skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find them situationally very useful. I'm very much an on-again-off-again todo:er, depending on what life throws my way. If I have enough ideas to require them I'll use them, if I don't then I don't. I don't spend a lot of time making sure they're in some sense perfect, it's just a tool, if it gets the job done it's fine. If there's too much junk, I'll delete some of it.

If I'm inspired I may have many more ideas than I have time to realistically implement. Putting them in a todo list helps me let go of them until I have the time to put them into action.

I also believe in separating thinking from doing, spending time away from my projects thinking seems to consistently produce solid new takes, but that is rarely the case if I'm actually at the keyboard working. I get too much tunnel vision and just spin my wheels.

This in part also to allow me to be a present in my relationships, to work at work. If I had to juggle all my ideas in my head, I'd be aloof and incommunicable most of the time.
The oceans are pretty big though. Adding more cables right now isn’t a heavily constrained space. So yeah you have some giants laying their own. However, I don’t think that more privately owned links is necessarily a sign of power concentration, rather a symptom of it perhaps. You have these giants leveraging economies of scale to gain an advantage, and it’s not necessarily something a non-giant couldn’t do themselves if they were motivated enough. Example, if Meta didn’t own and operate Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp (i.e. regulators force the split of their social media platforms) they could conceivably still lay these new cables.
The living room is burning, regardless. Letting the smoke out so it doesn't asphyxiate the rest of the house is a good thing. There is so overwhelmingly more volume of water for the CO2 to disperse into, down deep, that it would not be noticeable.

Of course, you should stop making the problem worse at the surface, too, but the problem to be solved is that even when you stop emitting industrial CO2, the CO2 already emitted is still there, and remains for decades.
Largely that Europe is relatively small and can be traversed quickly by mechanized armor, as Nazi Germany showed in WW2. The U.S. is worried that an aggressive Russia could quickly roll over Poland, Germany, and France, conquering all of Europe in short order. Having Ukraine be NATO-aligned means that any such war preparations would have to start from Russia itself instead of Ukraine, which adds an additional 500 miles. Crucially, this is just about the combat radius of a modern airplane, which means that if Ukraine is NATO-aligned, a war in Europe could not get Russian air support until they rebuild airfields in conquered territory, while if it is part of Russia, Germany/Italy/Austria/Czechia/Croatia/etc are all within range of Russian airstrikes.

Basically it comes down to mistrust. I suspect that thinking on the Russian side is symmetric, and they don't actually have any plans to attack Western Europe but are worried that a NATO-aligned Ukraine could be a base for Western aggression against Moscow.

...And then that relates to another issue. For the average citizen, rules are rules, borders are borders, and why would you want to attack another country that's minding its own business? For rulers of these countries, rules are just guidelines, and the only thing that matters is power, because how do you think they got to be rulers of those countries in the first place? They're the ones that make the rules, after all, so of course the rules are mutable. And that's why military & political leaders worry about things like balance of power, because at that level power is what determines what does and doesn't happen.
The OP is about envisioning Smalltalk and Unix working together. I'm not following your point of making analogies between Smalltalk and Unix, unless... Are you suggesting Smalltalk could have/should have/was a contender to be the OS, that it would replace unix, that would have been preferable?
> How do systems outside of Unix get access to the file system?

What is the Smalltalk equivalent to NFS?
I actually wrote a bit about this on my website: https://azdavis.net/posts/lambda-cube/

I’ve been using my website as a way to practice writing, so please let me know what you think.
Setting times is fine, but my approach is I have a list of 4-5 things to do written the night before, and knowing how much time I have in the morning, midday and afternoon as well as the energy I still have left at different parts of the day I say whether they’re done before work, at lunch, or after work.

I’m really not sure on the distinction people are using between to-do lists and these other approaches - they all seem like to-do lists just formatted differently because people work differently.
Noooo, that sounds awesome ;_; I really want to go build that :( (the non-napalm version)

FWIW it looks like a bunch of Russians had similar ideas 5 years ago and bolted a paintball gun to a drone (apparently with automatic targeting too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8igjcW39T4k
> but you both demonstrate a poor technical understanding of Bitcoin.

No, we don't

> smart contracts which are indeed prone to programming errors.

Indeed. So. In the context of "potential to be a programmable money without government or central authority" you literally have to depend on an intermediary to write a smart contract and depen on that intermediary to write this contract correctly.

> The tooling around them is improving (e.g. debuggers, verifiers) and there are a couple of multi-billion dollar smart contracts which have stood the test of time.

Either all this is "too early" or "it has stood the test of time". You can't have both.

The fact that some contract exists, and handles "multiple billions" in no way, shape, or form disprove my original statement: "Programmable money" relies on intermediaries in the form of programmers writing unverifiable undebuggable code in esoteric languages
Extension will fail for Websocket connections since manifest fails to include ws protocol.
“Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications.” [1]

“Nerves is the open-source platform and infrastructure you need to build, deploy, and securely manage your fleet of IoT devices at speed and scale.” [2]

1 - https://elixir-lang.org/

2 - https://www.nerves-project.org/
Largely because performance based pay does not have a fixed upside.

Contrast this with a salary band which does have a fixed maximum.
You can remove the `.min` from the URL and it easily readable

https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/hiccupfx@1.1.1/hiccupfx.js
You equivocated paint with print.
Indian independance, irish independance and the formation of most current nation states...on the basis of national identity. Fascism, Nazism, the kmer rouge. Even communism, in its own terms, was about class identity.

The US civil rights movement and the creation of its modern political dichotomy. Islamism. Arabism & the Arab league. Apartheid. Post-apartheid SA. Post colonialism. The Rwanda genocide. Yugoslavia's demise.
The time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time (Bertrand Russell).
I only agree on the seconds later and that's where it ends. Unless you are shooting for social media even old dslrs with a good lens outperform any phone in terms of final output. It takes offline processing but the result is almost always better. Phone photos definitely look nice but generally look nice on phone screens, zoom in a bit and all the magic is gone.
It’s just definitional at this point - I’d say that a text file counts as a to do list.
Hint: this won't kill them. Everything still eating sulfur and whatever has survived overwhelmingly greater shocks, over the eons.
Looks like OSM doesn't have a ton of data on US pipelines or water lines. It's understandable. I do wonder if tools like this would encourage more mapping of these.
Different purposes of computational capabilities in modern cameras vs. phones place them reliably in different categories.

The former aim to computationally adjust settings and make it easier to capture raw scene data the way you intend. The “magic” happens on lower levels (e.g., tracking subject), and you generally feel in control of how it’s applied.

The latter focus on computationally interpreting raw data and generating a display-referred image. The “magic” happens throughout the process, and is mostly a black box (recall that case where iPhone camera replaced human head with a leaf on a group photo). If you use phone camera to capture raw image, phone software may still be able to assist to a degree, but challenges arising from sensor size and lens limitations would become more obvious.

(I would, however, watch out for the line becoming blurred if/when phones—hopefully not cameras!—start to capture computational raws. Potential improvements offered by applying extensive magic at unmosaiced raw signal level would for me be killed by that human-head-turned-to-leaf possibility, which would ruin phone photography for me.)
https://github.com/fanfare/hiccupfx/
I've been there but nowadays my policy is to let my employer/customer get hit with downtime if they don't provide me with ways to effectively do my work.
They learn from first principles by starting to organize things. The tools used for working from first (principles, materials, observed rules etc.) are based on organizations of observations of whatever is at hand.

If you're learning from someone else's first principles and it's not working for you, which is really common, try the break-fix opportunistic approach instead. Take something already built for purpose and use it until it breaks, then fix it. Always use every workaround possible in the meantime. Work around whatever you can't fix; even if you think you'll end up with a pile of workarounds, it will be a really well understood pile which is quite different.

This way you'll still get to first principles eventually as you understand the system more. You'll have infinite chances to design your own as your knowledge and experience increase. But some people have better results working in this way instead of starting from first principles. They are sometimes known as results-oriented personalities as opposed to process-oriented. In that they work backward from the needed result (which may be even completely improvised) as opposed by working forward with their own organizational ground-up process.
> What's the US's business?

Collective self-defense in the presence of indications of aggressive action by Russia which appears to be rapidly approaching imminence; the US (and other partners of Ukraine) are communicating how Russia can do to show that that appearance is in error if, in fact, it is.

> The US is on the other side of the globe. Why do they have an opinion?

The US and Ukraine are security partners short of formal allies via the OSCE, NATO’s special bilateral partnership with Ukraine, direct US-Ukraine bilateral partnership, etc.
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Ability to block/attenuate radiation is proportional to interaction probability which is generally also proportional to biomedical risk: ergo, if we can't block it, we don't care about it.
Gas is still an inferior solution in those cases - wood pellets are better for those climates. Better yet, a combination of heat pumps and wood pellet furnaces gives you the best of both worlds - very energy-efficient heating while the temperature is still not too far below freezing (iirc heat pumps still beat alternatives as far down as negative 10-15 C), and wood pellets to handle the most extreme colds of the year.

There's also the alternative of putting the outlet of the heat pump below ground, where the temperature never gets that far below zero.

It's entirely incorrect to say that heat pumps only work in mild climates. I live in a country where we do not have a mild climate, and heat pumps are becoming more popular each day, owing to their technological superiority.
> If cloudflare did that, then you do a simple DNS change and host your content somewhere else.

You missed the point. It’s an illustration of how much of the global internet cloudflare intermediates and can eavesdrop, filter. Guess how many tor users you fucked by putting cloudflare between you and them. Vpn users, etc.
I think it's safe to ignore any advice that sounds like "successful people do/don't do ..."

Advice like that will always contradict itself since successful people are not all the same.
Ugh. Hacker News has traditionally been one of the worst places to discuss queer politics, but reading this has made me feel so frustrated that I can't help but weigh in.

> I find that sad. Do you also hold that view when interacting with people different in other ways? People that dress differently, hold different political or religious views, people from other places to you?

Yep! Ready to get nihilistic? Their existence is pretty much inconsequential to me. Sexuality, gender identity and appearance has quite literally zero bearing on the way I address other people. Unless someone make a concerted effort to be my acquaintance, I will likely forget about their existence within the hour. That doesn't mean I can't sympathize; but the internet has greatly distorted our idea of how important other people actually are. We conflate identity with politics and alliances, we grok importance by follower count and Google search results, it's a disgusting mess that can only be effectively deterred by not caring.

Is it sad? Hard to say, but I certainly feel like it's a less frustrating way to live your life when compared to bending over backwards for everyone. I operate with my own interests at heart; as much as I despise Ayn Rand's philosophy, she wasn't wrong when she said that the greatest minority is the individual.

> I have acquaintances who was lyrical on the topic of LGBTQ+ folks, feeling that somehow, non-LGBTQ+ folk are being "oppressed".

I don't think it's hard to sympathize with that sentiment, even though I'm a gay man myself. I feel embarrassed by the level of entitlement that the rest of the community seems to push, in public and online. A decade ago, the LGBT movement was pretty cut and dried - queer people wanted to integrate into society as normal individuals, without any pretense or opportunity for judgement. In response, they became a protected class and everything was pretty much solved. There hasn't been a legitimate reason to be mad as a gay person since those bakers refused to make a gay wedding cake, and even that only incensed me because it was against the law. As far as I see it, the modern LGBT movement is far too infatuated with liberties that don't exist, and hunting boogeymen that don't care. It makes me ashamed to be queer and wish that I could live in a world where my only identity didn't boil down to "the gay guy".
Anyone else wondering more details:

https://www.quora.com/Is-finding-prime-numbers-in-P-or-NP

Interestingly the Polymath4 project in/around 2009 attempted to find such a polynomial algorithm.
The core scenario in which it makes sense to buy property in bitcoin is if you already hold a ton of bitcoin. Then, selling the bitcoin in order to pay fiat for a house is the more cumbersome route to take.
In my experience even the cheapest (mirrorless) digital snapshot camera runs circles around any mobile phone's. I used to have a cheap Nikon camera and its pictures still stand-out compared to those of even high-end mobile phones (like my Samsung Galaxy S9), especially in low-light or imperfect lighting situations.

If you want to take great looking pictures, buy a camera. Don't settle for a mobile phone.
its interesting that at this point, the arguments on HN have become so one sided and idiotic, that every time i see a web3 article, you might as well skip the comment section. the actual smart people that are into the blockchain as tech and a concept are providing really interesting points/examples, while maintaining a healthy and educated level of skepticism.

then you have the HN holier than thou geniuses who think they have it all figured out because they can quickly scream ponzi over and over. it's fuckin weird. i always subscribed to this forum because it's full of nerds who are deeply interested in tech and can debate things neutrally. so not the case lately.

and this is coming from someone who is deeply interested in the tech and fascinated by some of the subscultures that had been created out of crypto, while also remaining extremely skeptical and very turned off by some of the scams and mindless fanatics that exist. but, i still dive deep into whitepapers, and read a lot to have a good opinion on a subject, like...you should. there is A LOT of interesting shit in this space. i've been into it for a couple of months now and have yet to scratch the surface, honestly.

...yet the comments are always the same low effort crap which makes me realize nobody knows or understands a goddamn thing about this tech on here. really reductive surface level points.
> Sorry to be blunt, but you both demonstrate a poor technical understanding of Bitcoin.

Sorry to be blunt but you are demonstrating your poor reading skills.

> Miners are not "intermediaries"

I have some bitcoin. How do I send them to you without miners?

> it is possible to send/receive Bitcoin with any regular programming language.

dmitriid was talking about, what you called, "programmable money" and not about sending/receiving bitcoin. You don't need knowledge of any programming language to do that.
But you don't need to make it harder in order to make it safer. You just need to think more about the security concerns and come up with solutions, as others have.
I find them to be magic little time capsules, for when I write them and then find them six months to a year latter, they let me know what I have not gotten done yet...
Yeah I just browse with a profile that deletes all cookies and history when I close the browser. Then just accept or dismiss all those stupid cookie consent popups.
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Asking because I see something that's a lot of mappings with zero context: Why/ for what is the Lambda-Cube useful?
>I don't know anyone, like at all that doesn't have some kind of todo list, ranging from a simple unsorted list, to multiple lists to post it notes in your apartment.

i don't use a todo list. i either remember to do something or i don't. i have tried to use todo lists before but they have never worked. i just forget to check it, or i just don't end up doing the things written on it.
Get to ~L7 at FANG, which has TC in the ~700-800 range but mostly stock. Assuming the market continues to go up the way it has been for the past 12 years or so, you'd hit $1mm/yr after not too long.
You don't seem to realize just how much water there is down there. They will not even notice a century's worth of surface carbon, but might welcome the infusion of oxygen that comes with it.

Surface production of H2 feedstocks will produce a huge surplus of oxygen, so we won't miss it.
Imagine you're an interplanetary civilization. You're building long haul ships not rated for Earth atmosphere, just ferrying supplies between planets, or landing on moons and asteroids. You might have a shipyard in orbit, though the moon seems more likely (too many pulverized metal oxides right there begging to be dumped into a smelter) or a carbonaceous asteroid (which can still be high in metals). You can still use vacuum rated engines to lift it into orbit, although you might have to design the ship as a second stage for some lifting platform to get the deltaV you need.

Growing shielding could be very good. Especially if you can use waste products to do so. The right sort will be easier to find on the right asteroid, but could be available on the moon if you have a high enough volume of imported supplies being turned into effluent streams.
Can you say more about why it's useful to time routine work?

That's what I'm curious about. A consistent set of steps that you're committed to doing on some frequency—do you see value in timing things like that?
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I am confused. The assumption here seems to be that people are using to-do lists to... schedule their lives or something? Otherwise what you said makes zero sense to me.

Either way, I cannot relate at all
IPv6 only ensures each device has a globally unique IP address. It does not ensure there is a firewall between one of those devices and their ISP.

NAT’s might go away under IPv6 but firewall policies with “default deny inbound connections” will almost certainly not.
> I don't think the concern is some sort of cold war era major offensive where Russian tanks storm forward and take territory.

The concern explicitly cited by the US government is exactly a major ground offensive, quite likely launched within the next month, following the recent escalation of cyber attacks and with the notional justification provided by a false flag action engineered by Russia for the purpose.
Alexander Hanff is trying to sort that: https://twitter.com/alexanderhanff/status/147830653943796940...
Super interesting thank you!

They already have B3 B6 B12 (my mistake about M1)

So the energy drinks should contain B1 or be taken with B1, is that what you say? If they don't already have B1, why is it so given the other vitamin B? Could it be for a good reason?

About insulin resistance, Monster contains sucralose and acetasulfame. It's not clear if the effect reported with aspartame also happen with these. Still, a super interesting thing to check - one of the many reasons I love HN!
"In 2018, I wrote in the Washington Post that startups have begun usurping the responsibilities of governments at breathtaking pace. Whether it was Uber and Lyft supplementing much of public transport in major cities or Palantir assisting in the important work of the U.S. intelligence community, it is becoming clear that government cannot meet the needs of its citizens without the tech sector’s aid. "
This doesn't seem quite accurate.
Chromium is "just" a logical, security first base OSS project,

that (theoretically) any org can adopt and strap additional modules onto.
This is a moderate essay with an unfortunate title. What it is not is a typical right-wing rant. I would hope people could tell these apart.

It presents a middle path and almost plaintively asks people to follow it. I fear this is wishful thinking, but at least he's trying to be conciliatory and constructive.

What surprised me was his reference to Snow Crash. I did not expect that in an essay by Francis Fukuyama.
> The take presented in the first articles are a joke right?

Yes, very much so. This is my first time writing for a large audience and I’m still learning how to balance the tone. My true views are at the bottom of the post and are aligned with yours.
Really interesting! Maybe this is the thread?

https://twitter.com/A_J_Higgins/status/1482386808021340160

Author says no danger to Algerians BTW.
3D-printed hinged negatively-curved surfaces [video]
FreePascal is way more modern and still has TUI IDE
Well, the best way is to inherit it.
One idea that I am fond of is Nym, an implementation of the high-latency mix network Loopix[0], but with incentives for nodes to act as mixnodes and message providers, using a model in which users pay nodes for their bandwidth. The goal being to provide strong anonymity in the face of a global passive adversary.

[0] - https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00536