skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, other cultures are stupid.
A chicken once beat a friend of mine at tic-tac-toe at a state fair.
If that's an accurate quote then I owe you an apology and I'm sorry!
40btc or $2.5mm looks like 5x - 10x "current normal". 2800 txn/block and $10-$20 average fee over the last week.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...

Bitcoin Average Transaction Fee is at a current level of 16.50, down from 19.38 yesterday and up from 2.046 one year ago. This is a change of -14.88% from yesterday and 706.6% from one year ago.
No Datadome Javascript:

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=785224083892&w=_oUAVgbcks3...
Show HN: I built a small utility that handles multiple browser instances for you
I'm a consultant and I normally deal with multiple clients. I need an isolated browser for each to maintain my sanity.

I could create separate profiles in Chrome and Firefox but the main issue is when you click on a link outside of the browser (e.g. in your IDE), in which profile should it be opened?

I wrote a Python script that redirects URLs to the correct browser instance and set it as my default browser. Over time, the script has grown and become essential to my work. I cleaned it up and open-sourced it. Hope that someone else may find it useful too!
Several major variables:

- Valuation of BTC
- Size of block reward
- Cost of hardware GPUs or ASICs
- Cost of power
You can say it has always been about that, but for many, myself included, it’s about health and environmental impact first.
It would be interesting to have a couple of "time-limited human" entrants. 10 second human, 1 minute human, 10 minute human. See where they fall on the leaderboard. You could even have the people doing the voting randomly assigned to be the human sometimes.

You'd know that one of the entries was a human because of the latency, but you wouldn't know which one (obviously the chatbot response would be delayed to match).

I guess the problem is people would try to game the system by leaving tells in their response so you'd know that a human wrote it. You could block obvious ones but that would create a meta game of circumventing the block.
>> ideas are supposedly not worth anything

If ideas are worth nothing then a great team executing well should be able to create a billion dollar company selling dog droppings.

Anyone who says ideas are worth nothing is flat out wrong.
There's a link to the arxiv paper, which is about as much as you can expect from a gee-whiz science blog. It's too technical for me to evaluate properly, but it seems like pure mathematical modeling. I'm not sure how one would falsify or validate such a theory, but i'm glad people are working on such concepts.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13859
That's just the demographic crisis playing out:)
I'm not sure that argument is rigorous enough to be called a proof. We have no guarantee that the S&P 500 will grow faster than world wealth.
It's plausible it will, but one could reasonably purchase something like gold or BTC to hedge against scenarios where it doesn't.
This is honestly boomer humor that has long since expired. Sometimes people simply choose healthier options and tell no one.
LLM poetry is still quite vogonic, so perhaps it was an ethically sound refusal?
Reminds me of an app I built ~20 years ago now.

We wanted a cross-platform C++ layer and native Cocoa front end. Objective C++ wasn’t a thing then, and having built a plain C shim previously I didn’t want to repeat the experience.

We built our own bridge by registering our C++ classes with the Obj-C runtime, generating selectors for all the methods so you could send messages to (carefully constructed) C++ objects using Obj-C syntax, or even subclass from C++ to Obj-C.

It was a pretty neat trick, but would’ve been difficult to port to the Obj-C 2 runtime.
I think you're on to something. The reason programmable mice haven't caught on (they've been tried), is that they haven't made sense in our current paradigm of computer interaction. Most productivity programs revolve around the keyboard still, for better or worse. Since mice are rarely used with tablets and phones, this leaves them to be exclusively used with desktops and laptops, which usually lack a touch component to their screens (once again, something that was tried and didn't catch on). When an ergonomic keyboard offers dozens of quickly accessible keys to all 10 fingers, why would one locate a button on an oddly shaped mouse, a button accessible to only a couple fingers on one hand most likely?

That said...recent software (such as Figma) has spanned an awkward gap of trying to be equivalently usable on desktop, tablet, and phone. Maybe a programmable mouse for a device that's typically not used with a physical keyboard (tablet, phone) makes sense, and the idea hasn't been explored thoroughly.
Unfortunately dang we will always be yin and yang (founders and vc/yc).

If I have a thousand applications lying on my desk, my first task would be to remove everyone that has even the slightest issue. There is absolutely no way you would know who is going to be successful so your job is not to find the winners but get rid of the losers.

Unfortunately VCs have a power over startups. Any startups they touch will have higher chance to succeed. And when the winds are strong even the chickens can fly so it's not that you choose the right startups, its just that the startups YC chooses become right.

Not saying you are wrong but let's just agree to disagree ;)
Twice the people are working now than then, unless you count children
I can only speak to my own (recorded) experiences. But it was...miserable at launch

https://youtu.be/TttY0ZpwFw8
I believe that unchanged thing is awareness which in Yoga Sutra is called “pure consciousness” which is both the observer and the background of any changing senses. The pure awareness is the source of the feeling of “I AM” and the sutra began by saying this I AM likes to identify whatever it creates as itself.

Experiences are outside material world. There is nothing you can call “pain”, but only evidence of it, be it physiological or physical or metabolical or neurological.

Yet first and foremost, the entire world is based on senses isn’t it? The only thing any experiencer can prove without any “evidence” is that he is. The existence of experience is self lroving. Beyond that how can anyone prove that there is actually a world beyond mind? The world is a model in one’s consciousness. It is constructed with consciousness and is therefore full of consciousness.

How can anyone assume things beings or animals without consciousness exists?

Objectivity?
Well I have an internal monologue and I think in language a lot, but I wouldn't say the sentence is on my mind before I write it. It's more like I redirect the stream of language to the page, so instead of saying the words to myself I write the words.

I find writing very useful for thinking. It focuses the monologue and you don't need to strain your short-term memory as much when reasoning about elements in the stream, it's like doing maths on paper instead of in your head.

I'm sure you experience the same thing when talking, you don't say each word to yourself before you say it out-loud (perhaps you do?). Also, where are the words before you say them to yourself, they are kind of a surprise no? Just as you describe writing.
if it made sense to rent them on the chance of getting the reward, who who had them would rent them to you rather than pursuing the reward themselves?
It’s not that I need to be reminded of it exactly, so much as I am extremely impatient with it. Still, I think it might be worth me getting tested.

I am very aware that HR is not my friend. I have posted about this here before, but there was a time that I asked an HR person to keep a conversation between us in regards to some medical history, they agreed, and the next day my immediate manager is asking me about it, despite the fact that I never told him about this. Treat HR like a police interrogation and keep your answers as utilitarian as possible.
Didn't a bunch of hackers start up as phreakers ?
> No investor is going to give you specific feedback.

That depends on what you mean by "specific."

Several Sand Hill Angels members, who are investors, provide feedback almost every month. (It's in the context of a pitch, but...)

See https://www.sandhillangels.com/raw

("pitch practice" is somewhat misleading.)

[edited to add some detail]

The typical angel-group pitch has three parts, the pitch, the Q&A, and then the "with the entrepreneur out of the room" discussion.

This event lets participants listen to that discussion, as well as those three parts for the other folks pitching the same night.

Then there's an "ask investors anything" session at the end.
Why don't you list some legitimate and useful values of this work? Especially at the price we and this company are paying.
I have trouble understanding why the replacement will cost $400,000.

They cite that each one requires a dedicated fiber optic cable. Is there a reason they can't use wireless links?
But I do find that amazing?
That's a verbatim quote copied from the rejection email.

You don't owe an apology because you are not the one rejecting it. However keep in mind that what your beliefs are, they are not the same held by colleagues/friends/families.
If it's possible to buy Bitcoin in such a country, I would assume it would be possible to buy dollars, bonds or stocks. But maybe not.

My guess is that inflation-protection in a 3rd world country is only a very minor reason for Bitcoin ownership, i.e. the vast majority of Bitcoins are owned for different reasons. Which has implications for its future price.
Farm: Fast Vite-compatible web build tool written in Rust
Perhaps you should give an estimate of bitcoin's worth compared to world wealth. Because my guess is bitcoin is worth a lot less then world wealth, meaning btc growth could outpace average world wealth growth for some time.
For accepting crypto payments wouldn't I be better off accepting a stable coin? Most companies I saw in the past were nominally accepting crypto but going through a service that would just pay out the USD equivalent.

I guess with software margins there is a bit more room to move with price fluctuations. For ecommerce though accepting and holding a currency that moves this much could quickly erode the smaller margins.
It sounds like this would have taken off if it were added to various managed cloud load balancers based on what you're saying.

The only question I have is if it opens up a different can of worms even if you've got a magic box terminating layer 7 for you or not. Never dug deep enough into mptcp myself to know.
If that was correct, every miner would have to win every block to stay in business. That's clearly not the case.
You're talking about Gridcoin. It didn't do too great economically, for reasons that become obvious when you think about it for a while. It was a great way to fund research, but you can't actually build a global economy on BOINC tasks.
Threads like this strongly reinforce my belief that we live in a simulation, this comment section is surreal.
You build the biggest thing you can within a parcel because there is plenty of demand at the top of the market. Want more, smaller homes? Reduce or eliminate minimum lot sizes, setbacks, constraints on number of units, and process required towards entitlement.

What is legal is what gets built. Not enough is legal, and not enough is built as a result.
Even if your argument were logical, “at some undetermined point in the future, this investment will underperform a different potential investment” is all you’d be proving.
I'm not sure what you mean by "real" calculus course. Physics applies calculus to solve certain problems. To claim one subject is more "real" than the other doesn't make sense to me.
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It will always make economical sense to mine, because difficulty automatically adjusts. The issue is when it becomes cheap enough to do a 51% attack.
but but but layer 2s!
That change in population map is cool...
Oh thank goodness. These “safe” AIs are such crap.
More like slightly slower but 10x cheaper. Honestly, using CPUs for inference just frees up more Nvidia GPUs to be used for training.
Just enter some kind of dummy text/fake profile URL that indicates you don't have an account? I can't imagine it's seriously a hard requirement; you creating a basically empty account now just to be able to provide a real URL isn't better than 'N/A'.
Fun is an excellent reason when its really fun and keeps being fun long, comes at a reasonably humble cost. To me compiz always felt the buggiest pieces of software ever while the real fun of it was just some minutes of wow, then just unnecessary pain.
Because they gained physical access to the machines holding the coins? Surely you understand the difference there right?

If all of your money is being held by random companies, it's not really your money is it? Cryptocurrencies give you all the autonomy of cash, while still allowing you to send it to anyone over the internet.
That's definitely not the case.
You mean the "single vendor" fork from Turso, the VC funded startup [1]? Thanks but no thanks, I'll stick with D. Richard Hipp.

[1] https://turso.tech/investors
This is largely incorrect

In order to meet the 2014 launch deadline, the MCC was carved up game-by-game and handed off to different studios for each incarnation.

Halo 2 in particular was handled by the "less than stellar" Saber Interactive
I decided to listen to a Dwarkesh episode as a result of this thread. I chose the Eliezer Yudkowsky episode. After 90 minutes, Dwarkesh is raising one of the same 3 objections for the n-teenth time, instead of leading the conversation in an interesting direction. If his other AI episodes are in the vein as other comments describe, then this does seem to be plain old positive AGI optimism bias rather than some special interview technique. In addition, he's very ill-prepared in that he doesn't seem to have attempted to understand the reasons some people have for believing AGI to be a threat.

On the other hand, Yudkowsky was a terrible guest, in terms of his public speaking skills. He came across as combative. His answers were terse and he spent little time on background information or otherwise making an effort to explain his reasoning in a way more digestible for a general audience.
> which is that longer names are better than shorter names, or whether the advice you learned was that descriptive names are better than non-descriptive names

Are you even a developer?

In the programming world "longer names" is universally understood (except apparently by you) to mean "longer due to being more descriptive". NOBODY thinks that making identifier names longer just for the hell of it beneficial.

It's as if a chess player is describing to you the importance of controlling the center of the board, and you are wondering out load if they mean controlling it by clamping it to the table.

Perhaps you think suggestions like this make you sound smart. They don't.
Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks due to stuck accelerator pedal issue
Context: Bitcoin miners have just adopted a 50% pay cut for themselves. This pay cut was baked into Bitcoin protocol at the launch of the network (mostly, see "BIP 42" [1]). The OP link gives information about the block in which this pay cut was made.

I get that HN comments tend to dismiss Bitcoin. But the fact that for the fourth time this pay cut has happened without a hitch speaks volumes to what makes Bitcoin interesting: It's a rare combination of economic incentives and technology that keeps chugging. Nobody can stop it. And it's extremely resistant to change. It requires no governmental approval. All attempts at subversion or interference have failed. There aren't many systems that come close to that kind of record.

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0042.mediawi...
Bitcoin's market cap can't grow faster than world wealth perpetually. S&P 500 can and has consistently done so. Does it make sense now?
you can start reading the final answer before you finish the less significant digits

Can you say more about this? Don't you always have to be prepared to change even the first digit?

Like if you're adding 445 and 454, the first digit is 8. But, if just one of the last digits is increased by one, the first digit is 9.

I know this sort of technique is useful for estimating, but it sounds like you were talking about something exact?
No, because multiple companies are pushing this atm. If it was only company I would agree, but with multiple, you'd have at least one that would back out of it again.
> the possibility for ethical, sustainable business models is still very real.

Those exist everywhere in the trades. Every major city has dozens of small businesses doing plumbing, electrical, roofs, etc., with the goal of sustainable, loyal customers based on doing a good job at a fair price.
> Gates, Jobs, and Zuck

Harvard, Reed, Harvard.

Any drop out from any of those has hurdled more than 98% of the general college corps. Or at least that would be a rational assumption by the VC cadre that is probably in the top 0.1% and an Ivy League grad.
As your link explains, in some jurisdictions all that is needed to collect biological samples is reasonable suspicion.

Geofenced warrents are already a thing. While they may not be constitutional, that hasn't stopped them from being issued and executed.

DNA from ACs could also be used to supplement other data to target specifc inhabitants with warrants.

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I guess step 1 would be respecting the consciousness of all humans right?
That repo is not actually VS Code. What you get when you download compiled VS Code releases includes proprietary, closed-source components. If you build “VS Code” from OSS components, you do not end up with VS Code.
Gold was used as a currency for ages, and it's similar to bitcoin (limited amount with a bit of gold being mined every year)
The truly worrying part of Google's reaction was firing people who just stopped by to talk to the protestors.

The rest was fairly standard operating practice for corps.
The coincidence between this and bitcoin halving is fucking hilarious
Video codec written in C89 using wavelets (not DCT), comparable to MPEG-1/2
>People learn to live within their means, but still, it takes a certain privilege to say "life is more than just money".

It really only takes the realization there was a world before accounting. There is more to life than just money.
I think the author is critiquing this worldview, so let's go with that.

The folks who subscribe to it can be hard to engage with to varying amounts. XKCD-435 is a good example of ingroup positioning relates to intra-group positioning.

I'm turning 40 this year and it's very possible to find social groups who that don't engage in this worldview. Being part of a group that practices listening and support brings me joy and hopefully joy to others.

https://xkcd.com/435/
I do think this was well written and informative. I have a request (I know I know another entitled non customer).

Why not tell me how fast they are supposed to be? I hear "they are so fast it sounds like a brag but no really they are super fast" and I just want to know: how fast? I did 2-3 searches and didn't find an answer.

Google publishes instructions for benchmarking via fio. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/benchmarking-loc...

I understand more than most just how variable these results can be but I've always appreciated that the gcp docs essentially give customers repro steps for confirming performance.
Oops, read the numbers backwards; you're right, the GPU was still a bit faster. Still, yeah, if it's significantly cheaper that's still a huge win.
>If I had "using namespace std;" then all of my code is suddenly broken.

If this happened and if you included that specific header, you would get a simple compiler error due to ambiguous methods. Then you can simply add a namespace somewhere and move on. I know sometimes this can involve a lot of changes (if we're talking about other `using namespace ...` usage) but in general you're not gonna have problems.

If you're really worried about this, you can move the statement closer to where you need it. This is very helpful for dense code that you normally want to be verbose.
There are quite a few scary competent people working on this type of thing in various places in the federal government.

Not everyone wants to work on the stuff that SV pays for, or the finance people pay for.
SCTP can run over UDP. It's part of the spec.

Now we have HTTP3 which runs over UDP - where there is a will, there is a way.

Perhaps SCTP was ahead of its time.
Always strikes me as a weird take.

There’s nothing anyone can do about it. As long as someone somewhere in the world keeps mining it will continue to exist.

It would take the equivalent of a world war effort to, maybe, get enough people to stop mining, that a 51% attack could be successfully carried out. At which point the community would just fork and continue on.

The only realistic option is to outcompete it. Build something better, where even the most greedy bad actors want in on the new thing, not because it’s better for the environment, but because it’s better for them (and happens to also be better for the environment).

What people can do though, is try to get gas-powered leaf blowers banned in your neighborhood, and expand from there.
This is subjective. I personally always loved upgrading the hell out of old PC (install the maximum possible memory and CPU after patching the BIOS and soldering the socket, add a SATA card to a computer which only had IDE etc).
You're about to observe the obvious etymology of several common English terms and phrases. :)
I would never contribute to commercially backed, freely licensed project unless I was being paid. Saying this as a developer who is paid for exactly that, not it any inside knowledge that points to ulterior motives, but just the idea of giving a company free labour is unsettling.
Bitcoin is about 0.3% of world wealth, gold 3%. My estimate is that peak Bitcoin is anywhere between the current 0.3% and 1.5% (implied price $325k). After this peak is reached, and there's a chance it has already been reached, it won't recover for decades or forever. And my guess is that this peak Bitcoin will happen within a decade.
Even if it did make more sense in straight EV terms no one is running that calculation of you're in three business of renting GPUs you'd rent them out either way unless it was a really high probability of success.
Well then I think I might have plans this weekend. Thanks!
Finished basements.

The house in 1950 had a unfinished basement and was listed at 1200 sq ft. They finished the basement and later sold it as 2400. The difference is a couple pallets of drywall.
if you like the "book", you may like the scottish book.

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

eastern european mathematics ...