skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually know a few crypto enthusiasts who claim to use DEXes. When pressed further, you realise that it’s to avoid KYC/AML and taxes, not for decentralization principles…
Then have it as selling point.

"Here is a box, we just run a container on it with your stuff, you can configure it in cloud as usual but all the stuff is run locally. Pay us monthly for convenience of setting it from cloud and software updates but don't worry, if we get out of business It Will Still Just Work".
I think they were referring to the issues with boring company, solar, hyperloop, robotic car production, FSD/robotaxis, and the cybertruck.
deploying smart contracts is the same as deploying an application to the cloud with api calls and variable storage

the closest I can think of is Firebase or AWS Lambda (or similar compute instance) with some kind of rudimentary database or shoehorned in variable storage. these all charge by number of executions, bandwidth and storage, even geographic location

smart contract deployments would be cheaper than that, via a one time cost for the developer, and have unlimited use. it is also convenient and valuable that the smart contract cannot be deplatformed

I don't really see Firebase or AWS or other compute instances competing on any of these fronts, but if you know of a counterpoint I would love to check out their pricing and usage page
Native Instruments tried to popularise a four-track format for DJs but it didn’t spread far enough to take hold.
Invest in education.

Create more geniuses, and more clever people in general.
This sounds cool. I was in glee club in Junior High, that would be almost 50 years ago, and haven’t really sang since. On the rare occasions when I have our house to myself, I sometimes partake in Apple Fitness+ dance exercises - I really don’t want anyone seeing that. Now I have the option to sing, in a non-embarrassing setting!

This Music Sing service might also be really good at parties.
I'll get scared when a chat bot can log into JIRA, take a ticket, read the requirements, say "Hmm, there's not enough details in here and a couple things seem ambiguous or contradictory..." Then it schedules a meeting with the biz dev and a QA resource and they all hash out and improve the ticket. Then it goes and implements the code and puts it out for review, addresses any comments, works with QA to clarify how to test it (maybe that's another chat bot) and deploys it.
I'd rather the brain power be used on creating art/empowering artists and intelligently answering prompts as opposed to creating a surveillance state to show ads, thinking of ways to lock down computers so they are no longer general computing devices and just corporate app delivery devices, refactoring a website again to use a different JavaScript framework, figuring out how to insert middleman payments at scale into food delivery, etc.
There were a handful I really enjoyed reading this year, mostly some older stuff. I could never get into fiction, so I'm more of a non-fiction and computer book kind of guy.

* Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler

Published in 2005 I believe, but still _very_ relevant. Good concrete architecture patterns and it's cool to see these patterns before they were no-brainers.

* SQL Performance Explained - Markus Winand

Actually how I first convinced my company to start paying for my books (and there have been 15+ since). We had a query that was running in an absurd amount of time for our largest customer and we couldn't get it down. It was a real blocker for releasing a feature, so I bought this book while visiting family and tore through it on the plane home. Got that query down from over 10 minutes to about 12 seconds. Through a light caching layer in front and we were cooking with gas. Part of that query's long runtime is definitely due to a poor initial implementation, but this book taught me a lot about indexes and how they're not being used constantly like I thought they were.

* Clean Architecture - Robert Martin

Always recommended around here. Finally gave it a read and the central message of dependency inversion is a good one. I took a "software engineering" course in Uni that taught us SOLID principles in a text book way where we didn't actually apply them, but working in the real world has taught me that they're appropriate in many cases, and why that's the case. Uncle Bob does a great job demonstrating that.

* Your Money or Your Life - Vicky Robin and Joe Dominguez

I reread this about once a year so I'm going to count it :) Fantastic book that keeps the concept of money and what is really does for us grounded. Helps me keep my expenses down by not being a nut with money. Working in software is a very fortunate career path for a lot of us, and I want to make sure I can make the most of it.
Ranking: search, session and similar
Not sure why this got downvoted, this is 100% correct. Stable Diffusion is far more open than ChatGPT.
It is deliberate when they had the time, money and expertise to do better but chose not to do better.
Living in the city is great for young people who have no kids - lots of entertainment options a short walk away. It's noisier/busier/dirtier (EVs will help A LOT with noise and pollution).

Living further out is much nicer when you have kids - more space, more freedom for the kids to move around, more trees for them to climb and places to explore.
The practice is called a "closed shop", and it was ended in the UK by Thatcher and Labour gave up on trying to reinstate it because it was unpopular. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/18/labour-aban...
Qatalog launches world’s first AI software builder
This is hilarious and the future I imagined when Google announced Duplex: AI assistant to AI voice chat bot over POTS. Clearly the most efficient and robust API interface ever conceived.
I'm guessing Taiwan received quite a carrot in order to get their approval for the TSMC expansion.
It is mainly helpful for me with writers block.
Same, I was a big fan of character-based roguelikes (and at the time, in the late 2000s, that was the format of most roguelikes), and while I was unfazed at the time by the character-based interface, the inconsistent menus and micronamanagement tired me out of Dwarf Fortress.

It needed various external tools to alleviate the painstaking manual labor that went into managing the colony, like macro generators for floor plans and the memory hacking of Dwarf Therapist to have high-level management of the colony, and all that with wacky menus.
idk about culturally but financially theyve been decimated from their former self. It was a very large conglomerate and they strategically kept certain parts and spun off others so there probably is a resilient business or two in there somewhere but it will mostly likely always be a shadow of its former self.
I won't speak at all on Neuralink, but you don't necessarily need to stimulate that deep into the brain directly. You can piggyback off existing functional connectivity between that deep area and an area closer to the cortical surface. Functional connectivity is when one area sends activation or inhibitory signals to another area when stimulated. This is the mechanism behind using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to treat depression ([0] as just one example) despite TMS's shallow stimulation depth. Using the functional connectivity also provides an avenue of sending inhibitory signals, not just activation signals. With that said, it requires functional imaging (fMRI) to determine the functional connections. Functional connectivity also isn't indefinitely static and it does change over time. .

0: https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ajp.2...
The article you linked actually reports the Samsung version lasted longer than the TSMC chip (the opposite of what you've stated).

Samsung was on a 14nm fab process.

TSMC was on a 16nm fab process.
It's the website for a free French-German tv channel, which has been transmitting over the EM spectrum since 1992.
No arguments. Crypto is a form of payment system, if we want it or not. It is however an unregulated and uninsured currency system that may or may not have actual capital backing it up (depending on the coin). My point is you will see wild swings of interesting things happening precisely because of the unregulated nature of it. This is not 'new' because of crypto. It has happened before, it will happen again. Regulation also does not necessarily means 'it will not happen'. It usually just slows it down enough to catch it before it gets wildly out of hand. Also as a payment system crypto is interesting, as many people seem to be using it as an investment vehicle precisely because of those wild swings.
They are not an archive the web, instead electing to remove websites they find distasteful. Not a reliable source of information thus not worth the donation.
> using terms I don't understand like 'dopaminergic reward system' because I know that bestows a hint of modern legitimacy")

Sure buddy, I don't understand. I'm just a stranger online after all. But what about the literature ?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3402/snp.v3i0.20767

https://fincham.info/papers/2016-j-of-sex-research-delay%20d...

Also, I'm not religious. So everything you assumed seems to be wrong so far. Feel free to give it another go
> If somebody can make a nice living with their business, isn't that good enough?

I think the allure of being a billionaire is it's "one and done". As in, once you achieve it, you can live the craziest life possible filled with lots of grandeur and not need to run any kind of business whatsoever after.

It's mainly a fantasy for people who are tired, overworked, underpaid, under-appreciated (which is like 85% of America I'm guessing).

"Wouldn't it be nice..."
This + the recent news that Apple is planning to diversify production out of China (1) is hard not to read into regarding the US' view of where US/China relations are heading . . . any geopolitical armchair experts have a view?

(1) https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-china-factory-protests-fo...
Retreat! Retreat to the local!
Nah, its just what happens when you have a kid. I was exposed all the time commuting to work on public transit. Once my kid got into preschool I was sick for months at a time.
Looks like there was an edit between August 4th and August 6th 2020 on the inquirer article:

Aug 4th: https://web.archive.org/web/20200804074215/https://www.inqui...

Aug 6th: https://web.archive.org/web/20200806004611/https://www.inqui...

The original version of the article did have the fuller quote:

> Hertz has no mechanism to withdraw a criminal referral because, the company spokesperson said, it has to maintain a relationship of “integrity and responsibility” with law enforcement.

> “In the rare instances this happens, if you report a crime, and you later say it didn’t happen, then law enforcement tends not to believe you if you retract it or say you were mistaken,” the spokesperson said. “Hertz’s continued good relationship with law enforcement is important.”
> and can be enjoyed on iPhone, iPad, and the new Apple TV 4K

But the old Apple TV 4K is not powerful enough for displaying text on a TV, even though any old iPhone is?

I get that they want to push device and service adoption but they should pick a lane, either push users to upgrade devices, or push to sign up to paid services. Pushing for both at the same time is greedy.
> Twitter is also finally taking child exploitation seriously

Why do you believe this?
But have you considered the bottom lines of landlords, real estate companies and tax-entitled cities?

Surely you realise that these people are more deserving of your money than you yourself. The climate is a small price to pay for it of course
How about the price of their stock? If you bought their stock any time after 1997 you've lost money on that trade

link to price chart: https://g.co/kgs/rsz5vj
I didn't see any of those cheques or loans; perhaps "universal" doesn't include me.
Gray goo - "Self-replicating nanobots are going to cover the world in gray goo." This was the prediction about nanotechnology that has so far not come to pass.

However, these generative AI tools are surely on the path to cover our digital world in gray goo.

The direction seems to be that virtually everything digital will collapse to a zero value.
Haven’t you heard? According to my deep crypto friends, ETH is not meant for transactions. It’s the security and trust of ETH as an L1 that matters, and you should be using <random> L2 coin with ZK rollups instead!
Are people still going to be doing that type of work 20-30 years from now?

I'm assuming that by the time I reach retirement, we will only need 5-10% of today's labor force due to advances in automation
re-read the comment you're replying to:
employees didn't create ALL the value. In other words, founders created some as well. :)
I have a company with my own product. I wrote software, rented servers, designed hardware and placed orders to a couple of small factories. I have partner but he mostly handles business matters. No employees. We do hire contractors every once in a while for particular sporadic jobs (like design pics for website, create campaign page, assemble hardware from parts etc. etc). So yes no employees thanks to technological advancements.
US ended up only buying 21 of the B2.
An article from August 2021: Water shortages loom over future semiconductor fabs in Arizona https://www.theverge.com/22628925/water-semiconductor-shorta...

> Chipmakers are setting up shop in Arizona as drought worsens

> Major semiconductor manufacturers looking to expand in Arizona will likely be spared from water cuts induced by an unprecedented water shortage in the Southwest, at least for now. As part of the scramble to end a shortage of another kind — the global dearth in semiconductor chips — both Intel and TSMC plan to open new facilities in Arizona. But they’re setting up shop just as one of the worst droughts in decades grows worse across the Western US.

> ...

> While Intel recycles much of its water, more fabs will mean it will need to send even more water through its systems. The company says that Arizona has been “vital” to Intel’s operations for more than four decades. The state is already home to its first “mega-factory network” and its newest semiconductor fab. Intel used more than 5.2 billion gallons of water in Arizona in 2020 — roughly 20 percent of which was reclaimed water, according to its most recent corporate responsibility report.

> ...

> TSMC said in an email to The Verge that for now it doesn’t expect the water shortage to have “any impact” on its plan to build a new fab in Arizona, although it says it will “continue to monitor the water supply situation closely.”
And when that happens I'll be in my garage working on EMP devices.
Haier bought GE appliances a while back. They are just using the name under license.
> Is Vitalik like the one sane guy in crypto that doesn't actually try to be a bro

> I don't follow crypto almost at all

Well, that would explain it :).

There are tons of brilliant people working in the space. It is the most exciting frontier in tech with the greatest potential to positively impact humanity, imo.
My favourite is Darjeeling, because it's light taste, but don't drink it while I'm coding. I would love to see a newsletter about it.
> I hope humans don't give up original thinking.

There was an interesting article recently where the author identifies that the outputs of these ML models are essentially reassembled averages of reams of real data from the internet.

As the outputs of ML inundate the internet, the models will eventually be fed their own output as input.

I can't imagine a great outcome from that situation.
I assume this comes along with “Mastered for iTunes” / “Apple Digital Masters” ah least in part. I think if it’s only available for limited tracks, we’ll know they went the full separate-the-vocal-track route. If it’s everything, then I bet they augmented with ML.
Thanks, this cracked me up! It reads to me like something out of a David Foster Wallace story.
For remedial points, claim it's on a raspberry pi. Slowness due to React but you're re-writing it in Rust.
> What's with that obsession about "billionaires"? If somebody can make a nice living with their business, isn't that good enough? Personally I think we are perfectly fine without billionaires.

https://news.ycombinator.com/

-> https://www.ycombinator.com/

->

> Y Combinator created a new model for funding early stage startups.

> Twice a year we invest $500,000 per company in a large number of startups.

> We work intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

-> https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/public

Sometimes I guess we just forget where we are :-)
From Systems in Motion, Infinite Patterns Appear
Maybe, and it’s flattering to think that. But I have to make my decisions based on the data I have.
Torturing 1500 creatures to death just so someone can walk again?
this is less a problem with ai, and more a problem with persisting an economic model that had it's last major redesign in the 1700s.
Great stuff. We need more serious and sophisticated mobile apps. During the initial Brainstorming for handheld devices, the inventors had stuff like this in mind. It's a tool for authoring, not just consumption.
He's not implying that employees don't create value.

Startups share equity with employees. The earlier you are there, the more you get, in part because of the inherent risk.

This is why founders get the most equity and the most upside if it succeeds. They took on the most risk and it wouldn't otherwise exist.

If the company ends up being valued at 100B dollars, guess what, the founder and maybe some early employees are billionaires or hundred millionaires.
That line stood out, powerful enough for 3D games but not for Karaoke…
I still (and probably always will) design fortresses with anti-"bug" features to prevent "unexpected fun". Grills on water inputs, preventing diagonals, all those things.
I actually felt bad about the perceived "troll" level of my comment after posting it.

One thing I did notice is that it does indeed have a specific voice (as mentioned in a sibling comment), I've seen similar style output when playing about with it yesterday, without asking for a "Hacker News comment style". I don't even think this output even qualifies as "Hacker News" style tbh.

I have also noticed that the images that come out of MJ/SD/Dall-E etc. seems to have a kind of style of its own on certain outputs.

How that is useful, I'm not sure though, and how long it will be be discernible from real human output is likely to be measured on a fairly small timescale.
Not true.

In this context there is no meat. No one sells these animals as meat, it's illegal.

These animals are being sacrificed to test new medical devices, drugs and procedures. We use anesthesia gas and drugs on people when we use these devices, so we need to use it for the animal tests also. Every single animal case I've been a part of utilized human quality anesthesia, including having a real anesthesiologist present doing it. This comment is way off, shows a deep lack of understanding of the process.
It's interesting to see semi fab factories becoming a hot thing here in the states with an entire campus being rolled out in Ohio along with expansions and further growth in the southwest. Can only mean good things for workers as more options become available.
IQ / "intelligence" is such a BS metric to go by. It's effectively the test makers deciding who would get a free ride through life. Which, incidentally would probably make those "geniuses" less intelligent overall.

I'd rather work with a random person who grew up on a farm or the streets than someone who had the best tutors and went to Harvard. People who have to work hard, who grow up hard, are hardened against the world. They learn to survive.

Most of our best entrepreneurs and builders grow up building and being independent. To be independent you have to learn to survive on your own, i.e. not with UBI. I'd rather have a higher level competition, not selecting based on IQ.

In way of an example, a friend of mine who worked blue collar his whole life (running large repairs & logistics operations) ended up moving up the command. Eventually, he ended up in a consulting capacity as part of an R&D team for a massive logistics company. His first day on the job he saved an average of 2 lives a year and around $5m.

He was given the job of improving a warehouse with a bunch of newly hired kids from Yale, Harvard, etc. The kids spent weeks going over all the different locations, trying to optimize layout, etc.

Eventually, my friend just talked to people on the floor. At one point, he noticed a fork lift operator who was having an issue picking up a pallet off a truck. He asked what the issue was and the fork life operator said they didn't know exactly where the height of the pallet is. The ivy league consultants started planning out using cameras to select the correct height(s), looked at the budget associated with hiring developers, tried to identify the costs to retrofit all the fork lifts, etc.

While that went on, my friend got two magnet strips, put some bright tape on the back, measured and put the magnet at the exact height the truck bed and as the pallets were a default height he knew where to put the next strip. Every new truck that came in would just move both strips based on the new truck height. He was done that afternoon and it was a $5 retrofit.

On average, 2-3 workers died a year at all their warehouses due to pallets being knocked down, losses were an estimated $5m.

The point of the story is that "genius" doesn't work better than practical problem solving. Problem solving comes from learning to survive and be independent.
It is not a very impressive list of future technologies for the year 2022, unfortunately. I don't mean this as shade: I just mean that most of these are older ideas that have either been deployed or attempted (with limited success.)

Clearly money and DeFi are already real and well-established things, whether they're "going great" is in the eye of the beholder. DAOs have been around for a while, and the main examples Vitalik lists are basically DeFi apps that call themselves DAOs. General-purpose DAOs that have real-world influence remain questionable things, mostly because they have too many human and legal dependencies. On-chain identity might be exciting. NFTs might eventually prove to have exciting real applications beyond apes. Blockchain voting remains an old idea that doesn't have much real benefit outside of DeFi project governance.
The dangers in no particular order:

- soil itself is toxic, rich with perchlorates

- temperature

- distance from earth

- dust storms

- abrasive dust, nano dust

- radiation

- water, or the lack of it

The article is an excerpt of the book

The Red Planet:
A Natural History of Mars
(2022)
Simon Morden
Pegasus Books.
If there's one thing we've learned from Elon's acquisition of Twitter, it's that his default response to "you'll get sued" is a confident belief he can beat the rap.
It sounds very similar to how Russian privatization was done. Perhaps vitalik took inspiration from the oligarchs back home
Do you think we're making monkey burgers?
Genuine question but how is space travel self-evidently useful?
GE appliances is not owned by GE anymore (since 2016), it is now a subsidiary of Haier, a Chinese company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Appliances