skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money must be backed by something. Bitcoin is backed by nothing. This makes it a ponzi, not money. It's very simple.

It can be used as a means of exchange, but due to being unbacked isn't and can't ever become a store of value, which in turns means it's completely useless as a unit of account due to eternal volatility.

The only way to get real wealth in exchange for bitcoin is to hope someone later decides to buy it. That's again a characteristic of something that isn't money. Americans are forced to sell wealth for us dollars, and without that force it would die. That's actual backing enforced by governmental force.
Used to keep a small collection of lego 1×1, 1×2 and 2×2 bricks in each of 4 colours as a homebrew version; you can order custom sets like that online.
Does not show up for me at all in results, interesting. I am outside, wonder if they have geographically separated cashes.
I checked the supplementary material (https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00381-y#MOESM1). The scores have been revised post-publication. Lucky charms is 56, steak is 33 to 26 depending on how it is cooked and whether the fat is eaten, ground beef is 26. Still around the same.
We need to massively scale back regulatory regimentation in medicine

"FDA Deregulation Increases Safety and Innovation and Reduces Prices"

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/11/fd...

We will never get the pace of innovation and price reduction in medicine that we see in more market based product classes if we don't.
Presumably s/event/even/? Would be a confusing typo for someone unfamiliar with the game :p
What.cd was really great and I find redacted to be a decent sliritual successor.

Shameless plug; For people interested in curated music discovery and keeping track of albums you (and your friends) discovered/liked I'm building https://digs.fm - you might find it interesting.

Original Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551862
HCL isn't even a language. It's a tool to create languages. From the official docs:

> HCL is a toolkit for creating structured configuration languages that are both human- and machine-friendly, for use with command-line tools.

All the (Hashicorp) tools that use a HCL-based language actually have their own language with slightly different features and syntax, based on HCL.

I wanted to adopt HCL for my own project at some point, but then I realized it's not that easy because it isn't a language you can just use.
What brand image? A bunch of random people posting ridiculous things one massive flame war?
maybe you could sniff the data coming from the touchscreen with something you physically install into the phone.
Agreed.

So does John McFarlane, the author of djot (and perhaps more widely known, Pandoc):

<https://github.com/jgm/djot>

My own convention when writing Markdown is to use single underbar for _italic_ and doubled star for **bold**. Except of course on GlitchSoc (a Mastodon server), where underbars give underscores, and single or doubled stars are for italic / bold respectively.

But otherwise, if I see a singleton star or doubled underbar in my own writing, I'm pretty sure I've typoed something.
LOL. Apparently I am old, but I remember the web before Facebook (or Google or…) existed. Everybody could (and many did) write on the web before Facebook. Geocities, My Space, or just create your own website. Believe it or not, but it was far simpler and cheaper to create your own website back then. There were tons of free hosting sites back then. You know what killed all of that? Facebook. This is why I am excited by the notion of Facebook dying. Maybe we can get back some of what we lost.
Most people spend $3 per day on coffee, so why not sell them coffee?

Sorry, could not help myself :-)
Substack announces writer Bestseller badges
Who’s using amplify?

What kind of use case?

How’s it going?
Maybe the issue is that the creator of the blockchain is inherently trusted but they should not be.
Gyorgy Buzsaki is one of the least appreciated and most profound neuroscientists alive. Like many proper philosophers, I think his understanding is best appreciated in conversation as opposed to via lectures or books. Though it is the case that his ~1982 review of hippocampal oscillations (which he basically codified) predicts a large majority of the concepts that neuroscientists that study sleep, learning, memory, and decision making are still trying to prove.
FTX’s tangled ties to Alameda cited in financials given to investors
I paid for Raindrop for years, really loved it. But it got extremely buggy (forced me to relogin constantly). I'd open Raindrop, it would completely reset my auth info, and then close it because it's not worth the hassle of logging in yet again just to save a bookmark. And when they clear out login, they clear out everything (including the email). Their iOS share panel was an absolute disaster.

Their UX was great, but it's a nice case study that if you don't focus on the seemingly little but important things (like making Auth seamless and bulletproof), everything else is meaningless.

Dropbox is the same way. Opening a document never chooses the right account (corp vs personal), constantly clears SSO session, and I usually give up 95% of the time instead of using the app.
I’ve been at the largest companies on earth for about 20 years. They are precisely who can’t countenance such work.
You'd have to be aware of the risks of buying a house somewhere far from the office.

Nothing says the company can't change their mind.
This reply is spot on. A vague policy statement means that the FTC itself can't be and won't be held to any standard. They might define Ecommerce one way when it helps with Amazon's prosecution and define it another way to help with Facebook and Google's prosecution. I read the policy statement - it's so broad that it's meaningless. Just lobby the politicians and hope and pray they keep the FTC at bay is not the way to run a developed country.
Yes, that's a way to describe it.

One use case could be that a complete beginner to programming can enter some natural commands (e.g. "X is a list of numbers", "read 10 values in X") without worrying about the syntax and convert them to a working program in one of the target languages.

Also, the input doesn't have to be in English as it can be easily trained with samples from other languages. So people can write/speak in their native language and get it translated to working code.
What does the L in HCL stand for?
Still on you. Who did you trust that lied to you? Then starting to ask oneseld: Why did you trust them in the first place. Understanding that part would make it possible not fall for it the second time.
Always cool to see new designs, but I’m skeptical any of this becomes reality.

I’d always assumed the lack of innovation in aircraft design had to do with safety. A long tube that’s not too wide makes for easy egress of passengers in an emergency. A blended wing design does not. I would imagine it very difficult to get something like that past the FAA unless there is some exotic form of emergency escape that’s part of it.
The same thing as the L in HTML.
fail2ban is excellent. No need for anything else. Configure it for all your server logs. It'll handle the iptables or nftables config for you.
> What is even the source of hope for this cause?

Because nested layers of DIV are apparently "semantic"
Thanks for the laugh. That got me good.
https://archive.ph/SowRE
For self hosting, there's also espial [1] which can import from pinboard.

https://github.com/jonschoning/espial
> The key to this optimisation idea is the exponent gets truncated back to 8 bits when being written back to memory.

That's incorrect - the clamping of the exponent only occurs if you were to use FST/m32 or FST/m64, but if you're using x87 you're presumably doing FSTP/m80fp so there is no truncation or rounding on store, regardless of the prevision flag in the control word.

It sounds like what you're trying to arrange is an optimization such that a rosetta like translator/emulator can optimize this highly awesome function to be performed entirely using hardware fp32 or fp64 support:

fp32 f(fp32 *fs, size_t count) {
// pseudo code obviously :D
ControlWord cw = fstcw();
cw.precision = Precision32;
fldcw(cw);
fp80 result = 0;
for (unsigned j = 0; j < count; j++) {
result += fs[j];
}
return (fp32)result;
// pretend we restored state before returning :)
}

The problem you run into though, is that an optimization pass can make decisions based on anything other than the code it is presented with. So your optimizer can't assume sign or magnitude here, so that += has to be able to under or overflow the range that fp32 offers.

Things get really miserable once you go beyond +/-, because you can end up in a position where an optimization to do everything in the 32/64 bit units means that you won't get observable double rounding.

This is kind of moot in the rosetta case as I don't believe we ever implemented support for the precision control bits

More fun are the transcendentals - x87 specifies them as using range reduction and so they are incredibly inaccurate (in the context of maths functions), especially around multiples of pi/4, and if you go test it you'll find rosetta will produce the same degree of terrible output :D
Haha, no.. it's just beginning.
> You can be a millionaire from your 401K, your 401K will never make you a billionaire

Fun fact: Peter Thiel's IRA made him a billionaire.
Always good to find another MMTer out in the wild ;)
The Boring company is how he will build tunnel networks on mars, which has no magnetosphere. I thought everyone knew all his efforts were oriented towards colonizing mars. Why electric cars? There is plenty of lithium on mars but no oil. Etc.
Whenever when you have to fight the government, the open ocean is your friend. (Think seasteading.)

In this case, where what we want is bulletproof hosting, we host the servers undersea. Microsoft's Project Natick has shown the way.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/project-natic...

Yet another reason why proof of work is unconquerable.
Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinctions
Geologists find parallels between ancient, global-scale extinction events and modern threats to Earth's oceans
Everything is a tradeoff.

Efficiency is usually a tradeoff that limits flexibility. If you don't happen to need flexibility, you can have amazing efficiency: a wheel of a rail car is so much more efficient than a foot. But only when it stays on a rail.

If we look at a somehow more difficult terrain, a foot suddenly happens to be a better deal, because it adapts to a variety of conditions. Of course, at the expense of efficiency (complexity, energy consumption, need for a much more advanced control circuits, etc).

In business you usually have to have some safety margin for the unexpected. If you squeeze it out in the name of efficiency (and profit), all goes well until it does not, and then it fails much harder, maybe catastrophically.

(Nassim Taleb wrote a whole book about that, "Antifragility", where he gives a ton of fun real life examples to make basically the above point.)
Yeah but one of the reasons why stuff isn’t affordable is because regulations are designed around edge cases without factoring the cost sufficiently.
It isn't, yet it is.

The price is still 20% you, and still 0% mom. If reported as inflation still at 20%, does that affect perceptions of inflation, and if so, expectations of inflation? Because expectations of inflation often turn out to be self fulfilling drivers of inflation.

Reported as inflation stable even if it is 20%? Better? Not that 0% is a great target, but that's a separate issue.
I happened to join Oink just before it fell over, and when it went down I managed to find some of the former members on a forum saying "hey, let's go build a replacement right away." I was only a budding PHP developer in high school, but managed to jump in with the right folks at the right time and learned a lot working on that site.

Couple stories from memory:

* What.cd started as a parallel effort around the same time, by a second group. I don't recall there being a significant motivation to have _two_ Oink replacements, just a lot of enthusiasm, and memes about "hydras" --- i.e. "you chopped off a head, but even more of us grew back".

* I remember us laughing at the "what" group for their name --- and supposedly hearing that they thought calling it "what" would act as a deterrent to being taken down, with a "confusing" name. But hey, they really took off in a way that Waffles didn't, so what do I know

* Waffles used tbsource (IIRC), which was a more standard torrent-site codebase to reach for at the time. It was fine, we made our customizations to it and did what we had to to get the site going. But What.cd's choice to implement a new tracker in Gazelle was a great contribution to the community.

* I miss the music discovery that came from the Waffles top-10 lists and from the forums in the community. Spotify has fully replaced music torrenting in my life (and probably many many others), but the community around music recommendations and sharing was so, so good and I haven't found something like it since.

* Helping stand up a music torrent site was a fun, probably ill-advised adventure of a young, pre-adult version of me. I've since professionally worked on DRM stacks on consumer media devices and on projects for the US Copyright Office, and had many good laughs about this trajectory. Karma, I guess?
You mean Chinese characters? Probably nothing.

> idiomatic text, technical terms, taxonomical designations

These were usually put in quotation marks.

For book titles, wrap them inside 《 》
Using your logic McDonalds is a software company.
FBI In No-Knock Raid on Area 51 Website Operator
Hmm. I'm currently using Raindrop and haven't ever been logged out. It's been pretty solid for the past year or so I've used it on (Android app and Firefox extension on MacOS).
Spotify is the first to launch non-Google Android billing in the US
The stuff seems great but one has to ask: what kind of bread is that guy eating that has egg whites in it?!
Incredible, hope your sister's remission to be a complete & permanent one.

Literally curing cancer, just incredible.
There's none that I need, but I think it's worth pointing out to anyone who asks about CRDB. There are many available extensions for PostgreSQL, so if you happen to rely on one of them, you might need to think about how you'll do that with CockroachDB. Obviously the new-ish support for spatial data was one of the most obvious, but even in this case, if you rely heavily on Postgis, you'll need to make sure CockroachDB supports everything you need.
Tech is one of the least capital-intensive industries, no?
How would someone email you? No email in your profile.
Holy shit, this is very similar to what my mom went through.

One day she heard a very loud bang that she described as sounding like it was coming from inside her head. Shortly after she started getting dizzy spells, specially when getting up in the morning and when lying down to sleep at night. Every once in a while her left arm would go numb and she would lose strength in it.

She went to many doctors and it was the same story, they thought it was vertigo. Thankfully she found a better one who requested a brain CT scan which showed that she actually had had a mild ischemic stroke on the right side of her brain.

Hope you are feeling better now, take care!
> Google's blog post ridiculously frames multiple payment options as some kind of world-first, grand experiment that has never been done before. Google says it wants to "understand complexities involved" in having a second payment option and it needs to "test and iterate on different implementations" of processing a credit card. Every other checkout screen on the Internet has had a PayPal button for like 20 years, so perhaps some of that experience could help Google navigate this murky, uncharted territory.

> The original motivation for alternative payments was to dodge Google's (and Apple's) app store fees, which take anywhere from 15–30 percent of a developer's revenue. While Google and Apple are legally compelled to open their payment processing in some countries, the mobile duopoly has ignored the spirit of those rulings and hasn't really budged on the fees it charges.
Tech has been working out of offices since the beginning. Your argument that remote work prevents that beggars the actual reality of history. I will also bet you $20 most of the unionizing going on now is conducted online.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What.CD

Rest in peace old friend.
> Yes. Nobody seems to care that the US interfered in the 2000 Russian election

I'd be interested to hear more about this ... do you have links to a summary ?

> Putin came to power as a result of the US interference, after blackmailing Boris Yeltsin

I'm not clear if you mean Putin blackmailed Yeltsin or the US blackmailed Yeltsin ? What was the blackmail over ?

From a brief bit of reading and what memory I have Yeltsin was having various ...

- health ("months in hospital" [1]),

- political (four prime ministers in eighteen months [2])

- and, allegedly, criminal (government contractor providing Yeltsin and family with "we pay the bills" credit cards [3])

... problems so him going of his own accord doesn't seem impossible ?

Also wasn't it the case that you could only do two terms as President until Putin fixed it so he could reign for ever ? If that was the case then Yeltsin wasn't going to be able to run again anyway ?

I'm open to the idea that the CIA was, as is traditional, shooting itself in the foot, and there may have been US elements who felt that Boris was dangerously unpredictable but it does seem that there was other things going on which might have led to his demise ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Yeltsin#1996%E2%80%93199...

[2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/415087.stm

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/jan/28/russia.iantray...
I'll pay Twitter eight bucks a month because price isn't the same as value
Sure: if you don't like C, you won't like Go.

Sounds like C is not your thing, and that's ok.
The Onion wrote an excellent thesis about parody, submitted as a brief in a trial against a kid who made fun of his local police department.

Labelling parody goes against everything The Onion argues. On the other hand, some people literally do not "get" satire and parody. Sharp wits must be dulled, lest someone be hurt.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...
HTML is a markup language. Why isn't HCL a configuration language if its name says it is? (I know nothing about HCL.)
There's one major reason to care - the AppStore has a threshold (200MB i think) over which it will warn users about the app's size if they are on cellular connection (IIRC it used to block downloads entirely). So there's a fair bit of incentive to stay under 200MB.
hey. 9th gen ipad 10.9, i think it has 3GB ram so it will never work on it?
I was about to mention the reserve ratio but apparently it’s 0% right now in the US…
Mono cells haven't been affordable for more than about 8 years. In the 90s it was 8% poly cells in anything affordable. Now you can get 22-24% glassless cells for a dollar or two per watt retail (or much less in bulk).

Much work is being done to commercialise hybrid tandem cells with growing confidence they'll be here this decade. You could similarly say "polyjunction cells have been about 32% in the lab since the 90s" once they are dominant.

Similarly boosting coverage ratios from the 70% of painted area or so of the current three concepts to 95% is possible now but not economic. As are thin film 10% efficient transparent cells in lieu of tinting over the side and rear windows.

A 40% improvement in car efficiency (the sion is heavy and boxy so there's room), with a 40% improvement in coverage and a 30% improvement in panel efficiency (or 50% in poor weather where it matters) would take it from 'okay, I guess that kinda maybe works sometimes' to 'when was the last time I plugged it in outside of a road trip?'
This happens in India. It’s called a service charge and is usually ~10% of the bill.

* Upper-mid to more expensive restaurants usually keep a service charge.

* Customers have the right to ask it to be removed.

* When there’s no included service charge, some restaurants’ waiters point this out, possibly expecting a tip.

* When there’s no included service charge, and the waiter doesn’t point this out, some customers feel free to leave a tip in cash.

* Some restaurants include a service charge and outright reject tips (politely) - this is rare but it has happened with me. Even when I tried to tip them after hosting a large party.
> Being smart in one field doesn't translate to being smart in another field.

Yes but the topic is "Is Elon Musk stupid?"
You are assuming that promoting the progress of science and useful arts is for the public benefit, but it can easily happen in private. That is why public benefits are not primary. That is what I pointed out to you in my earlier post, but you continue to make that same flawed assumption.
Probably because of all the dumb things he said around that statement drowning out the bits and pieces that might have made some sense. It's certainly his fault, he's the one spewing garbage 24/7.
When I read about Lockheed’s stealth ship, I assumed people would be excited about them.

Because they were run by such a small crew, nobody wanted to command them because the number of people under your command mattered for rank advancement.
Just lose your kidneys and you'll KNOW how reasonable that is.
Paying developers to build new products is a capital expenditure.
Tiger Global would be in a very close running for biggest losses

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonkochkodin/2022/11/08/mor...
US judge in Texas strikes down Biden loan-forgiveness plan
I think it's worth mentioning that 75% was what was pitched to investors and wasn't intentionally publicized.
Musk warns of Twitter bankruptcy as more senior executives quit
Does this technique have a name?
This whole analogy is bad because McDonalds produces physical goods, which provide a basis for a valuation of clown bucks, gift certificates, or whatever. At the some point, the holder of clown bucks can turn them into burgers, a commodity in a competitive market, that McDonalds has demonstrated the ability to deliver consistently.

There is no incentive for McDonalds to stop producing these burgers, so no risk of rug pulling.

Collateralizing the loan with McDonald's gift certificates would just be a bet that McDonald's will sell 10b$ more food, minus some delta to incentivize people to use the lender's clown bucks instead of greenbacks.
To put this in perspective, a family member was treated for leukemia and our billed* medical expenses hit $300,000 in the first 2 weeks of treatment. This included the initial hospitalization, attempted install of PIC line, install of broviac catheer. And secondary hospitalization in hepa controlled room due to other illness during an immuno compromised period.

The standard treatment continues for ~2.5 years so this was only a small portion of the bills we received.

*obviously what is paid by insurance + out of pocket is very different, but that level of billing is insane. Also you really don't want to be fighting insurance and the medical center over billing while your family is undergoing cancer treatment.

This was at UCLA
C11 added `_Alignas`, and it looks like C++11 has `alignas`, so you don't need to rely on vendor-specific extensions for alignment, unless the JVM restricts itself to an earlier standard.

LEVEL1_DCACHE_LINESIZE looks to be specific to Linux and Solaris, however.
I used hypothes.is for highlighting, but now that tons of sites (like this one) block external javascript I needed something with a good safari plugin to get around that without too many hacks. Raindrop fit the bill. I’m a very happy customer, would happily pay more.
My heart agrees with you. My brain demands a way to define vulnerable in a legally and Constitutionally acceptable way.