skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No where in my comment did I associate death with moral badness. Nor did I say that pain in itself is something worthy of eradication.

Suffering can be due to physical pain but not always. Sometimes it is due to lack of freedom. Parasites, bacteria, and viruses generally cause both pain and disability.

Nature is romanticized but like OP states, it is metal and cruel. When we can eradicate suffering through destroying the planet, it is our moral imperative to do so.

So far you have provided no counter arguments to this, instead you have misinterpreted my words and delegated to utterly worthless moral relativism.
> In this case, bitcoin is less polluting energy arbitrage than aluminum smelting.

Only if 100% of global aluminum smelting occurred from green sources. As that’s not the case the world would be better off if they had kept smelting aluminum as long as the reductions occurred in less green locations.
> This happens when discussions about CO2 emissions also comes up. When most of that pollution is generated production cheap goods for the west.

87% of Chinese emissions are attributable to domestic consumption. https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-largest-co2-import...
To Downvoters: So this is not true? After looking at this again, this goes back even before Google became a direct competitor.

In 2007, Mozilla was actually going to walk away from Google's millions since they said "We've spent a lot of time and energy making sure that Google understands that it cannot turn us into an arm of Google" [0] This was an effort to make money without the reliance on Google.

Maybe this was the scare that made Google paranoid enough to create their own browser. which first released in 2008.

Since then, Mozilla knew that they were in trouble and Google became a direct competitor whilst they were still funding them and they ended up not walking away from Google's millions. Ever since Chrome came along, Firefox usage was struggling ever since. [1] Google's millions made up for 75% - 84% of Mozilla's entire revenue.

Now today, it has become a two horse race with tons of Chrome-based browsers and only Safari competing against it. With users switching to the Chrome ecosystem, Mozilla (and Firefox) is still on life support and dependent on Google. Even Microsoft Edge even jumped ahead of it [2].

Just like how Nintendo turned Sony into a competitor out of a partnership gone wrong, Mozilla turned Google into a competitor all by themselves and given they are still unable to walk away from them, they have to deal with a partner that is against their entire mission statement.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2011/12/5/2612918/future-of-firefox...

[2] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop-mobi...
When learning a new programming library or framework I start by reading the reference manual from cover to cover (figuratively, I actually read it online). I don't retain it all but somehow it works for me. Then I start the tutorial or prototyping.
Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in August 2021
As long as humanity is divided and has factions that are in conflict, something like proof of work can be useful, because it allows those that are in conflict or don’t trust each other, to maintain a shared view of an accounting system (Bitcoin). When we pass that stage of bickering apes we won’t need Bitcoin anymore.
Collisions in LEO launch debris in all orbits, they are not limited to LEO. I wouldn't be surprised if SpaceX will turn out to be the reason we won't be able to explore space at all for a few hundred years.
Bitcoin is subject to the Lindy effect. Neither of those timelines are very good bets. It’s already been around for 12 years.

If you see a lot of people doing something intentionally and you think they’re wasting resources, you probably just don’t understand what they’re spending resources on.
Elon Musk gave Jeff Bezos advice on building rockets, which Bezos flatly rejected. He also hoped that Bezos work on Blue Origin or otherwise Bezos will die before he gets anywhere.

Of course, Musk also mocks Blue Origin.
You mean like Rust (and Zig initially) building on top of LLVM? Or like the dozen languages that coexist on top of the JVM?

Rarely does a new language build everything from scratch, and the parts they build new are often progress.
A 'jobs agency' that has produced a whole lot of technical advancements, maybe.
Came here for this exact comment. The artwork is spot on.

That, by itself alone, would have been amazing.

I don't miss the lack of memory protection of classic Mac OS, but I do miss everything else.
I’ve been teaching myself org-mode and filling other gaps in my elisp knowledge lately and I organically arrived at this. Except I’m doing zettelkasten with org-roam instead of Anki cards.
The dinners aren't the same across the years so it's not a very apples to apples charting of it, but I plucked some representative values out and did the inflation lookups on them here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dWiKEfbXmDGcQUYMI-5x...
>>"Why would you build that solar power plant there when you can build them on the grid itself?"

My point isn't that they will be built in the desert but my point is that if they can be built there then they can be built many other places where it's not profitable now.
You're right, for the same reason that articles like the op's aren't entirely accurate either. Nothing is perfect, however it is easy to consider that global finance is orders of magnitude more wasteful than bitcoin. Just imagine all the bank tellers (transaction validators) driving to work each day.

It is always interesting to me how other PoW chains are completely ignored in the general hatred. ETH mining is a massive consumer of electricity, but since that is supposed to be ending some day, nobody seems to care.

The end solution might eventually be to tokenize all btc, on top of eth.
I do this every few months. I managed to solve this by “constraint satisfaction” searching (do the credit cards charges and shipment combinations add up to the order total?)

Took me a while, but it works well now. I am thinking of switching it to the crawler though.
I genuinely think it fits right in. Apple always had a good aesthetic, even when everything was beige and rectangular. I did a giant chunk of my school work on Claris Works, before I discovered latex. Happy memories.
A project is not vaporware until it gets canceled without delivering.
It's a popular technique but apparently Seinfeld did not do this, it was a throw away comment that became pop culture.
I can believe it. I have over 2,000 tabs open over the last year. Before the last "clean up", I had 4,000 tabs open. As GP noted, most of them are unloaded (I would say around 3/4). I have 32GB RAM, so firefox issues are a distant memory. (pun intended)
The old menus (from the 1800s), just read as much more healthy wholesome food. It seems that sometimes after the 50s, restaurant/dinner food quality took a dive and it looks like mass market food you find a groecery store now.

Recently, I remember in Williamsburg, there used to be a food/restaurant store where you could by home cooked style meals. Eg, greens, beans, turkey, brisket and other home style food. It was cheap and good.

Not sure what happened to those stores, but the replacements, that sell 'build your salad bowl' type of food feel more sterile and just not as good.

eg. There is a huge difference in taste between a good local burito place, then going to Chipoltle and such.
Not possible in Germany. That’s a shame. I buy tons of things from Amazon and have no overview of my purchases. Have to use a Firefox plugin to get the data. This should be possible on Amazon.de, directly.
Stay at home if you're too afraid to go outside.
It's telling that Bezos has chosen to take this fight to Washington DC - his only real hope is to kneecap SpaceX politically. It's not that Blue Origin lacks engineering know-how, it's that they brought in a ULA executive to run things and so he's running the ULA playbook - maximize profits by delaying things indefinitely to keep that taxpayer money flowing. Blue Origin wants SpaceX to play by its rules and slow to a crawl so they can compete. Elon Musk, for all his faults, wants to accomplish something and is personally driving things to get that done and is unwilling to settle for vanity wins and big talk to impress fellow billionaires at Davos. Unless Jeff can convince Elon to focus on salad fights over how high is up I'd say this competition is long over.
With them getting half of inputs for their batteries from abroad, it's not a big stretch to say that their own cost is still above 100$ pew kWh
Bitcoin's brand and its technology are two completely separate things. The technology isn't as great as people claim but that doesn't really matter.

You could substitute the Bitcoin network with an entirely different PoS blockchain and the price would not be negatively affected. In fact, it might go up since PoS would be cheaper to operate.

The hard part would be convincing everyone to switch to the technology.

The price of Bitcoin is almost entirely in its brand and its social structure. Tech doesn't matter.
> And the "benefit" we're going to get as users is un-blockable ads because that's the ultimate goal of DoH. Instead of my Roku trying to use 8.8.8.8 it'll use some DoH server at a CDN that's hard/impossible to block.

Can you not set the DNS server just as you do today? Or are you rewriting the IP for 8.8.8.8 to a private server and worried that HTTPS will prevent this?
Ask HN: Get a protein folded by AlphaFold2 or RoseTTaFold?
How can I get a protein folded by AlphaFold2 or RoseTTaFold? I'd like to submit the sequence and get the protein structure back. Happy to pay.
The point is that Blue Origin isn't going to have anything ready by 2023 which is the year the crewed Artemis 2 mission should get the go. They might not be vaporware, but they're still several years behind SpaceX.
Nope, it's possible, as long as most of the tabs stay around inactive. (Sadly it doesn't handle too many tabs becoming loaded very well, so if you hit the limit it usually ends with something crashing...)
I haven’t seen the bristlecones but I get what you mean. I get the same feeling of sacredness when I visit old trees elsewhere like the redwoods, or when I see majestic large animals like whales (although they are much younger).
It just got reenabled again.
If plastic that's "properly" disposed of still ends up in the environment, how do you dispose of all the trash you collect to ensure that it doesn't end up back in the environment?
Bezos was never a scientist, engineer or dreamer. He is an entrepreneur, business savvy guy. Its about the dollar for him (which I'm not saying is a bad thing), versus for Elon it is a dream/passion to get to Mars.
SpaceX has two tried and tested orbital delivery systems and is making its typical iterate-and-explosions progress on a third. It is basically the only company doing this.

The idea NASA would plunk down money for imaginary spaceships is silly. They have their own one of those already.
In "Road to Dune" there are a couple of cut chapters of the first 2 books and the original ending of Dune Messiah
Wiki and some other sources say that PE is made from crude oil byproducts https://extension.psu.edu/how-plastic-is-made-from-natural-g...
Stress Journaling
FYI: Local Chinese officials routinely burn granaries when they expect an audit.
From 2011:

Robert Siegel: "As NPR's Peter Overby reports, Capitol Hill has always been deeply involved in NASA's activities, and sometimes seem to regard NASA as a jobs program, as well as a space program."

Overby: "This year [2011], according to federal contract data, NASA will buy goods and services in 396 of the 435 congressional districts."

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/20/138555781/congressional-suppo...

From 2019:

"NASA will often highlight the fact that its SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft support aerospace suppliers. For example, this agency website details the number of suppliers in every US state and says, 'Men and women in all 50 states are hard at work building NASA's Deep Space Exploration Systems to support missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.' There are 106 suppliers in Alabama, alone, according to NASA's site."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/an-alabama-represent...
I will watch Picard season two whenever it comes out. I just ordered STG:1 on DVD, and will probably do Atlantis after that. If keeping up with the Cardashians had been what I thought it was, I would definitely be watching that too.

Those aren't bad TV shows, unlike most of Marvel. I think maybe that is because they actually believe in/stand for something, as opposed to just being boobs and fights.
Because we live in a Union? The idea is that your state will be helped if the table is ever turned. Not everyone in Kentucky hates California and the people who live there. What you're essentially promoting is reducing the role of federal government, which is the same thing current Kentucky senators want. I'm sorry to be so blunt but to be honest your comment sounds hateful and ignorant.
Slowly being disabled in excruciating pain due to a parasite is a bad experience. This can be universally agreed upon. I'd love to hear why this is neither good nor bad without you importing an external dependency like moral relativism or cute idioms like "circle of life."
Did Biden Just Speak to a Fake Audience of Actor-Soldiers?
And it is nigh impossible to know ahead of time how repairable a device is.
https://colab.research.google.com/github/sokrypton/ColabFold...
FRACTRAN Programming Language
When the food became fast to make, the quality and nutrition value decreased!
You know there’s always an auto counter argument for an argument like yours.

What else would have done? Hiked and played sports? Or let me mention the cool/hip things — “build shit” “ship things” “be productive”? For what? Some other chemical release?

This will keep going in a loop.
And the problem here is that writing a good book on a thing is something that takes time and effort. Usually enough that it's a full-time or part-time job.

While I am no fan of the copyright maximalism that Disney and other corporations employing armies of people doing work-for-hire have turned copyright law into, I am also a person eking out a living as an artist, and I would like to be able to say "please don't use this thing I made to promote viewpoints inimical to my existence, please don't sell copies of this thing I made without asking my permission first and working out licensing terms", and even "please don't reproduce this thing at all without giving me some money". And I would also like to continue to make enough money off of my work for my bills to be paid. I've found that Patreon's enabling me to give a lot of stuff away, but if I wanted to make some of my work a scarce good, that's a choice I'd prefer to be able to enforce in the courts.

Or perhaps more succinctly: if you want information to be free, you need to figure out how to free its gatherers, tenders, and creators from worrying about their bills.

If you think you have a better idea for freeing information-creators from worrying about their finances than "Kickstarter/Patreon except XXX" or "put ads on all the things", then you might have a project worth chasing.
What advancements have its current flagship program (SLS) produced? Maybe they do produce some but congress clearly wants them to produce jobs not anything else.
>There is a huge assumption here that productivity isn't increasing, which is false.

Actually the assumption in the post is the exact opposite: that productivity has increased.

The question it poses then is "so what do we have to show for it?".
I don’t think that’s true? I work in biotech and I’ve seen presentations that mention ongoing DART testing in passing. I don’t know the actual status.

I found this trial as well:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04754594
Kenzaburo Oe, the Art of Fiction No. 195 (2007)
There’s also quaking aspen that is older (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)). This article also lists clinal trees separately: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees
That’s not much for how many rigs they are running.
Wait what? What did I say that lead you to that conclusion?

I'm sure there were people in his time who would rightly consider him to be slower than they were (and equally sure that he wouldn't be acknowledging that if confronted about it).

My point is more that he had his own flaws, just like the people he had trouble getting along with. Being around slow people _is_ often frustrating, especially if you're more concerned with working than teaching. Was he an ass? Absolutely. But we should we try to understand_why_ he was, rather than just talk about how he should have been kicked out of society. Especially in von Neumann's case, where his net utility to society was insanely high (compare to, say, Mochizuki).
Idk maybe it's semantics, inference to me sounds more like a logical leap is happening, whereas in my mind the simplest form of inductive reasoning is just expecting a pattern to repeat itself.
Comma.ai releases Comma 3
it might be hard to do, particularly for anything that was pre-industrial. aristocrats mostly ate in their homes with a massive kitchen, gardening, hunting staff.

fine dining in a city needs a support base, and for a good deal of history there weren't enough people who could afford to eat out luxury food to support a fine dining scene.
https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1421554277319729153?...
This is for a camera on a phone.
Are you guys aware of Brave? It's the best browser I have ever used
> Methods for remotely accessing/paging data in from a client when a complete download of the dataset is unnecessary:

> - Query e.g. parquet on e.g. GitHub with DuckDB: duckdb/test_parquet_remote.test https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/blob/6c7c9805fdf1604039ebed...

> - Query sqlite on e.g. GitHub with SQLite:
[Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages - (or any static file hoster) - phiresky's blog](...)

>> The above query should do 10-20 GET requests, fetching a total of 130 - 270KiB, depending on if you ran the above demos as well. Note that it only has to do 20 requests and not 270 (as would be expected when fetching 270 KiB with 1 KiB at a time). That’s because I implemented a pre-fetching system that tries to detect access patterns through three separate virtual read heads and exponentially increases the request size for sequential reads. This means that index scans or table scans reading more than a few KiB of data will only cause a number of requests that is logarithmic in the total byte length of the scan. You can see the effect of this by looking at the “Access pattern” column in the page read log above.

> - bittorrent/sqltorrent https://github.com/bittorrent/sqltorrent

>> Sqltorrent is a custom VFS for sqlite which allows applications to query an sqlite database contained within a torrent. Queries can be processed immediately after the database has been opened, even though the database file is still being downloaded. Pieces of the file which are required to complete a query are prioritized so that queries complete reasonably quickly even if only a small fraction of the whole database has been downloaded.

>> […] Creating torrents: Sqltorrent currently only supports torrents containing a single sqlite database file. For efficiency the piece size of the torrent should be kept fairly small, around 32KB. It is also recommended to set the page size equal to the piece size when creating the sqlite database

Would BitTorrent be faster over HTTP/3 (UDP) or is that already a thing for web seeding?

> - https://web.dev/file-system-access/

> The File System Access API: simplifying access to local files: The File System Access API allows web apps to read or save changes directly to files and folders on the user’s device

Hadn't seen wilsonzlin/edgesearch, thx:

> Serverless full-text search with Cloudflare Workers, WebAssembly, and Roaring Bitmaps
https://github.com/wilsonzlin/edgesearch

>> How it works: Edgesearch builds a reverse index by mapping terms to a compressed bit set (using Roaring Bitmaps) of IDs of documents containing the term, and creates a custom worker script and data to upload to Cloudflare Workers
Thanks for clearing that up. I agree that it would be great if we wouldn't fight eachother over this. It just feels extreamly invasive to have someone support the government forcing chemicals into people's bodies. That's a horrible world to live in. What's why i get so triggered by it. But I reacted badly to your post. Sorry. :)
The article has a flawed approach, why shouldn't the cops use it? it does a decent job of monitoring, and alerting when gun shots are in an area?

Where its time for it to stop being used is in the court of law, I mean you could say possibly compare wave forms and then that of the weapons fire, there are several weapons that have a distinct sound, and cadence, but this is something that a expert witness would have to give testimony about.

its like a polygraph test, they can't tell if your lying, but they can't detect a rapid state change, which could indicate they aren't being truthful, which is fine for an investigation, but is why it can't be used in court.

And its huge stretch that the public is at greater risk of harm, because the system would lead to cops to treat everyone in the area where a sensor tripped seems like a stretch and I think without actually supporting evidence shouldn't have even been used.

I like the eff, but sometimes they seem to over due it, but then again, I guess that true for lawyers and marketers.
I do wonder if there's a chicken and egg issue here, in that it not being used very much means not much effort has been put into optimisations that take advantage of it.

(though by "I wonder" I do not in any way suggest I'm qualified to have an opinion on the compiler internals themselves)
> So what we should actually be advocating for is mandating that people reuse bags

Except that many reusable bags are likely a waste of resources:

Danish study: "polypropylene bags (most of the [] reusable bags found at supermarkets) should be used 37 times paper bags should be used 43 times, cotton bags should be used 7,100 times."

UK study: "paper bags should be used three times low-density polyethylene bags (the thicker plastic bags commonly used in supermarkets) should be used four times, non-woven polypropylene bags should be used 11 times, cotton bags should be used 131 times."

https://phys.org/news/2018-08-reuse-bags.html

A simple approximation for environmental damage is the cost in $. If a plastic bag costs 1c, and a jute bag costs $2, then
you can guess crossover point is 200 usages (weekly shopping for 4 years to reach breakeven also presuming you value your extra time and hassle at zero).

Reusable bags are a huge waste IMHO.

I dropped a bottle of wine the other day because I didn't have a plastic carry bag - cost equivalent of 1000 plastic bags... Arrrrghhh!
I'm curious how the physics of light is termed racial bias, it's skin-colour bias if anything -- you can be "black" and be lighter skinned than a "white" person, for example -- but surely it's a consequence of how cameras/light works rather than a bias.

Of course if you don't take account of the difficulties that come with using the tool then you might be acting with racial bias, but that's different. Or, all cameras/eyes/visual imaging means are "racist".
The proof is in the pudding. The Ethereum beacon chain text s currently securing $14 billion in value and has been running for nearly a year without incident.

I can understand the claim that PoS was impractical even a year ago. But given Ethereum 2’s massive success, it’s an untenable claim. If you really think PoS in insecure, don’t bother at arguing it. Just go hack some of your share of that $14 billion.
>Collisions in LEO launch debris in all orbits, they are not limited to LEO.

How often? You'd need a pretty lucky collision to knock something into a higher stable circular orbit.