skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market cap of Bitcoin is 99% not self custodial with keys people still have control of, not counting Satoshi'd hoard that might or might not be accessible. All the new ETF interest in Bitcoin is just digital beanie babies. Without the tradfi system, there would be almost no demand for Bitcoin, which completely undermines its alleged purpose.
If you want cryptocurrency, Bitcoin isnt it.
Anyone who was job hopping in the last 4-6 years is also used to top of the zero interest bubble with COVID stimulus pay levels
I Started Renting DVDs Again: Quantifying a Silly Thing
The old addage is that the stock market is not the economy.
Actually, there is an underlying value.

What is the the underlying value if a dollar? Or euro?

On first sight, there is none. But when the IRS knocks at your door to collect taxes, you will need to cough up dollars. Or euros when you live in europe. Rubel, yen or gold won't do.

That provides the underlying value of the dollar. Or the euro.

Now what about BTC ?

When the ransomware hacker knocks at your door, you'll have to get bitcoin. Dollars or rubel won't do. That provides the underlying value of the bitcoin.
One employer asked for my high school graduation transcript! Another was clearer and wanted university transcript - in essence, grades and grade point average. (the actual terms might be a Canadian thing, I'm not sure what "list of courses and grades" works out to elsewhere)
I’ve solved a similar set of problems in my current role by piping all of our important sheets into BigQuery, saving/executing the SQL logic there, then making the result available as views that can be sent back to Sheets through Connected Sheets (or practically anywhere else eg Tableau via native connectors to BQ). For small datasets that fit in spreadsheets, the storage and query usage in BQ is practically free.

The trick (and I assume you’ve found ways around this) is dealing with the flaky Sheets API that throws a 500 error what feels like 1% of the time, and also deciding when/where/how to enforce the SQL data types and column headers. I made a config layer for the latter.. the interface to which is also a Sheet, lol.
Well, why not. It's like saying that Windows crashed - while it actually was some driver or app that caused it.

The hardware (or OS) is useless if it doesn't give good results, even if it theoretically could.
Yeah, when I was looking for a house several years ago I didn’t remotely consider anything new. Aside from the fact that almost all new construction has HOAs, I also assume any new house was shoddily built with poor labor as quick as possible, and the main goal is to sell it to someone else in a few years before it collapses.
Would I be dumb to do a long BTC / short MSTR pair trade?

yes because one of the legs can have unbounded losses
Generally the industry is in a down turn right now (though AI is pretty hot). It might take a bit for it to recover. If you pursue a PhD you’ll be in good shape to go into corporate research when things are moving again.

Also, public research desperately needs some more material. It’s been consumed by the private space too much.
I've heard of it, the LLM training data aggregator right?
The biggest change to programming over the last 40 years, is most software running 24/7 with frequent updates, thus requiring round the clock support and pager duty. Really changes the way you think about a lot of things.

With software pressed onto physical media, you couldn’t provide instant support even if you wanted to.
yeah. i would rather raise $ to deploy if BTC falls a lot to buy the dip . buying at 70k seems so foolish
One advantage of heating water over sand is that you can heat it up with high temperature heat pumps which currently have CoPs ranging between 2.4 to 5.8 [1]. So for every kW of electrical energy you put in you get at least 2.4kW of thermal energy out.

So yes, the volume of 95C water would be much greater than that of 600C sand, but if volume wasn't an issue you could do it much more efficiently. Alternatively, you could use battery storage for just the electrical capacity required and not the (much higher) thermal capacity which may be more cost effective when you look at the conversion.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...
Unsurprising. Experienced engineers in this market are like Oracle or IBM post-peak, overly complacent and not used to fight for a job.

The kind of people posting on Youtube or making courses about How Everyone Should Code because everyone can get a job coding and no matter how many people join the workforce jobs will always abound.

The kind of engineer talking to non-tech people about how they should always negotiate and never settle for a low salary. To jump early and often.

The kind of engineer that badmouths recruiters, has no LinkedIn or hasn't maintained one in ages because they can't be bothered with it.

Yes, it's stereotypical. But we all know someone who has one or more of these traits.

Just like companies struggling to hire were simply not optimising for it (higher salaries, regular salary reviews and raises, smooth and quick recruitment processes, employee-centric work culture, etc), the same happens now to employees. They are unwilling to consider a slight decrease in their salary, lack of remote options, slightly worse work culture, boring companies (no Big N, FAANG or even tech sector companies), legacy codebases, boring tech stacks, less than ideal development processes, etc.

You have seen those engineers in reddit. You seen them in LinkedIn. In Tech Conferences. In Youtube. And even here, in HN.

The reality is that most of these devs are trying to get a role with perks similar to their previous one and that's not gonna happen for quite a while. The struggle in getting hired is basically the devs going through multi-stage reality check.

If you have a job and haven't been served a notice, you can be picky and play the waiting game. If you are about to lose your job or you have already, all that matters is getting ANY job that covers your expenses.
using tons of debt to buy bitcoin is independent of the case for bitcoin
Only if bagholders convince others that this is true. It's a sales and stability pitch at this point just like fiat currency.

Not sure why it's a good long-term store. It requires electricity to exist.
The only use case is getting rich of of other people's losses. There's no social value creation. Some people love that and some hate that.
There's also a strategy, having an open position might attract some people you'll be happy to put in your database, and duplicate where X companies (contractor?head hunter company? consulting? Idk how to name it) post a job that is for only one client in reality.
HN skews towards web devs. Rarely do I find their experiences line up with mine(systems/embedded programming).
Apple turned off a lot of "signals" used by advertisers for precisely targeted ads via persistent user-beacons. Facebook ad placement quality (and revenue) cratered in the immediate aftermath.

Meta has since gotten better at it- likely with lots of AI-assistance and their revenue numbers reflect this. The targeting is now likely probabilistic in that the advertiser now makes educated guesses on the best ads to serve based on limited or non-existent identity information.

So the AI efforts would have paid back by way of higher revenues.
Yep. You need to have things that make you stand out. Even with experience there's still a lot of people out there.
Thank you, excited to stay involved for sure
there is nothing divisive about pointing out the inherent risk of using debt to buy a highly volaille asset on leverage
Well no, it doesn't rely on it (as in, if they didn't use this argument, the licence would still hold up quite well) but it definitely has an impact. For example, see GNU Readline which was explicitly licenced as GPL to encourage virality with the linking clause.
I don't know the movie. I took 'backbone' as a synonym for strength, will, and/or an iron fist to accumulate power and wealth vs. the other terms.
I don’t generally think in words at all. I predominantly exist in a state of "unsymbolized thinking” according to the terminology in the article. Even when I’m doing difficult things like reasoning about/problem solving with code. Almost everything I do happens “behind a curtain” im my subconscious.
Most of those individuals are likely to be at least 213 doses short of HIM.
Gen AI Consumer Apps
You forgot Chicago.
The Wikipedia article mentions it: "Many researchers in AI in the mid 2000s deliberately called their work by other names, such as informatics, machine learning, analytics, knowledge-based systems, business rules management, cognitive systems, intelligent systems, intelligent agents or computational intelligence, to indicate that their work emphasizes particular tools or is directed at a particular sub-problem."

Also when I studied these things in the 2000s the program was called "Informatics".
Because GPT-3.5 is in the same price class as Haiku. GPT-4 is significantly more expensive.
You are correct, there were limits on the AI in the event.

It could only play 1 race, but I think the opposition could be different races. I think it was protoss, but it was playing terrans and zerg. There might have been 1 or 2 units that were also removed.

In the first events where it was really dominant. It could see the whole map at once, and move its units all over the map by seeing it all. So moving units on both sides of the map practically simultaneously. BUT, this was called out as just too much of an advantage, so they made another version that actually had to move the camera around the map like a human. And the second version was still able to perform.

Map wise though, for AI, I think the dealing with the fog of war and un-known/imperfect information was the big break through. Not the map size or speed. It still had to scout, and keep up with enemy movements that were hidden, and anticipate. The zoom out didn't provide that.

I'm not totally buying the APM argument (but by end of the paragraph I do). Even if a computer can move 'faster', each move must mean something, do something worthwhile. So the computer must think out its moves. I know micro in SC2 is very big deal, and speed is essential, but you do have to know what to micro. The computer having 1000+ APM was called out also, and they added a limit. By throttling the AI to what a human can do, is handicapping the AI which isn't proving that AI isn't as good, it is showing that it can be better. Or another way, in Chess or GO, there is a time limit, but nobody is throttling the AI CPU to the same speed as a human brain, like limiting its computation cycles.

So, guess in end, I do agree, throttling APM is like a real time imposing a time limit to each move, like in Chess.

For Over-Hype/Impressive point. It is difficult. Both can be true. And everyone on the internet has different thresholds for what they think is over-hype and what is impressive. AI seems overwhelmed with both sides right now. Seemingly new miracles every day, and also over-hyped companies pumping their stock by adding an AI sticker to every product.

I just say, those AlphaStar matches were like 5 years ago, and they still blow me away.

Hard to imagine what could be possible, with this latest release in this post from deepmind.

Plug into a camera, on a robot, with a gun, and tell it the world is just a 3d game.
HDR will help too, I think. It isn't just about the resolution, but the dark darks, and the bright brights.
total years maybe, but fentanyl still way more deadly
Iirc this got reversed last minute.
The obvious question is, why not just eat the candy and avoid the fentanyl altogether?
Seems to be an undercurrent of the release - that they're training it in a 'sandbox' by using 3D games for safety, as if the military-industrial complex doesn't have a huge incentive to implement them into our 3D space once they're done playing games.
Credit default swaps are not magic; if you can correctly predict future default risk you can use CDSes to take money from people who predict wrong (and this also provides information to the market, encouraging the underlying to be more accurately... never mind).
PSA: GPT-4 Is Obsolete
I might be wrong, it can always keep going up, but is it wise to make a big purchase of an asset that has just reached an all-time high? Especially given how volatile BTC is - it could possibly go to 200k or higher, or it could possibly lose 70% in a year like it did in 2022.
I watched part of an interview Saylor gave recently where he said the reason to invest in MSTR over an ETF is increased performance.
>The article doesn't mention the costs or complexity in building each unit but definitely implies it's cheaper than storing it batteries, which makes sense if it's essentially a heating element buried in sand.

Batteries are more expensive than nuclear power so yes, anything else is better.

The issue is that we can't both electrify everything and use legacy heating applications. Going back the the 20th century idea of central heating/cooling is great until you realize the costs involved with adding all the plumbing to buildings which were never designed with it in mind.
Dencun Upgrade Goes Live, Ushering in New Era for Ethereum
and the people without much of either token also have an opinion :)

PoS ledgers seem like a better design, but they alone don't solve very uneven/concentrated token distributions that you end up with every monetary system
That's all over the place. After all, one of the reasons to interview with a company is to see if their working culture is one that'd fit you. But then, I'm Canadian and have yet to find one that really didn't.... ok I know of a couple that do not, but I never applied to them.
I meant a brand new builder…Lockheed Martin is obviously not a newcomer to making airplanes.
I would guess all the factors that go into "how long will someone actually be incarcerated" are interesting and on topic. Why would just one be "the point"?
>> "Frankly, I'm done with the "wait and see" approach to the FIDO alliances constant foot-dragging on portability and their continuous indication through their actions that they do not see portability as a user requirement. Timelines, open discussions, open calls for feedback, and open implementations. Talk is so ridiculously cheap."

There was a public Authenticate Conference session today that talked about the status of the credential migration specification drafts.

I believe it was recorded: https://authenticatecon.com/event/authenticate-virtual-summi...
America's Loneliness Epidemic Comes for the Restaurant
Dollar Tree, Family Dollar plan to close nearly 1k stores
MSTR has had declining nominal revenue (let alone real-dollar) basically every quarter since 2014. [1]

Remember too that Saylor popped the 1999 tech bubble when he was accused by the SEC of cooking the MicroStrategy company books. Settled for millions dollars in fines, and should have at that point been banned from ever running a public company, but hey, this is America. When they restated their books, he lost more money in a single day than anyone in history. [2]

Not sure he's really someone to be taken seriously. He's shown some questionable judgement, to put it mildly. Desperation will do that to you.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSTR/microstrategy...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/15/business/microstrategy-ch...
I was going to bring up Jonny Greenwood's great score for There Will Be Blood and then remembered it was released nearly two decades ago. Still, a tremendous modern score that adds immeasurably to the end result.

I think quite a lot about movies has changed to appeal to a younger audience.
I have the belief that humans are innately selfish and shortsighted. Obviously corruption is not viable long-term. Laws should make corruption not strategically beneficial, but if you can find loopholes or people to bribe, they are more or less irrelevant. What would make an AGI not try to game the system?
While you lost cred at “partially owned and controlled by the CCP”, I’ll bite. You seem to have knowledge that those at TikTok USDS (and TikTok Inc.) do not. Please share your data/sources on how the “CCP influences the content shown to American “zoomers””.

There’s a similar operational and data island for UK TikTok users as part of project Clover. Share your data on how the CCP is manipulating content shown to UK users while you’re at it.

At the end of the day, my opinion is that after all the changes made to segregate and protect US users this is now all political theater and posturing, and potentially setting a very dangerous precedent.
That's... not in any way, shape or form comparable.

But I'm not gonna argue with a 30-minute-old account wanting to promote/normalize transphobia; have fun
So, as a 56yo who's been programming professionally since 2004, currently having trouble finding enough contract work, a bit of perspective:

When there are more openings than qualified people, even when you reduce qualifications to what is actually necessary, it seems like there's "nobody" available. Now, when the shoe is on the other foot, it seems like "nobody" is hiring. It's harsh, but it also doesn't take that much of a shift in the supply and/or demand to go from >1 to <1, even though the effect you feel is large.

There is no kind way to put this: a lot of stupid stuff got done with a lot of smart programmers in the last ten years. Meanwhile, boring old stuff like manufacturing was starved for programmers, and eventually gave up trying to get them. Now that it is possible, it takes some time for all the companies who couldn't get (or couldn't keep) programmers before, to realize that it is once again possible. However, anecdotally, I see it happening, albeit slowly.

Programming that actually accomplishes something useful in the world, is still a productive thing, and positions will get created. However, large sectors of the economy take time to pivot, and so it is best to find a way to make ends meet in the meantime, and also do something useful (even if unpaid) with your programming skills, to keep your mind in practice.
A hospital has many rooms, hallways, etc. Which is under positive pressure?

If you have two patients, they should both be isolated from each other. Which one gets the higher pressure, and which the lower?
Don’t the many zero setback cities invalidate your setback argument? They’re not drowning in stormwater - clearly it can be managed in a number of ways.

Why not admit to yourself that you just like exclusionary land use regulations, and are comfortable with the impacts on the cost of living, increased commutes, etc.?

It’s not your neighborhood under threat, it’s your status quo.
Please don’t act like people who are against top down banning of apps in the usa are aligned with autocracy. That’s precisely the opposite of accurate.
If you are doing hardware verification, more than using IP blocks in the space, verification tasks are typically oriented around

1. Design : architectures need to be well constructed

2. Well derived tests on case-elements/state-conditions : asserting that a specific signal-value achieves a specific state at a specific time is not hard, but coming up with the conditions are.

3. Placement & technology specific details of delays, glitch management & etc.

Event-driven simulators are essentially doing a lot of simple things correctly, so the language doesn't need to be full-featured, ideally it is as efficient as possible in computation, since checking the verification takes the most time for complex systems.

Additionally after logic has been verified, there are many physical implementation details that have to be layered on top of this, including placement & route optimizations.

Veryl to me looks like a SystemVerilog competitor in Rust-like language aspects.
I agree with you too.

It's much easier to destroy and to enslave than to create something good.
There I was thinking of the possible positive vs electricity cost.

Yes we might doom us all with AI. I hope the good win, wild time.
why Linus use harsh words
They didn't get pushed out by Boeing. Boeing launched the successful widebody 747. The LM and MD both launched wide-body tri-jets. Airbus launch widebody 2-engine jet. But the market simply was only big enough for one of each.

So LM and MD basically competed. MD having a more established costumer base, lower prices and being first to market won against the more fancy LM jet. So really its more accurate to say that MD killed LM.

But really it fucked both companies over, widebody tri-jets just weren't a big enough category. LM engineering was mostly on point. They should have just build a twin-jet instead.

The problem is, a single project is so expensive it might take the company down. LM made a bet, lost and it almost destroyed the company. So they didn't want to bet again.
> we're having a hard time finding experienced and skilled engineers... trying to hire for a senior nodejs role

Experienced, skilled engineers are rarely the same as specialists in your languages/frameworks/libraries/etc.

> quit after 2 months of barely working

So between this and inability to hire, it smells like you have a management problem, not a problem with bad strangers from the Internet.
Sorry to a noob can someone explain this please. They are just heating up sand right?
> Cochrane didn't revise their review, neither did the author so I'm not sure where you imagined that.

That would have been the part where the editor in chief of the Cochrane Library said that they would, and then did. To quote (again):
She said that “this wording was open to misinterpretation, for which we apologize,” and that Cochrane would revise the summary.

> If people are so confident masks work, do an RCT. That is how science is supposed to work, right?

No it isn't. There are zero RCTs done for all kinds of things that we're confident work. There are many reason RTCs aren't always done. Reasons like "well understood physics" and "ethics" and "unfavorable signal to noise ratios" that would make doing them pointless at best, and harmful in the worst cases. RCTs are only a tool, and like all tools, they aren't appropriate or necessary in all circumstances.
There is an interesting question here why major platforms have such a hard time stopping violent groups of people from joining together and committing violent acts. Our current, corporately-decided approach to online moderation is clearly not up to the task. It does make you wonder if government intervention would be more effective.
That’s the one. The MCAS incidents were very clearly faulty processes and software and to have two catastrophic incidents have to happen to get to the cause is tragic.

Currently people are latching onto every tidbit that goes wrong on or around a Boeing hull.
... against the wishes of the landowner and river authority. But, given it was donated to a museum (c/f Indiana Jones) no action will be taken.

There's a huge tension between Archeologists, Landholders, Developers, Metal detectorists, Magnet fishers, unexploded bomb experts, CSI labs and found objects related to crime..

But the other side of this coin is Italy where people use construction site diggers to rob graves and flee, irrespective to the damage. A framework which encourages reporting and resolution of finds, preservation of the locus and data is good.
Cerebras launches AI processor equal to "62 Nvidia H100 GPUs"
Just because something seems like should work doesn't mean it will. Air conditioners are simple and cheap to install. An insulated swimming pool in the basement is not.