two contributing factors are religion and social identity.

The “Protestant work ethic” has played a role in shaping American social views about work.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic

American society often anchors identity in work (“Nice to meet you. What do you do?”). An example search result for “work and American identity” turned up this survey from 2014: 55% of Americans get a sense of identity from their job.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/175400/workers-sense-identity-j...
The rules are different when you are talking about a purely speculative instrument with near zero utility like Bitcoin.
There's 15.000 computers in the Bitcoin swarm right now, and I bet there's many more that have it downloaded that aren't running the client right now. I doubt the blockchain itself needs an archiving effort any time soon.
Raycast: Supercharged Productivity
Because of DEBT.

Organisations borrowed fiat cash to keep the crypto show going. This all started to unravel when borrowing costs went up. Many crypto businesses used their coins as collateral for loans, as the market collapses their counterparties force liquidation which forces the price downward which forces even more liquidation. And now we are learning how much leverage went into crypto. It's like the GFC except that (1) it seems [mostly] contained in the crypto world and (2) there will be no government backstop.

https://twitter.com/hodlKRYPTONITE/status/153760293205275852...

Wrt to QQQ this is a combination of inreased borrowing costs makes the ongoing game of share buy-backs more expensive; the increased in treasury yield increases the discount rate which reduces the net present value of future cashflows which reduces valuation; increased inflation greatly reduces value of money in the future; and we are very likely going to enter a recession which will reduce earnings and growth.
As a developer I'm terrified of anything that handles payments. There are so many ways to do it wrong, and each exposes me or my clients to massive losses. Even well funded companies with teams for security suffer breaches daily.

I'm happy to outsource anything involving money.
I would still be more focused on DeFi and maybe large leveraged positions like Saylor's over Tether, which is ultimately backed by Bitfinex, a highly profitable crypto exchange which is probably still doing decent volumes during this down wave. If Tether does fail it might very well come toward the tail end of crypto price declines, when trading volumes have dried up and the incentive to prop it up is gone.

Bitcoin has only just reached its marginal cost of production. The dynamics of Bitcoin are probably different (it doesn't take years to shut down or spin up a mine), but when they enter bear cycles, many commodities will trade below the marginal cost of production for years. The marginal cost of production itself could also fall if energy prices decline from here.
So you respond by being hyperbolic...If you want to ban me, go ahead. I have no intention in creating a "flamewar". I'm not sure what exactly I'm "destroying" here so go ahead & do whatever you see fit...As far as I'm concerned, I made a statement of truth with historical analogy. Is history now verboten as an "over-the-top flamewar"? You have proven my point of group coercion & why it is dangerous for individuals to subjugate themselves to the group or "management".
I sold most of it at $100 and the rest of it at $1000. I made less than 2 million, knowing about it since near inception.
There is some value, there are some use cases. Ukraine demonstrated use cases for a variety of crypto assets recently. I used Monero to buy drugs a few months ago, etc.
Thank you! It's incredible how once BTC lost the $20k support, it fell down to the next nice round significant-ish number, ~$19k. The psychology of this seems to be very powerful.
Very impressive. The only thing missing from AI is a perfected understanding of context without billions of data points. and it has some trouble with the consistency and novelty that humans intuitively understand because of our shared evolution
I don’t know if “co-opt” is even the right way to think about it. Do you remember all the breathless articles from the early 2000s about how jelly bracelets are a sex thing? I think this is the modern version of that.
There's nothing fundamental about Go that makes it unsuitable for GUIs.

It is objectively better than Javascript in many respects, not least of which is performance.

There are only two major blocking issues I see, and none of them is unsurmountable:

- Complex text layout (harfbuzz)

- Accessibility
The Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
The same with me. I gave a little money each month to four different organizations on Patreon, about six months ago I saw LineageOS was on Patreon and started giving a little to them each month too. It makes it easier to get recurring donations, I already send to Patreon once a month, now I just send a few dollars more a month.
This looks very interesting. Thanks!
Well I'd argue that making GUI applications is not the future, so that doesn't bode well for making GUI applications with Godot.
happening in 5 minutes means that bitcoin whales are still a bunch of market noobs. On the stock market when a whale wants to get out of a position, they eke out of it slowly, using an algorithm to sell 13 out of 20 bumps up.
I dont know who you think you are responding to. The person i was responding too does think anyone and everyone should have carte blanche to immigrate to america. Also please post the part of my comment where i said hispanics should be treated as less than. Third wold Immigrants in america get treated much better than their own country. As they should! Thats why they come here!
As long as every bitcoin move is headline news there will always be a market for crypto. When these articles get no comments because it’s like arguing against flat earthers then it will be dead. The reality is it’s still nearly a trillion dollar market and the people like to debate and discuss it because of the uncertainty surrounding it’s demise, if it was settled no one would care and that’s when it would actually go to zero. Until then every drop is just another opportunity for someone buying.
No I think my interpretation was correct, from the context.
> Shouldn't very high inflation in US on goods priced with USD + rising global food costs actually bump up the price of BTC?

Turns out 'commodities' (to use the term loosely) are worth whatever people think they are worth, and that includes 'currencies' (loose term) like Bitcoin. There is no "inherent" value to anything, only the value we humans put on them.

Strictly speaking, the only things that are probably "inherently" valuable to humans are: air/oxygen, shelter, water, food. Everything else is a psychological 'trick' we play on our selves to allow for functional socities.
I guess that depends on how you define value. Tobacco, while unhealthy, can have great value to the user. Those addictive apps provide a low cost leisure activity for millions of people. We all benefit from advances in food sciences every day. Many of those pernicious have a purpose and are often more helpful than they are harmful.

All the things you mentioned provide at least short term tangible benefits to the consumers. How will the average person benefit from the study of ancient languages and civilizations or esoteric physics? People already pay for documentaries they're interested in, there's a reason they're produced. Why do you think academia for academia's sake is inherently beneficial for the rest of society? I see this notion of expressed here and elsewhere that if something is academically challenging or interesting, it must therefore be good to spend time studying.
Crypto soaks up excess liquidity like a sponge.
lol, it's going a lot lower. Probably zero.
Used to be wind turbine posts were just big enough for a ladder inside. Then they got big enough for a one-man elevator (that climbed the ladder). Its floor and ceiling popped open, just in case. Now the posts are big enough for a saloon car, which is good because it takes a whole crew, up top.
careful talking about profitability in your point, as most of these companies are reinvesting to chase unicorn/monopoly level growth. some struggle with profit not because it's a tough biz creators should be thankful to them for, but because they're structured/managed for growth over current customer needs.

for-profit platforms will always seek to maximize the function, the marginal value of the rent they take. any charity to creators is incidental dynamics along the way
Clearly language models can already fool people into thinking they are human, we might be getting quite close to the adversarial turing test already. In the end, a good initial prompt might be the solution to this, something like "pretend to be a human and step by step create a human identity that you then stick to during the conversation". I'm serious
>They want to force the employees to quit or fire them and the PIP is just a tool to make it happen.

I know. That's why I asked the question.

Getting rid of employees you don't want is a good thing. How well this method works for them relative to other ways to evaluate employees?
The debate around "What is AGI?" is becoming increasingly irrelevant. If in two iterations of DallE it can do 30% of graphic design work just as well as a human, who cares if it really "understands" art. It is going to start making an impact on the world.

Same thing with self driving. If the car doesn't "understand" a complex human interaction, but still achieves 10x safety at 5% of the cost of a human, it is going to have a huge impact on the world.

This is why you are seeing people like Scott change their tune. As AI tooling continue to get better and cheaper and Moore's law continue for a couple years, GTP will be better than humans at MANY tasks.
Some of the Amazonians I know have been there for several years or more and love it. They have thrived there, and have great stories to tell. Other people I know that have gone to Amazon ran away screaming, often in <= 2 years.

One common theme I've heard on both sides is that where you wind up matters a lot. The people and org structure around you can have a large impact. But I'm also convinced that personality is a key part of this as well. My bet is that some people are a good fit for Amazon, and many people just aren't.
I know of a doctor who was caught supplying hundreds of fake notes to asylum seekers in Antwerp.

He is still exercising his profession and his cabinet is doing well, I was told.

Here in Belgium, corruption around medical certificates is so widespread that anything that requires subsidies has to be approved by anonymous doctors working for social security.
You can buy my Nvidia stock that's tanking due to decreased mining demand
See my thread above. Real money was borrowed with crypto as collatoral - this is unwinding.
The trouble with jokes is they're only funny to people once. You'd need an adversarial laughing AI to train against. And boy would that thing be loony.
See if Seinfeld sues for royalties.
Yeah, it's called a Bitcoin client.
They had 30 years to compensate, apparently that was not a priority.
Ghost provides similar features for bloggers but does not mark up subscription payments from subscribers. The cut of payments is about 3%.
> "Just eating whatever you want" results in being a five hundred pound diabetic who dies of a heart attack at 40.

This is categorically untrue for much (I'd hazard to say most) of the population. It's certainly untrue for me. I don't like feeling full, and I don't really gain weight when I eat whatever I want.
According to this article[0], product and engineering was ~150 people at the end of 2021 and they hope to scale to 400. Which...seems like a lot for what the company is? Although the hiring landscape has changed drastically in the last month so who knows how accurate that plan is today.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/21/patreon-cpo-interview-doub...
What it means? It means people realized there is no inherent value in a tech the tries to solve already solved problems in am extremely inefficient way.
I have honestly, earnestly tried. I have tried to find a laptop that is for my needs and purposes truly equivalent to an Apple Macbook Pro. Or better. I always end up going with an Apple machine. There has always been a significant part of the assembly that just isn’t as good. It’s often disk speed or display quality. Build quality too.

I want to underline that this is true for what I need out of a laptop.

The opposite has been true in desktops. I have a Ryzen 3900X box and there still isn’t anything from Apple that I would replace it with. Not even to run macOS on it (which I do on the AMD box, using GPU passthrough).
I can do all of it and more in Excel and even run chain transformations. And I can do most of it with Notepad++ replace feature.
I guess my issue might be with the wording, and there clearly are a few technical reasons why this is surprising. I think what is being told is that "since it rised in price late 2020, Bitcoin has been consistently priced over 20k, the previous ATH, and now has gone below that value", which would be clearer to those of us who aren't daily into this.
Why can't the man just be bad at spelling?
As for:

> Batteries also leak energy

this is not the same at all, batteries do not leak anything outside of themselves, the "leak" you're speaking about is the battery consuming slowly its own chemical potential energy. They do not emit anything physical.
> It's likely that something similar will develop in crypto scams.

Disagree with your use of the future tense here. NFTs were Nigerian prince emails from the beginning.
Carl Newport wrote in his book Digital Minimalism (2019):

"Our current relationship with the technologies of our hyper-connected world is unsustainable and is leading us closer to the quiet desperation that Thoreau observed so many years ago. But as Thoreau reminds us, “the sun rose clear” and we still have the ability to change this state of affairs.

To do so, however, we cannot passively allow the wild tangle of tools, entertainments, and distractions provided by the internet age to dictate how we spend our time or how we feel. We must instead take steps to extract the good from these technologies while sidestepping what’s bad. We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims and the business models of Silicon Valley from their current dominance of this role; a philosophy that accepts new technologies, but not if the price is the dehumanization Andrew Sullivan warned us about; a philosophy that prioritizes long-term meaning over short-term satisfaction.

A philosophy, in other words, like digital minimalism."

https://books.google.nl/books?id=S4NbDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1
Everything you just described takes work, but it isn't difficult. Applications both desktop and mobile have been doing all of that for decades now. Why hasn't somebody in the Go community managed it at some point in the past 10 years?
I thought the original comment was simply a big report: missing license file. With a snarky comment tagged on. I thought everyone assumed that, being shown by the author here, it was the latter.
The price of BTC is based on the bid-ask spread on BTC exchanges, which will move up and down based on the ratio of buyers to sellers. More buyers, the price goes up. More sellers, the price goes down. This is an oversimplification but good enough for these purposes.

So in order for the price to go up when inflation goes up, we would need more people to want to buy BTC in response to inflation. This does not appear to be the case, for a number of reasons. One reason is, when prices rise people spend more (even if they don't adjust what they buy, which they often do) so they will have less money available to buy BTC, even if they wanted to. Another reason is, the economic and financial systems (including crypto) are interconnected, so disruptions in one can cause actions in another. For example, if stocks go down 70% maybe I'll sell some BTC to buy some cheap stocks. Or maybe I'll get spooked and just stop buying anything.

There's more but that's my read on it.
Assuming you are from a rich country, I find this kind of comment amusing.

I mean, how can we really consider ourselves being the proletariat when our clothes are sewed by children in Pakistan?
More people are qualified. Refinance a mortgage from 10% to 2%, and what does that do to your cash flow and ability to borrow more?

Businesses carry a lot of debt too, and can refinance lower and borrow more. Compare private sector debt levels today vs the 80s
It makes sense, but wouldn't think about that myself.
But still it's just a word from Apu Apustaja memes that rightwingers try to take for themselves.
> iPhones and Macs is more for people that don't want to tinker with their hardware/software.

The author of this article notwithstanding