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American Prairie Grows Again with 2k+ Acres of Critical Wetland Habitat

americanprairie.org
3 points·by gametorch·4 mesi fa·0 comments

Stablecoin transactions rose to $33T in 2025

bloomberg.com
2 points·by gametorch·6 mesi fa·0 comments

SEC Gives OK to Tokenize Some Stocks in Move to Blockchain

bloomberg.com
2 points·by gametorch·7 mesi fa·0 comments

Bhutan Debuts Gold-Backed Token on Solana

coindesk.com
2 points·by gametorch·7 mesi fa·4 comments

US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales "makes no sense," experts say

arstechnica.com
9 points·by gametorch·7 mesi fa·1 comments

Show HN: Animate Video Game Sprites with Prompts

gametorch.app
1 points·by gametorch·8 mesi fa·0 comments

G4 Severe Geomagnetic Storm Levels Reached

spaceweather.gov
1 points·by gametorch·8 mesi fa·0 comments

Long-Dated Box Spreads: A Better Way to Buy a Home

cboe.com
1 points·by gametorch·9 mesi fa·0 comments

Stablecoin Use for Payments Jumps 70% Since US Regulation

bloomberg.com
3 points·by gametorch·9 mesi fa·0 comments

Dabous Giraffes

en.wikipedia.org
2 points·by gametorch·9 mesi fa·0 comments

CS Colloquium: Exams with More Learning and Less Stress

calendar.colorado.edu
1 points·by gametorch·9 mesi fa·0 comments

FCC kicks off 'Space Month' with vow to fast-track satellite licensing

theregister.com
7 points·by gametorch·9 mesi fa·1 comments

Can We Survive Technology? von Neumann (1955) [pdf]

sseh.uchicago.edu
2 points·by gametorch·10 mesi fa·0 comments

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gametorch
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Talking to a psychotherapist or reading fiction might help you feel more at ease. It's a crazy, contradictory world. I wish you well.
gametorch
·4 mesi fa·discuss
> Tired of doing this alone?

That's some pretty ironic copy xD
gametorch
·5 mesi fa·discuss
It's still debated whether Lenin died of syphilis. It's less wrong to say he died of strokes.
gametorch
·6 mesi fa·discuss
BMAA and domoic acid induce extremely similar symptoms and are certainly on the rise in the water there.

My theory is that this hypothesis is shut down by the fishing industry.
gametorch
·6 mesi fa·discuss
> Any psychotherapist ... tries to create a heavy dependence to their patents, not so chemical but behavioral and psychological, which they call patient bonding.

This world view is extreme, not true, and directly harmful to your mental health.

You should consider talking to a psychotherapist about why you feel that way :^)

In all seriousness, the world is a much more pleasant place when you discard extremist views and accept the good with the bad.
gametorch
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I have a morning routine. Usually I go for a walk and read for an hour before doing anything else. But I almost never eat breakfast. I'm just not hungry in the morning.

By midday I'm on an adventure. Some days, it takes me in a direction where it makes more sense to skip lunch than to stop and have it.

When I'm hungry and it's convenient, I eat. When I'm not, I don't.

It's almost never the case that I'm hungry for a meal three times a day.
gametorch
·7 mesi fa·discuss
> Another thing is one meal days are far easier after you do it couple of times.

It's mind-boggling to me that multiple "one meal" days don't incidentally happen to everyone over the course of a year.

I would think most people have those days where they skip breakfast and lunch due to some or other exigency and only get to eat dinner.
gametorch
·7 mesi fa·discuss
I was talking about gold ETFs.

The blockchain in this context has no bureaucracy, no ability to freeze your assets, and no delays.

Fiat brokerage and banking accounts suffer all those properties.
gametorch
·7 mesi fa·discuss
> What incentive does Bhutan have to cater to foreign investor interests?

Bhutan is actively encouraging foreign investment for obvious reasons. For example, see Gelephu Mindfulness City [1]. The King and his government have published their reasoning.

> Who/what determines the token values? Is it based on market demand for tokens or the market price of gold? If the price of gold increases 50%, are token values guaranteed to follow suit?

Yes. Presumably there is a redemption mechanism, providing arbitrageurs opportunities to close price discrepancies between the token and spot gold for a profit.

> I'm trying to understand the advantage here over ETFs

The vast majority of Earth's population doesn't have access to US-based ETFs. Second, if a significant amount of your assets are already on chain, it's painful to move them back to a fiat-based brokerage account to buy a gold ETF; you risk the whims of an arbitrary bureaucracy, frozen assets and delays over which you have no control.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelephu_Mindfulness_City
gametorch
·7 mesi fa·discuss
You can buy an ETF that wraps spot crypto and get all those guarantees you name in exchange for a small fee.
gametorch
·7 mesi fa·discuss
That's just patently false.

> Importantly, HyperCore does not rely on the crutch of off-chain order books. A core design principle is full decentralization with one consistent order of transactions achieved through HyperBFT consensus.
gametorch
·7 mesi fa·discuss
> HyperCore includes fully onchain perpetual futures and spot order books. Every order, cancel, trade, and liquidation happens transparently with one-block finality inherited from HyperBFT. HyperCore currently supports 200k orders / second, with throughput constantly improving as the node software is further optimized.

Key part:

> fully onchain perpetual futures and spot order books
gametorch
·8 mesi fa·discuss
1 diamond = 1 cent

Prices are about to drop dramatically. Many of the models dropped >80% in price since initial launch. Any time I have a reduction in cost, I pass the savings directly on to users.
gametorch
·8 mesi fa·discuss
https://gametorch.app/sprite-animator

Create video game sprites and animations via prompts.

Pretty excited because I've started to get high volume, repeat customers.
gametorch
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Yes, and this dichotomy has been analyzed by political and economic theorists for centuries and everyone except autocrats and slave owners has agreed that the conditions surrounding the "work_output : labor_cost" jobs you describe are a huge miscarriage of justice and ought to be discarded with the past. Whether that is predicted to occur via bloody revolution or capitalist accelerationism is a matter of your particular economic and philosophical taste. But every ethical human being says we shouldn't treat people like that.
gametorch
·8 mesi fa·discuss
Why do you care?

Basic human decency says your workplace environment should be chill enough to let you take breaks as you, yourself, dictate. If you're underperforming because of it, you're fired. Enforcing a rule as you claim strips the employee of what little respect they have left. To be honest, your suggestion is sickening to me.
gametorch
·9 mesi fa·discuss
https://gametorch.app/sprite-animator

AI sprite animator for 2D video games.
gametorch
·9 mesi fa·discuss
Amazing idea and execution.

If, in the generated notes, you could link back to the original source (timestamp in video, slide number, etc.), I would use this all the time. I love LLMs but when extreme precision matters, like when studying for tests, I would love to be able to quickly reference the original source to verify the information myself.
gametorch
·9 mesi fa·discuss
I'm attempting something similar.

No spine support, but very good, consistent, high quality animations. BYOS (bring your own sprite) is supported.

https://gametorch.app/sprite-animator
gametorch
·10 mesi fa·discuss
ReLU, commonly used in neural networks, is not differentiable at zero but it's still able to be approximated by expressions that are efficiently FHE-evaluable. You don't truly care about differentiability here, if you're being pedantic.

Very insightful comment, though. LLMs run under FHE (or just fully local LLMs) are a great step forwards for mankind. Everyone should have the right to interact with LLMs privately. That is an ideal to strive for.