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The Bitcoin Writing Contest: $$17.5 in Prizes
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The #bitcoin Writing Contest by Rootstock & HackerNoon

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Explore various Bitcoin topics, both new and old, such as Runes, what Satoshi’s writings mean to you, ordinals, layer 2 solutions, sidechains, how Bitcoin changed finance forever, and/or quality analysis about its price prediction or impact on inflation.

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Delve into the development stack and tooling related to building on Bitcoin, including SDKs, APIs, smart contract development frameworks, etc. Developers and makers should showcase the technical capabilities for building with Bitcoin.

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That’s a feature of a job market, not a bug.
That supercharger dominance is much less so in Europe. I'd even say, completely nonexistent. Therefore, much more even competition. And Tesla's competition at similar prices is just getting started - to me it seems that the technological gap (if there ever was such a thing) has been completely levelled, and the cars from all other factories are iterating faster and more efficiently. Turns out that if the big car companies really go for it, their ability to build good EVs isn't systematically worse than Tesla's. Not that any sane person ever really thought that, other than hype believers.
> I can imagine a world without private land ownership that still grants people rights to privacy and autonomy in their home

I dare say that you don't have to imagine, and there are past and current examples of societies that are closer to your vision than what modern developed nations allow for in terms of private land ownership. I think the median person is better off in systems that allow for private land ownership than not.

Look at China: they don't have to deal with private property rights, so they're able to build tons of infrastructure to benefit the people (good!). But the same powers that let government do that are also used to horribly oppress minority groups like the Uyghurs (bad!).

Of course, things owned by the people can be run for the benefit of the people if the people are composed of angels in perpetuity; but that, I'm afraid, will have to remain in the realm of imagination. ;-)
Probably. AI and LLM are pretty good at detecting extreme outliers and staying on the highly probable path.
> nurses in intensive-care units and others do the same.

The last time I was in hospital, I came out the next day and my ears were ringing for a couple of days from the _constant_ ringing of alarms.
There are plenty of government programs and nonprofits that help the needy. They work for 80% of the homeless.

The issue with the chronically homeless who make up the other 20% is that they refuse the help because they don't want to follow rules such as curfews and no drugs & alcohol. The main reason for this is that most of them suffer from mental illness. This is a medical issue.
Ask HN: Realtime conversation transcription / processing tool
I had a conversation with a contractor in person covering many details of a job. I started taking notes, which is distracting but then pivoted to a voice recording.

I later used the open source Macos app Aiko and GPT-4o to summarize the conversation, distill it into specific points and find missing pieces of information for follow-up.

I'd like an app that performs all of this in realtime, perhaps in response to a system prompt about what it should be doing. Ideally, re-evaluating its response based on new information on some content or time delta basis.

This way, I can get immediate feedback on points I may have missed or that should be followed up on before ending the meeting.

Anyone aware of an existing or proposed tool like this, on iOS or otherwise?

Ideally all work could be done on device with a local LLM.
> I also think it's interesting that the 2008 mortgage crisis was very close to becoming just as bad as the great depression, but fiscal policy prevented that.

Compare unemployment in the Great Depression vs Great Recession:

https://i.imgur.com/pjyczeq.png

Fiscal policy certainly did help, but the Great Recession probably would have still been significantly smaller than the Great Depression for several reasons.

(I suspect the Great Recession is more analogous to the Long Depression of the late 19th century, in that both of them significantly worsened inequality, while the Great Depression reduced inequality. I suspect whenever the US starts dealing with its mountain of debt, the resulting recession/panic/depression will also reduce inequality, though I doubt too many people will be cheering that when it happens).
MIT companies in aggregate don't add up to a Google. ChatGPT did a pretty good job with these prompts and renders a pie chart with outdated valuations. Chat sharing doesn't work with the embedded pie charts, here are the prompts:

"Can you produce a pie chart of the top 10 most valuable MIT companies?"
<followed by some corrections and clarifications "Google is not an MIT founded company">

"Can you produce a pie chart of the top 10 most valuable Stanford companies?"

(Elon Musk went to Stanford for two days so it counted Tesla.)
Hodinkee Built a $100M Watch Empire. Then the Market Tanked.
It's hard because, a lot of this stuff (async WASM, effect-driven WASM, GC in WASM, etc) is all driven by the desire to push these concerns out of wasm bytecodes, because it explodes the binary's size.

I have a pretty trivial webapp written in Yew and I stopped working on it once I saw that the wasm artifacts were weighing at 4MB (uncompressed) for relatively little functionality. THIS is what is driving the next round of "work" on WASM: to wring more functionality out of a system (WASI 0.1) designed as a drop-in replacement for emscripten output. As an aside on this point, the author is waaaay in front of their skies with basically all of their critiques around ByteCode Alliance; A lot of innuendo to basically serve a rhetorical point that isn't really true (WASI 0.1 is "good enough"). It has drawbacks! That's what the iterations on the protocol are exploring!

And this tech is cool and all, but right now a reasonably-vanilla typescript react app w/ a modern bundler (ie including stuff like router, redux, oidc, etc) is beating the breaks off of a similar app in Rust or C#/Blazor in terms of bin size. And there's no perf or API-surface argument that overcomes this. And it has chilling effect on developers when they reach for this tech.
> Is there really any reason to buy a Tesla if you want an EV other than as a status symbol?

In most head-to-head comparisons between like models: Goes farther. Goes much faster. Holds more stuff. Seats more people. Charges at more spots. Vastly better charging experience ("plug in and walk away"). Vastly better infotainment system. Vastly better autopilot experience vs. mere "cruise control and lane keeping". New car prices are often cheaper, even.

Your Bolt may be a very useful vehicle but you're not going to road trip around the mountain west in it (though to be fair the linked article is about Europe). It'd be hard pressed just to take you skiing.
The silver spray paint in universe is basically preparing yourself to enter heaven (Valhalla) "all shiny and chrome", implying that being shiny and chrome is a higher state of being than being rusty and covered in dirt, which makes a hell of a lot of sense in universe. This particularly shows up in the difference between the leaders' cars (e.g. Immortan Joe) and the War Boys' cars. The War Boys are essentially on a death clock due to illness, so they act as suicide fighters. The Psychotic flash bang was really effective in communicating the cult of personality that Immortan Joe has cultivated. I really liked it because the world building was incredible IMO.
OK, let's do this. But then, at the same time, all grazing rights on public land should be stripped from ranchers.
I believe that macOS still ships with DTrace; Xcode Instruments was originally built on top of it.

https://dtrace.org

(Some people find it easier to write a one-line script that reports the timings that they need; I don't know if it helps you.)
The XC30 is a Zeekr under the hood
Dan Worrall's channel is incredible for these types of sound engineering topics.

https://www.youtube.com/@DanWorrall
Maybe online "learn lisp" repls should implement paredit keybindings in their editor and have a short section on how to manipulate s-expressions. Because you're gonna have to learn it to use the language, but it also helps people understand from the start that "oh, so using the language isn't actually complete shit".

Instead, this fact always seems glossed over, and because of it anyone who spends 60 seconds writing lisp by hand into a repl assumes that's the lisp experience and nopes out forever. When in fact paredit makes lisps the easiest-to-edit languages in the world.
It's not, it's mostly a sign that benefits are working.

Giving workers benefits /increases/ their compensation because it increases their negotiating power. This means they're earning more than they otherwise would. Not less.

If it was less, that would mean benefits are bad and we should take them away!
No one who can hold down a job and is currently employed should need government assistance to survive. Doesn’t matter if it’s Amazon or its competitors.
Big Tech thinks it can plant trees better than everyone else
> There are tons of people who like the idea of EVS but who won't by them because they're not practical based on range limitations or charging infrastructure that isn't sufficient for their needs.

Anyone thinking like that is using outdated information. Current EVs have sufficient range for effectively all but the very most extreme use cases. Charging infrastructure could be better, and will rapidly become better, but it is sufficient now if you have access to a plug overnight and don't go on weekly long-distance road trips, which covers a lot of people.
https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/hodinkee-luxury-watches-be...
It's been a slog, but I'm very happy with how the ideas in Scroll (which for all intents and purposes Tree Notation and Grammar are Scroll--99% of usage is Scroll) and PLDB have evolved.

I don't mind the pushback.

If it wasn't for the pushback against Tree Notation, I never would have started PLDB. ("Learn to research properly", one commenter once said. And he was right. I think PLDB is the proper way to do research).

It's much nicer to get pushback than crickets. That means people are generously giving their time to consider the ideas.

Crickets is the worst. I should know, I mostly get crickets.
I've no opinion on Furiosa, having not yet seen it.

It's hard to argue the pre-CGI footage of Fury Road isn't impressive, though; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3fLazkWCgE

They built functional vehicles and spent months fucking around in the desert, including actual people on the swingy poles and lots of serious stunts. I'm comfortable saying there's a contrast to, say, https://www.businessinsider.com/avengers-endgame-battle-with....
Is this a good comparison? Most businesses scrape by while Amazon is a behemoth.
In America, 100 years is a long time. In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance. Americans will very often take 500-mile drives, at least often enough to make it worth buying a car that can support it.
Yes, the solution to this problem has to be to shove AI into Citi's order management system somehow.
Not really. TSLA had a first to market edge, but they shit the bed over the past 4-5 years and are losing market share to the dinosaurs.

Doesn't help build quality has taken a nose dive. Definitely doesn't help that the CEO is unhinged.

I _almost_ bought into the hype back in 2020-2021, but backed out of my purchase due to poor build quality reports.
Doing this only makes sense if the search engine gained some nontrivial traction, at which point it becomes feasible to hire a small number of students to manually delist obvious garbage.

I guess this will hold up as long as you're not the №1 default search engine.
Computer Science is an odd match for basic programming. I would want a CS department to reject many people who are perfectly capable of making good websites.

I wish the US had a more appropriate path for "software development education" than "scientific study of computing" or commercial bootcamps.

Where I'm from, after high school there's vocational higher education (as opposed to scientific higher education), and parallel to high school there's vocational education.
Europe already has self driving to a degree. Mercedes was faster than Tesla.
Openwashing: Using the "open source" label too loosely
It's hybrids.

I know I'm going to get kicked in the dirt here for saying it. But there is evidence.

Yes, the market for pure EV is saturated. It's saturated because appealing hybrid designs have emerged and solve all the problems the rest of the (price sensitive, non-luxury) market cares about, and they're near price parity with pure ICE as well: i.e. cheaper than available EVs (as opposed to whatever Chinese EVs you have in mind.)

Plug-in hybrids are a thing now, so if your commute is reasonable you can burn zero gas for most driving, and long drives work the same as ICE: fill up and go. The rest is academic for the mass market. A Prius Prime, for example, gets up to 70 km on a full charge, and charging requires only a common 120V/15A circuit (11h). Soccer mom hauls the neighborhood around town in an eight passenger Chrysler Pacifica, and the kids plug it in when they get home. Cold weather doesn't matter either: the ICE just kicks in earlier and solves that.

There is a EIA graph over here[1] that shows (right hand side) what I'm talking about. Sum the hybrid and plug-in hybrid lines and the drop in the EV line is explained. IBD writes on this further here[2].

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62063
[2] https://www.investors.com/news/hybrid-cars-ev-electric-vehic...
Brave on Android also
Personally I like to let my children roam on my land unattended. I would not be willing to do this if random strangers were allowed onto my land.
Isn't Mercedes ahead of Tesla in self driving tech?
So, uh, Harley Davidson is a well-known brand of noisy engine cycles to you, then?
Mercedes launched level 3 autonomous vehicles in Germany a year or two ago I thought?

https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a39966189/2022-mercedes...
The Gen AI "Race to the Bottom"
This is targeted at Linux and Mac. If you're using Windows you are in the lucky position of probably not having or needing Bash.
As for the second story, "I’m kind of with Revolut here, but on the other hand, if they’re so sure it’s a scam maybe they should just not allow the transfer? Even if the customer sends the selfie? Perhaps you want a hard block here."

Do people want a block? Every story about a bank blocking a transfer draws tons of outrage. It's my money, I can send it where I want, no questions, you can't stop me, how dare you.
My car is from 2013. It’s got more safety features but I don’t think it has any way to report data about me. You could consider getting something that age, when the time comes.
It's just lore and world building: sick people getting high and also the worship of cars and "so shiny and chrome".
Volvo is also Chinese though.
What if it filters out my soulmate?
Of course they are selling it in Europe:

https://www.tesla.com/de_DE/autopilot

But this feature simply does not exist. It's a myth spread by Tesla fan boys who do not want to admit they got screwed over.

To be clear: If I drive a very easy street through my town, which is near a school, my Tesla - just like EVERY Tesla - is able to detect about 90% of trash bins on the side of the road (impressive detection rate), but only about 60% of pupils crossing the road.

If I would use Tesla's "full self driving" feature, I would be on average killing about 20 school children EVERY SINGLE MORNING.

So, no, it's not that.
> Except it isn’t. Again, you’re acting like OpenAI tried to profit off of Scarlett. They tried to profit off of the portrayal she did in the movie Her.

Ahhh... so you admit OpenAI has been shady, but you argue they're actually ripping of Spike Jones not Scarlett Johansson?

HEH. The people who say Sam is shady aren't really interested in this distinction.

(And you're wrong, both ScarJo and the film own aspects of the character they created together.)
Direct source: https://cued.uic.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/219/2024/05/Ha...

"They were recruited into the survey using the Meta/Facebook" that's a red flag on the quality of the study.

"To provide a more demographically representative picture, we reweighted survey responses using data on race and gender composition that Amazon reported to the EEOC in 2021.2" also a red flag because they already don't necessarily have a representative sample, and then are reweighting using data from a different selection criteria.

The study said that 13% of workers moved into higher paying jobs within Amazon, and their numbers were removed from the study.

Yah, I think I'm going to stop reading this study. Very low quality work.
Pointing out a phallacy is not an ad hominem. It’s attacking the argument, literally.
I always wondered: Since Alarm Fatigue is well known, why do UX designers and/or product owners keep insisting on adding new alarms for things? Surely we know they increasingly don't work, the more you have.
Show HN: Cookiecutter Data Science – V2 Launch
We've just released the V2 of the cookiecutter-data-science project template! Thanks to everyone that has used it and given feedback over the years.

Highlights include:
- New, prettier, more helpful docs
- Support for more choices for tools when using the template
- Some tweaks (but keep the core) of the folder/file structure
- New CLI entrypoint (for more flexibility going forward)
- Comprehensive test suite
- And more!

Lots has changed in the data science and machine learning landscape since V1 launched, and so we wanted to reflect that in the template. More choice is part of the plan for v2.1, so if you have tools you want supported, let us know.

To read more about the changes, what is different, what is staying the same, and our thoughts on the data science tools landscape, see the announcement blog post:
https://drivendata.co/blog/ccds-v2
The numbers country wide:

According to Pew [0]

The numbers vary from month to month. But in April 2023, the most recent month with available figures, 41.9 million people in 22.2 million households received SNAP benefits. That translates to 12.5% of the total U.S. population.

Fed says [1]

84,041,447 individuals were enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP in the 51 states and the District of Columbia that reported enrollment data for January 2024.

0 https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/19/what-the-...

1 https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/medica...
Kind of a...non-statement? Like "well, we strongly prefer when folks include open source, but this was neat and we want to be able to publish cool work, soooo...?"
If the fact that that these families grabbed that land before the union blocks state from having an easement to access the land, then the state should protect private property of these ranchers at all. So if some private militia enters and forcefully take over the ranchers land, the state should not intervene then.
It reminds me of those bird species that build and decorate elaborate little shrines and then dance around them to attract a mate. If somebody told you about them you'd say it's unbelievably absurd, of course no animal would build itself a little stage with a pile of shells and brightly colored objects to dance around in... and other birds would come over to steal and sabotage. And yet there it is on video, that exact thing.

Weird cult practices are very human and all over the place, from the outside they don't make sense. Especially in warfare, strange psychotic over the top practices are exemplified many times. "This is a practical and reasonable thing to do" doesn't really come into it. Although, to be fair, getting your warriors in an unhinged altered state of mind is a quite effective way to motivate them to do what you want.
Put some fear in Palo Alto and Fortinet? btw, saw this earliler on twitter also. nvr a dull moment with hock tan
AI-Free Google Search
How are Microchips Made? [video]
You think the problem here is that the outlier wasn't detected?
I think the big problem was that digital technology just wasn’t good yet to bother making a digital camera. It’s not just the sensor… it’s also storage and processing and it took a few decades before digital cameras were good.

Investing in digital cameras was going to require many years of R&D with little payback. Someone like Sony could do it because they have all these other business sectors to subsidize development.

If Kodak couldn’t go into the chemical business, I’m not sure what else they could have done then.
I wonder if a solution on touch is a (?) icon next to the human date? Or is that too much clutter?
Are you really saying, “But Walmart doesn’t pay a living wage either so it’s okay?”

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...
> However, as data from that external feed was unavailable, the price of the value of the Index instead defaulted to -1

To me, this reeks of a couple of bad experiences I had repeatedly as a back end developer coordinating with the front end:

1. Demanding that my services always returned correct-looking data, even if it wasn’t available, because they couldn’t (or wouldn’t) handle errors. The story always went like this: if a service returned a 4xx, it would trigger an exception in their front end code, and they didn’t want to tackle the complexity of handling potential errors from a bunch of different back end services. I’ve had this one get escalated to management before, who fortunately supported me.

2. Resisting efforts to ensure that potentially dangerous values were displayed in attention-getting ways. Anything that didn’t look aesthetically harmonious was liable to get “fixed” without any consideration for why it was presented in a visually jarring way in the first place. As a back end engineer I sometimes lost this battle, since it was outside of my jurisdiction, but when I could, I looped in users or a product manager to help stop the madness.
Therac-25 comes to mind...
It's essentially just a subsidy to large employers? So they can not pay their employees enough? Is this what these programs are intended for? I didn't understand it that way but maybe I'm wrong.
And swapped onboard memory modules
The Many Flavors of NDCG
I agree with this but I also wouldn't blink if someone used one or the other term unless there was a specific context where it was important.
All the recent GPS blocking/scrambling reminds me of this story. It almost seems like an intensional way to get airplanes to fly over more hostile areas in the Middle East.