skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really though, look at the reverse repos. The fed is literally playing both sides of the board. Raising interest rates to squeeze private equity and housing but injecting trillions to keep commodity and equity prices inflated. There is a very real and growing recession / equity crash, the fed has been inflating the market with reverse repos since early 21 to keep the markets somewhat stable. (2 Trillion, extremely unprecedented, look at the max table on St Louis Fed) That has resulted in inflation because the actual economic growth is not occuring. The only way to keep the GDP from showing a drop is for prices to go up outside of the inflation index. Part of the reason for the official calculation formula change recently. The trajectory here is anything but predictable.
ianaa but I think the key concept is "easily convertible to real money".

So Starbucks stars, United miles, etc don't count.
also i wonder if dollars in a bank account are 'any digital representation of value which is recorded on … any similar technology'
It’s a 630 square foot surface with a 56 degree temperature at the moment according to FLIR. It creates a cascading cool breeze that just neutralizes the forced air furnace. When the furnace stops I can feel the waves of cool air sliding off the external walls.
To thicken the plot something more to consider …

I’m a bit of a history/ literary nerd and something about the Oresteia that everyone leaves out … it doesn’t say anything in any of the plays telling you that Agamemnon human sacrificed he and Clytemnestra’s daughter on the way to his little war in the first place. (yeah, they forget to mention this important detail.)

In all the woman hating that comes in the two thousand years after this whole “betrayal” never once in the whole affair do they outwardly tell you “by the way, Agamemnon human sacrificed their beloved daughter because he went on a hunting trip instead of campaigning against Troy like he set out …”

So take this while “betrayal” narrative with a grain of salty wtf

- fan of history and literature

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphigenia
The truth about 'medbeds' – a miracle cure that doesn't exist
You can indeed plead the 5th to a grand jury, if your testimony might conceivably be used to prosecute you.

Similarly for a government form: the government can't slide you a piece of paper and compel you to bear witness against yourself outside of a courtroom. But that isn't remotely close to what's happening here, because none of the information the IRS asks taxpayers for can be used to prosecute them (because it isn't illegal to own digital assets).

Edit: s/ask/compel/
It can still generate an on the fly poem about quantum physics that actually rhymes, which is impressive enough to me.

This was a lengthy poem that went into the finer details of quantum physics, and it all read as decent poetry.

It might not be "Shakespere" exactly, but it knew in general what I was looking for.

It's also impressive to me that this isn't information that is scraped off some website, like Google. It's actually generating this stuff in real-time and it may have never been seen before, anywhere, ever. That is far beyond anything I've ever encountered.
Don't worry, it's just Chaos Muskey pulling server racks off-line. Normality will be restored shortly.
The irs provides a non-exhaustive definition of digital asset which I think seems to provide the needed narrowing of definition.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
> Like Bitcoin, down 75% since it was hyped by Peter Thiel

> At least with the 90s tech boom average people could invest early, like Cisco, Microsoft, and AOL.

??? If you'd invest in Bitcoin early, then what would have happened?
You see how it says "See instructions"? So let's go see what the instructions say: https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040gi#en_US_2022_publink1...

> Digital assets are any digital representations of value that are recorded on a cryptographically secured distributed ledger or any similar technology. For example, digital assets include non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and virtual currencies, such as cryptocurrencies and stablecoins.

Obviously, V-Bucks are not a "representation of value" and are not "recorded on a cryptographically secured distributed ledger or any similar technology".
Well, I mean a human English professor could mimic Shakespeare to a greater or lesser degree and this doesn’t in any sense other than it rhymes and sometimes deals with same/similar subject matter. A lot of ink has been spilled about this signaling the coming AGI or the end of knowledge work but there has been precious little critical discussion about the horizon of this type of technology. The technology is clear very powerful and advanced but I don’t think there is a problem with those asking for breathless claims to be substantiated.
San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch (1994)
If you can resell it, and I know that’s an option in some games (or was), what’s the practical difference?
You're not wrong, but I really don't think the blame for this particular term of art can be hoisted on the IRS. As far as government definitions go, this one isn't too bad for what they have to work with[1].

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040gi#en_US_2022_publink1...
Thanks for the calculation! Our biggest motivation for doing pure solar power is to reduce environmental waste from batteries wearing out. (The super capacitors last a million charge cycles)

It makes sense to me that a single person can do farming by hand with about the same power available as our robot. There’s no heavy tillage in regenerative organic so the power requirements are much lower.

Also the nice thing about the solar power is that the robot is just always ready to go. No charging, no battery swapping. No need to source electricity from anywhere. All you need is a modest amount of sunlight and you’re good to go. Honestly when we started the project I wanted to do batteries, and Daniel insisted we do solar and supercaps. After building it and using it I’ve fallen in love with the system. It’s so nice! The trick is to co-develop a farming system and the robot to get the farming done within this power envelope. We believe it’s likely possible. We can always slap a battery on it if needed. And I do enough software development at night I do have a battery for testing. But I’d prefer that be used for special cases rather than every day use.
Losses on META bigger YoY than BTC and ETH
Apple apps on macOS Big Sur bypassed VPN as a workaround for unfixed bugs (2021)
More like 2014, I must have been there right before it closed
Capital losses directly offset capital gains, but if you have excess losses, you can deduct a relatively small amount of them from general income: a few thousand dollars. And if you have more than that limit you can carry them over to later tax years.
Clever device efficiently splits hydrogen and lithium out of seawater
yes

airdrops have evolved based on the tax regime, but you did claim this one so I would make that a yes
Along with the panel of 1984 and Brave New World, I recommend Tube of Plenty.
Yay! Now ST:TNG can do Sherlock Holmes episodes again!
You owe the IRS taxes for everything, including profits from crime.
Of course I read Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, et all -- basic high school reading, hasn't everyone? I actually won first place in that stupid prize they set out, and all I had to do was pretend Rand wasn't a total dunce (which happily turned out to be excellent training for the business world).

Both novels, like the majority of Rand's work, are absolutely cracking as wish-fulfillment fantasies for folks without social skills who dream of having kinky, angular sex while demanding that they be made BusinessPapa for perfecting some mechanical process.

Ignoring, of course, that perfection in a vacuum means very little; it is the ability to use said process in the context of society that makes it 1) useful and 2) profitable (although I suppose Rand would order those different :)

Who is John Galt? The kid who took his ball and went home when the other children didn't let him make all the rules.

In short, I do not find Objectivism to be a useful rubric when it comes to morality. Frankly, Objectivism is incoherent except when read as a wish-fullfilment fantasy as described above, as the life of the originator handily demonstrates. Success does not come from minimizing the contributions of everyone else -- that way lies loneliness, hypocrisy, and a reliance on the teat of the State.

As I deeply value my freedom and lack of debt, I could never adhere to such a unprofitable and vacuous quote unquote philosophy.

With regard to "moral compass" being a leftist invention -- such an accusation betrays precisely the sort of total willful ignorance I have come to expect from self-proclaimed Objectivists (akin to RATM being Atlas Shrugged devotee Paul Ryan -- aka the literal machine --'s favorite band). Suffice it to say that the phrase "moral compass" appears long before the current political paradigm -- and the concept to which it refers is literally older than written language itself.

Have you read any books OTHER than Atlas Shrugged? If not, I would be happy to provide a few suggestions to get you started!

And while I'm dispensing unsolicited-but-potentially-life-changing advice: If I were you, I'd hesitate to out myself in public forums as being unfamiliar with an inner sense of morality. Most people prefer a social circle that views their friendship as something greater than a business arrangement built on symbiotic profit.

I would ALSO hesitate before living my life in the accordance with the principles of an parasitic welfare queen like Ayn Rand, but that's an entire conversation in and of itself.
That argument doesn't make much sense. You don't control your bank balance, which are just IOUs, either. It's just an entry in some centralized company's database.
A bit of an unkind and patronising response
a. Linear algebra: vector and matrix math

b. OpenGL resources here https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ma/ECS175/syllabus.html

c. There are 2 main ways to "make an app" to draw to the screen: webassembly canvas [0] and DirectX/OpenGL native with a library like SDL.

0. https://github.com/aminya/webassembly-canvas

1. https://www.libsdl.org
Digital assets purchased in video games typically have a value of $0 as nearly all major video games implement a one-way “currency to item” pipeline and strictly prohibit “item to currency” in return (specifically, for example: Hearthstone, Diablo, Eve Online, FarmVille, and so on).

One could argue that exchanging in-game currency for game time is a taxable benefit of, say, $15/mo to the player; which then falls below the US 1099 reporting threshold of $600/year due to its irrelevance for taxation purposes.

If you can construct a case that an item purchased in a game can then be sold for value, and that you can then receive benefits of $600 USD or more within a single calendar year in return for your purchased item, then you have identified a possible taxation loophole that should be corrected; please do share!

(I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice.)
I am skeptical about reverse engineering a prompt. The prompt should be tested on multiple samples and even then, we can't be sure it is a real prompt
perfect response to what at first sounds like a good idea.
Is the fediverse not social media? Or is it just that right now there's less humblebragging, raging, ragging and attacking?

Maybe it won't emerge. Here, dang and others remind us to play nice. Who does that tooting their own horn?
Companies can solve that pretty easily by raising wages... at the price of their business model. Grocery stores run on something like 1% margins, so if they raise wages, they either raise prices or go out of business. It's not just "accept less profit" for many businesses.

(For some businesses, yes, they could accept less profit. Those tend to be the ones that raise wages when they can't get enough workers, because they have the incentive to do so.)
This meme is unsubstantiated gatekeeping.

Everything we do as humans is a form of copying. Our languages, our thoughts, our jobs, our hobbies. We stand on the shoulders of all that came before us.

The ability to imagine or evaluate art is easy. The ability to create it takes time. AI removes the tyranny of opportunity cost in learning this talent at the expense of others. Just as your washing machine removed the manual labor of washing your clothes, freeing you up to do more.

Digital cameras did not make photographers go extinct. And they created so much more previously unpredicted societal wealth that impacted us in ways we couldn't have imaged, such as the creation of online dating (selfies), QR code scanners, interactive translation lenses, 3D scanners (NeRFs), and so much more.

AI/ML will probably turn all of us into our own Spielbergs / Scorseses / Miyazakis, and it probably doesn't stop there.
It has seen very similar concepts and it has seen a very large amount of information about poetry and quantum physics. The issue is if it was thinking then it would realize it is just generic rhyming and not like Shakespeare, that is my point.
Fair point, but in most games you cannot sell out stuff you acquire back to real money.
That feels right, I guess I just check yes, and as long as I never sell it, it's not really an issue.
Research site will bounce radio signal off asteroid in NASA experiment
Elon code for 'don't beat me to the exit'.
>It is a biological reality and is built through any experience

Those two things don't comport with one another. You seem confused.

Working memory is indeed a biological reality. You don't "build" working memory. Each Individual has their own fixed capacity for short-term working memory rooted in biology. According to "The Neuroscience of Intelligence", on the weight of evidence higher intelligence comes down to larger brain volume combined with shorter pathways within and between brain networks. It's not hard to imagine the effect those two things have on working memory.

What I was saying is that this innate capacity for working memory is the basis for a positive feedback loop where the cognitively rich get cognitively richer. One's working memory isn't changed by learning things, rather the more things one has learned, the less work one has to do to learn additional / related things.
yes, always were

income is income

capital gains is capital gains

dividends are dividends

the asset type that any of this was received in was never a factor, the nature of the transaction was the only factor

its nice that the crypto space is maturing on this matter now
Can you add a waypoint halfway along your intended route, to avoid the ferry suggestion? Not that you should have to…
It is a nice idea. But I don't believe Facebook actually follows through on letting you mute or unfollow people. Their posts will slowly creep back into the main timeline that you see.
I would like google map add the cost of turns to the length of route. It always turns a lot(sometimes even zigzag) and think it would be sooner to arrive at the target.

But that isn't really the case in city area.

I would like a option that avoid turns if possible unless it is really too far.
Get the passport, go to the places and see for yourself how much you enjoy them.
I was laid off in February 2020 and it took me almost a year.

I didn't feel like I needed to keep that I was laid off a secret; but I disagree about doing the 8-hour take-homes. They indicate unreasonable bosses and I always walked away. When I was more naive and did those kinds of things, I would often get no callback, not even a "thanks but no thanks."
> Obviously, V-Bucks are not a "representation of value" and are not "recorded on a cryptographically secured distributed ledger or any similar technology".

Neither of those things are at all obvious. They are very much a "representation of value", and for all I know Epic might record them in a cryptographically secured distributed ledger (indeed that seems like a pretty good idea for resilience).
Interact with OpenAI Using Voice
This quote from Ursula Le Guin struck me as funny

>Sex is even more boring as a spectator sport than all the other spectator sports

I think the massive popularity of porn on the Internet would argue against this assertion.
Why not? A database is similar technology. The similarity is a matter of degree.

I would say that dollars recorded electronically are also a digital asset. The vast majority of the population should answer YES rather than risking perjury.
If you purchased crypto via Robinhood but not used a self-custody wallet, it is questionable as to whether you own a digital asset. You actually own some sort of financial instrument issued by Robinhood and no control over any underlying asset.
28 words would be about 200 characters, though, and I don't think simply existing somewhere in plaintext is enough -- what if I said it is the first 28,000 words of the Latin Bible -- would you still consider that a weak password because it exists in plain text somewhere?
cryptocurrencies are considered property not securities. The IRS has been very clear on this for nearly 10 years.

I think you are conflating capital gains with securities, but there are in fact many asset classes besides securities.
Just send out 1099s already!
You pay taxes for your interest payments from the bank on your bank account.

In this case it looks like crypto is being taxed as a security, which makes sense. Just because it's ON THE INTERNET doesn't mean the government doesn't get its cut.
the weird part for me is why I keep falling into that trap again and again. I like the work, I like the employer and I do good work and so I think that there is some kind of safety in that. I guess maybe it's a natural human impulse to think that you're somehow settling into a tribe. But the reality is that you're not in a tribe, you don't have safety and the business has a very calculated view of your value: You already got paid for your time, years mean nothing. There is no sense of "past achievements" (which could be construed as loyalty). There is only: Can you keep working right now for price X, yes or no? If no you go.
I keep forgetting that everytime I settle into a job. Perhaps because I do too much compared to others, that somebody must surely see my massive value. But eh, your extra 20-50% is nothing in the grand scheme of a company, they won't mind paying 1.5 people to replace you. They just take it and say "thx buddy". I'm always far happier in the beginning of a job than at the end, I am starting to think that it's because I don't have any delusions that I have safety or loyalty from the people around me.
The counterargument used to be “AI art is transformative, and learning is okay” but now it’s just “human art is copying too” ?
polymer currency FTW, too. Is that Edelweiss on the 50?

(just curious: how is the war affecting you all?)
A non-exhaustive list does nothing to narrow a definition.

A bank account representing dollars in the account is by definition storing your digital assets. Did you receive dollars in an electronic account?
why acyclic? review steps can send stuff back to previous input steps, can't they?
Here's my curated list of CG resources for self-study:

https://legends2k.github.io/note/cg_resources/

After learning Vulkan, OpenGL or the next shiny API: it doesn't matter. Computer graphics and 3D math concepts don't change across APIs. The concepts you learn and make GPU do things is the same. Just the language or dialect differs. I started with OpenGL, but I now program in D3D, WebGL, etc. Learn the basics, avoid the religious wars.

In fact when learning something not as complex as Vulkan will help, since lots of noise (boilerplate) to hide the signal (cg concepts).

Cheers!
Here is the last paragraph of the introduction:

> Any book of Why We Sleep’s length is bound to contain some factual errors. Therefore, to avoid potential concerns about cherry-picking the few inaccuracies scattered throughout, in this essay, I’m going to highlight the five most egregious scientific and factual errors Walker makes in Chapter 1 of the book. This chapter contains 10 pages and constitutes less than 4% of the book by the total word count.
And I agree those are not assets as they have no practical value.
I think the op may be asking the more general question of why it is defined like this. What makes a "digital representations of value that are recorded on a cryptographically secured distributed ledger" so fundamentally different from an MMO currency that it becomes taxable? The fact that it's distributed? Why should that matter? What even is the definition of distributed? And isn't an encrypted database cryptographically secured?
Don't you have to pay taxes on any options you exercise, which comes out of your (now lower) base pay?
I don't think a casual gamer would know if that is or isn't the case. I guess the same could be said about casual Robinhood users though; the onus is on the person to know what they're getting into.
It works, you can unfollow everyone and groups. I also use a news feed eradicator on my desktop for chrome.
> Obviously, V-Bucks are not a "representation of value"

Second point, sure, but this one? I would disagree vehemently that its obvious.

I've always thoughts "points" from credit cards, gift cards in shops, or virtual currencies in a game world that you can exchange directly for fiat/crypto, represent value. Its just that value is now no longer liquid and locked into some services ecosystem to make it psychologically easier for people to spend money.

In my mind, (normative statement incoming) V-bucks and similar digital practices should not be legal. They should be required to have a tradable interface, and it should be possible to put them on a marketplace.
I disagree, citing obvious sources for information should be a reminder that you can often actually find whatever information you’re looking for if you just to search for it.
As long as you can transfer it to someone, you can sell it. Like on localbitcoins site, people met up to make the trade.
I bought a $200 control theory textbook from Amazon. The cover was correct. The inside was a veterinary medicine textbook by a different publisher.
More limited contact could have potentially alleviated some of the overall population loss from disease. If they only got 2 european diseases instead of a dozen, had it sweep through them, then had another 50 years before contact again, it may have made a big difference. It could have been possible to have multiple contact events over a 200 year periods to allow disease resistance to form without losing what may have been 90% of their population in one relatively large swoop.
The problem with Ethereum is that transaction fees are just too high. And if you say L2 like Polygon, then I think it's fair to counter: rather than having multiple layers, it's better to have just one layer, which is fast enough.

That was the value prop of Solana. I'm not sure they're delivering (the real problem) but, stated that way, as an attempt at a solution, it makes perfect sense.
But if we are looking at a thinking AGI that is “superior” to human abilities we should see Tolkien or Martin. If the argument is “just wait” then there needs to be sone explanation of why a Tolkien is really possible with this type of AI.
Spent some time reading through "The Neuroscience of Intelligence" last night as I got curious about this again.

On the weight of evidence it appears to be related to larger brain volume combined with shorter pathways within and between brain networks. Which makes total sense when you think about it.
>Received digital assets as a result of a reward or award;
>Sold a digital asset;

It seems to me that the "Steam Achievement" cards that you can sell/give away that you get for playing a game follows this line of thinking.

My steam wallet now has $0.23 of value from the sale of these "digital assets".
It's interesting you're only complaining about the images. If I ask ChatGPT a question and it answers, would you call that stolen text?