skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Arguing that Trump's success is due to his personal qualities is very controversial.

That never occurred to me. I simply assumed that everyone thought that Trump won the election by somehow being different from the other candidates. I mean, an election is a competition; One would normally assume that a winner had something personally to do with actually winning, you know?

But now that you mention it, it’s clear why it indeed is very controversial to assume this; the popular explanation (in many circles, at least) instead assumes an incompetent Trump and/or external electoral influence, and anything which detracts from this view (including alternative explanations) would therefore obviously be controversial.

I’ll try to not make this unwarranted assumption in the future. It was only an analogy, anyway, and since I have no stake in whether or not Trump has personal qualities, I hope I’ll be able to refrain from ascribing such where not warranted.

Also, good point about the correctness of Adams’ explanation somewhat hinging on itself being successful.
One difference is optimization. Rust's Arc is runtime-only, while Clang's ARC is understood by the compiler and optimizer. This allows eliding balanced mutations, and also weird ABIs - functions which return a +1 object, or functions which accept a +1 object. See Arc#Optimization [1].

More generally there's an ABI. While to Rust "Arc is just another tool", reference counting is deeply pervasive on iOS and macOS. You would not attempt to pass a Rust Arc to C, and expect something useful to happen. But Clang's ARC works well with C, and Swift, and with ObjC and even with ObjC-pre-ARC. This isn't a critique of Rust, just reflecting different priorities.

1: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html#...
> custom cryptography

Just lost me.

> you are only supposed to interact with it by running it and typing commands

So, "the last computer you'll ever need" ... other than my phone, because the last time I wanted to type commands on a phone-sized device, was back when I was wet-dreaming over the Sharp Zaurus.

Given the artificial scarcity of the IDs and the semi-mystical woo describing the proposition, my spidey-sense is telling me some smart people have been busy devising an naivety-magnet, all the better to part people from their money ("buy a planet"...um, ok).
It's technically possible, which makes a good implementation difficult to stop. Look at cryptocurrencies for an example of the struggle governments have to control such things.
The one thing you can find in Japan that you can’t really find in China is used stuff, old stuff, and somethingS that aren’t meant for mass production. Akhibara still has that advantage, plus they mix the electronic work stuff with the computer hardware (in China, these things usually exist in separate buildings, if not districts).
I didn't consider user error because if we apply that objectively we'd have to say that standard fiat currencies don't work because people routinely lose cash to loss, theft, fire, flood, etc.

My point with bitcoin is that bitcoin itself works as advertised. But like gold, directly working with bitcoin requires a good deal of specialist knowledge.

That's why, as with any medium of exchange, you need an infrastructure to manage funds and enable transactions, and the crypto-monkeys are trying to replicate systems that developed over centuries.
I like this approach, it would cover 80-90% of the cases where it would provide value!
The primary way you access any web server is through a browser.

You can access your Urbit server by command line, or by web interface.
Devil's advocate: Can they claim ownership of the 3-d scan and work derived from it? They are the ones that scanned it with that much detail
Do you have any source for that? Otherwise, it’s just as much conjecture as the other claim.
This might help:

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

Apart from adware and malware it offers to block url's falling into other categories like fakenews, social, gambling, and porn.
Toyota's mighty keiretsu system has met its match: digitization
Thanks for this comment! I didn't know about the "--as=boxart" option.

I just made this the default display, with an option to toggle back to "--as_ascii".
Why exactly would one need to subordinate one's self to such bizarre ideologically machinery just to run a device-independent OS? I could run space on the cloud somewhere and log into my server from whatever local system? It's kind of a 1990s model but still.
Hey dev! I had fun playing for a while today, and I saw several players of old playing! And even enjoyed a CTF match =) It was a very nice and nostalgic day!
that is what I thought, looks like some kind of joke but from other comments it is not.
> * Temporary files. You can do all the file operations, and the file disappears on a reboot.

It would be nice to be able to have a process tree own a temporary file, such that when the last process in the tree exits (not necessarily the process which created the file), the file is automatically deleted, rather than having to wait for the next reboot.
Ah thanks. I don't remember ever seeing it.
You don’t, and the article is outdated and “titles” no longer exist.
All I see is ocean and stone images. Please if you are reading this, hire a marketing firm. I am sure you have worked hard on this but I can't understand what your product is. How can that be that you want to be the last computer but most can't even understand first thing about it.
FWIW it hasn't been my experience.

I've spent about 9 years working with a fully remote company. The back channels exist, mostly as video calls in slack, but to me that's no different than a conversation in a quiet corner of the office. You can usually sniff out who talks to who and what the relationships are like.

I find you do have to call people though, if you isolate yourself in a remote company it's probably even more, well, isolating. No one's going to accidentally bump into you.
It's not a bug per se and is designed this way. The ad budgets are calculated on 30 days basis. So if you set the budget to $100 per day, Google will display ads with monthly budget of 100*30 or $3000. The objective is to suck out as much money as possible from the advertiser very quickly.

The only assurance is that your monthly budget won't exceed $3000
Excess is calculated at end of month not daily
I'm not sure how you got your first assumption from the rest of your quotations.

"[the Urbit] "senate" can do whatever they want to my data"

No. The urbit senate can do nothing with your data.

Your server holds your data.
It is not distributed on the block chain.
It is not mirrored by your peers.
No one has any access to your data, except where you give them permission.

Your final quote refers to the power the senate of galaxies has to manage the address space. (currently limited to 4b personal nodes. If scarcity becomes problem, galaxies can vote to increase availability.)
No, I got my copy already in a CD-ROM.
If you like this site, check out (a) 3Blue1Brown's youtube channel for intuitive visualizations of (otherwise) hard math topics, and (b) the book Infinite Powers, for more calculus intuition + history.

Both are outstanding.
> It still does not take away from my main point here, which is that it is still useful for people who are breaking no laws, to be able to get around arbitrary financial censorship of their perfectly legal transactions. That was my main point.

Dramatically more people, indeed the whole world potentially, stand to lose from these countries avoiding sanctions than from the handful of people who can’t currently access their questionable but legal sexual content online.
Absolutely, my updated comment was merely a guard against expected pedantry :)
I can't find that quote by searching the text of the linked article. I was looking for it because I'm skeptical of the claim that Yarvin supports a society with multiple shareholders of political power. I read the archives of Unqualified Reservations when Urbit was first released, and I was left with the impression that Yarvin supported the rule of literally one person. This is the closest quote I've found so far, but I bet there are more specific ones (lacking the however-selected clause which invites without requiring the possibility of multiple stakeholders) in the archive:

> And all organizations, big or small, public or private, military or civilian, are managed best when managed by a single executive. Hence: royalism. However he or she is selected, the title of such an executive, in a sovereign capacity, is King or Queen—or, at least, anything else is a euphemism.

Emphasis his: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2010/02/from-mises-...
What you just wrote needs to be at the top of any marketing related to Urbit. It’s the first thing I’ve read that made me excited about the project.

It also sounds similar to PGP’s web of trust model, which failed horribly. But you mention that you can get paid for renting out your resources. If you can somehow make that dream into a reality, then yes, it could be a big deal. Right now everyone tries to solve this partially: you can get paid to rent out your GPU (vast.ai) or your disk space (filecoin) but you seem to imply a more unified model, where payments can be continuous and effortless based on arbitrary metrics.

The whole “planet” and “galaxy” stuff is just confusing. Sure, metaphors are useful, but a basic explanation of the problem statement and the proposed solution would be better. Your explanation here has been the first time that someone put Urbit into terms that I could concretely go “okay, I see the point.”
To put this more generally: a properly designed API makes is easy and natural to do things right, and difficult (but not impossible) to do things wrong.
As far as I’m aware, there is no custom cryptography, and you can interact with it through a web UI now, not just through commands. Not sure where they got that idea.
there's a ton of vegetables that grow in old climates.
Basically all brassicae grow fine (cabbage, kale, cauliflower, broccoli, chard etc), and if you want to stick to roots you have carrots, beetroots, turnip, parsnip, radishes, chervil, onion, rutabaga, jerusalem artichokes etc.
And beans preserve well.

I would bet the persistence of meat and potatoes is due to the higher amount of calories they provide, which historically made more sense as the productive capacity of the country was lower, and while it'd probably be ok to eat greenhouse tomatoes now, it just takes time to change habits.
In Switzerland you can get 10Gbps down/1 Gbps up for $50 and you get an Apple TV, a TV subscription and a landline phone number.
Train it on content that you know was produced by someone, then unleash it on the rest of the internet to find content that they wrote anonymously.
The words changed from feudal to stellar. The concept is the same.
There is already a site like this... that I used years ago ... https://namechk.com/

And no installation needed.
You're right. I misinterpreted. People can buy power, but not of the more serious kind I thought initially. Thanks for the correction.
Is this some kind of crypto cult?
That's a bit cynical, I think. The address space has had a few "official" rationales because it serves a handful of duties at the same time; again, explaining a system is different than explaining a product, but pitching a system as a product is difficult. You often end up framing the system-as-product a specific way each time.

> Urbit is a friendly network: a network on which you can assume that a stranger is nice until proven nasty. Friendliness is a direct consequence of scarce, individually owned identities. We're not changing human nature, just creating the right economic incentives.

> Most forms of network abuse are "Sybil attacks": they rely on an infinite supply of fresh identities. Scarcity makes reputation work. Spam is a business; if the cost of a new planet exceeds the amount of money you can make by spamming from that planet until its reputation is trashed, there will be no spam. [1]

While it's true an intent was selling the parts of the address space Tlon has to fund its development, its business model for consumers going forward isn't really to sell you planets; it's more about bootstrapping the project and offering hosting and support.

For investors, purchasing address space (i.e. a galaxy or star within Tlon's ownership) is a way of investing in an asset that could be a source of income while also having some influence over how the network changes in the future, in the way a stockholder would a company.

Essentially the address space is an attempt to create and maintain ideal incentives for the ICANN-esque players (galaxies), down to the ISP-esque players (stars) and the everyday user (planets), and their devices or additional users (moons) in a way that sustains the entire network.

[1] https://urbit.org/blog/the-urbit-address-space/
To be fair, Hurd was also a joke... in the end.
sorry I don't get it: what is Slovenia a counterexample of?
It seems to be a fairly wealthy country now, with a market economy and liberalised services.
I disagree completely. Regular caloric restriction has its place, exercise has its place, and intermittent fasting has its place.

My wife and I are long distance hikers. That means carrying 10-15kg up and down mountains for 10-14 hours per day every day for 3-6 months.

It also means literally counting every calorie--because you have to plan it in week-long intervals and also optimize it for minimal weight and sufficient nutrients.

Sounds like a perfect recipe for weight loss right? Enter 'hiker hunger.'

Appetite is completely elastic. Your ability to perform depends on your brain's ability to produce happy endorphins and satisfaction signals etc.

That's where intermittent fasting is crucial. You exercise your body's regulatory functions. It's not just some belief or willpower or placebo I mean: at a chemical level you transform the function of your neurochemistry to improve your metabolic process.
US 50 states redrawn as equal population (2012)
Sounds like you want to self-host google xD
Honestly feel like most software we use fits this description. Programming languages, libraries, operating systems, drivers. Feels like you’d have a harder time naming software that doesn’t fit this description than that which does.
That usage reminds me of the now old visual password shape/color demos that let you know you typed your password correctly when it matches your expectations. I don't think it caught on anywhere though.
It's a big industry. In a long career in consulting and contracting, I've never come across anything like your description.
This is the context for Heart of Darkness by Conrad,
which was the basis of the Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness
Nah, the point is definitely not to create a Git clone. They're developing their own system designed around a more centralized structure than Git (closer to CVS/SVN), but remaining compatible with Git on disk.
I had the same problem on the AT.

But, yknow, HYOH
I accidentally omitted a newline between the quote and my commentary, and it's too late to edit now.

The Verge: "In one design sketch for Urbit ... has reserved 32 duchies for his exclusive personal benefit."

Me: "The founder is an alt-right philosopher... are shareholders and have voting rights."

If you search for the first sentence of the quote you'll find it.
Right after you explain why it’s fair for an investor to take on all the risk and get no reward.
I have a hard time following that line of argument. I'd think much of the C code has been written a quarter century ago "for speed". Computers are orders of magnitudes faster these days, so we can waste a few cycles here and there. I wouldn't think it sensible to require Emacs to be fluid on computers slower than e.g. an original Raspberry Pi, which is much faster than the early Unix workstations the C code was written for.

Said that, while I personally might prefer an efficient implementation of a well documented and standardized variant of Lisp, Emacs Lisp is arguably easier to learn and more appealing to those who just want to customize the editor, which I'd presume it the vast majority of users.
Milton Friedman won a Nobel prize. He didn't like central banks at all.
I feel like the bigger problem than the electoral college is the senate. I think it’s pretty crazy California and Texas have the same number of senate votes as Rhode Island. It made sense at the time and we do have a house to nominally balance that out. But nowadays it just makes some people’s votes count for a lot more than others.
Employproof.org Launched
Ah. I assumed a Server OS was an OS to run servers, not a server that exposes an OS. Thanks for the clarification!
Everything not curative.
I think you read it wrong. The time to throttle is the time it took to go to 1GHz for the first time. The load is applied for 600s and then disabled, at which point the CPU goes to 600MHz due to lack of work.
And a couple of commercial AOT compilers since around 2000.

Additionally all modern JVM implementations have a JIT cache as well.
You actually make way more than that if you are reasonably experienced. If you have 20 years experience your goal should be 400-500k+ total comp (ie actual valuable stock like you get from amazon or microsoft, not worthless future vapor startup stock). I like living here, but no place is perfect for everyone. My house tripled in value, my kids are getting a good education. I wish there was less growth though.
> the long form of the title of the Russian monarch contained its name

the British royals had "Emperor/Empress of India" in their full title until 1948.

Titles don't doesn't mean much.
I second this.

There used to be readily available parts for almost every mobile device out there (some "real" some knockoff), but it's much more limited now. Many buildings that were full or had full service repair/upgrade services are half empty on some floors, and now send things out. Of course, if you're willing to send your phone out you can get things done quickly and cheaply as well, but it's not the same as seeing it in front of you.

It's been very noticeable over the last 3-4 years.
The copying of ancient artifacts predates 3D scanning and printing. The V&A Museum has a huge hall called the Cast Court, which displays 3D reconstructions of statues and architecture made using plaster casts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_Courts_(Victoria_and_Albe...

https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/cast-collection

The most famous copy is probably Michelangelo's David:

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-story-of-michelangelos-da...

But the largest example is from Trajan's Column in Rome, which is so tall it is reproduced in two sections:

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/trajans-column
What are you talking about? Counter example to what?
Implementing pid1 with Rust and async/await
Reddit is the culprit, amp pages don't inherently have such high level logic as this built into them. Reddit chose to make their amp pages behave this way.
Not the work conditions, it's about quota and by-catch management.

The government is rolling out mandatory cameras in areas inhabited by a critically endangered dolphin.
Notarin Motors
Current situation in the sphere of world's car development has pushed us toward the idea of revolutionary type of transport. There are many companies in the world, which tried to create something similar. However, they did not wanted to lead theirs products on the global market. Our goal is to make an air transporting affordable for everyone.
Modern citizens of populous cities in USA are in the need of fast and simple methods of moving around. The gasoline engines should stay in the past. The electrical ones should come to replace it. Tesla Company is going for it on the ground and we must rise up in the air.
We could create gasoline cars for a long time, but they will went old soon and the new type of transport will come to replace them. There is no need in roads and road locations for octocopter. Therefore, there is a huge money economy for the State.
https://notarin.space/
Not even a mention to Krita?
unfortunately other westernized east european mainstream diet moves usually to burger, fried potatoes and pizza and corn.
Everything not curative for a problem that doesn't let you live without treatment is an aberration. Since organ donation is not saving people, but enabling to be dependent on donations every 10 years and immunosuppressants in between (except for cornea transplants), I don't want to enable it.

The much anticipated collapse will apply those sort of rules soon enough anyways.
Use case: this conversation, except between our own computers.

Typically, we 'log in' to 'our accounts' on some company's server and use whatever fuctions the company grants us.
They are not really our accounts in any meaningful way.

If one were to be banned by hackernew(or twitter), she would have no access to her data, social connections, et c.

In the urbit world, any data you have authored and any messages you have received are YOURS. They are forever available on your own server.

It is simply not possible for 3rd parties to ban/delete/control your conversation, when the model is peer to peer.
> Train it on content that you know was produced by someone, then unleash it on the rest of the internet to find content that they wrote anonymously.

I apologies but that's disappointingly vague..
There is a fairly interesting sci-fi story[0] about an ever-increasing world-wide wind, I recommend it, and hope it doesn't go that way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wind_from_Nowhere
It has been labeled crypto-fascism before (but not crypto as in cryptocurrency).
In this week’s tragic story from WaPo, a man who could have chosen a sensible career decides instead to be a freelance journalist and is shocked, shocked to find out that this is a poor finance decision. Adding injury to further injury, in a decade plus of “professional writing” he somehow spends exactly as much as he earns, leaving him without even a measly few hundred bucks in savings to cover a minor (on the timescale of a life) inconvenience, which means that instead of going to get a hotel like a normal person he has to spend several days sleeping in an airport.
A good gc isn't slow. But a naive one that tends to be awful. E.g common problems involve thrashing cache by touching the entire heap regularly.
Thanks for the in-depth response.
No, everyone else in the thread was making a bunch of arguements about how CEOs are overpaid. That is the argument that requires justification.

And the only claims that I make, are in response to other claims. I don't need to make any claims, if you aren't going to make any, because I can just stick with the status quo, merely because it is the status quo.

The burden of proof is on the people who claim that the current status quo, of CEO compensation is for some reason, out of line.

Because unless there is some good reason, it probably isn't, for the sole reason that it is the status quo.

Other people are the ones making the claim here, that the current state of the world is for some reason wrong.

It is perfectly fine, and normal, to assume that the status quo, for an arbitrary issue, is ok, in the absence of evidence that it is bad.

The burden of proof is on the people who are claiming that the status quo is wrong, and needs to be changed.

Why? Because in the vast majority of situations, the status quo is the status quo for a reason. Because if the status quo was wrong, then people would probably find a reason to change it, regarding any arbitrary issue.

So I maintain that the burden of proof is on the people who want to change the status quo, not on the people who want to maintain it.

There are a million different ways that we could change the world, and you have to make an argument for why we should make the change.

And I cannot prove a negative here, as for why there are zero bad things about the status quo.
Nice choice of beach! I would’ve also accepted Rainbow Bay ;)