skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But that's precisely why people were valuing Ethereum at x,xxx per token - the belief that Ethereum will one day have the network effect to generate future revenues.

Ok so let's go first principles here (ignoring the word soup that is "have the network effect to generate future revenues.")

For something to create value it has to do something that people are willing to pay for (in currency, goods, services, etc.). That's the GDP point.

Currencies just exist, they don't do anything themselves. People do things with them but the GDP value comes from what those people do, not the currency itself.

OK, you tell me, "but Ethereum facilitates transactions and people pay for those transactions with fees!"

But those fees go to stakers (who do provide a service, albeit a dumb one).

Ok so now you tell me "But yes, stakers need coins, and I'm buying coins now because I think there will be increasing demand for coins vs. a fixed supply!"

Which great, now we are back to "Currencies are valued by the demand for goods/services/assets you can buy with them (i.e. this is why export economies, all else equal, have strong currencies)."

In this case, what ETH buys is 'the right to earn transaction fees on the ETH network'

Great, again I love this. Feels like we are on to something.

But here's the rub: Are people actually buying anything Ethereum?

Are people buying goods with ETH? No, Ethereum is a very bad tool to buy goods/services with and in fact it's illegal to in most of the world (I'm serious, look it up).

Are people buying services with ETH? See above.

Are people buying assets with ETH? No.

What are they buying? Mostly other currencies.

And now we circle back to why it is a Ponzi scheme: nearly all of the transactions that "generate value" today are just people baying the currency because they think demand will be higher in the future. There is almost no outside value being brought in via "the only way I can buy this good/service/asset is via crypto, so I'll buy crypto because I want that good/service/asset"

If we get to a world where people are actually, ya know, using crypto to buy things, I'll buy into it, but surprise centralized databases are actually intrinsically way better at that than crypto is, but again, that's just my opinion that I've spent years thinking about, so good luck on your bet.

>I feel like you're attacking me without fully understanding how this ecosystem works, nor have you actually ever used a dApp.

I just hope you've though as much about the intrinsic nature of impermanent loss as I have, given all your confidence. I'll give you a hint, it's not impermanent and it's screwing you over 100% of the time.

EDIT: I'm going to head you off here, because I know the 'have you ever used a dApp?" is coming.

You can put as many layers on the above as you want, but if consumable goods and services aren't being purchased with your currency, then it's worthless, regardless of how many Liquidity providers there are on Uniswap.
SBF was one of the biggest political donors to the party in govt. He seems to have done all the shady stuff with Alameda (and said it was arms-length). And whilst Alameda's CEO said multiple things that would have got you in trouble with regulated products (saying they had $10bn in secret assets, making a public offer to buy FTT to manipulate the price)...this is crypto.

I will make an exception to this: if they do not manage to make everyone whole or if there is public outrage that overwhelms his purchased politicians then it is over and multiple people will do time.
You seem to think that abrasive and civilized are mutually exclusive and they aren’t.

We can be civil and yet abrasively disagree. That’s… sort of the point of civility.

If you can’t handle discussing ideas or accept that you might offend others with your ignorance then perhaps don’t engage in conversations.
He had, he worked on the level editor:
https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/610468397554499584
Ask an expert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkSFIWzi7aA
> The challenge is when you throw in an ad-based revenue model

The funny thing is - the ad-based revenue model is not the only possible variant. Last time I’ve checked Facebook’s profits per user were $7 per quarter, that is $28 a year. At the same time I am paying LiveJournal $25 a year for the ad-free version. Just taking my money looks like a much better model in many respects:

- less overhead: a lot of people doing these studies how to force me to look at something I do not want to look at will be free to do something more useful to the society;

- streamlined relationship between me and my publisher: in this model there is no advertiser who can say “I do not like these texts, no revenue for you”.

That’s why I prefer to pay for some Substack authors, like Matt Taibbi and Glen Greenwald, than to try to fish their texts for free amid some sea of “clever” advertising (hey AI testers, I bought this thing already, what’s the point of forcing it on me again and again?).

I kinda wish that Brave model (my money distributed between sites I visited) got more traction. It looks much more healthy.
I definitely sympathise with the confusing and scary command names! "reset" is the worst in my opinion. Rebase is kind of the natural choice once you understand the data model, but it doesn't necessarily make it more approachable.

`git rebase main` will modify your currently checked out branch to make the commits on that branch now branch off of the current value of main. It won't update main or modify it in any other way, only your current branch. You can equally `git rebase 347ae9` to have them come off a specific commit.

If you know what a tree is (in the general computer science sense, not the git term of art) it's well worth taking a little time to learn the underlying data model in my opinion.
GitHub Next here! Yes, we are legit. All of our things live outside of dotcom for a variety of reasons; mostly to contain the blast radius in case one of our experiments goes wrong! We also don't want our experiments to share a cookiespace with dotcom.

Our efforts are listed here too: https://github.com/features/preview
> Personalized results. If you Google yourself, you just see what you see. But you can never know what others will see.

That just turns it into a statistical problem.

I don't think you can escape the problem of a search engine being used as an oracle.
> I think -- I hope? -- we're seeing the death spiral of this language.

In a lot of metrics C++ has never been more popular. And given the direction of heterogeneous programming, C++ is here to stay.

> Solution: add more stuff!

In a lot of ways, yes, that is the solution.
Time to prove everyone how smart you are and make lots of money at the same time.

https://www.investopedia.com/news/short-bitcoin/
It converts the value either way. But with timestamp, the converted value gets the time zone truncated. It makes no sense.
I’m guessing they’re running NLP inference on some GPU server that costs X per day and can process Y pages. I would guess that it’s the indexing that incurs the most of the costs, not the actual queries performed by the users - though I could be wrong.
Safari mobile too: https://kagi.com/faq#How-do-I-set-Kagi-as-my-default-search-...
Show HN: OpenAI for Coda – AI right in your doc alongside your existing tools
Hi HN! I’m Spencer, a software engineer and creative technologist. I care about making tools that empower people’s creative agency, automate busy work, and imagine alternative futures. I work at Coda on the Pack ecosystem but built this in my spare time while tinkering on how to make AI more accessible.

Over the past few months, I’ve been blown away by the capabilities the community has demonstrated with GPT-3 and DALL-E. But as mind expanding and powerful as they are, these possibilities have often required access to tools that are expensive, require in-depth technical expertise, or don’t integrate into your existing tools and workflows.

I wanted to see how this power could be opened to everyone—not just engineers and AI enthusiasts—by bringing OpenAI into an endlessly customizable tool like Coda. So when OpenAI released its GPT-3 and DALL-E APIs, I set out to create an environment where anyone could leverage this capability for their own and team’s needs and have it work seamlessly with their existing data and services.

The result is this OpenAI Pack for Coda. It provides building blocks for you to leverage GPT-3 and DALL-E with your data the way you want, so you can build off the existing Coda integration ecosystem to simply add on OpenAI’s power to the tools and workflows you use now (like Slack, Zoom, etc.)

Here’s a few ways I’ve already used the OpenAI Pack to automate busywork and augment my creativity:

* Synthesize raw meeting notes, long Slack threads, and Zoom transcripts into a tl;dr and automatically send it out in an email.

* Brainstorm with my team and auto-generate new ideas to riff on the most popular ideas.

* Fill out a story Mad Libs to imagine a story premise and generate a corresponding image..

This is only the beginning of what you can do, and all the source code is open source and available under the MIT License so would welcome contributions :)

Play around with the pack and the starter template playground (linked above). I’m excited to see where the community takes this and would love to hear how you’d use it.
Convenient timing! I installed podman last night and was playing with it. So far it feels just like Docker. Too bad it'll take much more time before I get to seriously recommend this at work... But that doesn't mean I can't use it for my personal projects :)
Bitcoin falls under $16,000
Well, AnIdiotOnTheNet, perhaps you could be more of a role model yourself by not making baseless assumptions.

I've been on the web since 1996 and am well aware of what people can do. Depravity I couldn't even imagine exists. So no, I didn't just learn that people do really bad stuff.

The reason I used the term "a fact of life" is because addressing this issue can come at an enormous cost to society. Nobody would want anonymity to be illegal or to have every word expressed monitored by some institute. That's the reason for my hesitation, not because I didn't know about several earlier examples of this type of harassment.

I find this specific example of a hate campaign very useful for it is pure. You can't say it was an accident (we had the wrong guy) nor is it clouded by politics: it's fine if it happens to my political opponents or it was in retaliation to them doing the same thing to our side. There's no provocation of any kind either.

The above bullshit excuses are often used to be relatively lax about this phenomenon. To look away, and to see them as rare incidents.

Whilst there's never an excuse, this one doesn't even have a bullshit excuse either. For me that's a tipping point in believing that legislation is needed.
Life is a lot more nuanced than, "If bug in code, then lose job". Your hypothetical depends on the severity of the bug in the code.

Edit: In this instance, the "bug" led to 11,000 people losing their jobs.
On Firefox this is rather messed up and is not rendering well. Doesn't give me much confidence.
> For personal use I found it great and lighter than Docker Desktop.

I don't know what Docker Desktop is doing but on a top end i9 with 128gb of ram it still takes 60 seconds to start

and the UI takes forever to do anything

it makes Teams look responsive
What does a single notification platform look like to you? Is it a web, desktop or mobile app? Would you use a separate application just for keeping track of your notifications? I can see how it would be useful but also it seems like it could be a pain to add another app you have to give attention to.
When you sold stock A, you got dollars for it.
Is this for itanium
The first time I ran into this technology was in the early 90s on the DEC Alpha. They had a tool called "MX" that would translate MIPS Ultrix binaries to Alpha on DEC Unix:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1044

Crazy stuff. Rosetta 2 is insanely good. Runs FPS video games even.
Just seeing your comment. Thanks for the link, that was a great comment and helped me to understand something I experience but did not understand the cause of!
Could you give some specifics on where the Chinese chipmakers are more advanced than western players? (Note that Taiwan does not count as "Chinese" for this.)

Also, note that the US didn't try to sanction Taiwanese chipmakers at all, so Doctorow's explanation of "why" seem to not hold water.
Nature one-page SciFi short stories
To be fair, I have stocks that are not far off that scenario!
Is there a recorded talk to go with the slides? They're a bit bare.
He is paying a pretty decent severance package for the US as far as I understand.
Too bad Kagi shows Amazon shopping results, from what I hear that's a horrible company for its own employees.

Otherwise I might have given it a shot.
I'll one up you: Bitcoin at zero by March 1st. This crash is going to take down USDT/Binance and the entire ecosystem around it.
Seeing your name greyed out within a few mins, guess you hit a nerve with the HN SOL peeps.
Doing things requires hardware, which uses electricity and needs software which costs man hours.
Monero is a superior currency to btc in every way.
Coin base?
Kinda. Here's the problem. Let's say I'm managing a business with $1B in revenues and $1.1B in expenses. Am I doing well?

On one hand, those are astronomically high revenues. Great! On the other hand, I'm losing $100M per year. Suck! But I was brought in to fix things up after some idiot who ran things into the ground. I'm doing great! But it's a growth market; maybe it's because of that? Suck! But in fact, I'm bleeding money for growth. Great!

... and so on.

So all those other things can be spun. It's nearly impossible to objectively evaluate executive performance.

They definitely show up on OKRs and similar, which can be managed by setting low objectives.
Life is too short to waste on the kind of people crypto attracts.

I'd rather die dirt poor in a ditch than spend a minute in a room with libertarians.
Gives me an "Agent Smith moment", just marvelling at its beauty, it’s
genius.
I'd been meaning to become a paid subscriber to a certain British podcast, and the recent Tory discount was the perfect time to do it.
Wow I had forgotten all about that.

I remember a lot of hype in the dot-com era around that
So, future crash to $75000 in 2026?
Right, so that is an argument against outsourcing low-traffic stuff to a serverless runtime, right?
So the lesson to learn from all of this is "stuff your money under your mattress otherwise it's not safe"?

What a brave new world crypto is bringing us.
Just because your cryptocurrency just lost 90% of its value today, doesn't mean it can't also lose 90% of its value tomorrow too.
I disagree with both of you :).
Personally I prefer to squash to one commit per ticket but on a team level I don't care about a consistent way.

I've found that the history rarely doesn't matter at all to me.
Finding out who modified a specific code section (git blame) is usually good enough.
Wow! are you me?
This would look a lot better with 'real' event titles. The top level picture has "Event title" repeated about a million times, so everything looks the same; in practice events are much more distinct. The later ones are slightly better, at least.
because everyone following the best practices is unscathed.

everyone had a choice to just never touch TerraLuna.

everyone had a choice to not keep their funds on exchanges.

I'll give some sympathy to custodial smart contracts being drained and advertised as non-custodial, a legal distinction that has little practical distinction for the user except unlimited amounts and no permission needed to use. But you didn't have to use those either.

and overcollateralized stablecoins type fiat are still fine (for now)

and overcollateralized stablecoins type crypto are still fine with redemptions functioning smoothly through pretty amazing stress tests

other kinds of stablecoins are the ones that actually have implosions and make the news, with the notable exception and danger of Tether which still have passed every stress test despite such a large attack surface being consistently attacked by state actors very publicly

regardless, it has been entirely possible to have stable value in crypto the whole time, and in fact that's where a majority of the capital is, far beyond any hacks, exploits and exchange implosions. overcollateralized stablecoins are still $120bn and has been a steady amount for the past year. redemptions go well when desired, people just don't desire.

and then for the people that actually have the risk profile for volatile assets and self-custody those assets? they're fine too. let the VC and bankruptcy trustees fire-sale, let everything trade for another 90% discount, that's not controversial, commodities trade like that, digital commodities are trading similarly.
What does Playwright do that Selenium can't do?
It seems like it because it is.

No regulations, no protections, only idiots "invest" in this garbage.

It's just one scam after another
Stockholm's Arlanda Express is 299 SEK (24.18 GBP) each way and around 40km away. For a 17 minute trip with the train!
I would hope that GPT-4 or 5 will obviate the need for this entirely. Just ask the LLM your questions and it will answer.
And another one: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/unhappy
When I hear 'no-rebasing' I hear 'no-rebasing after you've done a PR'. That's when my code and commits are ready for others. My ongoing commits are often more notes to myself as I find those more useful during the work but make no sense as pushed commit messages where you need to block things off logically. Organizing your commits is not much different than organizing your code into modules. Something that should be done purposefully and with forethought.
I've been using kagi exclusively for the last 3 months. I pay $30 because I feel it's worth it and I can afford it. While I tried to use duckduckgo, I found myself reverting to google on every other search. With kagi, I never had to, and I have built myself a set of useful filters based on what project I'm working on. This, along with switching to mastodon, means that I almost never encounter ads anymore. I honestly feel like I got my "internet" back. I didn't realize how much the google search suggestions would taint my day to day.

I whole heartedly recommend kagi. My favourite feature is the "blast from the past" that shows results that are not online anymore, but links to web.archive.org.
It’s possibly at least partly a case of journey planners assuming you want the fastest possible option, and not taking into account the premium Heathrow Express charges?

I’m not sure why TfL would want to actively push Heathrow Express over their own options, as they don’t have anything to gain, as it’s run by the airport and GWR / First Group, not themselves.
Elon Musk brainstorms plans for how payments could work on Twitter
Admit that you either no longer know how to steer the ship, or you don't know which direction to go, and then let someone else do it.
Judging from the damage due to covid in n America, training to be a paramedic or nurse would be a useful job. No clue if it would be interesting but we need more of them. Assume you have a tech degree nurse or super nurse (whatever the nurse doctor mix is called) should not be that many years’ training.
Is this the product that tree-sitter-graph [0] is being used for?

[0] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-graph
Difficulty of mining is a supply side constraint.it doesn't give gold its value.

Gold has long been prized because it doesn't corrode, and makes nice jewelry. There's also industrial applications.

Who admires the maths of their bitcoin? They don't, it's just a supply constraint. Constraining the supply of something that has no value doesn't make it worth something though.

Likewise you probably need a military to defend your country from those who might invade and replace the currency, but that doesn't impart value.
Careful. Even their books are fake.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/6/24/18715584/amazon-coun...
And now Elon Musk "killed it": https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1590383366213611522
HAH, downvoted to -4 for writing this on "hacker" news.
In plain english, "Ikigai" is the intersection of:

- what you enjoy doing

- what you are good at doing

- what you can get paid for doing

Imagine a a circle for each of those categiries as a Venn diagram - the middle of the 3 would be "Ikigai."

Try making a list of all three, then see if there is overlap.
I wonder how Kagi’s crawler gets around the Cloudflare protection that many sites are using today.
Ask HN: Email SaaS
If you had to build an email marketing platform from scratch, or close to scratch, how would you go about it?

Like, how would you build a SendX (https://www.sendx.io/) with a feature-set including the following
a) Email editor with ready-made templates
b) Recipient segmentation within a web app
c) Message scheduling/automation
d) Performance monitoring

I'm not talking about the tech stack as much as the email server bit...where can I learn a bit more about that?
Not nearly enough text on the comb for that.
> Binance has become a gold standard in crypto exchange business

This was FTX and Alameda like a week ago.
>Ads may suck, but simply charging for the same service isn't really innovative. Would I pay for a version of Google without ads? Probably not.

Google already does this with YT; YouTube Premium[1] offers you YT experience without ads plus extra perks. And YouTube Premium has apparently more than 25 million subscribers in US alone[2] and 80 million subscribers globally[3]. My thinking is power users are ready to pay for ad-free experience and casual users probably not because they are not heavy users.

>But that's just me - I actually like to know who is advertising for particular searches. A company with an ad budget to rank at the top of ads is probably more trustworthy than an anonymous website.

A lot of spammers and fraudsters see advertising as their most effective gateway and tactic to scamming people so I wouldn't count on reliability and safety of all ads that you see.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/premium

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1261865/youtube-premium-...

[3] https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-music-premium-8...
Among other things, he perjured himself in front of Congress.
>Is this true? Of all the years that various countries have used traditional fiat currency, has debasement happened more years than it hasn't? I don't think so but I'm not certain.

Do you know of any currency over the past 200 years that has suffered deflation throughout that period?

I don't mean "occasionally has one year with deflation", I mean, the real value of 1 unit of that currency 200 years ago was less than what it is today.
Bitcoin transaction fees are ~5 cents right now.

Granted it's still slow...
FWIW you can subscribe to Matt Levine’s column as email newsletter without being a Bloomberg subscriber. (That doesn’t help for reading already-published columns, but of course there are other ways around paywalls.)
That depends on the elites (presuming Doctorow's perspective is accurate). Truly smart elites would keep the top 10% in the game. But if Doctorow is right, the elites almost always eventually get greedy and blow this, and the system then collapses, because the elites are not competent to actually run it well (and, my own addition, because the 10% quit propping up the elites' incompetence).
Well, once you finish reading, you'll understand that the outcome of this project was in fact disappointing. Which was the entire reason for the hate campaign.
While these are very simple universal languages, as is a simple binary language based on S K combinators (see Section 3.2 of [1]), they don't yield the very compact programs that BLC does.

[1] https://tromp.github.io/cl/LC.pdf
The "M" in MSRP is Manufacturer's, not Maximum.
You can on the CFTC futures market
It certainly doesn't feel like it tho.