skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my parents solve these and tried to get me interested. I looked at them and said they would be a good test for AGI.
Not sure decidability is that much of an issue for smart contract language.

There's a game-theoretic argument that pretty much solves the issue: you pay money to run your smart contract.

The more it runs, the more it costs, until you run out of funds (gas).

Sounds pretty decidable to me.
That is a good point. Fortunately, I do feel like I am valued in this company. But at that time, I was relatively new in this company and I have moved from another country to work at this company. So I was eager to prove myself to them and was doing overtime regularly, which might have played a role in my carelessness (or is "reverie" the correct word?) at the split second of the accident.
There is still a lot of it in service. Sometimes you'll see a tank of nitrogen chained to a pole. It is there to put pressure through the cable to keep water out of a cut/nick on the lead sheath. The lines are pressurized normally from the central office and if the monitoring shows a drop in pressure (a cut in the sheath), they roll out cable maintenance.
The popularity based recommendations are only shown to brand new users - so they have some content to rate.

A new user starts off weakly connected to all other users and to feeds the existing users are connected to.

But as you submit or upvote links to content you liked - your recommendations will be based on your explicit upvotes, and will be less popularity based.

> aren't you recreating some of the same issues with social media?

1. The algorithm.

Social media algorithms are black box ML models that optimize for time-spent on the platform (ie, ads watched). LinkLonk also uses an algorithm, but there is 0% of machine learning. All it does is keeps track of how useful the past recommendations of every RSS feed and every user have been to you. You define what is useful to you based on what you upvote. This makes it so that each user can make decisions of what they want to optimize for. Social media algorithms make these decisions for you.

2. The types of actions

In social media we have two types of actions:

- Inbound: follow/subscribe - they affect what I see as a user. The target of these actions is myself in the future.

- Outbound: comments/likes/dislikes/retweets/etc - they affect what other people see. The target - are other people.

The problem is largely with the outbound actions - social media give us tools to influence other people and we use them for that. In other words, they give us megaphones and we each crank up the volume of our own megaphone to the max. There is little incentive to not set the volume any lower than the max.

I understand your perspective - traditional RSS readers don't have any outbound actions. You only decide for yourself who you trust to get information from.

And your concern is that LinkLonk provides tools to influence other people and that these tools will be inevitably abused.

What makes me hopeful about LinkLonk is that it does not have separate outbound and inbound actions. There is only an upvote which is both inbound (determines what your future self sees) and outbound (it affects what other people see). So you may want to be more careful about what you upvote - because you don't want your future self to receive useless stuff. For example, maybe you would be less likely to upvote an article without reading it purely based on the title that says "Look how terrible the other side is".

3. Proof of work

The amount of attention someone gets from you is directly proportional to how useful their past recommendations have been to you. In other words, to get your attention they need to prove to be good curators of content for you. They cannot fake it by upvoting the most popular content. That’s because you connect only to those users who have upvoted the content you like before you did it - ie, before the content became popular.
Has any crypto argument ever not depended on circular reasoning?
Ha. I was starting to build a WiFi mousetrap to notify me whenever one of my mousetraps triggered. My cats bring mice into our sunroom, then let them go. Eventually one will slip inside the house or just die in the sunroom then start smelling.

So, me being the technologist, thinks that creating a WiFi enabled mousetrap will let me know if it triggered. I buy a Cricket WiFi module [1], some batteries and reed switches. Start messing around with it, then think to myself "this is dumb", it only takes me 1 minute to check the three mousetraps, whereas I was going to ruin a perfectly good weekend in building a WiFi mousetrap. I put everything in a box, might revisit it later. After working in technology Monday through Friday, I definitely didn't want to spend my weekends doing it either.

[1] - https://www.thingsonedge.com
> I was quite upset, when I first ran into it, but, upon reflection, I have to admit that it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me.

At 62, I can relate.

I think you might enjoy this short parable, as told by Alan Watts:

https://youtu.be/byQrdnq7_H0
Some humans have freckles and others have thicker hair. As evolution has no mind or will, if there is nothing pressuring these traits to leave the gene pool then it would be negligible probability that they do.

Same with any morphological traits, I reckon (I am not an evolutionary biologist).
They think of Jesus as the Son of God, the Word made flesh and able to experience all the usual privations and sufferings of the mortal frame.

They do not see him as having some sort of racial consciousness or national provincialism…because God would naturally as the maker of all nations transcend that.

Evangelicals are typically the ones that go perhaps too far with that themselves. See for example the controversy over their proclivity for trans-racial adoptions.
Yeah, this feels like a survivorship bias fallacy (cf. the famous diagram of where surviving airplanes had bullet holes and the fact you need to reinforce all the other spots, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#In_the_milit...). If you invert the causality, the argument seems correct: anyone who is inclined to learn how to use the shell, find and install packages from the command line, try out a tiling window manager, and compile a program from source will have a good time on Linux.
Yes. Metaverse also.

The phrase "social media" has become passé and even toxic.

The language around BTC & Crypto have political & other baggage.

Web3 is an attempt to re-package the past 10-15 years of web trends in a hip new label that leaves behind the baggage and allows for the appearance of "new stuff happening". But nothing much new is happening.
The thing is , that side of things in practice, isn't really decentralized. Where do you buy and sell those "shares"... exchanges (e.g. binance, coinbase, bitfinex etc), which essentially just replace the centralized stock exchanges and banks of traditional finance.

Whilst it's possible to avoid those, I'd guess it's beyond many participants to do technically, so the exchanges become defacto centralization, and instead of regulated stock exchanges that operate in the same judicial location, in many cases these exchanges explicitly try to avoid regulation or accountability.
yeah both MVIKotlin and Decompose says they are inspired by badoo/MVI-Core and badoo/RIBs.
Here's how you really increase your odds of success:

- Use all-Intel hardware

- Use a laptop that comes with Linux (includes some Dell XPS series laptops and ThinkPads)

- Install Ubuntu and don't change anything via the terminal

Then Linux is every bit as easy and solid as any other OS, if not moreso.
you might want to see some of his other work, including West Side Story (retelling of Romeo and Juliet itself a retelling of another story) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum....
I don’t know why these articles always focus on desktop use-cases where Linux isn’t strong, rather than ones where Linux is. If you have people willing and eager to try something new, teach its strengths.

Rather than teaching a new desktop, teach things where Linux excels server-side. Eg. Setup a Pi-hole

I use both win and macOS desktops at home and will not replace them any time soon with Linux, but have far more Linux devices for things like:

- Pi-hole
- homebridge
- minecraft servers for my kids (with crafty)
- Plex
- Timemachine (netatalk + zfs)
- photoframes using raspberry pi zeros + old cheap monitors

But there are tons of great, interesting, education use-cases.

I’ve found I only learn when there’s an interesting project with a rewarding goal. “Learn a new desktop” isn’t defined enough to stick. Spin up a usable new server proving a clear function is.
That template essentially shot down any discussion of fixing email in the open source space, and so companies like Slack, Google and MSFT were able to create walled gardens that can only be interacted with by their systems or by email senders they consider secure enough.

If, instead of creating that template, somebody had made Thunderbird send PoW headers and priotize those that had it, maybe we would have been in a freer world.
The ratio of crime to harmless fun does concern me. For example if Monero is 90% ransomware and violent gangs and only 10% innocent gambling then I'd rather not use it.
There’s a reason everyone signs a waiver before they give you the pass.
No need anymore. Both bandwidth and storage are dirt cheap.

Linked libraries became obsolete the moment hard drives became huge.
100% agreed. Most of the things look the same and we just ship more and more code.
This is how the big multiplayer servers available via Bedrock edition work, not so much for distance, but for different game modes. Unfortunately players pay by buying predatory micro-transaction items, which I find near unacceptable in a game so squarely targeted at children.
I was surprised she didn't cover the tax rate. I was curious, and I found that it's capped at 22%, and there's a 7% GST, so it's relatively low.

https://www.guidemesingapore.com/business-guides/taxation-an....
> I sometimes wonder how 'humanoid' any potential intelligent alien species must be, if they exist.

TV uses humanoid aliens because they're easy to cast :)

Just look at the other intelligent life on Earth. Some birds, whales, elephants are near the top. If we hadn't nearly wiped elephants out maybe in another 10 million years they'd be making spaceships with their trunks (which have a fine manipulation ability approaching the human hand).

A little further away evolutionarily, jellyfish are remarkably intelligent and seem to even have individual personalities, and they don't have a brain.
Look at the leaderboards on FTX and Bitfinex while it’s happening. They’ll show you the most profitable recent traders. You won’t see it now but I’m sure there are screenshots on Twitter if you follow trading.

Edit: this is also a great resource to see whales moving funds from their wallets, which telegraphs their trades: https://whale-alert.io/

Also, watch short positions. If you see them ratcheting up when the market is calm and trading is thin, lookout below.
Let me dryly discuss this because I feel people are being too gut reaction here

There is a "real world use case" that most would agree with, just cynical. Borrowing and lending crypto is not a taxable event. You can have a capital gain on the blockchain and borrow stablecoins against it, indefinitely delaying taxation. At the same time, as of this moment you can wash trade crypto and tax harvest any new bottoms, making this tax favorable (a common assumption here is that crypto is an expected value 0 gambling game).

Example in the wild https://twitter.com/mcuban/status/1465002539603185668

In this way, it resembles high finance trades e.g. that Matt Levine of Money Stuff used to do to lower client taxes
It's extremely easy and quick to go >>1k blocks away from spawn looking for good territory if you want to, and I've done so now in three separate worlds. And I didn't have a bunch of resources when I did that either. Iron is easier to find than ever now that it spawns on the surface in mountain biomes. I got over a stack just taking the surface iron on a mountain. Sure, there were also copper veins, but there was plenty of iron. This was the first thing I did after punching down a tree and getting a stone pickaxe btw.

I do agree with you on inventory clutter, but that has been a problem for as long as I have played the game (since about 2010? I don't remember which version). I am disappointed that they have delayed the introduction of the bundle.
Sounds like the housing market
Capabilities don't solve double spending(or in this case, double sending) token, as they are intentionally transferrable.

So you'd need to have a way to bind a capability to a sender, which naturally leads to PK, or treat them as short lived tokens you revoke as soon as you see they've leaked, which is identical to throwaway email addresses we already have.
> - Use all-Intel hardware

Stopped reading there.
The history of taboo thought in science is indeed fascinating.

What seems sort of funny is that now that the existence for potential taboo censoring has been recognized, in recent decades there are several charlatans, conspiracy-mongers, or other ideologues who paint themselves as subject to scientific taboo despite "being accurate" in their own minds. The pendulum has swung towards over-acceptance of claims.
I am sure such a scheme embedded into a protocol would work with certain group of people. Most people would just get the same amount of spam, because they can't afford to up their threshold in a way that would deter the "marketeers" to stop such activity.
Didn't the Japanese occupation include a lot of deportations, forced labour and other crimes leaving the place wrecked in both human and material terms?
Remove Character from String Python
>> So borrowing and lending is no real world use case?

People have been borrowing and lending for centuries before blockchain.
Stop thinking about edge cases in your tests with this Advent
Its questionable if they were a confederation, or how connected they were to each other. I don't think people would usually call the vikings a confederation.

I think there is fair evidence that some names refer to places in Greek. At the same time seem to refer to cities in other places. Those however could be Greek colonies in Italy and Sicily. Or maybe non Greeks in those places.

I don't think single origin explanations work all that well.
looks pixelated to me
Concisely: AQ runs Afghanistan, now.

So, it was difficult to finish your comment.
Hydrogen fuel isn't going away.
Count only core maintainers and I'd be surprised if it was above one, yeah. Companies ensuring they have no core maintainers by spreading everyone out essentially has a bus factor of 0 all the time, even on new projects.
Yes.

I think so too.

In the best case it will be some kind of redistribution of value.
My main turnoff in Singapore after living there is the explicit racism that is a part of its social hierarchy. A fresh college grad who is Singaporean will earn more than a much more experienced veteran doing the same work, if that veteran is, for example, from the Philippines. There is a lot of what other countries would consider slave labor disguised as "opportunity" for those from more disadvantageous surrounding economies. This lack of equality runs deep through all the different social constructs of its culture.
Keep in mind that species is a human concept and not some natural law.
There was plenty of money working successfully in Enron, Madoff Investment Securities, and Evergrande, too.

The traditional systems that are apparently inscrutable to you move, in SWIFT’s case, $5 trillion (with a T) per day. These generally settle in a few minutes.

P.S. Transparently resorting to straw men like “if you doubt crypto then you just don’t like technology” is the sort of stuff that prevents people from taking this movement seriously.
I think the biggest benefit of Linux is the likelihood of most of the software you are using to have some kind of terminal/shell/text-based interface which allows for automation of tasks if you are so inclined. Pipes are fantastic.

I have on numerous occasions encountered a task I need to repeat on Windows with a GUI application and cursed to the heavens that there is no way to automate the task, incredibly frustrating.

-- Yes yes, Powershell, but it doesn't do everything. Plus, all the commercial software available, chances are it doesn't have any such feature/plugins.
The Ethereum foundation stopped supporting the project. You can read their notice on their blog I linked.
I was very shocked after watching the first and second Linux challenge videos. In the third video Linus uploaded yesterday[0], it seemed like he was being a lot more diplomatic, and distinguished between a small number of toxic gatekeepers vs. the wider community and their positive contributions.

[0] https://youtu.be/TtsglXhbxno
> Something that has frustrated me so far about the debate over web3 is the extent to which it's articulated in the latter terms — those of a prediction market

> ... all discourse is subconsciously understood to be people taking speculative positions on various topics

> ... can I at least just get slowly tanked on free booze and annoy people with a reminder that the house always wins?

So clearly the author thinks that "Web3" is just a rebranding of crypto. I didn't see anywhere in the article an explanation of Web3 or any examples.

Let me premise my take by saying that I am not a crypto zealot. If I hear a financial/investing podcast talk about crypto, I will fast forward. I think the vast majority of investors should steer clear. What about Web3?

Let me tell you my story of independently "discovering" the concept now being called Web3 - as I'm sure thousands of others have done in the last few years. In July I was out on my walk and an idea popped into my head. It was interesting enough that I took out my phone and recorded as I thought it though out loud.

Here it is in a nutshell: Distributed smart contracts can empower information consumers.

And here's the specific form that my idea took, and why, when I got home from my walk, I bought some ETH, having never owned any cryptocurrency before. My screens are going to be "Web3 clients". This client will have a new feature that my current TV does not. It will have available an overlay like Amazon X-ray. It will display info about what is on my screen, and most importantly a "truth meter". While I couldn't work out the details of how this would work, I did decide that a) it's a feature that I think will arrive, and b) Ethereum is likely to play a role.

Here's another idea: Discuss Web3 without even mentioning cryptocurrencies. Instead, just give your idea as I did, and explain how blockchain smart contracts will play a role in the implementation, and perhaps at the very end of presenting your idea, mention that it may be considered a form of Web3.
That's not practical, but decentralized sources like IPFS, BitTorrent, etc will be useful sources of hosting for videos/creators who don't want to face censorship from Youtube etc.
I've always had a ploy I used to avoid this to a degree. When joining a company you have to fill out "prior inventions". I generally list a number of names and general vague descriptions. The catch is, none of them exist they are simply invented in my head.

When building a side project I use one of the names from my prior inventions list.
I can tell you that, for myself, having one dev has definitely resulted in much higher Quality and a usable deliverable.

Most of my OSS projects are 1-file UI widgets (but with a lot more testing code than implementation code). I do, however, have a couple of monsters.

Because of my experience (which includes many mistakes), I am able to develop projects of a far more ambitious scope than the run-of-the-mill developer. The one that I'm working on now (not OSS), for example, is one that would usually be done by a heterogenous team.
How does any of that differ from the current US stock market?
Both FTX and Bitfinex have leaderboards that show the most profitable traders. The people doing it show up there but only for a short time (and only if they dump open market and not OTC- this was open market).

Also this is a great resource to predict these sorts of manipulations before they happen: https://whale-alert.io/

Also, watch those short positions!
From my experience a esp32 is more reliable than a pi in the wild if it's to be left alone to run for hours on end, but every use case varies.

I hope the authors system makes some cool and useful charts :)
I didn’t read their comment as explaining this as a negative, just that ownership rates are non comparable.
I am so curious about the use of mushrooms and alcohol in ancient times. The historical record contains almost no evidence for psychoactive mushroom use, despite rather widespread availability. In the absence of evidence (and the assumption that people generally like drugs), I speculate that a cultural taboo arose after the brewers (agriculturalists) beat the trippers (nomads).

And yet, “Mycenaean” translates roughly to the mushroom people…
Of course, I wouldn't rely only on the employment contract. But this is a good start since this means you didn't sign a document stating "all you do belongs to us no matter what".

Personally, at the same time as signing the employment contract, I would create a list of projects I develop/contribute to outside of work with a description and links, and have them sign an acknowledgement these don't interfere with their "business" (and if they refuse to sign simply resign on the spot the same second), whether or not they use them already for business purposes or not, and an obligation for them to notify me if they ever start using one of my projects internally in the future.

Also, for open source projects I contribute too that the company uses I'd have a separate paper stating my role in them, and both of our expectation for contributions that are made during/outside of hours, again signed by both parties.

For FOSS projects that I own that the company wants to use, I'll have them clearly define my scope in them during employment, have them assign copyright ownership to me for any contribution they want upstreamed, and have every commit with their hashes reviewed and approved by a lead/manager.

But as far as I'm concerned, there is no point in doing any of this if the employment contract states they own all my IP, since the documents would contradict one another. That's why cleaning up the mess in the employment contract is such a big deal for me.
How is a user supposed to know which USB-C port is kosher for which USB-C cable?

The connectors are exactly the same.
I’ve been curious for a while: Has anyone done the envelope math to estimate how much of the Graviton price advantage offered by AWS is a reflection of true price/performance vs. AWS taking a short term margin hit to encourage growth of a CPU platform they control?
I feel that would be the case for most countries and places though. That's not so obvious, a local college degree will almost always work better than an non-local one.
Same for traditional banking + if you happen to be a journalist ( or whatever ) living under an oppressive regime, they can freeze your assets on a whim, because you criticised the wrong people. If someone still prefers trusting a central authority, for whatever reason, they can still use something like coinbase.
I'm talking about bitcoin-denominated accounts backed with bitcoins. These are the standard exchange accounts that most people have.
BTW, the "cooked" version of mayonnaise is called 'sabayon' or zabaglione and is often used in desserts.
What are the pros and cons compared to AppImage?

This tools seems easier to use. But the high level result seems quite similar.

Would it maybe even make sense to integrate both tools? I think AppImage is compressed so has an advantage in that point.
Bitcoin has smart contracts now.