skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, but if you send your (Bit)coins to the wrong wallet address, there is no verification that the address even exists, and the coins could be permanently destroyed.

At least with all other assets classes, there is some verification of the transaction and receiver by the exchange, and the possibility to reverse an error.
> There are plenty of legal and financial constructs meant to approximate a forever status.

What are some examples of such legal and financial constructs ?
In that case it makes much more sense to build a space station somewhere in asteroids belt between Mars and Jupiter, there is carbon, metals and, what's very important, water, so it is possible to make station self-sustained and easily retrieve whatever is needed.

Although I am not sure if it will be practical to move iron from that place to the Earth, without some significant break through in space travel, probably not.
Chessable is a poorly executed idea, with an awful user experience.
I just bought a Tesla so I’ll give you this one haha.

I think electric cars are great, I just feel like they are more an iterative change than the radical one that fusion energy would have on moving us somewhere on the Kardashev scale and eliminating poverty and hunger on Earth. I know I’m being greedy, I don’t even know if fusion as an energy source outside the sun is possible or if the whole SpaceX budget and effort and minds would budge the needle. I do know that Mars is a pretty miserable place to try and live. What would make it easier and nicer is fusion energy. :)
I’m sorry a free website is blowing smoke up my ass about future plans. I’ve been hearing this same promise for longer than many Hackernews reader have been alive. It does not get easier to hear it with each retelling.

There are more than two states available here. An excellent time to announce always free is when you set up the trust. An excellent time to announce the intention to be free is when asking for advice or help with making that happen.

Edit to add: think about it this way. When a prospective love interest makes an oddly specific promise, does that make you feel more or less safe than you did before? “I’d never cheat on you with your brother.” “I’d never murder you and bury your body in Texas.” Well this was a lovely date, I’ll call you. But I have a busy week and a business trip so it might be a little bit.

I was already assuming lichess intended to remain free. Why are you telling me that now? Was that in jeopardy? Do we need to have a talk?
Yeah but isn't it sad to shut the whole world off because of a couple of assholes?

I take the approach of being friendly with everyone, and if they prove to be weirdos or assholes, I immediately switch.

Of course it could be considered more risky, and I have been groped myself, but I think it's worth the risk. I find the alternative dehumanizing.
I think the founder should have "fuck you" money, not just a reasonable salary.
Do people care about second, third... last place in nfl, nba etc? After all, it hardly matters. No trophy, didn't cost your team a qualification to a more prestigious tournament. No relegation to avoid. What do even the middle of the pack teams play for in the US system? I don't get it all. That's why it's deemed "not competitive" by European standards.
> I remember a decade or so ago VLC would crash semi regularly [...]

> I can’t remember the last time I experienced a crash.

So which one is it? :) j/k

VLC really became super stable from an enduser-only subjective perception.
As true as it is to say that missions to Mars and helping Earth can be done at the same time, this website does resonate with me. Even if we stopped all emissions right this second, climate change would not end instantly due a positive feedback loop. The fact that emissions are still widespread today really shows how desperate of a situation we are in, without many realizing it. To undo what we have done requires more than simply switching to electric cars and solar panels, but actively UNdoing our previous environmental effects through new technology and developments. Although these efforts can be carried out simultaneously, I do think it would help if everyone looked at Earth (trees, wood, biodegradable products) the same way they do Mars.
Whenever this argument arises, I can't help but just think, why can't we have both?
None, so I assume it's not planned in the near future. Hasn't been there the last few times this was posted on HN. A really cool tool even if the language that would profit the most of it isn't supported.
Philip Wadler ? https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11710
The EU wants to become the world's super-regulator in AI
I had no idea that so much had come out about the Quadriga case.
If the universe is infinite,
Then the observable universe is only as finite as the length of your life and capability to traverse through space.
>Today, we're lucky to get a 15% gain in two years.

The 2012 MacBook Pro 15-inch I'm typing this on is about 700 on Geekbench single-core, while the 2019 16-inch is about 950. 35% "improvement" in seven years!

M1 13-inch is 1700 on single-core, which is why I hope to upgrade once the 16-inch Apple Silicon version comes out.

>The "one-trick ponies" help narrow the "apparent performance" gap, but by definition, are implemented out of desperation.

I don't think that's right. x86 hit an apparent performance barrier in the early 2000s, with the best available CPUs being Intel Pentium 4 and AMD Thunderbird, both horribly inefficient for the performance gains they eked out; those were very much one-trick ponies created from desperation. It took a skunkworks project by Intel Israel, which miraculously turned Pentium III into Core microarchitecture, to get out of the morass. Another meaningful leap occurred when going from Core Duo to Core i, but the PC industry has been stuck with Core i for almost a decade.

We've finally smashed past this with Apple Silicon, but it is certainly not a one-trick pony; Apple could sell it to the world tomorrow and have a line of customers going out the door, just like it could have sold the A-series mobile processors to rivals. AMD Ryzen isn't quite the breakthrough Apple Silicon is, but it is good enough for those who need x86.
Building habitats that do not rely on a biosphere is exactly what we need on earth and exactly what will be built for mars. Perhaps if we learn to live on Mars we can one day learn to live on earth.
Regarding the prefix key, I agree CTRL+R may not be the best default choice.

But if it is easy to change then I think it is OK.

One of the first things I do on a new system with tmux is remap CTRL+B to CTRL+A, as a screen hangover and I think it is more ergonomic anyway.

Though it means I've completely given up using CTRL+A / CTRL-X for incrementing / decrementing numbers in vim.

I can't think of any programs that have an important use for CTRL-B, that's the tradeoff between uniqueness and usability I guess.

I don't think there will be a choice to keep everyone happy or that is totally conflict free.
Will fusion power magically erase the threat of extinction-level events such as comet strike?
And your location is so remote that your employers cannot deny you home office. Imagine the commute.
These are maybe five blocks in a distinct Kreuzberg neighbourhood which has gone from low rent to being among the most expensive parts of Berlin, within a decade. The inhabitants often have no choice but to move far away in Berlin, giving up their home. Many of them are very angry and have nothing to lose.
I've been to Japan a few times and it is nothing like that. People are very rigidly polite in public. You may feel self-conscious because you stick out like a sore thumb, having to duck under lights and doorways and stuff, but people will eerily act like it's totally common to see that.
The way out is to never do anything by hand. Always put it in your release script and run the script from an as-dirty-as-possible workspace.

Whenever you do something manually, this manual process that exists as a kind of "virtual script" in your head gets out of sync with the script that you have on disk. The article describes the continuous struggle to keep those two in sync. By only having the one on disk, that struggle goes away.
In terms of TV money, there is a big revenue disparity:

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/mw8jqp/tv_money_dis...
What this attempt really revealed, IMHO, is how desperate for fresh cash a lot of these top clubs are. In particular, Juventus and Real Madrid (and Manchester United while the Glazer looters stay at the helm) have monstrous debts that risk destroying them as soon as they don’t dominate any competition for a few years. This is what they are saying when they talk about “saving football”: Florentino Perez and Andrea Agnelli are genuinely trying to save their clubs from self-destruction. Their sense of entitlement is such that they cannot fathom renouncing their position (i.e. selling big players and being weaker for some time), but they know sooner or later the debts will be due.

I hate the ESL/NBA concept for football, but something still has to be done to reduce these excesses. Financial Fair Play has not worked well enough for top clubs, the market for players remains fundamentally inflated by a handful of oligarchs. I hope that UEFA takes the legitimacy capital earned this week to make some real changes in this area.
This link to the project page is http://sprylang.se/, not https://
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Think the point of the website is implicit in the "Let's get to Mars" vision is that "Earth is an unsolvable mess and will be inevitably become uninhabitable". In other words we're failing to envision some kind of future for ourselves on Earth.

There's a great interview with Alan Moore (Watchmen, Walking Dead and much more) on YouTube that is highly underrated - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBc71ROdGxU - the whole thing is great but at 4m32s he puts it beautifully...

"We tend to think, at this juncture of the 21st century, that there are only two possibilities regarding the future. One is the future will be exactly the same as today, only with smaller radios and smaller cars. So if the future is going to be the same as today, why bother preparing for it? The other alternative is there isn't a future. That is all ends in some kind of massive environmental collapse or a series of mushroom clouds. In which case why bother preparing for the future, if there isn't going to be one? Neither of these mindsets are actually doing anything to prepare us for the world in which we will almost certainly be living. Or which our descendants will almost certainly be living in. If you don't imagine a future, there's a fair chance you're not going to have one."

Elon's whole argument for Mars is based on the belief we don't have a future on Earth and that some kind of Dark Age is coming - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/11/elon-musk...

"If there’s a third world war we want to make sure there’s enough of a seed of human civilisation somewhere else to bring it back and shorten the length of the dark ages"

Personally think we should regard it with the same level skepticism we have for door-to-door salesmen. It's a great pitch to sell SpaceX...
> I've never understood this assumption that focusing on one thing must necessarily always be to the detriment of another.

The Earth is a zero-sum game, possibly the most real example that exists. Every gallon of oil, every mineral that doesn't find its way back through recycling effectively disappears. Everybody reading this website has spent their life in an era of such excess, such profligacy, that this fact is easy to ignore: "we can just reallocate a little and do both!"

The trouble is we're moving towards the end of that era. We're moving onto oil fields with increasingly poor EROEI. Arable land is decreasing. We're going to have to make some choices very soon which will be to the detriment of something else.

As a species we have a high tolerance for wasteful nonsense—what is life without recreation and creativity after all? But it's perfectly reasonable to consider a very resource-intensive project like "life on mars" and decide that should be low on the priority list.
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It could have said "People who consider Mars as our backup planet in case we trash the Earth's environment even further, are deluding themselves," I'd be 100% behind that.

Instead... we get this childish nonsense. I mean... sunsets are blue? So?

This is what a goofy fifth grader would make for an Earth's day poster, if they had the budget for a web designer.
I'll give that "Mars Sucks" is a good sound bite.
It’s the generic term for the Windows or Command key.
There are 5 items on that list:

- Digital Flight Controls

- Food Safety

- Space Blankets

- Quake-Proofing

- Rechargeable Hearing Aids

This list does not impress me at all and I find it hard to believe we wouldn't have come up with those 5 items + a lot more without spending billions to go to the moon.

It's cool to go the moon but just like all things government is involved with, it could've been done a lot cheaper without involving bureaucrats.
Fwiw this approach doesn't work for something like:

SELECT * FROM Products WHERE price > 5;

If a new product comes in with price 20 you won't know to add it to your result set and send it to the clients.
one of the interesting outcomes of this kerfuffle is how JPMorgan got a downgrade in ESG ratings[0] because they financed this.
Oddly enough, the teams themselves which are traded didn't, maybe they just had not had a grading before.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/21/jp-morgan-c...
> Maybe other people liked it, even if you didn't?

Never saw anyone who liked it. Everybody I asked about Doctor Zhivago, said it is graphomania (I don't know if it is customary to call bad books by this name in English, but we usually use this word).
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Often when working I prefer the ease of listening to internet radio compared to choosing specific songs myself. Anyone have any intersting recomendations? My current gotos are:

radiooooo.com

nts.live

poolside.fm

lofi.cafe
> I've never understood this assumption that focusing on one thing must necessarily always be to the detriment of another.

I totally agree with you, having a bright, exciting vision of the future is a huge motivator and technological driver to help with our problems on earth.

This website really gave me a good laugh in a positive way. I would say, space exploration made it again possible to look at our homeworld in a more appreciating way!
A previous discussion of this topic was flagged. I think this link is better because it compares the economic models of American and European sports teams. That’s interesting for a general audience, not merely sports fans.
Well it seems like the founder doesn't want more money. Not everyone needs or wants "fuck you" money, and with that kind of salary you can afford a decent life in (most of) France.
We could build colonies underground, under the Antarctic ice sheet and under water, that would be far easier and cheaper and allow us to survive just about any extinction event the universe is likely to throw our way in the next billion years. Those environments would be paradise compared to mars.
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Hard to find a short & available .com domain nowadays.

When starting a new project, I'm always looking for the same pattern for domain names. So I built a tool to ease the search because the existing tools recommendations always felt bad to me. I manually curated 100+ trending name modifiers for SAAS names and classified the TLDs and that's it ; no AI, no bullshit.

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Disclaimer: links to Namecheap are affiliate.

Hope you'll like it!
They didn’t blackmail anybody, they bought it for $2.5 billion with a B. That is a titanically difficult number to turn down. It’s so much money that you can avoid having to look at people you told your former plans to.
If your building a reactive website then firestore is actually great.
Edit: but yes IMNSHO, there are also some design mistakes (schemaless, silly limitations on keys, ...) both in the service and the client libs. I only used the python and js clients though. I might be biased
I work on a game that runs in a browser on mobile and synchronizes a physics simulation with orders of magnitude more relevant data. That's the benchmark upon which I scoff.
Second this. I'm pretty happy writing code in a plain old text editor much of the time, without most IDE features.

One thing I just can't live without, however, is a code formatter. Formatting code by hand is tedious and repetitive and I have no patience for it.
I guess sometimes you have to award the prize based on the merit. Otherwise it would be too obvious.

Just like propaganda uses lies mixed up with truths to be less evident.
I didn’t say that. I even mentioned cables that only carry USB < 3.
A useful cue sheet thank you.
The endgame of the ESL is to make enough money to leave those other leagues and just have an elite european soccer league full of the very best players and coaches. The fans would get over it. This sort of thing has happened repeatedly in American sports, and the result has always been positive.
Yeah I think the Jamstack folks have decided to use headless in an entirely different way. For example search for headless CMS you'll find loads of CMSs that just run on a server and use an API to talk to the client, but they're just web pages.

It just means not WordPress I think in this context.
Last place is big deal when relegation might happen. That option being there leads to bitter fight and the last games at end of the season really do matter to fans.
but why go to mars when the problems are here?
They tried to do the same thing that happened in basketball 20 years ago. Back then no fan objected to it. I wonder what changed.
I think they meant white as in of European ancestry. It applies as making one obviously not of Japanese ancestry.
Mars is located conveniently between the Earth and the asteroid belt and people probably tolerate low gravity (0,3 G) better than zero gravity, at least for longer periods of time.

As a springboard towards the Outer Solar System, Mars makes a lot of sense. It is a lot more Earth-y than anything beyond, with the possible exception of Europa and Titan. So our contemporary technologies need less adjustment to work there.
Ya and we don't call a factory a Blacksmith now do we?

"Modern blacksmiths sure are big!"
> I've never understood this assumption that focusing on one thing must necessarily always be to the detriment of another.

Probably mostly because popular news / media has endeavoured to simplify things way beyond the point they should have been simplified -- nuance, rationality, critical thinking, are under-promoted.

https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-eth...
The wider issue here is whether football clubs should even be run as for-profit corporations. It seems wrong that the owners of a club would regard a "successful season" as one in which they made the most money, rather than the one where they actually won stuff.
How to go from developer to team leader?
Sia currently costs 8$ TB/month, storj costs a fixed forever* 4$ TB/month.

* not counting usd inflation, because they don't lock storage price to coin value (with crazy volatility), they fix it against usd and covert it to their coin when paying their nodes.
"Trump was even open to socialized healthcare but the republicans wouldn’t have supported that."

It makes it sound like he would just tone down on socialized healthcare whereas in fact, he just waged a war on Obamacare.

Anyways I never expected him to be consistent.
It is not enough for the haters to dislike what you do. They have to prevent you from doing it. It doesn’t matter if you take none of their money nor government money to do so.
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Blacksmith was a job. Forge was the location. And industrial forges are very, very large.

Blacksmith:Farmer::Forge:Farm
This is campaigning. You show decision-makers why they should make the decision you want them to and sometimes that includes playing into the decision-maker’s self-interest.
I prefer to use my computer to message people, and chat apps like Messenger work effortlessly on both PC and mobile devices. Most of my friends and I chat on Messenger or Discord (formerly Hangouts but Google is determined to kill it for some reason (and more formerly AIM/MSN/Yahoo)).

My girlfriend and I probably dated a couple months (and knew each other for about a year prior) before exchanging phone numbers.
I would argue he already does. The entire point of "fuck you" money is that you are no longer beholden to someone else - it is not so much defined by the overall amount, but by the freedom it can buy you. He gets to work on what he loves doing every day doing it exactly the way he wants.
London is a big place.
I have worked for several consulting firms, ranging from global ones to 10 person ones. In my experience there is a lot of repetition but across a diverse range of industries. So if you are only interested in the technology, then it might get boring. Having said that, I did learn new technologies by being willing to take on jobs involving tech that I was unfamiliar with.

Talking to friends working for other consulting firms, reveals that some firms focus on a narrow niche of technologies and don't touch anything outside of that. Others seem to take on clients only in a limited range of industries.

Your best bet is to research the company and ask questions in the interview. Only then will you be able to ascertain whether it is a good fit for your career expectations.
They have owned both a Guinea Pig and Squirrel, just never an old diseased one.
Hey passo-aggro pseudo-friends Mars and Venus, mind your own fucking business please, k?

- Earth
I have heard that called adaptive design.
I think "demon" just acts as a placeholder for "component whose behavior we can describe in intentional terms." As I understand it, the demon is not supposed to be a supernatural force, it's supposed to be a physical component in the system. We know now that building such a component is theoretically impossible, which is why the demon would need to appeal to supernatural means, but this was not clear for a long time.

Besides, "Maxwell's sensor controlled opening" sounds boring.

edit: To cite Theory of Heat ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/J._Clerk... ):

"But if we conceive a being whose faculties are so sharpened
that he can follow every molecule in its course, such a being, whose attributes are still as essentially finite as our own (emphasis mine), would be able to do what is at present impossible to us. ... He will thus, without expenditure of work, raise the
temperature of B and lower that of A, in contradiction to
the second law of thermodynamics."

Which IMO makes it clear Maxwell thought of his demon as a fundamentally natural system.
Sadly it shows how far the sport has moved from the founding principles when playing for money was considered dirty and caused even arguments between football clubs across UK, about 100 years ago.
I'm not sure about that.

It certainly could, but it also certainly couldn't. I imagine being confidently incorrect is likely to produce a worse result than being unconfidently(?) incorrect, for example.

Similarly, a less confident speaker may end up spending more effort justifying their answers, which could better expose their knowledge.

I think it would depend quite a bit on the examiner in this case. Some people may even be simply biased against particularly confident speakers, particularly considering the relative positions of the speaker and examiner.