skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that's good enough for you is it? Unverified claims, and no insight into who else benefits from his decisions?

His venture firm (Craft Ventures) previously invested in Bitwise Asset Management, and their top holdings include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and Cardano — the exact assets named by Trump for proposed inclusion in the strategic reserve.

Sorry, that's too on the nose. Especially with the nonsensical decision to include Ripple and Cardano.
Crabs predate cuttlefish in the fossil record by a significant amount of time (~50 million years), but both have had a good 100 million years to battle it out and crabs are still blinded by the camo. Cuttlefish maybe have not exerted enough evolutionary pressure on crabs to make them adapt, or there are crabs that have adapted and we just don't know which species or have not discovered them yet.
Insiders would be actually, criminally stupid not to.

There are no consequences to it, only upside.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/14/silicon-valley...

> Rather, the person familiar with Fairshake said, the goal of the attack campaign was to terrify other politicians—“to warn anyone running for office that, if you are anti-crypto, the industry will come after you.”

> “It’s a simple message,” the person familiar with Fairshake said. “If you are pro-crypto, we will help you, and if you are anti we will tear you apart.”
So, I was in a conversation with someone who made an interesting comment.

He said we have a gold reserve and that makes sense, but if we become interplanetary, then you don’t want to pay to ship gold to Mars. Crypto solves that issue. The reserve will last well into the future so preparing now makes sense.

Unique take to be sure, but sharing because it was interesting.
Let us not give the government a higher incentive to use the legal system to enrich themselves.
A distinction without a difference. We're still out actual cash and sitting on magic internet money.
Trump gives US money to finance drug kingpins, paedophiles, human trafficking, scammers, hackers, ponzi schemers, illegal bookmakers, money launderers, polluters and electricity stealers in countries like NK, China, Russia and at home. Amirite?
Is there _any_ hope of being able to understand how this works without a background in statistics and information theory? So far, old-school pretraining gets heavy bonus points just for being plausible and easy to understand.
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No trolling here: I am not a Golang programmer. Can you explain more?
I remember reading on Wikipedia that Taiwan imports large amounts of oil and NG for its electricity grid, and it only has 1 week of buffered capacity.

That seems like it was be very easy to exploit. Modern society especially dense cities doesn’t seem very resilient to lack of power.
Ethical, not stupid.
Bitcoin (a limited commodity) is the only rational choice for inclusion in a strategic reserve. The others are brazen corruption.
>“Nobody announced a tax or a spending program,” responded David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as Trump’s AI & crypto czar, who has invested in crypto companies through his venture-capital firm Craft Ventures, including ones involved with Solana. Sacks said that he has sold his personal crypto holdings. “Maybe you should wait to find out what’s actually being proposed.”
This reminds me of Minds Beneath Us. Mankind really has no limits, and who decides where to stop anyway?
Yesterday: Japan and Nazi Germany

Today: Trumps America and Putin's Russia. Trump has gone way beyond just standing up for his own countries interests. He is literally echoing Kremlin talking points every chance he gets, probably to the detriment of his own country.
>> The idea that efficient compression by itself lies at the heart of intelligence is not new (see, e.g., Hernández-Orallo & Minaya-Collado, 1998; Mahoney, 1999; Hutter, 2005; Legg & Hutter, 2007). Rather than revisiting those theoretical discussions, we make a practical demonstration instead.

There we go again. Claim: compression <something something> intelligence. Evidence: 34.75% on ARC AGI.

Like Carl Sagan once pointed out, "Observation: You couldn't see a thing. Conclusion: dinosaurs".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_N_IYi2c0E&themeRefresh=1
As I've said, I totally agree. But Mozilla’s lawyers don’t.
That is the theory. But there is no incentive for US manufacturers to compete on price. If the product from China costs $100 (including the tariff), the same product from US will be $99.99. Selling it any cheaper would be stupid.
The need to transport items through forests comes from the new unjammable wire-guided drones. Anything on roads within 5+ kilometers of the frontline is easily spotted and destroyed.
There is a neat trick where ipxe can netboot dos from an iscsi target, with no drivers or config dos gets read write access to a network share(well, not a share, if you share it it gets corrupted fast, a network block device). it feels magical but I think ipxe is patching the bios to make disk access go over iscsi.
The difference is it's not using tax money. Using tax money is the entire premise for calling it "brazen corruption":

>Trump plans to use your money to buy fake money

Not true if it's confiscated funds.
Later when some proxy for Russia conveniently steals it all, they'll go "aw, shucks."
In the article it says:

> Sacks said that he has sold his personal crypto holdings.

I went to his twitter account, that's exactly what he said, but that does not mean the same thing as divesting from companies that hold crypto.
What's the impact here on inflation, by extension interest rates and funding available to startups?
This is why I don't really buy the argument that they have "kompromat" on him, even if they did, it wouldn't matter?

What could he possible have done that would deter his followers at this point.
Bummer if true, my brother printer is the one I hate the least.
The problem is that wars inevitably break out between countries. They are bad enough with conventional means, but wars with nuclear arsenals can quickly scale to unimagineable catastrophies.
You know what's so interesting? If I had known he was going to threaten tariffs, I might have considered shorting a lot of stocks. And well, if I knew he was going to then quickly walk them back the next day, I probably would have bought those same stocks. If only I had known he was going to do this!

Now that I think about it, if he had told me about these things in advance, I could probably make a LOT of money. I mean sure, it's illegal, but we could always gut the SEC[1]!

[1] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/doge-targets-sec-next-for-...
In school they were proud to teach us word perfect - the same thing industry uses! by the time I finished nobody used it anymore.
Imagine actually believing this. Contrary to every economist and qualified takes.
The ratio of legal vs illegal transaction volume of USD is weighted overwhelmingly toward legal.

The same ratio for cryptocurrency transactions is... most definitely not.
Or, and here me out, those are the 5 biggest crypto coins.

So if you had to pick what to put into a reserve it would make sense that the 5 biggest coins would be there, no?
It claims to be modern, yet the landing page looks outdated.
Global narcotics are about 1% of world trade. So in the worst case scenario the USD is doing about 99% more legitimate transactions than crypto.
Perfectly spherical cows.
The current regime has never felt burdened by ethics in the past. Why would it start now, when so much money could be made?
It also doesn't mean anyone he is related to has divested either.
commercial real estate still recovering from post covid / work from home situation

so federal government has plenty of negotiating power

also with layoffs the space requirements may have changed and such large buildings may be excessive
Was it a blind trust instead? Which mismanaged the farm so much that Carter had to sell it…
Does cursor support vscode type extensions and LSP etc, or am I thinking about this the wrong way?
Near term inflation but more broadly increasing paralysis of business investment of all stripes in the fact of a wildly unpredictable political landscape.
Yeah I am generally not a nationalist by conviction or intellect but this stuff has me tearing up to the national anthem and putting stuff back on the shelf at the grocery store.
What could they have on him that would matter? Honestly?

I don't really buy this kompromat argument, even if it was some horrific sex tape it would just be "fake" or "fake news".

I think it's likely just the flattery and importance they give him, the strongman image he desires and he likes the way Russia is a dictatorship. I just think he likes their system.
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Businesses and investors hate uncertainty. Even if the tariffs get taken off again some damage will be done.
Not to mention 4 cylinders have an annoying vibration, whereas an inline-6 are silky smooth and a genuine joy to rev.
Is the account that posted this a bot of some kind? It seems to just post to the submissions every hour or two 24/7

I tried submitting this after posting it over on Lobsters and Mastodon and got redirected to this post instead

(For context I'm the author of the proxmox port and the Internet archive upload)

Not mad it's just...weird
Having gold-equivalent reserves seems like the very last thing that Martian colonists need to worry about. I would suspect "how do we survive in an extraordinarily hostile environment with no hope of rescue when something goes wrong" is a higher priority one to solve.
Its a brand equity bonfire.
QTVR files – preserving them and extracting embedded images
The CIA actually did that in the 80’s and the San Jose Mercury News wrote about it.
Why not ship the gold to Mars?
Do you have an English version? Posts in other languages are usually ignored or flagged.
The Nightmare Bicycle
downhill since the early 2000s
Quantum Breakthrough: New Study Uncovers Hidden Behavior in Superconductors
If we can’t restore the constitutional apportionment of power between the federal and state governments—and it seems like that ship has sailed—the next best thing would be to decentralize the federal government and get as much of it out of DC as possible: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/moving-fede...
Panpsychism in various forms has historically held sway with many philosophers. It’s really the Occam’s razor for consciousness.
This isn't 'wrong' but only accounts for a two party market.
https://irp.fas.org/congress/1998_cr/980507-l.htm

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/cia-conn...
The general path of the country is fairly clear at this point - business that manufacture closer to consumers will have fewer issues with the government. Even Biden kept a bunch of Trump1 anti-China policies in place.

If I was directing investment at a large business, onshoring manufacturing would be a no brainer in many businesses. Mexico might be the happy medium, but I’d really push for US manufacturing facilities with high automation levels to hedge against labor cost.
Can I use this instead as a frontend for an existing server? UI is perfect for me but I don't want to fully self host anything but the UI.
Back towards the end of his first term, Trump started moving a lot of agencies out of DC. I think BLM was headed to Colorado etc. IIRC there was also talk of moving FDA back then.
It's funny because throughout Q1 2024 a huge range of Microsoft's own IP addresses were blacklisted by Spamcop and other blacklist providers spam/phishing attacks coming from outlook.com addresses. (Google "EX703958" (MS's issue#) for some fun reading.) They (and their enterprise customers) have been on the receiving end of the same thing they do to others.
And...flagged.
It's a complex situation. On one hand, I understand why it's not right to buy a specific cryptocurrency which will disproportionally benefit a specific set of people. But on the other hand, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are provably scarce assets backed by a ledger which is far more robust and far more auditable than anything else we have at the moment.

A publicly auditable, decentralized monetary system is necessary in this day and age. Money is just too important to be entrusted to any specific political party. There needs to be a reliable mechanism to limit spending. Scarcity is one of the most important characteristics of money to ensure a level playing field for everyone; our current monetary system completely neglects this essential property and has no mechanism to limit government spending. We have an extremely centralized system which is unaccountable to the billions of citizens who are increasingly forced to participate in it as it is becoming increasingly unappealing, asymmetric and inefficient.

I think if the government launched a new cryptocurrency, distributed it evenly to every citizen, made it legal tender then started buying it up with fiat USD (intentionally causing hyperinflation of the fiat USD). That would solve a lot of problems. Every country should also do the same and they can agree on maintaining forex rates so that the hyperinflation is even and not too noticeable. Only people who refuse to move to the fairer system would lose; which is fine. Wealthy people who understand the benefits of a scarce money system will be able to maintain much of their wealth by transitioning early and buying up tokens from people who do not understand the benefits... Or they can just hold onto their assets (if they're confident that their assets are productive in real-terms and not just nominally in fiat terms).
I heard he used to be _The_ Whitney Brown.
God damn lol. I'm interestingly not regretting the shift though. It truly is useful more often than I thought to request desktop sites and actually see desktop sites, or open two apps side by side.
It's an SMTP server, not a web design app.
Minesweeper Bench
Actually, it was the USMCA, Trump signed that into law to replace NAFTA in 2019.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10997
The time and expense to set up a manufacturing line for anything nontrivial is large. And Trump's policy volatility makes the risk completely not worth it.
How would you actually go about doing that? Like if the US economy implodes because enough of this malarkey breaks it, what/where is safe? In terms of your personal wealth/residence, I mean.

The only thing I can kind of think of is maybe some land or housing in Europe or New Zealand or somewhere kind of out of the way; perhaps something that you can rent out. Might not make you a ton of money, but it would hopefully hold its value over time?
this is very good news. does it change the ethical concerns if we are using them to transport consciousness to other planets instead of just using them in a lab? I think it does. nature is pretty savage. extending consciousness off world as best we can seems like a natural imperative. I have the sense that programs for organic machines may ultimately resemble music as well.
Gold is more strategic because it has proven its value over millennia.

Bitcoin is still choosing which University to attend, and on his first date.

Bitcoin is a brand not a fixed tech. Remember when it forked?

Don't believe that Trump couldn't order Bitcoin to mint for the US. How? He is a master power broker and Bitcoin is centralized and run by humans. It is not an independent entity like, for example a coronavirus or an idea that cannot be tamed.

The big bitcoin buyers are then USA and Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy). The miners incentivised to operate in the US. The US government can now say to the coder: well, (clicks fingers), take this $10m and do what we say or don't and we will make you illegal and under arrest.

This would be well within Trump's MO and comfort zone.
No you only have to pay if you keep your citizenship and leave the country. If you are no longer a citizen you no longer pay.
its funny that:

how we know if he's telling the truth that he sold all his crypto currency

is there anyway to validate/audit this?

if there is, doesn't it mean crypto is not 'crypted'?
Would bricks of gold really change anything in a dire situation? I don't get it.

I'd bet on aligning with people who know how to make use of bullets personally.
let me add a fourth then: ICs who had really great managers and became great as a result, and when given the opportunity decided to then become the next great manager and mentor the next group of great ICs.
Most of the post 2016 China exit investment was to other cheaper southeast Asia countries. My phone was made in Vietnam.
What ever happened to the free market consevatives? The ones who were proud to work with Clinton to pass NAFTA in the first place.
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They also raise the price of local foods because the materials they import cost more.
Depending on elasticity of demand and supply it will drive up the US made products (if they exist) at the same time.

Also encouraging people to produce the stuff locally only works if they can rely on the stability of the market.

Plus there's an intrinsic advantage that exporters in lower wage zones have over the domestic market. US workers are paid more than Canadian, and certainly paid a hell of a lot more than Chinese ones. So whatever is made domestically is just intrinsically more expensive.

You can make an argument for protectionism and self-sufficiency on various basis. But you can't make a good argument for erratic and sudden and unreliable protectionism.
Is your reasoning that the supplier has the option of eating the tariff by cutting prices, such that the price paid by the purchaser remains the same?

If they had that much margin headroom available to cut prices by 20% and remain profitable, wouldn't that basically prove that they weren't dumping product in the first place?
He has a different video where he makes such a screen, actually. I was kinda surprised when I saw this video pop up, thinking "Didn't he do this already?"
Bullets have been a good investment.
Haha yep, I designed one when he announced the tariffs the first time but never got around to printing them.
But, go back one char is also left arrow. Why do you need another key for that?
Here’s some good food for thought on the engineer/manager decision, [0] and [1]. Good luck!

[0] https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum...

[1] https://charity.wtf/2019/01/04/engineering-management-the-pe...
We own a modest flat in Spain. I’ve moved a year’s worth of living expenses to EUR. I can have my family out of the country in 72 hours. Total cost was under $300k USD.

The best time to have a plan is before you need it. If you wait until you need it, you’re too late.

(n=1, ymmv)
Nah, you just pay the powers that be to exclude you from the tariffs, Apple has been excluded from the current ones. So only those that are not friends with the kleptocracy are really at risk.

As for the rest of the population, it's the usual FAFO, not much to do.
One of my strongest recommendations to people on social networks is to engage down-thread. Talk to other people, not just the top post. Get beyond your glancing para-social relationship, and expand your Metcalfe-factor by commenting and liking other people's engagement.

Especially for new or young networks, a lot of people are truly starved for engagement & don't see the pattern of being engaged with. Engagement has to be bootstrapped, by people individually deciding to look through & find & engage with others who are putting themselves out there.

The opposite of the curve shown here is the "who is engaged with" curve. And it's like 0.3% of people (made up number) getting 99% of the engagement. It's a tyranny of popularity, and it legitimizes everyone elses dead quiet, their non-activity. We ought engage more robustly. Not just with the popular magnets.
You say "outdated", I see "no-nonsense". It's clearly organized and all the information is right there where you want it; what's to complain about?
> If you’ve been telling yourself this isn’t coming, I really think you need to question that. It’s not web3. It’s not vaporware. A lot of what we’re talking about is already here, right now.

I was born in Missouri — so show me. In the meantime I'm calling bullshit.

Later in the article there is a degree of .... not backpedalling, more like tempering expectations. Well, maybe not "True AGI" but close.

So I don't know. It's hard not to see a lot of fear mongering in all of this. I wasn't born yet when the U.S.S.R. were trying to get the atomic bomb, later the hydrogen bomb, but I suspect there was a lot of similar fear flying about.

And I suppose like the Cold War, eventually all parties are going to have similar capabilities, so I'm not sure why they worry as much as they do about secrecy. We know how ephemeral that always is.
Apparently, it doesn't support 2FA (yet). From https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/mox-modern-full-featured...:

> Another is 2FA. It would be relatively easy to implement in the web interfaces, but not with SMTP (submission) and IMAP. Most clients can at most do cram-md5 for authentication mechanism (old). I don’t know any clients doing the safer scram-sha-256-plus properly (with mutual verification and TLS channel binding, mox implements it). Interested in hearing what the thoughts are on these topics.
Gene-edited 'woolly mice' are a step toward woolly mammoths
This could be an interesting topic, but inevitably these posts devolve into politics and it’s always about the same thing. Yet this is the type of comment at the top. Why bother leaving a comment like this?
It also sounds like delayed gratification.
@dang hosting this type of content makes this place feel more like 4chan than anything else...
Lots of morning, midday, and evening sun on as much skin as possible. Lot's of supplemental inositol
Hackers against technology: Critique and recuperation in technological cycles [pdf]
An even lazier form of LLM assisted coding where you blindly spam the tab key without even taking the bare minimum amount of time reviewing the garbage that it's busy outputting.

Karpathy "coined" the term and I absolutely hate it. It's up there with "asshat" and "awesome sauce" for profoundly stupid terms.
It is extremely rare for manufacturers to absorb the tariffs.

Profit margins in most industries simply aren't high enough to cover it. A business can't absorb 20-25% tariffs if its profit margin is only 5%.

And manufacturing is particularly known for its low profit margins.

So no. I mean, in theory you are technically correct. But the way elasticity works in practice is that the buyer is who pays the tariffs in virtually all circumstances.
That would only be conceivable if there was a single domestic manufacturer. You don't need a foreign product to keep prices honest in a competitive domestic market.
Don't run your own mail server. You'll be attacked and get blacklisted and won't even know that it happened or why until you find out none of your emails to anyone get through.

Securing a mail server is full time plus job. Proton is great and free with their domain and cheap with yours.
Haha the best part is when the same Gmail or outlook address spams you again two weeks after reporting that very same address to abuse@gmail/outlook.
There's probably more nuance with 2.29 than is led onto here. The problem appears straightforward and there seems to be simpler solutions out there than the one described in the article.

Did the author overthink it or are the simple solutions not correct?
I think you're thinking of the 486SLC

The 486SX was fully 32-bit (unlike the SLC and 386SX) and the 486DX had the integrated FPU, and the 487 was a drop in 486DX which disabled the 486SX