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I don't disagree with you -- there are definitely nice things about cryptocurrency.

I just think that on a practical level, the "bad" use cases are 100x more common than the "good" use cases.

I even experimented with selling software licenses via crypto, it seemed like the perfect use case. It just turns out that nobody cared about using crypto for legal purposes.

Almost everyone who uses crypto seems to use it for tax fraud, speculation, fraud, get-rich-quick schemes or similar.

If you actually use crypto to transfer money to a friend or purchase legal things, you are part of a miniscule minority.

That's why I think it's a question of when, not if, it will get banned everywhere.
Might want to vet your examples a little more.

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Its not doom slinging.

They have a target and even with all the raises they have done they cannot hit that target as banks are clearly under stress or they would raise more. This should come across as odd to you.

The historical norm has been the 2% benchmark and the onus should be on the fed to get there.
I always thought writing SQL from scratch was the easy part. The hard part for me was coming back to my query a few weeks later
Oh thank God! I have been asking for something like "erroneous behaviour" for years. Clang in particular is very fond of deleting safety checks if they check for conditions which it thinks are only possible under undefined behaviour. Every year I have to fix one or two bugs that stem from code from completely separate modules interacting in a way that manages to produce a state which leads to undefined behaviour. The option to opt-in to UB is also a very good idea - we can turn it on in the hot parts of code and restore performance where it really matters, while constraining the impact, i.e. even if the code has UB, that cannot poison the rest of the program.

I hope this renewed focus on safety will lead to the default for what is currently undefined behaviour being more in line with what was originally intended - sort-of arbitrary behaviour dependent on the platform's state at the time of code execution. As in, less constrained than "implementation defined", since there is no guarantee it will produce the same result every time, but more constrained than UB, since it does not invalidate the program.
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I remember the stories of American subs raiding Japanese commerce in WW2.

I wonder how Japan and her allies can protect LNG tankers against Chinese commerce raiders?
Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable
It is organized, especially if you write it correctly (split lines and indent). Minified, it is a nightmare, but with a proper layout it is a pleasure to read it. I just did a code review for a 20,000 LoC piece and it was quite a breeze after I improved the layout a bit.
> having physical hardware means you need a team who knows how to rack/provision/configure/update hardware

Not with a colo. They all have that as a service. If by provision you mean installing an OS via PXE or the like, then no, but everything else, yes.

> along with administrating operating systems and everything that comes with along with the automation needed to hold everything together.

If you have a team managing Terraform for cloud infra, congratulations – you have a team who can manage physical infra. Seriously, it’s the same tooling. Pick your favorite configuration management tool (Ansible, Chef, Puppet…) and you’re off to the races.
Thanks for posting. I got an example working with functions and tool_calls if anyone needs it. I could not find good examples in the docs.
https://medium.com/@hawkflow.ai/openai-streaming-assistants-...
On Mac and iOS, this thorny issue is made even worse by some ancient Darwin design choices. When the process is terminated, the main thread executes static destructors while the other threads are still running. This causes unpredictable exit-time crashes in (typically cross-platform) code that uses static variables with nontrivial destructors.

The solution is to always terminate all threads before exiting. This requires a bit of internal infrastructure that's missing from many projects. If a cross-platform library is being used, it may start its own untracked threads.

On iOS, app processes only terminate in special circumstances. When this issue yields a crash it's (currently) imperceptible to the user. However, it's still tracked in the crash statistics.
That’s got “macro” written all over it.
Also worth asking here is what are you measuring the financial markets by ?

If you're looking at the big brand shares like the FAANGs, or most recently Nvidia, then that is all meaningless nonsense. Never, ever, try to read something into the movement of those shares, its a fools game.

Second, but related to the first, don't forget that the NASDAQ is dragged up and down by the big tech brands, so take NASDAQ movements with a pinch of salt too.

There are also in general many sectors out there where valuations and expectations are unrealistically high. Its not all plain sailing.
One thing I always found interesting is that inducing a fever in autistic people, in some of them it will reduce the severity of their autistic characteristics.
“It's a well known phenomenon at this point that social media exacerbates scepticism and pessimism. Which makes sense - busy people with a lot going on spend less time online than loners and depressed people.”

That does such a great job of expressing something I’ve intuitively “known” for a long time.

There are the people who do all the talking, and those who are doing - very few who are in both camps. If you’re busy making things happen, you’re less likely to be commenting.
Why would increasing memory bandwidth reduce performance? You said "You can get a decent approximation for LLM performance in tokens/second by dividing the model size in GB by the system's memory bandwidth"
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Their earlier statement said they were aware of the CEO's history but were assured that part of his life was behind him. From that statement on March 15: “We were aware of the past affiliations with the entities named in the article and were assured they had ended prior to our work together,” the statement reads. “We’re now looking into this further. We will always put the privacy and security of our customers first and will provide updates as needed.”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ceo-of-data-privacy-comp...
Yeah, thanks for this run of the mill communist bullshit that doesn't have anything to do with what I said. "Oh yeah, pay for work is EXPLOITATION guys, guys, guys, the only ETHICAL way is for daddy government to force people to work at gun point".
Yes, I don't think there's any real evidence. I'm curious about what persuaded you to become a Christian.
I can't find any way for one cell to be affected by the value of a different cell. I haven't thought about it much, but if there were syntax to allow references to adjacent cells, you could do stuff like convolution.

Also, it would be nice to have (a) layers, and (b) alpha values.

Pretty neat to jam it all into a small HTML page.
I used to roll my eyes at the 'Apple = planned obsolescence' thing; but on the macOS side OpenCore pretty much proves that it's true

The amount of hardware that's been thrown away just because they decided it's time you bought a new Mac is insane

We're about to see something similar when Windows 10 hits end of life, and everything without a TPM will get trashed
Performance can be excellent, with CPU pinning and a GPU passed through it's nearly native

Valorant is the one anti cheat I gave up on tricking. The rest like ESEA could be fooled by hiding the hyper-v extensions and so on with KVM
I built a similar tool for my own use that:

1. Takes in a .dot file
2. Presents a simple UI for selecting which tables/relationships you want in the final diagram
3. Lets you highlight a table and add all directly related tables to the selected tables
4. Lets you select two tables and adds the tables for the shortest route between the tables
5. Lets you assign colors to tables/relationships for the final diagram
6. Optionally shows only key fields in the final diagram
7. Generates the necessary graph source and copies it to the clipboard, and loads either of two GraphViz pages to let you paste the source and see the graph.

If that would be of interest to anyone I'd be happy to post it.
I guess the question is “who are the markets doing well for?”. If you own equity, financial assets like homes, you’re probably doing pretty good. If you’re a bartender renting in your city, a grocery store worker, bus driver, parks worker, etc things can be not so great.

Another commenter in this thread pointed out starting wages have been at an all time high. That might be true, but that doesn’t mean it’s enough to live comfortably. In my City you’d need to make a salary of about 165,000 in order to be able to theoretically afford the median home here. The two largest employers here have very few positions that pay in that range (mostly leadership roles or administrative) whereas most are 15-25/hr range.

So yes the economy is doing great if you’re rich. Never been better. It is in the best interests for news organizations right now to talk about how amazing it is doing in order to help suppress panic and keep afloat spending from the general populace. If the non-rich feel things are tightening (they are, just ask them) and they decide to stop spending that is bad.

Also keep in mind there is an election this year and a healthy economy as reported can equal votes.
cli is a lost art now
- loop-mount is a thing

- being read only is mostly a benefit to an archive. Back in the days when drives had been small, I occasionally wanted to update a .rar, but in the last ~5 years I can't remember a case for it.

- it's fine, but don't think that others' use cases are invalid because of your vision

- mount is also a CLI interface
From the fantastic and anarchic Tiswas to… Jim’s Fix It. Perhaps best as a nation if we collectively never mentioned that part of history again.
> I hope you see the irony in using “you’re holding it wrong” here?

Not really. If you use a hammer on a screw, is it the hammer's fault? Sounds like the code base you are working on is badly-organised, rather than Mox being the root of all evil. There are far too many stories of people picking up Elixir and coding in it as if it were Python or Ruby. You cannot base your experience with it on a codebase written by people new to functional languages.

And no one forces you to use Mox, anyway. It's far from being a core Elixir component. It is just one implementation of the mock object pattern that comes on a standalone, optional library.

> Mox is nothing more than a kludge to get around the limitations of the language

Mocks are not an Elixir invention, and exist in pretty much all languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_object
Welcome Otto!

I know many people including myself are curious on why you wrote this in Pascal?

Also, what are the main reasons Pack is faster than the tools you compare Pack with?
If we can't define consciousness then that's a very good reason not to assume that a computer program is conscious, especially when it wasn't created with the purpose of being conscious in the first place.

Consciousness is something we say animals or humans have, but not computers, so to say that a computer program is conscious it takes a lot more work and, I guess, a formal definition that most of us can agree on.
They often cut rates when a recession is in sight, and raise them when they think the market will handle it. I don't think cutting rates directly causes recessions. Interest rates are still too low but they are about to be cut to save the banks which invested in low interest bonds, presumably.
same here, very disappointing.

i suspect the client is loading "something else" (artwork, lyrics, canvas animation) over the network
I do a lot of code review for SQL. One thing that I always to is reduce the number of lines of code, usually by ~10% on the first read. I need to focus not to become a target :)
I agree. The only way to colonize other solar systems is using some sort of cryogenic technology or generation ships. And even then, no one alive will ever witness the ship arriving at the destination. Which, to me, raises the question why you should even do this. There is no benefit. Just for the solace of knowing that there is a chance your species might survive the demise of your civilization? That's not much considering the immense cost. Civilizations that do this must have some strong biological urge or have founded a suitable religion that compels them to colonize other solar systems.

That's not even considering secondary colonies. The time it takes for the passengers of a generation ship to start a new civilization and gather the resources to launch another generation ship is mind boggling. They have to ensure not to lose any knowledge or the will to colonize more solar systems. By the time they've done this a few times, it's probably not even the same species anymore.
Show HN: US AI vs Labor Stats
when do you think we might start seeing a meaningful impact?
See, to me the obvious comparison was to the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, because of the loops. I hate loops, I'm a walker not a runner, so these aren't things I have any ambition to attempt, but personally I'd rather spend six hours going to somewhere (even if to then immediately get in a car and be driven back to civilisation) than three hours in loops repeating myself.

In other ways these are very different races - Sri's race is literally around a single city block, over, and over, and over again - there's no significant climbing element, it's not really possible to get lost and it's mostly about the mental state needed if you are sufficiently capable of the running itself. But the loops, that's what jumps out at me.
> If authorities mistakenly place a distress or freeze

First I wanted to write that good luck suing you government, and even if you win, getting your money in several years… Maybe…

> personally paid by the government employee responsible

… but then I continued to read, and I’m sorry but if you think any government would be willing to do that, you might be mistaken or even delusional.

The sad truth is that as a layperson you can’t do much about it, if anything at all. And no government will be willing to let you hold it accountable in any way for even the smallest amount of money, let alone millions like you suggest.
One of the best kept secrets on the planet is that the Earth is a thermal battery that absorbs energy from the Sun. All the energy humanity needs is stored under your feet. Very little attention has been paid to extracting it until recently.
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And AI is likely a binary outcome. It’s either very good for us or not, and it won’t take a million years to figure out which. We were in caves not long ago.
Deaths of despair are at an all-time high while fertility hovers at an all-time low. Are these merely artifacts of social media or is it possible that there is something going on beyond that?

And another question - if social media is so harmful, then what of all the people on this site who helped to build it? Are they villains of the modern era, magnifying unhappiness throughout the world?
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It kind of is — except the name given to Moses is closer to "I Am Who I Am", which is consonant with the rest of the OT/NT, where God is known by what he does & what he says (revealing the contours of his character) instead of through examination, deduction, or some sort of experience of the divine.
The relative value of money and goods is changing. It might be prudent to shift some of your savings from one to the other. Luckily we have a system available which abstracts that so you don't actually have to acquire a pile of corn and hide it in the basement.
You absolutely do not have to distribute VMs manually. This [0] is a tiny Python script run as a cron that migrates VMs in a Proxmox (also free) cluster according to CPU utilization. You could extend it for other parameters.

While I don’t personally have experience with more enterprise-y solutions like VMWare, I have to imagine they have more complete solutions already baked-in.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/tokalanz/proxmox-drs
Doom and gloom also serves independent purposes and isn't just a signaling mechanism arising as a natural outcome of conditions.

Especially with social media, it's worth asking 'does anybody benefit from this particular doom and gloom being socially established and culturally adopted?'

The last thing you want to do is take such a thing at face value, and it's possible that financial markets might discount some such signals, especially if they're getting other signals that give the lie to the doom signals.
But SpaceX rockets are not manned. You can claim success from the explosion of a rocket… Imagine this flight ended up in a crash.
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As a separate note, had I encountered pack.ac link anywhere on the internet other than here with a description attached, I'd have left it immediately. It just lacks for me any info what it is and why should I try it.
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If you count reddit as the news, the whole world is pretty much on the verge of collapse.
Worse, because codegolfing the entire codebase is undesirable.
What do you mean "Society has become significantly wealthier"? When I think of wealth I think of an individual's assets to liabilities. If we look at the total value of an individual's assets with respect to the labor it can purchase, I don't think society has gotten all that wealthier. Maybe you're conflating quality of life with wealth?

Better quality and more abundant goods with decreasing marginalized labor costs is what we should expect since technology is naturally deflationary. If anything, the oddity is that food prices ever increase over time when quality is stagnant. The book "The Price of Tomorrow" does a good job giving a perspective on this.

There's also the problem of misguided/fraudulent capital investment which is when governments and corporations raise costs under the guise of technological improvements. This is when they say they add in extra processes for quality when they're really just lining their pockets. Think medical schools and doctors (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6288618/), the FDA processes(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Food_and_Drug...), etc.
Yet I wonder why despite obvious proof, people still fantasize that 30%+ of their money is actually doing something useful.

Your taxes are sent to straight to the pockets of the rich with only a small portion doing anything beneficial to society.
Hard feedback? I think this is a terrible idea. Most people put up with the "hassle" of taking real photos in order to capture the real space and time of important events in a person's life. A computer generated simulation isn't likely to be sufficient for many people. It doesn't carry the import or emotional weight of the actual event, or the provenance of actually being there. It doesn't mean anything.
Show HN: I've created a web app for creating grocery shopping list
It can help you write down the lists, stay within budget and avoid forgetting items
Indeed, it's not the same thing, but it's comparable. This lets you quickly navigate the tables in your SQLite database.
Wow what a flashback, I'm pretty sure my dad had this exact model in the 80s. I'm remembering most of the components in the picture, amazing. Thank you HN
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> “Thanks to Apple”?

Yep. They are the ones that chose to end software support for the device a mere 2 years after it was released. Or did someone else make that decision?

> And, if “the hardware works beautifully” how is it “pretty much a brick”?

Because it only runs the pre-installed apps, and not even all of them because several of the pre-installed apps rely on non-functioning cloud services. This is the fault of 1. Apple for ending OS support, 2. Cloud services ending support for old apps, and 3. 3rd party apps ending support for old devices + Apple not allowing users to download the "latest compatible version."

> iPads are not the same as laptops or desktops. Sure, you can still run some Linux distros on older 32 bit hardware, but everyone who does knows of the limitations of doing so and realize that they lack the horsepower of modern day computers and use them accordingly.

That decision about accepting the limitations and trade-offs should be in the hands of end users, not the device's manufacturer. I can install a relatively recent Linux distribution on my 20 year old PC and decide for myself whether I can live with the performance.
>however the real question is "Are quality jobs being created or do we have a glut of open burger flipping positions"

I don't get this argument. I was flipping burgers in 2008 and we saw an influx of overqualified applicants because people needed the work.

If people are not desperate enough for these jobs as menial as they are, that's still a positive economic sign. Especially when they can't find burger-flippers in our area right now at $21.89 an hour.
My take is that SQL is a bit like C - very nice to know, but move off of it to a more "managed" environment for safety and sanity.
Old-school sports leadership is a natural fit for the new wave of AI startups
I used to work with someone who was in the habit of setting root's shell to vi-mode. if you're reading this A____, fuck you.
Three reasons:

1.

In most western countries, salaries of low-skilled workers have grown faster than inflation, but salaries of high-skilled workers have grown only as fast or slower than inflation.

We (HN) live in a high-skilled bubble, and our food delivery is becoming less affordable because our door dasher is making more money.

2.

Journalism is going through a structural crisis because ppl are addicted to TikTok and co.

So jounalists struggle a lot. From their point of view, the economy looks bad. That's what sets the tone in the news.

3.

If you want to get a different president elected, a good economy is not what you want. So Republicans, Russia and China all want Americans to think that the country is going to shit, because then, they will vote in their guy.

Incidentally, the TikTok algorithm is controlled by a company that is controlled by the Chinese party.
> digital signatures are implemented in terms of asymmetric encryption

No, you're thinking of textbook RSA, which is a special case. Most signature algorithms don't work like that.
"I'm not sure if we 100% understand how close to a much greater crises we came."

That's basically my point. It doesn't seem like we changed our practices that much. I would have thought we'd test the animals, process them separately, etc.
What you say is indeed one possible way to deal with it.

Treat it as a public postcard signed with your name, and never for a minute assume that someone doesn't link what you say to your identity.

This mode of operating means you will be more polite when angered by some troll online, as you are not hiding behind some pseudonym.

And at least you won't be shocked when a Website does what Glasdoor recently did, i.e. convert from pseudonyms to people's real names WITHOUT CONSENT OR WARNING. Surely by using always your real name you will not bitch about your employer on a Website when you name is shown as the poster and you will still want to get promoted, or at least retained as an employee.
so what i'm hearing is "put chatgpt and dall-e on your resume; earn $100k more"

what a time to be alive!
Nah. I've used both types of watches and the UX is similar. Both are platforms. You can write an Android app or an iPhone app that communicates directly with a Garmin watch app. It's not a problem and there would be no need for different hardware to make an Apple Watch work fine with Android. It's purely a software limitation.