skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that US companies are consistently more ruthless and cut-throat than companies in other countries I have visited. I see that as cultural rather than a pure economic issue.
I happily used LibreOffice for years, and got a small businesses off Word in favor of it (well, OOo at the time). I’m a fan.

But Pages is much more ergonomic, lightweight, and native on a Mac. There’s not a likely scenario where I’d use LibreOffice over Pages.
The current solution has been leading to the worst possible end.
Do you think the daily volatility of purchasing power of the USD domestically is similar to that of bitcoin?
> 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 understand there will be a demand for French fries from consumers, but you don’t have to serve them. This is something I appreciate about Greek cuisine. There are so many wonderful foods spawned from input constraints. Sugar was a luxury in Greece during the 20th century while honey was more readily available, so you see many desserts sweetened with honey. The Lenten and nativity fast call for essentially a vegan diet, so there are numerous recipes that don’t require animal products and are cheap to make. Eggs and lemons were readily available, so they created avgolemono soup, which is a modest, yet delicious dish.

The overall American cuisine seems unwilling to adapt. The tricky bit is, that’s probably correct from a business standpoint. I’ve heard, “If we don’t sell hamburgers at airport restaurants, they’ll fail.” from a consultant in the airport terminal industry. It’s as if we’ve grown to expect seasonal fruit and vegetables year round as a mindset for our cuisine. Surely, there’s room to be more flexible with what we eat, which would allow business owners to serve food based on what’s readily available and cheaper for them to serve.

Now if absolutely every type of food is experiencing price gouging, that’s hard to get around. But I think there’s some middle ground, which requires serving different food items.
I asked DeepSeek "tell me about China" and it responded "Sorry, I'm not sure how to approach this type of question yet. Let's chat about math, coding, and logic problems instead!"

I guess that is propaganda-free! Unfortunately also free of any other information. It's hard for me to evaluate your claim of "moderate, considered tone" when it won't speak a single word about the country.

It was happy to tell me about any other country I asked.
Correct. Hence many people constantly bemoaning the hype driven narratives that dominate many AI discussions.
Was Wayland not architected to be simpler to implement than the (antique) X11 protocol?

Not arguing though, you are right it is just issues: Drivers, the Wayland implementations, how some plethora of apps and libraries have been battle tested then optimized, years over years, for X11. Not as much for Wayland display yet.
> If you got offended it only meant the judgement correctly referred to you

If you say "I hate all these black criminals I see everywhere" people will get offended even if they aren't black criminals, so your reasoning here is flawed.

And note how that is true even if there are a lot of black criminals around.

Why do people get upset over that? Its because they feel you judge more people as criminals than actually are. And its the same with your statement there, the way you phrased it it feels like you judge way more people than actually fit your description. If you want people to not judge you that way then you have to change how you write.
an alternative currency because humans have a long history of treating it as a valuable item, mostly for jewelry / decorative purposes.
crypto only copied the speculative currency part, but it's not useful even for showing off...
Yeah, right now it’s a feature of a product, not a product.
You forgot to say "so far". One of my managers was also flying high circa 2000 - multiple lakefront properties, Porsches you name it, the guy was living the life. In 2002 he was bankrupt - didn't sell his tech stocks in time, thought they'd "bounce back".

But I'm not talking about stocks. I'm talking about cash here. Cash is literally an article of faith and nothing else. It's not backed by any asset.
Not really. Jack Bogle (Vanguard's founder) saw little value in speculating on commodities.

Vanguard used to a have a "Precious Metals and Mining Fund" but they renamed it to "Vanguard Global Capital Cycles Fund" and broadened its mandate/portfolio.
If it’s truly digital gold, that will only lead to the demise of the chain as a result of block rewards going down and not enough transaction fees to support the miners. Bitcoin truly has a security budget issue.
It's not that long ago that there was all the hullabaloo about Notepad being updated for the first time in years, to support Unix line endings. Now it has been replaced wholesale with a slow app that crashes.
I would make the balls green for green screening them and make it look like it’s floating
I bought bitcoin, I hate it, I think conceptually it’s really dumb, but the first rule of investment is to diversify. I just can’t ignore the fact that it’s a store of value like gold it is very bizarre why it is prioritized, but it is.
Because more people have confidence in Bitcoin than the other digital golds because it has been in the news the most over the years.

Also, the price won't be as volatile as the other coins (even though it is much more volatile than dollars) because if someone decides to sell $50 million worth of Bitcoin, the price barely budges because $50 million is such a small fraction of the $2.2 trillion worth of Bitcoin in existence.
I think the unsatisfying answer is that Bogle was a bit of gold bug -- he had a 5% gold allocation.
That second paper isn't new, it's from 2014. Did you misread that as 2024?
Overturn citizens united and/or fully treat businesses like a person (jail, death).
Bingo. If the human principals of a business are committed to cooking the books, no amount of technology can force them to be honest.
Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. It is not backed by anything real.

Gold has its uses. It’s a pretty metal and has practical uses in engineering and medicine.

It has been a choice for jewelry for thousands of years.
I use a free office suite at home because I don't want to pay $99/year to edit resumes and the occasional other document.

It works, but its clunky, you have font shenanigans, it just overall feels weird and not smooth...

Then again, I'm one of the people who would force you to pry Office 2003 (the last version before the ribbon) out of my cold, dead hands.
I feel like the overall trend in global elections of the last few years is to blame global problems on local politicians. It's correct that Argentina's fiscal situation has long been difficult. But if it improves, is that on Milei? Or is it just waiting out the worst of a bad economic boom-bust cycle? Rather like waiting for the weather to improve, then the politician says he brought the sunshine.
The potato cartel has convinced a lot of voters that what's good for the cartel is good for everyone...
> a substantial performance cost

I believe the Babel plugin eliminates most of the performance cost.

The naming is double-edged. Often you want to re-use your styled element, so the fact that it has a name from the get-go makes that really easy. But you're right, sometimes it's annoying to pull bits out that you didn't really want to.

Ultimately I went back to CSS Modules. I just don't understand why I'd want to the appeal of Tailwind.. I'd have to learn a new DSL that ultimately gives me less control.
And assets in hedge funds are owned by investors,
yet the shady games they play with that money…

Good financial managers decide how a portfolio gets managed.
I'm just a newb passing, but a self sustained decentralized 24/7 logic+network layer could be nice for stupid computational tasks like tracking physical items or updating multi-source (different services, different companies) data easily, which are often done at the human level today (even if 99% of the time it's not necessary and very wasteful). Again i'm not knowledgeable but when thinking of blockchains, I always have this in mind.
Just for their essays to fed into an llm at the end of the day owned by mega corp.
>> Commodities are real assets that meet consumption needs

Granted a commodity's value may be driven by speculation, but at the end of the day it's a material that is consumed by various industries.
I take back my comment. It seem plausible that they took their model and made it reason for the costs based on this: https://hkust-nlp.notion.site/simplerl-reason
Signal Messenger is now available on Guardian F-Droid repo
What they achieved with so few resources, it’s WOW and WTF. Maybe it will cause end of the open source models? Because it’s always about money in the end.
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Not just retired but all were destroyed. Please correct if I’m wrong but they were destroyed to prevent any spare parts ending up in Iran.

Such a shame, I was always impressed with the F14, even before Topgun.
Why was it Microsoft 365 in the first place? Does it not work on leap days ?
Network effect, first-mover advantage, and fair launch that did not pre-mine coins for insiders. It's the only "pure" one because it was first and honest.
Some “adjacent” crimes like that exist because enforcement and/or detection of the original crime is hard and/or expensive. Like gun laws. Or curfew.

I still think that the real problem is the incentives of government; the problem you describe exist simply because government also has the power to create new laws in order to make life easier for itself, at the expense of the governed. I.e. the problem is government prioritizing being seen as useful over actually being useful.
I think you meant its not a crime if you can afford it.
I understand people who love Apple (or the OSS world) unconditionally and I understand people who hate either, but I find it hard to feel any kind of strong emotion towards Microsoft. Feels like there isn’t a single product person left in the company, no vision, no direction, no soul, no plan, nothing.
I've always had the impression that James is too wasteful, overengineering, printing massive, impractical plastic things that actually don't need proof they will work because they have precedents, like circus clowns walking on big balls in this case.

Now, seeing all the effort he goes into explaining what he's doing, how, why, and him open sourcing CAD and code, I get it. This is wonderful teaching for product engineers, and while James understandably has to teach sure-fire projects because he wants sponsors to stick, his viewers can use the learning to try riskier projects.
I own stocks in several companies, as most people on here probably do. There's nothing wrong about what they're saying, I'm a shareholder. If one of the companies I've invested in commits genocide I don't think it would be unfair for me to be punished in some way beyond the monetary loss of my investment.

Though I agree that monetary punishments to the company are much more effective than jail for some random shareholders. They just need to be large enough.
I am still on Office 2021 on my Mac, which was the last “non-subscription” offering I could find. No Copilot yet.
May still happen especially if it is thrashing vram in and out of system memory or something, but have you tried lowering priority of the stable diffusion process?
Satoshi Nakamoto is actually a Trisolaran alien who came to Earth to hasten climate change and have humanity kill off itself.
Do you have empirical proof any LLM can generate another program that can be trained to simulate it?
Otherwise it is science fiction.
>gay online sociolect

the vibe indeed
It's not miraculous. If the flaw had prevented the system from booting (in a way that has a high repro rate) they would have fixed it.

The system booted in spite of that undocumented instruction. When things work, you don't go looking for undocumented things that are contributing to the working state.

Millions of C programs work accidentally, in spite of undefined behavior. Nothing gets investigated until a compiler change triggers something.
People have much easier access to roads, where many more deaths occur. We don't require automobile drivers to use their horn at every intersection. Why do we require trains to sound the horn at every intersection? Why can the train not reserve the horn for when there is someone on the tracks?
Besides practical use, gold also has aesthetic use: jewelry, as an external status symbol of wealth. That is not possible for crypto currencies in the same way. Of course as online presence and social structures mature, this might change. Maybe not in my generation’s lifetime, but who knows.
one reason it's better money than Gold, there are no industrial supply/demand dynamics impacting its price. It's pure monetary premium
seems like someone dont take preliminary on economic class before
Yea, they might be scaling is harder or may be more tricks up their sleeves when it comes to serving the model.
> multiple lakefront properties

Let me guess, bought on credit, he over leveraged

> Cash is literally an article of faith and nothing else. It's not backed by any asset.

The US dollar is backed by the federal government, a behemoth that handles more assets than any other entity on earth. For example we know they target 2% inflation on average. So US dollars are much more stable than if I were to issue my own "klipt bucks" currency.
Jamie Dimon:

> Bitcoin itself has no intrinsic value,

> It’s used heavily by sex traffickers, by money launderers, ransomware. So I just don’t feel great about Bitcoin.
> Many employees and other related figures have attested to him having preternatural abilities at rocket and car engineering.

Do you have examples of this? In the past, I've looked for accounts of people who've worked with Musk praising his technical (not product, not sales/marketing) skillset, and I have been unable to find any firsthand accounts. Such an account would somewhat change my assessment of Musk.
nice try cia bot
Whole articles about Intel's motherboard and not a single sentence about how ASUS was started and got to the place it is today.
There are two types of technical blog post. One explains to you from a great towering height of immense knowledge how good it felt to use to use npm install and here's why that's exciting, and this is the other type. Written with many apologies for barely being able to do anything while doing everything better than I ever could.
And gold is a non reactive physical object. Storing gold is cheap compared to the infrastructure required to keep Bitcoin ledger information.
It is an interesting data point that two large companies (MSFT and AAPL) have both failed to properly implement AI tooling within their ecosystem. In MSFT case it is such a terrible experience as a end user, especially in MacOS. I don't even think its an issue with the LLM themself or the engineering talent but a complete lack of talent at the product level. I have never used the capabilities they have built (they are bad implementations) and on top of that the UI is so in your face that it is pathetic. In MacOS Outlook they have a quarter inch sized bar in the main UI with just a button to summarize. It is so bad.
sorry, changed to "Anyone on the internet with the link can view" now... please check
I honestly don't know how much of gold's value is driven by practical uses rather than speculation, but I think there's an important difference between "some practical use" and "no practical use" when it comes to commodities. The practical uses mean gold is unlikely to ever be worthless, but the same can't be said for a cryptocurrency.

Even from a speculative standpoint, gold or similar commodities have the advantage of being actually support limited. Now obviously the supply of an individual cryptocurrency can be limited, such as with Bitcoin, but the supply of cryptocurrency in general is essentially unlimited with very little barrier to entry. That's not great for even speculative investment, since you're essentially betting on the continued popularity of whatever currency you invested in with relatively little history to support that trend.
My point was that it already was on an exponential trajectory. RL/self-play and the like remove some of the human inputs that were previously required for that growth.

Take the trajectory of chess. handcrafted rules -> policies based on human game statistics -> self-play bootstrapped from human games -> random-initialized self-play.
Can I buy (foreign) cash as an investment on Vanguard (I genuinely don't know)? The money market fund is about interests from debtors not currency speculation.
> Vanguard offers Gold ETFs. Now they would say something ike 'oh that's because gold is used as an actual product ie has a purpose'. But most people accept that gold is also speculative and is the way it is simply because it's been that way for such a long time vs. it's inherent value or purpose.

Bogle was kind of a gold bug. It's unsatisfying and inconsistent and I agree you could make a similar argument for excluding gold if it wasn't already kind of grandfathered in.

> Stock investing is by and large gambling and whatever income the stock owns in no way really flows measuably to the person who owns stock in the company but seems to drive some type of accepted value going forward.

No, stock investing and gambling are absolutely incomparable. Income clearly and directly flows to owners; it's not obscure.
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It’s easy to to erase that identity. You make the expected value of the punishment (cost multiplied by probability of getting caught) higher than the expected value of the crime.

This should be easier to deal with than most crimes. The problem with individual crimes is that criminals are generally bad at thinking through the consequences. No matter how terrible the punishment is, you’re still going to have murders, because the typical murderer isn’t weighing the cost/benefit tradeoff.

Companies are much better at this, especially big ones. Make wage theft unprofitable and it will drop dramatically.
Satoshi ninja-mined in the beginning for themselves. If they had posted about Bitcoin further in advance and had many more people mining, that would’ve been different.
what would you count as low latency terminal?
It's true that the modern stock market is a spectrum ranging from highly speculative "growth stocks" to blue chips / income stocks. Bonds are even further down the safe-claim-to-future-money spectrum.

While your argument is technically correct, there's a world of difference between cryptocurrency where the inherent value is definitionally $0, and stocks/bonds/commodities/real estate where the inherent value is almost always above $0 and can, if you want, be a large percentage of its total price. That allows an investor to determine their own level of speculative risk.
Heh! Maybe 14-15 years ago I got my small employer to start using OpenOffice. They couldn’t afford Office licenses for everyone, but it was super handy to give everyone a word processor.

One time we were having a hard time exporting Word docs that a customer was able to open and view correctly. After much back and forth, it turned out they were also using OpenOffice and it was having trouble opening the emulated Word docs we sent. We cut out the middle man and started sending them OOo’s own native docs. Problem solved!

I know that’s far from the common case, but it made me so happy at the time.
Ok. What was bad with Peron himself? and what was the alternative there? Then, Are you saying that the various military dictatorships, Alfonsin, Menem, De la Rua and Macri were Peronist? What is your evaluation of their economic results?
Exactly. Capital investment is a positive sum game. E.g. you build a factory and over its lifetime it produces more than what was the cost to build it. That's the root of economic growth. Bitcoin is a negative sum game. All money that has even been invested into Bitcoin - total cost of mining = all money that investors will ever get back.
Gold has a commodity value above zero. It’s used industrially. Even if everybody decides it’s not worth its precious metal value, it’s not worthless. Bitcoin has zero intrinsic value. None.
I mean that it's already "none" on the machine where I encountered this bug. "Upd" was merely to signal that I've made an edit to my post.
It seems like you get a promo for changing names of things. The more convoluted, the higher you get.
Timestamping (which is actually what bitcoin is). For better or worse, this is one commercial application of it: https://guardtime.com/platform
> zero shot translation shows the models really develop an interlingua, a semantic representation, otherwise they wouldn't be able to translate between unseen pairs of languages

In the zero shot language tasks the following were trained:

English -> Japanese

Japanese -> English

English -> Korean

Korean -> English

And the zero shot language tasks were:

Japanese -> Korean

Korean -> Japanese

It seems that this proves there is a transitive property to language. Making the jump from trained Japanese -> English -> Korean and Korean -> English -> Japanese to Japanese -> Korean and Korean -> Japanese could be accomplished without an independent semantic representation, taking advantage only of transitive properties. It would require some earlier layers in the network coding for some Japanese -> English and some later layers in the network coding for some English -> Korean with the equivalent for transitive Korean -> Japanese. I'm not sure it proves the development of an independent semantic representation outside the direct language translation. Or at least independent semantic representation is a much stronger claim.
>I don't recall anyone demanding that.

That's seemingly what OP was demanding, given the displeasure he was expressing at uber for the practice.

>but back when I worked in restaurants if things were slow I'd be sent home and know when I was expected to be back be that the next day or in time for the dinner rush. I wasn't randomly clocked off for 15-30 minutes, and expected to hang around, then suddenly told I'm back on. In fact we'd call that wage theft, (which is very common in the US). But suddenly for Uber such a thing is acceptable.

It's the difference between employment vs working as a contractor. Cab drivers, who also work as independent contractors. No fare, no pay.

>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...
Maybe it's easier to verify a working program with the docs rather than try to build something from scratch? I agree it's a bad idea to fire off AI code without any sort of understanding though!!
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Do a power move: Convert the document to an iWork Pages file, and send them that.
> But if it improves, is that on Milei? Or is it just waiting out the worst of a bad economic boom-bust cycle?

This might be a valid observation in most other countries, but Argentina has been a basket case for ages. It’s defaulted nine times in a little over 200 years, and two of those defaults were in 2014 and 2020. I think this is one of those cases where you might could attribute a dramatic one or two year turnaround to the person actually doing something new (spending less).