skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where does the money supply come from? How much money is allowed to be saved in bank accounts?

What happens if we build a ton of wealth, through labor, but the amount of money in circulation and saved in bank accounts doesn't increase to account for all that extra economic activity? It would cause a dollar to be worth more and more, shifting the value of a dollar.

Similarly, what happens if the government makes purchases by printing more dollars? It has the potential to make a dollar worth less, if the purchasing gets out in front of the productive capacity.

When the US government issues debt to spend money, it's doing the equivalent of printing more dollars, just a special type of dollars. When the debt is due, the government can always print more dollars. Always. There's no fixed amount of dollars, there are only the number of dollars that the US government decides that there are in circulation.

So US treasuries act just like more money supply; they are traded for dollars, saved in accounts like dollars, pass between holders just like dollars. The only thing about this debt is that by changing interest rates, the the government changes the value of currently held treasuries. When somebody has a $10k in treasury notes that yield 2%, and the fed increase interest rates to 3%, it decreases the $10k in treasuries to a smaller value. So this sort of debit instead of dollars isn't completely useless, it's gives a bit of control of the money supply in a weird way.

And since the US dollar is the international reserve currency, the preferred way to save money, these treasury notes end up not only being the methods of savings in the US, they are the methods of savings for the entire world. This gives the US enormous power the word over, gives US business enormous power, and is a massive advantage for the US.

But in addition to giving the US power across the world, by being the reserve currency, we also need to be sure that there are enough dollars out there for people to hold onto in order to represent their savings. And in reality, that means there needs to be enough treasury notes, "debt", for the everyone to hold onto and trade. Because one thing that kills a currency is not enough of it to go around, which makes it too illiquid. Which means that the US needs to do enough spending to make sure that there's enough t-notes out there.

In essence, our "debt" is actually skimming off the productivity of the rest of the world. We take their stuff, they get our dollars that we issued out of thin air, and all members of the US economy benefit.

It's incredibly important to realize that the US is not a household, not a business, the US is the currency issuer. We should not be concerned about the level of "debt" other than we are 1) concerned about the total money supply of dollars, 2) want to prevent inflation from too much spending.
It depends on your use case. I used this to take a picture of my backyard before and after landscaping. Kind of a toy use case.. but I’ve heard of more serious examples in agriculture and construction.
did you compare options when choosing backblaze? the only other one i see recommended online is carbonite
He your man -

https://khalilstemmler.com/articles/software-design-architec...
In that case one could rely on an allow list rather than a block list.
I always interpreted "solid state" to mean "neither clanky nor sloshy"
A comparison gocryptfs would be appreciated, since this software, at first glance, has no differentiating features from it.

https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/
I didn't say it only extends to Apple. They differentiated themselves on privacy. That's a difficult position to hold because you can't ever make a misstep. Apple did, and they can never recover.
If everyone is gunning for L6 after 8 years or L6 -> director in 8 more years, then the culture will be much worse. Assuming the long-tenured senior SWE is actually a solid engineer but doesn't want to play politics or manage up as required for L6+, this was a person who made G a very pleasant place to work. I know many L5 like this: smart, helpful, and made excellent colleagues.

That being said, I doubt it was mostly targeting people who were tenured too long without enough promos. My guess is these are people without the full backing of their upper mgmnt chain. Since even directors had no input into this layoff round, you needed your VP's support.

Added: maybe the person above is right since the grad changes are already moving G's culture into a more aggressive mode. G will slowly become like the other big tech companies (G will just pay slightly less since people will still have the outdated perception that the culture is better).
Statistically they were americans. Foreign terrorists are historically negligible compared to domestic.
The problem is that Apple considered it at all. They could have easily not listened and then we'd be stuck with no alternative. We know these things happen in secret, the fact they even suggested it publicly means that internally at least part of their leadership thinks it is ok.
I asked some Chinese college students about this about 10 years ago. "What is Taiwan?" "Province of China." "But don't you need a visa to visit?" "It's a special province."
Neat. Simplistic.

Better, wait until energy generation is universal, interchangeable, and decarbonized. Then all physical energies become equal in price and value, but driven high because demand is soaring and oils and natural gasses are simply not on the table, and reserved exclusively for plastics and physically constructed petrochemical objects rather than energy generation.

Yes. Energy prices are going to skyrocket, but not for the reasons stated.
I am usually on the side of “Don’t roll your own crypto” being gatekeeping (at least more than the average engineer), but this kind of project with no notes on threat model, experimental status, authors and reviewers is a real problem.

From a quick read of the README, which is not a rigorous description of the design (what does “computed from the cryptological digest” mean?), it seems this offers no authentication, fails completely if an attacker can observe the same file at two points in time, and there is no analysis of how big a tree can get before the chance of at least one directory having two files with the same nonce becoming significant.

However, it’s presented without caveats, and there’s no way for non-practitioners to assess whether it’s fit for their purposes.

Users might be led to think this is usable in the same scenarios as, say, gocryptfs, when if fact it’s completely insecure for real world use cases like encrypting a home directory to sync it on Dropbox.
Hoo boy, the first Gateway book really stuck with me. It really hit me when the protagonist explained their suffering. Even if it's decades later for you, how can you get over something or forgive yourself for it if, for them, it's still happening. “She's thinking I betrayed her, and she's thinking it now!"
> "You" was formerly plural, with "thou" as singular, but "thou" has since fallen into disuse.

Sadly. Overloading "you" and "they" feels rather clunky. I wish it got rid of "he" and "she" instead - gendering pronouns is completely useless, and that's coming from someone whose native tongue genders much more than just pronouns...
I think there is a huge amount of areas that are less visible to technologists that are underserved. I sometimes think about either partnering or purchasing a small business and just automating the shit out of it. You either become dominant die to the advantage or you start selling the software to competitors. This was mostly spawned by observing a friend's struggles with his property management company while we were on vacation together. Everything they fucked up or for which he had to make phone calls to them could have been triviality automated.

I bet there are lots of sectors out there that could be totally disrupted or made more efficient if they got attention from high-caliber developers and UX folks.
Here are some links you might find helpful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32094603

https://www.opendronemap.org/
As someone who loves VR it's disheartening to know there have been large portions of the WMR team laid off.
The price (likely many many, many thousands of dollars) would turn off nearly everyone. In addition they could package the electronics into a chassis which makes the device entirely impractical as an everyday carry phone.
cause we fat - got all the good stuff
Is this what passes for "technical know-how" nowadays?

Just read Hongjiu Lu's classic paper ELF: From The Programmer's Perspective to get an idea of how everything comes together in C/C++ land.
NYT Worries Big Brother Is Not Watching You
Yeah, thanks, I forgot to add Wikipedia to the list. It is a great resource but there are many forces trying to change it to suit their needs.

And even scientific papers often contradict each other, they are also good quality but far from delivering truth. At least in some fields, papers are just throwing random ideas to the wall seeing what sticks. We don't even have proper theories to guide this process.
Food security. Japanese aren't starving, and Japanese farmers are a protected species. Sure, they'd have shortages if trade slowed but compared to many other economies, farming is understood to be strategically necessary.

Mass production with fine tolerance at scale. Tesla has a q problem, Japan invented six sigma. (not really: motorola did but Japan "gets it") Tokyu hands is stuffed to the gills with tchotke made to micron tolerance.

Submarines. No, really. They're good. Military export is hard, competitive business.

Pocky. And multicolour flavoured kitkats. They do kitkat better than the British original.

Shinkansen: they are a national railway NOT built in China. And I'm willing to bet the supply chain behind them is indigenous too. Same for almost everything above: if there's a domestic feedstock or part, they're using it.
The few people that do the same thing now writing code from client specs or who explain and cut up client specs to their team of programmers. Not many people are good at that, and that won’t be AI for a while yet.
Doesn't work for LA-Chicago--throws error.

Same for Vancouver-LA.
Peltiers move though.
Because they want to make sure that only the good guys get them. They don't want these to get into the hands of the NSO Group, as a nameable example.
I wouldn't infer that the person is a low performer. However, I do think it's fairly likely they were either unknown at the VP level or not viewed as worth fighting to keep by VPs.

Large layoffs are typically discussed and orchestrated only at the highest levels of management, so if you're an IC if you want to be protected you need to be on the radar of your boss's boss's boss's boss (or something like that). And I think you're right that someone who sat at L5/L6 for 15+ years wouldn't be a stand out at that level by any stretch.
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism/tsc

>[...] the vast majority of people who have disputed travel and appeal to the Department of Homeland Security’s Traveler Redress Inquiry Program are not on the terrorist watchlist. Most people on the terrorist watchlist are still able to fly within the U.S. A very small subset of people on this list are on the “No Fly” list.

[...]

>The No Fly List is a small subset of the U.S. government Terrorist Screening Database (also known as the terrorist watchlist) that contains the identity information of known or suspected terrorists. This database is maintained by the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center.

So, shouldn't this list be public information anyway? It's not even suspicious people they're watching, by the sound of it the no fly list is only for people they have concrete evidence of terrorist activity for. Imo the public has a right to know those identities.
Why would you need a HoloLens for that instead of something much cheaper and easier to wear like a Vuzix M400?
Yes, it is a loophole, but just in one law, not in the constitution. Congress delegated to the Treasury the right to mint coins of any denomination, even if the intent was different.

I must admit that the separation of powers issue had not quite occurred to me, since the entire scheme is self-defeating and would scare holders of the US debt anyway. People would be (and are right now!) worrying a lot more about a credit rating downgrade or a default than a separation of powers concern.
I'm not sure what goes into the decisions package maintainers make in terms of which packages to include in the OS repository, but, in my experience with python applications, most dependencies we needed could be found in the OS repository or some other supported package repositories (for RPM, repositories like epel or rpmfusion). The few we weren't able to find weren't that difficult to package and add to our internal package repository.

But this also brings up the issue of vetting dependencies. If you're pulling in a dependency that pulls in 10s of other dependencies (direct and indirect), it gets difficult to vet them. PyPi and npm have already had issues with malicious packages being uploaded. On the other hand, I haven't really found the large number of dependencies being an issue for python packages available in the OS package repositories, and I'm not aware of any incidents with those repositories unlike PyPi and npm.
> instead go straight for the presidential palace in Taipei

Will that work if the politicians work from home?

On the recent Brazilian uprising, when the election losers stormed the capital they found out that it is a holiday and there’s no some special object in the government buildings which makes you the new leader once you physically obtain it.

All they ended up doing was vandalism.
But how naive... all social networks have it.
this makes logging much more difficult to search through
To answer the question of how does one legitimately get their hands on one: https://security.apple.com/research-device/
Does anyone know if there is something like Google Cloud for GPUs but with an easy way to suspend the VM or container when not in use? Maybe I am just looking for container hosting with GPUs.

I am just trying to avoid some of the basic VM admin stuff like creating, starting, stopping for SaaS if someone already has a way to do. Maybe this is something like what Elastic Beanstalk does.
His company failed, selling for a bit over the amount of cash they burned. So he didn't handle huge obstacles. And at YC, it's the startups that have obstacles that need to be surmounted, not YC itself. YC has perpetuated the cult of the startup (and the cult of "you need YC for your startup to be successful") so well that they can take equity in a number of the world's tech startups very, very cheaply at the nascent, "fruit fly" stage, ensuring that YC has enough lottery tickets that some will pay off. It's the "startup factory" play, all the founders triumphs and tragedies are just so much grist for the mill.

YC is like a doctor which takes a 10% cut of the lifetime earnings of every baby they deliver. Adding some value, yes, and some kids won't earn very much, but the wealth earned by the new human would have almost certainly been earned regardless of the doctor's skill. And this doctor happens to deliver half the babies of the entire state of California.

The cult part was thanks to PaulG. As long as that continues, YC will be successful.

OpenAI was the result of a fear that big tech. was going to monopolize all the fruits from recent deep learning advances, because they had all the data and the money. That was the obvious new hotness to get into. Proprietary AI was an existential risk to VC livelihoods.
I believe you're misrepresenting what I said.

I got no horse in the race and I don't care if Python is "going away". It likely will not since it has a huge inertia and devoted fans.

Furthermore, you citing the current state of affairs is not convincing. You're basically saying "the sun is shining now at noon, surely it will keep shining during midnight". Or "right now it's raining so surely it'll keep raining 24/7 for the next year".

Also who predicts stuff for 2030 with 90% confidence? I'd like to have that person's self-esteem because nobody can predict as far into the future.

I've been part of a number of communities and Python's seems dysfunctional and anarchic.

Maybe that's a good thing and breeds creative forces -- the proponents certainly make that case, I heard, and I'm not opposed to the idea, just a tad skeptical. Time will tell, right?

In the meantime, Python is still missing some stability guarantees and a good package manager. As a programmer that's a turnoff, so I work with other languages. Make of that what you will but I'll restate that I got no horse in the race. I'm using my experience to judge if something seems a good fit to work with, and maybe -- does it have a future.
I mean, it's not N=1 though. Fails day 2 as well, and a bunch of other tasks I've tried to give it. It's weird how some of you are responding that I've cherry picked a single example, I've done a ton of stuff with chatGPT, you can check my comments on prior experimentation with stuff like mathematics and basic problem solving too. Probably spent like 20 hours with it, total?

It genuinely fails 100% of the time at coding anything non-trivial for me, and about half the time for simple stuff. Glad you've been having success though, maybe some people are just better at getting it to work, or it has certain domains it excels in, or your tasks are fairly simple.
As someone that loved the 1995-2005 internet, and used to believe that mastodon was the future, how do I go about getting into it again?

It seems I was pessimistic that mastodon could compete with big tech, and counterintuitively, it took one of "my" guys, Elon, to blaspheme the left into counterintuitively making mastodon a viable reality again.

I think the potential is to have a twitter/reddit hybrid where tangentially connected communities are a thing again, and expertise is agreggated in the proper spaces to provide expert level insights and advice on narrow and specific topics.

But I'm not sure how to go about, say, joining a like minded community of apolitical bbq enthusiests, or stereo enthusiests, or technology enthusiests.
See it as augmentation and not a threat. People who went ‘into programming’ and learned the basics and then stood still will have issues, but chatgpt still needs senior or talented developers to do anything useful for now (like juniors, you need to tell it things step by step). But then it’s a great tool, saving a lot of time and money. Just wished it was not owned by a few rich peeps and that training costs will drop fast.
I've played with several of these Stable Diffusion frameworks and followed many tutorials and imaginAIry fit my workflow the best. I actually wrote Bryce a thank you email in December after I made an advent calendar for my wife. Super excited to see continued development here to make this approachable to people who are familiar with Python, but don't want to deal with a lot of the overhead of building and configuring SD pipelines.
Idea from physics: simple bulk theory (depth) is equivalent to complicated surface theory.
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I thought health insurance puts a cap on how much you can get charged. Could you add a little how that can happen?
They already are, and a union could actually prevent it.

A union could say something like "if you want any union workers, you can't have more than X% of open jobs be to non-union workers (or non-US workers)". This is pretty standard fare, and I doubt most (US) companies would forgo US software engineers entirely.

Look at yelp, their official hiring policy is almost "anywhere but the bay". (its technically more nuanced, and closer to "distributed across major global metros", but basically the implication is lower cost workers outside of SF.
1) Volatility is relative. USD Stablecoins are not volatile compared to the US dollar. It's the same. In other countries, the fiat currency is much more volatile than ETH or BTC. Like I mentioned above, 5+ years ago there was a push for retailers to adopt this stuff, but at the point stablecoins were not around, or unusable due to slow transactions or high fees. That's no longer the case.

2) True, I think the negative image and bad UX of retail crypto is a big reason of why retailers have not adopted it. I'm not sure this will continue forever though.

3) I would add that taxes are another reason retailers are vary of adopting crypto. Depending on the country, dealing with crypto taxes is a pain, and not worth the effort.

The magical solution? It's time, competition, and the free market. If crypto is truly cheaper and easier to deal with, startups will push it onto retailers to replace credit card incumbents. But these things don't happen overnight.
> The test would fail because it doesn't compile, so you make it compile.

But in this situation the test will fail regardless of what you wrote in the test code. So the supposed usefulness of the test failure showing that you are actually testing what you mean to be testing is inexistent and the exercise of making it fail before making it pass is pointless.
I feel pretty secure in my job until ChatGPT can write itself. Once it can improve on itself, then I'll be really worried.
How can I try this?

Can this be run on a Digitalocean VM?

I looked around on DO's products, but none seems to advertise that it has a GPU. So maybe it is not possible?
Yes and no. Its helpful to see the word "startup" as meaning two distinct things.

The "current" use of the word implies VC capital. As in "I joined a startup and we raised..."

However in the past it referred to literally "starting a business". Someone sees a gap in the market, builds a product, and looks to fill that gap one customer at a time. Since there is no incoming capital, it has to be revenue positive, well enough for the owners to survive.

This sort of business is (somewhat perjorativly) called a "life style" business. In that it provides salaries to some number of people, and provides a (good?) living.

The reasons for starting such a business are numerous, and while maybe some do with the goal of being mega-rich, in reality the successful ones end up being merely "rich".

But there are a _lot_ of upsides other than money. I'll offer a few from personal experience, but really they offer any goal you like.

A) freedom to work on what you want, when you want, where you want, how you want. Yes, of course you are constrained by actually delivering (or you don't get paid) but the mechanics of delivering are up to you.

B) job security. It takes time to get to this point, but once a business is profitable the owner has a job for life. (he is literally the last person to get laid off) [1]

C) a lack of corporate bullshit. No endless layers of managers. No endless meetings. If you need a new PC you go buy a new PC. (equally true, if you report directly to the owner, decisions get made quickly. If you need a new PC you only have to convince one person.)

D) while on the topic, being employed by a small business has huge benefits as well, but to need to move the income needle for the job security.

I could go on but I think you get the point.

[1] ironically when getting person credit, like a mortgage, ticking "self employed" leads me to a lower credit score, despite the fact that 40-odd people get laid off before I do :)

[2] about 5% of new (bootstrapped) businesses make it to 10 years old. I'm not suggesting this route is easy, but it is desirable.
Where is “over here”?
No it wasnt. With the new design i have to constantly tweak it in inspector to be readable.
Of course it is... Well, my friends have moved on, not worth the hassle. Thanks for the tip!
That post spent 7 hours on the front page so this is definitely a dupe.