skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Bitcoin, Ethereum etc. are, potentially, self-contained, almost complete, final, financial systems.

...for a small village of maybe 1000 people? At the current transaction rate, they could barely handle that. And of course they don't handle disputes, loans, insurance, tech support, legal compliance, KYC and AML, or any other part of a financial system (you're even forgetting that someone needs to design and print the physical cards).

Bitcoin in particular does nothing more than verifying a handful of transactions per second (5? 7?) while consuming more electrical energy than all of the world's regular transaction processing hardware combined, perhaps with the exception of ATMs - which amounts to hundreds of millions of transactions per second, all over the world, in a truly decentralized system.
It's always been more like painting than anything resembling a truthful representation of reality. In fact, the first ever photograph [1] much more closely resembles a painting than anything else, which is ironic.

All advancements have simply given us more control in how painterly we render our photographs, but have never _really_ brought us closer to the truth.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography#/media/...
I have done the math, and the inertia issue is basically a non issue. Humans don’t accelerate hard enough to have any significant impact.

the issue with airless tires though is bot weight, but rolling resistance and handling. Both are much worse. It is going to feel horrible.
I was running actual BeOS. This was a long time ago. :) I think it'd be harder to do that with Haiku in modern times; BeOS had a nascent commercial software market for a fleeting moment, so I had a credible "Works" style office suite (GoBe Productive), a good text editor (Pe), a good GUI mail client (Mail-It), a surprisingly good object/bitmap hybrid graphics editor kind of like the old Macromedia Fireworks (e-Picture), and probably other things I'm forgetting. I think I had an AIM client, for instance. Which also dates this. But it was important then!
While the name suggests you must be high off your bong to make this unconventional move, it may be named after Lenny Bongcloud[1].

1. https://www.chess.com/member/lenny_bongcloud

Edit:

Here is a thread where Chess.com users apparently name the opening after him in 2008: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/the-life-and-times-...
I don't mind public facial recognition so much if it's very limited in scope, and absolutely not networked.

I once lived in a very secure building. When you walked through the lobby, your face would be scanned and a picture of your face, plus your information (name; apartment number; birthday; messages, laundry, and packages waiting; etc.) was displayed on a screen for the doorman to then let you into the elevators.

To me, this is OK. This was back before everything was networked, and every human being on the planet was sold and tabulated, so the information stayed with the doorman's station. When you became a new resident, the building manager took you to the doorman's station to get scanned, so evidently it wasn't even shared within the building.

The problem is that these days once your face data is somewhere, it's everywhere, for people good and bad to use for things good and bad. There is no control.
California’s lockdowns were as effective as a slow speed limit
Facebook Reality Labs: Wrist-based interaction for the next computing platform
Same with Ivermectin ( https://youtu.be/w3u39moxStQ?t=1570 ). There has been a lot of evidence that at least it helps in something against COVID19. But the fact that there's no money to be made form that prevented laboratories from doing real research, leaving us only with anecdotal evidence from several places that have been using it.
YouTube to roll out short-form video service in U.S. to take on TikTok
The weight of your tires is in the worst place for rotational mass. You'll definitely feel it if you're doing city riding between frequent red lights but it could arguably be a benefit if you're cruising for long distances as it'll act like a fly wheel to some extent.
What do you mean by compile time branch predictions?
SQL isn't as portable as people would like. Especially when you're trying to stay high performance as you're dealing with millions of customers. Once you start building for a specific SQL server, it hard to switch to another variant.
> '(3 . 4) is a valid expression in Clojure

True, just not a cons cell. It's a persistentList with three elements: 3, ., and 4.

Clojure has a higher-level basic data-structure than the usual Lisp. In those Lisps cons cells are are nothing more than a two-element record, a few basic operations (CONS, CONSP, CAR, CDR, RPLACA, RPLACD) and a special data syntax for them: ( a . b ). In a typical Lisp, the dot is not a list element, but divides the car from the cdr. Additional there is simpler notation for (a . (b . nil)) in the form of (a b) .
so what's puzzling is that the fatality rate from this complication is so high in Germany (3 of 7) where it's so much lower in the US and UK. Pausing vaccination with the AZ vaccine in Germany doesn't seem like an overreaction. At the very least, reviewing & communicating best practices for detecting and treating this would be in order.
There is a difference between normal post-production (cropping, defining colors, adjusting brightness, removing noise, ...) and adding details that just aren‘t there in the raw image.
covid infections are racist!
> were already there

I really don't think so. Most obviously because those two groups did not even exist as entities most people were conscious of until recently.

> Hate doesn't spring parthenogenically from the void

Of course not. But it sure can be seeded and nurtured, as you note, by actions people take. And far too many people have been taking various actions that look to me as if they are designed, intentionally or not, to seed and nurture hate. And fear, for that matter. Which are not unrelated things: hate and fear are deeply intertwined and beget each other.

> Voicing a disagreement does not require or beget hate.

That is most certainly true. At the same time, a disagreement _can_ be voiced in a way that begets hate, and all too often is (e.g. via attacking the person, not the idea). And suppressing disagreement can absolutely beget hate. I feel like both are on the rise, unfortunately.
Well, you are repeating racist tropes, that why I said that. It is not important to me that you know or believe it yourself. That's up to you.
But did these women have any comorbidities?
I had already tried it in the past; it seems to me an excellent graphics library ... even if, there are few applications.
Either you make fonts or you don't need it
No mentions of the carbon footprint reduction these LED allow:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/research/impact-bartlett/impa...
In the UK in 2005, there were 8.12 million lighting points on the country’s streets using approximately 3.14 TWh of electricity, meaning CO2 emissions of 1.32 megatons. 6.31 million of these lighting points were streetlights.

Bartlett research found that lower levels of brightness are required for white streetlights than for yellow sodium vapour lights. Switching led to energy savings of 30–40%.
Are you dismissing the potential for this to be abused because (we assume) the technology doesn't support mass biometric identification surveillance today? If so, you should know that technology has shown a propensity for rapid evolution.
Most people here got the math wrong... it is not x of 17mil. but X number of cases for women vaccinated with AZ in the age group 20-50.

This kind of thromboses seem to happen mostly to women. While there is no correlation yet found, such kind of thrombosis are until now mostly caused by hormones from for example anti baby bills or other situations where the hormonal balance is not normal.

Most that were vaccinated in the uk with AZ are old people. The cases only happened in countries were AZ was used to vaccinate younger people such as health care workers. While pfizer and moderna were used only for old people. Plans were made to soon start wide spread vaccination using AZ on those below 50.

If the hypothesis holds that women below age 50 have a risk larger than dying from covid to get the brain thrombosis. We might need to give AZ only to men + women older than or younger than N years.
In the US we also play the same game, but call it "Telephone."
Thought the same. Can only imagine the writer is being tongue-in-cheek or aspirational.
If you want to learn more about Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) check out https://todogroup.org/guides/
And that is even a worse problem than in=person surveillance.

The more societal functions are automated, the more ways individuals can be effectively screwed and no one in authority can say anything except "well, you were flagged so you must be guilty".

Until we push back against that as well, and then we run right back into the "They came for..." problem.
Humans wage wars against other humans, because we compete for the same resources.
But fruit flies and giraffes pretty much ignore eachother.
Norwegian experts say

FUCK LOCKDOWNS! FUCK MASKS! FUCK DEMOCRATS!
Yes but coming from a go or rust neophyte to trusting that you've installed correctly from source is probably a higher bar than knowing that you've run a container correctly.
I kind of takes tires for granted in a lot of ways. My assumption was that technology around the "tire" wasn't going to change substantially any time soon and there has to be a number of very good reasons I'm unaware of as to why we accept the risk of blow-out for the remaining benefits of the technology (the article mentions road grip, but yodelshady in the comments mentioning suspension medium explained the reasoning really well).

A lot of thought has been put toward reducing "blow-out" and other risks associated with "rolling around on a balloon". I started looking at "run-flat tires" after having suffered a blow-out on the road at 70MPH on defective (two-day old) tires and experiencing what it really is like to have your life "in God's hands" for twenty long seconds. I was in my car, that time -- had it been a blow-out on my motorcycle...

After some research and discussion with a trusted mechanic, I opted to save $100-or-so/tire[0] and skip the technology. I wanted tires that I wouldn't have to concern myself with the pressure, I was being sold tires that handle a nail pretty well.

Having suffered a blow-out in a car, it's something that's on my mind on my motorcycle. There's just not a lot you can do -- the best tires are designed to prevent the typical causes of this but defects in the tire/chemicals involved can make it impossible to verify that the tire is safe to ride on prior to use for certain defects. Some won't be an issue until the tire has been driven at speed enough for it to reach a certain temperature (that was my issue) and there won't be a scar or bubble on the tire where it's about to fail.

So all of this to say -- this looks like a really excellent thing if they can truly eliminate pressurized air and maintain the performance of a regular tire (while not costing an unrealistic amount -- that's probably tricky). I doubt it would "eliminate the tire" in every application -- it makes sense to start with bikes -- but I'll be an early customer when they have a motorcycle tire replacement. :)

[0] His explanation was that they'll let you get to the shop if you "roll over the business end of a screw". Regular tires are designed to handle punctures gracefully, already. Run flat will do a little better than a regular tire but they blow out, especially if the car doesn't have a pressure monitor because the tires don't appear to be as low as they are, causing the driver to damage the tire rapidly. He also confirmed my suspicion: "It's a pretty safe bet that if the tire has 1,000 miles on it, it won't blow out until after you should have replaced it" -- basically, brand new and really old tires are the ones that just spontaneously "fall apart".
If you love what you are doing, it will give you the drive to keep doing it.

Listen to Naval's podcast about "How to get rich". He knows how to put ideas much better than me.

There are no shortcuts and if I tell you my winning lottery number after claiming the prize, it's not worth anything. Discover how you can provide value in your own unique way.
Apple sued over failure to prevent low-quality copy cat apps
> Fibonacci is not embarrassingly parallel

Just take a look at the code we’re talking about yourself. See the operator a + b between the two recursions? There are zero data or control dependencies between a and b. They can be perfectly distributed, which is why it’s been used as an example here.

Also read the note directed at the 'algorithms police' here https://cilk.mit.edu/programming/ which I think will pre-empt the point you're going to make next.
I've rarely had even anything minor break. I don't know how much of a unicorn this makes me. (I also never had an issue with running MacBook Pros in clamshell mode, which I did literally every day for years, but that's something I used to hear lots of complaints about from others.)
I will take a vaccine once one gains FDA approval. Can't imagine why anyone is surprised a barely tested medication might have some negative side-effects.
SaaS is all over. I can think of 100 SaaS companies by me in Indiana, and I didn't look that hard. I think it's not an Astin niche...
Theydon is a funny old place. Good spot to enter the forest though.
It seems like "Enhance!" is now an actual thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
I bless you my son into the church of the Branch Covidian.
How to reduce cloud costs by 90%? Spot instances and how to use them
I guess some of us quiet liberals should be less quiet then. Hi, I'm in your 1%.
> The only time I use [red light] is if I wake up to step out of the tent and pee

> for actually doing anything it just doesn't provide enough light to see

It sounds from your comment like red light is good enough for collision avoidance. Why else would light be needed from street lights? We all carry phones with flashlights nowadays.
For a second I thought this was going to be about the 101 year old maker of Aplets and Cotlets candy that also just announced they are shutting down https://www.king5.com/article/news/aplets-and-cotlets-closes...
Running at 4GHz, you're going to get tired of existence a lot faster than you would in the physical world.
Bitcoin, at best, does what SWIFT does for the financial system. Comparing it with the entire global financial system is laughable.

For what it is, it consumes ENORMOUS amounts of energy.
This always gets brought up, but if they do that their search revenue goes down. They're locked into competing over the mass market with Chrome, because that's where the money comes from.

How many power users use the default search engine in Firefox and willingly click on Google ads? I think it's safe to say it's a tiny fraction compared to the average user.

How many power users would be willing to fund a specialist browser out of their own pockets? That's a good question, but I don't think we'll have a scenario to find out any time soon.
"Commemorative Coin" would be a better name than NFT, fitting in nicely with the crypto coin nature.
> It may help everyone involved to remember we aren't really talking about humans. It is a a bit of a crazy idea to assume that every species in the universe will all 100% experience the same effects humanity happens to where as they become prosperous, they tend to have fewer children.

It's really not much of a stretch; K strategists generally beat out r strategists in relatively stable conditions, and both intelligence and, with intelligence, increasing technology and prosperity make a wider array of unstable natural conditions more like stable conditions from an evolutionary standpoint through adaptability.

Having more offspring is a trade-off against investing more in each offspring.

A lot of entertaining fiction springs up around premises where things which are fundamentally related are instead treated as orthogonal, so you have spacefaring aliens that want to compete with us for for earthlike planets but are structured like insects despite being human-sized, intelligent, technology advanced, r strategists, but...there's very good reasons that many parts of that are implausible.
Harvard, MIT, BU, BC, Tufts, Brandeis, Northeastern. Brown is an hour and a half away
This is a lot like hg absorb.
https://github.com/quark-zju/timepad/blob/master/assets/hgab... explained `hg absorb` pretty well with good visual.
Excellent points. Also, the vibration issues with multiple heads moving independently are a bit of a nightmare, and ameliorating those nullifies some of the merely-theoretical performance gains. Multi-actuator drives have been tried before not once but multiple times, and they've never lived up to their makers' promises.
>Can I expect non-UI .NET code to port well to Linux

If it wasn't written with tons of pinvoke to win32 or using Windows-only services (like WCF), then sure.

I've been building NET Core applications for Linux and exclusively on Linux for a few years now, mostly using Rider as the IDE. No complaints. I haven't seen any Windows-exclusive libraries worthy of any attention in all that time. Even libraries with tons of native code (like imagemagick) have Linux support.

The official MS tooling is behind what they offer on windows, but it's getting there. You can collect GC and memory dumps

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/dot...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/dot...

traces:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/dot...

and here's the port of the veritable sos tool:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/diagnostics/dot...
"anti baby pills" is an interesting term, here in the U.S. we normally call it "contraceptives". I'm assuming you're in Europe, I know in German it would be "Antibabypillen".
Norwegian experts say AstraZeneca vaccine is behind the deadly blood clots
Another really neat one is Ötzi-Dorf[1] in Austria, a recreation of an ancient village modeled after the items and equipment found on the body of Otzi the Iceman. Very cool to walk around.

[1]https://www.oetzi-dorf.at/gb/
tl;dr; you don't make sense.

Of course a difference in relative reproductive rates needs to be stable for the underlying causes to dominate and in turn affect reproductive rates. That's how evolution works. However, that's not how Human birth rates in different countries and communities work, today.
I just wish Adobe CC wasn't the buggiest piece of software I've ever used.

I've had a number of issues over the years, but my current issue is that when I try to open CC the interface elements all freeze and are unclickable (even though the window is still scrollable – very strange behavior). So I went to uninstall it, but I can't because Photoshop is installed. So I went to uninstall Photoshop, but you guessed it, I can only uninstall PS through CC, which is unresponsive.

Smh.
I have always wondered why we accept the risk of "the thing holding you to the road just falling apart underneath you". I suspected it had to be really good at what it did when it worked but wasn't sure what that is.

So, today I learned what a suspension medium and hysteresis is, but more importantly, why replacing "the tire" with something which eliminates the one safety issue would result in a number of other issues (some of which reduce safety in more serious ways than the risk of blow-out). Thanks for that!
It really doesn't take much experience with kubernetes before it becomes fairly easy. And then using it for trivial things like this isn't a big deal.

My home "server" runs plex, sab, mongo, unifi, and various other things in a single node k8s with a local zfs volume provisioner. The previous revision of this server I'd switched to using docker for everything and was annoyed with the upgrade process with just docker alone. With k8s, I just use :latest for most images and an upgrades happen every time I restart a pod or reboot the machine.

I've been working with k8s since petSets and so this is all NBD to me. Linux had a learning curve too and ya'll got over it.
Ansel Adams answering a similar question https://youtu.be/Ml__B0l9GIs?t=1514
Another open source alternative: https://github.com/minimalchat/client
That works. My habit is to make the fix, commit it as "!fixup whatever", start an interactive rebase, move the fixup commit just after the bad commit (M-↑), press f on the fixup commit to tell rebase to merge it with the bad commit, and run the rebase (C-c C-c). This is pretty much the same method as yours, but committing first means the fixup will still be there if you have to cancel & redo the rebase for some reason, such as unexpected and confusing merge conflicts.
The Alfie Evans case had nothing to do with cost. It was entirely about what was in his best interest. He had a catastrophic and untreatable, progressive, neurodegenerative condition. Death was the only outcome. The argument was whether he'd have a painless death in hospital, or if he'd be made to suffer by transferring him to different hospitals or outside the UK.

Some of the court documents are freely available online.

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2018/308.html

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2018/550.html

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2018/805.html

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2018/818.html

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2018/953.html

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2018/984.html
> I don't believe this, and I don't see how it squares with "the number of hours you can be productive is limited."

If i had to guess, i'd say people don't perform well for 8 hours a day. A significant portion of people's butt-in-chair is just that, a butt in the chair. For sake of discussion, lets say only 5 hours of real work is done during that 8 hour stint.

So i think the real question is does 2 hours of side-work before the 8 hour butt-in-chair impact the 5 hours of primary-work? Because if 3 hours are wasted in your 8 hour butt-in-chair, they _might_ not matter where the waste/mental-breaks/whatever are allocated.

Ie, if you mentally need a break from the 2 hours of work, during your butt-in-chair time, perhaps that's a net-wash with other time-wasting behaviors already taking place.

All hypothetical of course. I do know that i've seen numerous studies about how efficient we actually are over 8 hours of butt-in-chair. It's not pretty.
Bingo.

If you're going to host services as home such as your password manager, set up a WireGuard VPN, you can use a Pi and it'll be perfectly sufficient, leave only the VPN open on the internet, VPN in from your phone, laptop, whatever for anything you need access to, and you don't need to rely on Nextcloud or Bitwarden having vulnerabilities discovered in them.

I was using Nextcloud previously for password sync because my password manager needs WebDAV, it was too much to maintain so I wrote a small server in Golang using the WebDAV library and it sits behind NGINX which handles the auth. I run Minio (S3 compatible) for syncing our family photos from our phones and Folder Sync app on Android. They both run on a VM and write out to a ZFS pool.

I have a Pi 3B+ running Raspbian mounted read-only as a WireGuard VPN for remote access, and we use the official WireGuard app. VPN is always on because we have fast, symmetric fibre, and we don't need to worry about trusting public networks.
"What if aliens live on a different timescale than us, such that blinking their (presumably proverbial) eyes takes centuries? The speed of light suddenly feels a lot faster!"

I think it's reasonable to assume that natural selection wouldn't favor that timescale.

For one, cosmic catastrophies - and resulting extinction events - would be much more often from the perspective of a "slow motion" lifeform.

On the other hand, from the perspective of "super fast living" creatures the universe would appear as a much more peaceful and friendly place.