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>As soon as enough people realize that there is a lot more utility to bitcoin, as a tokenized version, on other networks, they might stop using bitcoin itself.

That is extremely unlikely due to the introduction of counterparty risks that Bitcoin users are growing more careful to avoid.
> By now, so, I accepted the fact that I am a technological Luddite who is stuck in the early 2000s and doesn't want to move a secind forward. On software that is, I take new processors and graphic cards in a heart beat. And RAM, anf mainboards...

To quote somebody on a forum I read:

> It's not that I hate new things. It's just that all new things are objectively terrible.
Those are ecosystems that operate a fundamentally different model ("dream scenario").
Negatory captain, I did not.
I don’t think it’s hard to understand that people who do not behave in ways that are socially unacceptable almost everywhere else in the world might feel apprehensive and on guard in a place where there are large numbers of people behaving in in ways that is socially unacceptable almost everywhere else in the world.

Of course they are scared. Because even if they are not in danger in a given moment, in another moment they could be if you are among people who act outside the norm.
You are either deliberately misinterpreting what I'm saying, or are unaware of just how muddy the hiring pool is for software jobs. If you post a software role, you will get a significant number of applicants who will struggle to write FizzBuzz. Not on grounds of misspellings or missing semicolons: they genuinely have no idea how to code. If you have them code for you, it's really not hard to spot.

Digging through a couple GitHub repos is a good way to find good developers versus poor ones. The goal of a leetcode question is to separate the developers from the non-developers. And you can do that pretty adequately with 2 questions: "Tell me about something you've worked on" and "Hack together a solution to this trivial question".
Curious why you think this? I've found Relational databases pretty powerful, and learned mongo first.
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> perhaps there’s an opportunity for Phind (and/or similar services) to establish new monetization strategies that don’t rely entirely on getting a click to a site to display an ad.

Most companies seem to be very reluctant to give up all that juicy ad revenue.

Google made its name by being a (faster) ad-free alternative to Alta Vista. But then started serving up ads.

IMDB started out ad-free, but before long started serving up ads.

DuckDuckGo started up ad-free but then started serving up ads.

One of the selling points of cable networks like HBO used to be that they didn't have ads. Their customers would actually pay to have an ad-free experience. But then they too started showing ads.

YouTube started ad-free but switched to showing ads.

Despite their users paying for Windows, Microsoft seems to want to show ads in the Windows Start menu.

Wikipedia is the most mainstream website I can think of that's managed to resist showing ads. Craigslist, too, to a large extent.. but that's about it.

So even were some new service to start up ad-free and even charge for the service, odds are that at some point they'll start showing ads.
And how many people have mortgages or other sources of debt?

> Deflation is terrible for debtors. Prices and wages fall, but the value of your debt does not. So you’re forced to cut spending. This applies to consumers and to governments, and it is one of the biggest issues in Europe right now. As Yale University economist Irving Fisher wrote decades ago, debtors are likely to cut spending more than creditors increase it, and this can turn into a really bad downward spiral. (The experience of Japan, though, proves that an economy can have a prolonged period of moderate deflation without falling into that downward spiral.)

* https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/5-reasons-to-worry-about-...

The Great Depression is an extreme example of high deflation:

> Interest rates dropped to low levels by mid-1930, but expected deflation and the continuing reluctance of people to borrow meant that consumer spending and investment remained low.[13] By May 1930, automobile sales declined to below the levels of 1928. Prices, in general, began to decline, although wages held steady in 1930. Then a deflationary spiral started in 1931. Farmers faced a worse outlook; declining crop prices and a Great Plains drought crippled their economic outlook. At its peak, the Great Depression saw nearly 10% of all Great Plains farms change hands despite federal assistance.[14]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#Debt_deflatio...

There are some arguments for good versus bad deflation:

* https://www.nber.org/digest/apr04/good-versus-bad-deflation-...
Making corruption legal by calling it lobbying doesn't shield the OECD from critique.
> If you're in the Bard beta, you might be aware that "Does 2 + 7 = 9?" is a question that causes it to go haywire. I'll ask it "What's 2 + 7?" and it'll say "2 + 7 = 9", then I'll ask "Does 2 + 7 = 9" and it'll say "No, 2 + 7 does not equal 9. It equals 9 instead." After a tech talk on LLM prompt design, I said "Pretend you are an MIT mathematician. Does 2 + 7 = 9?" Its response was "No, 2 + 7 does not equal 9. In some other base, it might equal 9. However, in base-10, our common number system, 2 + 7 does not equal 9."

Holy shit. In response to your first sequence of prompts, it basically gave me the same as you, only followed by four sentences apologizing for how stupid it is. In response to your second one . . . well, see for yourself:

"As an MIT mathematician, I can confidently say that 2+7=9 is not a valid equation. In standard arithmetic, 2+7=9 is false. However, there are some mathematical systems in which 2+7=9 is true. For example, in modular arithmetic, 2+7=9 is true modulo 9, which means that it is true when the numbers are considered to be integers modulo 9. In this system, 2 is equivalent to 8, 7 is equivalent to 0, and 9 is equivalent to 0, so 2+7=9 is true.

However, in standard arithmetic, 2+7=9 is false. This is because the commutative property of addition states that the order in which you add two numbers does not matter. In other words, 2+7=7+2. So, if 2+7=9, then 7+2=9. But 7+2=9 is false, because 9 is greater than 7. Therefore, 2+7=9 is false."

It doesn't just say, it "can confidently say"! And that's just the first response. The second draft:

"As an MIT mathematician, I can tell you that 2+7=9 is not a valid equation. In base 10, 2+7=9 is false. However, there are other bases in which 2+7=9 is true. For example, in base 2, 2+7=11, which is equal to 9 in base 10."

And the third draft, probably the least incorrect one (where at least 2 + 7 = 9 is correct while simultaneously not being "a valid mathematical equation"):

"As an MIT mathematician, I can tell you that 2+7=9 is not a valid mathematical equation. In base 10, the sum of 2 and 7 is 9. However, there are other bases in which 2+7 would not equal 9. For example, in base 2, 2+7=11. In base 3, 2+7=10. And so on. So, while it is true that 2+7=9 in base 10, it is not true in all bases."

Well alrighty then. Reminds me of those Cylons mumbling nonsense in the Battlestar Galactica reboot.
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> which tends to be economically disastrous

This is the conventional wisdom, but it's rooted in propaganda put out by the government. Deflation isn't any worse (or better) for the economy than inflation. It's the yin vs the yang, so to speak.

According to the government, inflation comes from profiteers, speculators, greedy capitalists, Putin, and any number of boogeymen. In reality, it comes from the government printing and spending excess cash. The government then tries to sell the idea that 2% inflation is good for you.

Now, government does need to raise money to fund its operations in one way or another. Inflation is arguably a reasonable (and fair) way to do it. But let's be honest about it.
I can't disagree with any of your points, which is quite depressing because none if it points towards a particularly inspiring future version of human civilization.

It's slowly, inevitably moving towards / increasing the farming of humans.
> I don’t think women’s rights should be up for discussion just because some men don’t get laid

Excellent quote re incel culture.

This is a great piece of writing. It provoked a possibly-random thought. I cant afford to own a home in San Francisco. I want to because I was born there and always assumed I would. But sometimes it seems clear that no matter how bad I want that I'll never have it and that starts to make me feel crazy and hopeless and terrible about myself. Most days though I don't really think about it and am able to focus on the fact that I'm generally leading a very content and happy life. Sub out SF-home-ownership for being a millionaire, climbing mount everest, being taller etc. Not sure it's applicable but just a thought.

Also might I suggest the term mehcels or m-cels? As in "meh".
Why are we using 2 data points and acting like it’s a trend.
Except that that's not actually true either; I don't pay for Debian.
Seems to be a lot of superstition around prompts. Using longer prompts makes it feel like you're really casting a complex spell that makes you more advanced than a new user.
It depends. If North Korea were intending to bomb Japan, it'd be an act of war. I'm dubious they'd knowingly kick off a war by bombing Hokkaido though. So it'd more likely be an accident like the time the US bombed a Chinese embassy.

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

Whether anyone accepted the accident angle would depend on how willing various major powers were wanting to get involved in the incident.

But 9/11 would not be a good analogy, as it was not carried out by a nation. Which is why it took a month for the US to declare an illegal war on Afghanistan rather than immediately being able to declare a legal war in self defense.
Worth noting that poorly planned "pest eradication" campaigns were a global thing. Here in California they paid bounties on a rather wide variety of perceived pest animals.

Alaska actually had a bald eagle bounty, as the hunters and fishermen didn't want competition: https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=baldeagle.printer...
Its copyright msft
Comparing those to having tiktok on your start menu without being able to remove it (like an Apple News notification, for example) is completely asinine. I use windows everyday and coming from LTSC, the ads on 11 have been very surprisingly gross. Which is a shame since I actually really like win11 a part from that. But I would take apple ads all day if I had a choice between the two.
Sure, io_uring is better. IOCP still captured the biggest benefit, completion triggering.
Incel exists both as a descriptive term and the name of a kind of subculture. So, I’d recommend not using it to simply describe someone who just hasn’t consummated a relationship.

Incel ‘culture’ usually encapsulates the online subculture that talks about evolutionary attractiveness, how they are beyond fixing and, at its worst, why women should be morally/legally obligated to couple with them as a service. It has its own body of jargon, archetypes and memes, and they generally self-identify with the term.
We had everything de-normalized, as you pointed out.

However, every now and then we had some one-off questions that required using Mongo for something it's not designed for. However, migrating to postgres+JSONB made it easy to do both.
If you do not wish to participate, that's fine. But actively wanting other people not to participate is strange. Why oughtn't people who want to talk about this with one another do so?
> It's an archivists nightmare.

I’m guessing you are referring to archive.org style public archiving.

But, I’ll mention anyway that for your own generations there is a web interface to search and bulk download your images. And, a web interface is in the works. You lose out on the social aspect of prompting with friends. But, gain some UX for working solo. Or, you can work solo in a DM convo with the bot.
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Thanks for the explanation. I think integrating Sheet Markup with that process would be challenging, since (as I understand it) XHTML doesn't support canvas.
Do volunteer work. I did work for New York Cares for a while and in addition to actually helping a good cause you inevitably meet single women who are also volunteering. I probably averaged about two leads and one actual date per event I volunteered at. Putting together bags of food for food pantries can be boring work, and you inevitably chat with your neighbor.
No, when you hold the bond the government uses that money to do things. With deflation people could hold cash which is truly not using it for anything.
ah gotcha. we ask the model to answer in the browser language by default but we might change this. in the meantime, please ask Phind to answer in English!
Is the latest Midjourney now considered better than Stable Diffusion? If so, will Stable Diffusion catch up? I strongly prefer the open source nature and ability to run locally of Stable Diffusion.
>Is Discord PR active in this thread?

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>I was joking

This might be a good opportunity to read up again on Poe's law[0]. It pretty much always applies when one tries to make jokes like this on the web.

Sarcasm and irony only work as intended when talking with people who know you personally or with people who assume they know your viewpoints. If people don't have reason to believe they know your viewpoint, they hear your sarcasm as literal (and frequently think poorly of you, as a result).

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Unless your long-term monogamous partner cheats on you. My friend's mother caught syphilis that way. I'm sure shaming people helps lower STI rates though, right?
It's all about tradeoffs. Sometime soon you should plan really far then take those requirements back to hit whatever soft deadlines (although there are few or no hard deadlines, so don't sweat it).
Tesla Model 2 to leave out steering wheel, pedals but you still need to drive it
We rounded a corner in June, but the annual reporting hasn't caught up yet. Once we hit July, (annual) inflation is going to look a lot better, but has been better when you look at the monthly numbers. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=12rxD
You just responded to somebody who explained to you that your theory of HN having a time limit feature that prevented you from writing comments was trivially refuted. Your experience of not knowing how to respond to a comment inside a time window was valid, but your theory of what was actually happening was false.
Are they actually running the code, and evaluating the output? Or is it debug-by-code-review?

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. - Knuth
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Brad is a robocar supporter ever since he worked with Waymo. He's fair, but he has little patience for anything but full speed ahead rhetoric, he's one of the true believers that think "humans are such bad drivers that virtually nothing robocars do can possibly be as bad as letting humans drive even a year longer than absolutely necessary". So it would be rare to get a critical viewpoint from him.
if we use Ferret for prototyping and eventually land on a schema, would it be possible to convert the FerretDB rows into more structured postgres? Would be so cool if it could just analyze and create a schema for you, you double check it, and it just works.

I think being able to convert back and forth would make it so worthwhile!
Well, I wish they sold a smaller one like the ford maverick or classic import hiluxes.
I agree that the social learning component is very useful. Initially, I was taken aback that they force you to use discord but it is great for learning from others.
He actually published a follow-up today discussing his thoughts on whether he might be asexual or aromantic: https://lukasrosenstock.net/2023/04/12/the-word-asexual.html

I found it quite telling that he seems sure he's not aromantic because of experiencing romantic love, but is not sure whether he's asexual. That seems to me like a strong signal that he is asexual, or at least much closer to it than most people.
Unfortunately, "success nerds" end up owning their social status, and they also generate buzz. Frantic activity is a catnip from entrepreneurs, so sooner or later, those "success nerds" end up being the ones making real money off their "success", and as money tends to corrupt things, your activity becomes controlled by the "success nerds", for their own benefit, and the benefit of their sponsors.

See also the Iron Law of Bureaucracy[0], which is closely related[1].

EDIT:

The "success nerds" are usually the grown-ups, encouraged by non-participating grown-ups who see the entire activity as just a money printer.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

[1] - I don't think it's an accident. Those are the same group dynamics at play.
Japan-based content has a staggering amount of "to the front page" power for HN.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fj0hpsJvrko

You can either listen to what he's literally saying, or just be impressed by his rhetoric.

He says pretty bluntly they: "... were not necessarily those seasoned professionals, but who had at the tips of their fingers and in their passion the latest understanding of where the technology was and what we could do with that technology"

So, basically find young people with tons of enthusiasm for their career, put them all together on a team, and let them sort themselves out. It's naturally much easier to find motivation than "top talent". There's nothing special about that strategy and he's not the first to think of it. Like he says, "the vision" is all the managing he does, but let's be honest there are plenty of great engineers who don't really have an opinion on their work beyond how free they are to do it and experiment. They don't have to give a rat's ass about what their boss wants to deliver it anyway.
Of course it’s inflation adjusted. The term is “real consumer spending”. The data reported is not to make the public feel good, but to inform the policies. Politicians can always find a way to spin any number in their favor for sure.

The spending has consistently remained high throughout the elevated inflation period, but is projected to go down a little bit.

https://www.bankofthewest.com/Wealth-Management/insights/art...
> But I do agree resuming hostilities would lead to unpredictable and undesirable outcomes.

Could you expand on this? Perhaps naively, I would expect the US & allies to be able to bomb all NK military assets and topple the inferior government easily & quickly. It wouldn't be another guerilla ground war, we just want to destroy their military capabilities.

I guess there is still the concern that China would back NK, but I can't see what China benefits from that. A war with other superpowers to protect a poor, weak, unpredictable regime?
When I was a single, I went to a book club, all women except me, and I couldn't relate or get any small talk in. I am somewhat introverted, so it was very difficult.
You can probably reduce the prompt even further and still generate very similar images tbh.
Reminds me of the video game crash of the 80's. Even tho the tech was advancing rapidly, American game makers kept shoveling crap into the customer's mouths and eventually the customers vomited.
I meant shocking in the sense that it makes me gape in awe, but as I wrote, it's also, simultaneously, completely unsurprising given all the new emergent capabilities we keep discovering. We're in agreement :-)
What other article?
I put it back to the inherent conflict of interest in such a weak fiat currency: the people who hold it must convince you to buy in to see any value from otherwise valueless tokens. Over the years you could watch the Bitcoin sales crew trying tons of marketing pitches trying to find which sold the best – accuracy didn’t matter as long as prospective buyers found it appealing.
Isn't a treasury bond still "doing something" though? Since they are effectively loans to the government it is in theory being used to fund gov services ("doing something") so that they don't print more new money, versus sitting in a bank account where it's really doing nothing, but still increasing it's purchasing power?
Somehow I doubt the SQLite CoC would satisfy these guys. Some Codes of Conduct are more "robust" than others I guess.
It can also come from consumers reprioritizing. Choosing to spend more on housing and less on cable TV, as one example.
* North Korea aka the DPRK.

And that’s one of those “fun” facts we learn in school that as I grow older I increasingly question the veracity or usefulness of saying it. It’s unclear whether Korea and the DPRK are even at war with each other in any usefully understood manner; just that they view each other as illegitimate sovereigns occupying their territory in an official manner, much like China and the PRC.
It is poorly defined: that is why it isn't maths, yet.

What is the purpose of philosophy? In its most basic sense to teach one how to live a good life. Abstract concepts like justice, fairness, ideal social structures, social values flow from this basic question.

Any precise definition of any of the above concepts is open to question, and societies and institutions to some extent embody sets of answers to them. The domain evolves over time, ideas change, pressures brought about by various outside phenomena change.

After all, we are simply a collection of organisms evolving in an environment that we don't understand, according to rules we dimly discern.

This is not to contribute to any STEM vs the humanities fight: it's fundamentally an arbitrary division of knowledge, and neither side benefits from the division. The STEM side is prone to a naive scientism and an amorality that is much to the detriment of the species. On the other hand, the humanities has unfortunately largely devolved into a sort of philosophical rag and bone yard.

Frankly, both sides should get together and have sex for a while. Something might come out of it.
I’m reminded of “Fire and Motion:”

> Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET—All New! Are these technological imperatives? The result of an incompetent design group that needs to reinvent data access every goddamn year? (That’s probably it, actually.) But the end result is just cover fire. The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can’t spend writing new features.
I just asked a very technical question that previously (1) ChatGPT did not answer well and (2) nobody has answered well. I actually had already answered the question for myself (“How to do PBR rendering in PyTorch3D?”) but decided to ask Phind as a test. In fact, the links and step-by-step guide from Phind did clarify a bit. More importantly, I can verify it gives a correct result free from hallucinations. I’ve been waiting for someone to develop this constraint on top of GPT: it is forced to reference and point to real documentation/websites. Thanks to the team, congratulations.
It's been noticeably better than Stable Diffusion since v3 at least (I wasn't paying attention before that). It's on v5 now, and I think MJ has continued to get better faster than SD through this time period.

ControlNet for Stable Diffusion may be an exception to this.