skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are describing an almost global phenomena and attributing it solely to Singapore.

Most places have some source of cheap labor that is exploited.
Are the machines themselves treated like nuclear proliferation/dual use tech?
> Is real estate fraud common enough?

I've talked to someone who worked on a (non-NFT-based!) solution for this in developing countries -- it turns out that yes, the cost to bribe officials to falsify documents to steal property can be cheaper than the property's market price.
According to the paper you cited, such setup in Germany would cause 100-500 hours of blackouts each year.
ROS 2 is in this uncomfortable place that python3 was in for many years. It's clearly the future. Everybody wants to move to it. But too many of the useful libraries haven't been ported over yet, so people mostly stick with ROS1.

We might be getting close to a tipping point. I hope so. But it's probably still 1-4 years out.
That's very sad, what you are willing to do for, or perhaps against, your own people for a market share, or maybe they have other plans, but i don't know what's the use case of drugs other than to dumbificate (to dumbify?) your population

Where will they get the cannabis from? they don't have enough lands, import from the US/Canada i bet? ;)

Modern opium war
> If you want to predict the future accurately, you should be an incrementalist and accept that human nature doesn’t change along most axes. Meaning that the future will look a lot like the past. If Cicero were transported from ancient Rome to our time he would easily understand most things about our society.

This is, I think the heart of the issue. Human nature is pretty constant. We can change our environment or trade offs (for example at one time if you wanted to avoid pregnancy, the trade off was don’t have sex, now it is take a pill, hence the leveling out of our population).
Nuke'em! Nuke'em from orbit! it's the only way to be sure.
I've watched many of your videos and love your approach to building complex features, building the skeleton first with asserts for uimplemeted code paths. However I'd love to see how you got started, the first early (before gui) steps of the kernel. Is that documented? The earliest git checkin I found was already a pretty capable os.
Huge congrats on building such a positive community by the way.
That would be cool; but it would go against not just China and Russia, but against any government. Can't turn off Isis beheadings, pedophiles, scammers, bullies, copyright infringers, ideological intolerables (who can be homophobes in some countries and homosexuals in others), and the list goes on and on. Judging by the prevailing sentiment of modern societies, they wouldn't like this. And governments most certainly won't.
I keep thinking about the beauty of the BitTorrent protocol and wonder why there is no longer any excitement about it and no one is building anything on top of it. Isn't it already a inter planetary file system?
Given a fermion species, let's say an electron, you can have:

- left-handed electron

- right-handed electron

- left-handed anti-electron

- right-handed anti-electron

Going from particle to anti-particle, you swap charge and chirality (that's the CP transformation). So for instance a left-handed electron with negative electric charge becomes a right-handed anti-electron with positive electric charge.

For neutrinos, given that left-handed neutrinos have weak interactions, then so do right-handed anti-neutrinos.

It's no harder to detect anti-neutrinos than neutrinos. It's right-handed neutrinos and left-handed anti-neutrinos you'd have a problem with.

The CP violation article talks about probabilities because CP violation is not nearly as neat as P violation alone. Instead of the clear-cut "left-handed neutrinos (and therefore right-handed anti-neutrinos) only" of P, you get small differences.
Just think of what it'd be like if Bitcoin was developed in the AI field and mining was only possible to implement in Python.
Every application should be solar CMOS ASIC only deployed in land thats reclaimed from farming, or else you are just a boomer who destroyed my life and our planet.
Great name. Amazing no one ever thought to name something "cron" before.
Rank the following aspects of the US voting system in descending order of importance w.r.t. election outcomes accurately reflecting electorate voting intention.

A. Convoluted ballots
B. Electronic voting
C. Voter ID
D. Gerrymandering
E. Super PACs
F. Convicted Felon voting eligibility
G. The Electoral College
H. First past the post
I. Two party system
J. Mail in ballots

As a Canadian who has worked at several polling stations on election day for Elections Canada I'm appalled at the state of democracy in the United States and the continually flabbergasted by the obsession over voting ID by some Americans.

Canadians vote for representatives in non-gerrymandered districts in a process that involves simple paper ballots that are almost always counted with results finalized the night of the election. The process is simple, transparent and most curiously does not mandate ID.

To an outsider watching Americans complain about voter ID laws is like watching someone standing in a burning house complaining that the power just went out.

There are so many bigger issues with the American voting process and if those issues were resolved/mitigated you'd see that whatever issues arise from non-mandated voter ID are most often statistically negligible and easily identifiable.
$40K was the starting salary for new college grads, just out of school... 25 years ago. To think anyone with real expenses, like raising a family, would be "satisfied" with this is simply not believable.
Or just use an ad blocker. It's a 0% vs 100% CPU use on some websites.
When I was working in a warehouse as a poor college student we drove electric forklifts inside for obvious reasons.

When the forklift went flat, you got another forklift to remove the battery and replace it with a fresh one.

Tesla tried this once and it wasn't a great success however, if you have a depo with a stack of batteries, you run a fleet of trucks, this makes a lot more sense.

It's something I'm suprised hasn't been floated as a lot of the customers for the electric trucks are fleet customers
Except when it comes to "containing China", when Washington loves them.
Fair point, but if the client does develop a preventable condition, it would be easy to show this is due to dereliction/negligence on the part of the physician, so the insurance would not pay out. If the client came down with a condition and the physician was not negligent, the condition would likely be non-preventable, wherein the refund clause wouldn't apply, anyway. Thus, regardless of outcome, insurance can never pay out, and the physician retains all the liability, i.e. no use for insurance.
Not wonderful, since atmospheric CO2 is so dilute. You need either a hefty carbon tax or a ban on oil extraction to make the economics work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fuel

Our current spike in natural gas and oil prices is something of a dry run for what carbon taxes would look like. So far it doesn't seem like the approval ratings of the governing party can survive it.
Well the model is Germany, where Tesla employees would have comparable representation (voting board members) to Tesla shareholders. It seems like a pretty good model, I bet even Elon Musk would support it as he's made his disdain for Tesla shareholders clear.

Also, doesn't it just make sense that the employees of a corporation, the ones doing the work, might have at least as good of, if not a much better idea of, the direction the company should take on certain issues, as compared to the shareholders?
> write a program that is able to load and execute a 2021 website

But I thought it was supposed to be "decent and snappy"? This requirement seems to ruin it quite a bit since 80% or so of your snappiness goes away.
> What exactly do you want gimp to do - request a permission to access whole home dir? then we are back to unsecure world.

Author here. That wouldn't be so bad; it's kind of how it works on Android. An app can just request permission to access the entire external storage. It's not exactly the home dir (there's no potential for auto-starting scripts) but it's similar. The permission prompt is still useful because it's something you can decline; you're not forced to agree implicitly to install the app.

But anyway what I want is to install and run GIMP and Excel and Photoshop completely unsandboxed. I think it's silly to try to sandbox every app. The insecure world is still the world of Windows today and it's the dominant platform by far, in part because of the freedom it provides to software vendors.

I do actually prefer traditional installers, which is why I like GOG so much. Good installers will just put their app data into ~/.local/share/<app>, put an icon in ~/.local/icons and a desktop file in ~/.local/applications, and provide an uninstall mechanism to clean it up. There's no mess here, no root required, no accumulating gunk. Longer term, these installers could automatically write AppStream metadata so that the installed app appears and can be uninstalled through the distribution's Software app, like Add/Remove Programs in Windows.

Regardless of what I prefer, the fact is the biggest software vendors will never allow their software to be sandboxed. Look at how Adobe Creative Suite or Microsoft Office are installed on Windows and macOS. They aren't in the OS app stores. They have their own custom installers that handle login, keep the apps up to date, do DRM checks, etc. I'm sure this is not what you want, but it is what they want, and if they can't get it then they just won't port their software to Linux.
Willow is the king of chaotic waterways, sure, but lots of other trees can be coppiced, and coppice is basically what a beaver does to a tree.

A willow branch sticking out of a new sand-bar after a major storm can usually re-root itself. It has so much rooting hormone in it that you can use them to root other species. Some people take a bucket, fill it with cuttings mixed with some ratio of willow to leak hormone into the water and be taken up by the other branches.
Then don't recompile every minute? Or use a language that supports incremental compilation down to even the function level.
I think there’s another layer that’s not present with the epilepsy case. With epilepsy, it’s an unintentional and tangential side effect of a new technology. Engagement apps instead take advantage of our mental shortcomings as a core part of their business models.

All that’s to say: you’re right, but with social media the problems are exacerbated because the incentives demand it.
Can you overwhelm this detector by hiding the camera in another reflective material (eg wrinkled metal or shards of glass wall decor)
These things don't happen naturally, they don't progress at some rate. They happen because people decide to do them, and then do them.

Humans haven't been to the moon in 50 years because nobody has decided to go in 50 years. Right now there's a man with more resources than almost any man on earth and he has dedicated his life to ensuring that people go to mars and live there. He is so to used on it that he has focused on creating novel technology just for the purpose, and demonstrated that technology. It is going to happen.

In space, distance doesn't really matter, gravity wells matter. Going to mars is not much different than going to the moon. You don't really need a trial, the people are stuck there no matter how far away it is.
San Francisco Considers Two Bills Legalizing 'Missing Middle' Housing Citywide
I'd like to see all science put to a prediction market like this.

It could fund replication studies.

Also, companies who rely on scientific output can trade in the market to hedge against the science their business depends on being false.

At scale, this might even be a better way to fund science than blue-sky research grants or patents and licensing.
Is firing the only way to get cancelled?

What about being suspended? Being strong armed into "volunteering" into stepping back from teaching/speaking roles? Having career-advancing opportunities pass you by "for some reason"? Never getting a job in the first place because of your reputation?
Yes and about time, and yes USA and rest of world should catch on also.
> 2050, that super futuristic year, is only 29 years out, so it is exactly the same as predicting what the world would look like today back in 1992

What about the 29 years between 1912 and 1941?

The pace of recent history is not a good indicator of future change.
> Does a “Web3” that depends on Twitter for its marketing and coordination channel really deserve the name? You might say, “Oh, just wait; Web3 will make a Twitter of its own.” No, it won’t. Such a platform would be useless to Web3, because there would be no one there to recruit

Web 2.0, while nebulous, is reasonably defined as "the web as an application platform". Web 1.0 is for documents; static. Web 2.0 couldn't exist without 1.0; it took HTML, CSS, added JavaScript (well, argue the term "added", its nebulous, we're speaking in broad terms), and "evolved" it (or "devolved" depending on who you ask) to support much deeper user interaction and productivity.

Moreover; Web 1.0 is still right here. It didn't go anywhere. Its as easy as its always been to publish a static site with just HTML.

Anyone on the Web3 side who argues "P2P or Nothing" is, frankly, just as pointless as someone on the other side who says "haha, all your marketing is on Web2 Twitter, you people can't even build a social network!". Its not a zero sum game, despite what the semver naming scheme asserts (and let's be fair: Web2 started it! Web3 just adopted their inaccuracy).

Really love a lot of the other points made here, though. Lots of things to ponder over.

> The money thing confounds evaluation; it’s like trying to look at a star next to the sun [...] would you still be curious about Web3 if those currencies were worthless, in dollar terms? [...] The Ethereum Virtual Machine, humming heart of Web3, is a computer that charges you many dollars to execute a very small program very slowly. [...] They were about other things — science and coffee pots, links and camera lenses — while Web3 is, to a first approximation, about Web3.

I think a lot about sort-of the thrust of all these points. Web3/ETH/etc are super interesting from a technical angle, but what "real" work are they accomplishing? First thing people point to: DeFi. But that's self-referential, as he says, and moreover, finance sucks; its important, but its fake. Where's the real productivity in Web3? Well, the Second thing; ETH VM, which is a joke.

NFTs feel like a "third" large use-case of Web3, and could be the first interesting one, as a way to create digital scarcity. I'm not sure if its good or bad, but it is, at least, Natural, and Interesting. But its still self-referential and rooted in finance.

Point being, I think I would be far, far more interested in Web3 if it actually wasn't so mired in finance. I love his wording: its like trying to look at a [planet] next to the sun. But I'm also convinced that it wouldn't exist without its roots in finance; that's how you get people interested.
I think that Windows 2000 and Max OS were the pinnacle of clean Interfaces.

It seems like once the graphics capabilities became common, OS interface developers used them even when they shouldn't have. Remember when moving windows in Linux had a "jiggle" to them? The genie effect in OS X? What about the "cube" of multiple desktop? I still don't know what the point of transparent windows is.

A few effects are useful - like aero peek in Windows.
There is also NEXTSPACE: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

A modern replica of NeXTSTEP.
The Cobra Event was buried and lost by having a title not unlike 500 other novels by more recognizable authors like Ludlum, Clancy, etc. Too bad too, because it's a great read.

How long will that plot really be fiction?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cobra_Event
As compared? Absolutely!

A migrant Mexican worker has full access to the US courts, labor laws protect them, etc.

Migrant workers in Singapore are simply discarded if troublesome. Even though the population of 90%+ vaccinated (for months), migrant workers in Singapore have been confined to their dormitories (when not working) for almost 2 years now.

Pretty regularly trucks with workers in the back with get into accidents and a number will die. Government says “to expensive to make companies transport them in buses”.

There are literally two different systems for Singaporeans and foreigners.
I see it a lot like obesity. Too little is very bad. Too much is also bad. But there's nothing to flag when you have too much.

You see people here complaining that they can't go from $500k to $600k and everyone says that they're being greedy. But the dissatisfaction is a lot stronger at that range, and it only goes up when people become millionaires.

I think it's quite important to check that you're eating because you're hungry and not out of habit/greed/pride.
When bad software requirements happen to good people (2011)
Look, this stuff has been studied and you can find it with just a little bit of looking. How this conversation has been going is a bunch of chaff gets thrown up and then people are expected to answer.

I'm doing as best I can. I happened to have a coworker who was involved in alternative fuels research, specifically the H2 cylinders that operated at lower pressures using a carbon substrate. But even if you don't use that you can still construct and secure the container so it splits instead of shatters and contains most or all of the debris. You can install a shield bulkhead into the car to deflect debris to the ground. You can do loads of things.

You are not original, you are not the first person to raise these concerns, and very competent people have been working on them.

https://xkcd.com/793/
I direct messaged grady via youtube and that was his response
You're being so absurdly rude that I refuse to continue this conversation with you any further. I only suggest, for the sake of anyone who followed this conversation for its intellectual interest, that you provide some kind of argument for your views rather than just claiming repeatedly to be very right.
Extortion is generally geared towards women. Violence towards women like this is a general negative externality/tax on society because everyone interacts with women.
I've assumed as much.

I've also wondered if there is some sort ability to order innocuous sequence A from company a, innocuous sequence B from company b and then in the privacy of your own lab do the DNA synthesis equivalent of A xor B to get dangerous sequence C.
I've often said that in theory I wouldn't let political differences stop me from leveraging useful software. With the RMS drama from the Guix team, that theory has now been tested. I still consider myself a Guix user, even though I don't agree with the project leads on their RMS stance.
IPFS takes a lot from BitTorrent and is more adapted to the file system usecase. As for Bram himself he's now building a Bitcoin alternative.
And if they are the next logical question is 'are the machines that make the machines themselves treated like like nuclear proliferation/dual use tech?'
> Modelle zum »Drugchecking« geplant

I know this true of other languages too, but Germany really loves to do this: use "English" phrases which are either simply wrong or have another meaning than intended, or no clear meaning (here it's pill testing, basically).

I don't know why they do this! It's really irritating as an anglophone immigrant to Germany. German is a real language, they can just say Drogenprüfung, who knows why they don't.
> I don't like the term "Web3" because it suggests that it's the next evolution of the web, when really it's a completely different technology.

The confusion is the point, actually.

This is about hyping something that nobody wants except for people who want to use it to exploit the rest of us in some way and the pool of marks who think they're going a A) get rich off of it or B) reap some vague future benefit that you don't actually need a blockchain for.
That's not what we are talking about. We are talking about being able to cancel the activity "onChain" which you can't.
This was also my first idea when I read the problem.
As the payments stop as soon as you die, this is a strong incentive. The only thing I could think of arguing is, that the doc could keep demanding more and more. But that would imply a situation with only one or very few skilled individuals, right?
They might, but also privacy.com will not let you get more than two cards per site without a special exemption. I learned this when I tried using multiple cards for AWS, one for each app. They wouldn't let me do it.

So maybe Stripe knows which burner providers have their own restrictions and treat them differently?
Things have been accelerating in a sigmoidal manner, which looks exponential in the early curve, but then plateaus as it approaches a limit. It's hard to say how far along we in the curve now, but given that we're bumping up against the limits of silicon semiconductors now, I'd say perhaps farther than you might expect.
That last point ("can set fire to it at any time") is wrong, at least for the many NFTs which use decentralized content-addressed hosting such as IPFS. Or even without the hosting, as long as the NFT identifies the content in sufficient detail—a hash is best but a plain-English description can also work. You just need to save the content yourself so it doesn't disappear if the original host shuts down. No matter what the seller does you'll still have your certificate.

I mostly agree regarding the limited practical value of most art NFTs, but then you could say the same about signed & numbered physical prints which are otherwise indistinguishable from their unsigned/unnumbered (but cheaper) equivalents—yet people pay a premium for those too.

NFTs are pretty general, so one could associate them with licensing or something like a VIP / backstage pass or rewards club membership. In the absence of these things, however, what you're mostly buying is the digital equivalent of the artist's autograph. Which isn't exactly nothing, but I still have a hard time justifying the prices many of these NFTs trade at.
That's pretty nifty. It still boggles my mind that drugs like alcohol are legal in the USA but safer drugs like cannabis are not legal in the USA.
Yes, that is correct. I am not 100% sure on this topic but I believe it is Denmark and Sweden, of the Nordics, that signed up in 1992 to Maastricht which would mean eventually joining. But, in both cases, they haven't done so because it isn't popular (Denmark failed a referendum in 2000).

And their choice is not to peg to an economic region that is nothing like their own (although tbf, this is true of Germany/Netherlands/Austria/etc. too). The EU is not inevitable. The distortion to financial markets is not worth any political benefit (this has been true of the EU since its inception, first Germany and France were in crisis, then 2008, then debt crisis...what a mess).
Dumping data to json seems to be incredibly handy!

Thank you for your effort folks
You are mistaken. It considers that in the part about "how many times the software would need to run to break even".
Good point about combining markets and social aspects but that is possible without DAOs as well. You're confusing the hype with the actual underlying technology and blockchains are not necessary to have any of what you described.

Good luck with your pitch. Sounds like a cool project.
The plan is for SpaceX to send 3 uncrewed launches to Mars (with equipment and supplies) before sending people. I think that if they succeed with Starship, they can very much do it.

And IMO, the more SpaceX progresses, the more people will get excited about space and investment money will be thrown at space technology. I invested some money in Rocket Lab, because they are a public company and the next best thing after SpaceX IMO.