skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that doesnt follow.

But in any case, what is "using" bitcoin?

Is it purchasing bitcoin? ...how do I do that? I'd need to rely on the two mining companies, right? And the exchanges? Or not?

And can I use bitcoin as currency in any shop? No? If I could, I'd be relying on the state to provide the same rights behind all economic transactions to enable, that right?

And what happens if the handful of "wales" decide to off-load their coins in the middle of my negotiation when I'm buying my tesla... suddenly, all my deflationary currency has been magically radically inflated by a cabal of SV billionaires.

Money isnt the kind of thing that "centralisation" even applies to in any coherent sense. If BTC is suppose to be money, then it's supposed to be a system for book-keeping aggregate promises across the global collective of human beings.

The value of money, it's "use" in any sense, is subject to provision of economic systems by central authorities, and subject to wild forces of decentralisation and centralisation.

The networking sense of "centralisation" which applies to blockchain is a pun. It's irrelevant. It has nothing to do with any of this. It could be called, "wide-broadcast machine signalling"
If you have no idea what you're talking about, post your comment as a question instead of a statement full of inaccurate misconceptions
It's easy to take a philosophical stance on this, but this represents many peoples' life savings. There are countless lives that have been irreparably harmed by crypto scams, which has a net negative effect on our society.
> Most VMs are not simple, predictable systems that would ever reach a "steady state"—they're dynamic systems that are constantly executing different parts of the codebase and taking wildly different codepaths at different times. V8 is a great example of this—the type of code executed on a page changes wildly depending on what you're doing and what actions you take.

That is already the exact point being made by Laurie and Edd's research.

> Why would we even want to optimize it for "reaching a steady state", when different parts of the codebase may be more or less useful at different times?

A steady state for whatever the application is doing right now. Not a single, statically known steady state, without considering what it's doing.

> It seems more important to me to work on optimizations that can allow us to deoptimize parts of the codebase that we don't think we will be useful again, to save on memory, even if it involves sacrificing this theoretical notion of a "steady state"

I think that's a completely solved problem isn't it? You can GC a compiled method. What more do you want?
It has that in common with everything that has ever failed, in that none of those things had ever failed before they failed.
Tech layoffs disproportionately hitting HR and DEI
Archived version: https://archive.ph/DnwWI
Also Altin Gun and Gaye Su Akyol, both Turkish artists that use a hybrid of standard guitars and baglamas, and operate mostly in 12TET but employ lots of embellishments from Turkish makams.

Flying microtonal banana, KG, and LW are fun (24TET with a few missing quarter tones), but I'm really hoping their next foray is 19TET or 31TET, which both approximate 12TET well enough but also have some neat intervals.
The repo owner of this collection is also the creator of React Flow fyi. He probably wasn’t trying to show off but provide a list for people to browse and decide for themselves.
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> A lot of terrible eating apples are great for baking, Granny Smith for example.

There's no accounting for taste. Grany Smith is my favourite eating apple.
>FTX's books don't so much have red flags as that they are printed on red flags, with ink derived from red flags, a custom-made red cover made out of more red flags, and each page, when opened, has pop-up red flags along with a little electronic speaker that plays Red Flag by Antigoni.

Lol. This should be a framed quote.
It's amazing how hard it is for people to take responsibility for the accidents they cause. Their first instinct is always to blame the board.
Honestly I think it's unfortunate that crypto turned into such a big investing platform. The whole point of something like BTC was that it would be a currency, not an investment.

When filling a tank from zero, there is inevitably a lot of growth at first. I think this is what happened to BTC and attracted a lot of the wrong kind of usages. I wonder if when the ecosystem reaches an equilibrium it will become better at being what it promised originally.
As pointed out elsewhere in this comment tree, things living on the stack when they needn't can mean they don't fit and thus the program doesn't work, so the optimisation can matter for that reason, and this is a particular reason to worry about it for larger objects where the optimiser is more likely not to see what's going on.
> Due to the private nature of these projects, some parts of the projects have to be developed and tested in a secure area. They need the best talent for these programs. To attract the best talent, they can't require a whole family to live in a secure facility. So, they have to bring in the talent from a non-secure area.

"Have to", according to the opinions of the people working on this project, who were not elected, and whose initiatives have not been signed off by the citizens of this "democracy".

> The most sensible way to do that is by air.

According to some people's opinion. It is surely more convenient though for the subset of people who benefit from such programs.

> The carbon footprint is not something that is ever going to factor into this arrangement, at least not until there is a very green plane available.

If the country was more democratic, what "factorsd into" various things may change dramatically. But as luck would have it, the truth of what going on here is a secret, and most citizens are not just ok with it, but seem to consider it a very good thing.

> I'm all for reducing carbon footprint, but there are about 100,000 flights/day so these two flights (there/back) make up 0.002% of daily air traffic -- it's a drop in the bucket from a carbon footprint standpoint.

What other flights and harms happen as a consequence of this research is causally related, but the unknown tends to appear as nonexistent (and thus "is" "nonexistent").
Many countries in Europe, including Estonia, are in the small peak of real estate bubble. Inflation is very high and people have been hurrying to invest money they have. Real estate is obvious choice for many.
Correct. In the case that it stops transacting, the value of bitcoin as a system would be zero.

In the case where the costs are larger than the value produced, but are not paid by the bitcoin system (external, you might say), then it would still have net negative value, but continue to operate.
There are a few classes of users. If you're the type who always uses the "I forgot my password" workflow on sites then you probably are the type who will lose your keys.

But if you're the type of trader who makes a trade and then forgets about it for a while you're at risk of losing the funds left on the exchange - like with Paypal.
So twice as much time writing unit tests for your code as writing your code (20% of total vs 10% of total), and that's a complaint? Got it. But, sure, it's everyone elses code that is a shitshow. Ok.
From a US point of view maybe but it’s complicated in Japan. For starters you are not allowed to work remotely on a tourist visa waiver and work done remotely I Japan is not “foreign sourced income”, at least not for a normal situation. There’s conditions which may trigger tax residency, and finally regardless of your status, work done in Japan can cause liabilities for the US company.

Also the posts I mentioned are almost universally “I assume or have assumed that I can just buy a house and work remotely from Japan”, but there a few that are looking for loopholes to be a digital nomad.
You still hold the keys and can withdraw at any time. That's the point if non-custodial DeFi.

If you withdraw more than your interest and in some other crypto than your collateral then your loan now has leverage. During that particular withdraw transaction you will have signed some logic which can automatically liquidate your lent crypto if the amount you withdrew (minus interest) becomes worth less than your collateral.

Until that pre-signed liquidation transaction executes you are fully in control of the balance and keys.
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> If information could be classified, then you'd need a public register of classified topics, so that researchers would know what to avoid researching.

Two points: First, the general public has no duty to protect almost all classified data. If you've never had a clearance and signed the NDA, you can take TS/SCI material you found on the ground and publish it (you'd want to be real careful about not lending support to terrorists etc., because the gendarmes would likely be looking for anything to nail you on).

Second, we do have a public register of no-no topics (more accurately, topics you have an affirmative duty to protect even without a security clearance): the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1981.
Indeed, I am. I suppose I should have just included a news link. Thanks!
No. Lots of people are happily running Rust in production and getting significant value from it.
It's a tad disappointing that folks who spend a lot of time looking at film don't notice that Harrison Ford's character is not named "Indian Jones" or that the ape fight scene in 2001 suggests the opposite of 'natural and inevitable evolution.'
... in the USA.

There are many countries in the world where police wouldn't treat you this way.

US police are basically an extremist group.
The do-gooder movement that shielded Sam Bankman-Fried from scrutiny
If you shut down Internet, your economy suffers.

Even China cannot block Github, because it would harm their economy too much. Chinese developers need to access Github (PyPi, NPM), or they are not productive. The global software industry is built on the top of Western science that relies of on freedom of information. Thus, they need to let free information to flow against the authorianship will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#China
Perhaps it's time for International Parks.
Sorry, a better link would have been https://lunatic.solutions/blog/rust-without-the-async-hard-p...
Just wanted to comment on the async part that interesting solutions are being developed.
On the scale of the US Air Force it's a pinprick on a pinprick. It's probably a couple planes flying daily. The USAF flies a lot of planes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_United_States_A...
How do you quickly make a new note? Is this Android or iOS?
Let me play devil's advocate here, I've known a number of law enforcement/military individuals and have asked them the same question. Here's the situation they paint to me. Imagine you have to go arrest someone, essentially using force to limit their freedom. You know virtually nothing about this person, except that they are the type of person who will break laws serious enough to get arrested. Now, do you want some protection from a gun, or no? And do you want to go there with 1 other person? Or as many as you can get.

It seems very excessive from the outside, because we have full knowledge of the situation at the outcome. When you go into these situations, you're essentially blind, so you're exposing yourself to the entire risk profile.
All of these options you listed are significantly more expensive, and some of the contractors I work with don't even have that option due to KYC requirements - these people don't have access to functioning governments, they don't have passports. Also, most of my contractors don't use/have bank accounts (because where they live it costs money to have one) - so no way to take out the money if they used these services.

I did this dance at least 100 times and never ever had a problem with price fluctuation. Bitcoin is pretty stable on a 3-day timeframe.
There are a couple of incorrect assertions near the beginning that should be addressed:

1. "That is, sound waves are not made out of sines as real-word phenomena."

Sinusoids are the solutions to the harmonic oscillator differential equation (\ddot{x} = -w^2 x). The harmonic oscillator is an excellent model, or a component of excellent models, for many natural phenomena, including vibrating strings and columns of air, pressure waves in fluids, the list goes on. The utility of sinusoids is not due simply to their convenient mathematical properties, it's because many natural signals are sparse in the frequency domain, precisely because sinusoids do describe real world phenomena.

2. "A piston on a crankshaft produces "pure" sinusoidal up-and-down motion when operating at constant angular velocity."

Uh, no. The motion of a piston is approximately sinusoidal as you decrease the radius of the crank, but in no case is it a "pure" sinusoid.
There was a series of stories a while back about the effect that the AAirpass (unlimited lifetime flights with American Airlines) had on stockbroker Steven Rothstein.

The pass cost $250,000. It was based on his age and how much they expected a person to fly per year. They eventually allowed him to add a companion fare for $150,000.

Rothstein would go to Paris for lunch, or kick around Tokyo for an afternoon, etc. He did this for thirty years and obviously cost them a ton. Eventually they found a terms-of-service excuse to cancel his pass based on his booking patterns. (Using his companion fare for extra baggage, etc)

Losing an ability he'd had for thirty years left him completely hollowed out.

I mention this because I could easily afford to buy two of these Frontier passes at this introductory price, just to see how much I'd use it. $1200 is a steal.

But that kick up to $4000 for renewal... now we're talking serious money. And the price is likely to go up every year until the program breaks even, on average.

Can one justify that emotional risk?

Edit: Hadn't processed that you can't guarantee you'll be able to get home. At that point this is just a weird publicity stunt.
Thanks for the launch.

This will be my idea for my new project.
I hope it is but I suspect it won't be.

The bottom line is that the benefits of crypto have been exaggerated by people who, in may cases, don't have everyone's best interest at heart while the downsides have been vastly understated. It's particularly frustrating to hear people tout the ability to bypass the government when it fact that the most popular cryptocurrencies make it trivial for governments to track every transaction.

The reality that crypto evangelists never want to talk about is that to the average person, crypto is a MUCH worse experience than what they have today. Why would I buy something with crypto when my credit card offers me a ton of consumer protections? Especially if I'm buying something from an entity on the internet who may or may not be trustworthy.
You should check out doing an Aerobic Threshold (AeT) test and an Anaerobic Threshold (AnT) test. I believe there are details on the Uphill Athlete site. But you should absolutely determine your AeT if you’re trying to base build in zone 2 (180-age is a good place to start, but it is likely lower). AnT is useful as well for higher zone training. It’s a more demanding test than AeT but will give you a more practical upper bound for speed workouts than max HR.
That's only considering the scenario of end-user purchasing and also not considering resale.

Goods go through supply chains. Multiple transactions occur over a period of time in order to create a final good.

Service industries need to supply themselves with various goods in order to provide their services. The cost of those goods are used to price their services. When there is huge volatility through these processes, things fall apart.
If you click on the "Pick an Apple" menu tab it shows the list of apples by rank, https://applerankings.com/pick-an-apple/
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That is sure to comfort you if it buys the equivalent of a candy bar.
> so people with guns should take other made up numbers and give them to people with guns, and tell the people with guns to make sure the bad people don’t do bad things to the stupid people

I think people who are doing the telling actually don't have guns; but are sitting atop a made-up hierarchy.
It's not about attention - if tiktok was merely wasting everyone's time we wouldn't even be discussing it. It's about the fact that a corporation controlled by a foreign government has an app installed on the phones of most Americans, and that app captures a huge amount of information. That's why it's a national security issue. At least that's the way I understand it.
Healthcare in the US is a broken market due to regulatory capture among other things. If Buffett and Bezos and Dimon couldn’t solve it, it’s probably not going to be solved without the government breaking up the cartel. That’s a valid function of government even by fairly libertarian standards.
Aged poorly in what sense?

1. "FTX is very well capitalized" - given that August 2021 was in the middle of the crypto bull market, that statement was probably true at the time. Sure, it became poorly capitalized later, but that wouldn't make the comment age poorly, any more than a statement like "the fed has inflation under control" in 2019 would age poorly.

2. "Can you show me even napkin math that shows FTX going under if USDT blows up in a realistic scenario" - FTX blew up for an entirely different reason
One, I do not beleive you.

Two, If you did, how much did you take? And what type? Pyridoxine or Pyridoxal-Phosphate? For how long? Were you tested for a B6 defieicny, high homocysteine?

Three, it is in NO WAY common for deficiencies to be tested for mood disorders and even less common for a doctor nevermind a psychiatrist to do anything about it.

And calling me an asshole when I am advocating for better health is making everyone's life worse. I do not mind if people choose to take stimulants, but they are not being advised that there are other options.
This does not track. If you had a 100 way split and still ended up with just one choice per customer you are doing something wrong.
> It also failed because user money was stolen and mismanaged by hugely incompetent 20 year olds, not because it was invested in crypto.

Ah, but you repeat yourself! Almost every actor in crypto is an incompetent 20-something, or an intentionally criminal 20-something.

Exchanges like Coinbase might be the "good guys" but when the assets they let you exchange are inherently worthless magic beans and many of them are intentional scams, it's hard to justify the stock market analogy.
I had to dig for the distributed part but it's outlined here: https://www.unison-lang.org/articles/distributed-datasets/
I love the tech but I keep looking at crypto as a financial system build on nothing and backed by nothing. Financial system is a luxury that has to be a functional layer build on top of some economy but crypto is so standalone it is basically only supported by peoples interest in it. They forgot to build the economy and went straight to money and finance
Madoff was a Democratic mega-donor and he went to jail as well.
I have the same question.

My best guess is that these VCs need to deploy so much capital that they don't really do due diligence, instead they go by "founder vibes" and "vision", a watered down version of "invest in the team, not the product". Sequoia, SoftBank, a16z all seem to be guilty of this.

Anecdotally, Chamath Palihapitiya, in the recent All-in Podcast [0], said that they met with SBF and as a condition to invest they wanted to get rid of dual class voting shares (or something like that) and a board. FTX leadership (not necessarily SBF) replied with "fuck you".

So I guess you have some VCs trying to do the right thing, but if founders can get capital with no strings attach elsewhere, then your ability to deploy that capital is hampered. Essentially, until recently there were was more capital than founders, so founders could just do whatever (and SBF did).

I would expect that this changes a bit with raising interest rates and a tech downturn, but a16z's $350M investment in Adam Neumann's newest Thing makes me think that we are still flush with money ready to be thrown at anyone that has the connections to get a coffee chat in Sand Hill Road.

[0] https://open.spotify.com/episode/3CKYt4mKxndPkEfAvc7SM0?si=e...
> but red delicious is also fine

I was prepared to agree with you on pretty much any apple except red delicious. They are absolutely disgusting and leave no room for preference or taste. They're flavorless and mealy. I wouldn't give one to my worst enemy.
Haha great! From now on I will work “what is your stabbing footprint?” into the conversation as often as possible.
Show HN: I finished my site for daily dogbunny puzzles, as I promised on HN
Hi everyone, based on the feedback on my prototype puzzle (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884467) I have now built a daily puzzle site, with lots of animation and interactivity.

Hope you enjoy it!
Wow, that looks really extensive. Great work!
Like I said, change the specific phrasing as you want and makes sense, every situation and person is different. The goals were "offer help with an actual example" and "offering company/fun/distraction without being pushy", it doesn't have to be a weekend lunch or looking over practice questions, it could also be sending their resume to friends and gaming together later that night, same same.
There’s also a very real counterparty risk in bonds that need to give 8%.

Inflation bonds are kind of an exception there, since if inflation is 8% the market should be doing much better than that on average.
It’s clear Apple dropped 32-bit to make the transition to ARM go smoothly. It also highlighted the issue with game development on Mac. Most of the time, it’s done by a subcontractor who’s paid to deliver it once. No one is there to keep the lights on and maintain development, with a few exceptions like Civ 5.
> Except that the philosophy is beautiful and extremely useful due to composability

The philosophy is beautiful on the surface, which is exactly how far beauty extends.

Write some load-bearing software using a litany of software all connected by pipes throwing untyped text streams around to various handles. If you do this, and you do not experience problems due to composability, one of the following is true: 1) you aren't doing real work, 2) your software exists in an environment which never changes, which is very rare for most people (meaning that you have fixed your environment enough to wallpaper over problems with composability.)

statically compiled stuff and strongly typed data is the only way to longevity that is worth the time you need to put in to a system that must work.
What got me hooked on Evernote was its web clipper. It did a great job of grabbing elements from webpages, retaining (or not!) their formatting. This made them easily searchable and nice to read, too. I used this to grab individual forum posts for things I cared about.

I would happily pay for a subscription because of the amount of legacy data I have in there, but $90/year seems silly, my usage dropped way off once they restricted the number of devices, and at this point there are OSS options that are about as good. I probably should hire someone of fiverr for $90 or less to export/import my data.
I was defending the right of the US to be "the default on the internet" as stated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33640903

"First!" usually trumps quantity.
Does anyone know Coinbase's involvement or reach into FTX?
Worse, 95% of those who graduate with CS degrees are going to work as software engineers, not computer scientists. And I suspect that most CS degrees aren't actually aimed at preparing them for that.