skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble is, it needs to be more than that if it is to survive. Since inception, mining has mostly been subsidized by new bitcoin, which is capped by design (and about 95% distributed).

Satoshi’s paper assumed that transaction costs would make up for the exponentially declining subsidy, but that hasn’t really happened since it never lived up to his “digital cash” vision.
Maybe its truly a nothing-burger. even if released uncensored the most salient information would be details about how the secret service deployed and what they did wrong?
Personally I think that is probably the most likely thing that would be still considered classified even if the details are completely obvious.

I mean most classified information is classified because its classified. By that I mean it is classified because nobody declassified it. That gets you hilarious press conferences like that navy UFO thing in trumps last term where the spokesperson could only say "the US does not have the technology to build a flying object like this" (paraphrased from memory).

I am pretty sure an analyst looked at the footage and identified a sea-bird and the US does not have the technology to build a bird exactly. But analyst output is automatically classified so.....
Curious about the business model, its advantages versus established building services solutions, and so on.
Did you know that someone can tell lots of lies all the time. Telling a lot of lies all the time would look identical to transparency. Hell even just talking a lot about things that are true but are not at all important or your priorities would look like transparency.

Just because someone won't shut up doesn't mean they are telling you their true intentions.
Update: tried a couple of Dutch (my native language) queries, and it worked well. No issues whatsoever. Which is no surprise, given Dutch <-> English and vice versa translations often work very well.
But we already knew everything about her?
Are you going to do anything about it?
Yeah, that's why you don't do it that way. You're making my point.
Tangentially interesting: while leveraging Perplexity to try and find the blog post in question this post and your StackOverflow question already pollute the results it draws from and causes it to abort any more detailed search for such a blog post. I find this mildly amusing.
I felt like I was having a stroke while reading your comment and had to scroll back up to realize it was a Trump quote. Makes sense now.
You're hearing a ground based receiver from who knows how far away with who knows how strong of a reception. You're not hearing what a pilot/ATC hears.
"Underpaid? Backbench MPs, Darling? Being an MP is a vast subsidised ego trip. It's a job for which you need no qualifications, no compulsory hours of work, no performance standards. A warm room and subsidised meals for a bunch of self-opinionated windbags and busybodies who suddenly find people taking them seriously because they got letters "MP" after their names. How can they be underpaid when there're about two hundred applicants for every vacancy? You could fill every seat twenty times over even if they have to pay to do the job."

-- Honorable ex Prime Minister Jim Hacker
Strange how the national debt increases much faster when the president is a Republican. Republicans love to run the debt up when they are in power and then use it as a weapon when they are not.
I can’t express just how much I loathe logging in. Banking is an incredibly boring industry, gluing together one tired system to another is painful and slow. We have so called agile project managers who know so little they must be constantly prompted for the right bits of backlog to be promoted. Lately our performance is being judged on story points, an arbitrary and stupid system controlled by these glassy eyed dullards who don’t understand the products or the processes.

Got a job interview tomorrow in another industry, at this point I would flip burgers instead of work in banking.
What? No I mean actual colonization. You can look up the Mahaweli Development programme, it was specifically designed (under the guise of creating fertile land/pastures) to colonize more of the Sri Lankan region. "Somehow" there ended up being cities that were 94% Sinhalese and only Sinhalese-language was used in USAID made documents/guides/brochures, despite being the least used language among 3.
I think you're both conflating the concept of "free speech = good" with what forms of speech are, at this moment, permitted or forbidden by US law.

For someone who believes in the concept of free speech, the fact that US constitutional rights to free speech in practice almost certainly do not protect overseas business interests is really an embarrassing corner case. Even if you do genuinely consider national and foreign actors to be different kinds of entity, so that it could be ethically sound to protect one and not the other, there's a simple technical reason for constantly the distinction to be artificial: Free speech protection can be gained merely by funnelling the speech through an intermediary US citizen.
I spent three months in El Salvador before the Bitcoin Legal Tender law passed, then another three months after it was enacted.

From day one, I knew it wasn’t going to work.

That’s when I flew back to Miami, went back to the drawing board, and stopped being a Bitcoin maxi.
It used to be that buying a Bitcoin today would net you 10000x more if you waited a bit.

Then it was 100x more.

Now 10x more is the best people can dream of. The possibility of getting super rich from Bitcoin is now gone unless you're already rich to start with. Turning $100 into a million dollars made the whole world interested. Turning 100k into a million isn't anything interesting and it's out of reach of most normal people, and those who can throw 100k into something are already investing in other things with similar returns. As a normie, putting in $100 with the hopes of Bitcoin reaching a million would only get you $1000. That's not much different than a couple scratch off lottery tickets.

It'd be much smarter to find the new secret thing that costs $5 now and will net you a million dollars ten years down the road. There's loads of stuff out there that people aren't paying attention to yet. Crypto isn't one of those things.
Someone I know who has a psychotic illness was telling people “my dad is having an affair”. And people didn’t believe her because they just assumed it was another one of her delusions

Then guess what we find out a few months later? Yep, her father really is having an affair, and her mother has just discovered it and is now filing for divorce over it
I'd be surprised if anyone really used it there, for technical reasons alone, and not even considering the risk part. BTC is still not easy to use.
If you have ollama:

ollama run deepseek-r1:671b

That is 404GB, but there are smaller versions too.
I mean, we're regressing everything else back to the good ol' 1960's, so yeah, sure, why not, lets whip out the ol "sexual deviant" playbook to discredit some basic human rights and fairness.

As long as people are distracted by some black guy's bisexuality or whatever they won't ask questions about all the underage human trafficking on epstein's lolita express with the people who are actually alive and running the government today.

Oh, and icing on the cake: it's a good pretext to remove MLK Day and that Black History Month. Guy was a sexual deviant, so clearly the civil rights movement was a giant discredited DEI sham. eg https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/defense-agency...
Or a counter-cultural revolution.
Some might react too strongly to the word "coup," but another term might be more accurate: "Orbanization."

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán didn’t take power through a military coup—he systematically dismantled democratic systems while maintaining the outward appearance of democracy. Over time, his government:

* Purged independent civil servants and replaced them with loyalists.

* Gained control of media platforms to shape public discourse.

* Undermined legal checks on executive power through judicial and procedural manipulation.

* Shifted state functions into private hands, where oversight is weaker.

We may be seeing similar patterns emerging in the U.S.—not with tanks, but through institutional capture and elite influence.

The good news? Unlike military coups, this type of democratic backsliding can still be resisted peacefully. But the window for effective resistance does close with each passing institutional change.
Yeah, that's part of the reason I haven't left NYC.

I've wanted to leave here for a couple years but I have been afraid that if I moved to a more rural area, I'd have trouble finding work if there was ever a huge return to office, in which case I might be forced to move back to a big city and I'd have to buy a house for a lot more than I paid.
Scientists Slow Light to Just 37 Miles per Hour
Thanks, I retreat from my position.
It to be a viable currency? Not a speculative asset?
IMF gave them 1.4 billion to abandon the “experiment”:

> The IMF made this a condition for a loan of 1.4 billion US dollars (1.35 billion euros).
In December of last year, the IMF reached an agreement with President Nayib Bukele’s government on the loan of the stated amount to strengthen the country’s “fiscal sustainability” and mitigate the “risks associated with Bitcoin,” as it was described.

—-

I dislike cryptocurrencies as much as the next guy but this was clearly something else than a failure of the currency itself
Perhaps they prefer to imagine that their political enemies are never able to achieve power again? Same imaginative effort, but much more satisfying.
That is still terrible.
Because doing it all at once is not how debasement works.
This is a spectacularly bad take on the CSRB reports. Frankly, the specific technical means by which the attacks were performed is irrelevant. What's far more important are the cultural shifts at businesses and organizations that the CSRB report was and is inducing. Problems are named, and organizations are put on notice -- that business as usual is no longer OK.
Elon is clearly bankrolling Trump, hes his boss. Trump is CEO and the techno oligarchs are his board.
> obviously people want to know the whole story.

And, yet, they never will.
The handmaid's tale is a book, a work of fiction about politics.

Many works of fiction provide political commentary.

There's no actual invisible hand of the free market either, just some pop-culture metaphor by some Scottish guy.
Sure: https://thuppahis.com/2022/07/28/the-mahaweli-project-the-mo...

> One underlying motive of the settlement pattern was to change the demographics of the Eastern Province, and it was clearly UNP policy laid down by JR and energetically implemented by Gamini. In Systems H and C 90% of the settlers were Sinhala and 10% Muslim – there were no Tamils although the land was in the Eastern Province, a majority Tamil province.

It's one of the many dark parts of our history.
Istanbul isn't too hot. I think it has more to do with the fact all the buildings in Istanbul are made of concrete.

The city is like a giant concrete pool. No rotting wood buildings for rats to move within the walls of.
Essentially yes, because they work for you and me. Why would you expect that people who serve the public could remain unknown to the public ?
Edgy comments without any substance sure do make it seem that way.
This is an attack on the government without a legal basis. Evidence can be submitted and process can be followed, he and his team are doing neither are opening themselves up to severe legal consequences. They should research Michael Cohen and Giuliani.

These people have our information, right now, in some drive in their backpack. This will be a scandal for years to come if the nation survives this.
What does “equally” mean and how would that be determined?
Because that is just a lie to give cover for their real goals. Which is nothing less than a coup. Musk and DOGE have absolutely no legal authority to stop payments authorized by congers and no right to access the federal payment system.
That does not surprise me.

When I make things, I often spend time confirming the work is done. And seeing what I actually made.

It is part of the psychological experience of making things for me.
CSP (https://github.com/Point72/csp) has a healthy amount of AST parsing for their DSL. Looks like they have debug breakpoints working by augmenting the line numbers in the AST generation
That's like saying the Midwest has a squirrel problem
That's cool. Feel free to leave a reference or something. From the Wiki description:

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit is the first book by historian and Detroit native Thomas J. Sugrue in which he examines the role race, housing, job discrimination, and capital flight played in the decline of Detroit. Sugrue argues that the decline of Detroit began long before the 1967 race riot. Sugrue argues that institutionalized and often legalized racism resulted in sharply limited opportunities for African Americans in Detroit for most of the 20th century. He also argues that the process of deindustrialization, the flight of investment and jobs from the city, began in the 1950s as employers moved to suburban areas and small towns and also introduced new labor-saving technologies. The book has won multiple awards including a Bancroft Prize in 1998
Heck, it doesn't matter even if there are zero redactions. I saw a good cartoon along these lines: Trump agrees with the need to release any and all info about the JFK assassinations, which shows that all the evidence points to Oswald being the lone killer. The conspiracy theorist responds "This goes deeper than we thought..."

I'm all for releasing all the known evidence about the case, but a large swath of people will never be satisfied unless they hear exactly what they want to hear. There are still a sizable number of people who think the Moon landings were faked, despite all evidence to the contrary.
I think that delegating power to government agencies are a lot more complicated than is commonly understood. My surface level understanding is that the agencies run under the executive branch with funding from congress. If that is true, then the chief executive would have the authority to instruct the agency to do nothing and spend no money, but he wouldn’t have the authority to instruct the agency to spend more than authorized by congress. I guess congress will have to garbage collect the funding as a technicality, though there may be a built in mechanism for reallocating underspent budgets.
Earlier today dang answered more or less the same question you're asking:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42923649
The great thing about young people is that they haven't had much time to develop a moral compass. I'd say that makes them perfect for the roles they've been given
Yes sometimes stuff like this happens. Still, I'd like to think the EU is a prime example for how "reasonable" legislation has benefits over extremely specific legislation. Reasonable wins almost every time with how it fares under changing circumstances and how it's pretty much loop hole proof by design.
You can in CSP nodes
https://github.com/Point72/csp
The argument is that it'll become more stable if it's adopted as a worldwide currency, kinda like gold.
Statements today to Congress and public, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42926580
The one that "sent you over the edge" is a dupe. Of which there is an ongoing thread, that's not even flagged.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42904838

Yes there been a lot of flagged Musk/Trump-related posts lately, partly due to an aversion of heavily political current events stories, but also there's been a number of discussions with lots of eyeballs, hundreds of upvotes and comments before getting flagged. And that's amidst ten different submissions of the same story about the treasury, USAID, CDC, tariffs, whatever. So it's not nothing. There is some engagement, the discussion maybe then devolved and that's it. Stuff moves fast round here, and there's been a particularly heavy influx of headlines lately, but amidst any influx of attempt to flag things to hell, all is not lost, there's still engagement and sharing.
and the messaging saying that it’s a fascist power grab by oligarchs is not propaganda?

This is politics. All parties are presenting messaging that supports their goals.
> Unlike most here, I've been cautiously optimistic about DOGE. I know, I know... But this seems like an absolute mistake

Well, now you know why most here are not cautiously optimistic about DOGE. Welcome to the club.
First, give some examples of what you are talking about. Second, we spend all kinds of money on things I don't agree with, which is how it works.
>I think it’s more like NYC rats are bigger than cats.

C'mon, man, its a myth. NYC rats are max 2lb. Even the giant rats - those mine sniffing ones in Africa - are 3.3 lb max. A cat is 10lb+ of pure predator muscle and instinct. A rat has no chance against typical street cat (one can see that even from the reaction time perspective - cats with their 20-70ms are among the fastest mammals while rats have only 150ms+. Just watch Youtube cats vs. snakes).
I think he is very bored an finds this very exciting.
I actually don’t think 60k workers are public figures to be doxxed. In the same way I do not represent my employer to the media or shareholders.
USAID is reputedly the tool of the CIA.
Conversely if that’s all it takes to induce them to give up it tells you something about the benefits they felt were accruing from BTC.
oh, so what are they doing to that end
> I wonder how many people are telling the truth about something, and aren't taken seriously because they're problematic about something else.

Likely a metric fuck ton. The perceived quality of one's character plays an outsized role in getting people to believe you. Serial killers figured that out a long time ago.
People aren’t opposing it. The legislation is letting Trump usurp their power. This is something that old school Republicans wouldn’t have let happen. But the Republican Party has been taking over by Trump.

Also, why would the majority oppose it? What he is doing is affecting illegal immigrants (who can’t vote), the poorest people who those just one level up think they are “only temporarily poor”, minorities, trans - you notice that he only removed the T from LGBT while he is taking down “wokeness”.

You also have to remember he has the evangelical Christian block in his pocket who literally believe he was sent by God to keep America from descending in hell fire. You can’t “reason” with devout religious people. Religion requires you to ignore logic and science (born and raised in the Bible Belt).

You notice he isn’t disrupting farmers in red states with immigration raids? Also because of gerrymandering and how the Senate is designed. The low population red states have much more power than their population calls for.
Yeah, you can bet it won’t be on a slow news day.
Correct. The IMF can’t run its debt trap/looting playbook without more currency control
That take doesn't at all engage with the main point of the article: Unacceptable risk.
Tokyo is significantly cleaner than NYC, or any major US city. I think this is GPs point.
Exactly. Talk about closing the barn door after the horse ran out, started his own family, watched his foals grow up, sent them off to horse college, and watched them all settle down and start their own families in new barns that don't even have doors. Nonsensical stunts like this make me wonder if Hawley and company are also on the Chinese/Russian payroll and it's not just Trump/Musk. Is it too much to ask of my fellow Americans to pull up from your grievance politics before these people completely hand our country to China?
This has nothing to do with the speech. The speech is protected as always. You are free to say the same things on any platform you like: soapbox, print, a website, social media, anywhere.

What is being prohibited is an adversarial government having complete control over an entity that can decide which speech is delivered to which specific audience.
I'm not quite so sure. The amount of demolished blight in Detroit has left this eerie urban meadow feeling to a decent amount of areas in the vicinity of downtown. Walking the empty streets with empty lots and a few normal or a few burnt out houses is peaceful and fun in a way you wouldn't expect. I haven't seen it in a lot of cities.
Elon Musk has lied constantly about many things over the last 10 years and he is absolutely not trustworthy to unilaterally decide what is or isn't "government waste"
something like a long-term weather forecast could lead to declining to issue an insurance policy for someone's home or automobile in an area. it could significantly impact the price. make it publicly available, and an insurance company could use that prediction. clearly an unacceptable risk
Israel is god's gift to Chinese propaganda.Every single Palestinian death further erodes Western moral superiority.
It's like the Mai Lai massacre that never ends.
Insane that one of the richest most developed cities in the world just dumped their trash on the street without using cans
Dollars to donuts this goes the other way. Trump isn't known for playing the long game, and Elon (for all his craziness) is incredibly Machiavellian.

E.g. 'Trump was coopted by the deep state, and that's why I couldn't get it done.'

Also convenient once Trump is (a) term limited and more importantly (b) too old to be politically useful anymore.
The fact that he campaigned on it, brought Musk along and put him on stage to make speeches about it, and even named the "department" before the election and then won seems pretty compelling to me. Open and shut case I'd say.
So the Bill is proposed by the same Hawley who was giving fist ups to the mob that was chanting for the hanging of the vice president, attacking police officers, and literally defecating and breaking the Capitol building?
But Istanbul does have a stray dog problem. Dogs in this city are either obese and sunbathing or extremely aggressive.
This is awesome, there aren't many good resources to learn Cantonese, especially compared to Mandarin
recent microcode appears to be rejected by older agesa in my testing, so it is very possible it is more than an implementation issue

under agesa 1.2.0.2b

> microcode: CPU1: update failed for patch_level=0x0a60120c

under agesa 1.2.0.3a PatchA (which asus leaked that it fixes this issue)

> microcode: Updated early from: 0x0a60120c
The remaining 1% is almost certainly where the good stuff is.
Anthropic dares you to jailbreak its new AI model
Is that really the message?
Taped March 22, 1994, IIRC.
Egg Game
I have friends in the countryside in North America, and I can corroborate that: as development has encroached, the new subdivisions have filled with former city-dwellers.

Three times in a single month, do-gooder passers-by trespassed past a prominent fence to nab my friends’ dog, who would snooze innocently in the front pasture in the afternoon, and “rescue” him to the county lockup.

The animal control people know him by name now, but they can’t do much to waive the mandatory “re-adoption fee”…
That is not mathematically sound. Government employees only make up a tiny percentage of the US budget especially if you don’t include the military.

And how is killing the IRS going to help balance the budget?
Millennials, I'd argue. During the 90s, culture at large painted a picture of stability and progress, all made possible by democracy. See Francis Fukuyama's The End of History for the kind of tone that permeated the time.

As we Millenials have gotten older, we too have seen through the veil and realized the system isn't perfect. More importantly, perhaps, we've seen the wide range of ways people react to this imperfect system. Some have chosen to undermine its very foundations to get their way, leaving many to wonder what we're left with if -- to loosely quote Whose Line Is It Anyway -- the rules are made up and the points don't matter.
Hector Martin: "Behold, a maintainer sabotaging the Rust for Linux project"