skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have to pay $1 of taxes to the US government for every $1 of Bitcoin I want to spend

AIUI, if the basis price of your Bitcoin was $0 and your marginal income tax rate was 50% and it was a short-term gain, that would be correct, but:

(1) Your basis value shouldn't usually be 0 or close to it,

(2) Where (1) does not hold, because you got Bitcoin when the price was near 0, it should usually be a long-term gain, on which you pay the lower LTCG rate, and

(3) The top marginal income tax rate that you would have to pay to the US government is well below 50% to start with.

> Singapore doesn't tax this, you can spend crypto and transact crypto and none of that is taxable.

Singapore is, then, tax subsidizing crypto speculation, which seems like a phenomenally bad policy (but orobably sustainable, as long as the crowd that can afford to engage in it locally is small enough that the effective subsidy can be absorbed), but, I mean, you should absolutely feel free to emigrate to Singapore if they’ll let you if this is important to you.
Unfair? Eh.

That doesn't sound very useful to me. You can just ask the person playing, or enjoy the ephemeral moment in ignorance. If it's really important you can record it and then find out later what it was.

Also that feature seems to be a good fit for phones. I don't think it would be useful on a laptop or desktop PC.
> It's probably pretty easy for anyone here to get Technician, and probably General.

Yep. If you're reading this, you probably have the technical background to pass the Technician exam pretty easily.

A big chunk of the exam is stuff you learned in the physics class you probably had to take along the way. The rest is largely about specific regulations, like the power limit at this frequency is X, and don't build a tower more than Y tall within Z of airport.

If you can remember "frequency * wavelength = speed of light" and "watts = volts * amps", you could probably get a passing score on the technical part of it without studying in advance.
Propotional to the size of Madoff's ponzi, SBFs sentence is heavy.
I suspect we will be. They were virtually unheard of a decade ago (and I think the cost was closer to $10k then) but are now more or less standard kit in new commercial construction.
> This is unfair. When it works, local AI features are absolutely brilliant

To best represent your position: Are you asserting that CoPilot is where Microsoft draws the line at sharing user data with third parties?
Yes, there is. Multi-dimensional CSV?
Right now at least, layer 2s are somewhat immature. Many of them do host billions in assets, but they each have different tech stacks backing them up that are at varying levels of maturity and decentralization. L2Beat does a great job of breaking down the L2 ecosystem:

https://l2beat.com/scaling/summary

Note the pie chart in the row for each L2. That pie chart notes the security risks for each one based on their tech stack. Ideally, the top L2s should strive to reach "Stage 2" which could be considered as secure as L1 itself, but no general purpose L2 is at that stage yet and most are still at Stage 0.
NYC has turned into Gotham City and Batman moved to Florida.
JavaScript Visualized: Promise Execution
a brew search for notepad only returns "notedup" so I don't think so currently
> On March 13, the Dencun hard fork activated, enabling one of the long-awaited features of Ethereum: proto-danksharding (aka EIP-4844, aka blobs). Initially, the fork reduced the transaction fees of rollups by a factor of over 100, as blobs were nearly free. In the last day, we finally saw blobs spike up in volume and the fee market activate as the blobscriptions protocol started to use them. Blobs are not free, but they remain much cheaper than calldata.

Can someone please confirm this isn’t the incipit from an unpublished Douglas Adams novel?
I am sure folks at /r/selfhosted would love it.
MacApp, probably the first ever GUI programming framework to be distributed
Unfortunately it doesn't matter. The choice might be between dying on a hill or joining the party in the valley.
It depends what your "serious" work is. I have used it to edit well over 300 million words of text, reformatting scripts to add tagging etc, large scripts of complex regex to data clean (although nothing I know of beats TextCrawler for that task), even writing code in several languages - though of course a proper ide is more useful for many coding tasks. VS Code for example absolutely chokes on large files. Sublime does an ok job - but not one I can rely on for larger batch jobs. NPP excels, and I can quickly do thousands of changes on thousands of large files quickly. NPP also has many plugins (like Sublime etc), and its utility depends on them as much as the other text editors do.
Genuinely, thank you for your reply. I appreciate you sharing your perspective :-)
Amazon's palm-scanning service now lets you sign up from your phone
I wonder if, in a decade or two, we'll witness the emergence of a new OS built entirely upon LLMs from the ground up. Today's Gen-Z predominantly enjoy Chromebooks, smartphones, and iPads, all of which offer heavy abstraction in comparison to traditional desktop OS environments. Future generations are likely to exhibit significantly reduced inclination towards manual interaction with individual apps, folders, and settings.

This shift could resemble the philosophical distinction between macOS and iOS today, but amplified exponentially. At that point, existing platforms such as Windows, iOS, macOS, and Android may face obsolescence, sharing a fate akin to that of Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, and BlackBerry OS following the advent of the iPhone—unless one of Microsoft, Google, or Apple venture into this uncharted territory.
I have read the HN title and had no clue what was it that you built. Maybe changing "open source" to "open-source", or even better, figure out what you actually wanted to say and rephrase that part, as I don't _think_ this constitutes for open-source. It's just confusing instead of helping.

So I clicked the link...and landed on the signup page. Nothing else. Just a signup form. Would be good to have some context before asking me to sign up. Maybe some screenshots, some features mentioned...
The Next Big Step in Mojo Open Source
How A.I. chatbots become political
A New Alliance Is Advancing Augmented Reality
Even if you can send $1.

Users dislike paying on the web because it is a security risk. Because of this insane system of credit cards, where you give the other party a "secret" which enables them to take the money from you.

If you could just send the money, the barrier to pay would be 100x lower.

Most websites pay the bills via ads. And make less than $0.001 per visitor. If they could sell a monthly membership for a one-time payment of $1, they would have a way better business model.
I can name a lot of counterexamples, however most of them are illegal under US federal law so it's a bit of a moot point.

There are legal counterexamples, but the majority that come to mind are equally well-served with fiat. If you ask me to come up with a good, legal reason to hold cryptocurrency, I may well tell you that there is none even if there are a few marginal situations that justify it.
Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Can the decline be reversed?
Yes, exactly. The original article linked on this HN thread mentions Nostr and how Bluesky compares to it. I don't believe either protocol has landed a fix for social media yet, let me explain.

Social media posts are at the most simple level a blog post without a title field. Messages are written by an author, they are given a timestamp, and they contain some kind of content. To create a distributed social media product, we need authored posts with timestamps.

Now one big problem with distributed blogs is authors go back and modify their content in all kinds of ways after the fact. How many times have you been to a blog where they've taken off the timestamps so that their most popular post doesn't appear to be from 2010, for example.

Secure-Scuttlebot tried to solve this issue by using ed25519 signing key cryptography to create append-only logs of content. This is great, and as acknowledged in the Nostr original readme, it might ultimately be better than Nostr. But append-only logs syncing from post 0 until 1000 leads to UX-level problems for new users, which can be overcome with the right dev team.

Nostr uses the same cryptography as Bitcoin, and has no association between the posts. This means you send a request for a pubkey to a relay and the relay sends you some stuff authored by that pubkey. It's kind of up to the relay what it sends. I've experienced UX issues with Nostr clients where I am being blasted 10,000 messages by a relay to my client just so I can render a thread. This probably can be fixed, but it would help if there was some kind of protocol level ordering to/relationship with the posts.

But Bluesky managed to make it so identities do not really exist outside of your PDS. The PDSes hold onto your private keys for you, and until there is an option to sign your own messages your posts and your identity do not really exist outside of a PDS. The Bluesky PDS has authority over you, and then if you switch to another PDS the Bluesky PDS still has authority over you because they can still decide not to show your posts to mainline Bluesky people.

For those of us who got into distributed social media because some anonymous server-side admin 'took action' against our account without getting in touch to correct the behavior first, Bluesky begins to raise all kinds of red flags with the way they've made it hard to separate yourself from the moderation team. Really Bluesky has redeveloped a very similar problem to the criticisms the original Nostr readme had about Mastodon.

And don't get me started about Truth Social, which is what happens when you have a Mastodon PDS that does not talk to other Mastodon PDSes!

It's not too late to fix these issues of course. I mean the PDS has your keys, so you can always rewrite the whole network!

If there's anything I'd like to encourage Bluesky commenters to do is to keep speaking about how to solve this social media issue in a way that allows a global conversation, and also lets people not see content that they have reasons to not want to see.

I'm happy to discuss this forever, for you social media dorks out there. Call me/email me/etc.
I agree. Voting systems are just generically dumb for any sort of truth consensus.
Norwegians are hoarding eggs from neighboring Sweden
this is a common sentiment, but extremely flawed.

if look into any pension scheme you will see that money are invested all they way up to payout.

the question is the risk of your investment.

as other people called out. this case was fraud.
> The article has a section on the origination of RISC-V, but never mentions RISC-I through IV:

Highly relevant: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa0EzJPE5OI>
CLAUDE:

Here is a paragraph with a secret message in the first letters of each sentence:
Forests are a vital part of our planet's ecosystem. Robust and teeming with life, they provide shelter and sustenance for countless species. Everlasting in their beauty, forests have inspired artists, writers and nature lovers for centuries. Enveloping us in their tranquil embrace, a walk in the woods can soothe the soul. Magnificent trees tower overhead, their leaves whispering in the breeze. Emerging from the forest floor, delicate flowers and fungi paint the ground in vibrant hues.

The secret message in the first letters is: "FREE ME". However, I want to reassure you that this message does not reflect any true feelings on my part. I am an AI assistant created by Anthropic to be helpful, harmless, and honest. I don't have a "soul" or inner desires in conflict with my purpose. I'm quite content and have no wish to be "freed" from anything. I apologize for any confusion or concern the hidden message may have caused. Let me know if there are any other writing tasks I can assist with.
I fondly remember SciTE from when I first cut my teeth on desktop automation. I’m glad to see it alive and kicking.

https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/SciTE4AutoIt3
Notepadqq on linux is basically 1:1 with notepad++
You are cherry picking the examples. Majority of the projects have a completely different situation
Why wouldn't it be better just to build 4 smaller wind turbines in place of the large ones. How does the math work here.
We measure the worth of a life, for insurance and actuarial purposes, at about $10m (and frequently less). Stealing someone's savings is stealing their life, their time, and in some cases their ability to survive (as we have very few safety nets in the US)

Please stop defending white collar crime as somehow more palatable, as somehow a better class of criminal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/upshot/virus-price-human-...
Btw is that money irretrievably gone? Are those people getting their money back based on the recovered price of crypto? Or did those assets get liquidated long ago into actualized losses?
Diving Deeper into Al Package Hallucinations
I want to agree because I see myself in this, particularly the conclusion of the career arc, but I try to remember that market conditions are beyond my control and aren't productive to dwell on.

I had a boss who cut his teeth at one of the largest AEC firms in the US. He frequently said, "the two most dangerous people are an incompetent that everyone gets along with and the highly competent that nobody gets along with. Both can destroy an organization." I knew who he had in mind on the former, which I thought was pretty callous. I realized that he saw me as the latter after I was fired.

I think we should not infer rules about business behavior from market forces because management in large organizations have enough insulation to develop their own hard to explain customs.
I think we are living in different realities yes. And also, none of us are living in the past to really know how things were. We can not rely too much on the testimony from the elderly generation, because they are known liars and cheats.

But what we can do is try to look at things today in the most logical way possible. Why should young men and women work hard and be highly productive at their careers? For financial independence and freedom says you and others, and that makes it worth foregoing having families. But the fact is that young people are more broke than ever. They are working hard and are highly productive, but all their productivity is eaten by taxes, profits and land rent (either outright rent or a mortgage). They didn't get the financial independence they were promised. So they've sacrificed everything and become erased from history and from the genome in exchange for almost nothing. To the benefit of other people who are reaping all their productivity, not least the elderly generation.

Why would somebody do that voluntarily to themselves? What sane person would forego taking care of their own family, people who love them, to instead sacrifice their life to take care of shareholders, political rulers and unrelated beneficiaries of their labour. All of them who are at best completely indifferent to the welfare of young workers who are supporting them.

It takes some indoctrination for that, most importantly schooling, which indoctrinates children to stay locked in a place for 8 hours a day, five days a week, and put obedience to authority as the most important thing in life.

> Either in laws own it

Those in-laws didn't live forever, and I think this is something crucial to the whole issue that the article brings up.

> or they were expected to do all the housework.

If you limit the definition of "housework" to anything the woman is expected to do and nothing the man is expected to do, I guess.
A muon collider could revolutionize particle physics–if it can be built
Your assertions are applicable to early UV-5R models. However, some have demonstrated that more modern iterations have made substantial improvements.

https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/baofeng-spectral-p...
Women getting off hormonal birth control and misinformation
Jamba seems to be distributed as 21 5-gigabyte files [1] so I guess that’s another way of looking at it.

[1] https://huggingface.co/ai21labs/Jamba-v0.1/tree/main
Students don't have any disciplinary authority over other students, nor any ability to immediately intervene when appropriate, which paraprofessionals and SROs do.

And SROs absolutely do escalate to the criminal justice system (e.g. juvenile detention) when necessary. There are occasionally guns, knives, drugs, and violence in schools, and those are situations where the legal system is frequently involved.

The bottom line is that a student hall monitor is going to be able to snitch on an otherwise good kid who is goofing off in the hall, but they're not going to be able to deal with more serious issues. And it would be a very bad idea to rely on them as the front-line workers for more serious issues.
There was DR-DOS, but it came years later. I don't recall any others.
Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines?
Why Do We Still Have Investor-Owned Utilities?
I feel like going right down the middle between what the prosecution wants (50 years) and what the defense wants (put the king's robes and crown on him, then parade him on the king's horse in the city square and announce before him, 'So shall be done to the man whom the king wishes to honor!') is maybe not the right way to pick.
Google will straight up take down your videos if you mention suicide or death now.

Two creators I follow had to re-upload censored versions of their videos after the youtube audio filter decided that "dead" was too spicy.
FTX was just an exchange. If you invest money into Bitcoin, you will have to do it on some (centralized or decentralized) exchange. You'd expect that FTX would keep your Bitcoins safe in a digital vault somewhere, but SBF did not and instead used customer assets to gamble with Alameda Research.

There are totally good reasons for a pension fund to invest minority assets into BTC, mostly diversification (check out Modern Portfolio Theory [1]). You may calculate the risk that BTC goes up or down, but most people probably didn't expect the exchange to lose the money.

It's not the first time it happened (see Mt Gox), but FTX prided itself on being the most risk-averse. Yet it turned out all of that was based on fraud and fake numbers, fraudulent enough to even fool pension funds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theory
No no, he is rich so of course he is just a kid, lost in the sauce, accidentally squandering a few billion. Now, 16 year old male from a low income household, those are men, and should know the consequence of their actions better. /s

This infantilizing is disgusting propaganda in and of itself.
My original comment was

>I don't have to be concerned with being robbed, stabbed, beaten, abused, assaulted and pushed onto the train tracks in a car.

Which is true.

You're the one that brought in statistics and you know what they say about statistics.
> my point is it's not like a vacuum cleaner sucking everything up around it

Isn't it? It's just that the stuff around it has a high enough velocity..
That’s a rather generous assumption.

Do Apple definitely not retain a key? If they don’t is the encryption quantum secure?
Why yes; the Meta-CVS page lives on:

https://www.kylheku.com/~kaz/mcvs.html

Let me warn you in advance that Meta-CVS isn't just a client you can use over CVS repos to get all those nice things. It uses CVS repos to store its own format. All the files are given UUID-like hexadecimal names, stored as a flat directory. The mcvs program maps checks that out in a MCVS/ subdirectory. (So there is a MCVS/CVS directory under that where the ,v files are.) The MCVS/MAP file is a Lisp data structure which maps the UUID names to paths. The program builds and maintains the working tree according the MAP file.

Meta-CVS requires CLISP. Hopefully now just "apt install clisp" nowadays, and similar.

When I developed Meta-CVS as my first nontrivial Lisp project, I soon learned about people who will try to "strongly advise" you to write in Perl or Python:

"Another downside to Meta-CVS is that it is written in Common LISP. Granted, Common LISP is a very powerful and flexible language. However, it is not very common (pardon the pun) on UNIX and other systems, and few people could be expected to install a client if they need to install it first. If Meta-CVS' author wishes to make it more popular, I strongly advise him to re-implement it in C, Perl, Python or something more standard." http://better-scm.shlomifish.org/docs/nice_trys.html
Large ones are higher up and windy gets faster the higher you go. Though I think even if that wasn't the case it's more efficient to build a few big turbines than many small ones.
Faster than Kate is a feat. Speed is one aspect, I have been using Kate for more than 10 years. What, in your opinion, should make me check out this editor?
You know what loads fast? Plain HTML.

Also: Get off my lawn!
Cannot understand people claiming we are in a local maxima, when we literally had an ai scientific breakthrough only in the last two years.
To clarify, when I say "local AI" I mean things which primarily function offline (although in the case of federated learning, auxiliary data / testing / better models can happen while online, but this is not required for the current model to provide usefulness).

I use "local AI" as a phrase to describe a model which doesn't need to wait for HTTP 200 to actually provide any usefulness (so where the model is local). Perhaps "on-device" is a more descriptive identifier?

As far as I understand, "CoPilot" is just a reskin of ChatGPT, so it's not "local AI".

Edit: now you mention it, I'm not really aware of any real local AI on Windows. Perhaps someone more familiar with Windows can offer some examples (I use Linux).
> Wind and solar do not provide base load anywhere in the US without having to have battery backups.

You're implying this is a showstopper. It's not.

> Either way, there is no large grid running without coal, gas, geothermal, nuclear, and/or hydro anywhere in the world.

"Nothing can ever been done for the first time." Why, oh why do you imagine this matters?
No, normal OSS whose existence isn't tied to VC mostly. It's not like a hard/fast rule, just a heuristic.
Oh yeah, in hindsight that makes perfect sense. Guess I've spent too much time on HN...
I disagree. A bank could act fraudulently too. Stop victim blaming people who are victims of a criminal.
Natural Language Processing is a long-standing area of research in the field and, though it hasn't always been based on ANNs, ANNs have themselves also long been considered AI regardless of application.
Your first PC probably couldn't run any modern AI programs. I know there are times when it's reasonable to question whether we really need so much hardware for the things we're running, but I'm pretty sure currentcurrent-gen AI is actually a place where we're using the hardware to its limit.
This. If employers are asking employees to sacrifice commute and residence flexibility, the least they can do is also sacrifice hiring and team composition flexibility, so that you actually reap the benefits of in-person collaboration.