skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’re just scratching the surface there. So many things can go wrong with the immune system that lead to inflammation.
I find it great, by all means let me pay for something if it means you can use my money to maintain and improve the thing.
Message delay makes this not feasible from Earth, but it may be a pretty good solution for people living on Mars who need to do some outdoor work (construction, mining, etc..) but don't want to deal with space suits and radiation. Sending a robot in their place sounds pretty good.

On the other hand, if AI technology is good enough, you might not need the human operator except for certain complex tasks. Most of the time you might be able to get away with high-level tasks like "dig a hole here" or "load this equipment onto this rover".
Never is very long time...
If we do not destroy ourselves in next 50 years, it is quite certain without any doubt that we will move from Earth.

It does not matter is it 50 or 500 years, technological advances will undoubtedly lead to spread beyond the Earth.
Historically, many things were "never" - until we do otherwise.

I agree with the author that we need to solve problems here first.

EDIT:
For example, atmosphere is not a problem, we can have entire planet living in vast network of underground tunnels, powered by nuclear energy. We already know how to bore tunnels.
In that ways, also, it would be significantly fewer problems with cosmic rays and solar storms.
Anyway, point is, for each problem there will be some solution if we put our minds into it.
Was there a study?
I like it. Good philosophy. Also no need for raw power for my use cases.
Here we go again: looking for "success" cargo-cult signals, now with more "science!" to demand "evidence" from every unscientific/ambiguous/difficult-to-measure area and facet of life and reality, rather than improving fundamentals for increasing chances in something that has a good deal of probability involved. Felix Dennis wrote about this for a good chapter or so in his book with the ironic name: "How to Get Rich." I would consider the words of a billionaire to carry slightly-more weight than those of self-help gurus or thin, soundbite blog posts.

Effort / "working-hard" has no value unless it is effectively directed at something.
https://www.flatkill.org/2020/

Isolation that with gaping holes in it isn't isolation. Most flathub apps have "access to all your information" one way or another.

It's a pain to work with too, and it's dependency management result in outdated and handicapped dependencies (like when upstream base images decided to disable vaapi support in gstreamer).

The slapped on app store is feature creep of an extreme degree, and I suspect that's the biggest part of the agenda: side-stepping distro repos.

If you want to make a good sandboxing solution, make it standalone and don't mix distribution into things. Say, AppImage + bubblewrap.
https://www.aoeu.com/

> It resulted from a typo. I was writing a domain registration system for an ISP and, during some debugging, forgot to use the --no-act command line flag and ended up registering aoeu.com for real. Since it was so easy to type, I kept it.

The letters A O E U are the first four characters of the left hand on a Dvorak keyboard, which is the layout I use.
I certainly scored low. Many sacred cows here, assuming their dispassionate true/false statements are correct.

Didn't alter my political intent one jot, but I'd be lying if I said there are not questions to be thought about in a "confirmation bias" sense.
The article actually makes a plausible argument that humans might never colonize Mars (post-humans might though in a far-off future).
It is a good point, but there are far more hospitable places in the Solar system - Europa, Titan, Saturn's rings, without much of Sun's radiation, more heat and water than Mars can ever dream of. Also a bunch of metals to mine.
1. Embedding of images is pretty much file linking. It can display and let you intract with images inline, but that may not be up to your requirement.

2. Same as above, except playback will require a plugin.

3. Absolutely! Tables are fully supported, with automatic formatting and formulae and lots more. This is one of the strong areas of org-mode.

4. You can get bold, italic, monospaced varieties inline, with minimal markdown-like syntax. If you are asking for rich text mixing two different fonts, then no.

5. Yes! Since everything is stored in text files, you can syc them via any means you deem fit. I personally have multiple Syncthing nodes (desktop, laptop and phones) and it works flawlessly.

>it's the best editor for your specific set of criteria

You are right. Perhaps better description would be org-mode is the worst note-taking tool, except all others.

Why I would deem it best is because after decade of experimenting, I've cone to realise that plaintext is the king. Rich editors with inline images, media and fancy fonts are nice and necessary when you're preparing presentations or impressing someone, but when time comes to actual utility when talking about years upon years of notes and other documents, everything else falls short very quickly.

Images and videos cannot be grepped, searching through formatted documents like Word where search program has rk ignore all the formatting is inherently slow and ultimately inaccurate. Compressing and encrypting and sharing plaintext is a breeze. Plaintext can be read thoroughly or skimmed through as needed. While writing plaintext, I don't have to worry about messing up formatting of whole document by entering right character at wrong place and then fiddling about it for hours.

Rich text is nice for when your notes are small. They are nice to feel. But when you are rummaging about a mountain (which everyone eventually builds up if they document anything seriously), nothing matches sheer speed and utility of plaintext.

Which leaves either dumb text or markdown. Markdown is nice, but org-mode is markdown in steroids. Even the simple act of being able to collapse sections with single key is a huge huge QoL improvement. Then there or org-babel for inline programming like Jupyter, org-roam for back links, org-ref for bibliography, pdf-tools with org roam for inline PDF annotation, and you can still grep everything mentioned here.

Ultimately the purpose of notes (for me, goes without saying) is to preserve and eventually refer to, information. And plaintext, in my personal anecdotal opinion and experience, beats every other medium for storing, transferring, modifying and analyzing information.
Reminds me of a certain “High-Speed Rail to Nowhere” trying to gain traction as a perpetual sink of taxpayers’ money.
A thread on Google's FLoC and how to opt-out of this new tracking method
It seems to me that LNT is definitely wrong, there is a threshold. The question is.. what is that threshold

Coincidentally, my brother was a PhD in Zoology and his doctorate thesis back in the 1960s was whether or not there is a threshold for radiation damage on fruit-flies. His results indicated that there was no threshold. Radiation damage is proportional to the dosage.

Nature, 1961 "Radiosensitive Stages in the Spermatogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster" - Strangio, V. A.

The actual thesis is a bit too technical for my complete understanding.
By "kill" i don't mean "close down", I mean "make stagnate"
The open ponzi-scheme comment is stupid and he knows it. Bitcoin behaves like any scarce asset, such as real estate. There's a limited amount available and price goes up when there are more buyers. Price goes down when there are less buyers. Trading assets on open markets can not be a ponzi. No one is lying to anyone. No one is promising profits to anyone. Bitcoin is very new and that's why the price goes up so fast. As it grows, it will grow slower and slower, until it stabilizes.

It did not fail as a currency. The last year has been huge for bitcoin as a currency, with the opening of Visa and Paypal networks to it, in addition to decentralized solutions. And that's just the beginning. To be really usable as an currency and as an unit of account, the price needs to stabilize first, which takes time.

It's open-source software. That's what's important. Everyone can make improvements. When software is not instantly perfect, can you say that it has failed? Software gets better and better as time goes by.
Which is not "nobody", but it is not even close to the statistical threshold of "enough use, helps prevent the spread of the disease"
Science Museum London has his bits and bobs. Or whitworths. Truing plates, which have to be made in threes and had cut screws and cogs, used to scale up and down the imperfections ladder to the lathe screw thread.

It's an iterative method, perfecting a screw thread.
Pureboot with Ubuntu will work fine. I got Pureboot working on Fedora, which just took some fiddling (and help from the Pureboot Matrix room).
What I’ve noticed: there are lot of incredibly smart and resourceful nerds who could be doing amazing things in the world but instead are pumping currupto all over the internet.
Corona Virus Second Wave
Personally, I gave up on Google Chrome long back and moved to Firefox.

What's your opinion on this new tracking mechanism that Google rolled out?
Or even more importantly the Max Planck Institutes and Helmholz.
Max Planck society is a heavy weight for sure and the co-operation with universities pretty unique as they need each other and are fully public (other than e.g. American private entities like JPL).
The Association of Prescriptive English Supports should be round up and shot.

Forcing an entire peoples to bend to some arbitrary semantics system is social engineering of the worst sort. Who knows what kind of ugliness has been unleashed onto the world- well, we already know. China is a perfect example of an entire culture completely obliterated once its language system was seized, and rewritten to suit the new regime's ends.
On the other hand, isn't it a peer-reviewed journal? If we have to do the legwork of going around asking what other clinicians think of it, it has failed at its mission as a peer-reviewed journal.
Google Public Alerts is being deprecated
Napping in the afternoon can improve memory and alertness – here's why
#4 is rumored to be one of Aaron Franklin’s secrets
> No, that's not true.

That's an interesting but slightly pedantic point. If we continue that line of thinking, if the "end of the dollar" is actually caused by switch to (say) the euro as a currency in our hypothetical world, then the "loss of medium exchange as a loss of wealth" argument no longer holds, but your original mechanism has been destroyed, so I think my point stands.
never seen it not being used (or its ancestor boost::function) when doing consulting, a large amount of large projects used by other projects use it (boost, qt, llvm, eigen, opencv, the VST API, KDE ...). In particular most GUI toolkits have at least an equivalent as it's the only way to store callbacks of different types with an associated arbitrary state (e.g. lambdas)
I don’t know why we should even bother settling on other planets (in the Solar system at least). They only have gravity wells, making the transportation extremely costly, and not much resources. We should build orbital habitats instead, and develop space industry in-place, say, by mining asteroids.
I meant as a company, insure yourself by raising before the crash. A lot of companies did this before the .com and rode it out.

As an individual... dunno I'm not a financial advisor. But BTC's future would seem closely tied to the tech bubble, so I certainly would not see that as a hedge in general. Usually in recessions people run into groceries and other essentials.
That is like listening to advice from Elon Musk, good advice but he always forgets that all the advice is worthless, if your father doesn't have a precious gem mine in Africa .... Bottom line will always be:

"Being born rich, is the only guarantee to succes. Everything else is pure luck."

You are either born rich, or lucky enough to hit the lottery.
I've thought about and looked into this. I heard some brokers actually allow you to custody your bitcoins with them, so basically you're 100% hedged and have 0 margin hit when you execute this pair trade. Additionally, if you can borrow 7:1 on Portfolio Margin for this 5BTC trade for both the long and short side… it becomes a reasonable trade. The question is, can you find a broker that allows you PM on crypto and could custody (or know you have the coins and allow you to HODL the short side in the face of a face-ripper rally of the underlying??).

I've also thought about doing some kind of vol arb - if I can sell calls on some optionable over-priced crypto proxies like MSTR; and then buy calls on presumably more efficient BTC options on futures on CME to neutralize the delta and gamma.

Greyscale also has an offering program for accredited investors that allows you to fund and buy their GBTC shares at NAV and be able to redeem back the shares after 6 months - and capture what used to be 20-40% premium over NAV (https://adventuresincapitalism.com/2020/11/24/why-this-refle...). But I believe that premium returned back to a discount recently. So no edge is not there anymore.

But you're 100% correct, there are so many issues exploiting inefficiencies in crypto despite that it is an emerging market. Exchange risk, risk of self-custody, lack of liquidity in derivatives. Best of luck!
I think you meant Europa? It's amusing to read though with Europe listed as an exotic space destination.
This makes a lot of sense when done well. Researchers need to have full control and quickly change things with the least amount of cognitive overhead for comprehending the engine. For people who know C++ well, it is a minimalistic C++ library with exactly what you need and nothing else. No cross language concerns or bindings, just plain C++.

Using modern c++:

> Modern C++ also obviates the need for tasks like memory management while providing powerful tools for functional programming.

> Flashlight supports doing research in C++ with no need to adjust external fixtures or bindings and no need for adapters to do things like threading, memory mapping, or interoperating with low-level hardware.

Easy integration with other C++ libraries:

> Flashlight makes it trivial to build new low-level computational abstractions. You can cleanly integrate CUDA or OpenCL kernels, Halide AOT pipelines, or other custom C/C++ code with minimal effort.

Customizable with fast build times:

> And when you change Flashlight’s core components, it takes just seconds to rebuild the entire library and its training pipelines, thanks to its minimalist design and freedom from language bindings.
To the crazy ones in Health Care
A smartphone with a fluid lens
But "we" will be something else. Not humans, probably not even biological forms.
> Under the Code, living and working in the Mars Colony is a privilege, not a right.

So just like coming to US on a work visa. You loose your job - you’re out immediately.
Triton is a nitrogen saturated, frozen wasteland colder than Pluto. Perhaps you're thinking of Titan? Titan is also an icy hellscape at nearly -200 C, but you can look forward to an ocean of ammonia once you manage to break through the surface.

Europa has liquid water, but the average surface temperature is still colder than the worst ever recorded on Earth. The speculative oceans you seek would be encased under miles of solid ice, just like Titan's. Europa is likewise catastrophically radioactive.

These places are all extremely small, extremely far away and extremely deadly. They make Mars seem pleasant.
There is not such thing.

Every single thing can lose its value. In addition:

Real estate can be bombed in a war or confiscated[0] and is not mobile for obvious reasons[1].

Gold can be stolen, confiscated - and it happened already more than once.

Companies can go bankrupt.

Items - either productive like machinery or various stores of value like art are not immune.

Cash/bank accounts - well, money printing will get you here.

Cryptocurrency - ridiculously volatile, many exciting dangers, can be stolen remotely with no recourse.

You are looking for an unicorn.

[0] For "real estate will never go down in value" fans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Destroyed_Warsaw,_capital... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:German_Brennkommando-firi...

[1] Fun fact: Polish words for real estate is "nieruchomości", "nonmovables"
> It is impossible to proof either way, unless we would see the full SpaceX financials.

I think we can just sit back and see how SpaceX do, ask ourselves were reusable rockets necessary for that, and it will be enough.

If SpaceX dominate planetary internet, get to the moon, or get to Mars, I reckon we can probably say it was a good call.

It's a credit to HN's contrarianism that the idea of reusable rockets is bad for business, but at some point you have to give in to reality. Perhaps Airbus should start scrapping their planes after every flight to boost their income.
Until there's data, there's no evidence the TV remote turns on the TV.

Until there's data, there's no evidence that hot grills burn my hand if I place it on one.

This is the sort of crap that tries to apply the scientific method like a hammer and seeing nothing but nails.

The absence of data for a plausible relationship doesn't make it impossible, it makes it currently unknown either way. This nuance in the explanations of the limits of current knowledge is often lost on black&white thinking, overly-rational individuals who give the impression something is impossible or unlikely because it is currently unknown.
> Despite this, they chose to bypass Intel when choosing a WiFi chip at the cost of being unable to support modern WiFi standards.

Not sure what you mean. Are you aware of any other WiFi adapters supporting free firmware?
Can martians colonize Mars?
You're right, Europe is relatively hospitable. We should colonize it.
One alternative is to radically terraform Mars with comets and asteroids. It is a violent process that would destroy colonies if they existed. Also, an artificial magnetic field might be possible. Only colonize after terraforming.
I'm not sure I'd call Europa more hospitable. Thing that most people don't know about is that Jupiter throws a huge amount of radiation out, and the surface of Europa is basically a radioactive hell. Yes, if you get under the ice you will probably find a warm water ocean you could build stuff in.....but you still have to somehow get to the moon without exposing yourself to lethal amounts of radiation, and of course get under the surface. And then.....we have a perfectly serviceable ocean on Earth? If you want to build an underwater self sustainable colony, start here.
Right, but you can make a new WhatsApp out of thin air. There is no value in it because you can just make a new one.
True. Bullet is unplayable for me on chess.com because of latency but works really well on lichess.
What's great about Simplenote, is that it's backed by a nice company that seems to be a good steward year in, year out. No unnecessary features, just continued stable maintenance.
GitHub repositories to improve programming skills
Education.
If the tasks look like “we’d like someone to eventually dig out a 3x3 room for an iron smelter across from the mechanic’s workshop,” that’s just Dwarf Fortress minus the booze.
The difference is that the new work is based completely on optical flow (i.e. movement) input, while this one is based on.. something
There's an irony here. It's almost as if the code is a parody of the unwritten one we have in the U.S, albeit more on the nose.

> So a weak elected legeslative body and a strong indirectly elected executive with very few checks on their power.

Weak elected legislative body (Congress) and a strong indirectly elected executive with very few checks on their power (the president).

> Under the Code, living and working in the Mars Colony is a privilege, not a right. All those who come to the Mars Colony will be permitted to stay under a license. That license is revocable. Similarly, all real property is held by the Mars Colony and leased to individuals or companies working in the Colony. Misbehavior results in losing the right to remain within the Colony.

It's a very roundabout way of saying: you can live in the U.S, but we can send you to jail and remove your rights as we wish. Similarly, your assets are tied up as collateral, that will be collected and liquidated if we decide to revoke your rights. Misbehavior is a "Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go" ticket.
interesting, what are your thoughts on modifying our epigenetics via crisper to pulse Yamanaka factors? also what ever happened to that CEO who gave her immune system a boost with stem cells?
I use Syncthing too! I will have to look into got backups sometime soon, so thanks for reminder.

I once waivered between markdown and org-mode. But the ecosystem of Emacs packages that build on top of org-mode is mindblowing. Tables with formulae, inline programming (in your language of choice), back links, PDF annotations, bibliography, automatic conversion to HTML/PDF/LaTeX, still unmatched repetitive tasks in TODOs, even simple text collapsing, and so much more. And none of this weighs down your particular setup because you just ignore what you don't use and it never loads!

I personally realised that I'm never going todo any serious editing on my phones so Orgro/Orgzly work very well on Android. And since everything is plaintext, any org file can be opened in any editor and edited normally. I have a simple editor app from f-droid which works very well.
Only the people that are too lazy to actually learn how to do it properly,

"Filthy Rich Clients" by the nowadays Android UI architects

http://filthyrichclients.org/

"Swing Hacks: Tips and Tools for Killer GUIs" by Joshua Marinacci, well know in the UI research community

https://www.amazon.de/dp/0596009070

And then commercial libraries like

http://www.jgoodies.com/
Absolutely conflating apples and oranges. Elon seems to have been luckier by being part of the PayPal Mafia, similar, in a sense, to the w00w00 group. He may have absolutely no idea how or why he got where he did by the choices, beliefs, and circumstances he encountered. Felix Dennis OTOH was a wise, old hippie who had an appreciation for honest introspection.
This is description of a separate shopping item. Power adapter is included in laptops: https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem-14-questions-and-wonder/1059....
To quote the founder of this site:

Paul Graham: Haters - http://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html
Or perhaps it will make things worse, because mutually assured destruction is no longer as significant a threat.
Good luck transporting and securing larger quantities of gold and also exchanging it for money. One basically has to declare any quantity in excess of six ounces / 170 grams of gold because it exceeds 10k US dollars / euros.
Best notes app I've used - love the encryption philosophy. Editors could be better.

I actually real like the blogging integration.

Definitely recommended over bloat ware like EverNote, OneNote etc.
Felix Dennis was "on the dole" (welfare) and wasn't born into riches -- unlike Elon.

Read the book. It's available on LibGen, and is absolutely worth coming back again to -- if you want to be rich.
Difficult to judge from this point where will future lead us.
Biological super humans, cyborgs, collective mind, AI meld mind ... but any "non-human" form can also lead to exponential advance that could entirely change our dreams and goals. We are what we are because of sums of all our needs, dreams, fears, emotions, thoughts and the microbiome (we are unseparately connected to) ... any change in it will completelly change what we do next.
I was deliberating between this and the M1 MacBook for the longest time. After too many delays I eventually just bought the M1 MacBook, but I really wonder what owning the Librem 14 with Qubes would have been like. It’s basically the perfect Qubes machine.
If you pay them $200 now, how do you know they will be around in ten years, let alone fifty?