skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An analogy would be whether I should buy a 2 seated sports car or a family car when I know I have have to drive more than one person around.

I think I am a guy who prefer reliability and versatility over speed.

(When I was a kid you'd say Alfa Romeo vs Volvo)
> For every bitcoin millionaire, there's someone that pumped real dollars into the system

Are you blaming bitcoin for gambling addiction and bad investing now? That's funny. There more of that with the USD, by several orders of magnitude.
i trade bitcoin with other people here in argentina several times a year; it's by far the easiest and safest way to send money either into or out of the country, and it's widely used by money changers

remember that this is a country where the police take dollar-bill-sniffing dogs onto river ferryboats to prevent people from taking usd or eur across the river to their bank in uruguay

someone in a [dead] comment said, 'The most traded crypto assets in Argentina, by far, are dollar-pegged crypto-currencies.' this is absolutely correct, and from my point of view it's a total plague. also virtually everybody has their bitcoins in binance. but most of those people will still buy and sell bitcoin if that's what you want
Yes, it’s all about the consensus of majority of the nodes! Not miners.
Canada reverses course after blocking Russian anti-war activist's citizenship
Good! They should be in serious danger of losing US support!
Picking up and moving to the “it” tech city assuming you’ll get hired sounds like a great solution… that is, if you don’t have family obligations, or, really… a family, long-term responsibilities of any kind, a chronic health condition, or lack money to support an expensive interstate/city/country move probably with an increased cost of living while unemployed… and all to assume that your employer is going to cast you side when they’re done with you so you’ll have to do it all over again?

You’re either wealthy enough to not realize how infeasible this is for most people over 25, or you’ve got a serious case of tech industry Stockholm syndrome. I’ll continue to vet my employers.
generate images through stable diffusion and then ask the artists why they can't just do that.
Education is one thing. You can't force people to learn, but things like alcohol abuse disorder are much more publicly known and understood than it used to be, and that's largely due to education campaigns.

Otherwise, we don't have to completely deregulate sale and use. Legally limit THC concentration, and/or require a certain minimum for the CBD-to-THC ratio in products. As the article (and others here) have pointed out, THC concentration has only gone up over time, especially as pot has become legalized in many places.

Certainly some people will still find/make things with higher concentrations, but legally limiting the concentration will act as education of its own, and a lot of people will end up with safer products.
...there were a lot of boom and bust cycles before the federal reserve
yeah because no large tech company has ever lied to their customers about how their data is being handled. oh wait there are lawsuits surrounding this sort of thing all the time.
I'm confused -- wasn't ChatGPT upgraded to 128k tokens at their last release? Or was that just the API?
Threads, ActivityPub, Bluesky, nostr. There's hasn't been this much of a shake up in over a decade. Will it be enough? Who knows. But I'm hopeful we'll come out with something healthier than what we've been doing with algorithmic curation.
Haha, ok, all successful investments are charities.
My wire cutter disagreement is their flashlight recommendation. They recommend a AA battery flashlight from Amazon that in my opinion is terrible (https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-flashlight/). This article indicates that maybe the referral money is a factor. I wonder how much influence that has.
>Bitcoin also doesn't need the approval of any person, police force, legislative body, military, or government.

If you start from scratch with a non-exchange wallet and get paid in BTC for something to it, sure. But if you want to get in with any fiat, you're going through an exchange, which means KYC, which means you definitely need the approval of the exchange (and by proxy your local government/tax authority).

It was a simple solve by governments to get crypto controlled centrally by proxy for most users this way.
> <popular search engine>/search?q=sm64+rom

looks like it has about 6 sources on the first page, for me.
i can't parse your comment, but it seems to presuppose that the roman empire fell on one particular day; there seem to be a lot of candidates, though. which one do you mean
This is the job of governments.

but they have been bought out.
> This isn't like the image of smoking pot in the basement from the 70's anymore

This line has been in use (with a different antecedent period) as a prohibitionist staple since at least the 1980s.

You know how we would not have this issue? If there was legalization and regulatory standadization.
Possibly these companies decided to make redundancies late in 2023 but deferred announcements until after Christmas
Then that country would become an extremely unattractive place to hire employees. Massive incentive to do whatever you can to only use contractors or whatever. Somehow classify your employees as self employed, something like that.

Maybe it wouldn't even be a loophole: everyone would just have to actually go freelance and have no employee protections.

I wonder if any country has anything close to layoffs being illegal and how that went.
Yup, as far as something that can turn on a light, run a timer, convert some units, tell me the weather, and have an -okay- shot at some categories of random questions instead of me getting out my computer-- the google assistant is just fine.
>"The historic approval paves the way for the first regulated exchange-traded product in the U.S. to give investors direct exposure to the price of Bitcoin without requiring them to buy it or worry about self-custody. Investors will buy shares in ETFs holding Bitcoin as its underlying asset."

Interesting!

Looks like we've paved the way for yet another abstracted financial instrument -- which sits on top of yet another abstracted financial instrument...

My only question, at this point in time, were I to have one, would be something like the following:

What's the maximum levels of financial abstraction -- that can be stacked on top of one another?

?

???

Related:

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

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

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_(linguistics)

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFrdqQZ8FFc
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I don’t think there are any left.

The cycle repeats itself though. The leas desirable Google becomes, the more talent is freed up into startups, some of which eventually will offer something similar.
I bet they'll rehire like crazy in AR once the Apple Vision Pro is a success. I miss when Google had vision instead of trend following lazily
Whether or not my friends and family have been murdered shouldn't be correlated with whether or not I've been murdered. Unless we're all in the same place most of the time, I guess?
This looks more like a gripe about totp than a critique of MFA in general?
Workers from the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) were for a while near the bottom of the immigrant worker totem pole. The protagonist of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" (1905), meatpacker Jurgis Rudkus, was Lithuanian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
Commercial traffic flying at 30-40 thousand feet is not flying VFR typically. And of course spotting landmarks through cloud cover or at night is not a thing. But you are right that spoofing would largely just be annoying. Commercial traffic is usually in contact with a controller and monitored on radar. So, any course deviations would result in controllers asking what they are doing and be followed by them simply vectoring them back on course with compass headings.

However, GPS has replaced a lot of the NDB and VOR radios that pilots used to rely on. Also a lot of airport approaches are now GPS rather than ILS/VOR. It's pretty critical to modern aviation.

GPS, or rather GNSS (which includes GPS and other systems), spoofing is a concern; but so far mainly in conflict areas. Most airlines would route around those.

Resilience against spoofing is actually a big topic from a strategic point of view. Also, spoofing is a big part of counter measures against drones in e.g. Ukraine. So there is a bit of an arms race going there.

The point with GNSS is that most phones can utilize multiple satellite positioning systems at the same time at this point. Which is of course something that navigation systems in planes could also do. And of course many pilots actually use ipads in the cockpit, which they could use as a backup in case of an electrical failure in the plane.
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> Bitcoin may go to a billion and it won't change the fundamental premise:

Haha, bitcoin never even attempted to solve your "fundamental premise", and never made any such promise. Bitcoin is like fiat money in that regard, and different in other regards.
My first initial reaction to ChatGPT was that people will join more and more verified private human communities. Example: Discord channels or private Whatsapp groups.

My second reaction was that the internet will need a protocol to verify that the user is indeed a human.
Not a lawyer. Please consult with one. The general rule is you must comply with all laws and regulations that impacts you. Tax regulations and contract laws and employment laws usually override the duty to delete PII when customers leave. Each set of laws have a generally defined retention period. Please keep in mind each country’s laws are different. Your lawyer can tell you what they are.

What that means is if you blank out or anonymize the record you can argue you are satisfying generally accepted record keeping rules. Eg you sold a widget to a person. To satisfy GDPR you just don’t know who they are after so many years.
Useless C-level executives focusing on short term gains from RIFs rather than innovating.

G is just a shadow of it’s former self. I can’t wait for the great G disruption
Some HN links for it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38943797 and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38945090
You’re preaching to the choir.

I was just relaying what I’ve heard through the grapevine of people working at those companies.

It’s silly, but when did that ever stop a company from making decisions like this?
I do always laugh a little about these things. "Safety is our top priority." It can't be, or you wouldn't be in the business of drilling mines or whatever. Safety is the second priority.
> How do we even fix car-dependency in the US?

Car-dependency is a city planning issue, first and foremost. We destroyed the cores of our cities, demolishing block after block of buildings to raise interstates and parking lots.

You will never eliminate car-dependency in rural areas, and you can at best remove the need for it in suburbs with mixed-use zoning (i.e. corner stores and cafes), better funded public transit, and sidewalks.

Cities should first stop expanding interstates and look to remove them entirely. There is absolutely no need to have an interstate through urban cores. Next, you need to redesign streets to make the car part narrower and the sidewalks wider. And you need to repeal zoning ordinances that ban anything but single family homes on 80% of urban residential land. It's ridiculous that there exist single family homes within walking distance of the downtown of cities with a population in the millions when under a properly zoned system, there would be mid-rises.

Rural areas will never be free from car-dependency. Suburbs need light modifications to mixed-use zoning policies and transit, as well as infeasibly high taxes. Urban areas, where walkability should be most feasible, have to remove highways through cores, repeal oppressive zoning laws, and prioritize walkability.

The actual policies are rather straightforward. There are plenty of countries that planned around the automobile and later reverted this mistake, so there exist many playbooks for achieving this worthy goal. Unfortunately, the problem is political rather than technical: too many people are invested in the automobile for a lot of good reasons, and too many people are invested in the current land use regime which make automobiles necessary.
I think you’re missing an entire category of businesses: ones who are making both a good product/service and a good income.
Man I was hoping 2024 would look nicer for the job market but it looks like the trend is not stopping
99th percentile is fairly arbitrary. At Google's scale, that's a $2B yearly loss in customers they could have satisfied who went elsewhere. That's roughly 200FTEs who could be dedicated to the problem more efficiently than working on their other business concerns. Is not delivering a shit website when the connections are garbage that hard of a problem?
This link lets individuals opt out: https://privacy.openai.com/policies
Segment-Anything-Web
According to this, you can still opt out of training, but you have to turn off history: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7730893-data-controls-fa...
> The Romans were only able to fund the expansion of the empire by overextending their resources.

No, they never ran out of the resources needed to expand. It just became more individually profitable to spend those resources on internal competition, and eventually civil war, than on growing the pie.

> This meant that the empire became too expensive to maintain without relying on tactics like currency debasement, subsequently triggering many of the other symptoms of decline that you listed.

Even if we take this at face value, that doesn't sound like currency debasement causing the collapse - if anything it allowed them to stave it off at least for a time. Businesses renegotiating their loans/bonds is normally a precursor to going bankrupt, but that doesn't mean renegotiating your loans/bonds causes bankruptcy; if you took your loans/bonds in a form where you can't renegotiate them, that only makes you more likely to go bankrupt sooner.

(Traditional currencies are in many ways like a slightly odd bond that doesn't pay interest)
Sure, then you're a person who doesn't like how some people solve some problems with bitcoin. That's fair, you don't have to like that.
The global financial system can handle considerably more than three (3) transactions per second.
Yes, of course there is reason to suspect Hamas is untrustworthy. I'm not trying to argue one should take Israel's word at face value (of course you should subject it to scrutiny as well), but yes, Israel, a liberal democratic state with a free press, strong left-wing movement, and the second biggest tech sector out of silicon valley, is far more trustworthy than Hamas, a repressive, fundamentalist, authoritarian regime with no free press. This doesn't mean they always tell the truth, but there is no equivalence between them and Hamas.

In terms of specific reasons to doubt the Gaza Health Ministry numbers specifically, I could go on forever about that, but I don't see the point of doing so on HN. It's not a tech-related question.
The first two are pure entertainment and hardly a comparison to an attempt at a new banking system.
I wish this comment were not under a flagged comment. This is something worth thinking about.
True! But the launchd style of socket activation integrating into the dependency graph of service startup is what's novel and alleviates some significant challenges to concurrent starting of interdependent services...
Building an AI stack to perform some task can often be budgeted as capex even where it would be opex if humans did it.

Capex tasks can be considered to be either "Cheaper" (as they're investments, not expenses) or "Better", since they create long term value on top of the short term, depending on how you want to define your axes.

When doing this budgeting, moving items from opex to capex in this way is mostly based on belief structures, as it's too early to tell if the capex generates lasting value or not. Short term, though, it tends to be good for the stock price regardless.
They do succeed in that way many times a day every day in my house
Interestingly, I use phasor to control a buffer reader, and I can get somewhat similar results.

https://youtu.be/UZxZ8vpBOPo?si=hZKTb3nWhpj4uY-z
No Eb is a huge red flag and suggests the creator plays a well-tempered tuned instrument like piano.

D sharp is slightly higher in pitch than Eb in Pythagorean tuning.
Interesting. Then I wonder how the GHG emissions of methalox/kerolox engines actually compare? Methalox emits less CO2, but unburned methane is 30X worse than CO2.
Sales seems like a truly miserable role. You have to sell whatever the company makes, which often times isn't what the customer wants. You mostly get paid by commission, so if someone just goes out and buys your product without talking to you, you don't get paid. Finally, it's treated by business as some sort of resource they can autoscale up and down as necessary. Need more money? Get more salespeople. Out of money? Fire all the salespeople.

I just find it so weird.
no collaboration though, for actual collaborative team spaces give vello.ai a try
Looks cool, but I am unsure why I would use this instead of git scalar[0] with git submodule[1]?

[0]: https://git-scm.com/docs/scalar

[1]: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitsubmodules
I am not saying its useful or anything but I remember just being absolutely bored to death constantly when I was a child. I have to wait for 2-3 hours every day for my mom to come pick me up with absolutely NOTHING to do during that time. I don't have phones, all my friends already left, and I can't wonder outside of school. So I spent those time simply just sitting at the entrance gate and wander about random stuffs.

Now that might be psychopathic but being constantly poked by phones is not good either.
how often there is no viable alternative? How much does the car cost if i live in a this place or an similar region, including the mantenance costs over the time? use that info to get the costs per trip (costs/total miles*mile for trip). Don't use guesses, most car owners are bad at guessing the anual costs.
Just the API.
In Pythagorean tuning, D sharp is slightly higher in pitch than Eb.
The vaccine doesn’t give you 100% protection against the risk of long COVID either. A review published in 2022 put the rate of long COVID somewhere between 7.5% and 41% of non hospitalised cases [0]. If it falls anywhere within that range you really don’t want to be catching COVID multiple times.

[0] https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/phrs.2022.1604...
Universal Short Title Catalogue: Open bibliography of early modern print culture
YouTube is one of those things that consumes more energy than bitcoin.

That is bad, but it doesn't seem part of the public narrative that YouTube is bad because of global warming.
Also the general narrative posits that electric cars are good. They also use a lot of energy.
There's nothing inherent about EVs versus bitcoin that suggests one uses clean energy versus another.
They both use a lot of electricity.

But so does the banking sector. And entertainment, farming, travel and a lot of the other things 8 billion people choose to do or depend on.

Any usage of fossil fuels should rightfully be a target and held to the same standards.

There is another narrative that we need continual growth and that inflation aids this.
And deflationary currencies are bad because they don't help growth.
This seems so ingrained in modern politics and economics that I slightly hesitate to question it in public.

Well maybe unbounded growth and exponential usage of resources is the actual problem.

I hope we reach the social limit on unbounded growth before it destroys everything we have.
It's literally in physical terms unsustainable.
My only hope here is that nuclear fusion gives us a respite for a hundred years or so.
But we'd still have the same problem at a different scale if we used that to grow to a trillion people.

I can see that a deflationary global currency could be part of the solution to the problem.
And I can see why suggesting deflation is good can be seen as a threatening thing to those that have resources.

So I feel in that light, the bitcoin = global warming narrative is really convenient, even if a little ironic.
If you're worried about specific examples, you should email the mods (dang, that is), at hn@ycombinator.com and ask what's going on. I've found dang to be super responsive and thoughtful in his replies when I've had an occasion to ask something about HN's operation.
I think requiring reduced rigor for housekeeping changes is reasonable but there should 100% be somebody in the loop doing manual reviews for all changes.
I didn't want to have to organize my work and personal repos using a directory structure, so I use matching on the remote instead. Since my job uses a GitHub organization, I'm able to conditionally include a config file that uses my work email in any GitHub repo under that organization.

I wrote it up here, if that sounds useful: https://www.brantonboehm.com/code/conditional-git-config/
They are throwing millions at US politicians left and right, they're not loosing the US support they're loosing the young generation that are on tiktok
Are you saying the global financial crisis was MUCH smaller than previous busts?
I’m continually surprised that this tactic still works. It’s been rinsed and repeated so many times that the inevitable damage (and effect on the company financials) is practically boring.
No. Next step is add blockchain. Then add ChatGPT. Vulture capitalist money flows in. Then sell off when IPO debuts.
The original holder of the insulin patent gave it away free - and yet thousands of American families have struggled to pay for it:
https://www.rand.org/pubs/articles/2021/the-astronomical-pri...
I get that this engineering is cool. I think there are other ways to ensure that American families have access to medication.
Hygiene Hypothesis. You need a low dose frequently enough to keep yourself ready. I haven't had it ever and I've lived entirely with minimum legal restrictions since the beginning.
Yup, that might work for stackoverflow, or the math stackexchange, but not for 99% of the other sites under the umbrella.
It's not that simple. We rebuilt our cities around the car. Without changing our cities, there is no substitution for cars.

We need to rebuild our cities. Eliminating cars and adding sidewalks isn't enough; without density, you have nowhere to walk to, and transit doesn't scale.
Being Healthy Enough to Retire
What is more impressive is that Mario 64 itself was a measly 64 megabits (8 MB), already tiny for its era. So this version is almost double the size of the N64 original!

Question: does anybody know why the size of old cartridge games where always reported in bits instead of bytes? To make them look more impressive?
> Pilots liked to feel that they were the ones ultimately in control

I feel like it's more than that. They are in command of the vessel. They must be in control at all times.

Crashes happen when the pilot commands the aircraft to do something and it simply ignores the command. Case in point:

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-reliability-trap-the...
The golden age of Kotlin and its uncertain future
From their about page, it's pretty incredible:

The USTC is the first ever search tool that allows you to search all books published in the first age of print, in England, France, Italy or any other part of the world where printing with moveable type is known. Developed over more than twenty years of research and analysis at the University of St Andrews, the USTC now contains information on the location of more than 4 million copies of books printed between 1450 and 1650, along with links to more than 250,000 full digital scans.

https://www.ustc.ac.uk/about