skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brown noise sounds like wind through a forest of leafy treetops. I've heard similar in the summer at a state park near where I live. Yes, it has always been very calming and comforting and such. Possibly my favorite sound.

Is this the famous "Wind in the Willows"?
There's nothing fantastical about it. The UK had similar growth rates to the US in the 1980s, it had equal wealth at the start of the 20th century before the wars. Brits and Americans aren't so different. Arguing for being more like the US is therefore the opposite of fantasy economics - the existence proof is right there, sitting across the Atlantic, being very much real and not a fantasy.

This type of shallow, unintellectual dismissal of any thinking outside the EU box is exactly why Remain lost in the end. Describing everyone who pointed out the problems as fantasists, racists etc made the pro-EU side look unclever, unthinking. The "fantasy economics" line was tried over and over, it didn't work because enough people saw through it. The claims of an instant recession were tested and found to be false. Who cares what economists think about Brexit or the EU nowadays? The UK is out and people can see the claims of immediate/total economic devastation weren't true, so there's now potentially a reason to argue for more growth/wealth oriented ways of doing things. Before there wasn't because the EU would stop it anyway, so back then a model more like the US or parts of Asia really was fantasy economics.
Which is why we have laws, FDIC insurance, etc.

Crypto seems like it's all of the bad stuff, unrealized potential good maybe if you think a certain way but generally not useful.
Hmm, I still don’t see any industrial espionage - governments spying on other countries’ businesses in order to give secret IP to their own industrial leaders. This is distinct from gathering intel on business to inform national security decisions.

Your comment seems like a general distrust of the US intel collection based on a mist of evidence and conspiracy theory.
The usual reason for doing this is to convince auditors or lawyers that the system is in compliance with GDPR or similar legislation, not to resist the attention of three letter agencies. If you can say you’re using industry standard / government approved crypto it should be fine.
Same, except aged 28. I completely randomly happened to stumble upon a detailed description of inattentive ADHD, and had the thought, "Hmm, I wonder how doctors are able to differentiate between someone who has these symptoms and has ADHD, and someone like me who has these symptoms but doesn't have ADHD."

Then it hit me like a brick wall. Now I understand the phrase "it was like time stopped." Blinders came off and I felt like I re-evaluated every life experience I'd had in about 30 seconds. Two doctors appointments later I was hearing "Oh yes, you certainly have intense ADHD, the question is just how intense."

ADHD affects so many things as you mention. For me, getting treated has nearly entirely eliminated all forms of anxiety. For instance, I was a socially anxious mess in any sort of group setting; now I intentionally seek out conversations and enjoy telling stories. Some days I hardly recognize the old me. Strange feeling.

But yes, diagnosis + treatment highly recommended. Untreated ADHD increases your risk factors for so many things -- for instance, substance issues (NIH estimates fully 50% of people with substance issues have ADHD whether they know it or not).
I'm exactly the same.
How do you know that universe is not a giant computing device?

Or you know everything there is about infinity, other universes, how and where where "the playground" is placed (what's beyond its borders), what's the origin/meaning of life and so on?

Everything is meaningless and therefore we can do what we like? Even if it has no meaning to you, are you sure (deep down) it has no meaning for the lives you're taking (with your food choices)?
Thank Christ Valve is a private company.
Right on. I can't much stand Marvel anymore, nor many of Disney's recent releases.

But the shorts took me by surprise. They were so deep, content packed, and beautiful. I sat and watched them all with my daughter, by accident really - both of us completely silent just watching, one after the other. A couple made us choke up, at different points. Probably the most beautiful television I've ever seen.

I'd probably pay megabucks to watch such a collection of shorts on the big screen, and that's from someone who hasn't been to the theatre in a decade.
"""Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools."""

Not to sound overly mean but it might have been a good idea to start with testing this idea first/earlier. Additionally, it seems to me like they didn't do a great job at identifying their customer. It's probably not individual devs but rather the people they work for. So you're in a B2B business and need to sell it that way.

The meaner response would be that it seems like developers do not pay for YOUR tools. Seems like there are plenty of paying customers for copilot for example.
That's certainly a valid point on the trade-off curve to choose. But you could make a similarly reductionist argument about free speech, guns, home chemistry sets, etc. I think the position that "money is too important to be open" is a potentially reasonable one!

But what I don't think is particularly defensible is the position that the gatekeepers of our monetary system should be the corporations who happen to occupy the current choke points. And I think if you wanted to build a democratically controlled financial system that doesn't have corporate gatekeepers, you'd actually want to start with something very much like a decentralized open blockchain. That is, if you want to build a democratically controlled permissioned system, you need to start with an open fabric, and place the gatekeepers and choke points with intention.

Personally I prefer an open fabric, but I do understand the appeal of walled gardens.
Yes, Terra had quite insane ponzinomics. But that is a poor argument against what stablecoins could be.

Why are you arguing against letting anyone with an internet connection save US dollars? Should only US citizens be allowed to save US dollars? Why should we prevent humans from having that option?
> Cylde is notably the only male assistant.

Siri defaults to male in some countries and languages.
No the reed does not vibrate. It's there to restrict the airflow and to provide a similar embouchure to a real sax. Some more details here: https://github.com/jcard0na/haxo-hw/blob/main/docs/assembly....
I doubt that's burned into hardware so it just should have the option to update the fingerprint of the word
P2P is not an exact term.

It is widely used to refer to direct communication between two nodes, via LAN, VPN, Bluetooth, etc., i.e. without any mesh routing involved.

From the looks of it Briar is that way + it can also route via Tor.
If you’re aiming for “as far as we know, not a single Greek suggested” things like that the earth revolves around the sun” or “everything is made of atoms” do not qualify, and even “that atoms can be split” wouldn’t (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism proposes “that the physical universe is composed of fundamental indivisible components known as atoms”, but the Greeks did not make the mistake of calling what we call atoms atoms)

Chemistry is rather new, though. I don’t think any Greek remotely knew that water is H₂O, and also guess the majority of teenagers would know.

The existence of more than 5 planets also is a likely candidate. The Greeks didn’t know that, and knowledge of that in the English-speaking world under teenagers is helped by the fact that one of them is called Uranus.
They actually made this joke on She-Hulk ... K.E.V.I.N. (totally not GLaDOS) is an AI that leads the MCU storylines.
Yeah, BLE has hardly any consumption, my Amazfit Bip can easily last 30-40 days always connected with lots of notifications.
>what is the point of this?

1. It doesn't say everything is a cult. It says 'You're In A Cult'

It's kind of a Voight-Kampff induction

You can read it as if it was written for you and perceive how it makes you feel.

2. It's an introduction. Figure out how to implement the red and green button in your life, and you can do the rest.
I admit, I did not read that in detail. Can someone explain how the "proof of liabilities" is proving that it contains all liabilites of an exchange? for example the electricity bill that is coming to be paid next week or the off-book loan of x billion cryptocoin from your fellow exchange that you need to pay back also next week?

Awfully lot of trust you seem to need in this fancy world of trustless money of the future.
> The AI hype is finally over.

At least partially over. It's one of those things though; when you first see what's possible with neural networks it does get your hopes up. When you later realize the limitations, it's hard to walk back your old claims. Even Elon Musk has to realize that FSD is never going to happen by now. Google with all their learning and training data, still can't correctly find and smudge license plates or faces correctly on Google maps. If that much processing power cannot correctly identify two classes of objects, what chance do these cars have to classify tons more objects + adapt how they steer based on that information in real time?
> his agent convinced him he could just promote products he actually used and liked.

And of course, there's nothing stopping casinos from offering a two-tier system, like how Scientology used to do in Hollywood: the few stars they needed for promotion got to play luxury dianetics, whereas everyone else got milked dry.
Fiat assets was addressed in the post.

Stablecoins can be used to avoid price volatility, and work within the framework Vitalik is suggesting.
Interesting, will check it out
Where I live in West Europe, we do use simulators?

Now I'm not sure of this is a UK or a West Europe only thing.
Varying Pitch Screw Robot
> R49081 means this was a ~49081 digit number, or a number that could be represented in maybe 163043-ish bits or ~20kB or so?

A single (very large) number, that I could not represent on any computer I owned until Christmas morning 1983.

Mad.
I've been listening to "ADHD relief music" on YouTube that has rhythmic pulsating beat patterns that I find very calming.
You could distribute specialized knowledge among different people, so it's not as restrictive as a single brain. And to be fair, our most valuable knowledge today is probably encoded in few people's brain as well in the form of institutional knowledge. But I get your sentiment, writing down is an immense construction that expands the topology of knowledge by a huge factor.
Laws only work if you are in a first world country though. And you have to be not poor.
> Expand to other markets. They know everything about human perception. They can leverage that to make more games or VR applications. They can build better education platforms or even create new cities. They could even try to convince Apple, Amazon and Google to open up the declining personal assistant market

An extremely well-oiled movie-making machine is not a good games-making machine, VR or not.

And while there may be some cross-over with game-making, there is certainly no cross-over with voice assistants, where did you even think of that? Home assistants don't actually assist you in the home, they are mostly a device you buy to serve you ads (and occasionally switch the music when your hands are dirty).

> However, stable diffusion threatens their position. Who needs Disney's capacities if other algorithms can do it better? Disney will have to enter the AI race and spend all their money on developers and researchers.

You really don't understand the AAA movie business if you think Stable Diffusion is anywhere near threatening Disney.

They just explained that they've gotten so good at making blockbusters, they don't have enough clients for how many blockbusters they can make. Even if Stable Diffusion was any good at making AAA movies (they're a few decades away from that), someone trying to use it to compete with Disney would quickly find they have no power whatsoever to actually market their movies - that is where Disney truly shines.

And it's not about movie posters and reviews, marketing in the business is greatly tied to creating stars. People arent just coming to see Iron Man, they're coming to see Robert Downey Jr, or Chriss Pratt etc. AI-generated movies have no hope to compete with the marketing power of a big-name celebrity.
"go-go gadget bedroom lamp off" doesn't sound that great
The names continued to make sense for the alloyed transistors (most of the germanium transistors were alloyed) and for some of the earlier diffused silicon power transistors, the so-called single-diffused transistors, of which the most well known was the RCA 2N3055, which was used by many ancient audio amplifiers.

In those alloyed or single-diffused transistors, the fabrication also started with a semiconductor crystal that was the base of the transistor, in which emitter and collector electrodes were created, but by alloying or by diffusion, instead of point contacts.

Only when the double diffused transistors, especially in their planar version invented at Fairchild, became the dominant kind of bipolar transistors (after 1960), the name "base" for the control terminal became no longer appropriate.

While "gate" was inherited by the FETs from the vacuum tubes and gas tubes, the names "source" and "drain" mean exactly the same thing as "emitter" and "collector", so there was no reason for introducing these 2 alternative terms.
And let us not forget The International Secret Intelligence Service in Archer.
Most kinds of gambling are praying on the weak and vulnerable. I'm normally not for regulating vices, but I also don't see how you can allow it.
Sure, if double-spending has been solved for you, you don't need a blockchain. It hasn't been solved for everyone yet though. A great book to learn about this is: Check Your Financial Privilege (https://www.amazon.com/Check-Your-Financial-Privilege-Gladst...)
It's easy to be dismissive of everything crypto-related after the FTX crash, but we should remember that the problem of fraudulent business practices isn't specific to crypto at all.

It's yet to be seen whether proof-of-holdings is practicable for crypto assets, let alone for real world assets. But it is an interesting use case for zero knowledge protocols that could tackle some very real problems. Yes, we have auditors in the real world, and I'm not thinking of replacing them, but it could improve audits. As one example, not too long ago there was a crash of a German payments provider of a scale not much smaller than FTX (Wirecard) that was audited by one of the major firms (EY), who missed a fake $2bn bank deposit claim.
> I think the speed and low-fees required in (some types of) financial trading just can't happen fully on chain. So that's another reason for centralization in exchanges

You could have an exchange whose users have 2nd-layer channels open to it for all the currencies they trade.
Trading can then happen near-instantly with 0 fees.
While still centralized, it doesn't need to take custody of any user's funds.
There's a website that exist to answer this specific question:

https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/microsoft-of...

Of these alternatives, I'm using Onlyoffice for some years now, specifically their Personal tier, which is free of charge. I think it works well, and it's also clear that they are constantly working on it.
I don’t think many projects are at much risk of that. Most professional code I’ve seen is a barely functional mess. There is such a thing as “too tidy”. But I can count the number of times I’ve seen it in my career on one hand.
I’m was on the fence with DH with my kids but your comments have changed my mind!
> Tracking shipments across countries. This is an append-only operation, across multiple jurisdictions/languages/infrastructures. A blockchain ledger can play the role of standardizing operations for the tracking of shipments.

People seem to forget that you still have to trust the people and/or hardware doing data entry while tracking shipments. If you can't solve that first, there's no need to have a blockchain as a storage medium.
The site has some hard dependency of AMP, takes a long time to load when ampproject.org is blocked and then renders broken.

It looks very cool regardless, thanks for mentioning it.
This is a fallacy that there can be a "win" or any guaranteed outcome by doing such things.

1) The so-called "dangerous ones", can be those that will play games, because they may have designated a target or are abnormally obsessed due to bad psychological issues.

Normal people, even more so for those of higher status, are likely not to have the patience to put up with detected nonsense or silliness.

2) Some are experts at online dating and playing along with such games, while others are not.

The filter that is created, are those that will say or type what the other wants to hear. So instead of a genuine interaction, it's lots of con games.

3) Stringing people along does not nor has ever proven to lead to successful long term relationships.

One of the major flaws in such thinking, is that by initially frustrating others, it will make them "prove" themselves. Some even taking it to extremes, to weeks and months.

However, this abusive behavior can become a filter, which leads to encountering those that will simply want to "climb the mountain" for revenge. After obtaining the relationship, its all the more sweet for them to break that person's heart (who initiated the game playing) by suddenly going ghost or bad treatment after having "accomplished the mission".

Overall, better to treat people as you wish to be treated and to be genuine in the interaction. Playing games, often leads to encountering those that like playing games too or possibly worse.
I know people who have gone gambling with Gretzky, and Gretzky actually gambles a lot. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if his biggest living expense is gambling.

Even the rich lose to gambling. See Michael Jordan, for example.
> but given that this is clearly about Twitter, you absolutely can't "survive" in any meaningful way

survival doesn't have to be meaningful, the meaning is to survive.

Survival is about not dying, Twitter don't need 7,500 employees to survive.

> forget mitigating large-scale security vulnerabilities(i.e. log4j),

that was simply a matter of upgrading a dependency.

and honestly a remote exploit for that has never been spotted in the wild.
CEO of a bank can't do that too. The board can though. And of course customers can reject that decision and switch bank. But in reality that won't happen both in the bank case and in the tokenbro case. We have already saw how Vitalik stole lawful tokens from the receiver of The DAO program (code is law after all), and everyone has supported him. Exactly the same as banks can do, only without outlandish claims.
JetBrains is a czech company. And always was, as in "founded in Prague". Stop spreading FUD.
See the other responses for more, but would be curious how that discretion is completely lost when you want to proove something?

Geberally surprised about the false beliefs around anonimity on block chains, as soon as you have the right anchors they are the most tracable.

Or do you mean you sit at the doctor on your vacation, pull out an app to access your CT scan and hand it him over somehow or what is the use case here really? Seems so unrealistic on manu levels and much more easily realized with more solid tech, sorry?!

> Encrypted records can be easily added by any doctor/clinic as your public key is publicly available.

Yes, crypto101, which works fine without any blockchain?
I’m not talking about optimisation.
As they say here "No you've got, Yes you can get."
how many of twitter's new features marked an increase in revenue or market-share?
it seems like twitter's main innovation in recent years has been inventing increasingly byzantine procedures to cull users from their platform, including their most revenue generative power-user: donald trump.
I believe, and I couldn't quickly find it in the docs, that Mesa provides certain OpenGL versions if you have implement certain OpenGLES version. For for example if you have OpenGLES3 you get OpenGL 3 for free via Mesa (These version numbers are made up, I don't actually know which OGL version can be implemented in terms of OGLES)
The question is how many people pay the $99 now and how many pay the $10 then. If you can't convert 10x the people you have paying now, you will be losing money.
Firstly, JetBrains is not a Russian company.

Secondly, not everything and everyone from Russia is bad. But if you subscribe to that narrative, good for you and good luck finding a tool that comes close to JetBrains.
The technical incompetence of implementation doesn't mean that the root reason for it was wrong
> If something isn't in my calendar it might as well not be happening. Doesn't matter what it is.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Similarly, drawers and cabinets remove things from existence. Only a wall of open shelving will do. Is this ADHD, or something else ?
Coz someone tried to be cute instead of smart
Maybe it's overblown, I don't know if consultants are really the fix though.

What kind of consultant jumps into a completely new codebase of a massive distributed system with hundreds of millions of users that has broken down to the point of being unusable and manages to fix anything, and how long does that take?

Sometimes it takes months for regular new employees to do anything productive in some of these codebases.
These failures are in traditional finance, there was nothing related to blockchains or cryptography in the FTX internal operations or accounting books, nor in DCG/Grayscale, nor in BlockFi or Celsius. These are the failings of traditional finance in an unregulated or poorly regulated sector. Traditional finance as is conducted is insanely brittle and prone to manipulation/fraud. To avoid this, it needs to be strongly regulated and supervised.

As the same error seems to be being made in HN again and again, here is an analogy that hopefully will make the point clear. Traditional finance is like a dynamically typed programming language. You can certainly be productive with it, but it's much easier to slip through programming errors. To compensate you need to build a large set of unit tests to re-do much of what a strongly typed language gives you out of the box. A blockchain is the strongly typed version of traditional finance. Harder to use, to a large extent much of the ecosystem is nascent and still being built but it prevents large swaths of fraud and manipulation because it provides the checks built-in. The DeFi ecosystem is coming unscathed from all this fallout; Uniswap, Aave, Curve, MakerDAO, RocketPool, GMX, dYdX...
Once you add insulation to that 8 foot width (because, you know, you aren't in Kenya) it is unlivable. Of course you could combine two containers in width with welding, but at that point it's easier to just build a structure from scratch.
I say. I understand that they are supposedly cutting edge tech, but at the same time, we're hosting intelligence on an another country's soil. Especially now, there are quite a lot of alternatives that we could use, and improve, locally:

https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to
> Can you fire 80% of doctors and a hospital will survive? Probably

the hospital, the building, would survive even with no doctors, but the patients wouldn't.

It's not the same thing for software.

Software is not really alive in the first place and doesn't need anything more than electricity to keep running.
Yes, I’m aware. I’m just putting it in the context of the rest of the project.
I don’t think every teenager knows that. It wouldn’t even surprise me if Posidonious’ estimate of about half the real distance were better than what you would get by averaging the responses from a representative sample of teenagers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posidonius#Astronomy_and_Meteo...)