skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that gold is also speculative

gold has stayed as a value of store that is tradeable, longer than any civilization has existed.

USD or Stocks or Bonds for that matter any other currency is 1000x more speculative than gold

Gold is also a “commodity” which vanguard stated has inflation protection properties

If Satoshi Nakamoto’s Dormant BTC wallet wakes up tomorrow it’ll burn down the whole market…
Exactly it’s automated employee abuse
Void Editor[0] looks promising.

[0]: https://voideditor.com/
> These companies have been hiking prices for years, but really started to turn the screws during the post-covid inflationary period. One of Schwenk's sources is Josh Saltzman, owner of the DC sports bar Ivy and Coney. Ten years ago, Saltzman charged $3 for fries; now it's $6 – and Saltzman's margins have declined. Saltzman has a limited number of suppliers, and they all get their potatoes from Big Potato, and they bundle those potato orders with their other supplies, making it effectively impossible for Saltzman to buy his potatoes from anyone else.

I've had the same opinion for a while now. Something has malfunctioned with the market economy if jacking up prices does not bring in competition that can do it for less.
The reasoning behind this is that your fingerprints and face etc. are public knowledge. Whereas you can retain your right to remain silent (about your password/PIN), failing to provide these aspects of your person can be viewed as not cooperating.
> Has implications for competitive FPS gaming

That has not been proven in the article. Input handling follows different paths for full screen games.
There are noticability thresholds where this could push it over. For fighting games if you have the reactions to whiff punish N frame recovery moves this may push you to only being able to punish N+1 recovery moves and really impact your ranking. This is a little over 1/3rd of a 60hz frame.
> Why read a book when AI can read it for you?

When I was a kid I used short summaries and others' essays for composing my "own" essays on the books I did not want to read (for any reasons). I'm sure generations before me did the same thing, maybe just had it less accessible.

If you are interested you're gonna read that book, most likely no matter how many alternatives you may have. If you're not interested it's not like you're gonna do it anyway (if you're required to do something with it short summary, you'll naturally read the short summary - that was a thing way before the "AI" hype).

Text transforming language models only make accessing short summaries easier to access (with a caveat of being potentially less reliable), but they don't change anything else.

If limited scale was only thing that was holding the whole system working - well, that wasn't reliable, fair or meaningful system in a first place.
Fwiw, with my 15", unfolding flat and standing vertical, with keyboard etc in front, gave a plausible screen position. So I just kludged vertical-ish stands (and fretted over an eventual tip and crash). I considered hanging a portable monitor off the side (brick of a thinkpad, accustomed to gaff taped extensions), but didn't get to it.
Other commodities have a physical existence. That's quite a big difference.
My favorite example is Ethereum Name Service (ENS).

Instead of a patchwork of DNS servers that can go down, registrars that go through enshittification cycles, and complicated ownership/transfer rules that vary based on country and TLD, ENS presents a single unified database that runs on signed message broadcasts.

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.

It reduces an incredibly complex system of registries and registrars, authoritative and recursive resolvers, domain transfers - it distills it down to a system of just sending signed messages to update a single global name database that gets replicated to everyone who cares to have a copy.
US dollar is also constantly and arbitrarily diluted by the Federal Reserve, to the tune of $2-3T a year. If it was a stock, you'd run away in horror.
Cash is a thing that has, at its base, value in so far as you can pay your taxes with it. If the whole world (including American citizens) stopped using USD tomorrow, it would still have value since the US Government still demands it.
All of the improvements are being hand-waved away by those desperate to see Milei fail, because success would jeopardize their worldview. It's not to see it's smooth sailing, but I'm optimistic based varied sources.
Gold is the single best thing that exists in the world and that has ever existed. That's where the value is.
Can we get a (January 2024) tag on this?

Bitcoin ETFs had barely debuted a week before that statement. The offerings and even many institutional stances have largely changed since then.
Yeah what would they know about risk analysis. You're defo smarter.
I've seen a lot of fairly explicit discussions around "this timeline will require cutting these corners and cost this much time to fix later or else it will cause these problems", and also some relatively internal discussions around "how strongly can we rely on promises that the project won't get dropped before all the cleanup is done, and how does that impact what options we can present".
About the difference between 60hz and 120hz monitor, instantly noticeable just by moving the mouse in windows (just by looking
at the distance cursor updates as it moves). Would you argue that all gaming monitors are placebo?
I still don't understand why Ctrl plus shift plus C starts a call on teams when V pastes text unformatted and it is right next to it. At least let me reassign this shortcut...
You can't eat or burn bitcoin, therefore doesn't need to be balanced or made sustainable through economical instruments.

You know all those economical instruments? They actually serve a purpose(like making the price stable or making the supply and demand predictable. This is important because it usually takes months to years to produce these things and you don't want to destroy your producers or production capacity for a glitch) and they're not just a gambling machine with strength rules.
Yes, there are similarities among Latin American countries. However, beyond the shared saying, Argentina's trajectory has been notably different, especially when compared to Brazil [1]. It’s important to emphasize that Brazil has developed robust industries, while Argentina has not achieved that level.

Argentine industries have historically been prebendaries, relying heavily on state support, subsidies, and protectionist policies (e.g. corruption) rather than fostering competitiveness or innovation. This dependency created a system where industries benefited from privileges granted by the government, often at the expense of broader economic efficiency and sustainability.

[1] https://datacommons.org/tools/visualization#visType%3Dtimeli...
I was pleasantly surprised how well WSL works under Windows 10. Unfortunately, it is also considered a security threat, because corporations don't like users having effective root on their machines.
I never understood the argument against speculation. Many stocks are losing money or do not yet have a working product, so how is speculating on these kinds of stocks any different from speculating on cryptocurrencies?
The human ran out of tokens writing this response
It can't track physical items, because you can always just lie about the data. Company A says "I put the jewels in box 1352", and Company B opens the box to receive a bunch of dish towels. Just because it's cryptographically verified, doesn't mean it has any semantic value.

If Company A and B already trust each other not to put bad data on the chain, then they also trust each other to just send emails back and forth, and you don't need a cryptographically verified blockchain. It secures the least important part of the process.
if what you care about is "federated platforms", you might not care much (or maybe you might realize ActivityPub scaling is problematic).

many other people care more about "usable (right now) platforms".
Office 2007 works great in wine
Someone downvoted, perhaps because they dislike Elon and/or AfD? I have considerable sympathy for the dislike. IMO AfD is the political party of choice if one happens to be a nazi, a closet nazi, a schwachmat or several of the above.

But standing up for one's opinions and speaking them in public, even when it's clear that doing so will create major problems for Tesla, is somehow admirable.
All of the sources and math in there seem extremely cherry picked to make the point that they want.

They provide theft data from the FBI, that is then contradicted directly by a non-scientific survey performed by a lobbying group of their members, for political purposes. It also fails to differentiate between shoplifting and outright robbery (the difference in my mind being the use of deception vs the use of violence).

They then choose the latter as a representation of fact with no caveats.

I have no idea whether wage theft is more or less than shoplifting. Anecdotally, I am among numerous people who have had 5 figure sums stolen through wage theft, yet none of these people have shoplifted anywhere near that amount.
Misleading: "Over just the past three years, the price of bitcoin has increased by as much as 150% and declined by as much as 77%. Double-digit percent price drops are routine among cryptocurrencies. Remember that you need a 100% return just to make up for a 50% decline."

I agree with the article that Bitcoin isn't an investment, it's a speculation, but...

They are mixing an overall return with a time-period return to promote some fear. That 100% return you need is from the bottom, but they are quoting the 150% return from before the drop.

Specifics: Jan 1 2022 @ $47K to Nov 2022 @ $16K, Jan 2025 $98K. At $16K, yes you need like 150% return just to get back to where you started. Actual return from the bottom was over 600%. If you got in at $47K, you do not need a 150% cumulative return to recover from the big drop.

The average investor shouldn't have the majority of their money in speculative instruments. However, my FIL gave me some great advice: Take a little of your money and invest it in something you like. Say, 5%. It makes the investing a little more fun. Of course, I love it because after he said that I invested in something I liked and it went up 15x...
Do you think Vanguard has any reason to lie about their motivations here? Do you think their S&P500 MF/ETF distinguishes itself in any way from Fidelity's or is a motivating factor for having one? This is just a bizarre conspiracy theory to espouse on the basis of no evidence.
For discussion, what's wrong with the statement "if you hold a money market cash position [you hold] the same thing as Bitcoin [or a crypto ETF]"? Or, say, you hold one of Vanguard's Gold ETFs. (Good faith)
> My experience has been the opposite, I found cursor to be an improvement over comparable tools such as aider.

That sounds like a similar finding to what I had (comparing to copilot in my own case).

My point, which my post maybe didn’t make so well, was a huge amount of the prompt should’ve been written for me in order to get to an acceptable result sooner.
Thank you! Maybe there is just a divide between engineers working on deep complex topics and those trying to setup their 17th Django app.

LLMs are a totally useful tool! They definitely help me write all the bash scripts I consistently forget.

But the deep stuff where the value lies? It starts to fall apart quickly.
> If that were the case, you'd see the outbreak centered on the lab. It wasn't. It was centered on the market, on the other side of town. So you have to start making implausible - and obviously motivated - assertions that two different lab workers went and infected people at the market, without infecting any of their colleagues or anyone else along the way.

There literally was an outbreak among lab workers in November to December of 2019. Many of them got sick with something that looks vaguely like COVID and quarantined over it - this is a standard precaution when you work around weird pathogens. Social media from these workers was suppressed when they talked about getting sick. Chinese whistleblowers discussed this at the time.

I'm frankly surprised you haven't seen any of this evidence given your interest in the subject.

And we only know about the research they published, not what goes unpublished. That includes various kinds of failed research, research that someone did for fun and wouldn't make it past ethics boards (a not-infrequent problem for this type of virus research), and research that was done under the table to nefarious ends.
I feel like Americans perceptions of the economy are accurate. It comes across as very disingenuous to state that how people are feeling aren’t aligned with the facts.

Maybe the data doesn’t tell the whole story or is being carefully curated. We probably shouldn’t try to piece together micro trends with coarse macro level statistics, as there is no guarantee that the macro effect is happening at the micro level.
>A lot of jurisdictions require 4 hr minimum pay when called in to work.

>I wonder, would cabs be more competitive of Uber's alternative business model, if Uber had to be fairer?

None of which applies to cabs, who are also independent contractors. For instance

>The tight margins of the hack trade can leave cabbies feeling frustrated. “Sometimes, I don’t like it, because I have the potential to lose money,” said M. D. Islam, a cabby from Queens who has been driving for six months. He often earns less than $100 a day, he said; if his cab breaks down, or he can’t find passengers, he may end up in the red.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/nyregion/new-york-taxi-dr...
I wonder if the latency is due to the compositor receiving a damage event for the area of the cursor, thus being a frame late to render. But probably that wouldn't be an issue with hardware cursors.
>Surely that is not too much?

The pendulum is swinging back but or 5+ years and arguably today still most people think collecting any data is too much. i.e They want total anonymity.

Personally I want a middle ground for Page View, returned visitors within ~30 days, but this isn't a popular view on HN.
It's almost certainly because of one extra frame of buffering between the mouse move and the screen. Vsync can cause this, but it should be possible to get vsync with just double buffering.
Ye. Altman, Musk. Which Sam was the exploding slave head bracelet guy, was that Sam Fridman?

Dunno about Zuckerberg. Standing still he has somewhat slided into the saner spectrum of tech lords. Nightmare fuel...

"FOSS"-ish LLMs is like. We need those.
Re: ABNB
People book on this platform thinking it’s vetted somehow.

Well in an area I vacation there was a fatal fire at a weekly rental home with unlicensed electrical work, no working smoke detectors and no license to rent the unit (requires a town inspection). Of course the renters had used an app platform that gives them the illusion that these are somehow legal vetted and safe.

Instead you can end up in a rental with safety standards well below developing world standards.
Auditing isn't typically about forcing people to be honest, it's about discovering when people haven't been honest and being able to attribute the fault to a specific bad actor.
CRUD generation is a staple in web framework CLI tooling since like forever. Once upon a time Wordpress was this, the boilerplate application you scripted out and then adapted. In certain programming languages macros or type systems power up this kind of tactic, and IDE:s typically have very good support for these kinds of shortcuts.

Then the project management tooling does a lot more, like automatically reverse engineer existing databases and so on.
Cash isn’t an investment. It’s a temporary store of labor value. Since work now is worth more than work later, of course cash has value decay. If it didn’t, it wouldn’t be very good at its raison d’être.
>"cryptographically guaranteed to not be manipulated."

That is only achieved with bitcoin because of a security model that has financial value to the blocks, and a distributed system of nodes and financially-invested miners. As soon as you remove the valuable digital token from the system it all falls apart; people could just rewrite the blocks and back-date the timestamps. It's like a machine that needs all of the parts to make sense.
> The fact that the latency is almost 1/144th of a second means that it might become 1/60th of a second on standard 60Hz monitors.

My guess: the "true" numbers are close to 2.5 (half a frame of random phase of when the mouse is touched vs. refresh, plus 2 frames to move cursor) and 3.5. If you throw out the low outlier from each set you get pretty close to that.

(of course, the 125Hz mouse poll rate is another confound for many users, but this guy used a 1KHz mouse).

> This is hard to notice consciously without training, but most people can "feel" the difference even if they can't explain it.

Yah. 7ms difference is not bad vs 16.6ms is starting to be a lot.

IMO, we should be putting in effort on computers to reach 1.6 frames of latency -- half a frame of random phase, plus one frame, plus a little bit of processing time.
mastodon is text, pixelfed is images/videos
Yeah I know the dollar is intended to lose value on average:

> we know they target 2% inflation on average

That's why you don't put all your long term savings in USD. But it's good to have your emergency fund in USD because it has less short term fluctuations than assets like stocks.
Taking an investment position in a commodity vs a speculative position indeed could raise some non-trivial questions (if you believe in/subscribe to some sort dichotomy there).

I seem to remember in the past, commodity investments where viewed with an eye towards diversification benefits, for example.
>If you want to store data publicly and tamperproof for a long time, the Bitcoin blockchain is by far the best solution. //

Don't you get 80 bytes per transaction? That seems like about $7M per GB... maybe storing hashes is reasonable but storing data actually on the bitcoin blockchain itself doesn't seem great?
Cash is backed by a government that can exert influence and control over its population and counterparts with policy, laws or - at the extreme end - force.
There's a potential for them to produce value. Not the case with crypto.
I'm told they left out color calibration support, too (as I read it, there's no way for calibration apps to control, or even know, what compensation is applied when they're trying to measure things). Oh, and client side window decorations still around, giving up on the chance to fix an ancient security hole.

So no good for games, no good for professional graphics, no good if you don't see well... basically no good if you're any different from the people who hacked it together.

But, hey, with any luck they cut down on the screen tearing that I've never noticed.
I don't want to read anything generated by an LLM, now or ever.
That there's a probability of 4.20e-05 that the observed difference of that large would happen by chance due to observation noise if there would be no real difference (given your assumptions about the data generating process holds).
The blockchain can't do anything with stablecoins, because that's interfacing with a financial system that's out of the reach of smart contracts. Even if we assume that a stablecoin is backed by real USD sitting in a bank account, there's nothing stopping anyone from just taking money out of the bank account, and the smart contract is none the wiser. You still have to trust someone at the end of the day.
That doesn't address the spirit of the argument you are replying to.

Vanguard is 1. what they mention in their anti-cryoto thesis, all the real value makers that you don't need Vanguard to get into + 2. a casino on top of 1.

They sold you the idea, that their casino on top of 1. brings you money. I sincerely doubt it. You are making money on 1, true, and probably losing them on Vanguard.

Also, in BTC your Vanguard funds went down significantly on average.
No, if you show these people a talking dog, they'll look for the speaker.
This is excellent. Too often people guess at things when they could be more empirical about them. Ever since I learned the scientific method (I think 3rd or 4th grade) I was all about the 'let's design an experiment' :-).

Let me state up front that I have no idea why Wayland would have this additional latency. That said, having been active in the computer community at the 'birth' of X11 (yes I'm that old) I can tell you that there was, especially early on, a constant whine about screen latency. Whether it was cursor response or xterm scrolling. When "workstations" became a thing, they sometimes had explicit display hardware for just the mouse because that would cut out the latency of rendering the mouse in the frame. (not to mention the infamous XOR patent[1])

As a result of all this whinging, the code paths that were between keyboard/mouse input and their effect on the screen, were constantly being evaluated for ways to "speed them up and reduce latency." Wayland, being something relatively "new" compared to X11, has not had this level of scrutiny for as long. I'm looking forward to folks fixing it though.

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US4197590
Singling out "you can now pretend your Windows is a reasonable facsimile of a Linux" as an example of innovation is not really a flex.
In India gold demand is driven by its use as jewelry. It is also used as a safe asset that can either be pledged or sold in time of need. This has been the case for hundreds of years if not more.
The EV refueling problem seems like an easy one to solve: create industry standard, modular, and replaceable battery cells.

Refueling is done by swapping-out low charge battery cells for fully-charged battery cells. If designed properly, the swapping could be done quickly and easily, making the overall refueling of an EV vehicle at least as fast as filling a gas tank.

The cost of refueling would include the price of the charge itself plus some moderate fee to amortize the cost of replacing cells that go bad, which likely would still be cheaper than the cost of gasoline.

The refueling station itself could either constantly charge the battery cells on hand or choose to keep a larger number of backup cells and charge exclusively during periods of cheaper electricity - whichever ends up being more cost effective.
They will get the money back, but only if they can manage to keep convincing new people to inject new money.

Which is what they are doing now.
I'm not riled up, I even upvoted your OP, but it's uncouth to drop a quote without any context as a reply to a comment. Of course there's going to be misunderstandings.

I didn't remember that quote from O'Keefe. Prolog is indeed not trying to be smart and SLD-Resolution is dead simple - it's a sound and complete deductive inference system with a single rule. The reason Prolog is in turn so simple is because, thanks to the refutation-completeness of SLD-Resolution, you can implement it as a Depth-First Search for resolvents and then spam it until you get a result (or until you hit an infinite branch... oops). That's certainly orders of magnitude more simple than every other solver or automated theorem prover out there, like you say.

If that's what O'Keefe means, that Proolog is not trying to be smart, then OK, but that's not dumb. Every other solver tries to be smart and ends up having to solve an unsolvable problem. Who's dumb now then?

But maybe that's the compliment, I don't remember the context of O'Keefe's comment. Was it in the Craft of Prolog?
if the domain is great and strong you can sell it 100% of the price you buy it