skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which is more work than setting up a PayPal account and is certainly not a "close to 0 barrier" as claimed.

Not only that, you don't actually need an account to pay with paypal or stripe. You can do checkout as guest, and enter a card number and be done with it.
This approach could also work with interstellar plasmas, using the motion of the vehicle vs. the plasma to generate power, which then is used to generate thrust by expelling reaction mass.

This is not perpetual motion: it is concentrating the initial kinetic energy of the vehicle (in the rest frame of the interstellar medium) in less and less mass as reaction mass is expelled.

This might be implemented by using diffuse structures to induce a plasma wave in the ISM, and then accelerating particles in that wave's electric field. No large compression of the plasma (as a putative fusion-based drive would need) is required.
Obviously it isn't "just a question", but the article didn't say that.

It simply points out that how we frame, and experience, our own motivations for quitting can be more or less helpful.

I think anything mentally difficult is going to work better if we take into account our subconscious as a first class partner. Our subconscious responds very strongly to how we perceive tasks and challenges. It can carry us through tough situations, but is very hard to work against.

Sometimes subtle, almost nonsensical things from a purely rational point of view, really help.
Yes. When generating you can use NewSequentialId() which generates a sequential guid to avoid needing to reorganise indexes.
It depends, the Allen Carr book everyone recommends tries to make you see that without directly telling you that smoking is disgusting etc.

The thing for me that allowed me to give up was realising and convincing myself that it was possible for the cravings to go away, to feel normal in a pub without smoking etc.

It seemed impossible at some point so I always went back to it before.
Not really sure why the submitter wants to bring up an unfortunate thread from ten years ago which nobody comes out of particularly well.

Just let it be water under the bridge.
When did web3 became cryto? I have seen a recent push on us about web3 being crypto. Is this some kind of propaganda?
that graph suggests urea prices are already going down?
Where may I see the source code for the "Web3" TODO app?

How complex is that source code?

Are centralized APIs used in order to access the "decentralized" Ethereum blockchain?
I don't think you would ever get a 201 Created in an eventual consistency scenario. You would get a 202 Accepted. Unless the API is lying to the clients.
MiniVM: A zero-dependency cross-language runtime on par with LuaJIT and C
You could use the server on the receiving end of the web hook to send a notification through the platform's push service. Apps can also be reached via server-sent events, a websocket connection or long polling.
I was thinking that the results looked pretty bad, until the video mentioned storyboarding and it clicked to me. Even as low-quality as the models are, they still can work great as placeholders. So this would allow very quick iteration on designing a overall scene, pulling items from reference images from google searches etc, and when you are happy with the result you can send it to an army of 3d modelers (or designers or whatev) to be built.

So the comparison point should probably be like grey boxes or whatev people have been using as placeholders/throwaways so far, and compared to that these generated models actually look pretty great
Fourth option: don't introduce this change at all. It's a debatable stylistic improvement in exchange for a big breaking change that will force your users to go through, update and re-test every single query. Not worth it.
Japan could have torn down all its nuclear power plants and built newer ones. Yet no country on earth is shutting down their old unsafe plants to build new ones.
A lot of what you listed is frameworks and libraries. I think a person can comfortably say that they know a lot of Python even if they've never touched most of them. Knowing a language well is different from covering all the possible libraries, frameworks and use cases.

If someone wants to get a bit past beginner in Python, the two general directions are to learn more about how the language works internally (Fluent Python is a great book for it), or to learn more about how to write Python well (Effective Python is a great resource for best practices in Python).
i love this style. being able to honestly describe shit as shit is pretty good.
Isn't this easily solved by supporting 128 bit keys and using UUIDs as intended, i.e. as integers and not in their string serialization? This is as nonsensical as storing IPv4 as strings instead of 32 bit integers.
Linus is such an asshole. It's not even cute or funny. He's just an ass.
The home directory of the 1980s was the github and Stackoverflow of today. When I had a problem I just run grep to see what others had done. There was no internet to ask anybody. And people did not do banking, store photos or anything like that on their computer. I guess mbox was read protected for group and others already back then.
I miss Linus.
also the definition of an NFT becoming an ugly tradeable jpeg
You are right, NAT is why the internet still works in the first place. However, NATs have many issues, like severely harming peer to peer capabilities. There is also additional complexity. My ISP frequently has downtimes of their NAT infrastructure.

Then there is the more complex routing tables. ipv4 is highly fragmented so users with many users don't have large contiguous blocks, but multiple smaller ones. This causes routing tables to bloat up, which increases routing overhead of the packets.

Lastly, there is the ridiculousness of paying for ipv4 addresses in the first place. Ideally, companies could just register them, having to pay a small service fee, that's it. In ipv6 this is the case, but in ipv4 you see Amazon paying huge sums for large ipv4 blocks. More importantly though, this cost is also handed down to customers, at least for hosters like Hetzner. For small servers, this can quickly be a significant fraction of the cost.
For GMail, why this and not http://gmvault.org/? Been meaning to backup my GMail account and had this one bookmarked for ages, but never got round to using it.

Edit: or https://github.com/djipko/gbackup-rs/ which was a more recent bookmark
>This gives creators of any skill level the ability to easily generate models for diverse uses - storyboarding, pre-vis, game content, architectural models, and more.

It sounds like they expect you to use it when you just need a vaguely correct shape anyway, at least as a starting point for further refinement.
Web3 will be a web where everyone has anonymous identity, meaning they are identified by their crypto-wallets. There is no need to authenticate yourself except once, to your crypto-wallet. You don't have to create accounts anywhere, your crypto-account is all you need.

Of course you can have multiple separate identities, meaning multiple separate crypto-wallets, if you wish.
It’s a rebranding that’s underway mostly driven by US actors having decided to make this mainstream in the next 3-5yrs. It’s pretty well executed, look at eg recent senate hearing with crypto high rollers
I like the book “The Biology of Desire” on addiction. It views addiction as an instance of the same kind of desire-driven habit-forming learning that’s the core of our motivational system. And so quitting an addiction is not exactly just quitting something bad. It’s more like a continuation of one’s general lifelong process of learning. This is a kinder framing and it’s thoroughly neuroscientific. And it reveals that addictions are actually very clever behaviors in some ways—so we can even learn from them as we try to develop healthier habits to replace the ones that harm us. It’s also a narrative perspective that respects the subject’s life story. The addiction was a part in my troubled human journey. And now my narrative needs to find a new charge, a new quest, a new act. Maybe I was drawn into addiction in part because my life story didn’t make sense, I felt disconnected from past and scared of the future, etc. Addictions also form around the need for connection: it’s not just the beer, it’s the pub. So I have to find other social contexts that center around something that doesn’t harm me.
“Goes down” could be substituted for a lot of things, for example, “becomes evil”, “disables API access”, “arbitrarily bans you”.

Lots of developers including myself have had things break when Twitter decided to abandon its liberal approach to APIs. There was no alternative endpoint I could just point my app at.
Whoa, that's actually pretty classy. I myself could never maintain that level of cool in the face of an all caps yellfest.

No matter how right or wrong either party is, it takes some serious levelheadedness to respond like that.
Well, exact terminology aside one may see web/app push as a webhook, it's the same principle of delivering messages, but with a different addressing scheme.

But I disagree with the Android part. Androids are the ones who spam my servers with websockets and other things when I restart them, because a user didn't bother to close a page in their browser. Never seen any iOS device doing that.
The question is, if his attitude has had an impact on the longevity and success of his projects.
But multiuser computers are much less the default then back then. Even kids have their own one because they need it in school (at least in this country).
I think article says its a matter of decission. Once you take hard stance/decission its a matter of time amd retries.

Goos tip is to find replacemet, a healthy one. You can get addicted to gentle (not stupid) weight lifting, running (please, on grass, not on cement or next to road full of cars, not on asfalt, its not good for your knees and lungs) reading a book.

Replace it with hobby that you like or put that time into something you wanted to do, but never had time.
That sounds like a fairly basic tenet of bioregional thinking.
Why Do Harvard Kids Head to Wall Street?
Thank you!

What was the issue you ran into with the scoreboard?
HurriQuake nails got a lot of press back in the 2000s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HurriQuake
What would happen if you entered its orbit at that speed?

edit: according to https://rechneronline.de/g-acceleration/orbital-speed.php, if I got my numbers right (0.12 x solar mass star, .12c = 36000 km/s), the orbit radius would be 1230 km, so you'd be almost at the core of the star since its radius is ~ 100 000 km.
the middle east agrees
> The hash solves the problem

Not really. The hash would prevent someone to pull the rug unnoticed, but it wouldn't prevent rug pulling in the first place.

With a hash, you would be able to prove that what's currently at that url isn't what you bought, but (since hashes are by definition non-reversible) you wouldn't be able to show or see what it was you bought (unless you stored it somewhere else yourself).
" that URL often just points to some VPS running Apache somewhere. Anyone with access to that machine, anyone who buys that domain name in the future, or anyone who compromises that machine can change the image, title, description, etc for the NFT to whatever they’d like at any time (regardless of whether or not they “own” the token). "

This is how I felt when I first created a NFT. Man, the contract is so secure and all that but the raw asset - forget about it.

https://twitter.com/pbanavara/status/1457675453565599748?s=2...

What I deduced was that the chain will somehow reject any other contract referencing the duplicate asset and only preserve the original contract. Something similar happened on OpenSea with Moxie but isn't this centralisation ?

But doesn't this apply to all off chain assets ? Essentially any underlying data for a smart contract, because you know storing even a byte of data on chain costs a lot.

So the smart contract - essentially a set of instructions is distributed, decentralised but prone to security lapses ( a whole another story ) yet somehow the data for these smart contracts is centralised ?

I am so confused.
NixOS has been pretty good for me, but I wanted to learn Nix. I can repair issues a lat faster than other options and rollbacks are native.
Personally I like WW3 :)
I'm assuming for future construction, you'd have to treat each lot as separate with regards to setbacks from the property lines. So no building a house that straddles the old property line, I suppose
When I was in high school we traded files amongst ourselves using burned CDs and flash drives. My nieces and nephews don't understand what a file format is.
Something that has helped me kick some bad but undeniably comforting habits in the last year is keeping actual data. For a few months I logged simple stuff, like whether or not I’d imbibed alcohol, how much sleep I’d got, whatever. And on the other side I’d track simple subjective measures of my mood and energy. I put all this into some simple linear regressions and the evidence was so overwhelmingly clear that it became very hard to convince myself that staying up until 1am was the only way to have quality ‘me time’, or having a boozy night with my wife was the only way to fully relax.

I don’t really go for quantified self stuff generally, I do quite like living intuitively as much as I can. But sometimes you do need to call yourself on your own bullshit.
In Europe, it's very unusual for a kid older than ~9 years to be driven to school.

Here in the UK there are parking restrictions around practically every school to stop parents clogging up the roads to drop off or collect their kids. I'd suggest that's evidence that a lot of children still get taken to school by car.
Fair enough, though what I said remains true for an "Accepted" response.
Except isn't ~/.var/app is just another "doing its own thing" directory?
Is that different from just having a keypair on a stick? I mean without this crypto currency appendix.
fwiw I follow a lot of crypto people on Twitter and 0 of them are following this message app, it has 700 followers and you decide to jump into the discord? To me that’s like getting a random email about a product and saying “yes tell me more” I’m not sure what you are expecting.
Don’t remember the detailed timeline, but there were popular subreddits with reports from China and individual people were definitely taking action. Even r/wsb was in on the stock market crash back in January.
> It is just pinging around.

Google did just drive around and listen on 2.4 GHz. I think there was wide agreement that collecting the data was unethical.
It's not scamming. Was what Soros did with the British pound in the early 90s scamming?

There are a lot of people who think they can swim with the sharks. Good luck with that.
> the moment someone can make a case for bad play they have the advantage to shift the market to a different platform.

As we have clearly seen with OpenSea and rampant fakes, copies, plagiarism etc. Oh wait...
Enough tooling has been built (IPFS, Polygon, etc) that we're starting to use these tools for computational biology, as part of @lab_dao

This wasn't possible 2 years ago! So I think they have made strides; it's just hard to see
Is that authentication watertight and if not, who will make sure that I can obtain a new password if I forget or lose the old one?
It should be noted that some database providers already provide a UUID data type which is a 128bit integer.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/datatype-uuid.html
3 years into the emails, we didn't have something as user-friendly as Hotmail or Gmail
Perhaps it's because Germans are more responsible?
Nuclear waste disposal is very much an unsolved problem that we are putting on the shoulders of the following generations.
Just like

- climate catastrophe

- insane debt

- rampant pollution

- the ongoing mass extinction

- pensions during changing demographics

Other than that nuclear is slower and much more expensive to newly deploy than wind and solar. It also remains more dangerous because there is always the human factor (hubris and corruption!) as we have seen in Japan. Before Fukushima, people said it couldn't happen there, only in countries like Russia.
True, they shut them down to replace with renewables. And because keeping old ones active is becoming more and more expensive.
I think his attitude of quality and direct feedback is good and definitely contributed to the success of his projects.

But even so, why can't we still call him out on his callous and offense delivery? There are better ways of saying what he said in his post.

You don't have to be an asshole to be direct. You can still be respectful.
30% is a lot out of your bottom line.
You could learn about basic anomaly detection systems or simple recommendation engines.

At a simple level this is language agnostic although at a higher level you should use Python for machine learning.

As for specific technologies possibly Rust which is like an OCaml and C hybrid.

If you wish to think differently I recommend Haskell and Coq but these are not 'useful'.
One of the first rule of written communication for me: never send an email when angry. You can write it as a sort of catharsis but then just delete it and wait a few minutes/hours/days to cool down. You will realize what is important. And for the guy being yelled at here, it was being the maintainer of one of the coolest project on earth.

Just to be clear this is not a justification of Linus' behavior. I just believe that responding to inappropriate behavior with inappropriate behavior is a lose/lose proposition.
Fifteen years of Ringo Starr's computer art
This isn't really relevant to bring up in 2022. But this thread always brings a huge grin to my face.

I'm probably one of the few that really likes watching the "Steve Jobs" level of product quality, just blast across the internet at all expenses. Because it helps me feel better about what passes for quality in a lot of my day to day.

It brings me hope to see that level of passion over reliability. There's a time and place for that, but yeah, things happen.

(Unfortunately I have to flag this post for relevance, because 10-year old threads are not exactly meeting the quality for content we want on HN!)
"By _cointinuing_ you agree to our Terms" on the eTrader screenshot, how apt.
For the most people Macs are guarded by invincible spirit of S.Jobs and business vision of Tim Apple.

For the rest of us: https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-mac-antivirus-protectio...

You can check Little Snitch and alternatives for more control over connections.
Roland TR-08 – Modern repro of the 808, but not $10k used on eBay
I have to agree with the 'adorable' comment, me being someone in his 50s and wishing I could have had the same experience. While I, too, thought that the blog started a bit uneven, it was cool that you then focused on the technical side and finished on the successful project conclusion and the human connections made.

Whether the friendships end up lasting forever or not, what I can tell you is that you'll never forget how you felt on that 7am zoom call or when you got the invite to return later. That excitement is palpable to me as a reader, in the same way that it will be to you as you advance in your career and look back.
Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil fuels to be burned
NFT is there to stay. For every person that calls NFTs a scam, there are 4 or 5 artists who couldn’t make a living before who is willing to sell their art as NFTs.
The issue being discussed is putting college degrees on the blockchain such that viewers can be sure they are genuine and robustly hosted without tampering - no revocation.

The blockchain solves the last two, but if your conception of them is as a magical technology that can solve every issue by virtue of hosting data then you're going to be a dissapointed simpleton.

Your core issue is that colleges are a centralized institution which decide who gets rewarded - that's what it boils down to when you say "all the value" is in trusted authorities issuing things. For starters that's a ridiculous assumption that trust is still necessary for value, but more importantly stating that blockchains are useless because they cannot replace colleges is disingenuous.
> And fix your approach to kernel programming.

At times I've admired Linus's tendency to not sugar coat things. Sometimes things need to be said bluntly. In this case, however, despite being correct, his message would have been stronger without all of the personal insults.

While the maintainer submitted a patch that was clearly the wrong approach, it's a bit ironic that the one who needed to fix their approach to kernel programming was actually Linus. I can't imagine how awful it must have felt to be at the receiving end of feedback like that.

I'm glad that there is now a Code of Conduct and that Linus has started to work on fixing his approach.
While might be necessary, doing such a dress down in public seems unnecessarily hostile and counterproductive, especially in the context of voluntary work. I know Linus is/was known to do this, but I never found it “cute”.
Wow, this looks awesome. As somebody who was considering an alternate way to build new payment systems this gives a good start. If my understanding is correct KUDOS(the currency of taler) is pegged at 1 to 1 with all the currencies? Is it based on the real forex markets that calculates how much KUDOS I get? But if not, I can always get conversion benefits in this system. Maybe have to read more.
Draft: Tencent Code of Conduct
> Customers can stay anonymous, but merchants can not hide their income through payments with GNU Taler. This helps to avoid tax evasion and money laundering.

That seems like a very peculiar definition of privacy.
Why not just fetchmail to pull everything? That's what I do.
Not at all.
Mass schooling eas originally designed to teach the low-skilled to work on complicated machines in large factories.

Modern society demands both parents working, a single parent can no longer cover even the cost of housing for an entire family. As is has become so expensive.

Let alone medical expenses, hobbies, tutition etc.

tldr; Schools turned into daycare facilites when housing became so expesive that both parents must work full time.

That is maybe 40 years ago.
Well the example clearly stated an issue of redundancy. Things which can be done off chain which as little trust should be done off chain - that doesn't mean a distributed file storage protocol which runs off some chain and uses economic and cryptographic incentives isn't the solution.
At the time when schooling started, 6 years old kids were not considered to need babysitting or daycare. They were to large extend able to move around the world independently. If they were not in school, they either did useful work for parents, in shops or played with other kids (or did mess on the streets).

The origin of kindergarten is daycare - for 4 years old playing in streets with literally zero adult supervision.
I've been trying to use pd.NA to embrace the future, but it runs into a nightmare of other bugs - float vs Float64 mixing bugs and stuff like seaborn that doesn't handle Float64 anyway etc.

As an example of the sharp stuff that causes bugs.
Hebrew also seems to have a problem.
It's displayed LTR instead of RTL.
I find it a bit strange that in this system my identity is conflated with my wallet.
I haven't been following lately, but last "outburst" I had noticed was two or three years ago. It was pretty mild compared to this, but used some harsh language - nothing at all profane, IIRC he still used terms like "idiot," "trash," and the like.
People still had a fit, saying he'll never change.
One virtuous and legitimate use is hiding your wealth from the state, so that they can not use it to fund useless foreign wars.