skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This device is operated by shifting the weight back and forth between your feet and the seat, not by pulling with the arms.
In tech circles there are a lot of folks who knew of the technology years ago when it was worth just a few dollars and now see it selling for 60k and are no doubt kicking themselves now. If I am honest, I know I am. I don't lose sleep over it, but I could be sitting on a lot of money right now if I had of acted back then.
I’ve had great success with using fish-shell [0] as an introductory material. It is really beginner friendly, has a sane scripting language.

[0]: https://fishshell.com/
Some of us have a bone to pick with them too.
David Graeber style participatory democracy. Put decision making closest to the people impacted.

Doesn't scale. Which is a feature, not a bug.
Its is like during the gold rush .... Founders/owners of these coins and DAOs are the ones selling shovels to normal people and making money.

edited - for clarity
That's like saying someone who can manage a team of 7 can manage an organization of unlimited size, because each of those 7 can manage 7 others etc.
Describing the current CA system for TLS certificates as the peak of what is currently possible is simply untrue. As it happens, there is a solution, and I described it. Domain names can be tied to a strict key hierarchy using DNSSEC, and DNS for domains can in turn contain PGP keys (or any other kind of verification data). This way, a package could be directly verified as being issued by a current owner of a domain name.

The fact that we all use and trust CA-issued certificates today is not an argument for accepting that system as the best we could ever do in the future, or even today. And the fact that one wishes to improve the current situation does not make it wrong to use the current system as it is – to claim otherwise is to be Mister Gotcha (https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/).
circular definition
This is the most important thing I have ever learned about using vim. For the past 15 years it is the first thing I do on any computer I use.
To pay for debt by creating new debt and forcing spending before the currency loses purchasing power.
Wow he must be naive of history...
You're referencing one weird out of context quote (which sounds like it was since clarified) from one nonprofit who got funding from the Gates Foundation.

It seems somewhat disingenuous to make the claim that the Gates Foundation thinks Math is White Supremacy based on that.
It has plenty of purpose in facilitating organized crime. Regardless of what the technology is capable of at some point in the future, this is overwhelmingly the use case today.
Protobuf supports sum types in the higher-level generated descriptors and languages -- on the wire they're just encoded as, well... oneof a number of possible options.
Don't be so bitter. The more people in the pool, the more diluted all that fat interest gets. While it needs to grow, it is also a bit of fight club.

Let it grow organically. The more that people throw shit against it, the stronger it gets. I wouldn't expect bitcoin to replace something as large as gold, without a huge fight. It has to win on its own merits.

Really, it is the story of bitcoin from day one. Those who got in early got all the rewards. Those who didn't... well... will pay nearly any price for it.
> Also, the human brain was never designed to handle social groups much larger than 100.

The human brain has only approximately 7 registers, therefore all of humanity's accumulated knowledge and culture can't have come into existence because 7 registers per computational node is insufficient?

These cognitive limitations are better understood as challenges, not fundamental barriers. Culture is an immensely powerful tool. Indeed, one might argue that culture is so powerful that as our capacity to construct and leverage culture grew the selective pressures and evolutionary need for further increasing other, primitive cognitive limits diminished.
Everyday robots are (slowly) leaving the lab
To legitimize a pyramid scheme of an economy.
Programmable money is just not that interesting, despite that you think it should be. That's before accounting for the loud portion crowd that hangs around the space, that over hype and are annoying.

There are more interesting and world benefiting things to work on. Less about hate, more about opportunity cost. Everyone who pitches me on working in crypto talks about how rich you'll get. Is that a major selling point in any other job interview? Does it seem off when that is the main selling point for working in a field?
A market-based way of allocating resources to new productive ventures and rewarding those who allocate the best.
"...but instead optimized for the continuation of the organization..." This sums it up. It takes a very narrow / well-defined focus to avoid optimizing for the organization. Power corrupts. I wonder if it would be possible to have a built-in / designed reset. Or if it's even possible to have a narrow enough or well defined enough focus that the target of the reset is understood and agreed upon.
You just described protobufs and all its successors.

See the “@0xdbb9ad1f14bf0b36” at the top of this capnproto file for example: https://capnproto.org/language.html

It’s a 64bit random number so it’ll never have unintentional collisions.

Also note that a capnp schema is natively represented as a capnp message. Pretty convenient for the “You can also transmit messages to define new UIDs” part of your scheme :)
But this makes it more complex.

If the bank's phone number can't be "spoofed" then it can only have 1 outgoing call at a time, otherwise, each agent will have an independent line and a unique number.
I won't work for TradFi like I won't work for DeFi or AdTech
Yeah, no.

When I initiated a wire transfer, my bank did call me to confirm it.

What's worse, when I called back, I didn't reach the same department and it took half an hour to sort it through.

It was all legit, but was indistinguishable from a scam attempt.
> What human institution has endured?

Those were Malthusian times, before industrialisation and widespread literacy and the internet. We don’t have evidence that this time is different. But we can’t reject that hypothesis, either. The biggest thing we currently lack is a culture that believes it can break the cycle.
Good point. N**2 is probably the maximum, unless you're also adept at managing the management.
I see even diffusion bonding still being cheaper than 3d.
I really need to take the time and do a deep dive on this language, it has such an interesting feature set.
>22/02/2022 will be a thing

For once there's a bit of stupidity Americans won't be involved in...
California public universities are not allowed to look at race in admissions, so gaming racial designation wouldn't help.
This Video Has $views Views (2020)
There are drugs available in jails and prisons. Incarceration does not solve addiction and worse it groups troubled people together.
Not sure if this was just a joke or if you seriously think this is how it works
You can choose Equinix for colo. Best in breed provider.
Ah interesting hadn't realized it was a closed club. Heard it was some kind of delegate, DAO but that likely just means those with the money win right?
very succinct. I like it a lot.
What, other than belief, do you think it would take?
Hey I've got a Comp Sci PhD and let me tell you I'm dumb as a rock. I have very little short term memory and my long term memory is also terrible.

FWIW the people that finish PhDs are the most stubborn/persevering and not the most intelligent (the most intelligent are those that DONT start a PhD haha).

But in all seriousness most of the achievements you see are product of someone just picking at their stone day to day. It's just a matter of doing a d doing every day. You could write a assembly game or anything else if you decided to sit down , start and dedicating 1 or 2 hours a day every day .

Regarding medication, I take amitriptyline every night and I dont think it makes me stupid. It does remove some of the mood "edge".
Unions are looking after their workers which goes back to how well the company does. They have zero incentive to protect consumers.
The Catholic Church has done pretty well for itself (~2000 years and counting).
Do you have any evidence from your media diet? I see recent articles over the past year that it isn't successful in diversifying.
Banking (call it 2500+ years, in the sense of marks in a ledger being equivalent to some method of stored value)
You should focus on handling specific occurrences of racism as opposed to looking at a high level numbers and drawing conclusions from them. The latter is subjective and can be abused endlessly.
I was on the CDT this year and heard about these guys. It's a crazy accomplishment! I know I was not expecting them to finish all three.
Ala Tether - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-my...
I don't see it as a replacement for stairs, it's too impractical for general use. The only use case seems to be for what their demo video shows, people with limited mobility.
> What are the key parameters that determine renewal versus rot, and how can they be mapped onto systems of global governance?

I would say one of the key parameters would be how well a system actor models the system in which it exists. In other words, do the internal rules of a system actor, whether it be an organism or a legal code, anticipate stressors from the outside and avoid them?

As two examples, an organism on earth needs to have a model of gravity to avoid falling from a dangerous height and dying. Likewise a legal system needs to have a prohibition against murder to prevent feuds that rip society apart.

If a system actor is really well-adapted to its niche it can forestall rot. However because the actor is always just a part of the system, it cannot model everything. There's simply not enough space to store the model. So all system actors rot and die due to unanticipated stressors.

The system itself, however large we define its scope (valley, earth, universe), will always outlast a system actor because it does not need to rely on a model but is big enough to contain all the information the model attempts to compress.

Renewal is when a failed model is discarded by the system which has more information. Rot is when the model is failing. I'm less worried with an absence of renewal than I am in how long I might have to live with rot.

I see no way to construct a world government that does away with conflict. External stressors are necessary to "keep the model honest". We can try very hard to build good models of governance, and we should, but we should also know that we will always fail. The risk is that fear of discarding a failed government, because of the loss of pride, tumult, and short-term regression, pushes us to maintain an oppressive, maladapted order.

World government has the potential to rot for a very long time.
It's just my subjective assumption, I meant using scratch only in context of beginners with 0 experience in programming/IT.
get to the dang point... i wanted to see what it was but the video kept showing stuff that has nothing to do with what the topic, i gave up and left.
I've given myself an absolutely massive reading-list of books on AI and related topics to plow through, so mostly I expect to be doing a lot of reading. Some specific titles I'm actively working through right now:

Foundations of Computational Linguistics: Human-Computer Communication in Natural Language by Roland Hausser[1]

The Hidden Pattern: A Patternist Philosophy of Mind by Ben Goertzel[2]

Integrating Rules and Connectionism for Robust Commonsense Reasoning
by Ron Sun[3]

Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks by James A. Anderson (Editor),
Edward Rosenfeld (Editor)[4]

Readings in Cognitive Science: A Perspective from Psychology and Artificial Intelligence by Alan Collins (Editor)[5]

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19538351-foundations-of-...

[2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052143.The_Hidden_Patte...

[3]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3826453-integrating-rule...

[4]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1976091.Talking_Nets

[5]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3535749-readings-in-cogn...
Both great reads. Also very interesting because at some points they even tread the same waters.
Eighty centimeters is 31.5 inches, so a little over 2.5 feet. That's fairly compact.

Taking the stairs can be awful when you are impaired and falling down stairs just adds new injuries to your problems.
Registered with who? This joke makes me think of the weird world of registering star names, from an organization that's not the International Astronomical Union. You might have potentially gotten scammed.

Humans are the weakest link in any realistic security model.
We should be able to look at how well institutions last and see in gradually grow, modulo certain black swan events. Before the 1900s, how many banks lasted more than a hundred years? Now many of our banks can trace their lineage that far back. Constitutions and national borders also seem to be growing more stable over time.
http://www.rombout.design/verticalwalking.html
Has some video of pictures of it working so you don't have to wait blindly for it.
The Gates Foundation is responsible for doing due diligence of those it invests in. Investing one million dollars is endorsing the organization's ideals.

Out of context? Do you realize how many times the phrase "White supremacy" shows up in their manifesto "A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction"? They reference "white supremacy" a total of FIFTY TWO times[0].

[0] https://equitablemath.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11...
The MBTA T was actually designed with inspiration from Stockholm!
Why are you bringing up Java? Java is terrible in its own way. Of course you will be more productive without types if the alternative is only Java (which it isn't). Typescript has an extremely expressive type system.
If someone does this for 2014/2015 vintage MacBook Pros, they'll absolutely make a killing.
it's definitely gotten worse in the last couple years with the mainstreamification of MK b/c of things like gaming keyboards, massdrop, etc
"In my opinion" and you seem jaded. I keep a more open mind to things, especially when people are so against them.

It sounds like you should talk to better people cause I don't think I've ever encountered someone pitching me like that and I've been deep into this business for many years now.
> There are more interesting and world benefiting things to work on.

Like providing people across the world with access to a financial system thet can't be denied from?

> Less about hate, more about opportunity cost.

As in you want to know the opportunity cost of not being involved in blockchain/crypto?

> Does it seem off when that is the main selling point for working in a field?

It's only the main selling point for those that aren't tech savvy enough to understand the rest, and I think that's fine. It being a new and growing sector that's quickly appreciating and making people money doesn't take away from what's creating that value and all the innovation happening.

With the birth of the internet people were excited about all the information they were able to access. With the birth of programmable money it makes sense that the same theme would follow with money.
As an aside, do you know if your friend is replying like that on WhatsApp mobile, or WhatsApp Web on a larger screen?
Alphabet’s X has test fleet that autonomously performs office maintenance tasks
Any idea where I can get my hands on those worn-in makitas they're not using anymore?
X's blog post: https://x.company/blog/posts/everyday-robots/
I know I’d be instantly suspicious of such a party, there’s a long history of groups saying similar things and then just staying in power once they’ve actually gained it.
Yea, I wasn't tryna call anyone out, there are legit use-case and I like Twilio approach and yet, it's so easy so fake a CID :(
Life in the west can be much more horrible for a lot of people than life in USSR was for most but dark humor is very mild and looked down upon. I would say cultural differences play much bigger role.
Whose life is worse in the west? Homeless, outlaws (drug addicts, prostitutes), arrested illegal immigrants, some aboriginal communities.
I am wrong about that? I lived in a communist country as a child and young adult. Life in the west can be better...or much worse.
Interesting. Ids in particular are described here: https://capnproto.org/language.html#unique-ids

I wonder if giving it a name based on the hash of the definition has been explored; like Unison [0] where all code is content addressable, but for just capnproto definitions. Is there a reason not to?

[0]: https://www.unisonweb.org
When I tried it, I guess I was way too late to the party. The UI was probably great on an 800x600 CRT, but it seems like the themes are all bitmaps that were never rethemed for a modern higher-DPI/lower-information density monitor. That made it too fidgety for me.
Madoff - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal
If you don't want to trust or pay for a VPN, set up your own:

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
If Beria was a good manager, they wouldn't have to threaten to shoot people. Or, another approach is that managers who threaten their employees' lives are awful at their jobs.

In the free world, managers don't threaten that and they achieve far more. Even in the military, whatever the law, even in wartime it's never done afaik.
Defi protocols are incredibly powerful tools; the only thing preventing me from never using a bank again is not being able to pay for goods directly with stable coins. It's obvious the vast majority of people maligning them have never used them.
Deprecating the cookie: The impact of eliminating third-party identifiers
> pettiness / despotism

Pettiness just feels like despotism without sufficient imagination and/or power to enforce desired change.
"Statistically speaking, you are probably taking up room that should go to someone else. If you are a white cis man (meaning you identify as male and you were assigned male at birth) you almost certainly should resign from your position of power. That’s right, please quit. Too difficult? Well, as a first step, at least get off your hiring committee, your curriculum committee, and make sure you’re replaced by a woman of color or trans person."

https://blogs.ams.org/inclusionexclusion/2017/05/11/get-out-...
One actually useful function of the macbook touch bar is that it gives you an always-on scrubber.
If it doesn't scale, what would be the largest size it would work at, and then how to resolve conflict amongst those groups?
The government of point of view is they have a central ledger of property ownerships and no need for any decentralised solution.
What's the play? College prep K-8, then move to Fresno for 9-12 so you can be in top 9%?
This is the kind of political analysis I've come to be very, very critical of lately. It's not even that I disagree with everything here; it's a truism in anthropology that more complex forms of political organization, like states and empires, are substantially less stable than less complex ones. The author just makes assertions without providing evidence or demonstrating his thought process in any way.

And a lot of it is just plain wrong when you take a moment to think it through. For instance:

> Over time, legal systems seem to similarly become more complex, interdependent, and resistant to change. Sometimes legal systems are “refactored” to increase flexibility, such as when the Roman emperor Justinian arranged for a restructuring and simplification of the Roman legal code. This Justinian code was later adapted by Napolean [sic], who spread it across Europe, after which European conquests spread it across the world

This the kind of generalization you often see from dabblers and rarely see from actual historians or even amateurs with a solid understanding of history. The complexity and rigidity of legal systems in various parts of the world varies greatly depending on the era, the health of the political and socioeconomic systems in that era, whether or not the systems in question are based in civil law or common law, etc. And the idea that there's a straight line from Justinian to Napoleon is ludicrous as well. It glosses over 1300 years of legal history showing large fluctuations in the level of legal complexity because it's either inconvenient for the author to deal with or because the author is unaware of it. Regardless of the reason for the omission, it's a sign of the author's laziness.

I get that this "paper" (author's words, not mine) is just a blog post but IMO this is lazy, reductionist thought and we should demand better when people want to chime in on political or economic issues.
You touch an important point tangentially: Most of these issues are mainly cultural.

I'm in/from Mexico. And I've had the chance to live a d experience lots of different cultures (while living in Europe for 8 years).

American culture has this idea of ruthless working extra productivity/ how to churn as much as possible in little time. Very competitive.

But in other cultures (mexican, german, spanish, serbian/Croatian etc) theres a culture of more easy living. Work to live instead of live to work . Men's ambitions are to raise a healthy family, while in an 9 to 5 (or 7 to 3) job and go back to enjoy the evening with family, friends, tv. People get born, grow old and die having lived good lifes with that.
This reminds me a lot of a video of a retired man that uses his new free time moving large objects just by leveraging gravity. I can't find it right now but I think that there's a potential there for new ways movement just like the vertiwalk.
The on- and off-ramps into the cryptoverse are still really clunky.
But I think we left the point of no return so it will only be a question of time until that is solved as well.
Have you looked into JS8CALL? It uses the same bones as FT8 but allows for longer exchanges.
Aka "Does anyone else think black people have it too easy and are the real racists?"

Refreshingly honest, I suppose.
There's no desire to commodities finance work, but there is for tech
Is it OK that I'm happy this awful place still bears his name? Surely his heirs are embarrassed by this point...
I hold crypto, it's why I don't work full time.

I've interviewed with crypto and worked in the space.

Not jaded, disappointed in how things have progressed. It was better in the beginning. To jump to that conclusion just shows you are part of the attitude problem in the crypto space
Saw the title of this post and thought about how since godaddy has bought out uniregistry, they essentially took a few domains I had bought via uniregistry (a few .top domains I think) and transferred them to a different registrar fairly recently -domains24? or something.

I did not believe it at first, (thought the emails about paying someone else for my domains were a phishing scam) but I guess it did happen.

I have many godaddy=evil stories, the fact they don't enable letsencrypt / easy free ssl on their hosting / cpanel servers - it just makes them really shitty netizens on top of all the other shady things they have pulled over the years.
MD5 is a 128 bit random number no one would ever have thought would collide. 64 bits is peanuts especially when message types are being defined dynamically
To be fair to her siblings, they didn't know they were Native American because they were not in fact Native American.
Consider this; other countries are more advanced than yours.

While China offered a centralized solution to p2p payments, the concept of paying for everything digitally is already ingrained into their culture. Stable coins are not far off from that.

Instead of getting a "cash rebate" by giving up all of our information to credit card companies (they are making a whole lot more than they are giving back), we should be collecting interest on our holdings and spending it more anonymously. Most people won't need credit when they have collateral. That seems like a more entertaining future.