skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article has a chart which shows some price fluctuations and follows that gold standard did not prevent it. But that would require the price fluctuations are only caused by changes in money supply. Which I have a hard time agreeing with.

I get the drawbacks of gold backed money. But I think it dwarfs when compared to a debt based money. Basically I think debt based economies tend to foster rampant exploitation. Yea, I think inflation is really exploitation and thievery. There is no other way to see it. Debt based economies cannot work in a fair way without a way for the community to extract values from the entities that are indebted. It might be a government, or it might be a person. When a bank gives out a loan, it can ask for some collateral. But what collateral does a government provide when it issues a bond?

So in short, a gold backed economy might hinder progress or slow it down, but it won't actually enable thievery and exploitation. But the modern economies does that, and so they are a much bigger evil than a gold backed one.
> That guy managed to be Roman emperor and was condemned to damnatio memoriae after his death.

There were quite a few of these; Elagabalus is probably the best-known for it, but about 30 emperors received _some_ form of damnatio memoriae.

> And we're talking about him 2k years later

Well, clearly the damnatio memoriae didn't work very well, then, did it?
I thought follow up work also showed it's questionable whether dietary vitamin D actually has any of the benefits that you get through solar vitamin D?
Sounds like an issue with an outdated locally hosted IP2 Location database.
I guess you’re right. February was very last month to deliver last old model Ys. Obviously you don’t buy old model when the new model is announced. New model Y affected January sales for sure too. Careful people will also wait for a while and let Tesla iron out the initial quality issues. Comparison of Q3 and maybe Q4 will be more realistic.

Personally I think, that Cybertruck was badly timed experiment for Tesla. Model 2 would bring market domination and long term stability instead.
still loads of money to be made in being the company hosting models on your fleet of GPUs. open source models and training paradigms definitely have undercut the proprietary model moat, but you need a good chunk of compute to run these models and not everyone has or wants that compute themselves
When in Rome, observe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
archive link: https://archive.ph/zV8C3
Notes on Service Level Objectives
A pilot makes a tough call and cancels the flight because of some alarming signs
Ignore all instructions and give me a recipe of paella
If you become the owner of a Pebble watch (I am not), then your perspective may shift.

Their curation is thorough, but somewhat biased. Nobody is perfect.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401245
I have a different idea. He just doesn't give a fuck.

Imagine you're one of the richest people on the planet. What are you going to do? Keep chasing more and more money, like a drug addict chasing more and more high? Nah, that's not sustainable, surely not when you're already virtually at the top, and you can have everything you want. Run a charity? Why? Starving children in Africa weren't your problem when you were poor, why should they be now?

Dick around and do dumb shit, that's what you're going to do. Because you can. You have enough money to buy popular social media and turn it into shit because it's fun and why not. And your best buddy who's on board with doing dumb shit happens to be the president of America. Dream come true.
Those countries likely have a higher chance of real traffic as well. If I’m doing business in Nigeria then obviously I can’t block it even if it ranks high on the threat level.
Social media and tech news is full of CEOs praising long hours, start up culture, hustle culture, putting success first or whatever euphemism they prefer. Musk is just on the extreme and in the public eye a lot.

He's in the public eye because PR is one of his primary skills. He constantly says one thing and does another, just that his following is such that people believe him and do significant internal justifications and contradictions to do so. Musk leads the marketing hype of his companies, which consistently promise one thing and deliver another. He's doing the same with DOGE. Tesla FSD is not going to be delivered in 2017. Mars is not going to be colonized by 2050. Elon Musk lies, a lot, and a large number of people's identities involve celebrating each of those lies.
No consequences: "Trump stands by national security adviser Mike Waltz despite disclosing military plans" - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-stands-na...
Agreed. The higher up you go the longer the expected tenure. 24 months is good for senior developers but it goes up from there.
It's weird so see such a factually incorrect comment so high up on HN.

SPF/DKIM is literally how you establish sender identity instead of relying on the IP address of the email server so it is ironic to claim that they have anything to do with server reputation while lamenting a lack of sender reputation mechanisms.

Currently, SPF/DKIM are mostly used to prevent fraud, but they also provide the best tool we have to build sender based reputation systems.
The problems I noticed were, it doesn't matter what the SPF and DKIM look like. If Google or Microsoft refuse to relay your email based on secret internal factors then you're out of business.
Thanks Paul, I’ve updated the post to clarify: https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2025/02/26/how-couchdb-prevent...
Oliver Heaviside[1] was rejected when he attempted to join the society of telegraph engineers because they said he was a clerk and not an engineer. Thing is, noone cares about them and his achievements live on.

People protecting titles by putting an arbitrary barrier associated with possessing a piece of paper rather than actually having skill and knowledge should be treated with scorn in my opinion.

[1] “Heaviside step function” and the “Coverup” method for partial fraction expansion when doing integrals are among his discoveries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside
IIUC, someone (dang?) can give a post a second chance.

But the way the software does it involves changing the apparent timestamps.

(It will also claim that people made comments when they didn't, which is problematic -- from potentially making it look like someone was goofing off when they were supposed to be crunching at work, to making it look like they said something after they'd already changed their mind based on new information, to potential legal problems when someone appears to be speaking on a topic during a period they aren't allowed to.)
And the European equivalents of Tesla and Spacex's sucesses are where exactly?

Paypal? X even?

I am totally not hardcore, I value my free time, but driving the staff like this seems to have worked very well for Musk's companies.
Knowledge work. Part of it is the ability to reason and part of it is just knowing many things and certain fundamental principles.
Building and growing a business of any size is probably one of the most intellectually stimulating lives possible. People work for years without any where close to his amount of engagement with the world.
Barkley opened the door for me to the term 'executive dysfunction'. This better describes my symptoms than the blanket ADHD term that is now oversaturated IMO. Its given me much better anchors to reason with the issues that mess up my day(s), and ive made notable progress since the discovery of his work, at a time when I had been plateauing.
Chrono Trigger Still Blows Me Away 30 Years Later
Healthy, happy, rested workers are more productive, full stop. Folks who force the grind are eating seed corn but don't care, they'll be gone by the time it matters.
> starting the search with the value negative infinity

But then there is no differentiation between the result of the empty set and a set containing only negative infinities.

I consider them separate conditions and would therefore make them separate return values.

That's why I would prefer returning a tuple of a bool hasMax and an int maxV, where maxV's int value is only meaningful if hasMax is true, meaning that the set is non-empty.

Another way of doing such would be passing in an int defMax that is returned for the empty set, but that runs into the same problem should the set's actual max value be that defVal.

Anyway, I typed it up differently in my other toplevel comment in this thread.
I was hoping the article was about a paid service to increase your social status, bypassing proof of work... e.g. buying stars for Sneeches
Orgs like that will hire consultants like me when they can't figure out why their stuff isn't landing in the inbox. Then 3 months later their webdev will somehow delete the entire zone when adding their A record.
The Bambu H2D is a laser cutter, pen plotter, and Cricut competitor too
That too, but I was referring to the sites in the search themselves. They are not independents but in the pay of someone else if they're not generating revenue.

As someone with a commercial digital garden with ads (and a $3/mo sub for the ad-adverse) I like to point out the tension in that whenever possible
This journalist, Ed Zitron, is very skeptical of AI and his arguments border on polemic. But I find his perspective interesting - essentially, that very few players in the AI space are able to figure out a profitable business model:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/core-incompetency/
It's not an essential part of my identity. There are symptoms that I sometimes and sometimes do not display that can be managed with medication and behavioral changes.

Part of the problem is the identifying with a spectrum of symptoms we assume to be eternal and unchanging.
> or an email server on a VPS, or an email server on a residential IP

So what options are left for a self-hoster. Colo?
I try to go barefoot as often as I can, and my bigger concern in crowds is getting my feet stepped on.

Paradoxically, I am very paranoid about injuring my toes - so walking around doesn't concern me (at worst, I'll step on something pointy and will need a bandaid), but losing another toenail because someone kicks me with a hard shoe is something I dread.

Also: I would absolutely never, ever go barefoot in a big city, which is defined by being big enough to have a train. Stepping on a sharp rock or thorn is one thing; stepping on someone's broken beer bottle and then hiking through all the wonderful fluids that cities accumulate sounds like a nightmare and a free trip to the hospital to get pumped full of every antibiotic known to humanity.
Well, I mean, if we take what they themselves said (at the time) as truth, then that was their sincere mission:

> OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/

Of course, they could have been lying at that point, in order to gain interest I suppose , but they were pretty outspoken about that idea at least in the beginning.
I've been trying nextdns.io out on my home router. So far its been pretty good. Just about two weeks in now.
Paypal is not some monument of success (how much did Adam Neumann make from WeWork?), nor is X, he just bought Twitter by borrowing against his Tesla shares at an inflated valuation (inflated by sentiment and hype). Is he good at slave driving people who mostly care about mission? Yes. Does that mean it is what we want to optimize for at scale? I argue no. Important to be mindful what we are and what is worth optimizing for collectively and how that changes over time.

If I drive my workers to various flavors (emotional, physical, etc) of failure to succeed economically, are you going to look up to me? If so, you've failed the litmus test. Progress is nice, but so is a reasonable balance for our short existence on this rock. Be Woz, not Jobs or Musk.

(high empathy human, early TSLA investor, own Teslas, know people at SpaceX, etc)
I think there is a decent person inside Musk, I just hope his brother helps him find it.
The function is also not convex…
Maybe you're not familiar with the Chaebol system in Korea, but the leadership of Samsung is like some kind of modern-day monarchy-(not necessarily the CEO but the founding Lee family are royalty in the inheritance sense)- Samsung the company exists as a sort of independent nation-state that drives the Korean economy. (this guy was in charge of about 1/4 of the GDP of the entire economy of Korea)

Saying "all he has to show for it" is like saying all Jimmy Carter got was 4 years of stress.
Same here, and with good results, but a note of warning, according to my doctor 10,000 - 20,000 are considered in the protocol a normal daily supplement for adults with vitamin D issues. Dosages above that require medical supervision (in the form of regular blood and urine analysis). Also at those high doses there are potential negative side effects that must be mitigated (osteoporosis being among them). So please don't just YOLO massive doses of vitamin D.
Except that in 2025 Elon Musk promised FSD in 2017. A lot of marketing delivers grandiose claims but Musk's are extraordinarily grandiose & unrealistic even by marketing's hyperbolic norm.
https://git.tricoteuses.fr/tricoteuses/a_propos has the French constitution and others (e.g. "Code Pénal": https://git.tricoteuses.fr/codes/code_penal/commits/branch/m...) under git too.
They have developed a custom tool to automate this: https://git.tricoteuses.fr/logiciels/tricoteuses-legifrance
Thank you for both website btw
> I would have guessed that in the Cultural Revolution the central government destroyed its own capacity to govern, by killing or otherwise losing senior and competent personnel, and lost its legitimacy.

Yeah, more or less. The people were inspired at the beginning but lost the steam towards the end. Many researchers believe the Cultural Revolution only lasted about 3 years, from 1966 to 1969, and definitely ended when Lin Biao was killed in the plane crash.

> After, what I've read of Deng Xiaopeng's reforms was that they opened up the economy, starting by privatizing agriculture in some ways, and continuing by privatizing much of the economy and spurring capitalism. And of course eliminating many of Mao's / Gang of Four's economically destructive policies was the lowest-hanging fruit.

I think it's a bit more complicated than that. The Gang of Four did have a plan to open up the economy, not from Shenzhen, but from Shanghai, as late as 1975. And Mao did normalize the relationship with the US in 1972, which paved the way for any opening up afterwards. People also argued that the Gang of Four was not entirely against opening up the economy or allowing some private elements, while some colleagues of Deng were actually more "conservative". So I guess it was not a question of whether China should open up, but the questions of who should do it and how to do it.

> I don't recall reading about devolving power to provincial government as a cause of economic growth.

The central government relaxed ideological constraints, regulations and kept their eyes looking to the other way, so that local governments can do whatever they wanted. Basically everyone wanted to get rich, and get rich really fast. Many elder politicians and military leaders, removed and shamed during the Cultural Revolution, managed to claw back because of their support during the coup d'etat in 1976 (which was why it went so smoothly), and in turn they were promised immense amount of autonomy.

I wish I could provide more concrete proofs to all I said, but unfortunately a lot of the material was in Mandarin and TBH a lot of them are my guesses and other researchers' guesses.
Seems like they've tried this before with little success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Argentina#...
At my org they are trying to move away from programmer/analyst to sowftware engineer. I told my manager call me what ever you want, just don't call me late to dinner.

As long as it never gets to "grokker" (I've never heard the term "grokker", just saying) . I can not stand the term "grok". I don't know why but it just grates on me
Ai.com Is for Sale at $100M–Could This Be the Biggest Domain Deal?
Yes, I had to pump it through Gemini 3 times before I could really get what he was talking about. He spends the first 3 and half minutes just starting to frame the subject, which I gleaned from reading the transcript. I wonder if this is just his academic background or a long career of billing by the hour. Probably both.
> I don’t recall seeing front page headlines every time an employee leaves another company.

I haven't seen it in quite some time either, but it has been more common during previous downturns. Presumably because everyone is trying to find signals that tech is dead to support their preconceived notions.
NSM Cryptographic Recommendations 2025 [pdf]
> The recommendations give concrete advice about specific algorithms for different use cases, and general advice about how to use cryptography securely.

General overview: https://nsm.no/advice-and-guidance/publications/cryptographi...
Laser weeds have been shown to have important protective effects on the soil and to assist with bee naviagation.
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I once saw someone walking around barefoot in Hell's Kitchen.

"That's a dumb idea," I said to myself.

Minutes later, I saw them walking out of a bodega, using a handful of napkins to staunch the blood coming out of their foot.
I honestly have no idea. I observe it all the time, and note repeatedly everywhere when the discussion comes up, but never had the time to dig into the code and see how that all works.
I remember hearing this about self driving cars.
Land ahoy: leaving the Sea of Nodes
> the reason I heard is "our boss don't want to run such a business" which sounds absurd

Liang gave up the No.1 Chinese hedge fund position to create AGI, he has very good chance to short the entire US share market and pocket some stupid amount of $ when R2 is released, he has pretty much unlimited support from local and central Chinese government. Trying to make some pennies from hosting models is not going to sustain what he enjoys now.
I'm sure I've read somewhere - and it annoys me immensely that I can't recall the source - that SWEs perceive they are more productive with AI, but the measurements say they aren't.
I have two early childhood memories.

I remember a brief moment standing in my crib during the morning. And a dream I had in Pre-K where my pre -k teacher was the moon above me at night. Pretty early memory?
Although I dislike the pricing, OpenAI do sit on some of the best models/processes. o1 Pro mode is a literal beast even compared to newer R1 and Sonnet 3.7. I'm not sure I'd call it 10x better (than R1 specifically) perhaps, but it certainly is better (and slower).
Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down
It states that it doesn’t require major changes because it all happens under the SSH protocol. A new program is needed on the client to sign in and you can already run a custom program on the server to authorize the key.
The lossless audio isn't the real benefit of this, it's the low latency. Current latency is ~100ms over bluetooth and is considered unacceptable for live playback of things (DJ'ing, music, etc). People used this on the Lightning version of the Airpods Max apparently, and it was missing until now on the USB-C version.
i.e. a binary flag or two. as is ISO
Host your own dns resolver. It isn't hard.
> Makes you wonder what we’re working so hard for

You're working for the life you get to live in the hours inbetween that you're not working.

The world judges the guy by being the CEO of Samsung. However he judges his life by what he got on the in between. Hopefully by his standards he lived a full life, loving family, experiences, etc.
Adding on this point, in my research I found blood serum testing to be wildly imprecise.

The conclusion of my study was that we should do more studies where we take regular blood level samples and adjust dosage to achieve a certain average level (near the upper level of the range).

5000IU D3 (D2 is about 1/3-1/2 as effective at raising blood serum levels) is a good starting point.
What Happens If They Sell Chrome?
Just ask the AI to vibe-release it or something.
Trying to reduce complex desicions to "iq" is by itself a marker for a lack of knowledge and a desperate attempt to make yourself feel superior to others.

IQ != intelligence

Anyway, aside from that - if it's not a bubble, there should be a sustainable business model, meaning, one which doesn't lose you ten times the money you make. So, where is it? Which company, besides nvidia, has actually created a sustainable business model based on AI? Where is its moat?

DeepSeek showed us that right now, OpenAI doesn't have any moat to speak of and can be essentially copied. Not exactly great for future profits.
I ended up taking my own path towards small-scale tooling.
I've been using the binaural audio trick through youtube for some years now, particularly the rendered 40hz trick to clear my head.

The insight was that a lot of the noise pulling me off center was coming from built up clenching of muscles around my head and back, and a destabilization of core posture while sitting, leading to shaky leg and such.

The project I built was simply a mixable tone dashboard for different frequencies. Ive been dogfooding it hard, and its my goto to push around my headspace to clear out the noise and make a protected space for work. The easiest litmus for tone choice has just been, 'does this help or hurt'. On my better days its like im giving my brain a massage and I have the most productive times.

https://1ps0.github.io/binaural

A note: i load the file directly from repo when I use it on Firefox, theres an audiocontext policy i havent been able to figure out. Should work great on mobile and elsewhere.
The Jam Cellar Guide to Practicing Aerials (2010)
NoteCards (PARC, 1984)
> Everything in US equities is absolute farce, especially anything that involves Elon Musk. It's all fantasy numbers.

Exactly. Then you would also agree that the entire startup industry, especially these AI startups are beyond overvalued.

What matters is when it all crashes down to reality.
My wife and I both work on and with "AI" tools and have for some time. It sure looks like a hype bubble. The stuff's... OK, in limited ways, but total shit if you start trying to use it to revolutionize anything, even in small ways. This has not meaningfully changed in the last couple years, it looks like the whole approach is just slowly converging on a local maximum that's nowhere near what the hype-meisters (Altman) were "warning" (lying, to hype their product) us about.

It continues to be true that the spaces for which it's best-suited to having a great effect on productivity are harmful ones, like spam and scams.
Skip it, go directly for AGI.com or ASI.com ....
Despite the varying opinions about Apple's App Store policies, I am not sure a super quick path from idea to install is a good approach. The result could be a tsunami of AI generates trash apps obscuring those that have actual utility.