skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems odd that there is nothing like Access (or the other couple if similar DB tools that were around in the heyday of Access and before), but I think it is because the demand is relatively small. I've seen several projects start in that direction then pivot elsewhere or just die an unsupported death.

I think the problem is that demand/interest is not sufficient to keep a self-hosted project going, nor monetisable enough for a hosted one. People wanting to self-host end up going with something more specific, possibly self-made, for their needs, rather than a generic solution, and a hosted solution has a couple of significant costs to cover:

1. Resource use when people load a large amount of data then run under-optimised queries on it (or impossible to optimise, if they've chosen a bad structure for what they want out of the data). This can be mitigated by throttling individual users' IO/memory/CPU use but then the product gets a reputation for being slow.

2. The support that many people will expect (especially if they are paying, but even if they are not) which could consume a lot of time. A project that is very lucky might end up with a community that takes on a good amount of this load, but you can't bank on being that lucky.

3. Resource to keep available all the hardly used, or even never used, projects that will sit around if the service is free. Mitigating this with cold storage will help, but as with throttling active use this will make the service appear slow generally (people will remember the tens-of-seconds startup time more than they will notice subsequent actions being more than fast enough).

Getting people to pay will be an uphill struggle, and money from advertising is unlikely to cover the above, especially with many people like me blocking commercial stalking which also blocks a lot of advertising.
Ultralytics (v8.3.41) Compromised on Pip
I realise that, on this here orange website, it is considered most improper to read the article, but, no, that's not what happened here. Reuters noticed that a number of forces had slowed or stopped posting on Twitter, and asked them why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiung_Yao
A Guide to LED Portable Work Lights and Waterproof LED Lights
>It really sucks being 40 and still earning like 57k EUR or whatever.

Is this a joke?

60k in France means you earn more than 92% of the population.

60k in Italy means you earn more than 96% of the population.

60k in Germany means you earn more than 80% of the population.
Except there's not really a choice right?

Family homes in city centers (in the US) are either very expensive or bad neighborhoods
This increases the market for bitcoin mining and subsequently energy waste. For me personally this enough reason to ban bitcoin
It's similar in the USA. Black Americans do poorly. Black Nigerian immigrants to great. They're both black so it's evidence race has little to do with whatever the problems of class are but a certain segment of vocal people ignore this evidence.
Yamaha keyboards were top notch. I had a SY-85 with the nicest keyboard I've ever used for my purposes. Good feel, velocity sensitive but non weighted, fully polyphonic aftertouch.
It's many things; overall low-quality compared to Chromium. Thankfully they have deprecated XUL a few years back which was really holding people back in major ways, but yeah, it's not good. People don't like to hear that, but that's probably the reason why Chromium won. Much easier to patch it, & the inner layout of components, separation make more sense.
I finally admitted to myself that a robust PKM can store and recall more information more easily than I ever could. It's quite a bit of work to process things I read or listen to into my PKM, but whenever I decide to revisit an idea, I can immediately pull up and review everything I've previously thought it would be useful to remember about it.

My PKM of choice (Logseq) does have a built-in SRS, though, so maybe I should consider having putting things I really, really, really want to remember into it so they're stored in my brain as well.
My rationale is the following:

1) A very high (BTC/USD) rate will come from HUGE whales hoarding BTC. Like governments creating crypto reserves, and purchasing BTC in the magnitude of tens of thousands to low million (US have talked about purchasing a million).

2) BTC will never be a currency that is used for huge worldwide transactions, for things commodities like oil, gas, etc. No serious country will give up control of their currency like that, especially not US that will literally go to war if things aren’t purchased in the Uas dollar

3) Likewise, countries will not adapt BTC as their currency, if they cannot control the supply 100%

4) If BTC becomes too competitive, it will be fairly easy to regulate it into being too unattractive.

Those are my macro views.

I think it will continue to be some asset that competes against silver, gold, etc.
Because lots of words start with "e", like "envelope".

If I'd said "Electronic Mail" then maybe you would have a point, but I didn't.
This exact scenario is one of the best interview questions I’ve been asked and have repeatedly re-used when on panels myself.

Taking a complex domain and effectively communicating it (correctly) at different levels requires having not just rote knowledge but an actual understanding.
> That is to say, the prices you'd have to set to prevent very wealthy bad actors from just buying up everything and holding everyone hostage to it are so high that regular people would never be able to sustain them.

I think you're saying that, under a harberger taxation scheme, if your asset's (let's say it's a house) fair market value is $500k, you wouldn't be able to afford the taxes if you declared its value at $750k to make sure you wouldn't have to move unless someone (e.g. Blackrock) paid you enough to deal with that hassle.

But there's no reason to expect the prices on an extra 50% above market value to be ruinous, unless the harberger tax is set to near the full rental price of the asset, e.g. harberger-enabled Georgism.

And if the harberger tax is set to the full rental price of the asset, then Blackrock cannot make tons of money by buying the asset and renting it back to you; they will have all the rental income taxed away. It would lose them money every day they held onto it, and commonly-proposed harberger amendments like requiring the buyer to pay on their initially declared value for at least a year would quickly turn their ledgers into Redrock.
The problem is that countries who don't want to compete on the marketisation of everything will lose out eventually.

In your example of elderly care, an extended family in Italy may care for their own grandmother (and they'd probably live longer). But the market in Italy isn't so bouyont so the younger generation can't get high paying jobs and move out even if they wanted to.

The high spending and marketisation in the US skews the game for everyone whether they like it or not.

(no moral judgements here, just observations)
but still the most popular currency for tax evasion, buying drugs and international terrorism funding is USD using citibank and deutche bank infrastructure.
The inverse Cramer ETF lost 15% after a year and got shut down. Being wrong on the stock market does not mean that someone doing the opposite is right. Just like in software dev, there are infintely many ways to be wrong and by comparison only very few to be right.
That was painful, but I couldn’t quite look away. At 4:00, I was the one with the distressed look.

But I can’t deny that the end result was startlingly realistic in general, though obviously still a bit overdone.
Is housing Brussels city center actually affordable like you claim? Why do I feel like you're living in a bubble?

I have friends who left Brussels city and moved out to avoid the high housing CoL, crime and drunk/homeless/junkies.

I feel like you're overselling it.
In Germany a life saving brain surgery creates 5K USD of economic activity and the same surgery creates 500K USD of economic activity in the USA.

It doesn’t because the insurer doesn’t pay $500k.

Not to mention that if something costs $10k in the US that costs $5k in Europe, that $5k that doesn’t get spent on something else (which would also increase GDP)
Exit polling asking voters their reasons for voting the way they did.
hi! wrote a lil blog post on tool design for MCP, was wondering what you think?

https://www.darinkishore.com/posts/mcp/
I’m not sure I agree that avoiding crypto has been an inherently losing strategy. If your plan is to gradually grow your fortune in a non-volatile environment then crypto seems like a bad place to put your funds. There are a lot of places you can sit your money and get a safe 5-10% return, which is great for a lot of people. Sometimes the options come with the advantage of actually making you a lot more if the projects truly succeed. We’ve done it with the construction/restoration and the sale of solar plants for a decade now.

You are also correct in that buying it after a major crash has historically been a very good business. It’s still something which has no value, however, and I’d consider that a somewhat risky (and a losing for many) strategy compared to putting your money into energy, medicine and water.
There's no methodology anyone can show you, that's why they never show their numbers.

Bitcoin is an asset like any other, there's no math I can do that will prove to you that someone can't just arrive tomorrow and buy this rock off of me for $2. And there's no math someone can do that can prove someone else won't show up the next day and offer $2 trillions for it, specially because their math can't predict inflation, or they'd be billionnaires on the futures market very quickly instead of showing off their math claims online.
Well, the Matrix movie showed a perfect depiction of the world stuck in 1999, with people given freedom to do as they wish (or what they thought was freedom). So... I guess more than just driving on barren plains haha.
Its running EfficientDet on the phone using Tensorflow light.
Because there was naive optimism about it as a technology?
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.

OTOH, government crackdowns might be able to tank the price.
Well there are a lot of direct interviews with locals telling about being attacked by drones. Here's a mum of two who was cycling home and was followed and attacked by one

https://x.com/ZarinaZabrisky/status/1841820891245609111

Where the thing maybe a bit propagandised is I looked at a Russian channel and it seems the policy is to stop all movement by basically attacking anything that moves rather than going after civilians in particular.

Although even so I feel trying to kill unarmed girls going around town on a bicycle is a bit out of order.

It's a bit reminiscent of the whole war - the Russians saying they had to invade Ukraine because their security was threatened which seems a bit of a stretch with Ukraine being basically a peaceful democracy looking to join the EU and Russia being a famously aggressive dictatorship with the worlds largest nuclear arsenal and tank reserves. I mean it's possible they feel threatened by peaceful democracies and unarmed girls on bicycles but I feel it doesn't fit very well with reality.
Yeah, exactly. If you don't want a discrete GPU of your own in a desktop that you could technically access remotely, then go with cloud GPU.

Why pay Apple silly money for their ram when you could take that same money, get a MB Air and build a desktop with a 4090 in it (hell, if you already have the desktop you could buy TWO 4090s for that money). Then just set up the server to use remotely.
> Nothing touches FM's velocity responsiveness

??? You can make any synthesis velocity responsive. Oberheim had it, there were Rolands in the DCO era. Vangelis mastered it on the CS80.

The DX7 simply made velocity sensitive keys widely available, and critically Yamaha baked velocity sensitivity into every patch.
Where's the numbers, you said you did the math?
The “think of the children” type of excuses is always helpful. Strange to use a terrorism excuse though since there is already negative sentiment about “too many AirBnB apartments in our city”
M4 Max with 128 GB RAM here. ;) Love it. A very expensive early Christmas present.
I feel this way about AI. Oh wait, AI is actually an existential risk to humanity, also.
I simply opened the link[1] then selected the folder of the RCT2 installation.
It's in the Github header bar.

Note that save data is in browser local storage, no way to export for now.

Runs well on recent Android tablet and Chromebook with mouse, despite a debug build which affects performance.

[1] https://orct2.csh.rit.edu/
Chromium is merely Chrome with only the open source parts. Chromium components are still implemented in a Google-controlled repo. So it has Google-oriented features and defaults.
> Smashing a deck without accompanying learning ressources

why does everybody keep pretending this is a dichotomy?
And then again, historical events usually drive current status quo.

My initial comment was a recommendation on understanding the current state of the USD as the reserve currency given historical events.

There is a good chance that these things will chance.

But the history take time to unfold. And changing the worlds reserve currency does not happen over night - especially not 10-20 years ago when cash transactions were much more predominant.

But let's continue this talk in 10-20 years and see if the USD is still the reserve currency. And if it is, if we can attribute that to some obscene political moves, like adding 100% tarifs to economies trying to exercise their free choice of currency.
Go and find the academic survey papers of NAT behaviours.
They list what I stated, the common case is EIM+EIF.

However, continue with your belief...
Indian state bans eating beef in public
I do an annual amnesty, every email goes into archive on the first of January.
You could try the OG book of modern logic, to which all 20th century tracts on logic are responses to, Hegel's Science of Logic. Though its very different from what you might expect out of a logic text.
> Because the median voter is largely uninformed and irrational.

Is this only true when they make decisions you don't agree with or also when they elect politicians you like?
Bitcoin at this price level is generally hated by banks, treated with suspicion everywhere around the world, outright banned, and regulators almost actively try to grind it to a halt. They don't do those things for gold for example, and gold is still going up
What turns commenters so smarmy and grumpy when the topic is historical? So many comments are uncurious swipes telling each other to read a book.
P.S.

> (short of global, civilization-ending catastrophe)

We are well on our way to that, and almost certainly past the point of no return.

https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to...
See the last table. By what extent of imagination it is "up to date"? Not to mention that many "Partials" in the second table are really more on the "No" side, like Push API. But yeah, it's not even the matter of WebGPU, or whatever, Safari doesn't support SVG favicons still...

P.S. Surprised how far back Firefox had fallen, actually.
Apple's 1980s iPad concept, built from scratch [video]
HN is full of engineers, founders, etc. who kind of resent that there’s a large class of people who got rich doing nothing and creating no value.

I get it but I’d say if you’re mad about Bitcoiners you should be a lot more angry about much of the financial industry and property speculators, two other huge groups that get rich without creating much value (or even by creating negative value).

There's a lot of value-free getting rich lately. People call it "late stage capitalism," but that frames capitalism as the villain when in fact it's a symptom of capitalism having created so much wealth we don't know what to do with it. The problem is that we're allocating it in incredibly dysfunctional ridiculous ways. I think what we're seeing is the symptoms of an early-stage post-scarcity society in denial.

The dysfunction arises from our clinging to scarcity-era puritanical ideas that only those who do a lot of work or do miraculous things "deserve" wealth. So we create all kinds of elaborate games and then convince ourselves that the winners of those games are somehow superhuman or superior in some Calvinist sense when they really just won a video game.

In a post-scarcity society baseline levels of wealth become like oxygen in the atmosphere. You don't "deserve" it. It's just there.

We are not quite post-scarcity yet, but we're close enough that craziness like $100k Bitcoin is possible. A few more key innovations will do it. Another order of magnitude drop in solar/battery prices and/or successful demonstration of a net-positive fusion power plant will do it. Embodied AIs that can do factory jobs will get us pretty far too, making the cost of manufactured goods almost equal to the cost of raw material inputs and energy inputs.
There's no "opposite" when the decision space is very wide and with time as a factor. There's many "opposites" to choose from when you want to do "not what the guy did", so in the end it was just a "we promise to do anything except what Cramer says" rather than opposite.
Not based on everything ive read. Happy to be shown evidence of otherwise
Certainly gold has been the subject of some suspicion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
how? bitcoin is not anonymous
> I'm interested in all the wealth that will be generated.

Changing the name does not change the point.

I suggest you go read Iain M Banks's Culture novels.

You will have fun, because they are wonderful, but you will also learn what a civilisation that has moved beyond the concept of "money", "wealth", or "payment" would be like.

In brief: better in every imaginable way.

It is not about money.
Napoléon is a must
Yeah LLMs ingest all 4 and can conversationally give you all 4. I suppose it’s orthogonal.
> You yourself said it would cosr trillions in public money.

No I did not.

I think you are getting your threads confused.
the bet is that the incoming regime won't crackdown and may go do the opposite
You highlight and try and predict the eventual problems of non-marketisation but you don't seem and try and do the same to the eventual problems of marketisation.

These things are difficult to predict, but already for example we notice some problems with ultra-marketisation in the UK where house prices are now 10-12x average annual salary (it used to average 6-8x for the last two decades), and all the social strife this is causing in society. For example it can eventually lead to mass violent protests against migrants or electing extreme political parties.

Another example is that it has seriously degraded public services, since nurses can barely survive on their salary there is huge shortage of medical employees leading to huge waiting list for medical, even critical, operations.
AI seems to be everywhere these days. That was gonna happen one day. This is gonna be really interesting in coming days.
Generative AI is hardly an existential risk. There’s huge fears around AGI, but that’s not what people are building.
Making people work is an assumption that work in itself is valuable, or at worse, mostly valuable. This isn't necessarily the case for jobs, and some jobs are probably actually detrimental to the well being of our society.
buying it after a major crash has historically been a very good business

Even buying it after a major peak (literally every single prior peak) and just holding throughout the crash has been very good business. Agreed that almost no one can stomach the volatility though if they truly hold Bitcoin as their main asset.

I've always held it with full knowledge that it's a speculative asset and holding it is in fact speculation and should not represent the majority of my portfolio. The issue I have is my speculative asset keeps multiplying and dwarfing my safe 5-10% investments and I have to maintain extreme discipline to keep rebalancing during peaks like this.
Came to quibble with the “no bands gigged polysynths” slander as well. They did, but only for about a 5 year window where it was economically feasible.

There’s Sequential Prophet 5 all over Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense. Van Halen famously used an Oberheim. Basically any record in the first half of the 80s if it had synths.
Haha. Indeed.
> Standers are more likely to be exposed to the outdoors — something that will become more and more dangerous as our planet warms.

Feels almost absurd to see that framed as (just) a bad thing. (I would think Sitters are more likely to be exposed to the indoors, which includes a lack of sunlight and fresh air, possible exposure to mold and bad ventilation, and heated arguments over hot-desking.)
I have used it, but i dont see how it is related to being able to transact privately. As soon as you do anything linked to your name with those coins puchased on bisq, the whole batch is linked to your identity
hallucination problem in LLM, been seeing this. Let me know if someone find a fix please
Kwak in dutch means either the sound of a duck or a "sploodge/splat". Both are funny tbh
It's anonymous as long as you manage to sell it without connection to your real identity
well the money comes from predicting the direction. this doesnt tell you the direction just that when US trading hours start the probability of a large move up or down increases
As the sole arbiter of the true and false interpretations of Nietzsche's writing, its not debatable.
Moving across Europe may be harder than moving across the US. But moving across Europe (at least the EU) today is much easier than it was 40 years ago, pre-EU.
Just the latest one: https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/operation-destab...
>This is also why there's rich ecosystem of browsers around it.

The initial releases of Brave, Vivaldi, and Edge (Chrome-based) were in 2016, 2015, and 2018, respectively. In 2015, Chrome already had a ~50% usage share, followed by Safari and IE, at ~10%, and Firefox at ~5%. Now the choice is between basing your browser on one with ~50% usage share and one with ~5%. Here's the first reason MS provided for the decision to migrate their browser to Chrome base:

>Although Microsoft Edge has very high web compatibility for both standards-based HTML and for capabilities added by highly-used browsers like Chrome, our unique web-platform codebase still faces occasional compatibility problems as web developers focus less on HTML standards and rationally focus on widely used platforms like Chrome to develop and validate experiences for their customers.

The "rich" ecosystem you're talking about could be due to technical merit but could also be irrelevant to it.
I feel like that's true only because we have a culture of making needlessly complex websites on the level of OS drivers, mostly to artificially grab attention due to the sickness of SEO.
It isn't illogical. Americans move to suburbs because there aren't enough affordable cities. Then they complain about the cost of gas, energy, housing and taxes which are inherently worse with lower density.

Suburbs aren't for standard of living, but affordability. You take the most available labour, the most available construction, and connect it with the most available transportation and you get suburbs. All without the need for much effective planning, organization or innovation.

But eventually someone else does those things. And then suburbs are expensive in comparison.