skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to argue that transaction capacity is the most important metric, but it's a metric you yourself mentioned as important and it's a metric I have not been able to verify for many cryptocurrencies I've looked at.

If you say "Choose proven cryptocurrencies with transactions" I am going to assume you don't mean ten transactions/day.

I do not think it is unreasonable to ask "How many people are actually transacting with this cryptocurrency?".
It did fall short of what they wanted to deliver as a device probably because it was far too ambitious... but they accomplished quite a bit due to that ambition. Consider that it was conceived of in a time before inexpensive laptops were available. In 2005, a low-end laptop still cost well over $1000. Things like a Chromebook, netbook, Raspberry Pi etc. didn't exist yet. If anything, the OLPC probably got companies thinking sooner and more seriously about the low cost portable computing space than they would have otherwise.
For news about the cherry harvests you could go to the Daily Interlake, a newspaper published in Kalispell, or the Flathead Beacon:

https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2021/jul/03/growers-expect-e...

https://flatheadbeacon.com/?s=cherry
> I think we can go ahead and rule that out as impractical given we're talking about temperatures which are high enough to melt steel.

I don't think steel will be used as the only form of confinement (certain kinds of ceramics come to mind can handle it now[0]), so agree to dissagree.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-temperature_ceramic...
+1

Especially on threads with many comments (500+) with users being inside different timezones/activity rhythms or being subjected to time constraints as a reader.
It will definitely put you on more than one list.
from 2012
You don't need a warrant if one of your partner countries has already spied on your citizens and will share the data.
Is Markdown a viable format given its many many flavors and quirks? I suppose you can just stick to the common features, but then the feature-set is pretty basic.
There are probably more than one list.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. My trust in commercial software bottomed out years ago, to the point where I largely just stopped using it entirely. I also stopped adopting new Android apps about 5 years ago, because mobile apps are the second-least trustworthy segment of an untrustworthy industry (in my opinion, the least trustworthy is anything that is running in the cloud)

I truly despair for the state of the software industry.
I never thought of doing this for a fandom style wikipedia. This would be fascinating for fictional works with huge lore and character sets like the Tolkein universe or the Star Wars universe etc.
I suggest some simple Smoke Tests. I love that concept for software testing.

It could be applied here to test if we are
getting closer or further from what humans can do.

Some examples:

Smoke Test 1:

Driving with Snow

Smoke Test 2:

Driving with Rain

Smoke Test 3:

You are driving to a Red sign and you notice
50 meters ahead a pedestrian has its headphones on.
The pedestrian is distracted and looking at
traffic coming from the other way. You notice
from the pedestrian gait and demeanor its probably
going to cross anyway and its not noticing you.
So you instinctively slowly reduce your speed and keep
a sharp eye on its next action.

Smoke Test 4:

Keep eye contact with a Dutch cyclist as they
look at you across a roundabout.
You realize they will cross in front of your car,
so you already inferred their intentions.
Today the cyclist bad humor will not make them
raise their hand or make any other signs to you
other than an angry face. You however already
know they will push forward...

Smoke Test 5:

A little soccer ball just run across
your vision field. You hit the breaks
hard, as you instinctively think a child
might show up any second running after it.

Failing any of these scenarios would make you fail the
driving license exam so I guess its the minimum we should aim for. Call me back when any AI is able to even start tackling ANY of these, much less All of these scenarios. :-)
Maker is pretty useful for getting collateralized loans, compound is pretty useful for generating yield by lending to others, uniswap is freaking amazing as a dex and you can trade anything by creating liquidity pools without permission, aave is very useful for arbitraging market inefficiencies away risk-free, so on and on. Gas fees are going to become minimal with layer 2.

If you dig enough, you'll see a lot of very useful and important projects being built by some very capable engineers.

This kind of comment reminds me of when people were predicting that internet was going to be a useless thing[1].

1: https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirv...
There are definitely plenty of towns I've been to in rural America (north GA) that are clearly hollow shells of their former selves. And it's way more fun and interesting to be in a place that does have a thriving local economy. The socioeconomic benefits are clear. I'm just wondering if theres a way to frame it in economic terms, or if everything about resiliency, more local jobs, etc. are basically all "externalities".
Almost all permissively licensed code still require preserving copyright notices or other attribution. So where copilot is creating copyright violations, restricting its training to MIT or Apache licensed code will not resolve the issue.
Exactly. Rational (on the police/government's part), but perverse (in that it punishes exercising your rights by taking them away.)
This is over-regulation at it's best.
I have a similar (but much less severe) situation -- need to change my car registration, but my NY State online account has been locked "for security". Calling the phone number says "please use the online portal", but has an option to continue to wait for an agent. However, there is no queue, just a message that says there are high volumes of calls and try your call again. I called at various times over a couple weeks until giving up and just driving with an incorrect registration. Not ideal, tbh.

And don't get me started on the local USPS.
Google bans yet another small business
In Rust, many times this kind of code will compile to the same code using plain old loops and if statements
Or maybe connect this with the Steam Link app for the RPi. Although the Gameboy's inputs are a bit limited.
"The stock market has no real world utility. It's a tool for gambling, speculative investment, and pump-and-dump schemes. There, I said it."
> One of the most common programming mistakes of all, dubbed by Hoare himself as the "billion dollar mistake": null pointers, yet it was put into go without any consideration.

I get the distinct impression that people who invoke this boilerplate Hoare quote argument don't understand that null pointer bugs are "a billion dollar mistake" because nullable pointers have been idiomatic in every major programming language for the last 40+ years, not because they are individually particularly expensive.

Yeah, Rust-like enums would probably be strictly better than null pointers, but people talk about null pointers like they are going to doom your project when in reality they're mere papercuts--a small subset of all type errors--and there are whole projects that are written in fully dynamically typed languages! Indeed, there are worse problems than type errors in a language--you could have an impoverished ecosystem, poor tools (especially build tools), or abysmal performance, and many of the most popular programming languages have two of the three and null pointers. Go is fortunate to have only null pointers (papercuts) working against it.
IJ supports topological sorting which I think is much better, especially if combined with sane visibility ordering such that the most important are at the top

As as asterisk to the alphabetical order suggestion, for Java (and maybe others) it would separate the get, is, and set method pairs from one another, making read only properties harder to spot
I'd say that future is far more distant than you're willing to entertain.

California's central valley is a primer candidate not so much because of geographic concerns, but economic ones. Almost everything grown in the Valley is high margin. Those indoor ag systems need to get their water from somewhere so if if aquifiers and fresh waters supplies are dwindling, that will affect indoor ag too.

Growing stuff indoors, at any scale has proven harder than people thought. My experiences have mostly revolved around pests being more present in indoor setups (thrips, white flies) and you end up spraying more pesticides indoors than you would outdoors. Indoor systems are susceptible to the same climate variability as outdoor systems. A storm knocks out power for an extended period will kill an indoor crop too, or the storm itself may destroy the building.

I'm pro indoor ag. It needs more investment, but it needs the right investment, not this pie-in-the-sky mindset that we shouldn't grow anything outdoors and indoor ag will save us all.
I think they've been focused on solving the "environment mapping and object detection" problem, and if that isn't solved then they can't have the proper inputs to solve the "path planning / decision making" problem. It seems that they're close to solving the first problem, and are ready to move on to the next.

As far as I know they've been using the fleet to collect raw camera data for their training set but I don't think they've used the fleet to learn driving behaviour.
There is still something to be said for making a reasonable effort. There are no guarantees in the world.
It doesn't have to be personal favors, a lot of issues are knowing who to bug, how to effectively bug them to get what you want done, and the right answers to any regulatory questions. A lot of time at work half the fight of getting something done for me is finding the right person to talk to to get the request information we need to file.
One Thousand Laptops per Warlord
The Computer Toucher
Shooting Spitballs at Tanks: Some Thoughts on the Limits of Open Access
For the ownership thing? No, I don't think so. I haven't done much with Cow but my understanding is it doesn't do anything to help with cases where you have "multiple owners" of a value. It might allow you to use a slice up until it needs to be cloned, but you'll still have to clone it at that point.
It seems to be very blasé about sudden changes in its live model of even very close objects. Imagine trying to drive with giant blind spots appearing and disappearing in front of your eyes. Could you drive? Maybe, at low speed, in some conditions. Should you? No way. And the complete blindess to the monorail pillars seems utterly fatal to the radar-less concept. These things were CLEARLY there but had unfamiliar visual geometery, but it still chose to blunder forward (and directly torwards them it seems.) Wild.
I'm trying to do the same. All my notes are backed up to a private repository, would be pretty kick-ass to get it synced with my iphone. Let me know if you find it out!
AI Technology Has Ignored Consciousness
To be fair, you're comparing netbooks then what what we have now. At the time, the pokey, sluggish Atom was the best you could get for a lightweight system and longer-than-usual battery. Remember... the common alternative to a netbook then were awkward 1-2 inches thick 'desktop replacement' style monstrosities unless you wanted to pay a LOT of money relative to performance... and netbooks were $300ish versus $1200+ for laptops at the time. I was grateful for my netbook and they really did seem to push portables into becoming better at being... well, portable.
> vitamins are used by a ton fewer people than medicine

Really? Every supermarket has plenty of them for sale. The local drug store has whole aisles devoted to them. They don't stock items that don't move.

> Because it would happen for sure without regulation.

Poisoning people is not something allowed by the free market, any more than hitting people with a baseball bat is. Free markets require government to proscribe fraud and abusing peoples' rights.

> Regular people don't really know who makes their specific medicine anyway

They do when it turns out to be a problem, like the Tylenol murders.
Derelict? Perhaps. Complicit? Probable.

>FISA specifies two documents for the authorization of surveillance. First, FISA allows the Justice Department to obtain warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) before or up to 72 hours after the beginning of the surveillance. FISA authorizes a FISC judge to issue a warrant if "there is probable cause to believe that ... the target of the electronic surveillance is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power." 50 U.S.C. § 1805(a)(3).

Emphasis mine.
Ideally full time. As you might imagine, the space is technical & complicated, and I suspect that delivering elegant designs would require quite some time to get up to speed.
I'll have to try this-- I live in a place with terrible cell data service so when my fios went out this weekend and I tried calling, they kept telling me to use the app. how the hell are you supposed to use the thing that's broken to communicate that the thing is broken?
You can do a quick search to have the answers to all these simple questions, it has about ~200k transactions per day which settles about ~2B$ worth of Bitcoin a day (which is up very significantly since last year and down quite a bit from few months ago).
They seem to have raised a bunch of money but still ended up being the "poor man's" version of Meow Wolf [0].

They also seem to be pulling some wool over journalists' eyes by misrepresenting their raise as hinging on one or the other of their "drops".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGHxXw7Qcs8

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/curtissilver/2020/11/09/push-pa...
Even 8+ years ago, OLPC was taught as a case study in business school. It was a largely failed project.

It's a pretty classic example of a CEO who was very capable at establishing business partnerships but had such a rigid view about the problem they were trying to solve. They never really proved that the 1:1 concept actually had merit, but ended up being so invested in quantity over quality.

In developing countries, the computers were too simple to teach effective computer skills. And in undeveloped countries, the laptops did nothing to address actual education problems.

Chromebooks have the benefit years of Chrome apps being developed to solve actual problems. They also give up a lot of the goofy ideas like hand crank recharging or mesh networking and etc.
Unfortunately we are better off with community efforts, the DirectX team is really deep into C++ mindset and nothing else, no wonder it belongs to WinDev side.

https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/issues/14#issueco...
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For Plugins, are they just javascript imports?

If that's the case, hypothetically i could run a WASM app as the primary plugin code, right? The idea of extending functionality of Obsidian has me super interested in buying into Obsidian and developing extensions i'm interested in!

edit: Wow, this seems like a super yes. https://github.com/trashhalo/obsidian-rust-plugin - this is exactly what i was planning. Really cool!

This is the first time i'm actually been happy about a web based plugin lol
How do you know you are being tracked more than others?
Only the barest, most superficial.
The book Cadillac Desert makes that claim. When the water rights for the Colorado River were divided up, it was based on a quantity of water measured during a wetter year.
I would love a fusion between the two - an MD backed infinite outliner.

Logseq is the closest thing, but it feels a little clunkier.
Keep in your mind that I need feedback, that’s why I am taking the risk of publishing the demo without adding scrolling yet. There’s a reason, I am desperate for a feedback. I know it can be buggy but this is every software with a new concept. With that being said, I don’t push to production without testing at all. I am sorry to have such a bad experience, still, I am asking you to give it a second chance and look deeper into the API. Bugs can be fixed but concepts can’t. I welcome any issues and I’ll be happy if you open one. (https://github.com/dflex-js/dflex)
> an All-hands meeting simulator:

Ha! Fantastic.

> I come from a family with 4 generations of carpenters. It's a profession more similar to software engineering that most engineering jobs I can think of. The main difference is that in our domain so often the results of our work just don't feel real.

That is the core issue I have with software development, it can feel ephemeral and extremely temporary.

My remediation for this is partially game development too, since the artifact you create is immersive and directly enjoyed by others, it can make you feel surprisingly connected to the world.
Java's trick is maintaining memory/type safety in the presence of races. You might crash, and your application might not see the values it expects, but you never get a buffer-overflow-like situation where Java's internal structures might get corrupted in arbitrary ways, for example.
Reducing the size of the government wouldn’t solve much, though, and it would rather make it even more disappointing. This kind of malfunction almost looks like some people in power are ok with leaving the impression the government is impossible to fix, and its size should be reduced.
Better quality only helps if customers are willing to pay more. A lot of crops are sold through middlemen as undifferentiated commodities.
In your mind how do LogSeq and Obsidian differ?
My wife and I have been heavily influenced by Sepp Holzer, Elaine Ingham, Fukuoka Masanobu, and others in the permaculture/regen ag scene.

We bought a plot of land here in Arkansas a year and a half ago and have been working it, and plan to continue doing so with the aim of creating a self sustaining food forest and garden, one outcome of which will necessarily require healthy and strong soil. The ground is rocky and the rain runs off fast. We have been planting trees, bringing in leaf mulch, and leaving the cut grass when we mow.

There are a shockingly large number of techniques and things to know about this kind of work. Join some groups on Facebook or IRL, visit with farmers at your local farmers market, and search around and you will be able to get your hands on more info than you can handle.
I've found that for about any situation where I need to display more than a couple hundred features on a map, vector tiles are superior to geojson/polyline parsing/geobuf: they're parsed very fast and tippecanoe has compression, simplification, feature removal (for low zooms), and tile size limiting features

In my case I use it to display roads that a person has walked/biked, so you can easily accumulate thousands of items to display.
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It is not typical for farms to have equipment to keep sprinklers going on all parts of all fields of all crops simultaneously, as was pretty much necessary. People have equipment for normal conditions, and not a ton of idle capacity that it would have been a no-brainer to deploy.
Simply burning is bad as it adds CO2 to the air = there are better ways.... They should use starved air combustion. (A known technology used for water gas etc)With this the waste is partially combusted and the organic balance turned into carbon and the metal is cleaned of paint/plastic and as it cools the brittle carbon portion can be sieved out, leaving various mixed metals(aluminum, zinc, steel copper for the most part)
As it partially burns a wave of very hot oxygen free gas goes through the unburned waste by intention which will boil off hydrocarbons and'crack' the plastic down to assorted fractions that can be condensed and refined into assorted hydrocarbons = most of which can be used, the unused will be useable as asphalt adduct to save fresh asphalt. In any event this will tie it up as solid and the liquid fractions can be used in any modern refinery to increase the output.
This reduces the power, but 80-85% of the carbon ends up in solid form. Some solid carbon may be useable in steel, or can be used as mine back fill. Mine back fill adds 1-2% cement which makes the mass solid. (the more cement you use = the more solid it gets).
More solid is good in wet mine situations as there is ground water in wet mines and you want solid to block migration with ground water. In deep hard rock mines, water mobility is near zero. (In any particular mine used for carbon sequestration a detailed analysis of ground water should be done to assess the potential for migration and to use added cement to close this door).
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XAML, where CSS grid was born.

Now you have seen one.
Nice website, but something feels really shitty about this.
There was a time in 2014/15 where paying for goods with cryptocurrency was becoming popular. Its at this time when coincidentally, regulations towards requiring PII was instantiated in the US, essentially freezing most in/outroads of fiat. It was the end of traded goods for crypto. This coincided with many of the original arguments on how & whether to increase transaction capacity (bitcoin cash debate), we see who influenced these (core devs/miners/exchanges/regulatory reps sponsored by banks) and how they played out in hindsight. I'm not saying this was a coordinated effort, rather an oversimplification of the natural response from traditional fiat participants towards a threat to the 'status quo' at the time. However, this shift, happening at the most crucial tipping point, is what I believe to be the end of the ideal 'cryptorevolution' and instead a new compromise with the existing system. These disruptions were 'successful' But.. you know... thats just my opinion.. man...
Not really, since now you're stuck maintaining this broken thing, and breaking user deployments for something that isn't valuable.
To me this is like complaining about webvan in the 90s and missing the forest through the trees.

DAOs, and AMMs are interesting - there's a lot of potential in leveraging DeFi to make systems that can work in ways better than existing legacy tech, it's just hard and people don't have it already figured out to the point where looking at it makes it obvious. General public state is a new thing and how it can be used is being figured out (oracles, programmable money, etc.).

When something is new it looks more 'pointless' and toy-like. It takes a while for its value to become truly obvious to everyone (and it requires some people to see that value early).
It should be, but isn't for many crops. Commodity crops are incentivized for quantity. Many fruits and vegetables are bred for storage and transportability, not nutritional value or taste.

As i've said in other threads we have many misaligned incentives in agriculture that we're seeing play out. if you click my bio, I post blogs about these topics and more
Especially when you consider that a large percentage of stocks don't pay dividends, so you're only holding it because you think the company will do better which may or may not translate into increased share value.
Multi-user, single device support as a use case has gotten worse and worse as the years go by, as more and more people stop sharing devices essentially and get their own, and thus it gets tested less and de-prioritized, since 'users don't use it'. It's not a windows only thing, it's an everyone thing.