skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't. Try to find a single case of censorship in Bitcoin or Ethereum to substantiate your claim.
when you examine the video being reacted to, the reaction doesn't seem odd at all.
You might like what i am building: https://shepherd.com/best-books/changing-your-mind-about-sci...

https://shepherd.com/best-books/scientists-who-write-science...

https://shepherd.com/best-books/realistic-near-future-scienc...

I go to authors and ask them to recommend 5 books around topics/themes they are passionate about. The end result is amazing book recommendations imo!

I am working to add more lists every week and in dec ill be adding search, a real front page, and topic pages. My goal is to make new and unique ways for readers to browse amazing books online.

In the meantime you can do site:shepherd.com science fiction to get lists (or related list is basic but works well)

Let me know if you find it useful :)
Hydrogen also should enable more hydrocarbons to be produced from biomass, by hydrodeoxygenation: (CH2O)n + n H2 --> (CH2)n + n H2O.
You use it to buy food, fix your house, pay off your protection racket that keeps the mob and/or police from killing you, get some car parts, pay that guy who loves cars to figure out why your transmission is busted, get antibiotics from the family that thought to loot the pharmacy, and of course convert into cash to pay the electric/Internet/phone companies so you can keep using Bitcoin, assuming they continue to exist (not a guarantee, and IMHO the weakest point in the "Bitcoin as a hedge against state failure" thesis). Plenty of people in failed states do this already.

I think most people in the developed world take for granted how much we get from a stable currency, rule of law, and public institutions that at least make an attempt to serve the public. All 3 of these are under threat right now.

Your assumption is that you can go to the grocery store, put your credit card into the self-checkout machine, and buy anything with money you earned several months ago. What happens when that money is worth less than half what it was last month? And grocers are like "Sorry, I don't take dollars, because they'll be worthless by the time I get my next delivery."

People in conditions like these survive by black markets. They pick something that can't be forged by a central bank - cigarettes, liquor, gold, seashells, whatever - and trade for goods with that. Cryptocurrency has the advantage of being worldwide (you can still get chips from Taiwan and electronic components from China), but the disadvantage of requiring electricity and the Internet to operate. Whether this is a winning combination depends on how deep the crisis is.
> you just also have to offer the complete work to them under the GPL as well

The "as well" is where your comment introduces a slight inaccuracy, because it suggests that you could offer the whole work under BSD if you wanted to. You can not. The whole reason that people who prefer permissive licenses do not use GPL code is that they want to be able to license the whole work under a permissive license, in order to be able to provide their licensees with additional freedoms.
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I honestly hate headlines like this. Jokey, tongue-and-cheek takes that effectively treat environmentalism like every little bit counts. It doesn't.

We are in the midst of a serious crisis, we know the reasonable solutions we should be taking to avoid catastrophe, and we are collectively choosing to ignore them. It should be treated seriously. If we're going to joke about it, it should be dark comedy.
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." - Mike Tyson
Glad you enjoyed the video!

Just to be clear, while I started the project, it's since been hacked on by hundreds of people (we're well over 500 contributors on GitHub) and it's by no means a solo project anymore! https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity
I was excited about guix a few years ago. Then their team peed in the pool with their identity politics and used gnu.org as a platform to carry out character assassination on RMS. I haven't looked back since. I think Stallman's politics are terrible too, but he has the common decency to keep it on his own personal domain and not promote it on official ones like gnu.org. The only politics I should hear about on gnu.org are the four freedoms. Period.
The files are uncensorable, not the stupid coins...
Ethereum is moving to proof of stake, will hopefully solve that problem.
I remember reading a bit about GNNs circa 2019. At that time it seemed to have mostly to do with point clouds (for LIDAR data and for 3-D modelling mostly) but I imagine things have changed lots on this front. Are there any interesting papers/resources you could recommend for one to get back up to speed?
To me it seemed that the incentives are used to make decentralization more secure in the future, but let's see how that goes.

It feels like a refreshing alternative to the run of the mill VC/startup model.
These days [1] emacs has built-in json support, as it is needed for a decent LSP experience.

[1] as in, you need to build it yourself from HEAD.
Is it just me or does the future he paints sound absolutely abysmal? It's effectively a dictorship where your entire life is bouncing from one tulip mania to another holed up in your apartment talking to an AI and lost in a world of garbage content from Neflix 2.0 while you await your burrito delivery and dream of hitting it big on <insert_name> Coin so you can move to Mars and watch the dust blow around.

Kill me now :(
Enough circumstantial evidence is perfectly sufficient for conviction.
This is definitely intentional. However, there are certainly ways the design could be improved while staying true to the style.

I really like what they're doing though!
Mono panels were 75% of the market in 2020, I read.

A concern I'd have with this water splitting is getting the water in and the hydrogen out (and separated from the oxygen). Wires are easier than pipes.

Doing this with ordinary PV also means the hydrogen production can be dispatchable. When PV output is tight, just stop making hydrogen and use the electrical power directly.
Conversely, I like the landing page very much. I believe author made it the way it is intentionally.
because api isn’t blockchain nft dao decentralized
I've now visited Voat, and I agree it's pretty terrible.

I still don't think the criticism of anti-censorship movement in general that I responded to is at all accurate, but that doesn't mean there won't be exceptions.
This is all good, but the best was last imho.

> Two years after his Africa trip, an assassin shot him [Roosevelt] while he climbed a podium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The bullet went through his reading glasses cases, a thick sheet of papers bearing his speech, and into his chest. Undeterred, the badass ex-president climbed to the podium and started a 90-minute speech with “Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
Yep, completely intentional haha. Wanted to make something unconventional
Trying, and failing, to resist the urge to bring up Zig
If you know the history of disruption, you'd know that very few companies survive them. "All but two" could the list of dead companies from this, not the survivors.
A lot of people get tripped up by nominal prices. Ignore the big numbers, and focus on the return you will be getting using the non callable (and non recourse in WA state) leverage you get with a home mortgage.

Unless Seattle stops being attractive to people with high incomes, you have nothing to worry about. Use your current home’s equity to get the house you want.

The situation mainly sucks for people who jump on the equity ladder later than those who jumped on earlier. But that is how our society is structured, and I do not see a reason for that to change soon.
But rappers do frequent the most socially volatile areas, albeit in the US.

The US is huge and there are pockets of instability of course, especially in big metro areas such as LA, Chicago , Baltimore and Detroit.

For a socially competent person who lacks the prequalifer of fame though ,they are not that great again due to prices which are US-like
Legitimate question to the folks on here that are defending this guy: What are your thoughts on this guy’s (thoroughly spelled out) views regarding race and intelligence?

I’ll start: I think his opinions are wrong and bad, and I sincerely doubt that the people that take issue with him do so explicitly because of what to place in 2017. This strikes me as a deliberate misdirect to enable his victimhood.

And to answer his question: “What do you want from me?”

Answer:

“Nothing. I want nothing at all from you. I want to stop hearing racist dogwhistle bullshit from big publications (even if the racist dog whistle bullshit is written by somebody that suffers from mental health issues.) My issue isn’t with you, it’s with the folks that pay you.

Will I go out of my way to undermine your career? No. I will probably not think of the Poor Abused Race Scientist ever again after today, but should I somehow come across your writings on the future, I’ll decline to read it. It’s kind of sad that you view this opinion as some sort of hate crime, but that’s not my problem.”
Forgetting to kill your cloud instances and getting charged isn't a dark pattern, no more than forgetting to fill your gas tank isn't an automotive manufacturing dark pattern, or leaving your water running in the basement sink and forgetting all winter and then having a fight with your husband just before Christmas because the water bill is $1000 and you're the only one that uses the basement utility sink but only in the summer because it is too cold in the winter...
I want to second that. Andreas YouTube channel is a great source of genuine inspiration. It's enlightening to see a person as skilled as Andrea doing such great craftsmanship regarding scoping things, improvising, making mistakes, fixing them, making compromises to achieve goals, and more.

I see Serenity OS, I upvote it :)
If I buy something, it would be nice to know it's actually mine and I don't have to ask permission to re-sell it. So no, I don't see Ticket Master doing this any time soon. But ya know, maybe Pearl Jam would like to use NFTs to sell seats some day? Who knows.

As far as deeds to important things; you can lose the title to your house in the current system too. It's why you pay for title insurance.

Would I like my home dependent on me never loosing a 128-bit key? Probably not. I'm fine with Ticketmaster and the paper title to my house. But my examples are at least a million times better than the hosted JPEG stuff, which I think was the only bar I had to cross. :D
Slow languages create greenhouse gasses, C does not produce more humans (yet).
We have a growing number of ports for those that wish to run 3rd party software on SerenityOS: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ports

Note that the system aims to be completely free from dependencies, so all ports are strictly optional.
Perl is the worst programing in terms of energy usage.
Yes, and the technology of money happens to be going through a historical transformation.
It also means that doing personal projects in language with long compile times would be worse for the environment, and interpreted ones would be better.
Yup. I just don't like the word "swagger," but I dug the tone of the article.
> relating to content produced and published by the provider of the service

How many places can claim that their comment section can only be used for such comments, and not for any other content? You would need to manually screen everything that was submitted to ensure it didn't stray off-topic.
https://youtu.be/ozg7gEchjuM?t=152
That’s how I felt when Gavin/Parity people first started using the term, felt a bit like an appropriation. It’s a marketing term, people like new numbers like HTML5 or Industry 4.0. While it’s not perhaps so accurate for new decentralised storage/compute/consensus tech, it encapsulates the broader movement pretty well. I think we’re stuck with it for a while for better or worse - at least until web4!
Workday to acquire external workforce management startup VNDLY for $510M
Think of all the energy needed to produce all the coffee they consume!
I want to offer an, hopefully intuitive enough, alternative to this line of reasoning. To me the aspects that make cryptocoins behave a bit like a gold standards is what makes them scary and dangerous:

https://benoitessiambre.com/specter.html

https://medium.com/@b.essiambre/the-world-deserves-a-pay-rai...
> it would not change the fact that the BSD-licensed component is BSD-licensed.

That's correct, as far as I know. But it completely misses the point. I'm not required under the BSD to provide anyone with access to the original, BSD licensed code. That's the whole reason people can distribute modified closed source BSD code as they see fit. If I modify a BSD licensed source file and include it in my program, I am free to license the whole thing to anyone as GPL. This does not "change" the licensing of the original component - but I am not providing the original component.

Of course, most of the interest is in going the other direction. If I include a GPL licensed source file in my program, the entire program becomes GPL even if I don't want it to be. Unless the recipient of the software painstakingly removes all GPL components, they must abide by the GPL's requirements for the whole of the software.
Besides the already mentioned "donate via crypto" red flag, this argument is NULL and void.

Different languages were made with a reason, and they solve different problems. Even Python can be efficient when your largest bottleneck is network or disk IO.

Nowadays we have Rust, which is slowly catching up to C speed, and sometimes even surpasses it.

C is a beautiful language when used in embedded space, where memory allocations are minimal. Once you start throwing mallocs left and right, you lose that simple elegance.
No good can come of this.
> Well, when others overreach, why should i not be allowed to overreach?

Because this is how you win the trust of the observers.
You could use a phone as the UI, but the detection requires emitting and sensing very specific wavelengths of light that phones don't emit or sense, so there'd still be a hardware component.
I've been hearing about improved electric motor efficiency for at least 30 years from Scientific American and the Rocky Mountain Institute, among others.

I dispute the claim that current industrial motor efficiency is 50%.

I also want to know why this revolutionary motor technology is different from all preceding, failed, revolutionary motor technologies in terms of market acceptance.
The stack of 40 is usually quite related and often would be a 2-3 PRs in GitHub -- it also lets you perform pipelining where you can add new commits to the end of the stack at the same time as merging commits earlier in the stack.
Talk therapy can be 100% as good as you say it is.

Every 7-10 years or so most people encounter times of crisis that usually resolve in 2 to 3 years. See

https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Ego-George-Vaillant/dp/0674953...

An extended psychotherapy like the one Freud wrote about spans such a period. Personally I have gotten much benefit from 10 sessions of therapy in a pinch.

The Exercise and the SNRI/SSRI work together with the talk therapy when you are in crisis. They counteract damage that stress does to the nervous system. You've still got access to your feelings, but your immediate response is attenuated.

As you heal you should still exercise but would probably stop taking the meds, preferably with the agreement of your doc.

Beyond therapy there are many things you can do to heal and grow. It is great to pick up some project you'd abandoned long ago. For instance one middle-aged woman wanted to ride horses when she was a girl and started riding at my stable.

Search for meaning. Right now I am doing an art project and looking for answers in psychology, sociology, literature, etc.
So he'll actually wind up build 10 a year. Boo Hoo.
Yes, but not yet and we're not 100% sure it will actually happen or will retain a lot of users. So if you care about computing efficiency, taking crypto (even ETH) now is a weird choice.
Exactly! This is my big critique about Web 3 — what can it actually do that we couldn't do already?

The new things people propose as Web 3 use cases, e.g. interoperable game items, simply aren't practical. That's why they don't exist already — not because they require blockchain to build.

I've heard people argue that big tech social media silos will be replaced by decentralized Web 3 social media, but why would they be? We already have decentralized social media. The reason Mastodon can't compete with Twitter isn't because it needs blockchain; it's because Twitter has all the users and all the money, and that's because centralization is just more profitable. It boils down to economics, not technology.
Most people don't enjoy having to jump through a dozen hoops to send 5-8 digits of fiat between countries with a massive delay, possibility of "your" funds being held for almost any duration due to any number of reasons, or just frozen because some automated system quite possibly false positive flagged you. It is far more important to me that a value store is actually under my control, and usable instantly 24/7 instead of only during business hours or having to wait for the next business day.

A good part of financial "regulation" is not for consumer protection - it's not for consumers at all, it is for governments. The US government is free to regulate the dollar, because it is a currency they issue. Given their track record of mismanaging fundamental economics, I have no interest in a value store issued by a notoriously incompetent entity that is also inconvenient, volatile, unreliable, being actively hyper-inflated, and not even under my control to begin with.

This whole "you dont need crypto unless you are ponzi, ransom or drugs" shill is getting really old. We all know how "if you're innocent, you have nothing to hide" plays out logically and ethically. I haven't held onto USD for more than a day after getting paid in over three years now, other than what is absolutely necessary for transactions that still rely on USD. I'm a software engineer with no criminal record/affiliations, and strong morals as well as ethics - which is why I still pay all the taxes I should in USD, and circumvent the otherwise technologically inferior and fundamentally unethical method of value exchange for everything else. So please, give me a single reason to use a dinosaur bank over crypto that is actually in my own best interest.
I like the classic alert("Coming soon"); when Explore tab is clicked. How long did it take for you to make this?
The linked Twitter thread includes Harris saying,

> I would def settle for never having to think about it again, but clearly Freddie isn't going to "go away" like he first promised he would, so I'm sorta stuck here with that while he cashes in on self-pity.

And, if you click on the 2018 link, Harris quotes DeBoer writing

> I have abandoned all social media permanently. I have stopped freelance writing. I have in general tried to permanently remove myself from online life and from the world of political writing in which Malcolm resides and I once resided. [...] I have fully committed to constant treatment, and I have fully committed to going away.

So, I mean, yes, Harris absolutely says what commitments deBoer is breaking. That you had to take the extra 60 seconds to follow the links is not a failure on Harris's part. :)

Now, there are all sorts of questions this raises about "how long of 'going away' is enough" and "is expecting permanent exile from public life reasonable." As near as I can tell, though, deBoer decided that the correct answer to "how long is enough" is "about 12 months." It doesn't seem unreasonable to me for Harris to be looking at that a bit askance.
Someone recently told me that proof of stake is less energy intensive than proof of work, but it’s still pretty energy intensive.
Deboer deleted his apology from the internet and then wrote this mealy mouthed drek of an article indicates that he hasn’t lived up to his commitment to move on.

He means to fool small minds with meandering language, confusing the herd so they let him regain the status he desperately craves.
A December 2020 journal article I was using (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7751056/) gave an r0 range of the original of 1.5-6.68 across various studies. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34369565/ puts Delta at about 5.08 and the origin strain at around 2.79. There is a lot of range in numbers I've seen, but the proportion is generally agreed to be about 2X for Delta to the origin strain. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11742399 has smallpox between 3.5 to 6, so closer to Delta than the origin strain.

I didn't look into these numbers to deeply as they seemed to be under active debate and my point was that smallpox is in the range of Delta, not the specific number.
I used to get caught up by the same thing with quotation marks here. Not everyone loves the HN norm about it, but I've internalized it.
They don't make them like that any more
I don't usually think about this but one of the points did hit some nerve - I cannot begin to understand what it's like for a 20 year old to have been born in a world where Google is already established, Social networks are mainstream, and Amazon is our all encompassing commerce overlords.

To me it was just yesterday that the idea of that curated list of web links called Yahoo seemed neat, ebay is some social experiment from across the bay, and then this ugly looking Google kid comes in and blows everyone away with actual relevant search results. Or those SMS messages from that SMS service Twitter or finding old friends on friendster... I can't recall any recent high impact "new thing" except maybe crypto.
cherrywood, they aren’t garbage books they are just garbage recommendations.
I'm British and I hate marmalade! Marmite ftw!
Insufficient demand for "blockchain" products.
I understand that premise—read my prior comment again, or do you, like the author, also not understand how code is supported?
You said this:

"Your example is one of a physical good. Of course you don't need an NFT to display a card physically. But what if you want to display it digitally? Your best option at this case is to take a photo, upload it to the web, then the consuming websites can hire people to scrutinize a bunch of grainy vaccination card photos from their users. Meh.

On the blockchain, you'd have an NFT representation of your card, and its origin (i.e. which authority gave it to you) could be easily programmatically tracked."

I'm saying we already have all of that and more without having to complicate it with an NFT that doesn't add anything.
Title insurance might be cheaper if your county clerk’s title register were cryptographically verifiable by outside parties? Though that just requires a Merkle tree, not a blockchain
Also a badly written C program can be more inefficient than a python one.
Yes.

Writing/editing papers, grants, grant renewals, dealing with graduate students (mentoring, defenses/other events), post-docs (mentoring, job applications), meetings (with lab, department), consulting, occasional lecturing -- and that's only scratching the surface..
> Is there a particular part of the process of architecting software that you find satisfying?

Not really. My role mainly consists of sitting in meetings, providing estimates for vague projects, and some high-level designs. I miss writing code, but I do not miss low salary and calls outside of work hours to fix stuff.

> If you know what you want but struggle to set goals and make steady progress towards achieving them, I think it comes down to discipline.

I will have to think about it. I know what I do not like (politics, the industry I’ve worked in all my life, vague tasks, context switching, people management). I know I like to code, but it can never be just that. I will have to think about it more.