Forget about dating. If you want the AI to be able to send texts from your number, and you own an iPhone, I think your only other choice would be to port your number to Google Voice?
Americans are, adjusted for inflation, literally richer than Americans have ever been at any point in history right now, at every quintile in the income distribution. If that's "far from good" I'm not even sure what that phrase means.
If the point is just that the hedonic treadmill means Americans will continue to be less and less happy as we get more and more wealthy, well, that's the problem we need to fix.
How is that measured? All the anecdotal evidence I’ve ever seen suggests the number of hours you have to work at realistic (especially entry level) wages to afford rent, basic food, and transit to said job is currently higher than it’s ever been as far as I can tell in my lifetime. Rent alone has risen substantially higher than inflation, which seems like it should especially skew the numbers on the low end.
Health care and education are the two that have really outpaced inflation, the trade-off being that basically all durable and consumable goods have run way below inflation.
Inflation is the rate that a whole basket of goods gets more expensive. At least that’s how CPI is calculated and it’s what I meant by it. Since that number is averaged across a bunch of goods and services, there will always be some that increase faster or slower than inflation as a whole.
Yes there are. It is well documented in other countries such as Venezuela or Argentina and some vendors even prefer cryptocurrency because compared to their national currency it is more stable. In addition, there are significant remitance and cross-border payments done in crypto where banking or FX controls make dollars hard to access in countries like Venezuela and certain regions in Africa.
Day-to-day transactions at the street level may not be dominated by crypto or even a majority, but it is a growing nontrivial minority in a lot of places especially emerging markets.
> countries like Venezuela and certain regions in Africa
So approximately none of the world's money and only in the most desperate situations.
I'm all in favor of some kind of vehicle like this, a currency supplemental system that is decentralized and safe. What I don't give a shit about and what is obviously useless are the "usecases" people keep coming up with beyond currency. The absolute #1 best usecase is ticket NFTs - proving you did something on the network to the outside world. As soon as you need to prove to the network something you did on the outside world - 99.99% of the ideas people have - you are back to uselessland.
I think the parent has a valid point. The actual README says "inspired by Apple’s Private Cloud Compute".
I think it's more fair to say it implements the same idea but it is not an opensource implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud the way e.g. minio is an implementation of S3, so the HN title is misleading.
> though I'm curious whether Rust's integer overflow behavior in release builds would have definitely fared better?
Based on the descriptions it's not the integer overflows that are issues themselves, it's that the overflows can lead to later buffer overflows. Rust's default release behavior is indeed to wrap on overflow, but buffer overflow checks will remain by default, so barring the use of unsafe I don't think there would have been corresponding vulnerabilities in Rust.
