skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- At least 5 presidents of 3rd world countries will die

- Much, much stronger ties between central europe and china

- Chia will become top 10 crypto

- DNA manipulation will become much bigger

- Facebook will go into proper decline

- Start of the break up of google ad business from google search business

- A few small EU alternative search engines come up

- Battery as a platform continues accelerating - new mobility form factors, battery grid scale storage

- Marketplaces with more than 2 links in the chain start eroding one of the middle links (primary ad channel will connect direct)

- Cross-border payments will become far easier

- Twitter will bring in a bunch of tools to combat toxicity

- So much travel in summer - hotels will have one of their best years ever

- AirBNB stock will do what tesla stock is doing - driven by reddit WSB kids

- Asia will crack down on scammy crypto companies

- MediaSynthesis will advance further - a major new tool that makes it trivially easy

- Google search results will start becoming way better and super personalised as their data efforts start showing results

- OpenStreetMaps will become a serious-serious contender to Google Maps

- Amazon gets into general purpose search?

- SSDs start dominating, NVME becomes standard for new desktops

- Google focuses far more on local, smaller sites to the detriment of big sites. Many well known brands (e.g tripadvisor) lose traffic

- Pinterest gets investigated for finance-related matters

- SARS viruses become the new normal
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TFA mentions ‘ canisters of tear gas hidden behind a safe’s inner-door plate’. That definitely sounds like an anti-tampering device. If they were simply stored inside the safe, the article would have said that, and the cracker wouldn’t have nearly drilled into them.
It is easy to purify small molecules with a filter. The filter could pose a problem to mRNA or DNA. But if everything in the injection is effectively dead the worst that will typically happen is a bad rash, though in some people the innate immune reaction could kill them.
Talk about a nanny state
I also had a game genie. There was a tendency for the nes to bug out when the gg was in use, but not when it wasn't. The thing is though, the issues started to manifest more and more over time even when the gg wasn't in use. There certainly felt and appeared to be a correlation between the use of the gg and the console not working properly anymore.

That said, I definitely used said Mario cheats and modifiers, also battletoads, and quite a few other games. Flicking through the old glossy paged code manual was always fun - I even bought a couple of games I had previously rented or borrowed based on the extra help the gg could give.
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In the case of Beowulf, that is very not true. We have an excellent idea of what the Anglo Saxon language would have sounded like, in part because it has close living relatives. Anglo Saxon and Old Norse were mutually intelligible. Conveniently, Iceland was settled by the Norsemen in the 9th century. Its geographic isolation contributed heavily to the Icelandic language's slow rate of change -- to the extent that if you can read modern Icelandic, you can read the Norse Sagas from the 12th century in their original! This property of languages whose speakers are physically isolated being extremely conservative is well known to linguists via study of many, many languages. We also have other works written in the Anglo Saxon language, most notably translations of the Bible. This reasonably large textual corpus, combined with a very close, and very conservative, living linguistic relative allows us to have a very good idea of the phonetics of Anglo Saxon.

Saxon poetry does not rhyme in the sense that modern English poetry does. It relies primarily on alliteration and meter, along with initial and approximate rhyme. Were you to listen to it, a recitation of Beowulf would sound more like a chant than a poem.

Saxon poetry also relies heavily on a form of metaphor called a "kenning," in which usually two words, but, sometimes 3 or more, are combined in a non-literal way to replace another word. An example would be to describe a ship as "sæwudu," or "sea wood." Note the phonetic resemblance to modern English, after you take into account the vowel shifts that happened during the middle English period.

If you want to hear it, you can listen to the first few lines here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-_GwoO4xI

While I don't doubt that Saxon poetry could be incredibly boring if you didn't have the proper introduction, I might suggest that, if you didn't, you go back and study its structure before beginning to read the works themselves.
Very few people consider nuclear power as "green". It's better than almost all the alternatives but those arguments don't work with you average citizen any longer so nuclear power is plateaued for the forseeable future in Western nations.
There isn’t at the moment. Curious what part interests you?
From a hydrotechnical perspective, it's a feature not a bug. You do not want sediment going through your turbines. Suspended sediment is a major maintenance issue for run of river hydro plants.
Interesting.

How does this thing solve the "double spend problem" [0].

Without needing network access?

You usually need server communication in electronics payment systems to confirm payment & update account balances. How does Eagle Cash solve this problem?

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/doublespending.asp
I guess nowadays Nintendo would win the case.
> most religions are essentially community construction kits

love this.

What you wrote really resonates with me. Particularly the thinking on geographically-defined communities being important. I feel the full significance of this swap/migration (geographic => web) is not appreciated by most people (neither the builders of modern social networks, nor the participants), and we continue to bricolage our established geographic social networks with internet-based ones at our own peril.

I hate to sound melodramatic, but... increased tendency toward civil strife and failing democracies seems pretty dramatic to me
great post. thank you for the wisdom.
Are you implying that the author of the post I linked to is untrustworthy, because their site also has a post about why it’s good to have a blog? And then something about Covid which has nothing at all to do with this?

Sorry, but this is just unfair insinuation, based on nothing.
You might like Ranger[1]. It's not dired, but has similar rich set of features.

[1]: https://github.com/ranger/ranger
Yes, a spring loaded dial that always went back to 0. No clocks.
Mathematics and politics. Whom else can I remember? Ah! Galois. Do you remember more mathematicians who were also very involved in politics and other subjects which are (mostly) unrelated with maths?
> This method allows soldiers to purchase goods and services at U.S. military posts and canteens, without carrying cash, or manage their personal bank accounts while on deployment or in training. The program reduces the amount of American currency required overseas, reduces theft, saves thousands of man-hours in labor, helps reduce the risk of transporting cash in combat environments, and increases security and convenience for service members.

It also prevents soldiers from being able to trade easily with anyone who isn't an authorized card terminal user.
Care to elaborate on your second point? Doesn't really seem to have been forgotten cries in spring
Oh crumbs! There I was thinking that by obtaining an estimate of the probabilities of the responses of different groups to an employee survey I was applying a bayesian probalistic approach.

I'm going to have to rethink everything now as since it worked and was quite quick (I didn't even sample using MCMC, just brute force pulled permutations) so it was clearly not a bayesian approach, and I am very very far from one of the top 20 (or 200, or 2000 or 20000, maybe 200000?) researchers...
> significant benefit to transferring most of your wealth to a deflationary currency

I'm not familiar with any evidence of that claim, despite my economics education. I suppose the best historical corollary would be gold? If so, I think we can agree that almost no one has adopted that practice. Do you think Bitcoin is different enough than gold such that it would motivate different behavior?

Let's consider the effects of owing tax in the national currency. Retail businesses would owe sales tax in that currency, perhaps paid quarterly. Rather than adding complexity to each sale, they'd probably price goods in the national currency, even if not a legal requirement (which it easily could be). If goods are priced in national currency, it's handy to keep your working capital in that same currency. ... The incentives start to align to keep the bulk of domestic economic activity using the domestic currency.

For comparison, we can look at behavior in countries which make significant use of some foreign currency. For example, in some central American countries, banks make it easy to keep a USD-denomimated bank account. Why do people want USD instead of gold?
Well said. To paraphrase Wade Davis, the question is not hydro or no hydro but where, how much and for whose benefit. Many dams produce very little electricity and can be removed with minimal impact to the cost or carbon intensity of our power supply.

We should not conflate dams that are integral to the power system like Grand Coulee with those that are insignificant.
The DX series is having a bit of a revival: Yamaha's Reface, Korg's Volca, and a few others. The DX are also in demand again: not so long ago I bought a TX7 for around $75, now they sell for $350. The DX100/DX27 is also desired by quite a few, it seems.

There are multiple reasons, I think:
- analog got popular again because bands started using it again when the prices dropped (due to digital tech, of course)
- classic synths are vulnerable, making them decent investement objects, thus pushing the price, and making them more coveted than they deserve
- that left only cheap digital synths for players bands without money, much like the 303, 808 and 909 back in the day (speaking of synths that changed music...)
- which makes them desirable for the trend-followers, like analog 10 years ago.
- the DX series fits better in modern music than something like the early Roland romplers with their super-cheesy sound.
Across all my HN comments I've found there is an optimum level of detail where it sounds like you know what you're talking about, beyond which is too complicated to get many upvotes. The exception is occasionally on HN you get an undisputed expert on something to come in and set the record straight.
I think this is describing early adopters who consistently chose products that eventually fail. Perhaps there is another subgroup of early adopters who consistently choose new products that eventually persist, “harbingers of success.”
Wikipedia says he was a major contributor, but there's a large team other than him.
I don't see any suggestion that Oxford English Dictionary "owes its existence" to him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Earl...
> If it’s easier to find in source, Microsoft probably would have found it.

Umm sir, have you somehow missed seeing the quality of Microsoft products in the last few decades.
You trust the secure element, and if you think that's not enough, you reconcile spending logs and bring the wrath of the federal government on whoever was dumb enough to try.
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heh, oops. yep :)
Funds are stored on the card and loaded from a kiosk.
You must be looking in the wrong places to think Grin is dead. Grin is about to undergo a significant upgrade in its 4th pre-planned hardfork [1] in about 2 weeks, has an active forum [2], and live chat groups [3] in addition to telegram and discord channels, and a weekly newsletter [4].

Meanwhile, Zcash is far from challenging Grin's benefits of lacking a mining tax (recently extended from the original 4 years to 8 years), having a simple long term viable emission, relying on far simpler and better understood cryptography, and an order of magnitude smaller chainsize for the same amount of transactions.

Not to mention that about 99% of all ZCash transactions lack any privacy, and still rely on a trusted setup to prevent hidden inflation.

It seems easier for Grin to reduce input-output linkability and thereby erode ZCash' single remaining benefit.

[1] https://forum.grin.mw/t/grin-v5-0-0-network-upgrade-hard-for...

[2] https://forum.grin.mw/

[3] https://keybase.io/team/grincoin

[4] https://grinnews.substack.com/
I think this is where the conversation starts to get a bit far away from the original topic, which was about how the DX7 changed modern music.

I am also a big fan of electronic music and owned several of the x0x synths, but they're only really recognizable to people who are already into synths. Of course if you play an 808 and 909 next to one another, they don't sound the same. But if you play a random piece of music and ask a casual listener what drum machine it features, I don't think they would be able to tell you. (Unless, perhaps, it's an 808!)

Even something that synth nuts know to be as unique and genre-defining as a TB-303, to the casual listener it isn't distinguishable from an SH-101 or any other analog monosynth. People might know what an acid line sounds like, but they don't tend to have the same kind of ear that musicians do to be able to spot one synth model from the other in the final mix.

When I think about a synth so distinctive and widespread that it changed modern music, I think about something that average people who aren't musicians can identify. The DX7 might have been that, since it was the first synthesizer that really went mass-market. All the synths before that were "niche" instruments, but the DX7 made synth music mainstream, so perhaps it was very identifiable. But then the floodgates opened, so it might only have lasted for a few years.

The 808, though, I think a lot of people still really know and understand what kind of "sound" that is. But I could be wrong.
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I suspect it would be harder to pull off these days without launching chrome headless for example. Opening the page itself wouldn't include images/resources loaded over JS. It would also not work great with image atlases.
Apple's Logic Pro User Guide page on FM Synthesis:

"The DX7, sold from 1983 to 1986, remains the most commercially successful professional-level hardware synthesizer ever made."

https://support.apple.com/guide/logicpro/frequency-modulatio...

How do you get good bells and brass or as punchy bass sounds from subtractive-only synthesis?

"According to Dave Smith, founder of the synthesizer company Sequential, 'The synthesizer market was tiny in the late 70s. No one was selling 50,000 of these things. It wasn't until the Yamaha DX7 came out that a company shipped 100,000-plus synths'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_DX7#cite_note-:7-16
For a little extra inspiration have a look over Look Mum No Computer's projects. He's a little out there but has a deep knowledge and boundless enthusiasm.

https://www.lookmumnocomputer.com/projects
Aren’t those the ripples of theta waves that start to emerge as alpha waves drop while you transition through hypnagogia?

On the other end, as you transition out of sleep to wakefulness, you pass through hypnopompia.

I experience the feeling of these waves also when I meditate.
It’s also perspective. People usually underestimate what doing a little bit of something daily actually accumulates to in a given year. Before you know it, you hit certain thresholds. It can appear overwhelming at first glance to most of us, but it’s really just a total sum of daily progress.

The perspective on this can be the shallow assessment that something is insane, or the wisdom to know it was discipline. Take your pick.
It seems that ubuntu 20.10 groovy gorilla is stuck at 1.43

As a library maintainer I need to make the choice of which version to target.

It's easy to accidently use features of a recent rust version, as you can see in this example:

https://github.com/mkmik/slyce/issues/17

I could work around this issue and pin the rustc version in the CI system to avoid regressions, but is it worth the effort since it's likely that this particular user will eventually depend on another library that uses a feature of >1.43 and thus eventually give in and use rustup? I want to be helpful towards users of my library, but I wonder if the most rational choice is to encourage users to upgrade the toolchain more liberally.
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They rely on the fact that the double spenders are easy to find and punish.
Ok, that's not sovereignty. Sovereignty refers to the highest authority in a territory. Yes, in traditional banking, customers cede control of the money they deposit with the bank to the bank. They do not cede the ownership of that money, which they continue to own. Now, transferring money without making a deposit is possible with any currency, not just BTC. You make it sound like it's a feature of BTC but it's not. It's a feature of the financial industry, whether it provides this particular service.
TFA is about power laws, and how the few contribute much for the many. These extremely prolific contribitors are outside the norm, and obsessive - or "insane", according TFA.

All contribution to society follows such power laws: classical music, scientists, authors, leaders etc. Einstein, Newton, Mozart, Tolstoy.

The surprise here is that social media internet contribution appears grass-roots, egalitarian and norm-representative.
This is an utterly ridiculous statement. Not only is the trillion fold devaluation not at all a reasonable assessment of the situation, the exchange rate only matters at the time of the exchange, not after. That's the point.
Similar to many Mastercard/Visa cards. The electronic chip on the card is capable of actually storing the balance and then syncing it back when it reaches a terminal machine that’s connected to the internet.

In my experience, many (most) chip-card based transport systems for busses or trains (eg tap n go) operates in this offline mode where it only syncs when you go to the kiosk to top it up.

It uses cryptographic methods to securely store and update the balance. The chip itself is an embedded processor.
I have no idea what you're saying or what your point is, because your post is a jumbled mess. I'm not saying this to attack you.
Here is a direct link to download freely the ISL: https://statlearning.com/ISLR%20Seventh%20Printing.pdf
The virus is bad, but humans are worse
Or you just trust people who qualify their statements, moderate they views, and have balanced and nuanced opinions.
Truthfully? There's no good answer, period.

The government needs to be replaced. This is the false promise of bitcoin. As long as the government needs to be replaced you have much bigger problems than the currency. As soon as the government is replaced, you no longer have to worry about the currency.

Bitcoin always has been, and always will be, a solution in search of a problem.

Forget Venezuela for a second and ask yourself how Bitcoin is helping the North Koreans.
There is also `vidir` which is part of `moreutils`:

https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
The theory could be correct in general (dreams are a result of a evolutionary trait that keeps visual circuits active at night) while not apply to you specifically, especially if you are different than most people when it comes to vision/visualizing.
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Hey there! Welcome to ismy.institute.

We are Developing a platform for our college students for getting some basic information.

A information sharing platform for our colleges.

This platform is unique in a way that each and every college will have their unique domains/ sites.

Users can :

Submit their Github projects. These will be highlighted in the projects tab. This will help them to showcase as well as get contributors for their projects.
Write a blog to help their college students to learn and build a new skill.
Create events such as workshops , seminars, hackathons etc.

Homepage : https://ismy.institute

Demo college page : https://nith.ismy.institute/event/mvp-launch-7v20n
It’s a really neat exercise in understanding the ABI. I like it. If you’ve looked at the ABI for your platform, it’s already something you know, but I didn’t “get it” until I read the answer.

Of course, there’s always the whole “this is undefined behavior; here be dragons” disclaimer along with the fact that a good compiler will warn (or error) on incorrect parameter order.
Something similar existed in Belgium from 1995 to 2014 for small payments, called Proton [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(bank_card)
I open a new window to research a specific topic. Then I open up all the links on sub tabs.

This encloses all my research for this subject in one window. Often times I have upwards of 10+ windows opened. Since some of the work spans over several days or weeks.

I also take screenshots of relevant information. Which gets automatically labeled by date and time into a screenshot folder, and sub-sorted into months.
This kind of reports are always interesting, but they ALWAYS miss why they are not following standard control-theory principles.

At this point it is a long time since I finished studying control-theory so I may be missing something obvious.
So security is maintained using violence? Not technology?
Remember the DAO?
I'm glad you found it useful! I wouldn't say Grin is dead, the early years were designed to be tough on the price. There's definitely places where it can improve, especially in the usability. I know that Grin can do a few tricks e.g. accumulate the kernels into a single point after they have been validated, the caveat though is that this does not improve initial sync and a node doing so can't seed new nodes. But it allows for running a fully validating node on a mobile for many years.

Could you explain a bit the Zcash scalability improvements?
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Isn’t that just the app not registering URL handlers with the OS? I’ve clicked YouTube URLs before and it opens the YouTube app.
Czarface Meets Metalface - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQtbkM715fg&list=PLKNFTFe6yx...
Leaving a trade zone will cause issues.

Removing free movement of people is the evil bit.
The distinctions (between all the ways "meme" is used) are addressed pretty well in van Driem's papers and book chapters. In short, Dawkinsian "memes" are a very weakened version, mostly based on rote mimicking and copying. His meme was actually more strongly defined in the prior literature that he borrowed the term from and diluted.

The Leiden hypothesis leans on a harder version, in which memes are quite literally a new strata of life and our minds are co-evolved host organisms that straddle two layers -- a cyborg of biological and semiotic organisms. Our minds might be better conceived as akin to the fertile replication machinery of the biological systems below (ie. DNA polymerase) -- Where the linear packets of information are remixed and recombined after being delivered from the internal and external environment. And if there's some truth there, then it prompts lots of questions (e.g., about what is the most appropriate unit of life at the cultural/linguistic level. Because DNA polymerase is not what we normally consider "alive" -- we consider the aggregate cell alive. etc. etc)
Interesting. Recently my cat's vet (who's also a researcher) told me that the best guess they have is that animals dream about the things they did in the day so they can create long term memories. Wonder if it's the same for humans.
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