skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very well done! And only 300 lines of code. I'd suggest adding this:

dot.onclick = () => setTimeout(displayHighlightsPopup, 50);

In addition to that, if possible, your highlighter could show all domains with highlights.

Another useful addition would be sharing a page with someone with your highlights. Even here, on HN, someone could read an article and share a link with highlights added. The highlights themselves could go to the URL #hash part. This could be used together with the Archive.is snapshots.

Edit: A simpler feature would be saving a summary of all highlights in a basic text form that can be easily shared here or anywhere else, really. It's very handy when you're reading a long page, keep highliting interesting parts and at the end get the summary.
> I'd guess most people have never actually experienced a hallucination anyway

I actually think most people have.

Every time you look at a hot road and see water that mirage is a form of hallucination.
You can't be more wrong.

If anything, from my personal experience, "crypto" brought financial resources to minorities, especially PoC in the US. Some of them would never had that chance in the traditional world if you identify to that cause.
up 7.3% from last year is the important bit. what was inflation? i’d wager this is nominally flat
He always struck me as a bit of a pompous ass.
Really happy for you mate! This isn’t theoretical for me either :)

I’m glad your experience was good, but I don’t think that holds true for most people.
Read the graph. The nov, q4 value in the graph is 376, is part of the Covid spike, and no other points in all of history that are not part of that spike are as high as the q4 value.

Zoom in if you cannot read it. A spike is not a single month. It’s a spike with an upside and downside. You think the effects of a free few trillion poured into people’s hands only affected an infinitesimal width spike?

So no, I did not interpret this graph incorrectly, and the poster chose a point from an artificial spike to mislead.

Perhaps if you aggregated inflation, which is a lagging variable, it will turn out he chose precisely the quarter that made his point better than any other quarter, in which case he really went the extra mile to provide misleading claims.

If you’re going to attempt to discredit a correct argument, at least evaluate it correctly.
The SEC doesn't consider BTC a security, so not "like a stock"
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"Since the mid-1960s, some Palestinian resistance groups have also engaged in terrorism" -- yes or no?
Yeah sure, the US is better than India and it has a large scale immigration program, doesn’t mean people would choose to move there if they had other choices.
I lived in Connecticut too!
For countless millennia, humans didn't need anything more except food, some very basic tools, a place to live, and other humans. You could argue that everything since then is layers and layers of bullshit. Bitcoin is just another one.
Gambling, money laundering, and more gambling. This is just a repeat of all the companies that promised people could get rich using them, then the price collapsed and they all died.
Taken from ChatGPT that took it from Fed stats.
Bitcoin offers portability by not having to store gold. Rapid price changes.

One is more stable and the other more lucrative.
Decentralization helps a lot of people who may be under government pressure/being monitored, for example if you’re an anti-government russian journalist, you’d ideally use crypto as they would be able to freeze your assets.

Lots of citizens of sanctioned countries aren’t able to use their credit/debit cards to shop online outside of their country, paying with crypto or even using something like a SolCard fixes that.

It’s also generally convenient, there’s no other realistic and accessible way to transfer any sum of money, whether $10 or $10M, for a $2 fee nearly instantly.
I've thought a lot about this, and realized that there is no continuation in our normal life anyway. What we experience is a huge and omnipresent blind spot because we cannot see the future.

Even 5 minutes from now, you don't know where you'll be, and you will be a completely different person based on the events of that 5 minutes.

Every moment that passes, the you of the moment dies.

What you can have, is a you in the future that remembers and understands the past you. That only happens if you preserve your memories either by not dying, or by preserving your internal memories in some other way.

That's all you get. A copy in the future that remembers, or nothing at all.
Good observation; but I think metabolic differences leading to higher/lower IQs is a stretch (and smells weirdly eugenicist! but that's just my personal opinion).

It seems obvious to me that being poor makes it harder to be healthy. Stand all day and you're too tired to cook or exercise after work. You end up eating calorically dense, ultra processed foods because they're quick to prepare and easy to come by. The stress takes a toll on you physically, but there's no time to see a doctor, and your health insurance sucks. Even if you wanted to exercise, and found a cheap gym, you're more likely to develop something like a repetitive use injury that makes movement painful. And you're probably not getting good sleep, which affects your metabolism as well.

I'd be interested in whether the poverty/obesity correlation holds outside the US or if it's unusually high here. My guess is that it's mostly an American thing.
>Then why did the median household just decide an election largely based on economic anxiety?

anxiety because their standard of living went down from before the high inflation from the economic so-called stimulus, and election because they trust Trump to grow the economy by removing obstacles to growth. The US economy is more dynamic than the European economy because of less regulation and bureaucracy. As one example, companies are more willing to hire workers for a speculative new project if they don't have to pay extensive wages to lay people off if the project fails. American workers are used to it and are willing to take good jobs when they are offered, and it just makes the economy go faster, "ahead of its rivals".
Healthcare. Difficulty DIY’ng more and more things, including eventually transportation.
Kindly show your work.
This fantasy console sure looks a lot like a Game Boy...
so was it common bitd to write adventure games or rather adventure engines? i certainly did so. i think because the premiere games of the age were adventure games, not because of a special attraction to rudimentary role playing. so we were all aspiring to that greatness which we found inspiring.

honestly this and the few comments so far are a surprise to me. i thought i was a rare breed that spent all my time on this kind of programming
Go to South Africa and tell me if it feels safe. Specifically the rich areas.
Interesting little site.

Born in a latin american country I was taught by my parents to always aim for the least amount of work for the most amount of pay. Basically avoid any standing job like the plague even though thats what they both did.

My mother yelled at me when I got my first job as a waiter and pressured me to find something else every month.

Eventually I got a IT desk job that paid minimum wage and worked my way up from there to software development.

A lot of standing job people do tell me they could never do what I do, sitting on a desk daily.
There is no source of truth for dressage competition results, these are accepted as jury preference judgement.

There are plenty of matters where there is such a source of truth, and LLMs don't know the difference.
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Funny you say that - I was just in Johannesburg- which neighborhoods are you referring to?
If I sell a bitcoin on Coinbase, Kraken, or any of the other highly regulated exchanges, I am sure as shit getting USD and not USDT, which does not exist on the bitcoin chain.
Real estate can be speculative as well. A better way to state that might be "things outside of productive assets and services" are increasingly speculative.

The bright side of this that has me excited is what seems to be a growing sense of optimism about the future, driven by AI entering the public conscious, Space X's "rocket catch" etc. There seems to be a growing belief that the future can and will be better, more so than a decade ago.
If you go to a poor country, you'll find poor/slave workers and a few rich elites. The workers will slave for something like $10/day for the benefit of the rich boss. The rich boss will then collect the profit and go buy an LV bag for $10,000. Essentially worth 3 years of slave labor. Ironically, for most of the part, made by the same slave labor. The transfer of real value is complete.

But, uusshh, don't disturb the free market. That is until you start making high tech and quality vehicles and then we need to invent new words for such a free market.
I wrote a standalone CLI tool (written in Go) to determine and detect the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, and nul characters:

https://github.com/jftuga/chars
You could say any currency is just a bunch of numbers, the US dollar isn’t backed by gold anymore and hasn’t been for a long time.

The question is more like: Would you let everyone dictate the value of a currency and leave it decentralized? Or would you rather a government controlled centralized currency.

It’s preference and opinion at the end of the day
I was there, anon... I was there 11 years ago when the $100k Bitcoin was proposed... One had only to outstretch their hand and all the Bitcoins would be yours. But the coins, it seemed, had a will of their own. The fearful and the weak were the first to fall to its power. I watched grown men cry out as their fortunes vanished in an instant, lost to the abyss of forgotten passwords and the fiery maw of exchange hacks.

“It is but numbers on a ledger,” they said at first, dismissive of its allure. Yet the numbers grew, and their hearts darkened with greed.

I remember the great split—the Hard Fork Wars. Brothers turned against brothers, chains rent asunder, each claiming to be the true heir of Nakamoto's vision. But it was a war without banners, fought not with swords, but with hash rates and cryptographic fire. Many were the tokens that fell, discarded like the leaves of autumn, their worth reduced to naught.

I saw the rise of the altcoins, a thousand pretenders clamoring for a place in the sun. "To the moon!" they cried, their banners bright and hopeful. But most found only ruin, their holders wandering the barren wastes of forgotten wallets, muttering of rug pulls and false prophets.

Then came the age of DeFi, and the people rejoiced, for they thought they had found a new power—a magic to rival the centralized lords of old. But it was a perilous path, anon, filled with cunning contracts and exploits that devoured the unwary. I saw kingdoms built on leverage crumble in a single night, their rulers cast out into the dark.

And the NFTs! Ah, the NFTs… Each token a promise, a glimpse of eternity, they said. Men and elves alike paid dearly for these fragments of art and culture, yet many were cursed to hold only shadows, their treasures mocked by the uncaring markets.

Through it all, the Bitcoin endured, its ledger immutable, its purpose unyielding. But even it was not free from the grasping hands of fate. I remember the fall of Mt. Gox, the poisoned chalice of FTX, and the whispers of whales who moved the tides unseen. Each event a lesson, each loss a tale of hubris and folly.

Now, anon, as we stand upon the precipice of a new cycle, the wise and the weary tread cautiously. For the Bitcoin, though a gift, is also a burden. Those who seek it must be strong of will and sharp of mind, lest they too fall prey to its power.

I have seen the rise and fall of many. I have borne witness to fortunes made and lost, dreams forged and shattered. And still, the blockchain spins, unending, unyielding, like the great Eye ever watching.

Beware, anon. For the world of crypto is not for the faint of heart. It is a realm of shadow and light, where one must navigate with care, or be consumed by the fire of their own greed.
So he was supposed to just accept being called "Butt-Head Astronomer"? Sure, I’d respect him more if he did, but I’m not going to call him pompous or having a big ego just because he didn’t.
Check the names of the applicants against the article in case multiple members of the same team applied?
Not all speculative assets are neccesarily securities. Bitcoin's value fluctuates in a way that makes it's store of value absolutely resemble a stock, albeit with fewer legal protections and guarantees.
And companies have intrinsic value. They don't just pointlessly consume resources.
I think it comes down to junk food is cheap.

It costs a lot to eat healthy short of growing your own stuff.
People choose guns because they’re very lethal. If a gun wasn’t around they might not choose that route, and eventually get out of the dark place they’re in.
What is the utility of a baseball trading card or a piece of art sitting in a bank vault?
$1k, $10k, $100k. Watching this nonsensical hype at every stage left me in disbelief. Funny thing is after all these years I’m finally realizing there’s no reason whatsoever why it couldn’t hit $1M, $1B, or go back to $1.

Anytime we see a dollar symbol we assume something has value like a traditional asset, tied to tangible or measurable things like material costs, a company’s quarterly earnings, etc. But cryptocurrencies are totally different. This thing’s dollar value per unit wildly fluctuates literally hourly, because it’s based purely on human emotion and speculation.
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To follow up on the idea.

It HAS a physical tie: it is the energy spent to run the chain, which is, however, backward to gold being a material. And it's not to the advantage of the owners, but of the miners.

I can easily see a catastrophic scenario out of this: a downward spiral of value happens for XY reason, and then a halving happens. That makes the mining of it suddenly highly costly, which makes it uninteresting, or less and less profitable to mine, which renders the chain slower and less popular, etc.

However, I think that the popularity of Bitcoin is still on the rise, and we won't see such a downward spiral before many halvings (20 years? That's a lot of GWh lost to useless computing...)
I’d argue that NYC hasn’t done enough with rats for this reason. And indoor roaches and mice too for that matter.

As a New Yorker, it feels unsanitary at best, and psychologically jarring at worst, and I wish I wouldn’t have to deal with seeing rats scurrying around on a daily basis. But there’s been no tangible public health risk so far.
This country was founded by people picking up guns.
Which always seemed a bit ironic, considering those libraries are presumably intended to make state management work better if you really have to do a lot of it (i.e., have a large product).
It is still a pyramid / ponzi scheme.

Sell while it is still high.
Adding onto this:

BTC also has a limit on top of the release schedule, there is a limited amount of BTC that can ever be minted/in circulation.
Whatever your theory of Bitcoin is, it has to incorporate that its 50% price increase is directly tied to the US election outcome.
Even with nomads, they had territory they could live in or not live in, based on the existence of other tribes. I was clumping that in with real estate. Even animals do this (for example wolves). And obviously in the feudal system land was a big deal.

And yes technological arms races exist but they are often power games between governments, although in some cases a tribe could become a genocide victim if nobody wants to participate in the military effort. So in that case I agree it's maybe not bullshit, but it depends on the behavior of the neighbors.

Energy is a free source of energy from the sun plus it gets stored for free in various ways (such as vegetation). So that doesn't really have to be factored into the discussion.
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You’re right. If I were European I’d be wondering why we don’t team up with Russia in our own alliance and leave NATO to the Anglos.
For a development environment, you could just pull in the poetry package from nixpkgs.

> I'm now considering taking similar stab with common lisp packaging.

For nix?

Also, thanks for contributing.
So how do they do it? How do they just keep doubling the price?
What does this mean? How do you know he didn't test before?
In my job in VFX we are dealing with sequences of files constantly, and sometimes being able to do things to parts of the frame range is extremely helpful, and awk is great for that!

Let's say U wanted to delete exr files named like filename.1055.exr where the frame number is not between 1001 and 1100, that could look like this:

ls -1 *.exr | awk -F "." '{if($2 < 1001 || $2 > 1100) print "rm -v "$0}'

This actually just prints the commands out which is nice to check that it looks reasonable, then one can redirect that back to the shell by adding "|sh" to the end to actually run them!

The -F "." bit sets the field separator to dot, so that $2 is the frame-number part of the filename.

This is just the tip of the iceberg! Once you're over the initial learning-hump, there's so much U can do with awk! Great stuff!
Question was asking for companies doing well that weren’t exchanges.
Ah yes, let's burden some third world nation with an entire class of people who produce no value, and raise the costs of housing and goods for everyone around them.

I'm not saying it's not smart, it's just not very savory, and isn't a great solution for the longer term.
Yeah dude, you’re just rich. Most people aren’t, and wouldn’t be even if they were in the US.
I realize we must reason in terms of states, but the real players make moves that states will go iut of their way to avoid recognizing. We MUST move beyond states and into mayor holders of capital as primary entities of meaning in this world. The state's peak was sometime between 1995 and 2005.
The last two things are descriptions of the markets of those things not the things themselves.
The most recent report ranking country quality of life has US at #3

https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurabegleybloom/2024/09/10/new...

And the US is massive and diverse, with many states larger than those other countries. If you look at quality of life across US states, it’s likely the best states (think New Hampshire versus Mississippi) would outrank all those countries, since the average across all states ranked #3.
I agree that it's much wiser to approach novel materials and chemicals we employ with a 'guilty until proven innocent' approach, and that there should be much more stringent requirements to vet for safety.

In in ideal world this would extend to generational IQ changes with increased exposure, however I doubt this is practical and would probably involve testing on monkeys instead of mice.

Materials and chemicals that we've used for centuries or millennia without issue should probably go on the 'innocent until proven guilty' list, but should still be investigated.

I don't think that it's necessarily wise to classify this kind of thinking as an 'aesthetic intuition', though. I simply think that the longer we've been in contact with a substance or material as a species the more we know about its safety profile, and so it's wiser to start with the relatively newer or man-made materials/chemicals.
They are powered by:

https://github.com/spider-rs/spider

For those who want to self host.
Energy wasted to secure the chain
I lived in both for more than a decade. I only remember seeing a mouse sized rat once in Seattle. Never saw one in SF.

I live in NYC now and see multiple on a daily basis. Exposure therapy helps, but barely. It still scares the shit out of me a few years in.
If you think that’s for the benefit of the rest of the world then I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
> households with no excess income after necessary expenses (as distinct from "ordinary expenses" as a term of art) is on the order of 10-15%.

Any chance to translate to plain english? The keywords "neccesary" and "ordinary" indicate rhetorical bullshit is afoot.
Tether is bad but these aren't correct arguments against it. 1. You can easily sell BTC for 100K actual USD and ACH it out on a regulated exchange like Gemini. 2. You can easily sell USDT for actual USD on (IIRC) Kraken. 3. Technically you can short USDT via various means but you won't be able to collect any profits.
World understanding.
Nothing ever seems to come of discussing this topic on HN - just the usual cycle of people arguing with each other over whether BTC "ought to" (by what ontological principles?) be worth what it is (or, for that matter, anything at all), or what social impacts it has, etc.

None of that has anything at all to do with the current spot price. That's just an excuse to "debate" the topic again by pulling out the same old arguments.

Several other submissions intended to report the same simple fact were flagged and killed. Why not this one?
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Naw man not everything is luck. People have been talking about $100k Bitcoin for what feels like forever now. When the stock market rolled back two years of gains and Bitcoin moved similarly, those who understood what they were looking at made big plays. What happens long-term now that it has hit that mythical price point is less clear.
This looks very interesting. I don't even know some of these terms yet such as Neuromorphic Computing. Cheers.
Only some healthcare costs, sometimes, for some people, in some situations.
> the usual "crypto will upend global financial systems/crypto will change the world" hype is conspicuously missing. All the "Blockchain startups" have basically disappeared. NFTs are worthless. There is little/no VC money going into the space.

All of those people pivoted to AI.
Quintessential example of the "Grifter" in action right here ("General Semanticists")

Why are these people always flirting with psudoscientists and charlatans?

Seriously? Why is this linking to Wilhelm Reich? Why does this look like some shit Lacan would have written? Why does this link to the devils NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming)

Why couldn't scientists in this era just stay in their fking lane and not say dumb shit?

I'm so tired of having to debunk yet another crack-pot stupid ideology from this era. This is psychoanalysis for the STEM-lord, and just as full of nonsense.
As a counterpoint, i would never have clicked the middle part, the current view in my mind was that this was a modified slider, not another new widget entirely.

"ALWAYS" might be a bit of an overstatement.
I learned from the article that one can assign to the dollar vars like:

$0="bye bye input line"

It seems like this could be a bit of a footgun!? I'm sure it must be helpful in some cases though! Has anyone used it? Could you share the use-case to help me understand this weird superpower?
This quote makes me giggle:

One does not seriously attack the expertise of a scientist using the undefined phrase 'butt-head'."