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I think the headline is pretty misleading and meaningless. The 10% median increase across the city is pretty useless as a statistic. For instance the median by neighborhood is wide…

Well yes, this is an idiosyncratic event, chances are that a bunch of hedge funds have no hedge against stupid! I'm actually more worried about the small businesses that say have a…

BTC/USD is down as we speak 6% around 78k... if anything the riskier the asset the more downside there is

Unfortunately impossible to know because dependent on a bunch of factors that are outside rationality. If the tariffs are scaled back tomorrow, probably the damage would be pretty …

It's scary that there seems to be no off ramp. The massive incompetence of the administration is absolutely appalling. Let suppose they decide to keep the tariffs until the actual …

During my several decades of translating businesses logic into code I never found a test that does not pay back the time spent to write it many times over, they are truly the super…

well being homoiconic and dynamic helps quite a bit... This being said, if you squint a bit and get used to the syntax, c++ variadic templates are just a compile-time lisp (really …

compile c++ code at runtime for instance. Lots of use cases, most obvious one specializing/instantiating dense computational kernels on values only known at runtime... but so many …

valid points, time will tell how well this will work. For the ban lists there are directories they are typically updated by people you trust or are in the circles you care about. O…

Not sure why you think it's necessary, twitter could disappear tomorrow and nobody would be worse off. It's not even a real fight it's more like yelling past each others without an…

significantly less of a problem on bluesky than on twitter. First there is a mass ban which scales well (one can ban entire lists of bots). Two there is no gamed algorithm that bia…

that's the reason, the article also gives as an advice for savers to invest into income producing assets which also produce proportionally more income as inflation rises instead of…

a good case of pump and at some point a dump. The prices are pumped by insiders using pretty heavy leverage to make huge directional bets (just insane from a risk/reward perspectiv…

I found the book a little bit hard as an entry point to the subject, those lectures were very helpful https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhgq-BqyZ7i6IjU82EDzCqgER...

I thought a sense of humor and maybe a little bit of a thick skin would be required if you want to partake into April fools bashing. Who's taking oneself seriously now...

sounds like desperation to become relevant

well, the initial twitter rant was pretty bombastic: "The cat is finally out of the bag – Google relied heavily on @ShareGPT 's data when training Bard. This was also why we took d…

even if true which it does not seem to be the case, the whole thing sounds pretty marginal, in order to train a model that is most likely significantly bigger than 100b parameters,…

https://www.metafilter.com/ way less tech focused though

Technically speaking, as you get closer to maturity, the "time value" of the option goes down towards 0 but options also have intrinsic value and the total value of the option conv…

The technology (preventing double spending) only works if the amount of computational power in the hands of a single agent is always less than 50% (or preferably a little bit less)…

>Taleb's big argument here is that Bitcoin will someday be obsolete and will have a value of 0. Since Bitcoin doesn't generate income or pay dividends, its present value is thus 0.…

Quanta also had a recent article about this: https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-constructor-theory-chiar...

by the same token you could say it's also fundamentally infeasible for Rust to be code safe, otherwise they would not have unsafe code... so in the end it's an article that says no…