skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which makes it the entire "yay libertarian" tone completely stupid.

It doesn't matter what the policy politics are. What's necessary is a non corrupt government.

The hyperinflation is invariably because of corruption, because when the corrupt steal everything and print money to keep the lights on temporarily.

Multifaceted shock changes like this smell of just another corruption shift. Deregulation is best accomplished by gradual reductions so all economic players have time to adapt. A shock shift probably means some insider is poised to cash in.

True libertarianism is insanity. Prohibition on murder and violence is a regulation. Use of currency is a regulation. The most libertarian unregulated market is illegal drugs, where mass murder and violence is used for business purposes.

Best of luck to Argentina.
I think people want to buy food and not starve. So neither I guess?
Good question, 360 would have been better, full circle coverage of all your (office) productivity needs.
Please try QwQ 32B with the same question. In my experience it's even more "humane" while approaching a hard question.
Im hate crypto as much as the next person, but is jewelry as a status symbol that different from an NFT as a status symbol or having a bitcoin wallet worth $1mil as a status symbol?

People in CS:GO pay (tens) of thousands of dollars for skins which are just digital status symbols.

Maybe the property of gold is that it is a status symbol which has a long history and cannot be duped.
TBH, I don't remember where I first read it, but it's all over the web xD. This is all just a misunderstanding: since I knew you were a Prolog expert, I assumed you would recognize my (botched) quote and the context. Yeah, I understand it as: 'better to keep it simple and understandable'
>next to an animated paperclip instead.

Now that would be kinda funny, Clippy powered by modern AI
False positives must be zero in that context. Not when I choose which blog posts to spend 30 minutes on. Quite different.
As the article points out, bitcoin is so volatile that having it as even 5% of your portfolio will "drastically raise its risk profile".
Probably meant as "Desktop OS" not "Desktop UI".

A Linux distribution meant for desktop use as opposed to server use.
I don’t understand the crime one personally. Just a guess:

1) people who migrate to larger cities are exposed to more crime

2) not many people from the 1950s around that can really compare accurately
You need gold in a computer to mine bitcoin, but you don't need bitcoin to mine gold.
I want people to believe in stop signs.
> You still have the problem of punishing diffuse guilt.

Corporations are hierarchical.

> however, because corporations have many stakeholders who may not deserve punishment, e.g. employees.

Hiding behind the employees. The ones with the least stake in the company. That’s a classic.

They might have their two weeks notice. What else? “There might be no other jobs around?”

Class collaboration is a lie.
Good. Reaffirms my trust in Vanguard's indices. People behind funds that chase trends cannot be truly genuine. They give rotten grifter vibes...
Investing in a company is not the same as gambling. It looks like gambling, because like gambling it carries risk, and the stock market is so liquid that the fact that you're investing in a business is abstracted away. But it is fundamentally different from gambling, because you are providing capital for activities you expect to be productive.

Imagine you know a skilled chef, whose new restaurant is losing money, but you believe he can turn it around and start being profitable if he is able to keep operating for another few months. You buy 10% of his business for $100k, so that he can keep paying rent and wages. Your thesis is correct and his restaurant becomes popular and profitable, and you share in the profits. New value is created (a thriving business, providing food and jobs) that would not have existed without the capital you provided.

Did you take a risk? Yes. Were you just gambling? No. In contrast, there's no scenario where betting on a sports game or memecoin creates new real-world economic value.
Odd - I also have 16.93 on Mac and I don't get the checkbox (unless I just can't find it I guess).
I'm having trouble seeing how it would take more copper than has been mined throughout all history up to 2018.

First, there would be the copper needed in the actual cars. A BEV uses about 80 kg of copper (compared to around 20 for an ICE). At 15.5 million cars and light trucks sold per year in the US that's 1.2 million metric tons of copper per year. World copper production is 22 million metric tons per year, so 5% of world copper production.

Then there would be any copper needed for any upgrades to the electrical distribution system.

Working out from the home, level 2 EV charging draws about the same amount of power as an electric clothes dryer. Most home electrical systems are already designed to handle the load of a clothes dryer running during the day when households are also using their other electrical appliances. They should have no trouble with someone charging their EV overnight (which electric companies will encourage with lower overnight rates).

The key here is that in most cases EV charging at home won't increase the peak load. It will just raise the average load. So no need for new wiring.

The same should be true of most of the electrical distribution infrastructure in cities.

Maybe we'll need to build more transmission lines between cities and regions. But those are usually made of aluminum, not copper.

Copper is more conductive than aluminum so to make an aluminum wire with the same capacity it was to have a cross section about 56% bigger, so your wire has 56% more aluminum by volume. But copper is way denser than aluminum (8.96 g/cm^3 vs 2.7 g/cm^3) so the aluminum wire is only 47% as heavy as the copper wire. For lines that are not buried that means your supports only have to be half as strong, lowering their costs.

Aluminum is also a lot cheaper ($2.57/kg vs $9.50/kg) so the aluminum wire is only about 13% of the cost of the copper wire. That's a huge win even with buried lines.

What else would be needed that would use copper?
self improving only when it knows how to test itself . if the test is predictable outcome defined by humans most companies are going to fine tune to pass self improving test , but what happens next . Improvement is vague in terms of who seeks the benefit and may not fall as how humans have thought over millions of years of evolution.
The Quest for Universal Flu Vaccines
My point is just this: it seems like there are a million reasons that all of the following could be true:

* policy is majorly influenced, to the point of near dictatorship, by shareholder profits

* thus, crimes perpetuated in the name of these profits are vague, hard to define, hard to prosecute

* some white collar crime, that shareholders despise, remains difficult to prosecute despite being aligned with the interests of this dominating power
Show HN: I made a form builder to get people to speak their mind in realtime
This is incoherent nonsense.

Vanguard is a service that manages your portfolio so you don't have to. Literally the definition of providing an economic service.

Owning the portfolio does come with risk, but it's not fixed odds, rather the odds track the literal economy. If you buy index funds, your ballot tracks the value of the country you invested in. When society does well, so do you. And guess what? Everyone, including the government, spends their life trying to generate value and wealth.

It isn't a casino. Likening the US economy to a casino is perhaps the most disingenuous nonsense I've heard from the church of crypto.
The killer use cases of crypto are not visible to HN readers living in relatively stable North American or European countries. Take a look at the the "Global Crypto Adoption Index Top 20" [1] for the past years and ask yourself, "do Vietnamese people love trading monkey gifs? Are Ukrainians especially susceptible to Ponzi schemes? Is Venezuela laden with techbros?" [2]

No. It's that people in many of the countries in the top 20 live under unstable governments and monetary systems, with extreme debasement, inflation, inability to store value without seizure, transfer value without controls, accept remittances, etc. Crypto absolutely has use cases in these situations, and these extremes inform the means.

"If you’re in a developed country, and you’re happy with your banking system, and you’re not a sex worker, and you have zero concerns about your country being taken over by fascists, you probably don’t need cryptocurrency and shouldn’t worry about it. If other people say they do need it, don’t call them liars and say you know with certainty that nobody has ever used crypto for anything besides Ponzi schemes and monkey pictures. Just let them use it!" [2]

[1] https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2024-global-crypto-adoption...

[2] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-im-less-than-infinitely...
This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how money works.

Historically all kinds of things have served the role of money. In recent examples, prison environments consistently give rise to people using "commodities" like ramen packs or cigarettes as a unit of money.

The reason why gold has been the choice over most of human kind's history is that it has properties that make it suitable for money. It's scarce. It's difficult to make more of it. It's difficult to fake (until recently). It's easy to "hold". It's durable. But above all, it has a history of social consensus that it is the asset that is globally agreed upon to serve this purpose.

If you think prisoners ascribe value to ramen packs as money because of their ability to eat it, you have a fundamental misunderstanding how money works and how moneyness gets assigned to physical objects.

It's difficult to understand what an introduction of a new type of money looks like, because most people haven't experienced that in their lifetime. That's ok. But as a crowd of people here of who frequently espouse first-principles thinking, it's unfortunate to see people repeatedly falling for the "it has industrial uses" argument for gold. Yes industrial use creates a demand floor and a price floor. But if you think most of the price of gold is driven by it's industrial use then I have a bridge to sell you.
IMO we have plenty of independent and trusted media, the issue is that they are independently, and increasingly monomaniacally, pursuing financial outcomes. Not an obviously terrible thing except when they each independently discovered that the best way to make $number go up is to produce outrage.

For the most part, the less you understand a topic, the more easily you'll be outraged about it, and the more viewership ($$$) you'll drive to the people who give you outrage and withhold understanding.

The most dangerous meme in existence is Friedman's extremist view of shareholder supremacy, which we saw drawn to its obvious conclusion the past few weeks in the Rotunda.
Not what I’m suggesting at all. This last December I was talking to a store clerk in Colorado. The store clerk mentioned needing to switch banks because their current bank wasn’t great. I advised instead they look into a Cash Management account at a financial service firm which would give you 5% investment on your money instead of letting it sit in a checking account. Explained that the 5% return was important to helping inflation proof your money on average inflation years. And that you can use it like a checking account, in-fact it was backed by one. You can always move your money back to the bank if dissatisfied.

There are obviously more nuanced things to understand such as “cash equivilent bonds/etfs” but that is what they should figure out.

It’s about undoing the stigmas not solving the housing crisis.

We keep people in the dark with this belief that financial strategies aren’t to be talked about publicly.
The move to a subscription model is where I started to lose the thread, and it’s gotten worse from there.

I understand OneDrive as Microsoft’s version of Dropbox, but the more it’s integrated into Windows/Office, the more confusion it causes me.
The content of the article shows that it is still a problem. You think that landlords and food suppliers colluding to raise prices to just below the breaking point is not a problem?
Your thing looks promising. Do you plan to introduce GitHub releases? I would subscribe to those and read the CHANGELOG.
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M
You can't do this indefinitely. There a lot of risk management rules and capital requirement ratios which dictate how much money you can make of "the thin air". Also you should have enough liquidity to let the customer transfer the borrowed amount outside to actually use it.
Are you complaining about Vanguard's tiny fund management fees? I think they are worth the convenience to not have to buy 10,000 different stocks myself.

Vanguard is not a for-profit business, it's more like a credit union, it is owned by its own customers.
> But there also seems to be something more fundamental happening. Before the covid pandemic, consumer sentiment was relatively predictable based on economic fundamentals. The hard data and the survey responses tended to move up and down in something like unison. But since 2020, they’ve become disconnected, with a wide and pessimistic gap opening up between them. It’s hard to look at that phenomenon and see the impact of a changed media environment.

I don't understand that last sentence. I suspect I'm reading it wrong, but am having trouble parsing it in a way that doesn't mean: this data cannot be explained by a changing media environment since 2020. It's very easy for me to look at the disconnect between survey responses and economic data and see that how people receive and process news is largely responsible for it. The disconnect between facts and opinions has been widely observed, and while the pandemic didn't start it, it seems to have been an accelerator for it.
See https://beuke.org/terminal-latency/. Single-digit milliseconds I’d say. These numbers are minus the keyboard and display latency.
Bill Hwang and SBF committed the cardinal sin of business: losing other rich people's money. They both ran out of friends very quickly. Elizabeth Holmes was the same.
> If Uber has let so many drivers on the app such that they cannot earn a minimum wage, they should stop aggressively enrolling new drivers.

Why? All Uber cares about are the fees it collects, which are dependent on the total number of miles and total number of rides. It has no reason to care if its drivers make minimum wage or not, unless it can be shown that if they cannot, Uber will not have enough drivers. Fortunately for Uber, there is no evidence that this is the case.
>My favourite DBs are Oracle and SQL Server, and no FOSS religion is going to change my mind.

I mean even mentioning MySQL is better than Postgres in some areas is not even welcomed on most of the tech internet including on HN. MySQL reached 9.0 after so many years and its news doesn't even reached HN's front page.

>Too many folks lose on great technology because of hating the man, 70's hippie style......... It is similar to all the programming languages

And It is not just PL. It is pretty much all across tech spectrum, and even beyond tech. I am a tech enthusiasts, not an PL, Editor, DB enthusiasts. We should be able to admit Oracle and SQL Server are better now but we strive to make similar if not better DB that is open source.
Banks produce economic services: they provide the structure and liquidity needed to convey value through the rest of the economy.

(A typical form of blockchain apologia is that blockchains also do this. This is true only if you ignore the social and regulatory structure that allows companies and individuals to treat banks as mostly interchangeable assets.)
I've seen in larger companies there's a lot of career growth initiatives focused around the typical groups that DEI have been deemed oppressed. So if you're not in those groups you're left out.

Now whether it's right to have those or not to "balance" any sense of perceived structural inequity is a different question altogether. But I can totally see how a white straight male would feel discriminated against.
That UI is... something else. Reminds me of some old database tools I used at Scout Forge, we even wrote some blog posts about similar ones. Think it's actually usable for anything beyond a quick peek?
my criticism cuts to the chase. that's why you write such a lengthy rebuttal. cause it hurts your feelings.

> So use Java. Or C. You think you'll have more declarative fun writing a Zebra Puzzle solver in C, than in Prolog?

and that, my dear friendo, is _whataboutism_!
In a sense, the macro trend is irrelevant and mainly used as a talking point by the media.

Individuals experience the world from an individual level — it is easy to go along with any trend that fits your desired narrative because until it is at odds with your individual experience, it doesn’t really matter.

(I’m being a bit reductive and haven’t fully fleshed out this thought, but think the sentiment is accurate)
Can you quantify what you believe is a correct prior then, and explain how you got that number?

I hope you're not going to count every natural spillover since prehistory in the denominator. The technology to culture and freeze an influenza virus didn't exist before ~1930, and the technology to genetically enhance a sarbecovirus didn't exist before ~2010. The absence of pandemics with such origin before that means nothing. No one had ever suffered a cancer induced by an X-ray tube before 1904; but that doesn't mean the risk wasn't there, and Edison's assistant still died horribly.
You can touch gold and take it in your hands.
[2023] article describing an event in 1982
Banks are service providers. They are the middlemen between entities that have money and entities that need money. They make the deal (a loan/mortgage) and then skim some off the top. There is real economic benefits derived from banks.

There are some real economic benefits to Bitcoin as well, but I don't believe they justify the valuation though that's neither here nor there.
Power Query, Powershell, and .net core were revolutionary in their niches.
> Who would be buying bitcoin right now?

Senile laggards.
Don't take this the wrong way, but the way you say "their core purpose" makes me think that you agree that their reason for existence isn't gambling. I'd agree that they haven't lived up to their core purpose as much as they could have, and it's a lot gambling
>Honestly, that's _exactly_ what it looks like to me. Law makes it so that they have to pay drivers that are available to drive but aren't actively involved in a fair... so they change the system so that, if they don't have fairs for you you're not considered available to drive. Everything about that reeks of trying to circumvent the law.

How is this any different than minimum wage laws which are ostensibly enacted to increase worker's salaries, but businesses respond by hiring people for fewer hours? I agree that uber is thwarting legislators' attempt to improve the earnings of uber drivers, but this was the outcome everyone has foresaw, including the legislators. Characterizing it as some cunning chicanery on uber's part is absurd.
The main reason the value of cash decays and the main reason central banks target 2% is downward wage rigidity. If you reduce wages of people, they get angry, sometimes very angry to the point of strikes. If the value simply drops, they don’t get as mad. It’s as simple as that, a matter of psychology and social institutions.

There is no reason why payment for labor should be a “temporary store of labor value”, whatever that means. There is no reason one cannot receive wage in productive assets, commodities, credit and whatnot.
David Eagleman has done some work with drummers. Granted the audio system might be a bit more accurate than the visual, or maybe drummers are just weird. On the other hand, vim taking 30 milliseconds to start (ugh) and having sluggish cursor motions is why I'm on vi now. Haven't tried Wayland. Maybe in some number of years once it's more portable and more developed? (And how many years has it already been out?)

> “I was working with Larry Mullen, Jr., on one of the U2 albums,” Eno told me. “ ‘All That You Don’t Leave Behind,’ or whatever it’s called.” Mullen was playing drums over a recording of the band and a click track—a computer-generated beat that was meant to keep all the overdubbed parts in synch. In this case, however, Mullen thought that the click track was slightly off: it was a fraction of a beat behind the rest of the band. “I said, ‘No, that can’t be so, Larry,’ ” Eno recalled. “ ‘We’ve all worked to that track, so it must be right.’ But he said, ‘Sorry, I just can’t play to it.’ ”

> Eno eventually adjusted the click to Mullen’s satisfaction, but he was just humoring him. It was only later, after the drummer had left, that Eno checked the original track again and realized that Mullen was right: the click was off by six milliseconds. “The thing is,” Eno told me, “when we were adjusting it I once had it two milliseconds to the wrong side of the beat, and he said, ‘No, you’ve got to come back a bit.’ Which I think is absolutely staggering.”
Appeals Court Affirms U.S. Navy Should Pay $154k in Piracy Damages, Not $155M
He said he spoke with about 100 local people, and that was their general consensus.

They're more likely to understand how they're better off than a tourist, or someone reading what a tourist wrote.
I don't think you are an idiot. Being mistaken or providing an incomplete analysis doesn't make you an idiot, it most likely just means you had neither the time nor the tools to do better just now. Your response clarified the article for me.

And admitting to the error puts you right at the top of the list of non-idiots in my opinion!
My wife can't wear a bitcoin. She can wear a gold necklace and will be pleased to do it even if the price goes to 10%
A sufficiently motivated state actor will have little issue with finding what they want/need, no matter what measures are taken.
I don't think this is true, admittedly with me not knowing that nuch about ev car batteries. But I believe an EV car battery weighs about 1/2 ton for 200-300 mile range or whatever it is today.

Say you make cells that a less than average person could pick them up, say 1kg, The number required to change, 500, would makes it clear it's not a trivial problem at all.
> Was Wayland not architected to be simpler to implement than the (antique) X11 protocol?

I think it's safe to assume that it is actually simpler, given that we already have multiple Wayland implementations, but still basically just the one X11 server implementation. Can one or more of those implementations shave off one or two milliseconds overs the next 40 years... Probably yes.
(I have no information and thus no opinion on this being a thing that happens but)

constantly keeping the cell antenna and CPU awake would probably do it. it's a BIG part of why weak cell signal and lots of noise at e.g. conventions drains your phone many times faster than normal, even when you're not using it. you could probably do that just by sending junk data to everyone occasionally, or delaying valid data to prevent going into sleep modes for longer periods.
i don't think vim is that bad out of the box. when i ssh into a box and need to get work done, i can install it and use sane defaults with pretty high productivity.

i'm used to a plugin- and config-light setup on my personal systems, with most of the customization being stuff like latex compilation and preview from a keybind rather than major changes to default behavior, but the whole "vim needs a bazillion lines of config!" thing isn't really true. some people like to spend a week bikeshedding it but it's by no means necessary. i've had the same vimrc for years and years and basically never need to change it.
End the Ukraine war? Neither side is ready