skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution to this is to NEVER align, and use tabs for code indentation. And if you do ASCII diagrams, do them in comments and align them with spaces (of course). Tabs ONLY from the start of a line until code. No mixing of tabs and spaces.

Please let go of that childish esthetic to align certain stuff with spaces.
Considering that I've worked at ISPs since the early '90s when they were dial-ups and watched them grow up into something more, Yes I would say that I've analyzed.

You offer no evidence of any futurist thing that Google has done. At least nothing to the scale of what Elon Musk has done. Everything Google is done has been a calculated safe risk taking a small step forward in technology that was safe. It was absolutely intended to embed their position as a global leader in search and nothing else.

So you can be snarky all you want but it's more important to be correct and back up your statements with evidence. Even Google coming out with Chrome was not a futurist moonshot it was simply taking advantage of the fact that all other browsers sucked and they wanted to cement their position as a search leader and tracking what people do.
It's not a big caveat. How else would you define paycheck to paycheck? I'm talking about days, weeks, or low single digit months. A window of time is not indefinite.

The point of measuring people living from paycheck to paycheck is to measure their ability to have financial security. You are financially unsecure if you cannot pay for essentials for days, weeks, or a month off of savings. Many people in the U.S. are completely unable to save up for more than that. That's literally the point of talking about people living paycheck to paycheck. And usually, people only refer to being able to pay for food and housing. It rarely accounts for saving for retirement, health care, home/renter/car insurance, etc., all things that should be considered essential for living but are typically not in these studies.
Didn't the Unix version have some interesting encryption going on w/ the saved game file circa 1984 +/- 1y?

IIRC it folded in:
- the players uid and
- the files inode

To prevent the file from being usable by other players, and preventing the user from making a usable copy of it...
That's a huge amount of effort (and carbon-fuel-powered energy) involved in capping the well. Based on the numbers they provide, I guess it's still worth it even if you consider the lifecycle of all the trucks and equipment and concrete. But that is quite an expensive procedure. Is it really so important to completely plug the hole with impermeable concrete? You can't plug it 1/3 of the way and then put a metal cap on with a 10-year maintenance schedule?
JS, ECMAScript.
There’s “utility” in enabling crime and being able to move massive amounts of wealth fairly easily.
Snowflake Bentley
Well if you need to send someone a sum of money instantly anywhere in the world for no fees, it’s kind of unrealistic to meetup with gold bars
It's not an answer, it's a dialogue. One that's literate and erudite enough to be interesting.

Hackers aren't supposed to be knee-jerk reactionaries. Do better... or at least, vote better.
Oracle re-invents the PNG.
The whitepaper shows it was intended to be "peer to peer electronic cash". It did clearly fail at that goal since it has none of the privacy of cash and so on.
Show me an economy that only uses bitcoin and doesn’t depend on cashing out to one fiat currency or another and I’ll allow that it’s a currency.
What do you mean? They literally bring in money for free. It’s the best type of value.
One interesting thing about birthrates that I think most people haven't really looked at is the data segregated by age groups.

In most countries with falling birthrates (save some exceptions like Japan) a huge part of this decrease is in the 15-25 age group. There is usually also a decline in the 25-29 but there's an increase or the same rates as we've had historically on the 30+ range.

What this mean is basically that we've eradicated teen pregnancy, and that's definitely something desirable in a developed society.
oh thats cool! I'm sure he'll be so excited to learn his game was used as a reference :)
I don't really agree with that unless you redefine the ego as being synonymous with 'being egotistical' or 'sinful pride'. You need a sense of self to feel pride and something more than base passion.

For practical purposes, if you don't acknowledge how good and bad behaviors can both spring from the same base emotions/thought processes then it's harder to grow out of the bad behaviors. You need to be able to reframe how the ego interacts with your work, not just try to kill it off.
A $700/mth new-ish car is quite ordinary for many Americans, but they probably only "need" something about half that price.

A Netflix subscription is ordinary but not necessary.
The Meta post is particularly interesting. Thanks for sharing!
I'm curious what you'll "blame" the next 50% price increase on.
So you're comparing the price of developed housing to farmland? That's not what people mean when comparing the price of land to improvements.
Agreed. Bitcoin is worthless unless you dig random characters. You can't eat it or wear it and it isn't used in industry.

The same can be said about money or cash.
Money isn't power. Power is power. Money can sometimes be used like power, but not knowing the difference is a recipe for the situation we find ourselves in now.

Money is only powerful as long as it's useful. When the pitchforks come out, dollar bills won't stop them.
2 out of the 3 companies you listed have nothing to do with crypto.
Discussion (73 points, 126 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42324263
What we can't see is the amount of people that are living with roommates and in toxic situations they'd love to exit but are unable to due to a lack of housing options and a lack of money.
yeah but theres no reason you have to do it that way. Just make your own local branch and squash merge it into a singular commit when ready
> I'm pretty sure that in my case that would be a fast way to lose a lot of money

80% of people who start a business lose money on it. Hence, making a lot of money on a business is quite unusual, not the norm.
I'm glad it brightened your day!! Appreciate the comments!
Hmm. SRS is a daily commitment though. If you skip it the reviews just pile up, which tends to be painful enough that you quickly learn it's a daily commitment. I couldn't imagine getting 150 emails a day to review stuff, or that being a workable UX.
In general we certainly want to be able to change things "in the past". When there is unpleasant spam in a groupchat, you want a moderator to be able to remove or at least hide it, in a way that means people scrolling up won't be exposed to it unless they explicitly want to. (You could argue for having the client deal with all of that, but I don't think there's much benefit).

And if, as in the example at the end, clients on different homeservers will inevitably see different views, then I don't think always showing the same history to the same client, or clients on the same server, solves the "gaslighting" problem - if anything it could make it worse. Maybe clients should make it obvious when messages have been "retconned" into the scrollback, and maybe servers should have certain features to support that. But the idea of having a consistent linear timeline is one of those answers that's clear, simple, and wrong.
Bitcoin is the only sound money in existence. It will slowly devour fiat currency over time and humanity will benefit.

There are quite a few similarities to the fall of monarchies.
> the 2008 housing crisis wouldn’t have been nearly as bad.

I'm not sure I agree. Lawyers aren't rulers, only advisers. They can give you a perfect understanding of the situation, and if you are caught in a fear of missing out state, which was certainly the case for many leading up to that timeframe, it is likely you'll ignore their advice anyway.

In fact, many US states legally require lawyer advisory before completing a real estate transaction. Those states certainly did not avoid the real estate bubble.

> People get taken advantage of all the time because they don’t understand what they’re signing

Absolutely. Being able to comprehend every situation is straight up impossible. Not even the greatest minds of our time are able to do that. Not even lawyers themselves, whose job is to comprehend written text, are able to comprehend every situation. They focus on narrow specialities for good reason.

There is no avoiding that situation. If someone wants to take advantage of you, they'll find a way.
I (tongue in cheek) unironically believe in real life SCP objects for "reality distortion fields". We have too much bloody evidence of this!

Mandela Effect. NO ONE HAS ANY GOOD EXPLANATION FOR THE CORNUCOPIA NOT BEING ON THE FRUIT OF THE LOOM LOGO! I'm from that reality, but the one where Nelson lived.
Life is not fair and cannot be made fair. However, living in the US means the opportunity for you is there. It's up to you.
Indeed, when I wanted to send $2000 across the US-Canada border in 2021, I found to my surprise that doing so with BTC within Coinbase was the cheapest option.
I've always seen the clean commit stuff as a "I'm a junior and need to figure out how to logicaly lay out my thoughts" and push people away from uni commit model. clean commit purists take it a bit too far
Are you an artist who'd pass KYC for doing $10MM art sales...? If so, then yeah, you probably could do that.
Of course the LLM is bullshitting the user. That's precisely its purpose: LLMs are tools that generate comprehensible sounding language based on probability models that describe what words/tokens tend to be found in proximity to each other. An LLM doesn't actually know anything by reference to verifiable, external facts.

Sure, LLMs can be used as fancy search engines that index documents and then answer questions by referring to them, but even there, the probabilistic nature of the underlying model can still result in mistakes.
Legally it's a speculative commodity like gold but that difference is not important to most people.
>Anectodotally back when I was studying in USA the local Panera was hiring for like 20 bucks n hour. Which is more than the mean wage where I live now.
“DX7 … before fading into obscurity.”

Uh, yeah, that is quite a take. Like most synths, the DX7 went through an untrendy era, but it’s certainly bounced back and you’ll hear its patches used all over the place today. That Top Gun tubular bell patch, for example, shows up quite a bit - most recently heard it on a track called 4AM (the Fauns Remix) by Power Glove.

Not to mention there are a ton of software emulations, including the free Dexed. There are literally thousands of DX7 patches available online, and what’s great about Dexed is it makes it easy to transfer them to a real DX7 using MIDI sysex.

What’s also great about Dexed is that it makes programming the DX7 a lot easier, especially if you have the first revision, like me, with the membrane buttons that look cool in all their multicoloured glory but are complete ass to use.

I get the sense there’s a really thriving community around this excellent and highly influential synth.

And that’s not even going in to all the excellent new FM synths that you’ve talked about, which trace their heritage back to the DX7.
Musk's wealth did not come about through regulatory capture. Neither did Amazon's, Microsoft's, Google's, etc.
“People have been talking about” a lot of things that never happened.

If this price was truely guaranteed, then investors would have bought in as soon as the information became available.
Pella: Mini Heroku alternative ($1.25/month for 1 CPU 1GB RAM)
After a certain stage, parents are working knowing that the value they are generating will be passed down to their children, it is no longer for them in their lifetimes, but their employer and society still benefit.

If parent’s work beyond what they can spend in their lifetime is not given to the children, who would continue to choose to work? Already in Canada you can exceed 50% tax rate and many adults who could see more patients, write more books, take more cases, do more work, choose not to as the marginal benefit decreases.
Yep, even coinbase is stretching it to be honest since it’s still a centralized exchange, but still miles better then traditional options
Great idea, I'll get it added to the roadmap!
Report which you don't get from centralized exchanges. So you have to trust them and they should somehow be liable for the provenance of what they sell to you.

Probably most CEX don't allocate UTXOs upon buying, but only for withdrawals
> It might sound strange for you

Wow, you sure misunderstand me. Free markets result in the greater good. Socialism does not. Hence, I prefer free markets.
Does it allow me to download my board data as a backup?
I will always remember that, for my parents' generation, the idea of a "good job" was synonymous with "sitting in an office."
$20K/MO sounds exaggerated. A quick Google gives me

Palo Alto was deemed the seventh most expensive location for assisted living in California, according to a new study by Mirador, a platform that helps people research nationwide assisted living locations.

The average yearly cost of assisted living in Palo Alto is $91,177, compared to the state average of $63,927, according to the study.

Source: From https://www.paloaltoonline.com/seniors/2024/10/04/study-reve....
And yet, exit polls said ~67% thought the economy was in bad shape.

I tend to agree with the objective data showing economic strength here. I think a big cross section of the country was just struck by nothing less than a mania.
Do you feel the same way about index funds over individual stocks?
Yeah, every country has its problems, but that doesn’t mean they’re all as bad as each other.

Yes, Japan has a problem with allowing police to hold suspects for 3 weeks with no outside contact. But the reality is that very few people are ever arrested, to the point that nobody is afraid of police.

The same can’t be said for the US, where black parents have to tell their kids to not trust cops.

In my experience Japan is pretty great, so that’s where I live.

Other places I consider top tier are Holland and Scandinavia. Western Europe and developed Asia is tier 2, some of Eastern Europe and Canada are tier 3, USA and most of South America are tier 4, and any other countries I wouldn’t live in.
Maybe just having a confidence weight assigned to each sentence the LLM generates, reflected in tooltips or text coloring, would be a big improvement.
I can’t retire and continue my current lifestyle, I would need some sort of job. Therefore, I don’t consider myself rich.

More importantly though, I have this lifestyle due to a job, one that is quite common (software engineer). I didn’t luck into some unique position or business opportunity.
How did it fail at being P2P e-cash?

You can use bitcoin completely/as anonymously as cash if you wanted to, the same way you’d have to put in a bit of effort to have a completely anonymous cash transaction.

Monero (XMR) which is a fork of bitcoin, is much closer to actual cash
Well, that’s bleak. I had a major surgery some years back and on the morning of, I asked the doc if they could knock me out early to escape the anxiety and he obliged. It was such an act of kindness that took basically no effort on his part, but made things much easier for me. Guess that’ll have to stop.
Hantavirus is probably the worst thing most people have to worry about; it's left behind in the feces and breathing it in while cleaning up a bunch of droppings is possible.

That, and they chew holes in things, occasionally electrical wiring. Not nearly as big a concern as the smell of an infested house, but still not a great thing to have.
I don’t think “crypto is unregulated” still a thing. Why do you say so?
Less money laundering than cash obviously
Yeah this is why I always take more than a month off between jobs.

Besides parental leave and the very rare even for FAANG companies who offer month long sabbaticals once every five years, a month is a hard sell.
Do you have a source for this? Per Wikipedia, starting in the late 19th century, electrified streetcars began replacing animal-drawn trams in US cities; by 1917, New York's trams were fully electrified. That would have been before widespread adoption of the automobile. By that time, was private transportation by horse really so prevalent in cities that it was a public health problem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcars_in_North_America#Hi...
The same electorate who caused one of the most common searches on election day to be "Did Biden drop out?"?

That informed electorate?
I can also waste energy by leaving my light on, I don't think that stores any value...
El Salvador.
The DX7 is an incredible synth, but one of the joys of playing is hearing the sound change to your adjustments and the DX7 just doesn't do that. But it is great fun to feed through filter, delay and reverb pedals. Thats kind of the best of both worlds
No, but he was fantastic to work for and it was one of the best jobs I’ve ever had. Hope he’s doing well.
> it most certainly would materially change your wealth and make you poor - their money would gravitate to equity, yours and your kids equity. Literally making your poor.

That sounds like the "wealth is a fixed pie" theory, where for one person to have more, another must have less.

The proof that is false comes from the history of the US. In the 19th century, it was populated by poor immigrants with nothing more than a suitcase. The US turned into a global superpower. How do you explain that with the fixed pie theory?
> I have the thought that racial divisions are even more stark elsewhere

While race is of course an issue in all countries, few countries hold on to their racial divide as strongly as the US.

Nonetheless, I didn't mean that discussion about race wasn't relevant or interesting to me. I simply meant that discussion about the racial divides in the US aren't relevant to me.

Since I hear and read about US specific race issues a lot I usually avoid the topic and was a bit annoyed that this post baited me into investing so much time before it revealed what it was about.
> 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.

You can until you can't. As long as people think 1 "USDT" is worth $1, and as long as the amounts you're selling aren't too big, it stays afloat.

> 3. Technically you can short USDT via various means but you won't be able to collect any profits.

How? If my thesis is that USDT is going to collapse and bring down the whole cryptocurrency ecosystem, what can I buy to express that and profit on it?
>They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard

Greg Kihn Band Breakup Song with the unforgettable lyric, "they don't write 'em like that any more" did not use the DX7 at least because it was not available in 1981, but the keyboardist Gary Philips was known to use Minimoog, Prophet-5, Wurlitzer, Rhodes and Yamaha pianos with the band. In 1983 Gary Philips was an early adopter of the DX7. They don't make them like that any more either.
> An interesting development was the discovery that, if the operators started with square, rather than sine, waveforms, it didn’t take as many operators to create interesting sounds.

Is this true? How and why? I imagine the square basis also contributed to the brilliance, not being band-limited.
I only have 1 friend that has a car where I live. It’s pretty great.
Like USD?
For example, drug addiction and sugar consumption is not the result of the health care system.
> the usual "crypto will upend global financial systems/crypto will change the world" hype is conspicuously missing

That hype is nothing compared to the current hype, the idea that the US Government is going to buy a significant amount of Bitcoin to create a "strategic" reserve.

Every hype cycle gets bigger and bigger even as past ones never amount to anything
10 yrs ago it was 31
Branding perplexity.ai. Creating an invisible brand
Ha, I’ve heard a few Dutch say that American style racism didnt really apply to them, but then later they say that some person isn’t Dutch because they aren’t white. All in the workplace.

I think it’s just not as top of mind in other places, but its there.
BTC is volatile but one can argue has more guarantees than stocks. There's no counterparty risk. No company that can go bankrupt or entity that can fail. BTC is property.
Isn't white vs blue collar a latent variable? You have to operationalize it somehow. If you just ask "how blue collar are you?", people's answers will be influenced by all kinds of subjective biases.

I'd argue sitter vs stander distinction also makes this presentation more visceral, memorable and understandable. Collar color would feel unnecessarily abstract and boring.
Well, suing for libel clearly shows he's an idiot, since there's no claim of fact.

Usually if you file a patently frivolous lawsuit, you get sanctioned.
Sure, using RAG is great, but it limits the LLM to functioning as a natural-language search engine. That's a pretty useful thing in its own right, and will revolutionize a lot of activities, but it still falls far short of the expectations people have for generative AI.
I know this is an oversimplification, but if the main issue is the single point of failure (centralized trust), wouldn’t a potential solution be to layer independent verification mechanisms on top of the current system?

For example, a secondary DNS-based verification layer where a site’s public key is published as a DNS record (though that would likely need DNSSEC to be effective). It seems like it could complement the existing CA structure without replacing it entirely.
I’m feeling like next year I want to try advent of code in either Apple II, Atari, or C64 BASIC…
I have an interest in having the price of my house double every four years but I can't just wish that into reality and neither can miners.
I am aware of a couple of cases where people received flagged coins from centralised exchanges and had a lot of issues
You're risk averse. That's fine - but it does not justify being envious of those who do take risks. Musk bet everything he had on Tesla, and at one point was within hours of personal bankruptcy as well as Tesla's.
> the declining share is nuclear

OMG, is it a joke? Consumption is stable, OK? Nuclear produced less, OK?
Therefore renewables compensated for nuclear declining production, OK?
Therefore burning more fossil fuels was not necessary, OK?
Therefore renewables replaced them, OK?

> the bottleneck is money

My point is solid even given this perspective: the way public money is used is of paramount importance: government recently ordered new nuclear reactors, and also subsidizes renewables in order to compensate past huge subsides to nuclear. More money here, less money there.

> We don't live in a command economy where material resources and workers are assigned by the state on a given project.

Read above.

> you don't even acknowledge raw data

Raw data, as explained, shows that renewables enabled France to avoid burning more fossil fuel. This is a fact, like it or not.
Oh MANNNN I spent so much time playing rogue back in the day. I got decently good at it, but it was hard. I don't think I ever actually won. I do recall a strategy of clearing out the easier levels in order to gain treasure and magic items. At a certain point you wouldn't be able to defeat all the monsters, so you'd try to find the stairs as quickly as possible. On the occasions where I'd get really far -- far enough to start looking for the amulet! -- I'd get trapped by some powerful monster like a Titan and get killed instantly.

Such a letdown. You'd play for hours and it would all be over in an instant. That damned tombstone.
Retirees don't earn income, so don't pay income tax. Increased demand for housing raises prices for everyone including natives. And typically, retirees require healthcare services well above the population average.