skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The USSR was absurdly reckless and incompetent.

How did it built the reactors to start with, then? The reality is never that simple. One interesting remark that comes often in the Legasov notes is that military handled these reactors safely, but since reactors of exactly same design were put into civil use, safety culture was not transferred, out of secrecy-induced ignorance.
Well, sure. Without choice there exist models of ZF where those properties hold. Adding choice precludes those models -- i.e., it restricts our axioms in a way which prevents certain kinds of unexpected results.
I really appreciate the details! Out of curiosity, how did you manage to only spend $750 a month to pay for housing, utilities, phone (you mentioned food was free) in south SF Bay Area?
> The idea of existing for eternity is more terrifying to me than anything else I can imagine.

But the presumption here is that the same “time passage” we’re familiar with here, exists there, and pretty much 100% of NDE accounts (depending on whether you believe thousands of witnesses of it constitute credible eyewitness testimony) state that there’s “no time” there or that “time is weird”. Here’s a simple question: Do you think there are immutable aspects to your person? Aspects that have remained unchanged your whole life thus far? Because those are apparently the things that continue on to the next adventure, as it were. And yet, this is supposedly a learning experience of some
sort...
> This is not realistic. Performance doesn't just happen. Within limited constraints, focusing on performance will necessarily imply less feature.

I don’t think this has to be the case. I’ve found that it’s not really that much harder to develop in a language like C++ compared to JS. You can develop the same feature set using better tools and end up with a more performant product (plus you get a typechecker). Performance is a feature, and if you use good tools and a language that enables efficiency without much effort, it doesn’t have to be a fixed cost added on to development.

Writing similar imperative code in C++ as you would in JS with no effort spent on optimizing is almost guaranteed to be much, much more efficient. I guess my point is that to some extent performance vs. more features is a false dichotomy.
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How does this compare with having a Github/Sourcehut like "website" hosted via IPFS? It appears that Git's versioning model might be nicely compatible with IPFS.
Department of Energy study demonstrates carbon capture's potential
"Twenty-four hours a day, prisoners are shackled. Iron chains are tied around their necks, fixed to loose iron blocks that Ӧmir says weigh around eight to ten kilograms, forcing prisoners to always be hunched down. He believes this is just one of the ways in which the camps are designed to instill a submissive posture in prisoners vis-a-vis their captors."

I'm at a loss for words at the barbaric and utterly inhumane treatment towards their citizens. This is insane.
You should ask the Federal Reserve, we essentially have had a zero rate interest policy since 2008. With no incentive to save... buy buy buy all you can! Take out some debt while you are at it.
As a desktop and iOS user (and a member of a younger generation), this doesn’t bother me too much, to be honest. Free software projects might as well take advantage of closed distribution platforms as a revenue source when they’re the only option for distribution, in my opinion. That said, $25 is on the high side, but is that really prohibitive, even for students, or has the history of ingrained low price expectations in the mobile app ecosystem made us more shocked than we should be at a $25 one-time fee? People certainly frequently pay more for subscriptions now.

Regardless of the reason behind it, you’re right, it is admittedly hard to convince a large portion of iOS users that $25 for an app is worth it, which is unfortunate for Anki. But I don’t know if a free version would be worth the trade-offs.
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I have only heard of one good use-case and I have been in fintech for the past 6 years.

Swift GPI allows banks to credit the receiving parties' account in 10 minutes rather than overnight.

It's an example where the existing party (swift) already had accumulated all the trust necessary and the consolidated ledgers were updated overnight.

Swift GPI allows a bank to track any inbound payments and recognize it to clients before it is formally received by the batch process.

In my mind it also sets the only way to successfully launch a blockchain solution... by the incumbents who already have the trust centralized and are interfacing with a very large amount of parties (8k banks in the swift network).

The best solutions in my opinion should come from governments as they often act as notaries often act as trust providers.
Examples here are real-estate titles, assets and potential liens on those.

Hell, we should require the whole federal budget to be spend in crypto-dollars so citizens have full transparency of what happens with their taxes.

Governments that grasp cryptocurrency could remove so much transaction inefficiencies caused by the current registration processes and uncertainties around ownership.

Other potential solutions would be for multinationals their accounting. Their accounting of every subsidiary is in a different system and creating consolidations is usually done periodically (and expensively).

Allowing an open accounting architecture for multinationals could boost innovation and kill companies like SAP who really is the only player in town that can handle the complexities multinationals face.

A company like facebook or google could develop this and open-source it
No, I saw that. I was responding to the immediate parent, not the OP. The comment I was responding to was whether transcoding is an act covered by copyright, and it is.

The OP's comment was different. He was using youtube-dl to download videos uploaded by his own clients, which was fine because they're the copyright owners. Transcoding doesn't generally create a separate copyrighted work because at least for these types of media, the underlying representation of the bits doesn't matter.

Note: this isn't fair use. Fair use is a defense to violating copyright, and a copyright owner can't violate their own copyright ...but if they licensed one or more copyrights to a third party, they could violate the third party's copyrights depending on the terms of that license.
This hasn't really been done, but one possibility is credibly committing to a promise about future product behavior. Imagine a company with a negative reputation for whimsically changing product goals and functionality (cough, Google). Using a blockchain allows the company to commit to a certain set of rules for product logic, regardless of which PMs take over the product 2 years and 4 PSC cycles later.
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Thanks! If there's enough interest, I'd love to look into Android or Windows one day.

I don't have plans of open-sourcing this.
People are totally unequal. Humans are an unequal animal. How this reality can have passed anyone by I do not know.
Probably missing something big here, but that’s the problem I see with all crypto/blockchain/smart contract stuff. They’re supposed to remove the need for trust, but they don’t, they just shift the need along a bit. There always needs to be an element of trust somewhere or it all falls apart.

For blockchain logistics, you have to trust that the information entered is correct in the first place.

For smart contracts, if you don’t trust the legal system or the other party enough to use standard contract law, you still have to trust that they will abide by the contract (and if the legal system is in such poor shape that you don’t trust it, or the transaction is by nature illegal, then the other party has even less incentive to follow the rules).

It’s not possible to create a purely technological solution to what is essentially a people problem. Our entire civilisation is built on trust, our systems are built to reinforce trust and to provide consequences when it’s broken. Things go badly fast when trust fails and no amount of clever sums can change that.
Not exactly what you are talking about but unstoppable domains .crypto are pretty neat how it’s implemented. I wonder could you do CA issues certs for such domains that live on chain at a specific address or is such a concept even needed if it’s on chain.
True. There are also large-format photograph printers that can print an amazing image four feet tall and as wide as you want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durst#Lambda_and_Theta_photogr.... This is what was used to print the image I have.

Somewhat expensive though; best to rent time on one rather than buying your own. https://www.bayinkjet.com/products/durst-lambda-130-used
I'm pretty sure thats exactly how the middle aged dudes when I was a teenager described usenet.
It’s just sad what we humans do to other humans who don’t look like us.

What CCP is doing to Uighurs is pretty close to what the Nazis did to Jews.

But then again, even at home in US, we’re not so different. We have concentration camps and our President encourages it in the name of immigration politics.

We have a long way to go before we can say “humans would make good multi planetary species”.
They mean the diagram is useless, and quite possibly wrong. What is going on with zsh??
Hmm, I'm not quite sure what you're trying to ask.

In the aforementioned case, the pickup time in known, so all that matters is that the photos are timestamped before or at pickup time. We don't worry about 51% attacks because we use the Stellar blockchain, also used by Franklin Templeton investments and IBM and Keybase... The chance of a 51% attack going unnoticed is virtually zero.

The ledger is public, and anyone can view the history of the ledger using Stellar's API (a hosted version is available at https://horizon.stellar.org) or a blockchain explorer like https://stellar.expert.

The great thing is that the data is stored on a distributed series of nodes, so no syncing is needed.
The monster we created. You can say all you want about the mistakes and dirty actions of the USA-led world since the end of the second world war, but you're delusional if you think a CCP led world order would be an improvement.
> Maybe it's some sort of existential crisis I'm going through, but I'm starting to ditch many advanced programs/services in favor of simple tools I can fully build and understand myself. YMMV, of course

It isn't just you. A lot of my own energy wasted on tools and other things that don't really help you solve problems.
Just make sure you don't go full Duolingo...

never go full Duolingo...
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HTML is a typesetting engine. It's not a "UI language" and never has been.

I don't know why would anyone think it's a good choice to do UI apps. The fact we use it on a web is a historical accident and causes a lot of pain and damage to the industry.
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Because it can't be extended so much as the r-pi. Why limit yourself when you don't have to? It's like asking why one would buy a 1TB harddrive when Linux fits in a few GB.
Its probably the patent grant that has their lawyers squeamish.
A general use case is where there's a group of agencies or a group of business partners who may be all reasonably trustworthy but they are in separate trust domains. It can be generally useful for all those entities to have access to a single source of truth that can't be altered without the alteration being obvious.

You can do this by appointing someone as a trusted authority. But, in practice, this has overhead and no one is completely trustworthy at least absent a lot of overhead. You also often have to deal with reconciliation when there are a bunch of different data stores scattered around.

BTW, Hyperledger is the overall foundation of projects. Hyperledger Fabric is the most popular blockchain platform under the foundation. (There are also various libraries and so forth.)
No.

But how are the many other people in the auto supply chain supposed to know that? With this solution, they don't have to trust our company, just the SHA256 hashing algorithm.

Math is easier to trust than a small startup.

Edit: To clarify, many of the people checking against the blockchain record are not our clients.
The current administration appointed a Uighar-American as National Security Council Director of China to advise the president on China issues. However, this appointment was ignored by US media, for reasons we can only speculate. While much of the administration's response to China issues has been characterized as "heavy handed" by the same media, that leadership is responsible for influencing the EU to take a similar approach. There's much of Trump I don't like, but I wholly approve of that administration's actions regarding the whole of China.
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> Linux apt repo ecosystem is at backwards compatibility

That's more an issue with the gnu/Linux userland progression than any package manager
40k patient records stolen, asking for Bitcoin ransom
Not sure what you are implying. Are you saying that we cannot believe this man's testimony?
Thanks for providing these details.

For your Python example I'd just use a snippet. On the other hand, Google's pretty fast and always updated.

It's all a personal trade-off I guess. I wouldn't say it's common for me to forget I knew something. But maybe the cost of creating, maintaining, and reviewing card decks is worth it for you.
DNS! Namecoin (despite its cringe name) is pretty cool, and a marked improvement over DNS.
>targeting many, if not most

Not really. Barely a handful out of 54 minority groups that accounts for ~2% of the population. Most are left alone because most of minorities are already sinicized and "compatible" with broader Chinese society.

> ultimate motivations

This is really simple confluence of two major policy changes.

1. New minority policy, no more minority privileges like family planning exemptions from 2 child policy. Particular focus on mandarin fluency to integrate into broader society. Uyghur, Tibet, Mongolia etc, this is important because 99% of China operates on Mandarin, those who aren't fluent gets left behind. Above minority populations also have large rural populations whose lifestyles (agrarian, herding etc) are being phased out due to new land use policies regarding agriculture (food security). Which means urbanization, so there's also a lot of rural-urban labour transfer programs to up train people, i.e. the entire vocational training west portray as slave labour has been regular program in many provinces for at least 10 years for millions of rural Han.

2. New religion policy, rather _A_ religion policy. There simply was never a proper framework for regulating religion post CCP, leading to all sorts of drama. Not just in terms of prosecution, but illegal temples and other unregulated schemes. Lot's of tomfoolery in explosive growth of Chinese buddhism. Essentially, regulate religion, religion must have Chinese characteristics and conform to socialism.

Not new policy, always relevant.

3. Groups that participate in 3 evils, separatism, terrorism, religious extremism get stomped: Uyghurs, Tibetans, HK, Taiwan when that comes around.

Basically, stop 3 evils, spread mandarin, control religion, vocational training for ultimate development goal: urbanization and better rural land use. This is inevitable byproduct of Chinese population size + land constraints. Mix and match interventions, if you're a very religious, rural Uyghur who speaks no mandarin and have no employable skills, you get everything. If you're a Tibetan herder, you get some mandarin lessons and vocation training. If you're a Mongolia urbnite, make sure your kids know mandarin.
As a leftist, who hates biden AND trump (almost equally) and voted green but almost voted Biden (i'm not in a swing state), I see Trump as a catalyst for change, I wanted him to win to unite people on the left to move more left, and upturn neoliberalism (looks like it's working), however - I'm changing my tune a tiny bit, namely because of covid and how that's going down. I don't think Trump can handle fixing this, and I honestly think we're in over our heads as it is.

We really need UBI, stimulus, healthcare reform, and as much as I hate to say it Biden is the closest we get to that. But, vote who you feel is good and safe, I voted green. I'm not gonna vote shame anyone.

Just when you vote think about all that's coming : Global Warming, Water Wars (already started in Mexico), Droughts, More Fires, Covid, Covid part 2, Income inequality raised a factor or two, joblessness, homelessness for millions, protests, uprisings, etc... Next two decades will make or break us.

TLDR: Trump probably would be best against china, and if that were the only issue facing us, it might be good enough reason to go against the grain, but there's so much shit hitting the fan now, maybe we do need change.
Why not just guard your .bash_profile with something like

if shopt -q login_shell; then
...

and then just pretend it’s the Linux-y way?
What is one good use case for ice cream scoops other than scooping ice cream? One might exist, but the real question is "who is the obsession of killing digital currencies coming from?"
You might learn 95% in two months, but the last 5% might take decades.
One fun thing is that the less you know the more productive you are. So a good strategy is to leave before you learn how horrible your code is, don't stay longer then two years so you don't have to deal with maintainability, performance, scaleability, security, etc.
It doesn't seem like the author fully or directly addressed the title "how to live with dying".

In any case, the quickest shortcut I know of is to take some psilocybin and think about death. With the proper set and setting, dying will feel normal, as it is, just another part of life. Yoga, meditation and breathing are also great ways to achieve that kind of consciousness state.

By the way, probably the biggest issue with dying is that in most western cultures it has become a huge taboo, which is kind of ridiculous given we all are going to die at some point. Death should be something that we accept and welcome, not something that we fear and reject. That doesn't mean we should seek death, just that it is one of the most natural things in life.
Well, that's what I'm saying -- until Congress and some regulation acts to stop it, our habits and desires will fuel this.
i touched upon this topic a couple of times with some chinese i know personally and i'd characterize their attitude as denial mixed with slight islamophobia. propaganda works?
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Wonderful post. I really enjoy the authors other posts as well, would recommend his blog.
Sounds like there might be demand for some certification that looks into the whole supply chain of a company, and can offer levels of “Made in the US” certification, bronze, silver, gold, platinum for 100% end to end. Similarly, it would be great for an estimate and certification of carbon emissions of the supply chain for each product.
Probably because it only serves to hurt their sales.

Amazon has also become almost as bad as Alibaba in allowing counterfeit and knockoff items to be sold openly.
I’ve more often had my cronjobs screwed because they didn’t have the same aliases and PATH variables, rather than have them screwed because there was an alias for « ll ».

The dichotomy between login and non-login environments is source of hours spent debugging, especially for beginner to average developers.
A GitHub repository would provide the same level of guarantees right? Everyone else gets read access - the transporter gets write access. They can't rewrite history, or else it gets caught on a mirror that anyone else is maintaining.

Certificate Transparency gets the same guarantees as well, without using a blockchain.
Cicero talks about how you can get comfortable with the fact that you eventually won’t be around in his On Old Age... he says the key is making a positive, meaningful impact. If you do that, then even if you die, your positive influence lives beyond your own years.

“The actor, for instance, to please his audience need not appear in every act to the very end; it is enough if he is approved in the parts in which he plays; and so it is not necessary for the wise man to stay on this mortal stage to the last fall of the curtain. For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well...

But somehow, my soul was ever on the alert, looking forward to posterity, as if it realized that when it had departed from this life, then at last would it be alive.”

Summary of Cicero’s On Old Age here as well:

https://butwhatfor.substack.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-on-old-ag...
Sorry for nitpicking but it doesn't matter if a host is reliable or not, since they could get hacked (unknowingly) or your download binary could get swapped out on the fly via deep packet inspection.
And for those who linuxgizmos.com is blocking, the same info from an alternative site:

https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/16/pinecube-open-source...
If you actually find yourself falling from a similar height as described in this story, what can you do to maximize your chances of survival? Try to impact feet first? Sideways and cradle head with your arms? TFA says head impact is the main thing that determines who survives and who doesn’t, but other than that no clues as to what to try to do in the situation.
It would be great if they had iOS and iPhone firmware versions.
This is needlessly adversarial. Thinking about your colleagues as assailants and parasites certainly doesn’t help your product development process. Alternative titles include:

“Why everybody sucks but you”
“How to point out problems and suggest vague, empty solutions”
“We asked GPT-3 to write an inane thought leadership piece”