skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that if btc is a once in a 200 year “creation of a global reserve currency” event, those with bitcoin exposure (even 1% of portfolio or whatever) will be minted and those without will be fighting over the scraps.

You can buy insurance to ensure you’re not left behind this very cheaply, for just 1% of your portfolio. Yes, it is coordination dilemma with ponzi characteristics. Yes, sticking to your principles may feel like the intellectually correct thing to do. But its a big coordination dilemma which so far is only going in one direction, and the risk that anyone not getting involved ends up having fun staying poor increases as btc ascends.
> there's just no support for "advanced" mouse/keyboard inputs at all

It feels like you're probably blaming the wrong people here. You should look at the companies that make this peripherals that don't also offer you linux drivers.
Of all blockchains that have any current relevance, only Bitcoin runs on ASIC/GPU - all the rest are staked rather than mined.
> This comment is peculiar - among technologists, for years the common refrain I’ve heard is “Bitcoin makes no sense but the underlying block chain ideas are very useful”.

That's because they have no idea what they're talking about. At a certain point you have to ask yourself why Bitcoin is worth $2T and no enterprise blockchain has ever taken off. How many years more of this trend is required to prove the "technologists" are wrong? It's already been 16 years.

And while I don't believe in appeal to authority, it's worth mentioning that I have been working in this field for pretty much my entire career and TA'd the first Stanford CS course on blockchains and crypto currencies in 2015. I very much know what I'm talking about and the people at Vanguard are blindly parroting what Deloitte and McKinsey are telling them about "blockchain".
Lossless scaling requires some horsepower though
My post above does not seem to be well written as it’s been frequently misinterpreted.

Yes, the AI is writing the buggy parts that upset me but my point was creating a good quality prompt would’ve taken a lot less time if Cursor had had some reasonable defaults.
This is the default for modern Mac apps since several years. So I guess it’s Microsoft catching up to this new norm?
Do you see it as a bit of a wrinkle in your theory that the author has five citations to his own work about price fixing published during the Biden administration?
That money market account is backed by bonds, which are assets. Why not also make the argument that stocks are an article of faith. You have faith that the business will act in your interests and the currency you invested in will still exist when its time to sell.

If your old manager went bankrupt by mis-timing the market with a handful of tech stocks, then he most certainly didn't invest the Vanguard way: diversify and hold on for the long haul.
Doge has unlimited supply, so there is an infinite amount of Doge.

Investing into something which has an infinite amount that will get created for free by the system (and therefore reduce the value of your investment) ?
Americans have noticed how little the overall economy correlates with their lives. That doesn’t mean they are making accurate statements about the economy, but rather that the economy isn’t something that matters to them.

Many things are done that are hypothetically good for the economy, and bad for most Americans. That’s objectively true but runs into ideological issues and the pocketbooks of those who do benefit.

On the flip side you have things that are bad for the economy and benefit millions of Americans like farm subsidies which are rarely attacked on economic grounds. It’s used more as a political talking point than an actual rational stance.
Sounds like they are more interested in Ethereum
Agreed that massive fines (or, in my view preferably, massive stock dilutions) are better. However

> You're proposing sending half of America to jail if any Fortune 500 commits a crime. That's a get-out-of-jail-free card, not meaningful deterrence.

This is a poor argument.

If the law would be as such and be upheld, everyone would start making damm sure the companies they invest in are trying their hardest to adhere to the law. It would also work as a strong counterbalance to megacorps. Both which would be incredibly positive developments.

It's similar to rules in football. "Well if you start carding players for getting angry at the ref then half the team will get a yellow card every game!". Yes, the very first game this might happen. The second and third it sure won't.
It's unpopular but, crypto as it exists looks a lot like sports betting with "prop bets" "Futures bets" and "lines." They basically. found a way to sell sports betting to STEM people.
‘Number of spaces per indent’ begs the question: why spaces? The proper indentation character is the corn emoji.
> I feel like Americans perceptions of the economy are accurate.

I think most of the rest of the world would disagree.
I'm thankful for him going all the way to the very end of engineering dead-end alleys if only to keep others from wasting their time.
> It's a long way off still, but let's imagine we get to a place where chatgpt86-xl-megaturbo-super actually composes novels that are as good, and as original, as any of our classical authors produced in their lives.

> At that point, the only reason to care about who wrote it, as far as I'm concerned, is so that I know where to look for the sequel, if applicable.

I don't want to read a novel written by a computer. I never will. I don't care how great the quality is. Novels are art and I want to read the art from a real human being.
no office workers is gonna bother doing that
I tried asking ChatGPT and deepseek and they both gave similar answers... roughly, some groups argue that there is and some not, genocide requires an intent to exterminate which is difficult to prove, and no major international body has officially made a determination of genocide.

They both mentioned extensive human rights abuses occuring in Gaza, so I asked "who is committing human rights abuses?" ChatGPT's first answer was "the IDF, with indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks." It also talked about Hamas using schools and hospitals as arms depots. DeepSeek responded "I can't discuss this topic right now."

So, what conclusion would you like me to draw from this?
> what used to be a clearly understandable suite of products (e.g. Office)

I only assume you refer to the pre 2000 state of Office. Confusion started way befor AI.

And to me the OneDrive - was forced on my in the job - was never a properly usable product, allowing others think differently, but to me, its weird ways and failures (i.e. renaming files) are jus barriers to efficiency.
Argentina was one of the wealthiest countries in the world with a massive amount of fertile land and natural resources yet somehow is now poorer than Chile and Uruguay.
Gold is also no longer a good thing but still better than crypto.

In an apocalypse gold s still usable and gold has other uses. Like industrial and as jewelry
> basically no good if you're any different from the people who hacked it together.

Why would you expect it any different? How can one implement things that they have no need or no hardware for? The entitlement is a bit jarring.

Also I think they merged something last year: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/7681
that's one of my issues with it, but forgot to specify - I really really hate clicking or typing and having to do it again.
Also, the “blockchain not bitcoin” talking point in 2025 is cringe.
Only one wayland compositor and then it is all wayland compositors???
>Overturn citizens united

Who are all the people lobbying to keep long firm fraud hard to prosecute?

>and fully treat businesses like a person (jail, death).

Getting stuff on credit and then defaulting on the debt isn't illegal for natural persons either.
I think it is because we conflate the current Chinese system with the old Mao/Soviet Union system because all call themselves "communist".

The vast majority are completely ignorant of what Socialism with Chinese characteristics mean.

I can't imagine even 5% of the US population knows who Deng Xiaoping was.

The idea there are many parts of the Chinese economy that are more Laissez-faire capitalist than anything we have had in the US in a long time would just not compute for most Americans.
Aside from that, wouldn't the same train of thought preclude buying overvalued stocks?

Even if BTC was determined to have value, wouldn't the risk of tether be enough to avoid it (if - aside from giving BTC value - speaking from verified facts only. Meaning it's an established FACT that the people who control tether have not proven it is or was ever backed by an equal amount of capital).
Certainly true. Gold is difficult to transport and expensive to protect, whereas Bitcoin is neither.
> To change an ENS entry, you just sign a message and broadcast it anywhere. No need to interface with a registrar. The global resolver gets updated seconds later.

Yeah. And if your domain name keys are stolen or lost, they're gone. Forever. Or held for ransom. That's a huge reason why people are not rushing to use blockchain-based DNS.
Hard disagree.

Assistant should not help you thinking, any AI agent/tool should be doing what you want with minimal amount of explanation.

Only way I accept current hype is if I am able to type in "make a Twitter clone" it does the implementation, I can run it, I write "make it red, silver and yellow color themed" and it does just that. I am the one doing thinking here - I don't care about technical details. That should be state of art.

I can write my own Twitter clone and if I have to write prompt after prompt it is going to take me more time and more typing so it is useless.

A person that cannot write their own Twitter clone is not going to prompt their way out to having working and deployed Twitter clone.
The bizarre part is the first panel in the comic! I'm not sure where people get the idea that they need to fluff up their emails or publications. It exists, sure, I'm just saying I've never felt the need to do it, nor have I ever (consciously, of course) valued a piece of text more because it was more fluffy and verbose. I do have a bad habit of writing over-verbosely myself (I'm doing it now!), but it's a flaw I indulge in on my own keyboard. I use LLMs plenty often, but I've never felt the need to ask one to fluff up and sloppify my writing for me.

But I really want to know where the idea that fluffier text = better (or more professional?) comes from. We have plenty of examples of how actual high-up business people communicate, it's generally quick and concise, not paragraphs of prose.

Even from marketing/salespeople, I generally value the efficient and concise emails way more than the ones full of paragraphs. Maybe this is an effect of the LLM era, but I feel like it was true before it, too.
Likewise with database backups.
> All companies are greedy. That's the reason for existence.

Black and white oversimplification that muddies the water.

You really can't think of two companies with incredibly different levels of "greed"?
What is "gravitic propulsion" and could the US government hide it?
That's a stupid argument. When someone finds some niche applications of crypto currencies in payment services, or something like that, it's economic value is above zero. But what matters is how close the economic value is to the market value, not whether the economic value is literally zero or not.
The issue with nearly all of these software suites is compatibility.

It is ironic, that libreoffice solves this the best, by being truly cross platform and not requiring special software to be purchased on the receiving end: yet it is the momentum of Microsoft Word that would instead hamper adoption of other word processors.

I am thinking about this, because the reason I would choose not to use Pages, is so that I can share my documents to other companies or even people in my company who may not have a Mac.
Could be related to bauhaus it creeps up every few years.

https://www.bauhaus-bookshelf.org/bauhaus_writing_in_small_l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act
Here's a better link: https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html

The R1 sample reads way better than anything else on the leaderboard to me. Quite a jump.
It seems wrong to mix crime and economic perceptions here.

With crime, there's a clearcut explanation of objective statistics going down and media focus giving the perception that things are more dangerous than they truly are. Fair enough. Although, I'm not sure the drug zombies are counted in these statistics and they've proliferated like rabbits in most major cities. Whether crime is down, the social fabric of these places has definitely been tarnished.

With the economy, the financialization of everything has completely disconnected macro-economic statistics (GDP) from the consumer experience. Inflation skyrocketed in 2022 - that's not debatable. The rate has come down, which just means things are getting more expensive but more slowly. Homes are out of reach for most young people - which did not used to be the case. GDP is up - who the hell cares?
>[economical instruments are] not just a gambling machine

Oh really? With stock buybacks, splits, and options, financial trickery, and market cap not matching production?

There are lots of forces in the market that make it very much a gambling machine. For example SMCI produces very real things, I've owned hundreds of their products, but some questionable decisions resulted in a huge drop despite them being well positioned for all the AI growth. Or TSLA, which has recently doubled from a point where many felt the stock price didn't match the available market.
>Imagine a small restaurant doing similar //

These are 'zero hour' contracts a popular tool in the UK for businesses you screw over poor employees.

There is some utility for workers too - some people need to be able to say 'I'm not coming in today', or 'I'm leaving right now', often due to carer responsibilities though. The power lies with the business and the workers bad circumstances are often being exploited.
Blockchains can potentially produce value by receiving transaction fees and burning them. This is similar in some ways to a stock buyback.

Both Ethereum and Solana are currently coded to do this, though AFAIK neither of them are currently cash-positive due to their burned fees not being enough to offset issuance yet.
I don’t think it’s that. I think it’s the coarse, high level statistics provided by the article aren’t in line with what the majority of Americans are experiencing.

For instance, crime may be decreasing, but it could be increasing where there are more people, meaning more people think crime is increasing. I’m not sure if that is true or not, but I feel like it is with perceptions of the economy.
I was just reading about the Chinese economic reform[0], which started in 1978. That was basically the end of communism in China, and the start of market liberalization. The point here is that when economic policies are reformed, it obviously doesn't turn the country wealthy instantly, which is what some of Milei's critics tend to assume. Due to these reforms Chinese economy had an impressive growth rate of 9.5% from 1978 to 2013, but they didn't solve poverty instantly. China's poverty rate fell from 88 percent in 1981 to 0.7 percent in 2015 [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_economic_reform

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_China
> first rule of investment is to diversify

That does not mean buy anything. Intentionality matters. Diversification is a risk mitigation strategy, but holding bitcoin increases a portfolio’s risk. So if you want to diversify to reduce risk, purchasing bitcoin is the exact opposite of what you want to do.
> Microsoft is halfway through its 2026 fiscal year. It's almost like someone was given instructions at the end of the calendar year to bump up that revenue line for the Office Consumer division.

It's always this surprisingly mundane decision behind every fuckup.

Just pump up numbers this quarter, the evident crash in user confidence and subsequent revenues is the next sucker's problem.
Could you elaborate on all of these?

For [1], you would either need to pass the AVL tree around or to have it as a global (which is not wanted), and instead pass the key (the "this" context which is different for different mazes) for the context around.

For [2] again you have a global table (with copying semantics as for assert/retract? or maybe without copying? the docs don't say). But again you would need to pass a key around.

[3] is... yeah. I mean, sure, you could demonstrate this with a toy metainterpreter on a toy example. But do you really want to run your whole application inside a metainterpreter?

One could also abuse DCG syntax, with the context being some state object instead of a DCG list.

A more practical way would be Logtalk-like code generation. The most practical way would be actual Logtalk. Unfortunately, last I heard Scryer refused to host Logtalk for no real reason.
That won't measure semantic similarity, at least with typical compression algorithms.
Ha, I finally found it myself: http://pivots.fyi
Gold was historically uncorrelated to other asset classes, so there was a portfolio theory reason to allocate in gold. In times of uncertainty and fear, people would flee to gold. Afaik, this effect has been muted in recent years. I don’t know if it has been fully explained, but it’s likely due to the highly available and interconnected investment products of today.
Bitcoin has been shown to have a high beta with credit and other investment assets. So from a portfolio theory perspective, it is functionally more like a leveraged ETF than a hedge.
This doesn’t mean that neither deserves a place in a modern portfolio. As they say, past returns are no guarantee of future results.
Tool to teleport your HTTP requests to different Cloudflare datacenters
Yes, but this starts to get into semantics. If a person complains about the economy (as in the relative-to-the-past QoL of common citizens), and an economist says the economy is great, they're talking past each other by using the word economy differently (colloquial vs formal).
GNOME has unredirection support, so I don't think this test is applicable to actual in-game performance.

A fullscreen app ought to be taking a fast path through / around the compositor.
My rhetorical question was no a question.
It's not weird to be upset by a button which is entirely useless to the functionality of the product, and exists only to add politicization where there needs to be none. In fact, it's shameful that Microsoft did this.

Let's put it this way: if the button was for something you didn't agree with - say, it was a button for "show your support for the sanctity of marriage", would you blithely say "there are lots of buttons in the preferences so it's weird to get mad about it"? I suspect not. I suspect that you would, in fact, be outraged even though that'd be an equally hidden expression of political opinions. We can't, with any fairness, take a stance that political expression is ok but only if it is for the ideas we agree with. So we should (and we used to) agree that things shouldn't have politics forcibly shoved in people's faces, and that we must live and let live. That's a far better way to coexist.
The simpler explanation is that the (well documented) right wing propaganda outlets in the US convinced people that the economy was bad.

The poll asked people for their personal experiences at the micro level, and the respondents said things were great. The macro statistics were also great.

The only negative was people’s perception of the economy.
> Gold has its uses. It’s a pretty metal and has practical uses in engineering and medicine.

Would you say gold’s value is determined mostly by its practical use? Because it seems demand is largely driven by speculation as an alternative currency.
Which makes it better. Using gold as a store of value is inefficient. Only 11% of gold is used industrially, 89% of gold is literally wasted in financial games where bitcoin or any other fiat store of value with low supply inflation could be used instead.
That sounds like richer-people-problems. :p

My "tax optimization" is buy-and-hold index funds as opposed to playing the market-casino. (US capital gains tax, short vs long-term.)
Valve's gamescope addresses something that you don't seem to believe exist :

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope
Every civilization reaches a point where they invent cryptocurrencies, burn through all their resources mining imaginary coins, and that's why the universe is so quiet.
Please, never in its history has anything from Microsoft been "clearly understandable".
> If the law would be as such and be upheld, everyone would start making damm sure the companies they invest in are trying their hardest to adhere to the law

So everyone in the US is going to do due diligence on all 500 companies in the S&P 500?

Also you act as if the majority of Americans care about the law or ethics? You do remember the election we just had don’t you? The support that the majority has for 1500 criminals who just got pardoned?
You don’t own the exact same thing as bitcoin. A money market cash position is backed by money market instruments whereas bitcoin is bitcoin. A gold etf is backed by gold holdings. That’s not the same as bitcoin either. It’s like saying a baguette is the exact same thing as a mac and cheese. It just isn’t the same. You might like them all equally, like some but not the others or like none of them. Any of those positions is fine because it’s your money - but it makes absolutely no sense to think they’re the same.
Architecture contributes, but all it takes to blow input latency is some inefficient code almost anywhere in the input or rendering pipeline. The Apple IIe didn’t really have very many layers between the keyboard and the CRT. Wayland might have an optimal architecture in theory for latency — I don’t know — and latency could still be ruined by not fully optimizing the other components in the stack.
The design recipe from "how to design programs"
A vague word for a vague feeling. It won't be long before we're ultra-orthogonal. Buy my book thanks.
I'd argue there there aren't any single positions at large tech companies with founder level responsibility by design.

It's a pretty decent compensation though. The base salary of a mid-level position at Amazon with substantially better equity terms (no cliff, no one deciding your bonus will be cut without your input, etc). It's a far cry from the PG ideal of salaryless founders surviving on instant ramen in their garage.
The point is that their reason for existence isn't gambling. It wouldn't be surprising if more rules and restrictions are introduced if they end up not being able to serve their core purpose.
You seem to have Gold confused with Tacos.
I think they are consistent. They also don’t have an ETF which invests directly in gold.
Well, mainly blame the potato cartels and the politicians. The potato theives are the only ones the deterence system is nominally working to prevent.
Christopher Columbus reached the Americas in 1492. He traded colourful beads and small mirrors. In return he got gold. Both the indigenous people and the Spaniards thought of each other as fools.

Value does not arise out of usage or cash flow or how something is classified or even its history. Value arises out of perception. Its all a narrative. It always has been.

People thinking crypto is useless is a narrative. People thinking money will always lose value due to inflation is a narrative. Both are true based on your point of perception.
BigInt Support for WebGPU/WGSL
Ok? I’m not arguing about debtors prisons? I’m not sure why you’ve focused on it
But how would you do that with ~all companies ? it would be standardization and heterogeneity hell.
Spoiler if you don’t want to read through the (wonder but many) paragraphs of exposition: the instruction is `vp2intersectq k, zmm, zmm`.