skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related idea which I don't see mentioned yet: William Bricken's iconic arithmetic, with regards to what he calls James Algebra.

I don't have my copy of the material handy but it comes down to using different containers to represent logarithms and powers such that

(x) ~> #^x

[x] ~> log_#(x)

<x> ~> -x

where # is an arbitrary base.

Writing expressions next to each other is implied addition. Whole numbers can be written e.g.

0 ~> _

1 ~> ()

2 ~> ()()

3 ~> ()()()

etc.

Operations, like addition, read

A+B ~> A B

and subtraction

A-B ~> A<B>

where <<x>> ~> x,

on to multiplication

A*B ~> ([A][B])

and division

A/B ~> ([A]<[B]>)

and exponentiation

A^B ~> (([[A]][B])).

There are a few axiomatic equations (maybe 3?) that are used to establish the general properties of the system, and from which the rest of it can then be deduced.

It also introduces an interesting construction, which he simply calls J ~> [<()>], analogous to the imaginary number i.

I'd recommend taking a look at this if TFA tickled your fancy.
This.

I saw this happen with the early internet, and then later with crypto... It took a long time for the Internet to go from 1) only know to geeks to 2) grifters promising the world to 3) wider acceptance. Maybe this will happen too with crypto, but until it sorts out its grifter problem, it will be always be stuck at stage 2.
> I want my customers to understand what they are paying for and what I am committing to

That's what I'd like to see from everyone (generally spoken). Anyhow, thanks for your thoughts and sharing your experiences! There is a lot of value in it.

I guess communication is - as usual - a huge factor in all of this (from each party).

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> For example I commit to my customers that I will answer routine emails the same day, and urgent emails or phone calls immediately.

That's very valuable and honest from you. But it's you who is doing that. Not everyone acts like that (from my experience). So how would one be able to create a proper adherence for such a commitment (that was agreed on while signing the contract)?
On the one hand: Has badly lost its way on content. Can understand why other providers are stripping out legacy content (e.g. old BBC shows), but equally Netflix's own content has been very much expensive quantity over quality.

They're at risk of blowing their relatively dominant position.

On the other: the headline figures aren't terrible. Their boycott of Russia saw them lose 700k subscribers, while the net decrease is actually 200k. Their projection for Q2 is interesting, and clearly they have some basis for projecting a steeper decline.

Ultimately Netflix have moved from what looked like a very strong incumbent position into a keenly fought battle where content will decide which 2/3 streaming services people subscribe to. For me this year it's probably the third most watched after Disney+ and Apple TV... so is at risk of the chop if it doesn't come up with the goods soon. Can't imagine I'm alone.
Without naming names, top league tables globally and all infamous from the UK abroad (and yes was on a hard-science), so no I went to the right university, but I'm highlighting that the main part of "teaching" is done at a post-graduate level.

If you've not pursued academia this far it's akin to that moment about 10 years after you left education where you think, "I wonder what it would have been like had I known this at uni" stage.
Instead of demanding rent control or rent subsidies it would be more effective to demand a land reform and a land value tax.
Georgism is one of those things that has had a long history of success. However, just like the end of Feudalism it is one of those things that can only be acquired by spilling blood as it is extremely unlikely to make the transition during peaceful times.

The "weak men cause problems which leads to strong men who solve them" meme is a good illustration of this problem. During peace there is no urgency, people aren't willing to step over certain hard lines that would be beneficial for everyone but are considered a social taboo over the short term. Some maliciously hedonistic individuals think they can sacrifice some benefits to society for personal gain by staying within the hard lines and abusing "oversights" or "loopholes" that the law set. Until people are starting to burst out in anger and start a "revolution" that would be completely unnecessary if people in power just agreed to adopt the peaceful solution immediately. It's not like Georgism is going to eat the rich, instead it upgrades the capitalists into a more respectable "class" as they can no longer be blamed for this type of exploitation. Let socialists and marxists become an extinct species as they have less and less to complain about.

The loophole is the fact that we as a society have decided that we don't have to share our land with new arrivals (migrants and newborns) and that the cost of public infrastructure should not be passed onto the beneficiaries of that infrastructure.
OK let's look up what AI bias is.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23023538/ai-dalle-2-opena...

"As is typical for AI systems, DALL-E 2 has inherited biases from the corpus of data used to train it. That means for all the delightful images that DALL-E 2 has produced, it’s also capable of generating a lot of images that are not delightful ... here’s what the AI gives you if you ask it for an image of lawyers <pictures of men>"

Or: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdawn/the-ai-that-draws-wha...

"just like those previous experiments, DALL-E suffers from the same racist and sexist bias AI ethicists have been warning about for years. Machine learning systems almost universally exhibit bias against women and people of color, and DALL-E is no different"

Here's OpenAI themselves on DALL-E bias:

"Use of DALL·E 2 has the potential to harm individuals and groups by reinforcing stereotypes, erasing or denigrating them, providing them with disparately low quality performance, or by subjecting them to indignity"

Their primary complaint is that the pictures DALL-E draws (i.e. symbols of reality) don't reflect their social agendas. They worry about this a lot because they fear that if DALL-E draws men when asked to draw lawyers, and women when asked to draw flight attendants, that this by itself will actually make the drawings come true.

"Also, how is the most prominent US propaganda that was all around movies - that Russians are the enemy, red scare, etc — leftist?"

That's hardly the most common US propaganda in movies, is it, and almost certainly is a legacy of the cold war. It's much more profitable to annoy the Russian market than the other very large communist country that might be depicted as a generic enemy of the state.

At any rate very little US output features Russians as the enemies compared to movies/TV shows that depict e.g. women being able to kung-fu fight off a group of 10 men 3x heavier than themselves, or which depict gay relationships as being far more prevalent than they actually are, or in which the Queen of England is black. That's the kind of "inclusivity" bias that's being discussed here.
The original railways in the US were giving outrageous rights and huge stretches of land, which quickly led to monopolies and cartel formations. That resulted in the first anti-trust laws in the US. On top of that, the current dire state of railways in the US can be directly linked to the fact that they are privatized.

Similarly, the early tracks in Europe were also often privately funded. Most were nationalized in the first half of the 20th century. Some countries tried privatizing tracks again (the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, ..) but quickly found out it didn't work.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 or X1 Nano are my favorites. Small, light, but powerful.

Before I used the ThinkPad X230 and DELL Latitude 7270, each for many years and bought second hand. The DELL was particularly sturdy.

All of these are Ubuntu LTS friendly boxes.

Avoid Microsoft Surface Laptops, which require patches to run Linux, Microsoft doesn't offer an Image ready to burn on a stick. And although I'm writing this on an M1 MacBook, I can't recommend that box yet as a primary machine; I use it mostly for making and presenting slides and browsing HN and such, not for serious dev work. In a year's time, this may look different.
I'm in a similar place to the OP - I have a PhD in health science with R and Python experience (and a little hobby experience with TensorFlow and some AWS stuff). Is it worth doing kaggle competitions? I've heard mixed things - some people say companies ignore them, others say they're useful evidence on a CV. Thanks!
For my Thinkpad (Thinkpad 13, I think it's called L-series now) installing Ubuntu was no trouble at all - set up a bootable USB, install, and done. Ubuntu actually runs much better than Windows!
Creating a Rich Text Editor Using Rust and React
In this post, we detail how we use fp-bindgen (https://github.com/fiberplane/fp-bindgen) and Redux reducers written in Rust (https://fiberplane.dev/blog/writing-redux-reducers-in-rust/) to create our own Rich Text Editor. Feel free to ask us anything!
Check out Tuxedo Computers, Linux first with a Tux key. You can configure the machine to your liking. If you want compute intesive skip the slim & light ones. They have machines with 45W TDP Ryzens on offer [0].

[0] https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note...

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/why-TUXEDO.tuxedo

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Note...

https://github.com/tuxedocomputers
The author is incredibly critical of these technologies, and very much does not like them. The article mentions this.
Yes. Probably.

To be honest, I don't know much about BTC. I'm coming from the Ethereum side of things.

It's just tech. If people like it, it belongs to their political side. If they resent it, it belongs to a political side they also resent.
Domain labels are limited to 63 bytes, with the [a-z..] before and after that makes 61 + 1 + 1 = 63.
The largest and easiest argument against crypto is the environmental impact. It’s completely ignored in that piece.
This is directed at AI marketing in general: "AI" has been used to market so much nonsense it's probably becoming a problem communicating actual interesting uses of AI. I very much get a dot com vibe off it, like nobody on the team knows how it works but we're sure we're gonna be rich somehow! In my head, I've begun substituting AI with "wizards" when I read it.

It's very much the sort of problems crypto is having. So many grifters actual interesting uses of the technology are very hard to identify and take seriously.
I would worry that your accountant has other customers who are idiots and you could/should probably do better.
Ask HN: If half of Bitcoin mining will go for charity, what needs to be funded?
Imagine some changes in protocol which converts Bitcoin's blockchain in some kind of AI which makes some decisions on humankind. Algorithmic part of questions may be ignored, this is a question about introducing a human values to Artificial Intelligence.
Uranus should be NASA’s top planetary target – report
SA-er here. No marmite has ever seen the inside of my house. The article is right; either you love it or you hate it.
Growing up my brother loved the stuff, but personally I could never figure out why...it really is an acquired taste.
Do you have a write up somewhere? Building that stuff from scratch sounds like a hell of a project. I've toyed with the idea, but the technical barrier and responsibility is a steep obstacle that I'm not 100℅ ready to commit to at the moment. My community (and my property) are all perfect candidates for this though, and I have the time and money for it if I decide to commit.

Out of curiosity, if you don't mind divulging, what general area was it operating? Alaska?
I don't think the internet has left phase 2 yet either.
Largely crypto seems to fail at being distributed internet money. If a project is fast and cheap enough for it that correlates with being too niche to be viable.

We have seen BTC and ETH lose their function as internet money as transactions and prices have gone up.
> it's needed sometimes

When is this needed in the context of a Rails app? You never want to send emails to local hosts, and emails directly on the TLD is possible, but very little will work with them in practice.
It's a kind of salted yeast extract. Wikipedia's "yeast extract" article[0] isn't bad, but it's missing two important points:

1. Yeast is a living organism that multiplies during beer fermentation. Commercial brewers wash and reuse some of it, but even so they always end up with excess.
2. Breaking down the protein into amino acids dramatically increases the umami taste.

So yeast extract is a way to turn a waste product into something delicious.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast_extract
Sure, me neither. And indeed I wouldn't consider it proper to ask an Irish person to change their accent, and would never do so. But that's partly because I recognize that even if I forced them to do that, it wouldn't actually change anything real. It wouldn't make them more English (whatever that might mean), and they'd go back to using their real accent the moment they were out from under my thumb. The change would be arbitrary and surface level only. Whereas, to the sort of people who implement features like this, forcing people to change their accent would be an enormously significant and impactful move.
The amount of time the internet took to show it is a solution to real problems, as well as the time it took for the internet to 'grow up' beyond the grifter stage (which was about the same time, and probably that is not a coincidence) is far shorter. Already - and bitcoin/crypto shows no sign of growing beyond the grifter phase. What, something like 1/3 of everybody who bought Bieber's NFT thing got it grifted? That's insane.

Bitcoin is over 10 years old.
I really don't see how it could ever be a financial system. It would require regulation, control and identification. It requires a central and powerful supervisor per country. It would render the system at most equally accessible, possibly less.

If you want a bank with a publically accessible ledger, fine, build it, or have your government publish all banking transactions. But don't pretend bitcoin can be an alternative to the current banking system.
I read wun0ne point as how blockchain implementations has a disastrous environmental impact. The article doesn’t mention that at all, and openly advocate for blockchain.
I'm happy with both my second hand HP Elitebook 840 G6 and the ThinkPad carbon X1 Gen 9 I have for work.

I think I like the HP one slightly better: function keys can be set to trigger either F1-F12 or to the actions drawn on them without the Fn key (and the Fn key swaps this). If set to the actions by default, F1-F12 are still automatically used when pressing a modifier key, and no action is on F2, which means I almost never need to use the Fn key for those and I can intuitively use alt+F4. That's not the case on the ThinkPad. It has a proper menu key (on the Thinkpad, they decided to replace it to screen capture, which is on FN+Right Caps on the HP). I like the metal feeling of the case and the feeling of the keyboard (but the ThinkPad is good on these areas too). Both have a touchscreen, and there are visible, diagonal lines on the Thinkpad's screen. Which is not very problematic, but better without. The HP has an Ethernet port, too. I think Linux works slightly better on the HP too: the sound automatically switches to the headphone when plugged, and switches back to the internal speakers when unplugged, on the same distro (openSUSE Tumbleweed). Though that might be some settings issue. S3 sleep works flawlessly on the HP. On the ThinkPad, it is not supported and indeed it does not work well. They decided to switch to whatever Windows decided to do with suspend, which does not really turns off components but put them in low power mode, which is a mess.

The ThinkPad is lighter, probably has a better sound from the internal speakers (though the HP's sound is correct too). The trackpoint on the ThinkPad is way more useful, you can scroll with it by holding the touchpad's upper middle button which is not there on the HP.

Both have a long battery life. I can recommend both.

I've not tried the KDE Slimbook 15, but it is a more expensive rebranded version of another model if I remember correctly.
> The potential for cool applications of blockchains is still there, but so far it seems to me cryptocurrency has mostly just been abused as a vehicle for crazy, baseless manias, and little to no meaningful application.

Check out DeFI on Ethereum and your hope will resurrect. aave.com, pooltogether.com, goodghosting.com, polymarket.com, ens.domains, gitcoin. https://ethereum.org/en/dapps/
Assuming your question is serious; Any "Decision" is an "Event" with some consequences which carry a "Risk". The idea is to learn to recognize and quantify it properly to a certain extent before making the Decision.
Where do you see that? The comment by throwaway13337 is a philosophical take, it doesn't offer empirical evidence for anything.
I've rarely seen a Linux laptop with solid display out, GPU acceleration and sleep/wake ever though...
Yes.

I think, the main difference is that anarchism is about people can do what they want.

Some interpret it as capital can do what it wants. I don't subscribe to that interpretation, but many crypto people do, sadly.
The key thing is, of course people are getting vocal - and vocally annoyed! - at crypto-bros, given what cryptocoins have brought upon us over the last years:

- a shortage of all components used in building PCs, starting with CPUs, then GPUs, then RAM, then HDDs, and back to GPUs. Simply because scalpers and shitcoin miners could outbid everyone else.

- People getting hacked left and right (particularly blue-checkmark accounts) on Twitter, Youtube or Facebook to rename them to Elon Musk and promise crypto airdrops

- the amount of corruption that has been necessary to enable said hacks. "SIM swapping" attacks used to be something nation states did against top-of-wanted-list criminals, not something that could be bought on the darknet for a couple hundred dollars

- the loot of said hacks ending up to fund Iranian or North Korean nuclear terrorism programs

- the amount of large scale hacks made only possible by Bitcoin and friends providing a relatively easy way to launder money, in particular ransomware

- an awful lot of "stars" peddled NFTs, ICOs and the likes and let their fans hang out to dry when the hype collapsed

- an awful corresponding lot of friends and sometimes family that got lured in by shitcoins, actually made money and now peddles shitcoins instead of crap MLM products to everyone whose ears haven't fallen off since long

- all the "rug pulls", "hacks" and other instances where serious amounts of money got stolen or vanished into thin air

- artists getting their works minted as NFTs without authorization

- people buying up coal power plants of all things to mine shitcoins

- instead of delivering the promised "there are no banks and taxes!" world, all shitcoins (obviously... as everyone predicted) ended up depending on centralized institutions like exchanges, large mining pools, auditors and the likes, especially once governments around the world caught up with developments. And to make it worse, many of these institutions end up with lesser consumer protection than banks! Hooray!

The only positive contribution that cryptocurrencies brought to the world was that people had a safe way to pay for and order illicit drugs, as taking out shady dealers and cutters reduced the amount of contaminations. Oh and maybe kick some arses at Western Union into reducing their rip-off rates for international currency transfers.
It's not about the tech. IMO a payment should just work. You don't need to understand the technology. It's foolish to expect people to know the tech in and out, it is irrelevant for 90% of people.

There's no need to have cool applications of blockchains, there's only need for decentralisation.
> Sadly, the "crypto space" was quickly invaded by hordes of people who never really cared about the technology itself, how it works and what it's actually useful for.

If having a solid understanding of the tech underlying crypto is a prereq of any sort, it will never reach mass adoption. Personally idgaf what fiat we choose or tech underlying my debit transactions, so long as the value is reasonably stable, my account reasonably secure, and my form of payment is accepted by almost all merchants.
Have you thought about a 16G M1 Mac? They are in that range and are incredibly well built. And MacOS is a fine BSD.
SEE I’M NOT INSANE!
A salty black paste made from yeast extract. Its taste is famously polarising.

It is typically spread on bread products such as toast or crumpets. It's actually quite healthy, as it's packed with B vitamins, and probably replaces a spread much higher in calories.
It has been of benefit I will admit, but I think for SSR in particular it can make things worse since you wait until a user interacts to spin up the application so to speak. But like anything, you can do this well with enough care.
Very interesting taken alongside this strategic analysis of Russian thinking by a former Finnish intelligence officer, from 2018. He's approaching the topic from a bit of a different angle, but coming to very similar conclusions. There are subtitles in multiple languages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF9KretXqJw
You seem to be looking at software as a dead artefact like a greek temple that was built hundreds of years ago and that still stands. But it is also an element of culture.

In my mind, software only half-way exists on the disk. That's the artefact-part of it.

It also half-way exists in creators' and users' heads. That's the culture-part of it.

If you take any piece of culture, like music or dance or cooking, then you'll quickly start to see the parallels. Both the craft of making the music, doing the dancing/cooking etc and the discovery/appreciation of music, dancing, cooking etc has to be passed along from generation to generation and spread through social networks to keep it alive. The fact that bits don't rot is just not enough. It takes active engagement and cycles of invention and reinvention to keep it alive.

I think this is quite a liberating thought. Conversely an "oldster" saying something like "I did this first, so no one is ever allowed to do it again" feels highly oppressive to me, and feels like that oldster taking away from the world more than they're giving.

The process of invention and reinvention is highly productive, because of the selectivity of how good ideas (like wikis) keep getting reinvented while bad ideas (like XML) don't. Software, like science, advances one funeral at a time [1]. Once Oracle had built XML-capabilities into their databases and people started using them, could you imagine Oracle going "oh, on second thought, let's remove that and break backwards compatibility"? I can't. Nowadays you have tons of people trying to reinvent the database. Can you imagine any one of them going "Hey, let's pour a lot of man-hours into building XML support and convincing all our users to make heavy use of it"? I can't. That's a good thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_principle
I have an idea of a metric. Upon regular schedule working hours, percentage of calls missed (i.e. you wanted to call them to have a meeting, but it failed, they weren't available)
After years of Fedora I now primarily run Windows because WSL just does everything I need. I prefer to still work in WSL Linux env and have my IDEs running through Windows (mostly Visual Studio Code and Goland). It's a nice setup for me because both OSes are just seamlessly available.

Having said that I've had so many sleep/power management problems with Windows with my new ThinkPad that I nearly just switched back to Fedora before finding a configuration that more or less seems to work.