skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same issue as well. However, after deep reflection I realized that I am not proactive in certain situations and under particular circumstances.

For example: I worked with a boss who was a micromanager. When I was first hired I was enthusiastic and ready to grab the bull by the horns. Yet, a few months into the job I simply sat back and did nothing.

On the other hand, when I find an intrinsic motivation (Daniel Vassallo talks about this), I become automatically proactive.

What I'm trying to say is, do some reflection. Are you not proactive because you're simply not motivated enough due to externa or internal reasons? Or are you not proactive because of other factors? This might give you insight into how to tackle the issue.

On the other hand, ask yourself this question: why should you be proactive? Is it an end in itself, or instrumental? If there's no goal that motivates to become proactive then is it really important to be one?

Hope this helps!
> But they did want Ukraine to be NATO-aligned

You know who wanted to be NATO-aligned? Ukraine. Ukraine wanted to be NATO-aligned so much that they put it in their constitution.

> in spite of the harmful effect towards Russia’s security

Codespeak for "Russia would like to reserve the right to annex neighbors at their own leisure back into the federation and/or have a few more puppet states". Next you are going to tell me NATO promised not to expand eastwards.

> The very aggressive sanctions (well, aside from gas, oil, etc) cannot be explained by the European history of accepting Russian oligarchs and money of dubious origin nor by the fate of Ukraine which let’s be honest no government in the EU really cared about so far.

EU and related states very openly threatened far-reaching sanctions and other consequences if Russia were to invade prior to the invasion. The reason the response is strong is because it makes a large difference to Europe if you are invading Georgia or if you are invading Ukraine.

> The more plausible explanation was that the US told the EU that they won’t defend them unless they show a strong united front against Russia.

Nothing like a good ol' "only the US has agency" meme to finish your TED talk.
Kraken and Coinbase are hardly Web3 companies. They are somewhere in the middle.

Web3 is about writing, deploying and auditing smart contracts, or writing L1/L2s, and writing platform-specific SDKs.
I like the visuals on the "How will I Die?" page. It is interesting to scroll up and down through various ages to see how the causes of death change.
Fast iteration
GNU stow worked fine for me...
Or bad code smells
America Was Wrong About Ethanol – Study Shows
It's called the Friedman Doctrine. It is true corporations don't have a legal prescribed duty to maximize shareholder value. However, the Friedman Doctrine is, much like Moore's Law, a norm from which any deviations are considered aberrant and for which the reactions range from disappointment to frustration.
Not so much (long time slashem player here). IF and MUDs are better.

The Nethack devs could patch the infamous 3.4.3 version in order to be much more accesible for the blind with a similar interface like the one done for Pokémon Crystal.

They could use flite as a library so it could describe items, menus, help files and surroundings.
because $$$
"“Web3” is an undefined marketing buzzword. It means whatever the advocate in question needs it to mean in that sentence."

As far as I know, Web3 is defined as all technologies that try to decentralize the Web.

Your frontend code stays almost the same. It just gets delivered via IPFS, or Arweave.

You still call APIs, they just happen to be gateways to (potentially/actually) decentralized technology.
I haven't thought about CPU usage when it comes to MP3's (and this was for decoding), since my DX4-100 couldn't really play them using Winamp (doing almost anything else in Windows while playing one would cause it to stutter).

I think I ended up playing them in DOS on that machine.
Anything installed through `apt` could be an attack vector, but that is silly, really.

If we start treating "apt get will install software that can change my system" as a security issue, we should stop using all electronic devises right now.

And yea: I know, we should have sandboxing, isolation, chroot and whatnot. And we are heading there. Yet in 2022, the vast majority of computers, servers and such are installed using package managers which install packages that have access to all the system. If you count mobile devises amongst "computers" then I guess a majority (Android) does have sandboxing in packages, which solves this particular issue.
Good call; yeah that's when we launch :)

I agree on a 5 year horizon before it becomes "obvious" that some web3 projects have succeeded. Obviously if you see a crypto project that's cool and interesting, don't just check that it was audited - read the whitepaper and the audit report.
Given the financial size, global scope and dislike by certain governments of Wikipedia I see preemptive overcompliance as a very sane option.
Hyperledger FireFly 1.0
Do you mean for baguette/loaf type breads? I lived in Turkey, and things like gevrek, simit, and pidesi were dirt cheap but clearly worth as much as any bread I've had elsewhere, and delicious.
You could easily build on the web in 1999 without trying to peddle your shares to retail investors. Most people did just that.

But on “web3” nobody wants to just build useful or interesting stuff. Instead everybody is looking to sell you their useless thing as an amazing investment. And that’s why it’s both morally obnoxious and tends to run afoul of securities laws.
I've been thinking it would be a win-win-win situation if I had the choice to donate the other half as money instead of as an item: I get one item cheaper, someone gets a useful, extra donation from me, and the store gets to sell the other item again.
Apparently the same org that was discussed in 2020, nice to see them going on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24996153

What I do wonder is how well the storage part really scales: what would be the most economical way to keep large energy stockpiles in that shape safe from, well, getting a little rusty over time?
Hmm, perhaps there is no such thing as a constructor in Python then? As the documentation says, "__new__() and __init__() work together in constructing objects".

In Java's constructors you already have access to the instance (and could leak it outside the object if you wanted to) whereas in __new__ you don't, so it doesn't seem like __new__ by itself could be called the constructor either.
I perpetually dream of systems like this where a process might be undertaken in locations that require HVAC systems that can make use of the waste heat.

Whether with iron or some other energy-consumptive process, imagine if a municipal truck rolls up to your house with a bucket of rust and picks up your bucket of iron. You roll the bucket of rust into a receptacle in your furnace and through the winter, slowly process rust back to iron as you heat your home with the waste heat.

You're happy, because your heating costs are offset by the sale of processed iron. We're happy, because someone somewhere isn't consuming even more energy just to create processed iron and you're probably able to process iron at a lower cost, reducing the price of processed iron.

Depending on the process, the thermodynamics may or may not pencil out, but it's a dream I keep contemplating. The key requirement is that the process be dead-simple, hard to game, and very energy-intensive.
Not true. They only stopped selling the server edition (single node). Data center (single node or multi node) edition still exists.
Many of my colleagues have gotten messages on linked in from consulting firms where they basically offer $300 for an hour long phone call with a client. I'm not sure how they're getting picked, but they all have PhDs and papers in the field the client is interested in.

I definitely think there's something to the idea of making the discovery process easy. I would pay to chat with a doctor about a bunch of things that aren't related to my personal health, and to someone who works on industrial electrolyzers, just off the top of my head.
Even if you are a Rails shop first, you can use DDD to determine if it's wise to take on the project in the first place. If it turns out that the domain cannot be expressed as a CRUD app, maybe refer the client to someone else. Then you will officially have used Rails with DDD, even if you haven't written a single line of Rails code for the project.

Much of DDD is really tech independent, and takes place before a single line of code is written. This is probably also where it's the most important. You're going to have to learn the domain first or the project will be a world of pain regardless of what architecture you choose.
What are the other options? Raising interest rates substantially usually causes a recession, balanced budgets always cause a recession.
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I’ve sent many desktop keyboards through the dishwasher. Pop the keycaps off and put them in the flatware compartment first; allow 48 hours to dry before re-assembling and plugging in after. Even the cord comes out looking good as new.
You can even do IP:

https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/7.4-RELEASE/usr/share/doc/handb...
> The Dutch tax authorities now face a new €3.7 million fine from the country's privacy regulator.

How does this work? Wouldn't the government be fining the government and paying itself with the citizens tax revenues?

Also, this doesn't seem to serve as a warning at all. Unless all the politicians and civil servants were removed from their job, barred from public positions and given hefty fines then this is actually a clear sign encouraging more of this behavior from governments. Until there are clear consequences enacted by the populace, governments will continue this kind of behavior.
Since many years ago. The cryptocurrency movement has always been very ideological.
Which platform do you use?
You can do (approximately) the same in Joy, so I don't know what parent meant by "minimal".

http://tunes.org/~iepos/joy.html#conssipk

This should be expected, because concatenative is a syntax style alternative to applicative syntax for functions, and has no trouble with lambda calculus semantics.

The main difference (why Joy uses (s',k) instead of (s,k)) is that Joy has quoting, but this just for convenience for large data, not essential.
I'd much rather them having an old-style Google Adsense-type ad somewhere than their annual, 50%-of-the-screen guilt-tripping donations ad.
That's one of the practical things wrong with this style of architecture: it looks bad with even a little bit of staining on the walls, and it stains very quickly because it lacks an overhanging roof that protects the walls.
Ha this is so well put, thank you.

But it does surprise that so many technologists are falling into this trap (disregarding the innovation because of the plethora of junk it enables). The value of permission-less platforms and protocols should no be assessed absent of curation. Google, email spam filtering, wikipedia, the web abounds with examples and without curation we would be in a sea of shit.
Yeah, there are many wrong and some disinformed statements in that article:

> The most popular batteries use chemicals to store the energy. And then when we want to use the energy, we simply draw it back out. This is pretty much how the electrical grid works.

No, electrical grid currently mostly works without batteries. Power stored in batteries which can give it back to grid is several orders of magnitude smaller than what grid transfers. But this may change in future.

> Also, electricity can cause pressure (well can make things expand) [...] I could not find any current use cases for this property, I will have to look further.

Ultrasonic scanners in doctors offices or ultrasonic motors for some camera lenses, or even those sound-playing birthday cards.

> One you’ve seen a million times in the bath, but you never noticed. When bubbles pop, they can cause a small amount of light. This is called Sonoluminescence. They cause a really really small amount of light lasting a few hundred trillionths of a second.

Yeah, but that's not electricity.
Bluetooth is anything but robust.
Indeed, it's just shifting a regulatory/systems capture situation to the wild west.
> Propaganda is real

Yes, it's another name for public relations. It's also a word like "oligarch" or "terrorism" that requires the person doing to be an official enemy.

> I struggle to explain why anyone would brush it off

Not blaming it when my milk goes bad isn't "brushing it off."
So what's a good example of a git command that you might reasonably run as part of your $PS1 that runs an external program? It's not like people have git push or git commit in their $PS1.
I think you're losing sight of the real issue. Orgs linked to the Kremlin are known to have targeted Americans online, via bots or content farms. This is not in dispute. What was their purpose? What was their goal? Is there any benign explanation? And this kind of thing is not the same as negative attack ads. While those are unseemly and gross, they still have to conform to the rules or face legal consequences. Propaganda on social media can be made up completely, defamatory, and falsely attributed without any consequence. This is not the same as what you might read in the NYT.

I'm pretty sure your last sentence was a typo, but yeah, acting on fear is pretty much bad for everyone. And without FUD, there's no way the walking clown shoes would have been elected in 2016.
Um, being an accredited investor gives you exposure to investments that aren’t transparent. You don’t get the same access to financial statements as with public companies.

If you want more transparent investments then you should be advocating for reforms that will encourage companies to go public sooner. This would be reversing the trend in recent years where companies stay private longer, which allows them to not disclose how they’re doing.
The best channel (in my opinion...) for someone trying to actively improve is Daniel Naroditsky's: https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielNaroditskyGM

You will learn a lot more than from Agadmator, who's channel is very good, but shows a lot of engine lines without too much explanation of the deeper ideas.
We got an Urban Arrow in January and have put 500 NYC miles on it since. It’s been a lifestyle changing purchase for our family of four. We ride it daily, have come to depend on it for school dropoff, grocery runs, swim practice, etc. It’s almost entirely displaced our car. It’s also clear to me that I’m at greater danger of being in a bike accident than I was in 2020 because I ride this bike every chance I get.
Nicely written!

This is a great illustration of how Bash and similar shell dialects are convenient for interactive use but terrible as a programming language.

Change my mind: Bash is the PHP of operating systems. Any Bash script becomes tech debt the moment it is written.
The youtube motorcycle channel Fort Nine makes a pretty good argument that the risks of ebikes are similar to those of motorcycles, and the riders typically have less protective gear. https://youtu.be/wM8Xli2KTzI
It is perfectly legal to trade non-securites based on insider information, for example real estate. Are these securities though? Wait, I think I heard that question before.
Report the bots/spammers to dang and let them deal with it IFF it goes against the guidelines (shadowban, etc).

The kind of thought policing you're proposing will never fly here.
Right right, PR risk, not AI safety risk. Of course, that makes way more sense.
Oh. Hi. I guess I'm named nobody. I've just been nobodying for many years. But nobody pays attention to me because they're all fascinated/horrified with what the finance bros are doing off chain. No one likes to read about some dude quietly using bitcoin to pay for things like VPSes, computer hardware (newegg), etc, the last 7 years. It's not as exciting so I don't exist.
Ferdi messaging browser repository deleted, website offline
There’s also another axis, the libertarian/goldbug ideology.

So crypto people divide into four categories:

Ideological fool

Greedy fool

Ideological competent

Greedy competent
It wasn't a great work environment lots of big fish in little ponds.

I suspect the "every day" part was not accurate and it was just headaches they were getting not migraines. But a migraine meant they were sent home (no pay) a headache wouldn't allow that although I do know they truly believed they were migraines.
Energy efficiency key to solve the crisis, says Amory Lovins
See any old discussion about golang and generics :)
I worked for a bit on a solar powered Stirling engine to drive a refrigeration cycle for HVAC, the idea being that when the sun is shining you need your AC the most and you get all the power in the world to run it directly proportional to how much the sun is shining. So it doesn't need any further control circuitry, sun shines, pump runs. No electricity involved.
VevestaX is an open source library to track ML experiments and features in an excel file using 2 lines of code. The library automatically does EDA for you on the given dataset.
Nano and Hedera.

Block lattice tech is very cool. It's been around for over 6 years now, but even here, people seem not to realize that it exists and is fully functional.
The weather and sunlight are heavily dependent on the city - Stockholm and Valencia may be on the same continent but are vastly different in those aspects.

Housing isn't more expensive baring maybe the city centers of huge cities like Paris and London. But housing is much more evenly spread and better connected with transit, so you don't jump from uber expensive dense city core to very far away low density suburbs. Savings from healthcare and transportation, plus pensions, offset the taxes, mostly.
IIRC they already have a NSFW filter in place which removes unsavory prompts and output images.
I used to play multiplayer DOOM over parallel port in 1994.

https://www.doomworld.com/files/file/836-parallel-link-drive...
> they can replace it with a system that they personally have an equity stake in.

Isn't this a fact about capitalism and not at all specific to the financial sector?
It's reasonable for Wikimedia to adopt a "wait and see" approach.

If in a few years the whole world adopts crypto for payments, then perhaps they should review that.

Until then I'm not sure it's in Wikimedia's interests to be a pioneering "early adopter/supporter" of crypto payments, given the legitimate ethical concerns.
Only where gambling is illegal and to illegal casinos. Legal casinos do not want the hassle with KYC, market volatility and the often slow transactions. And neither does the customers.
Don't sell the food; sell an NFT of the food. That'll -really- up your profits. Plus, NFTs never spoil!...until you add that feature. Once you have spoiling half cans of tomato sauce in the metaverse you'll be rich!
Tips for Success Using AWS CloudFormation
They're scaling up to 5MW now:

https://www.nu.nl/economie/6194949/nutsbedrijf-veolia-gaat-e... (dutch)
Even digital storage is not permanent. Important things will be copied and preserved, but I imagine at some point so many of the relics of everyday life will be deleted or deteriorate at some point in the far future, such as this very comment
I totally agree, what a great tutor he is.
By reading, seems that the algorithm is just a scapegoat used in the title.
This is racial discriminations dating way back, purposely introduced in the algorithm, and supported for 6 years.

> Having dual nationality was marked as a big risk indicator, as was a low income.

>In 2020, Trouw and another Dutch news outlet, RTL Nieuws revealed that the tax authorities also kept secret blacklists of people for two decades, which tracked both credible and unsubstantiated “signals” of potential fraud. Citizens had no way of finding out why they were on the list or defending themselves.

>An audit showed that the tax authorities focused on people with “a non-Western appearance,” while having Turkish or Moroccan nationality was a particular focus. Being on the blacklist also led to a higher risk score in the child care benefits system.
I usually only buy bread when I make soup or stew and it's rare that the whole loaf doesn't get eaten. And that's usually one of those La Brea or whatever 'artisanal' par-baked brand the grocery store carries.
To me, it looks like a symbol you would use to denote electricity present. I'd say it was meant to say that an electrical box or some other piece of infrastructure had electricity present. It could even be a non-standard symbol for a ground.

edit: the right angle portion of it looks like the symbol for 3 wire 2 phase electricity used here - https://www.conceptdraw.com/How-To-Guide/qualifying-symbols ..Yes, it is just a right angle. but I could see the electricity symbol being overlaid to indicate that it was an electrical symbol.
There were people who called the internet a fad, while the dot com silliness was at it's peak. Many of them, if you recall.

Look up block lattice tech - it's powerful stuff.
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Combustion based energy generation is a pretty well understood process at this point - so we have very good numbers for efficiency. The absolute best efficiency we can get out of hydrocarbons - using combined cycle gas turbines - is about 60%. Given that iron would probably have to be combusted externally (similar to coal) you'd expect similar thermodynamic efficiencies - the best coal plants are about 42% efficient.

So I'd expect the closed cycle efficiency of this to be at best 42% - assuming a 100% efficient regeneration phase (highly unlikely). It's probably more like 20% or less.

Poor efficiency for energy storage isn't necessarily a dealbreaker - if the capital cost per kWh stored is low then it may still have a place in the mix - but it's unlikely to be a silver bullet.
> Authorities penalized families over a mere suspicion of fraud based on the system’s risk indicators

This is the real story here. The algorithm is incidental.