skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If extraterrestrial aliens have the tech to travel vast distances across space, they have the automation to do the majority of physical labor and to build the automation. I liked Colony's human stories (even the typical annoyingly rebellious teenage boy trope was good cause he got himself emotionally manipulated on multiple occasions thinking he was finding his own virtue) but the premise was from the 1950s.
That seems kinda verbose to use. It's also a bit suspicious that all the examples discard the results; is it hard to get the results back out?
So the Async gem allows the programmer to fire "tasks" and wait for them to finish (the same way we can fire threads), but instead of OS-level threads (which is what MRI uses for Threads) it uses a new kind of Fibers, called "non-blocking Fibers", that are lightweight and don't use OS threads, like normal Fibers, but unlike normal Fibers they yield automatically to the scheduler when blocked (sort of like threads).

Is this a correct-ish way to describe the current state of affairs?
Most of the time spent is preparing and harvesting. In between you watch things grow and maintain. When nothing is growing...at least, my in-laws in China...drink, gamble (mahjong, card games) and hang out with other villagers.

They all pooled their money together for some heavy machinery too...so even that has cut down a lot of time spent on prep & harvesting.

You could get jobs in the city when there's no farming to do, too. But you'd need a place to stay that doesn't eat up your wages. It's easy to do if you have family in the city already and just crash in their living room.

Another question to ask is what do you do when you're near retirement and too old to work? Well, you live with your kids and they take care of you with their income and chores. It's not like now where you're sent off to a nursing home and retirees need to be able to afford that.
The cost of civilization. It appears lost of many.
tl;dr someone is using a dormant wallet after 11 years of not touching it. Worth ~3m or so at the moment. The article provides absolutely zero new information beyond that.
I got to experience so many different remote access methods in my life - modems to bbs, direct dial to Unix system, slirp on said Unix system, dedicated 56k modem to home network, upgraded to dsl, finally college and Ethernet. So many discarded technologies…
A jury of peers is a jury of citizens with no regard to their upbringing, education, rece, religion, or any other thing. Citizens.
Ask HN: What financial tool do you use to manage personal finance
I'm looking for something like Personal Capital or Mint but would prefer open source, offline first version instead. Curious what the HN crowd uses
I clean, cook, fix & do the dishes in 2021. Once in a while, I prepare something.

My father had a 40 hr work week and did not do sports, neither did my mother.
The Skies over the South China Sea
Ichi the Killer brought ultra-violence to the mainstream
cant wait to use this
Jetpack Compose Tutorial Examples
This is an interesting idea but is there any description of the soundness of this approach? Any functionality capable of subsuming not just inductive types but higher-inductive types is going to be very subtle. I looked around on the repository but I can't find any formal description of the language or type theory, which is worrying for a proof tool.
This was back when 1 MB was considered and amazing amount of memory. It took two years to write this, about 50K lines of high level code and another 10K or so of assembly. Today you would approach such a project in a completely different way, you'd use much more time to make it look pretty and just that part would probably be much larger than the whole package that I wrote.

The funny thing is that even so many years later the original software is still in use in some places and there is a whole company centered around that core that has been re-written a couple of times to keep it up to date and to expand its functionality.

I highly doubt the present day version would fit in something that small. What's interesting to me is that that old stuff tended to be super productive to work with, zero distractions, just some clearly defined task in a clearly defined environment, if it worked it was bullet proof. No hackers, SaaS, a million connectivity options and no eye candy. Just that one job to be done and done as good as the hardware would allow you to.
Let's review some of the examples in GGP:

> "My dog would never bite. He just snarls and snaps like that when he's nervous."

If you ever hear this, the dog is being socialized in a bad, counterproductive way before your very eyes. The owner is ignoring manifestly severe distress, as well as generally unacceptable behavior in public.

> "My dog is a good dog at heart, but she's a rescue so you have to make allowances."

The word ‘allowances’ here is kinda strong, in that it sounds like you're not only giving up on eliminating certain negative behaviors/feelings in your dog, but also in managing them.

But it's really close to something that I think is fair to say, which is that you can't expect your dog to instantly recover from trauma, and that you will have to make gradual progress on teaching your dog that the world is safe for them and how you expect them to behave in it. At the same time, it's your job to manage those behaviors along the way, so I'm not sure that counts as ‘making allowances’ in the sense of simply permitting otherwise unacceptable behavior. So it might be fair to give that one to the GGP, too.

> "My dog is only growling because you are showing fear."

This is useless information even if it's true, and it pushes responsibility for the dog's behavior and comfort onto others (probably including random strangers, given the character of the examples). This is poor socialization in action again.

(Aside: growling is good. It is good for dogs to give warning. You probably want to address the thing they're growling about (food possessiveness, fear, anxiety, mistrust of strangers), which may not be good. But you probably don't want to suppress growling per se or treat growling as bad behavior. That's a good way to get a less predictable dog.)

> "If you got bit, you must have done something to the dog. No dog bites without good reason."

If someone says this about their own dog, they're showing a stunning level of disinterest in their own dog's behavior, comfort, and impact on others. If someone tells you your dog bit them, you need to be very interested in all of the details so you can figure out what was going on and what you need to do about it.
>In this case, each mother condor had previously bred with males, producing 34 chicks, and each was housed with a fertile male at the time they produced the eggs through parthenogenesis.

>The researchers said they believe it is the first case of asexual reproduction in any avian species where the female had access to a mate.

Do they store some sort of marker? Both were male, reminiscent of the insect family of hymenoptera which produces male drones with no fertilization?
> Common people had almost no sports, no games (beyond precursors to Bocce or backgammon), no literature!

They had some kind of holiday or celebration every month, often a few in one month. These were often similar to sports (for example Śmigus Dyngus where young boys run around the villages pouring water on girls they like as a pagan fertility custom). Or Noc Świętojańska where girls throw flowers into river and boys compete to get them and jumping over the campfires. Or Andrzejki where they danced whole night and played many kinds of "predict-the-future" games. Every wedding lasted a few days and after the midnight all guests played "wedding games" which were a combination of trivia, folk-song battles, guess what your partner thinks, and dexterity contests.

Each church had a saint patron or several of them, and on their days they had church market with traders from all around and various games and dances. Each person had a saint patron as well and their families celebrated on these "namedays". Every trade had their saint patron too, and they celebrated that. To this day it survived for farmers, miners, hunters and firefighters, but back then every possible job had its own holiday.

Basically the only time of year where there really was no entertainment was the 40-day fast (and even then there were exceptions - for example some villages to this day celebrate "half-fast-day" with various customs like painting walls of houses with water and calcium and dancing of course).

Also family back then was 20 people of all ages living near each other, not 4 like now. When a kid was born you had one party, another when it got baptized, another when it got first communion, then when it got confirmation, then when it married, built a house, bought some big animals and died. Add namedays each year and multiply by 20 people in extended family and you get every week busy.

That's just the stuff that survived to modern day in some form or another, there has been a lot more of this back then. Additionally every Sunday mass served partially as entertainment for peasants.
It's not particularly huge, it's just another gem. Rails already does things concurrently and in parallel.

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/threading_and_code_execution....
Active proposal to strike off Freenode Limited
I believe he was speaking of the "small town" part.

Of course, that in a nation with a majority white populace, its military will also be majority white

Anyways, you're just here to argue in bad faith.
I think they mean that NFTs could be brought into the game or platform like Twitter. Buy a painting NFT, show it off in Second Life or the like. So the apps wouldn't control the assets, only verify them.

I'm not "for" NFTs but that seems like it could be used in cool ways.
Came here to say this lol
I think they had Sundays off for religious reasons, but not sure how much choice peasants or farmers had given fields need clearing, seeds need planting, crops needed harvesting and animals needed caring, reproducing, feeding, butchering and preserving, irrespective of day of week.

Slacking on any of the above could result in starvation the coming Winter as well as possibly losing your animals as well. There was lots of interdependencies which were quite unforgiving.
Yeah the lack of consequences for those that administer justice is (I believe) the strongest reason an innocent person is convicted or punished far too harshly for the given crime. The only time I have heard of judges ever getting punished for their judgments is either when it is revealed that they have been taking bribes or their nation lost a war.
IMHO:

Meyers-Briggs tells everyone they're ok and that's ok. We're all different things at different time and we're all valuable.

Big Five says you're useful and pleasant to be around, but you, over there, are a useless pain in the ass. AND there's almost nothing you can do about it without a lot of hard work, and even then you'll regress, but don't worry, as we age we get better.
Ask HN: What should I consider before selling Raspberry Pi based project?
I have been playing around trying to make a project (software + hardware) simulating a network of kiosks that I think is ready for a commercial trial. I have found a few potential early adopters.

Considering that I use Raspberry Pi 4 for every device. What considerations should I take into account before going beyond?
What’s the test software / benchmark I should use on Linux nowadays to measure (and compare) shader and raw GPU performance? That would ideally run under both X and Wayland?
It now very fuzzy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW_sex-determination_system Simplifying, they have the ZW system where the ZZ are males and the ZW are females. (As in the mammalian cases, there are some exceptions and cases where the number of genes is different from 2.) The article you posted discuss too much about how the ZZ or ZW determines the sex, and IIUC it's still not clear if the W induce the femaleness or the double Z induces maleness or what is happening, but the main idea that distinguish the ZW system and the XY system is simple.
Argentina's government uses Grafana for their Covid cases public dashboard
So Firefox, not using GBM but EGL, would not be able to make use of the proprietary driver and has to talk to DRM? Can two kernel modules even use the same card at the same time?
From [1]:

> On Roku-powered smart TVs, you can turn off ACR by going to Settings > scroll down and select Privacy > Smart TV Experience.

> Next, uncheck “Use Information for TV Inputs” to disable ACR. Although this will stop your Roku TV from identifying your content on the pixel level, Roku can still collect data about the Roku TV streaming channels you’ve installed and use.

> To prevent personalized ads on your Roku profile, go to Settings > Privacy > Advertising, then check “Limit ad tracking.” Note: This setting is also available on Roku streaming gadgets.

---

> (eg. the TCL Roku TVs have mics)

Is there any evidence that they transmit anything from the mics?

[1] https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/stop-smart-tv-tracking/544...
One analogy I find interesting: imagine a book signed by the author (clearly worth more than an unsigned book). Now imagine that the signature could be extracted from its physical form, and traded independently. Is it silly to value that? Maybe; but that begs the question of why people value signatures.

At any rate, there are other use cases for NFTs beyond ephemeral pseudo-ownership of art [0]. Strictly speaking, a library card is a type of "non-fungible token". The real magic happens in the social ecosystems and institutions that define relationships using those tokens (same as with fungible tokens, which are otherwise just paper).

[0] https://theblockchainsocialist.com/unlocked-the-best-leftist...
I wrote https://github.com/jakewins/findbtc to try to recover my 26BTC wallet, which lived on a disk I installed Windows over and gave to my mother in law.

I remember looking up how much it was worth, confirmed it remained worthless and opted not to include it in the backup before formatting the drive.

At the same time, I doubt if I had had the wallet I'd have held past $1,000, so it's kind of mourning a loss that would have happened anyway.
https://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html

Almost as batteries-included as python.
A better analogy would be that the blockchain is a filing cabinet. A deed has the force of law because the city/state is prepared to use violence to enforce the ownership claim inscribed on the deed. What authority is going to enforce your NFT?
If you're looking for a non-conventional way to sell your hay bales, think about seasonal decoration.

There are plenty of city slickers who will pay more than farmers for hay bales to put on their front porches in September and October. My wife spent a week searching a six-county area trying to find one for her annual hay bale + cornstalk + indian corn + pumpkin + scarecrow display.

I've occasionally seen mini hay bales for sale in supermarkets. They're about the size of a MacBook and go for around $10.

My guess is that what would be most cost-efficient for you is to find a garden center or regional big box hardware store that sells seasonal decorations, so that you can make one large delivery to where the people are.

If any of your neighboring farms have pumpkin patches, maybe they'd be interested in selling hay bales to the public. We went to three pumpkin patches this year, and while all had hay bales for their own use, none had any for sale to the public.

Just a thought from someone who's not a farmer, but has always had an interest in farms.
Absurd. "History" is not some kind of science done by weights and measures but the job of interpreting various things about the past into some sort of cohesive narrative. Of course the result of trying to recapture something about the past is often not very much alike -- I don't think the American Republic is really that much like the Roman Republic, despite consciously attempting to recreate it -- but the idea that that's "not what history for" is just not true as a descriptive statement. Perhaps you believe it should not be used that way, but if your only lens to look at things is the present, your imagination will be incredibly constrained.
> and the artist hadn’t been paid either.

> he and others would build a new project called Fight Back Apes out of the ashes of Evolved Apes. Evolved Apes holders would be automatically approved for a Fight Back Apes token linked with the art from the old project.

Is the artist going to get paid this time?
The original didn’t have a music box in the base; there was a spring motor to turn the record, but the actual music-box part was in the head (running along the record, which had detents in the plastic to pull the tines for the notes)—this is why you could get different songs by changing the disc.

This music box in the base of the new model is probably simply the cheapest way to get a spring motor for the turntable these days, rather than custom-manufacturing one that matches the original.
200ms just for loading completions? :(
fish avoids this with lazy-loading
Can you explain what you mean by "natural selection is a cultural myth"?

It is possible that we can "naturally" evolve to live far beyond our individual fertility, and humans did live long before civilization. Complex species like humans require a ton of knowledge and skill training. Old and experienced people can be incredibly valuable to a tribe if they can teach and care for the young, even if they can no longer reproduce themselves. It's not enough to just squirt out offspring. You need to invest in them so they can become successful enough to squirt out their own.

There are other examples like this. Like why various types of animals having warning calls for predators. These things don't make sense for an individual to develop, because the warning call actually draws the predator's attention to the individual making it. The best thing for the individual to do is stay quiet and hide. But the call increases the fitness of the individual's kin, so the trait survives.

Homosexuality might be another instance of this, the "gay uncle" theory. Similar to the reason we live long after fertility, a tribe with a minority of young non reproducing members can be helpful for taking care of and training the children.

It's called kin selection, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_selection
All versions? Would be cool to use a hacked switch running linux instead of Jetson if the performance was that much better.
Author here. The quotes are indeed needed. Emacs does the same thing. For example:

((lambda (x)
(message "%S" x))
(1))
;; fails: no such function `1'

((lambda (x)
(message "%S" x))
(quote (1)))
;; prints (1)

The original evaluator is defined so that if the first item of a list, is a list whose first item is LAMBDA, then what it does is it calls Evlis() and Pairlis() which is sort of like a glorified version of Python's zip() function, to attach all the subsequent list items to the parameter name list.

((LAMBDA (ARG1 ARG2 ARG3)
<YOUR PROGRAM GOES HERE>)
(QUOTE VAL1)
(QUOTE VAL2)
(QUOTE VAL3))

This is the "venus fly trap" that the blog post mentions. The process of evaluation causes the expression the clamp in on itself where the args get digested into an association list which can be referenced and then the payload is evaluated. This was all non-obvious to me, even after using LISP casually for years, since we normally don't write code that way.

Now it's possible to add extra code to the evaluator so that if a naked lambda is encountered, i.e. it sees (LAMBDA ...) rather than ((LAMBDA ...) ...), it just lets it pass through, so you don't need the quotes. We did that originally, but deemed it non-essential and was removed, since that would have made it much harder to hit the 512-byte goal.
Good recounting, but I feel like any talk of the potato famine has to mention the role the English played:

> Charles E. Trevelyan, who served under both Peel and Russell at the Treasury, and had prime responsibility for famine relief in Ireland, was clear about God's role: "The judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson, that calamity must not be too much mitigated".

Source (but you can find stuff like this everywhere) https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/historical-...
There's so many terrible analogies associated with NFTs and blockchains too. It all comes from their confirmation biases. They're already too invested into it to back out. It's too easy to become blind to any valid criticism, so might as well come up with as many analogies as possible to attempt to gather more recruits and justify their decisions.
Flying Ointment
if you got Scammed. you deserve it.
I was taught that as well, in what retrospectively was blatant capitalist propaganda. That the only thing that has given us leisure was the efficiencies of capitalism, and the benevolence of capitalists.

Albeit my school district was really into right wing propaganda in general, describing the civil war as "the war of northern aggression" in its text books.
I get what you mean, but I think this might be too prone to error.
Yeah I think it's quite different from baseball cards. There the authenticity of the physical item is quite a part of the value proposition. People want to own the the actual original which was part of the print run in whatever year. Reproductions have no value, and things like the physical condition of the card play a huge role.

With an NFT there's nothing besides the notion of ownership which separates the owner of the NFT from anyone else who has access to the digital asset.

I'm not saying there's nothing interesting about the notion of digital ownership, but someone would have to figure out a way for that ownership to actually mean something, which has not been achieved in the current iteration.
> ...NFTs are anything other than a thinly disguised vehicle for scams

can you explain why they are scams?
I've seen socialists advocate for a "public Spotify" that offers free streaming for all music and pays artists itself, likely with significant subsidies; lots of governments want to subsidize the arts, and such a service would be an excellent way to do so.

It doesn't seem like that bad of an idea, if we take as given that a government service could actually provide as a good of a product as the modern streaming platforms do.
"News" in Hacker News doesn't necessarily mean everything is new that comes up. Everyone might not know what you know, so sometimes it's interesting enough to end up on the front page.
I have never heard anyone at any level day that their companies annual review was useful. What would be useful would be some kind of regular e.g. monthly catchup for real mutual improvement. This rarely happens.

At my first company we had an open salary and review policy. You could read anyones up to ceo level (6000+ employees). This was the best structure I've worked in, but it might not work for everyone.
It was the economic system that was imposed upon the Irish that forced them into relying on a monoculture, too, and forced them to starve.

The Irish working class were forced into smaller and smaller subdivisions by English landlords[1], to the point that they could only rely on a potato monoculture[2] to sustain themselves. During the famine, those landlords evicted over half of a million poor and starving Irish people[3].

Those same Irish tenant farmers harvested crops during the famine that were then shipped and sold on the English market[4], while those that harvested them starved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Tenants...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Potato_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Evictio...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Food_ex...