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While I personally don’t believe in Bitcoin or any other crypto currency, I couldn’t stop laughing about your comment on the blockchain.

I have met so many people obsessed with building things on top of the blockchain and when you ask them what it is they need it is essentially a database and they don’t want it to be public. Fortunately the recent years this has been a decreasing trend. Only now a days the requests are to replace developers with 10x AI agents.
I don't often get a chance to commend a financial company for making a decision true to values and a long term view of the mission over making a quick buck, but Vanguard in this instance is such a chance.

I've been a customer for over 10 years, and am ever more proud of their commitment to promoting long term average investor goals.
How do you force a phone into using more battery through external means?
You don't talk bad about the advertisers.
I’m not an expert, but the way you wrote your comment seemed to be discounting this possibility for no discernible reason
This boils down to software cursor vs hardware cursor.
I’ve always wondered why there isn’t a general purpose blockchain ledger for businesses. It seems like it would make auditing simple since all of the entries would be cryptographically guaranteed to not be manipulated.
This reminds me of a very old e-mail from bill gates to his direct reports about the poor usability of windows (xp?)
> The brain is a neural net. It’s made up of neurons that are networked

The brain neurons are not the same kind of object as neural net neurons, hence its not a neural net. It is like saying a dragonfly is a helicopter since the helicopter were designed to look a bit like a firefly, no a dragonfly isn't a helicopter they fly in totally different ways the dragonfly has wings and thus don't even move similarly.

> Connections don’t form in seconds so second to second existence is a static neural network

But a human isn't intelligent over a second, and synapses do form over longer periods which is what it takes for humans to solve harder problems.

> We can though. We can make neural networks form new connections.

I said the neural network couldn't form those, not that we couldn't alter the neural network. That is a critical difference, our brains updates itself intelligently on its own, that is integral to its function, if our brains couldn't do that we wouldn't be intelligent, when that happens we say a person has Alzheimer's. You wouldn't hire a person with far gone Alzheimer's precisely because they can't learn.

Edit: So you can see in brains being able to form connections makes it smarter. In our neural nets when we try to alter their connections live they get dumber, which is why we don't do it. That should tell you that we are clearly missing something critical here.
I thought we were talking about gamers, xWayland doesn’t affect gamers at all either.
> Very low cash flow only with no growth seems to be the only exception..

That's not an exception. That's the norm. Most start-ups fail.

They literally burn down the investors' money and that's it.
There are, however, reasons why allowing the tank to drop near empty is problematic completely independent of range anxiety.

Cold weather can freeze condensation in the tank. A dirty tank can clog up the gas filter.
They are not. My logic goes currently how many billionaires are there world wide: about 2,640.

Then work backwards, how much networth do you need to be in the top 21 million people world wide: 4-5 million.
Comments that have been translated are yours or at least widely regarded as such. An aversion to AI isn't going to change that.
I wish it was $0.30... My rate is about 0.46.
AI will improve at an exponential rate once it can independently improve AI performance. For example. Once AI can organically identify, test, confirm, deploy an improvement like R1 vs o1 (in terms of perf/watt) then we'll see exponential improvement. Honestly though, that still seems possible within 5 years or less, maybe 3.
Guaranteed by what mechanism? This is the fundamental problem.
Why would you need a blockchain for tokenization?
> I tried going all LibreOffice when I was a grad student.

How long ago was this?
Despite constant moaning about the US not engaging in monopoly-busting anymore, that doesn't actually seem to be a problem in practice.

In reality, comparative advantage and specialization dynamics do not uniformly equilibrate on monopoly markets.
ollama is stating there's a difference: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1

"including six dense models distilled from DeepSeek-R1 based on Llama and Qwen. "

people just don't read? not sure there's reason to criticize ollama here.
NT4 then?
but surely Vanguard has funds with gold?
Gold is better because it can be used(industrial applications, bling, etc). Value investors like Buffet still hate gold for the same reasons listed by vanguard.
That’s oversimplifying a complex issue, some of his policies will work and some will fail, and that fact says nothing about underlying ideologies that drive his behavior.
Unsurprisingly, next to nothing is reachable in 40 minutes that is not tightly packed next to the subway system.

From any subway station, you can reach, in forty minutes, a large swath of the subway system and its small vicinity.
Did the US have any subways shut down? I know there are some metros like Cincinnati that abandoned an unfinished subway
Do you have any examples of a question you could ask to an AI right now that you couldn’t find from a basic search on stack overflow and Google? Didn’t think so.
“Jackson: In Vanguard’s view, crypto is more of a speculation than an investment. This is at the root of our decision to not offer crypto products, whether our own or others. With equities, you own a share of a company that produces goods or services, and many also pay dividends. With bonds, you get a stream of interest payments. Commodities are real assets that meet consumption needs, have inflation-hedging properties, and can play a role in certain portfolios. While crypto has been classified as a commodity, it’s an immature asset class that has little history, no inherent economic value, no cash flow, and can create havoc within a portfolio.“

Well said, this has been my own thinking on crypto, nice to see it so succinctly summarized.
Thought experiment: if you were tasked with creating an eventually consistent distributed database where the nodes were to be run by different organizations that didn't trust each other, with predefined validity constraints on the data of some sort, and a scheme for incentivizing the operators of said database to keep operating it long term, how would you propose doing that?

Hint: if you look at similar systems such as those used for certificate transparency logs, they look quite like...a blockchain.
If tokenization requires a trusted party to issue the tokens (think stocks) then no blockchain is needed
I have some toenail clippings for sale. Since I’ll likely die sometime within the next 40 years, production is quite limited! Just imagine what a pinky toe clipping will be worth in 40 years! I think $50,000 each would be a bargain. How many can I sign you up for?
Far as I know, I never had Covid.

Oh yeah, I hate LLMs purely for that reason. It doesn't help me, it offloads my thinking. Which is not good when I'm still learning and not an expert.

I don't, I was with it to a specialist. I was told I can't have it, and most likely it's only anxiety.
This assumes ideal, perfect data entry before reaching the ledger, and having immutable history doesn't prevent historical errors.
I have pretty much given up on trying to discuss this rationally on any Internet forum. The only people who seem to engage have very strong priors that are impervious to new data. But it's been a year so I guess I needed a reminder to myself in the futility of the endeavor
There is a general purpose ledger for business. It's called a SQL database
I’m using the controller I got with my Steam link for the Steam deck.

Had to find a friend with a Windows box to run a firmware update to make it entirely Bluetooth compatible. But it works.
>The weight of all the emotional labor is why most people can’t climb the corporate ladder, as the intellectual demands of office work are basically zero.

I'm getting strong Ignatius J. Reilly vibes here. Most people can't climb the corporate ladder because there is no room for everybody to be promoted like that. Getting promoted is an inherently hard problem.

>The fact that our world is run by terrible people who will probably not go away until removed violently is one of those things no one can talk about, but everyone knows.

Be careful what you wish for. The people doing any kind of violent removal probably won't be benevolent either, and are likely to be less competent than the people they're replacing.
Also lucky to not get robbed by mafia
Append only, immutable and signed ledgers do exist actually.
Wayland is just a protocol that is probably implemented over and over and each implementation might have issues. It's mostly likely the different implementations having issues.
I don't think it is weird. This button really has nothing to do with the product and it's use case as far as I can see.

That is what GP is pointing out as far as I can see.
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You've made great points throughout this entire post. This is yet another that I've just upvoted (from having been downvoted). But in each you've been needlessly aggressive and hostile. Everyone here knows how frustrating COVID-19 can be to discuss—as is the case with most topics worth discussing. But it's less frustrating when we all implicitly agree to stick to our thoughtful great points.
Qwen2.5-1M Technical Report [pdf]
Date on the article you linked is 24 Jan 2020.
What could it possibly be a typo of?
stablecoins are useful but you don't really need a blockchain. you just need enough of a rube-goldberg machine to claim it's "decentralized". The most popular "blockchain" for stablecoins is Tron, if that tells you anything about why the technology itself doesn't matter
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you can't just admit you don't know wtf you are talking about

checks are a valid form of payment. if you receive one you have to be able to deal with it. some checks are too large for deposit via app. as someone else pointed out, zelle has limits that make sending large payments problematic. receiving a single check is much easier.

" supported by almost every bank in the US -" thanks for proving the point though
Thus, a problem in search of a solution. Who has asked for that exactly ?`It's been more than a decade and still no one has found an actually useful real-world application for blockchain besides gambling and money laundering.
2025 will likely be another brutal year of failed startups, data suggests
He did say it would get worse before it got better
It’s just not an actual problem for most businesses.
In sense investing is gambling. But at least you can make informed decision on what you think go up or down in value based on real world. Where as crypto is purely speculative with no actual tie to economy or anything.
No, that's not why "we" don't like to do that, as there's countless way around that problem. They don't like to do that because it hurts the main stakeholders: those holding the reigns, the 0.1%.

There's countless ways around the issue of "average" employees being punished. E.g. hard caps on top employee compensation for X years. Bans on dividends.

Forced stock dilution, now that's a solid one. Create extra shares equivalent to 20% of market cap, given to the government who sells them on the open market.

I'm sure there's holes in these but plenty of smarter people than me who can easily make them watertight.
This old blog post talks about supporting ASCI mode https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/975370/view/30990438...

Keyboard-only control would be nice for playing on Steam Deck since the buttons can be mapped to keyboard keys.
Option 3: It's not emergent because the capabilities are vastly overstated.
Same. I own a mix of ETFs, some from Vanguard and some not. I will be even more inclined to buy Vanguard ETFs going forward.

I am so, so tired of trying to explain to my retired mother why she should not buy any more bitcoin … with money that she really cannot afford to lose.
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“it’s weird that you would pick that to get upset about” feels like the kind of spineless jab that I hear a lot from people with a certain political slant, which is fucking annoying because I have the same political slant, and you just make people dislike us with terrible takes like this.

Having checkboxes for fully cosmetic nothings while simultaneously releasing features that cannot be disabled feels strange given they are clearly able to put the required effort in for a hollow, mealy mouthed, capitalistic pandering effort.
What’s your actual problem statement? Are you suggesting that repo /issues is too complex to find issues?
do you want cheap prices and empty shelves or high prices and non-empty shelves?
As the price of digital currency goes up, the number of hit pieces from banking industry increases proportionately.
None of the smart contracts have done anything materially useful without huge risk of scams, rug pulls, or enabling criminal activity (e.g. mixers for money laundering.) After a decade, there are no examples of widely used smart contracts or even long-running projects that haven't been fueled by boom and bust speculation cycles (e.g. NFTs.)

Every time there is a "code is law" gone wrong with large $ at stake, people immediately fall back to real life police. Because "code is law" is either a bad idea or immediately has to compromise to meet real human uses (for example, people forget their passwords all the time and not supporting password resets—which right now requires a centralized key store—is a non-starter.)

There is both a ton of money in crypto and it has completely failed to reach its promised potential.

The largest uses in the next half decade will continue to be scams, pump-and-dumps, speculative frenzies, and money laundering. We'll see shockingly open corruption with the president of the United States having a coin for on-chain bribery.
Then that means stablecoins aren’t needed.

And yet, reality disagrees with your logic and stablecoins are on track to be used even more.

Tokenization on Ethereum will end up being way more important and useful than pet rock Bitcoin.
Interesting that we have the same saying in Brazil. Latin America countries are very similar indeed
That was my line of thinking as well. The article pointed out that they rebranded to Office 365, then Microsoft 365 and now Microsoft 365 Copilot. The thing is, no one ever calls it anything but Office, maybe Office 365 if they're being real fancy and specifically want to refer to the subscription service.

My take is that Microsoft assumed that everyone is calling it Microsoft 365, which they don't.

30 years of owning the term "Office", having almost every single person who ever touched a computer know that Office is the Microsoft office productivity suite, then deciding that a sort of working, but yet to be 100% defined LLM is more important. The fact that no one stopped this or that shareholders aren't pissed tells you something about how absolutely broken modern computing is.
>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.

Most of those drivers were presumably enrolled before that legislation was passed/came into force. Blaming uber for having those drivers seems like a stretch.

> They could have also kicked people out for full days, rest of shift, or given an indicator of when they may try again. Something that leaves it more clear they are off and don't linger around to try and get back in.

Is this a real concern? This seems like something that sucks for the first few days and then everyone realizes what's the new normal and adapts accordingly. I don't doubt uber could have done better here, but characterizing poor UI as "circumvent the NYC law to try and ensure Uber drivers get a fair minimum wage" is a stretch. It's also unclear how uber benefits from drivers being frustrated at the UI.

>Restaurants/retail will reduce staffing due to demand, but they don't leave people hanging by an on-call thread the way this automated Uber model did.

Uber driver are not "on call". They can sign off at any time. Sure, they might need the money, but in that respect I don't see how that's any different than 0 hour contracts that some restaurants have.

>Agreed a lot of businesses moved people to 32 hour weeks to avoid ACA, which is a different issue.. how's all the on-demand faux contractor workforces healthcare though?

The point isn't that being an uber driver is a dream job, it's that contrary to your rhetoric of "Imagine a small restaurant doing similar", small restaurants indeed will do something similar, if given the chance.
> Because I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could that I didn’t stop to think if I should.

You did it. The crazy son of a bitch. You did it.
> In the case of SARS, the animals were not culled for months. The entire SARS response was slow - the virus kept spreading in farmed animal populations and kept spilling over into humans.

It's been 4 years. When are we culling the COVID animals? The answer is that there's no culling because there's no animal population with a virus that is close enough that it could have been the basis for COVID.

The closest known wild-type virus - the one in those bats from over 1000 miles away - is still missing several key features (eg furin cleavage sites) that would be exceedingly unlikely to have all evolved multiple times in the few animals that made it to the wet market.

Almost every animal population that has resulted in a pandemic in the past has been pinned down in a matter of months and "dealt with." Obvious examples are SARS, MERS, and the recent influenza pandemics. That hasn't even gotten close to happening with COVID. This is a core competency of public health agencies, much more so than you might have realized.

In 2020, the lab leak sounded like a conspiracy theory to me and I thought it was a matter of time until the animals were found. Now, with it clear that there is no population of animal hosts with a similar virus in a similar area (given huge databases of bat coronaviruses that were developed post-SARS), it's looking increasingly like a virus that has been through a lab IMO.
It would only ensure entries haven't been manipulated after the fact, but not whether they were valid in the first place or if they reflect reality.
This is articulated well in the michael singer podcast S1E1.
Now that’s the 1m dollar question. Virtually no one
Actual businesses don’t need any trustless, decentralized storage solution, because they already heavily rely on the state monopoly on violence and state recognization of the “business” as an entity in order to function. They gain nothing from using a blockchain ledger instead of a trusted source enforced by laws and contracts.
Yes, I’m sure you can find some obscure bank where it’s not supported, can you find at least 5 and tell me what percentage of people it affects?

I can’t think of one scenario where someone would be willing to take a large paper check in 2025.

You would actually accept a paper check from someone over $10K?
I'll share this every time someone asks me about crypto, beautiful!
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It really doesn't traditional accounting is built around the use of an immutable ledger. Historical errors are fixed with correction entries. There is also a multidimensional conception of time to support this. We capture both the date the entry is made in the ledger and also the real world date it is meant to apply to.

So if you overstate something in December 2024, you can enter a correcting transaction today for that.

The first, erroneous entry has both it's accounting and business dates in December 2024.

The second entry, correcting the first is made today and so has an accounting date of today and a business date of December 2024.
I would not say useless. But blockchain has very limited use outside cryptocurrencies. Although, some of the innovations that happened around blockchains are useful in many other scenarios.

P.S. I do have a Ph.D. in trying to fit blockchain for other use cases.
> I don't have the statistics expertise necessary to properly analyze whether this difference is statistically significant or not,

The two sample t-test statistic is -4.74 with a p-value of 4.20e-05.
> All that differs between them is the tax treatment each gets come tax time.

And that if you hold a stock for say 10 years and somehow sell during a recession you could make ~0$ on that stock if it only did buybacks. While with a dividend you'd have come out ahead.

Conceptually they have very different incentives as well. With buybacks you want a company to have high volatility as well as to make short term decisions so that you can buy a dip, ask for say lay-offs, and sell as it goes up. With dividends you want the company to make longer term strategic decisions so that their revenue goes up and you get a larger dividend.
My guess is that the plan will be Office -> Office 365 -> Microsoft 365 -> Microsoft 365 Copilot -> Microsoft Copilot.
You literally have no proof for either of your statements.

This is the kind of current rhetoric that has me not coming to HN as often.

Any neurobiologist would laugh at the notion that the brain is a big dry statistical machinery.

Classic case of engineers talking outside of their expertise.
Yes, mainly driven by cost. BigQuery is really unpredictable when dashboards with filters are being used intensively by users. We don’t want to limit our users in their data exploration.
You cannot reply with a thought experiment to someone asking what real purpose a technology has. Provide a real example where this is needed/done
I'm fine with that so long as either they don't care about us operations or someone (only need one or two) translates.
There's an intermediary scenario to consider: when multiple trusted parties are involved. This is basic computer science, and software engineering: crash and byzantine fault-tolerant systems.

On a related note, blockchains often obscure the true consensus mechanism behind layers of complex jargon. Upon closer inspection, consensus is still built on trusted parties, just not the same ones typically found in the traditional economy. In Bitcoin, for example, you not only have the relatively few powerful miners but also the Bitcoin Core developers, who wield significant influence over which changes are incorporated into the Bitcoin node. For example, enabling the OP_CAT opcode again [1][2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoTechnology/comments/19bik6z/u...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/19adyi0/should_op_...
The rare, correct Bitcoin take on HN.