skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s still room for it to become an inflation hedge, we still havnt really seen much in terms of USD inflation and people scrambling for the exit.

Bitcoin is no more an inflation hedge than gold is, which it is not:

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w18706

* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3667789

and both are something worse, deflationary:

* https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/financial-markets-an...

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/775143.Golden_Fetters

Gold did not help in stabilizing currencies or economies:

* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/arch...

and neither would Bitcoin.
Because they could care less about anything else.
Identify systematic misconceptions about global trends and proportions
Because of the code signing for macOS
Using random libraries in example code isn't good practice though.

Still, even (C) printf would have been better than the iostreams monstrosity.
Imagine it came with dozens of downvotes on every social platform. Certainly all current events channels on YouTube avoid it religiously. I assume they have reason.
It really is an eternal September.
^ Typical second comment.
It's in the same vein as music for sense of hearing and videos for seeing, I think
> Exceedingly few people actually use it for anything practical.

That is actually fairly common. Gold has been around for millennia, found basically 0 practical applications [0]. The value of something is roughly the marginal difficulty of procuring the thing by whether someone wants to own it, and at the moment nobody can create bitcoin for substantially less than $100k and broadly speaking people will always want to own them at some price.

That being said, I don't think bitcoin will hold its value long term. But the money question now is whether the collapse happens on the scale of years, decades, centuries or millenia.

[0] The purpose of gold jewellery is to demonstrate that someone has gold/the wealth to do something impractical; otherwise we could make plastic jewellery that is prettier, lighter and cheaper.
In the LAION-5M benchmark, we’ve compared our performance against ElasticSearch and OpenSearch. However, comparing ingestion performance is more challenging due to differences in architecture. Both ElasticSearch and OpenSearch, like most vector databases, use the concept of shards. Each shard represents a separate vector index, and queries aggregate results across these shards. Larger shards lead to faster queries but come with higher resource requirements and slower update speeds.

It’s also worth noting that ElasticSearch has implemented RaBitQ support for HNSW. So it's difficult to compare without running actual benchmarks. However, ElasticSearch typically requires at least double, if not triple, the memory size of the vector dataset to maintain system stability. In contrast, PostgreSQL can achieve a stable system with far fewer resources—for example, 32GB of memory is sufficient to manage 100 million vectors efficiently.

From my perspective, it would be faster in query comparing to ElasticSearch due to the extensive optimizations. And much much faster with the updates (insert and delete) due to using IVF instead of HNSW.
It needs way too much space to build with github actions
Okay how much do they pay? Is it closer to 5K or 500K?
Interesting that you call this a problem of marketization and not of the governments callous immigration policy and the racism/nationalism of the average brit.

If people can't afford a house then they can easily look to other markets, they just don't want to because they feel entitled to "their county". The largest culprit after mass immigration is the unwarranted fear of bodily harm from living "poor countries"
Ah yes, the "Vibration API", I really wish Safari had that. And the Web MIDI API, and Web Bluetooth, Web Serial, etc etc.

The vast majority of these are APIs that I explicitly do not want websites to use. Especially things like "touch events", which would serve to allow websites to implement their own dumbass broken scroll implementations (again, this is very intentionally not supported.) It would seem Apple is very intentional in choosing not to support most of these.

There is only one reason these APIs exist at all, and it is that Google has decided to make their browser into an OS (chromeOS) and so they need to invent a web API for everything a normal OS may need to do, so that "everything is a webapp" can be a sorta half-true thing. They exist because Google crammed them through standards committees that they have essentially a majority vote on.
> There is freedom of movement for workers which means it's easy to recruit top talent across the continent.

It might be possible, but it’s not easy and is rarely done outside a few select countries, such as Switzerland. I’ve received offers from recruiters in Poland and Germany, but most of them seem to be trying to cut labor costs since hiring a foreign worker is often cheaper than employing a domestic one. However, when factoring in cost-of-living adjustments, these opportunities aren’t very appealing. The same principle applies in reverse; for instance, a German wouldn’t move to Lithuania for work because the wages there are significantly lower.

> Remote work is also much simplified.

If I’m employed in Lithuania and want to work remotely in Germany, I can only do so for less than 50% of the calendar year. Otherwise, I’d need to be employed in Germany. As far as I know, this restriction doesn’t apply in the United States.

> The regulatory environment is significantly unified under the EU so there are few regulatory risks for companies growing outside their country within the region.

The same applies to the United States, which is the point of comparison for the EU in this case. Additionally, this is highly dependent on the industry you’re targeting, as the requirements can vary significantly for certain products.

> Every EU company also has access to the entire continent's consumer base – 450 million residents, which is 50% more than the US.

In theory, Germans will buy German products, and Poles will buy Polish products. This used to be true for digital services too, such as contracting, until companies started cutting costs by looking for cheaper labor in Eastern Europe.
> Bitcoin as a digital store of value is fine.

It is not. It has multiple >70% drawdowns over the last ~decade:

* https://newhedge.io/terminal/bitcoin/price-drawdown

During the 1930s US stock market crash, things went down 90% and, a century later, has never been that bad. Bitcoin has had multiple Great Depression equivalent drops in one-tenth the time.

Something that is a good store of value should not be volatile: it should keep it's value, or at least be fairly predictable in the rate of decay.
> LONDON/FRANKFURT, Nov 6 (Reuters) - BMW (BMWG.DE) on Wednesday reported a 61% drop in its third-quarter profit, missing analyst expectations because of slumping China sales and brake problems and sending its shares to their lowest level in more than 2-1/2 years.

> In October, the German automaker reported that its third-quarter sales in China had fallen by a third.

> Rival German automakers Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz are also struggling with falling sales in China caused by a weak economy and intense competition.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/bmw-re...

> "I don't like talking about the competition so much but I drive the Xiaomi – we flew one from Shanghai to Chicago and I've been driving it for six month now and I don't want to give it up", Ford CEO Jim Farley

Chinese cars are getting better every year and nobody can match them on price. That's the real story here. The narrative is shifting because more and more people realize that the EU doesn't have an answer except for tariffs and other protectionist measures.
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Advent of Code 2024 in pure handwritten WebAssembly
> It feels like much like defense spending, it create jobs, but it doesn't create value.

This is the safest period in human history by a huge margin. It may not feel that way given the ultra connected, headline consuming nature of most people these days. But it is true.

Global trade has lifted more people out of poverty than anything else, and that was first enabled by maritime trade which was implicitly secured by the US Navy post WW2. The Internet is the second coming of that, the invention of which was a result of US military spending.

You may think that US defense spending is too high, or take other faults with the US military industrial complex. But to say that it provides no value is uninformed.
Safari is a bit behind, but not hopelessly so.

You can check the Interop 2024 initiative to get a better understanding on where everyone is with standards:
https://wpt.fyi/interop-2024?stable
I've lived in both and prefer the suburb. Inner city has all sorts of issues, from very little space, smokers puffing away as you try to enter/exit buildings, endless harmful noise & smells.

Actually I prefer rural over either of these..
> a realistic max value for 1 BTC would be 500k-1M

[citation needed]
Humanloop (YC S20) Is Hiring Product Engineers in London and SF
As TwoNineA posted in another thread:

"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow, often misattributed to Mark Twain
There is also this cool tool https://www.gapminder.org/tools
I recently came across a project that looks promising: [WordLlama](https://github.com/dleemiller/WordLlama?tab=readme-ov-file#s...). It appears to be well-suited for semantic chunking, though I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet.
I understand you disagree with the whole thing but blockchain has a lot of uses already. Most obvious ones are storing money or investment and transferring money. It factually works amazing for these. Assuming you believe in capitalism, people won’t put such enormous amounts of money on something if it has no use. Speculation also applies to stocks in the same way, there is no world where nvidia should be priced like this but people have some view on it and it effects the price. Same idea with blockchain, there are already use cases and it is expanding constantly. Also there is a ton of investment going into research of development of it, there is no reason why people shouldn’t invest in it by buying coins, it is factually a good investment so far if you are able to hold for long periods of time
My comment was specifically about this news site. What you brought up is completely different use case. I never said use my comment and apply everywhere caching can help.
Although this looks like it could be a professional hit, possibly part of a bigger and more hidden issue, I always wondered how long before people start taking the vigilantism road especially in countries with extensive gun ownership. And how will those CEOs react to this.
easily detected by the massive unexplained power consumption

Just tell them you're training a new foundational model.
Oh, no! What shall we do now?
Huh? The problem with IE6 wasn't its lack of cross-platform support.

Microsoft used a stifling dominance in desktop operating systems to achieve a stifling dominance in browsers. This browser dominance meant that a single entity (Microsoft) dictated the quality and rate of progress of the web as a platform (bad and slow) while developers treated IE6's broken implementations and Windows-exclusive features as de-facto standards.

Today, Google's dominance is being used to achieve a stifling dominance in browsers. This browser dominance means that a single entity (Google) dictates the quality and rate of progress of the web as a platform (whatever suits Google, as fast as possible) while developers are treating Chrome's firehose of features as de-facto standards.

The most IE6-like problem with today's ecosystem is people reflexively defining the web as being a single browser (then IE6, now Chrome). Complaining that Safari is bad because it isn't Chrome is proof that Chrome is the new IE6.

Not only is Safari not like IE6, it's actually the anti-IE6. It's the only thing left to remind web developers that the web is supposed to be based on standards. Safari for iOS is the last significant remnant of browser diversity in a market otherwise stiflingly dominated by Chrome.
if quantum computing cracked encryption, everything secured on the internet would be in trouble, not just btc

every 4 years there is a halving event where the btc reward is cut in half. Eventually all btc will be mined and the only role of miners will be to process transactions and they get to keep the fees. that will be the incentive

i agree, Ethereum might be the better approach.

i'm not too concerned about the electricity usage in the long term. for btc it will be less and less profitable for miners to operate consuming large amounts of energy. as the price plateaus and mining rewards decrease, energy consumption should also plateau. that is if energy price stays the same and doesn't become cheaper.
TP-Link cannot get IPv6 firewall right
For those of you more interested in the synthesis than the keyboard, the Elektron Digitone is one of the easiest FM synth to use, while still capable of an incredible variety of sounds.

For a software recreation of the DX7, see the Dexed plugin.
If one goes to subreddits or forums where nurses and doctors hang out it quickly becomes obvious why a large majority of people reacted the way they reacted.
Gold is not only used for jewelry. It has many practical applications and is essential for electronics.
> introduce English as main language of schooling

Good idea - wrong language. English would make EU less European. German would be a better choice, or French or <inset an actual EU language>. Not that I believe in the idea.
Closer to $5k.

US in-patient costs are about double that of the European average.

An ICU bed that is $1,000 per day in Europe, is around $2,000 in the US.

But the hospital will have a charge master price of $10,000 per day.

Insurance company negotiate agreed charges that are often 80-90% lower.

That’s the number that contributes to GDP.
The upside to this tool is that it can bring greater informational efficiency to governments. But I think we should be careful, because this tool could also be used to make government overreach more effective. In the future, I'd imagine someone using this tool to incorporate greater analysis so that governments could type "show me any evidence of insurrection against our new draconian policy".

To be honest, maximal informational efficiency for governments is not a one-sided coin, and I think we ought to be a little more careful because this one-sided view of this as a tool to help with the good stuff ignores the danger of using it to silence potential movements against the government should it become primarily the bodyguard of the big corporation -- which frankly, is not far from the truth today.
Capitalism isn’t generating so much wealth ifaik, life standard of average working person is constantly going down since 1970s
std::move does not force anything , it is a cast to an rvalue reference (a movable-from).

Whether the object is moved depends on whether the target / destination / sink cares.
> I didn't understand why the laptop was waking up by itself.

The official line at the moment is that some kind of firmware bug led to something other than the keyboard signalling the same interrupt line. So at the moment keyboard wakeup needed to be disabled to get reliable sleep. We’ll see if the latest firmware update[1] works out (and how long it takes to come out of beta).

> I don't know what power state [an unspecified AMD laptop] is [sleeping] in

That’s the crux of the issue[2], though. It’s either suspend-to-RAM (S3; dump hardware state to RAM and power off most of the hardware including the CPU) or suspend-to-idle (S0ix or “Modern Standby”; try to put most of the external hardware in low-power states, downclock the CPU, and hope nothing wakes up). Apple did get their S0ix equivalent (“Power Nap”) right enough that most don’t complain; in PC-land, reports of laptops cooking themselves in bags due to inadvertent[3] wakeups from S0ix are everywhere.

I cannot find the exact CPU generation cutoffs at the moment, but the problem is that the CPU manufacturers are responsible for a good part of firmware development, and they no longer offer support for S3 at all—the corresponding procedure may be removed from the ACPI bytecode completely, or they may leave it there but declare it buggy and unreliable (usually truthfully). The only exception I know of is Linux-certified ThinkPads, because apparently Lenovo has enough weight to throw around that they can get special treatment.

[1] https://community.frame.work/t/framework-laptop-13-ryzen-704...

[2] https://blog.jeujeus.de/blog/hardware/laptops-will-not-sleep...

[3] Not clear how much of this is Windows looking for updates regardless of the user’s desire.
https://archive.md/t8z0P
This. Repeating information is helpful. repeated information that became inaccurate isn't. It's a difficult line to balance
I was thinking the same but then I thought a professional hitman probably also has families and health insurance problems.
As long as the speed of light remains constant for all observers, who cares if everyone agrees on simultaneity? Distributed systems don't need to know what time it is, just what happened.

Well known systems are implemented this way, and the UI is great, people barely even notice.
> a hard mining limit.

This is what I keep telling people. No government will use BTC because of this.There is a reason the US went off the gold standard, so they can print create money without causing inflation tied to money supply. Inflation now is not tied to money supply, but to money spending. (ie. if people did not spend money buying things there would be no increase in prices.) In the past, if you printed more money inflation would be immediate since it, in effect, immediately devalues the price of gold.
Wikipedia has better culture. Shadow libraries and private trackers have more culture than you may need in a lifetime.
funny that he gets all the blame

as if any other insurance company can do any better, in a broken system

but the system, those that created it (politicians) and those that exploit it (non-medical hospital staff) get off
I have yet to speak to any actual expert who believes we will see any of the "I" in "AI" anytime soon, if ever.
> I understand you disagree with the whole thing but blockchain has a lot of uses already.

Not really.

NIST has a good blockchain explainer with a handy flowchart that has questions you should ask to see if blockchain is a useful solution:

* PNG flowchart: https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Projects/enhanced-distribut...

* https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/enhanced-distributed-ledger-t...

* https://www.nist.gov/blockchain

And other things are probably a better fit for the majority of people's needs.
Business interests. Don't think that it's out of the goodness of their hearts.
However, we should use our intelligence to find ways to curb the extent to which clothing has become an obsession, becaue the clothing industry is unsustainable and creates enormous amounts of waste and pollution. With our big brains, surely we can find ways to differetiate and display our styles without so much waste? Or perhaps we should just go back to trying to make AI think like us...
The CEOs will hire private security, expense it to the company, which causes pressure to raise insurance premiums.
Has anyone claimed responsibility for what appears to be a well-planned assassination?

As America moves further towards a billionaire-controlled system that disregards conventional norms of democracy, I wonder if there will be a rise of militant leftist groups, like in Italy and Germany in the 1970s (Red Brigades, Baader-Meinhof). These groups also targeted industrialists and executives.
There are two end of the spectrum:

* behaving better, potentially with the consequence that profits would be reduced

* getting more security guards, keep lobbying for laws to silence stories that could make them look bad, and keep lobbying against laws that would prevent them from doing the bad things

I have strong guesses about what the majority of them will take. But, who knows, maybe polymarket knows better ?
Introduction to Programmable Cryptography
The difference is that your point is just conjecture. Afaik nobody knows exactly who was responsible for the pipe. But we do not whose ship it was and who was on the crew at the time.
The stock went slightly up after the murder. I guess he is replacable. Rest in peace. The company will do just fine.
People say 'professional hit' as if it was something that existed outside of Hollywood movies.
The current EU laws (especially tax laws) aren't helpful for businesses. If you want to do business in every EU country you basically have to register a business in each of them.

Sure, you can sell goods for €10.000 - €20.000 to another EU country without much trouble, beyond that you need to setup a business in each country, sometimes you even need employees or at least an office in a country to be able to do so. I worked for a company that shipped to a number of EU countries, from an EU country. It has taken them 15 years to expand from shipping to three countries to nine. Every time they want to enter a "new market" it is years of planning and insane fees or doing business in a supposed "single market".

The current situation is better than before the EU, but it's by no means good. Certainly no where as good as a Nebraska company wanting to sell their product in New Mexico. EU business will never grow to the size of American companies if they cannot bootstrap themself in a true single EU market. An American business immediately have a potential customer base of 350 million consumer, an EU business have at most 80 million if they start in Germany and will have to add an insane bureaucracy if they want to expand.

EDIT: My information is out of date: In 2021 a solution was introduced where you can pay your VAT locally, and the tax authority in your own country will handle the transfer of VAT to the other EU countries.

There are still some taxes (e.g. taxes on tobacco or alcohol) you may need to handle for each country, and to do some you may need to be a registered business.
Well UHC does have the highest denial rate in the industry, even in a broken system his company is an outlier.

https://www.valuepenguin.com/health-insurance-claim-denials-...
Can you explain why it's obvious? I don't hang out in such subreddits, and with my outside (non-american) perspective it's a bit shocking to read.
I'm not really all that clued up on all of this, but overall seems like a Shinzo Abe-type situation: no, we shouldn't be assassinating people. But also: you can't just wreck people's lives for a living and expect no consequences. This seems just as much of a failure of society in dealing with these kind of nihilistic parasites sucking our society dry as anything else.
Not if you construct your paths in a systematic way. I think in rogue all rooms are rectangular, so it should be easy enough to construct a memorable réversible algorithm.

Go clockwise, along the walls. Want to reach something in the middle of the room? Go straight down from the top wall. If there's stuff in your way, go around it on the left side if possible, else right.
FM synthesis was developed by John Chowning on the Stanford AI lab PDP-6 and PDP-10.
Will these Crystal frameworks allow me to share a single standalone binary with peers that allows them run the web application locally?
> Gold is not only used for jewelry. It has many practical applications and is essential for electronics.

47% of gold is used for jewelry and 6% is used for electronics:

* https://geology.com/minerals/gold/uses-of-gold.shtml#history

You're not wrong, but not entirely right either.