skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeff Bezos says he plans to give away most of his wealth
I mean a realistic use case that a normal person would actually do… people who are used to just tapping their iPhone twice to pay for things. My mom has absolutely no clue what you’re talking about… at best she might have a ledger nano one day
The paranoia pertains to burying metal plates underground, preparing for a post-collapse future. As if bitcoin will be a viable currency when we're all trying to figure out food and shelter.
2008 wasn't caused by a finance scam. It was caused by an already heavily-regulated banking industry, supported by governments addicted to growth.

Not that different from what is happening now with the crypto "exchanges", by the way.
The equivalent of writing my seed phrase down and storing it in 1 location.

With crypto I can:

* lock my cash on a device behind a pin (with forced reset after a few attempts)

* back it up in multiple physical locations, and require n of the m recovery locations to be accessed for recovery

* memorize the seed phrase before escaping from an oppressive regime

None of this is possible with cash in my wallet.
Problem is most people don't look heavily at people's hair and backgrounds when seeing a random photo somewhere, they look at the face!

I imagine this kind of stuff will trick a lot of people in practice.
That isn't an audit. Audits are not about actually doing anything about security. Audits are about having documented procedure and properties and reviewing documentation.

The typical software you need to google in the context of an audit is "Excel" for the endless fill-me-in lists of compliance b.s. your auditor will make you fill in...
(You have an Indian-sounding handle, so you might identify with this problem!)

I'd uploaded all of my offline library to Google Play Music, back when it was relatively easier to do so, and before it became YouTube Music.

Unfortunately the service seemed to do some sort of acoustic fingerprinting to make uploads more efficient, and I ended up with the wrong language versions of several of my film soundtrack songs! Loads of them got randomly converted from Tamil -> Telugu, Tamil -> Hindi, Hindi -> Telugu, Hindi -> Tamil, etc.
Definitely recommend Windmill.dev!
It is striking to me that the crypto community is re-enacting a classical bank run in a "decentralized" system where such a thing wasn't supposed to happen.

What's even more impressive is how quickly the crypto community is speed-running the history of financial fraud from penny stocks to bank runs. From Wikipedia,

> Several leading Wall Street bankers met to find a solution to the panic and chaos on the trading floor.[14] The meeting included Thomas W. Lamont, acting head of Morgan Bank; Albert Wiggin, head of the Chase National Bank; and Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank of New York.[15] They chose Richard Whitney, vice president of the Exchange, to act on their behalf.[citation needed]

> With the bankers' financial resources behind him, Whitney placed a bid to purchase 25,000 shares of U.S. Steel at $205 per share, a price well above the current market.[16] As traders watched, Whitney then placed similar bids on other "blue chip" stocks.

> On October 28, "Black Monday",[17] more investors facing margin calls decided to get out of the market, and the slide continued with a record loss in the Dow for the day of 38.33 points, or 12.82%.[12]

> On October 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday" hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. The panic selling reached its peak with some stocks having no buyers at any price.[18] The Dow lost an additional 30.57 points, or 11.73%, for a total drop of 68.90 points, or 23.05% in two days.[19][20][21][22]

...

> Many people blamed the crash on commercial banks that were too eager to put deposits at risk on the stock market.[49]

> In 1930, 1,352 banks held more than $853 million in deposits; in 1931, one year later, 2,294 banks failed with nearly $1.7 billion in deposits

Does any of this sound familiar?
The RIAA has a very different take on that and no music service wants to get involved in an expensive protracted legal battle against the RIAA which it is very unclear you would actually win.
If your comment is a joke, nice one. If not, yes I have heard about it and it's unreliable, doesn't scale and is nowhere near close to make Bitcoin "digital cash", but nice try.
> The company has sold hundreds of millions of Alexa-enabled devices. But Amazon has said the products are often low margin and other potential revenue sources such as voice shopping have not caught on.

This is the game, right? For the first time since Alexa launched, Amazon is looking at a painful Q4, so the rest of retail can't cover up the Devices org's big wart.
There is no conspiracy, just muddling along as humans do.
Well of course they'd vehemently disagree, they're on a different path and they believe that path goes to a different destination, while in reality necessarily all those path lead to the same destination.

A Hindu might believe they're on a path that leads to reincarnation, a Muslim might believe they're on a path that leads to heaven or hell. At the end of their path though, necessarily something real is going to happen. Whatever their different paths are, that real thing is going to be the same thing for all of us.

The Tao Te Ching might not teach the specifics of what Catholics are speaking of but it might teach what they are trying to achieve in describing their path and what they think lies at the end of it, and how that might be abstracted over many religions in a common attempt at achieving peace, stability and purpose in civilisations.
For me, it was more general of how I finally learned to study. I struggled with attention and just general testing issues any time I transitioned school levels, 7th and 9th grades specifically, having a sub 3.0 GPA. 10th grade didn't start off very well either.

My first exam in Art History of the 2nd semester, I received another C. However in the review of the exam, it finally clicked. I drew a mental connection between the questions we were going over and how the previous lectures went. Then, I abstracted it out to all classes, all teachers. I saw how it's pretty obvious what's going to be on the tests by what the teachers focus on in class, and how the focus on certain things. I just needed to focus on that stuff. Everything else is fluff, and was a waste of my studying time.

Tests pretty much clicked instantly after that, and I was a near 4.0 student for the rest of high school.
Those exchanges don't have the ability to trade crypto for fiat (to my knowledge) so it's not a real alternative.
I almost bought one of those "lipstick" phones. I figured, if all I'm doing is making calls, why _not_ have the smallest phone possible? The only thing that really stopped me is that I never figured out if it would work on American cell networks.
https://twitter.com/GerryMcBride/status/1591908903964622848
According to Facebook's page for their App they share user's contact info, identifiers and 'other data' with third party companies. So no.
I really love this point.

For most applications the optimal size of a (time-based) cache is around the point that keeping an item around in the cache is equal to the cost of accessing it again. This is a point that Jim Gray made in the classic "The 5 Minute Rule for Trading Memory for Disc Accesses" (http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/tandem/TR-86.1.pdf) back in 1986.

A side effect of that is that systems that run faster, and therefore access each cached it more often, get more benefit out of a cache by pushing that set point out further. Whether that happens in any given system depends a lot on the access patterns, and especially temporal locality within those access patterns, but the effect is real in a lot of different kinds of systems.

> It's common wisdom that systems with caches can fail badly when the caches are cold. When every request misses the cache, the system is overloaded, and never recovers. What I observed was the mirror image.

The bottom line is that both locality and memoization are huge contributor to the performance of systems, both positive and negative. When folks (including me) point out the risks of caches, we're not implying that caches are always bad. Instead, it's pointing out a risk that sometimes they are too good, leading to a system that can't function when the normal level of locality and memoization are not available.
The oil and conventional ICE industries are still desperately hoping that EVs will fail and I'm sure they are sponsoring incredible amounts of astroturf to that effect.

I got an EV a while back. It's a Nissan Leaf, not the "sexiest" EV by any stretch, but other than recharge time it outperforms a similar class gas car on every single metric: fuel cost, driving experience, acceleration, overall performance, TCO, reliability, and so on.

Gas cars are inferior in every single way except recharge time and (depending on model) range and the gap is closing rapidly in those areas.
Basically they will prevent open/free software producers from commercionalizing it. Like open/free software grows on trees, let's just collect it!
Comparing a tech startup/company with a car manufacturing company is a bit much. First of all scaling isn't nowhere as easy as tech. Manufacturing is very capital intensive, and physical recalls are super expensive.
I fail to see how bitcoin or another cryptocurrency makes funding good moderation easier. "Running the network" means very different things in those two contexts.

I would argue that in fact, cryptocurrencies famously face similar challenges to the fediverse with the moderation a decentralized community. Fraud, abuse and grift are rampant in the cryptocurrency community and even the good actors in that space seem to struggle to find any way to reduce that. The only limited successes there are from the centralized exchanges.
"Not your keys, not your coin" is a popular adage, but it doesn't really seem like many people follow it. Thus the popularity of coins with high transaction fees.

The original crypto culture which emphasized privacy (although speaking of a public list of all transactions ever performed on the network as privacy oriented is pretty hilarious), control and decentralization has for the most part been lost to crypto's eternal September.
> In 1942, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which ordered the forced removal of Japanese American "enemy aliens". The Nagasawa heirs, who were still fighting the estate's seizure in court, were incarcerated in internment camps. Like the approximately 125,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned until after the end of World War Two, they lost any chance of reclaiming the property.

Absolutely disgusting that it took the United States 50 years from 1942 to acknowledge injustices like this had occurred as well as disburse the funds in an attempt to correct its mistakes. It was $20,000 in the 1990s, yay whoopee... I have friends whose families still, to this day, do not forgive the American government for what it did. A good majority of grandparents/parents were dead by then. Many returnees from the camps systematically tried to erase any cultural heritage they had by purposely hiding it and not passing it on to future generations, as a result of their treatment. Because of that, many Japanese perceive Japanese Americans from that time period as cultureless. Btw, the 442nd Regiment, comprised of Japanese Americans, received the most awards in U.S. history for military service in WW2.

Then you take into account the loss of capital from Nagasawa losing his vineyard, and it gets even worse.
3.5% unemployment is not a recession.

A couple of industries like tech are having some bubbles popped, and some places like the UK are having a recession, but the US is not in a recession. You all are just too used to 15 years of tech boom so anything different looks like a recession.
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Because that's what happened with FTX?
This is 4 days old
In that case, more power to him, and no argument about net good - I guess for me, the issue is with the wording. 'Most of his wealth' to me implies someone's giving away most of the principle, not most of the proceeds. Which of course Bill Gates did, just to a charity he also controlled. Again, more power to him and I'm glad the precedent is set, regardless of how I feel about the Gates foundation's activities. But it still doesn't feel the same as giving it to a charity someone else controls.
That's because nobody really cares about what crypto can do anymore, and only cares about making fast money.

If you internalize this fact, then it explains why people just keep their coins on exchanges, why they buy centralized "cryptocurrencies" , why they leap at the chance of buying the latest Paris Hilton NFT and why they keep defending Tether as legitimate.

Fundamentals are thrown out of the window unfortunately.
You'd have to see if all compilers support it, but LLVM has a "remarks" system, which should provide similar information (though likely a lot more of it) for optimization passes which are traced: https://llvm.org/docs/Remarks.html#introduction-to-the-llvm-...

The frontend may or may not have its own optimizations and logs tho e.g. rustc now has MIR optimizations (https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/mir/optimizations.html) but while you can dump MIR data (https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/mir/debugging.html) I don't remember seeing an optimisation log.

At the end of the day, I think it's more likely that you take a look at the assembly and infer problems from there if the profiler doesn't tell you straight. An other difference is the kind of decisions the compiler makes e.g. while a compiler can optimize away allocations in "manual allocation" languages (https://godbolt.org/z/5nEo7xjEr) the allocations are plainly visible, so if they're trivially avoidable... you'll just avoid them.

Using Rust as an example, you'd have something like this:

pub fn match_(&self, path: &str) -> Result<&Rule, Error> {
for rule in self.0.iter() {
if rule.match_(path)? {
return Ok(rule);
}
}
Err(Error)
}

You couldn't miss an allocation, because the return type would have to change, and you'd need to perform the copy out:

pub fn match_(&self, path: &str) -> Result<Box<Rule>, Error> {
for rule in self.0.iter() {
if rule.match_(path)? {
return Ok(Box::new(rule.clone()));
}
}
Err(Error)
}
Not sure if it's literally regulatory capture, but it certainly has the same effects, as you've mentioned. Except I think it's actually the established, non-tech EU companies that benefit more than big US tech but I could see them benefiting too.

edit: apparently there is a similar bill in the US. So that does sound like regulatory capture.
The internet and the rise of free, low-quality advertising driven outlets killed most of it by ~2010-2012. My entire family worked in the industry, most of the damage was already done by then. Just look at the number of working journalists over time.

We are just in the aftermath, where only behemoths like NYT or outlets willing to be domesticated by billionaires can survive.
Why is this getting downvoted? Can someone who is downvoting, or anyone, provide a reason?

Is the comment patently incorrect?
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One can imagine all sorts of dystopian futures. Here's a much more realistic one: the climate goes to hell and there is war, famine, and mass extinction. Democratic governments are replaced with authoritarian governments in elections because populaces want protection from their neighbors and are willing to sacrifice their autonomy to someone who promises to shoot their enemies. International cooperation breaks down.

Imagining the world not doing anything about climate change is a lot easier than imagining them doing too much. We can already see the former.
Having a microphone/speaker in people's houses seems like a great way to collect a ton of data & guide their behavior.
Coinbase would find it much harder to get away with such stuff as a US resident and publicly listed company.
In my experience techies often maintain websites for their non-tech hobbies. But non-techies are much more likely to publish about their hobbies via other media like Facebook, Reddit etc. Your tech background drives the choice of medium, if not the choice of content.
How is that much loss possible? Not a hardware engineer, but from the exterior it feels like there is nothing exotic about the design which would warrant extravagant development costs.

Have they been funneling billions of RD into the software side, or are the units comically underpriced and have a BoM in the hundreds?
Worth making two observations on that GDP figure:

More importantly: that's a real (inflation backed out) not nominal (inflation ignored) figure

Less importantly: that's an advance estimate, not a final figure.
Amazon doesn’t release info about the Alexa category in their earnings, so any reporting can only rely on whatever figure has been leaked.
Yeah the second paragraph makes sense. I do the same thing. I have a lot of bank accounts because of a side hustle (think dozens). I don’t connect my main savings bank account with any of these. Just in case something goes wrong, it’s easier if everything public goes through one or two banks with low amounts of money and I only carry a lower balance debit card with me.
20% of a tesla components are needed to go from A to B, yet you still very much like having headlights, a windshield, a roof, blinkers, &c.

But as always, 80% of what he tweets he doesn't even believe in and just does it to pump his companies' value
While all these tools are impressive, I'm not sure how I'm supposed to actually use these in a methodology sense, where do I look for a comprehensive howto for actually setting up and managing things?
I'm amazed how many people think the average person can't memorize a 12 word phrase. Most people I know can memorize their social security number, address, at least one if not more passwords, their own phone number as well as the phone number of at least one loved one for emergencies, the DOB of their children and their own DOB. Most of that is a gobligook of numbers rather than words.

Absolutely no one needs to be putting a private key on paper in their house, that is insanity.

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RE:

>The question is if you can reliably remember it in ten or twenty years without ever using it in the interim.

I check my bank account daily for fraudulent transactions; it would behoove anyone storing any sizeable amount of value to check/refresh on that daily, however that looks like for your form of storage.
I see UncleOxidant as saying it's a 2020-2021 correction, distinct from the larger talk of a correction that's been going around for years now even pre-Covid.

I haven't seen signs of that latter, larger one yet. Fingers crossed...
The Reddit r/MusicTheory guide on musical modes made it click in a way that none of the other 50 sites I visited could do. I know it's just a silly website (a subreddit at that) and not a big sexy book or course but good educational material on modes seems to be in short supply these days.

https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/wiki/core/modes/
I differ from this opinion. Why would you expect "node" people to switch to "deno" - because it's better? I wouldn't expect that. I would expect that to happen only if "deno ecosystem" is better than the "node ecosystem". And ecosystem is not built in a day or few years.
And this is a great move, help people to switch from "node" to "deno" while they keep using existing tools/libraries they use. And slowly, people can then switch to deno standard/3rdParty modules.
Ah, then there's no need to be intrigued by how WalterBright experiences films. Just remember how you experienced films before you went to film school, or remember how you experience a book or a cartoon (unless you went to book or cartoon school too I guess).

Scenes and cuts, like letters on paper, are the medium. A phone number OTOH is part of the story. Immersion is broken by a badly told story, not the medium.
Someone tried this recently. We even had agt least one discussion on it. Someone with better memory could chime. Mine isn't great
No amount of machine learning, analytics, statistics, models, and experts can predict the future.
Thank you for providing the whole quote. If indeed all software that is not directly supplied in exchange for a price is excluded, that would be a huge relief for the community.

The fear is that they will proceed with extended definition of "commercial activity" though, out of fear of loopholes.
I thought nothing about childbirth until my wife discovered she had some issues getting pregnant, and that started us down a deep dark rabbit hole of finding out more.

Along the way we also found out many of her friends and my friends’ wives also had serious issues getting pregnant, or had developed serious issues while pregnant or giving birth.

Now both of us are scared to have a child.
Is it collecting that data when not spoken to?
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I made the mistake if uploading all my mp3s from the 2000s to Google Music then deleted them locally to "save space". Missed the memo on Google Music getting sunset in 2020 (there were other things going on at the time) and rolled into Youtube Red Music Plus (or whatever) and they are now lost and gone forever.

Now I either buy music via Bandcamp and download the FLAC or replace the ones I lost via other methods and store them locally in Plex and play with Plexamp + Tailscale. That should avoid them getting googled again from any service.
> Ny wife wouldn’t be able to make high skilled wages unless she invested substantial time into upskilling which she doesn’t have at the moment.

Every day spent with the kids is worth 10 years of being a wage slave imho
It's a capital-intensive industry with a long lead development cycle. You develop the product, then you develop the factories, then you actually build the factories. Software has a long lead development cycle but no capital investment in production facilities afterwards. I'd expect the auto industry to have longer times before profitability vs the software industry.

It's expected, not surreal.
The 419eater[1] forum might be a good place to ask as well

[1]: https://aff.419eater.com/
This is going to be a terrible holiday season for a lot of people.
This kind of reminds me of when encryption became a munition in some countries—development moved to countries where encryption wasn’t outlawed. Something tells me a bit of a brain drain will happen if this comes to fruition as groups will go out of their way to develop software outside of the EU. Either that or the EU will be full of undesirable software that has been audited, but is still vulnerable.
No, this isn't because the C++ ABI is fragile, but because the standard library wasn't part of its scope. It only covers the layout of objects and how parameters are passed to function calls, and does not cover the implementation details of standard classes. There are competing, incompatible standard libraries.
Covid origin case reopened: A lab leak is a legitimate question
Yes, you cannot, in the general case, securely trade cryptocurrencies with 10 microsecond timing without accepting huge counterparty risk.

If you want to park your car on the side of a free flowing motorway you are at risk. You can do it, but it's dangerous. People get hit all of the time. It might be more convenient to check your map. It might be faster. But you really probably should get off at the next exit or find a rest area and take that theoretical efficiency hit, cause it works most of the time until it doesn't.

This is a demonstration of that risk. It's not the first, likely it isn't even the 100th.
Its not so much that they paid them back, but that they paid them almost 10 years ago. That wasn't because they had tons of money, that was because the loan wasn't worth the problems it was causing.
Okay, now RTFM to understand why that paragraph of the proposal is a joke.