skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That quote was immediately after a quote from Charles Herzfeld, ARPA Director:

> "The ARPANET was not started to create a Command and Control System that would survive a nuclear attack, as many now claim. To build such a system was, clearly, a major military need, but it was not ARPA's mission to do this; in fact, we would have been severely criticized had we tried."

History's complicated, isn't it?

So, we look at other things: Licklider became Program Director at ARPA in 1962 and ARPANET started in 1966 (which is when Lukasik joined as Director of Nuclear Test Detection before becoming A.D. the next year, then Director in 1971). And as Lukasik writes in his paper, the late 1960s were a different funding era than the early 1960s when Herzfeld's "foundling" started.

Recall that the 1968 Mansfield Amendment prohibited military funding of research that lacked "a direct or apparent relationship to specific military function" - far different than the Ruina years where office directors and program managers had significant autonomy and funding authority. An effective ARPA director after the Mansfield Amendment was passed is going to be someone who is good at viewing ARPA projects through that military support lens, yes? Which might be different than the lens used earlier?

Next, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Taylor_(computer_scient... :

> Taylor hoped to build a computer network to connect the ARPA-sponsored projects together, if nothing else, to let him communicate to all of them through one terminal. By June 1966, Taylor had been named director of IPTO; in this capacity, he shepherded the ARPANET project until 1969.[11] Taylor had convinced ARPA director Charles M. Herzfeld to fund a network project earlier in February 1966, and Herzfeld transferred a million dollars from a ballistic missile defense program to Taylor's budget.

It therefore seems very much like collaboration, at the very least, was indeed part of ARPANET's goals when it started in 1966.

FWIW, as Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D Garcia-Swartz point out, at https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.58...

> ARPANET network was one among a myriad of (commercial and non-commercial) networks that developed over that period of time – the integration of these networks into an internet was likely to happen, whether ARPANET existed or not.

They further consider it "Whig history" to think ARPANET plays a critical role in the modern day internet.

And I agree with that assessment.
What working in an Antarctic station taught a researcher about isolation
> Converting soy fields to grazing fields

But why would you do that? Don't cut down forests for soy, and don't cut it down for pasture either. Use existing green grass fields to feed cattle. This can be done in between crop rotations.

> without a serious decrease in worldwide meat consumption

Maybe that's the point?

Eat less (if you want to eat at all) and eat grass-fed. Do cattle even choose to eat soy when they have green grass available?
Apple users may spend more on non-gaming mobile apps by 2024
> The second killer app is NFTs, basically the exchange of art on the chain

Art is probably the worst use-case for NFT. NFT work well for memberships, tickets, virtual land in games, etc. For art, not so much.

It doesn't solve ownership: any one else can "own" the same piece of art, it's only the NFT that is unique. It doesn't solve scarcity: the author can make more copies and wrap them into other NFTs. It doesn't solve authenticity: any one can wrap existing art into an NFT and sell it.

Basically the only thing NFT art solve is anteriority and possibly authorship: you can prove that you made a piece of art before a certain date, and that you published it first.
> The peak sensitivities are closer to green, a different green, and violet.

This is fascinating. My first instinct is to say that the peak of those curves are not as important as where they discriminate best/where they are most different from the other curves - which does seem to give a more clear red, green and blue. But I’m sure it’s not that simple when you take into account how the brain processes these signals.

Would it be possible to create a good color screen using subpixels emitting light at the peak sensitivity frequencies?
It's a distinction that doesn't require the OP to have done any such thing for the distinction to be meaningful. Making a distinction about what is or is not a reasonable inference when someone asks isn't the same thing as accusing them of anything.
> They are typically made to improve profit in some fashion, not to improve human health.

The main goals of GMOs are to increase yield and protect against disease / pests, which is practically the same goal we've had for thousands of years of crop domestication. Take for instance wild pre-domesticated maize vs present day non-GMO maize[1] and you'll see what "natural" crop selection does. Not only do we select for strains that are healthier and with more defenses, we also select strains that give us more bang for buck. Over the years, we've also selected for: texture, size, adaptability to different climates and soil compositions, lower concentration of toxic compounds, etc. Cassava and potatoes, for instance, can be deadly in their "natural" variety, and needed some "help" to get to the varieties we eat today. GMOs are simply the result of applying modern science in combination with what we've learnt from different cultures over thousands of years, to speed this process and hopefully prevent famine and starvation.

I'm not saying all GMOs are good for you, but I just wanted to counter this idea that we don't know what effects GMOs have on us -- we've been eating GMOs for millenia. Edit: I should also strain that I fully support questioning GMOs and holding them to a high standard as a society, especially when the modifications are made for reasons which are to a high degree simply for profit. One example of that would be crops that are engineered to be infertile / yield no seeds.

PS: I'm more concerned about chemical pesticides, especially in the scale at which they're used. Microplastics, heavy metals, soil depletion, etc. Many modern agricultural practices are not good for the environment, objectively speaking. But I wouldn't just blindly lump GMO in the same group just because it's also modern.

1. https://www.newswise.com/articles/tiny-genetic-tweak-unlocke...
lo and behold, the prices are the same.

The restaurants costs haven't changed significantly by just switching to takeaway. Their staff still want the same salary and they still have to by rent on their restaurant premise even if no one is sitting there.
Actually, no, that’s exactly the problem. Directly spending your bitcoin to buy a pizza would trigger a taxable event for the buyer. Enforcement of this might be weak so far, but technically that’s the case.
I can try to make lifestyle changes and see how it impacts my sleep, for example.

Additionally, I can also quite reliably see when my CPAP needs adjusting by my doctor.

The Dreem 2 has two functions I'm rather fond of:

1) It can wake you up in light sleep within a specific timeframe you've set. That made me less groggy and grumpy in the mornings.

2) It can generate pink noise which is said to enhance the quality of your deep sleep (there are a handful of studies about it).

Both features work well for me but I think the pink noise function is not available in the US for some FDA-related terminology reason.
I wonder how rui314's assertion that incremental linking is a poor tradeoff squares with Zig's decision[1] to build its own linker with "in-place binary patching".

I assume part of the difference is that Zig has complete control over its environment, whereas Mold is trying to be a general-purpose linker, but still, I wonder if there's some insight to be gained from crosspollination there.

(like, maybe Mold could have an "--incremental" option with associate documentation explaining that this option is only beneficial if the input object files follow some specific guidelines)

[1] https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-new-relationship-llvm/
you've seen the current biosphere right? I think they have been.
No he does not. He says:

Many heat pumps take heat from the ground to pre-heat (in winter) or pre-cool (in summer) the outside air before sending it to the heat pump but that would have been too expensive for me

The expensive part is laying all the required pipe underground to be able to do this. His heat pump is in place and working, it is how he pre-heats (or cools) the air going into the heat pump that is the issue in play.

The expensive option (digging up and installing underground piping) is what he doesnt use, he uses the cryptocurrency miners to do the pre-heating.
I think he is wrong when he calls his ventilation system a heat pump. The point of the heat pump is to pump the heat from outside.
mold uses only mmap for file IO. Not only input files but also an output file are mapped to memory using mmap(2).
> Or that we cannot cook ourselves with fresh ingredients, ideally grown and sourced locally.

Anecdotally, over the last four years I went from eating pre-packaged ready meals every day to knowing my local butcher and cooking properly, and I feel a thousand times better than I used to.

People ask what future generations will cringe about from our lives today and prepackaged foods, ready meals, and fast-food will be my pick. Zapping a plastic container in a microwave for 3 minutes cannot be good for the food, the container or human eating it.
PineTime open source smartwatch getting there with latest firmware
With InfiniTime 0.13.0 (PineTime firwmare), the PineTime gets closer to becoming a fully functional smartwatch!

We now have HRM, vibration, notifications, games, OTA updates.

The only missing features in my opinion, is the steps counter, and we'll be good!
When I said Data Center can produce electricity I did not mean that it can produce as much or more than it takes in. I thought this obvious enough that it did not have to be said.

But alas, it has to be said.

No, you can't create perpetuum mobile ie. build a machine that given a supply of energy produces as much or even more energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetuum_mobile
Kaggle Kernels Are Turing Complete (2018)
Ah thanks, you reminded me that I want to add a "dump" mode for all notes
Did Germany "get it right" in March? To my eye it looks like it just missed the first wave by chance along with many other countries (Germany is not unique in Europe in having not really experienced a first wave). As we now know lockdowns don't work and have no impact, same for masks, there's no real explanation for Germany's "slow start" beyond random variation.
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/charcoal-trade-is-dest...
Global Forests
> But FB and Google both also serve ads along with the story listing, and they often post enough of the story so that the reader doesn't have to click through to the actual news site.

This is already covered by copyright law and the news sites can tell Google not to index the site and provide less OpenGhaph data for Facebook.
It's amazing, but he went around the coast. I really doubt he could have done it by going through the Red Centre.
It was too expensive to use a ground-preheated heat pump (where like 500m of cable are layed under ground to pre-heat the air). Mine is just sucking it in as-is
But the system can simply be modified to not report the IP.
Texan didn't lose power during the storm. But his electricity bill hit $16.8K
Because every time I wake up after having a dream, I see it being properly registered. Conversely, if I wake up without having dreamt right before waking, then I see that the device didn't register REM.
I'm not sure I can, and I definitely do not want to do that. I'm happy with a separate table and `btree` index on it.
So, absolutely useless for 99.99% of the world.
It is absurd and wrong that this was flagged and dead, so I vouched for it. If people are not allowed to even ask genuine questions about the safety of medical treatments then it will end up with people automatically assuming the worst, which appears to be what's happening in Europe. People must be free to discuss the safety of new vaccine technologies, as with any other new technology. The people who flagged this post and tried to hide it are making the situation worse, not better, and should be ashamed.

The straightforward observation that lockdowns have been constantly moving goalposts and economic shutdowns are now being used to get people to take vaccines is also strongly worthy of discussion. The original justifications were poor (given many decisions prior to 2020 that lockdowns should never be used), but at least understandable. Now? Not so much.
Show HN: GPT-3 resources, examples, and use cases
For Facebook it's not as good as the status quo but is nowhere near a bad as what the government/News Corp/Nine were proposing.
The sooner you start something and start failing. Get yourself into a feedback loop of try/fail/try again/fail less/etc/etc

You can read and research all day long, but that does not build skill.

Test your own ideas by writing and sharing. Hopefully the feedback you get from peers and anons online will be helpful.
Yes, I used my own needs but I am actively looking at similar programs, such as yours.

I am actually contemplating making the notes self-contained, with the tags and title as metadata (in the file)
> I don't mean to imply that I don't trust the device or anything. I'm just saying I have no way to verify how reliable it really is.

Dreem 2, for example, has a few studies to back it up:

> The aim of this study was to assess the signal acquisition and the performance of the automatic sleep staging algorithms of a reduced-montage dry-electroencephalographic (EEG) device (Dreem headband, DH) compared to the gold-standard polysomnography (PSG) scored by five sleep experts.

And the relevant results:

> The algorithm achieved an overall accuracy comparable to human-level performance of 85.76% (N1: 56%, N2: 88%, N3: 85%, REM: 92%, and Wake: 85%).

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/43/11/zsaa097/5841249
I think you've got a much better grip on it than the news publishers.

Just to back that up with evidence as to who gets value from news links on FB. When FB blocked news links, the traffic to AU news sites dropped by from 7% to 9% (according to some estimates), directly affecting their ad businesses. The impact on FB was some bad PR.
we've been eating GMOs for millenia.

That's a little like saying "There's zero difference between traditional animal husbandry and cloning."

Sorry, I think there is a meaningful distinction between traditional human intervention in plant varieties and the more recent intervention called GMO. Most of the world seems to agree that there is a distinction, enough so that we invented new language for what it is we are doing.

Edit in response to your edit:

But I wouldn't just blindly lump GMO in the same group just because it's also modern.

That's an ugly thing to say and it's not far from a personal attack. There's no blindness on my part. I'm not lumping anything in just because it's modern.

I have a genetic disorder and pay enormous attention to the details of my diet because of it. I react poorly to soy products. Research and experience suggest that my firsthand negative experiences with soy may be related to the fact that most soy in the US is GMO.

My views here have nothing at all to do with unfounded assumptions, ridiculous neurotic views of "modern" things or anything of the sort.
TAAL Research Report – February 21st, 2021
because most people dont consume news, they consume headlines

and if you only read the headline, whoever created the content does not get the ad revenue , customer engagement or any other benefit for having created the content
Can you elaborate on why you don’t think it’s a heat pump?

He lists the equipment that he has, and the manufacturer deacribes it as a heat pump [1].

He also includes a photo of a compressor, which is typical of a heat pump.

[1] https://www.nilanuk.com/domestic-solutions/compact-p/
On iOS the Apollo app is truly fantastic. Also one of the best iOS apps I’ve used in general in terms of user experience.
I honestly doubt this - especially if the photo is indicative of his ‘rig’
Just because the house is on fire doesn't mean you let the shed that is on the side burn too. All you're saying is that there's an easy fix to save all that energy by just stopping mining bitcoin.
> The computing-heater warms buildings ecologically and for free, thanks to the waste heat released by embedded microprocessors. By performing complex IT operations...

... which are what, exactly?
What surprises me the most is how Murdoch made the media look like the good guys here, when this was just bluff from someone who still lives in 1999.
Good point you’re making. There seems to be a symbiotic relationship really. News producers do get the short end of the stick though when it comes down to it.

I also think this particular government intervention is not helpful. But something akin to a shared revenue system might be an option?
This was discussed before on HN.

The issue is building consensus protocol (in this case consensus that a transaction happened or did not happen).

There exist no physics law that says that achieving this requires burning extraordinary amounts of energy.
It's hard not to sense that Reddit's at the beginning of a (very long, slow) decline in relevance. Almost every day I see some comment by an "ex-Redditor," "Reddit refugee," etc. on HN and similar sites. Obviously this is not representative of The General Public, but it might be an indicator of where they're going.
Long Blockchain Shares Delisted by SEC
Nice and welcoming introduction to git. Lovely visuals and music.

In the game you get "golden badges" for solving the levels with the commandline rather than the GUI. In a way this sends the message that the commandline is "extra challenging", in a "You have to eat your vegetables" / "Do your math"-kind of way. I can see the point of gently pushing players to use the commandline but if the git CLI is so convenient, powerful and attractive, why the need to push it?
Can one make a new Bitcoin with this, minus the mininig?
I'm in a similar situation, and I'm just using an electric heater... No fancy mining setup.

But I'm also thinking, maybe actually this is for the better? (Not only for the stingy landlord, but for the environment).

I mean, even if a heat pump is much better than an electric heater... Having to heat up only the rooms that need it, instead of kitchen, bathrooms, living room (plus the rooms of other flatmates who might not be bothered) might actually use up less energy total, than using a more efficient mechanism, which otoh would be used for the whole home.
If only search on reddit was fixed...
Thats not how a heat pump works. It doesnt just take warm air from outside and blow it into your house, otherwsie they would be useless in winter.

https://www.jerrykelly.com/blog/how-does-a-heat-pump-work-in...

So this is a heat pump, it its taking heat from outside air, its just that in this case the outside air is first primed by running it via some cryptominers, which makes the heat pump work more efficiently.
Just because the air isn't prewarmed in his original setup, it doesn't mean its no heat pump.
None of that is true. The modelling that predicted "death on a societal scale" has all been disproven long ago. If lockdowns ended tomorrow nothing would happen; they correlated with nothing at all. See most post here for links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224981

Or this post on what happened in Sweden (answer: normal levels of death, COVID not visible when correcting for the impact of 2019):

https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2021/01...

Ending lockdowns requires people understand the true severity of the situation, which is not "no severity" but is also not anywhere near the severity that was predicted. Vaccines won't help: coronaviruses have historically not been solvable with vaccines because they mutate too fast. The constant dramas over whether they work against new variants is indicative of what might be the equilibrium state of the vaccine strategy.
I'm usually surprised when people say they struggled with protein intake. Protein is widely available and eating seeds, pulses, nuts, oats, grains and a load of veggies should get most people to that required ~50g of daily protein intake.
Worst is the lack of attention paid to saved posts, you can only scroll back to latest 1000 until you un-save or offload it you can't view older saved posts
Student debt isn't quite like other debts though, as you're never required to pay instalments if you don't have the means, and iirc you are also never forced to pay instalments that are more than 10% or so of your income.
Anyone interested in using an exporter for saved posts on your reddit account? Mine has a goldmine of stuff from over the years.
There is nothing there but hashing numbers over and over to provably expend some electricity. It isn't wasted, which is constantly repeated but actually false.

It is in fact the core security mechanism - we cannot reverse the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Probably doesn't do much for singularity.

It's the perfect cover for high/hyperinflation though.
I don't buy the idea that certain forms of life are more alive and valuable than others. All life is the same. There are plenty of plants that absolutely do not want us to eat them either. All things need food to survive though. You must consume to continue living. There are other problems with eating meat than concerns about killing a living thing, concerns which are much larger. At the very least we do need to be sure to not cause undue suffering in the process, but there is no living without killing other living things.
The JSON schema ecosystem is a mess. json-schema.org is one thing, openapi is another (it uses an 'extended subset' of json-schema.org, which is another way of saying 'incompatible'), there’s also typeschema, and a bunch of other pet projects.

There is no official JSON schema RFC, there is no official linking between json-schema.org and the JSON RFC. There is no push to make every language that supports JSON to also support a JSON schema system.

Finally, there isn't even a guarantee that all human-readable JSON document specifications can be expressed within a JSON schema in any sensible way.
Can't wait to get targeted adverts in my dreams.
> However I must point out that you shouldn't do this in most circumstances, there are environmentally friendly ways of heating your house.

What aspect do you think could be friendlier to the environment? Rare metals and production emissions in high tech electronics? Or the fact that it's using electricity (as opposed to more isolation)?
The marketing is indeed heavy.

There is a lab behind it investigating how to make a grass-based product that can be used instead of milk even for making cheese. That means getting microorganisms to create the right proteins from ground up grass in a fermentor.

Tips from yeast experts are welcome:

https://thosevegancowboys.com/bountyhunt/
I've been doing this for years. I keep my miners inside though and take a much more lazy approach. In the summer I exhaust the heat outside with 4" dryer conduit. In the winter I redirect the same conduit into the main living area and several rooms near the server room. Saves a ton on my heating bill. A lot of the time I don't even need to run the central heater at all.
Kotlin is better on paper but IMO, only the better choice on Android. I always run into Kotlin tooling issues on "non-android" Java. Stuff like Maven plugins not working. Plus, IDE support is only good in IntelliJ and it's been that way for years so I don't expect it to change.

Kotlin fixes tons of issues in the frankensteined Java 8 of Android. You can use Java 15+ everywhere else and its adopting many features that made Kotlin worth using.

Google is pushing Kotlin so they have control over Android language like Apple does for iPhone. It's just a nice layer over Java in the end since 100% interop is required.