skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a fair take, but what about not refunding the full amount when BTC goes down? That seems very consumer hostile. They should take a symmetrical risk like everybody else.
The site manager of a dedicated FTP client can do more than just save an address.

It can save multiple accounts within the same site, have different IPs and auto rotate, have different profiles about speed limit, thread limit, listing method, encodings, default folder to open on both sides, to name a few.
While I think your idea is substantiated, the semi-automated manner seems worse to me.

IDK why, but being submitted to robotic decisions wakes extreme resistance in me.
What is disappointing is even with newer OS's they seems to ignore exokernels and go straight for older microkernel style architecture, which is 1980's tech
> worlds that are mostly hinted at but poorly developed

This is one of the best qualities of his books. In me those hints trigger my imagination that creates awe inspiring images. I'd hate it if he flooded me with descriptions of everything.

Overdescribed worlds like Warhammer 40000 are uninteresting to me. It's like reading a history book, but fake (not that it makes it any worse).
Very cool! This reminds me a bit of the installation outside UC Berkeley's Free Speech Cafe, where they display the day's issue of about a dozen world newspapers, including one from exactly 100 years ago to the day [1]. (They stopped updating during the pandemic.)

Your project sounds like the perfect piece of technology to add to an installation like this (or to essentially create a new version of it).

[1] https://www.berkeleyside.com/2020/08/07/stop-the-presses-the...
It’s fine it’s a dumb display, I’m just surprised i can’t just make a socket connection and push some packets into the display over lan. It’s not just “server” software, there’s a full legit web app sitting in the middle.
It seems like caffeine alone is an MAOI [1] and that decaf may not have the same effect [2] - very cool, thank you for sharing! I know there's a lot more in coffee too, so I'm looking forward to learning more.

[edit] Found this [3] which I assume is what you were talking about? Which I assume is the reason studies show it can act as an antidepressant [4]. Fascinating!

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23850513/

[2] https://www.jwatch.org/fw108796/2014/05/06/severe-hypertensi...

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16139309/

[4] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/313988#possible-ri...
GPT-3 Bot Posed as a Human on AskReddit for a Week (2020)
Why China is struggling to process its Oscar Nominations haul
Not only is this not some kind of "genius" evil scheme, this is in fact the only way that makes sense at all. If you could buy a Tesla with Bitcoin with a guaranteed refund of the same amount of Bitcoin, you could use it as a financial instrument. Buy a bunch of Teslas for Bitcoin, then if Bitcoin goes up you send them back for Bitcoin refunds, and if Bitcoin goes down you sell the Teslas for dollars instead. Now you can speculate in Bitcoin risk free! Obviously it can't work this way.
What I need from any file browser is usable, helpful search - not the crippled, maybe-we'll-find-it-in-an-hour - that was part of explorer from Vista forward.
> So I wonder how many drones this volcano has eaten so far?

Perhaps it's a good way to deal with our e-waste?
- pay someone

- open source it

- reframe the arch in another example you can share (pull out the important parts and showcase them)

- describe the arch (in some detail) and ask about potential issues

There are different levels to consider design feedback, from overall arch to detailed (appropriate) use of language constructs. Is it maintainable, easy to change, easy to understand?
Well, except for some extreme cases (climate change being one), it seems to work.

Strategic plans involve some rigidity, so they're not without drawbacks.
Short answer: after the revocation of the fairness doctrine, Rush Limbaugh and Roger Ailes/Fox News found a profitable strategy in focusing on a specific demographic and telling them what they want to hear. Fox led the way, and the polarized template took off with Crossfire (on CNN) and further self-sorting by audiences.

(This was content in the embedded video—gestured at in the text.)
I have reMarkable tablet, but I have not installed anything. What is a chance of bricking the device by doing so?
I also found that I can't really write any notes with it as it is not encrypted, so now it is just a - oh irony - a paperweight for me. I should have done more research before buying.
Is it possible to encrypt the notes?
I think she is lamenting the situation. When in a similar situation I would do the same thing, I’m certain. I’m explaining why.

Before the Twitter mobs attacked me I would have been more open mouthed, now I’m aware of how sensitive people are and I try to avoid them feeling uncomfortable so I will choose my words much more carefully.
I should clarify, Proof of Work/Stake for Bitcoin only matters if Bitcoin is actually being used as a trustless and anonymous payment system for regular transactions.

I agree that there are other parts of the full crypto ecosystem that are leveraging blockchain more effectively. I don't know how optimistic I am about them overall, but at the very least on the technology side of things they certainly have a lot more potential to turn into real payment systems than Bitcoin does, and I don't mean to disparage the people working on them.
Note that in the US this is completely wrong and bad advice. And I'd be very surprised if there were a lot of countries where it was substantially different, but I don't know for sure about every country.

It's not "just guesses at this point". The IRS has explicitly stated that cryptocurrencies are taxed as assets and subject to normal capital gains. This means they work like every other asset subject to capital gains. I can't transfer shares of stock to a car dealership, or pay with gold coins, to avoid paying capital gains or people would have been doing this forever. And similarly I can't do it with bitcoin. You definitely owe capital gains on the US dollar purchase value of the car minus your cost basis for the amount of bitcoin spent.

I have to say though, I am in awe in some way at the boldness of your claims. What must be going on in your head to take something that you have no idea about, and then just assume without looking into it even a little bit that nobody else could possibly have any idea about it either, and confidently declare that as fact?
Interesting, thanks for the link! At first blush, my main concern with such a system is tragedy of the commons – without an artificial incentive, it seems likely that people would say "everyone else is running a full node, why do I need to, that will just cost me money". And then boom, everybody does it and you don't have a network anymore.
Quite a few outstanding jazz performers couldn't read music. https://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/2hpzzp/who_are_some_o...

This is not to say the ability to read music somehow hurts your musical abilities. Sometimes thing are simply not that correlated. E.g. having an absolute pitch - does it help to become a great musician/composer? No one knows.
Yes drinking two 12oz Talls at Starbucks every day is not good for your sleep.

Nespresso capsules have 60g for reference.
If they grow up and then turn around, my guess is that their chances of seeing Earth for the first time would be slim.

It does raise a moral argument though for only using robots.
the obvious conclusion then is that even poo is more useful than bitcoins.
The main problem with Consider Phlebas is that a lot of the book feels like a collection of space adventures. These early part of the book feel less sophisticated than latter novels. Yet by the end it becomes pretty great. It is also one of my favorite Culture novel because the Minds ambiguities are less present and the elitism constantly in displays in other novels are at least justified here by the unique morphing capabilities of the protagonist.
I think of "mansplaining" as men giving unsolicited advice rooted in assuming women are just stupid and failing to recognize that things work differently for women, so women can do the same things men do and get different results, which means women do things differently from men and sometimes there seems to be no good means for a woman to do anything.

Kind of like male construction workers can take their shirts off if they get too hot and female construction workers can't. (Real case I read about: Two female construction workers decided to wear bikini tops so they could take their shirts off in the heat and the busty, attractive lady was fired because this was a distraction potentially causing more accidents by the male construction workers. The skinny, flat chested girl wasn't fired because it wasn't literally turning heads when she pulled her shirt off and worked in a bikini top.)
Alright, caffiene = vasoconstriction and exercise means high bpm.

Wouldn't this be a recipe for cardiac arrest?
I get so tired of people equating espresso with high amounts of caffeine. I don't know where that originated... maybe because of the high temp / pressure extraction and the oils making it so much richer?
Genuine question, if you were a man in that situation, what would you do?
Sure, locally, those principles work, because you see and interact with the people often. But on the internet, it doesn't work, that's where I was going with "unscalable", I'm not claiming that you have to ditch "integrity" for something else, most of the large scale human endeavors can't just rely on integrity (on that large scale).
Your point about commoditizing an existing market segment is extremely underrated.

Companies should use open source where the existing solutions are blackbox but also commoditized. If everyone's doing it but keeping their doors closed, you have a chance to create an open standard. If it's successful, all the black box companies have to adapt it and basically have now wasted a bunch of time
It's about the cost of a two year subscription of a reputable newspaper. It would be nice if one of them cut a deal e.g. subscription and a tablet and make PR about being eco-friendly as it will not use paper etc.
Well, this massive million drinker meta-analysis of coffee consumption (high levels, 5 cups a day) shows it significantly improves cardiovascular health. [1]

> A nonlinear association between coffee consumption and CVD risk was observed in this meta-analysis. Moderate coffee consumption was inversely significantly associated with CVD risk, with the lowest CVD risk at 3 to 5 cups per day, and heavy coffee consumption was not associated with elevated CVD risk.

[1] https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circulationaha....
How Much of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Can You Fit on a QR Code?
In a sense you might argue HN culture relishes the destruction of all dogmas. Left or otherwise.
Reminds me of the phenomenon recorded of men avoiding women after the original #metoo thing.

Part of this is that I think that men feel they are walking on egg shells. The kinds of male assertiveness that my wife found attractive when she met me also can leave women who aren't into this assertiveness feeling harassed.

I feel that we need to be clear more about what is "desirable" masculinity it "desirable assertiveness" vs its toxic counterparts. Failure to do this will essentially neuter men over the long term - and it will lead to "men clamming up" or worse, a significant surge in the number of men who "go their own way" be it in the job or at home in their personal life.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/aug/29/men-wom...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/men-are-afraid-to-mentor-f...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellevate/2019/01/09/dear-sir-do...

https://kelainetaylor.medium.com/to-the-men-whose-response-t...
Open source isn't just a label. If the label is a lie and the product is not actually open source, that's a separate issue.

Assuming the product is actually open source, the important question to answer is the same as if it's closed: How do you plan to make money? As to why it's open/closed source, any answer just leads back to "and how will you make money?" Neither licensing model is inherently going to make money.

But I have to agree, an answer like "because 'open source' attracts investors" is a red flag. Investors are the means to an end, not the end itself.
GNCs and other health food stores sell lots of snake oil. I wouldn't be surprised if lots of the stuff on the shelves, or stuff in the stuff on the shelves, does very little, if anything, for fat burning/muscle building.
> Is drinking a 12oz Tall at Starbucks really dropping your jaw?

Yes, absolutely. But I rarely consume caffeine so my experience is very different than yours.

The study used caffeine-naive individuals. That is, people without any caffeine experience or tolerance.

If you give two tall Starbucks coffees to a caffeine naive person, it will definitely cause some notable effects.

Frequent coffee drinkers tend to underestimate the impact of their caffeine tolerance. A seasoned coffee drinker consuming two of the strongest coffees on the market day after day is a different story than caffeine-naive individuals skipping straight to excessive doses of caffeine without any tolerance.
Apart from pricing, how does Togglee compare against LaunchDarkly?
Counterpoint: the investigators used a crossover design, where each participant acts as their own control. Since within-subject variation <<< between-subject variation, this makes the effective sample size much, much higher than it would seem at first. In terms of efficiency, their design’s potentially equivalent to a vanilla parallel-arm trial with close to 100 subjects (or more) in each arm. So, you definitely can obtain solid evidence from N=15 (or less), if your study is carefully designed.

Sample size is only a very small part of the overall methodological picture—design matters too.
Maia Morgestern a fost amenintata cu moartea. comentariile romanilor
That's great until you get your drone stuck up in a tree on a hillside somewhere.
I am surprised given both the similarity even in _name_ and using the a similar practice of creating profiles with an assigned value from public profiles on social media sites that this is not drawing more comparisons with Klout. Has Klout been dead _that_ long? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klout
Side note: it's bizarre to me that Fox News gets a pass on being part of "the media". The article says that "73 percent of Republicans say news media don't understand people like them." But Fox News has been the most-watched news source in the United States for nearly two decades!
Purslane, at least, is extremely easy to grow. It can actually become a weed in some circumstances.

Quite tasty. I haven't grown it for a few years, but it's on my seed list now. Thanks for the reminder!
Oh, you reminded me of quince jam. That used to be my favorite. I haven't seen any for over a decade, quince trees used to be common in my home country, but they fell out of favour for some reason and very few people grow them anymore.

Quince jam and quince juice were great.
In what situation?
I'm not sure how is this relevant. Would you really buy a Tesla with BTC, when you can buy it with USD? If I give you 10 BTC today, you'd hoard them or go on a spending spree?
You can’t make this argument and also make the argument that free healthcare is not a financial benefit. If US citizens pay twice as much as Canadian citizens, why can’t I argue that Medicaid is twice as valuable?
American films have not experienced an absolute decline in China. It's just their relative share have declined as Chinese films have improved from bad to passable.

King Kong vs Godzilla is projected to do $166 million[1].

[1]https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2564993/godzilla-vs-kongs-c...
If you enjoyed The Martian, you might also enjoy the Diary of a Murderbot series. Neither of them are particularly positive, but the humor in them really does it for me.
This is a really great piece. While it's unfortunate this phenomenon occurs, in a way it's also an opportunity for the many talented female VCs in the industry. I hope they capitalize on it!
scalable how? define scalable
Logging in as the user loads the user's shell, shell config files etc. As that user. Only then you can go to being root... if you can.

As for keys, they're fine if you only ever use the same machine. Which may not happen in an emergency.
I guess there's going to be a calibration period. The pendulum was stuck, it's started swinging, and the first few swings are completely out of whack. We'll get there, eventually.
The evidence at this time is largely circumstantial:

i) Mr. Stallman's job was to raise money for the FSF.

ii) Mr. Stallman's friend and possible mentor was accused of sexual misconduct involving an underage girl who was allegedly being trafficked by Mr. Epstein on "Pedophile Isle."

iii) Mr. Stallman's statements appear more designed to justify and rationalize Mr. Epstein's sexual abuse of underage girls than to defend the reputation of his friend and possible mentor Mr. Minsky against accusations that he presumably wanted to believe were false.

iv) Mr. Stallman was presumably aware of Mr. Epstein's donations to Harvard and the reason why he was making them given the accusations that had been leveled against Mr. Epstein in the press through articles like this one:

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/us/03epstein.html

v) Mr. Stallman presumably knows that he is a public figure who is recognized around the globe for his lifelong contribution to the free software movement, and that any statements which he makes in support of Mr. Epstein personally, or in defense of his alleged illegal behavior, could be seized upon by attorneys like Mr. Dershowitz to help Mr. Epstein negotiate his next "sweetheart deal," much like Mr. Epstein's "CIA connection" was used to bamboozle federal prosecutors for the first deal.

Regarding this last bullet point, do realize that this was exactly what Mr. Reif was doing for Mr. Epstein when he handed him that personally signed thank-you note that has caused so much public outcry and calls for his resignation.

By the way, Reif's thank-you note is also eerily similar to what happened here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/world/europe/gabriel-matz...

Note that in this case, pedophile prize-winning author Gabriel Matzneff received his "thank-you" note not from the president of MIT, but from the former president of France!

Matzneff openly bragged about taking multiple eight year-old boys to bed that he picked up at a shopping plaza in the Philippines so that he could enjoy sexually abusing them all at the same time, to only then celebrate it in one of his most despicable novels, and like Epstein, he also managed to evade prosecution for these crimes over the course of several decades, because he had his set of "protectors" sitting in powerful places too.

So Stallman should think about answering his critics at the appropriate time, because it sure as hell looks like he was providing "reputation laundering" for Mr. Epstein along with MIT president Rafael Reif, and in the court of public opinion, what Mr. Stallman has hopefully learned by now is that circumstantial evidence is often all that's needed to convict.
I live in highly-developed country with socialized healthcare and education. Still, people here are obsessed with inequality too.
I don't see how this contradicts GP points.

The first point is that lack of sleep is associated with increased metabolism (increased energy expenditure at rest).

The second point is that the apparent link between weight gain and sleep deprivation could be explained by involontary caloric intake increase.
Busy train stations should have DAS antennas to support the high density of devices.
"Java" is probably not a good name for a cryptocurrency either.

Why did they name that cryptocurrency "Ada"?
86 Mac Plus vs. 07 AMD DualCore. You Won't Believe Who Wins (2007)
There's many things at play with caffeine. You have increased heart rate and bp, increased concentration/focus, appetite suppression, etc.. I don't think you can point to one effect and say 'this is the one that makes the difference' in a cause and effect kind of way. They are all too related. I personally don't think it matters in this study. You would need another study to pinpoint factors down even more I suppose.
I don't think this is surprising. You can't expect to constantly lambast an entire nation of people and still expect them to treat you favourably. That's not how humans work.
So Norway is the most developed country in the world? http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/latest-human-development-inde...

I doubt it.
I absolutely love the treatment of artificial consciousness in Star Trek (Voyager especially I think). It's so wonderfully obliviously callous. They create consciousness for entertainment and work. Treat it kindly then destroy it without remorse or consideration.

From the point of view of Culture that considers moral implications of simulating people in too much detail Star Trek federation would be completely barbaric.
> It also gives you a common vocabulary and framework for talking about musical and instrument techniques and common patterns in music.

This right here. Even if you want to play rock music it can help. Guitarists and bassists have tablature, which makes working with each other easy. But tab is foreign to other musicians.

I’ve a background in music theory, so there’s been dozens of times I’ve had to act as translator between guitarist and another musician, explaining that “3rd fret barred shape, to this one” is a GM7 to CM progression. Not because it was impossible to figure out, but having a common language made it that much faster to get to work.
Hackers are capable of thinking through an argument and, at their best, coming up with disruptive and/or unexpected solutions to a situation. This is of course how Bitcoin came to be in the first place.

That's also why hackers may be the first to figure out the catastrophic failure of cryptocurrency, or perhaps ALL cryptocurrency as a class, or the exploit to disrupt the disruptor and render cryptocurrency a useless dead end. It's founded on assumptions both explicit and implicit. One of the implicit ones is that capitalism will continue to be the force that checkmates any argument against crypto: get enough capital into it and the capital will seek to protect itself, honestly or dishonestly, peacefully or violently, with no consideration for any other concern.

Hackers are capable of thinking through that scenario and asking whether, by contrast, something like bitcoin might be the exploit that destroys capitalism by increasing its efficiencies until they're untenable.
This is misleading, why are you using "transactions per block"? that's an incorrect metric, because blocks will get mined regardless of the number of transactions in it (in fact, you can batch WAY more transactions into a block). In the future, when you can account for millions of transactions per block, will you tone down this "bitcoin consumes a lot of energy" rhetoric?

Also, you haven't spoken at all about the other side of the equation. Have you accounted for all the externalities for the other monetary network you are comparing Bitcoin to?
They don't care cause they are not the same people.
It's like how 100% of women complaining about there not being enough girls in STEM, are themselves women who have chosen a non-STEM career.
I’ve heard the argument on the right that the fairness doctrine was in name only, as in it gave the news media monopolistic power while they showed a skewed perspective of what the other side actually believed. Consequently, Rush Limbaugh grow so big so quickly because someone was finally representing this audience