skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some stuff must be digital of course but I always find paper notebooks superior in the end. Something about physically writing it down makes me remember it better. And even though they can become disorganized I like occasionally flipping through an old one - it often triggers memories associated with the time I wrote the note or people I worked with that I would not get with digital files.

I think the other thing is it forces you to be more space conscious - you do not have unlimited real estate. Large notebook for some things, smaller handbook for portable, and notes that are compressed or adjusted for each.
No one held a gun to their head and said "you have to bet thousands of dollars of ETH."

If you want to move lots of money for the purposes of escaping authoritarian regimes, there are other chains which have extremely negligible transaction fees.
This is pretty much why flags get repurposed. It's also important to mention that things like JSON and protobufs are too expensive for HFT, so you are likely going to be sending structs over the wire. Repurposing flags lets you change a wire format with a lot less friction than adding a byte to a struct. Essentially, it lets you change the minor version number on a protocol and only recompile the endpoints without changing the major version number and recompiling everything.
Because the system you're passionately defending via the "personal responsibility" angle has so far demonstrably shown itself to be susceptible to the same externalizes of greed, avarice and "fuck you I got mine" misbehavior as the current system and people are lining up in droves to have their chance turning the grinder as long as it means they get a ticket to the sweepstakes.

And the responses you're giving of "just be risk aware/just read the source code/just know what you're getting into" doesn't change that, doesn't educate the people who probably and realistically could benefit, and it doesn't change the fact that there is a LOT of obfuscation, misinformation and mishandling of trust going on in order to separate people from their actual fungible money.
The "world" is algorithmically generated, rather than being deliberately designed.
So is double packaging (eg plastic bottles wrapped in plastic to form a "sixpack", on a pallet, wrapped in more plastic, so plastic within a plastic within a plastic, prepackaged bananas, double packed cosmetics, toothpaste in plastic covered cardboard boxes, etc.), and it contributes a lot more (by weight of trash) than straws.

But we have basically zero impact on the first, and drinks in a plastic bottle are sometimes literally the only choice, and no politician dares mention cocacola and walmart, but we all get blamed for straws that we maybe use twice a year... in mcdonalds.
I want this article to be correct because it would validate my failed attempts at knowledge management. But I can't say that it isn't just some random person stridently arguing against the positions of a bunch of other random people. (And the author has the disadvantage that they totally misused the "bull in a china shop" metaphor...)

I certainly find it believable that people will fetishize knowledge graphing, because it's something I would do: spend lots of time to produce something sophisticated and fancy and utterly useless for real-world impact. But the abuses of people like me don't disprove the value. And the argument that it won't magically do some things, like derive the importance of specific bits of data, doesn't prove that it won't do other things.

Anything we produce or decide is based on a substrate of information, sort of a soil in which ideas and conclusions can grow. It doesn't seem ridiculous that it could be beneficial to take some intentional action to enrich that soil. Just don't expect that it's going to produce amazing results all by itself; I agree with the author that willful linearization and filtering is critical when you're trying to make something out of it.
I guess though to be honest there isn't any privileged information stored in there to my knowledge? It's just historical information which you're probably going to end up publicly exposing on github anyways.
But I believe it is the duty of everyone to not cheat/scam other people
huh? people talk about it all the time on this very site in the past. ALthough it's usually about how much VISA and mastercard uses, or how much is used by money flowing through the american banks.
> Production and distribution prices increase for every good/service consumed

That sounds like a feature as consumption is one of the core problems.

> Normal every day citizens end up footing the bill for corporations

Corporations are serving demand. You could say citizens end up paying a more accurate cost for their consumption, with environmental costs properly accounted for.

And we could redistribute the tax revenue back to the citizens, starting with those who are suffering most and are least responsible for the climate emergency.
> Imagine how hard it would be to actually etch out the details (operationally, ethically) of an energy policy that generalizes over waste in the crypto space but also any other place we waste energy for things we don't actually need.

Does the fact that this is hard somehow make the problem go away? Yes, it will be hard. Like many factors contributing to climate change, changes are required that will make people unhappy.

The only question is whether humanity will take the steps to change on their own, or if the Earth will make those decisions for us.

It's also not necessary to implement an all-encompassing policy about every possible form of energy waste to take aim at emerging trends that are a clear threat to the climate.

Taking just one example, unwinding the problems with the meat industry is going to be incredibly difficult because of hundreds of years of precedent and expectations of the population. In that regard, focusing on curbing new threats first while still in their early stages sounds a lot more viable and at least in the short term, valuable.
I'm not trying to excuse oil spills, but I think it's dodging responsibility to base our whole lives around drilling a dirty fuel out of the ground and then blame only the company when these happen. Using oil entails some risk that it's going to contaminate the environment, and we are collectively responsible.
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Use an IDE that lets you follow stack traces into library source code easily. You learn a lot from going down the rabbit hole... ... when you have time to do it.
Ummm no, less herbicide actually
I'll also point out that the UI for Factorio is almost among the best.

I'd prefer a factorio over almost another UI.

I'm imagining a port of factorio's UI into most strategy games would be very nice, both from a VERY zoomable map, a clear research/progression tree. A few improvements could be made IMHO, but it's lighyears better than TF, CS, the Chris Sawyer set, etc.
I wonder if this is a risk for Conservancy if some other party claims that some piece of GPLed software violates its rights somehow. Would other parties name Conservancy as a defendant in lawsuits if they learn that copyrights have been assigned to it? (Maybe there's some remedy that plaintiffs would sometimes like to try to get that only the copyright holder can provide, like assigning copyright to a plaintiff in a settlement?)
You're assuming that the proponents of this argument are convinced that crypto is a worthwhile burn of energy in the first place, which is - off course - exactly the opposite of what's being implied.

Here's how your opponents see this exchange :

>> Instead of talking about <<<Burning skyscrapers for fun>>> in terms of their monetary value, we should measure them in terms of tons of CO2, or perhaps its equivalent acres-of-the-Amazon-rainforest-lit-on-fire. I'm 100% serious.

> I am so annoyed by this argument. The question we should be asking ourselves is how <<<Gasoline>>> is being generated in the first place. Fighting <<<Burning skyscrapers for fun>>> is the wrong fight for environmentalists: the right fight is transitioning to healthier and cleaner source of <<<Gasoline>>> in a world that will inevitably consume more and more <<<Petroleum>>> as part of our organic progress, with or without <<<Burning skyscrapers for fun>>>.

I replaced some words (marked by <<<.>>>) to make an analogy that will stand out to you and let you see how the other side uses the argument: they're not implying that enviromental disasters can be totally averted by banning crypto, they're simply stating that crypto is such a monumental waste of energy, the equivalent of burning skyscrapers for fun, that banning it will deprieve us of nothing valuable while saving up valuable time in our _continued_ fight for the enviroment. If you're stuck in the desert with limited water, you search for more water *and* punish those who waste existing water. The more extravagant the waste and far away the alternative sources, the more you should divide your attention between finding new sources and punishing those who waste.

I'm personally moderately on the anti-crypto side (just barely, and very reluctantly) in this, distributed trustless blockchains is a A)Theoretically beautiful B)But extremly, hugely, unimaginably inefficient-in-practice idea that only kinda sorta work when you use it for what plain old bitcoin was used for in the early days and only under extreme circumstances (e.g. circumventing governoment censorship). It's like communism (ironic given the stereotypical libertarianism of it's proponents), it's beautiful that somebody thought of this as an alternative to what we currently do and it's fascinating to imagine what we can do with it. But it's just not ready, maybe a better humanity in a better time and place could make it work, but not here and not now. Rushing not-ready things into production then "fixing it later" is how you do hacky scripts and shitty CRUD apps, not economic and financial systems.

The reason I also hate anti-crypto discourse is the extreme religiousness (almost of the same caliber as the fanatically pro-crypto side) that people treat this matter with, no amount of anger and insults will make reasonable pro-crypto people see the error of their ways, and unreasonable folks will not listen to the fiery screeds in the first place, so all this screaming going back and forth is for nothing.
I'm curious if you've ultimately found your mentor's behavior to be a net positive, or net negative, in your career.

One of the engineers under me often expresses his discontent that I won't give him answers, either. I think he's more than able to get to those answers on his own, and that the value he'll derive from learning how to learn is vastly greater than the value of being able to complete his work faster. On the other hand, he's given me the feedback that the method is excessively socratic at best, and flat-out frustrating at worst.
Nier also had a minuscule budget. I doubt they lost a lot of money on that.

No it is their Western AAA projects that are hemorrhaging them money.
I thought there had been a lawsuit against a farmer who intentionally planted a crop near someone else's roundup-ready crop and then bred the resulting seeds for roundup resistance.

Like you, I take the view toward that (potentially hypothetical?) case that the farmer's evident intent to infringe Monsanto's intellectual property is irrelevant because he hasn't done anything wrong. In that case, he is not even party to an agreement, though note that violating a patent doesn't require you to be party to an agreement.
This 100% falls into the category of low hanging fruit. It's merely a far less efficient way of doing things we already know how to do. No worthwhile functionality would be lost.
It's funny. I saw the headline, and my immediate association was "employees" rather than computation tasks. And I was thinking "not even!" It's been my experience that scaling up employee count, has diminishing returns, with even some net negatives with some adds.

I'm not sure I buy the quadratic gains, but the general gst is that if done correctly, two processes/tasks/workers/etc is better than one.

So why is this? Why does it work in computing, but not with people? Is it the nature of the tasks (one is problem solving, the other is grinding out computations?). Is it differences in configuration?
How quickly they forget. 45 minutes after the DALL-E n release, Sam Altmann tweeted “AGI is gonna get wild”; Greg Brockman posted multiple tweets around the idea of AGI and walls broken. That invites a critical analysis.

Ad hominem against me won’t remedy the limitations that we and others have observed.
Maybe we are eating different fish. Stocked trout is pretty bland and somewhat mushy. I've never had truly wild trout, so maybe they are better. The bluegills here taste a lot better than farmed tilapia (do they even sell wild?) - mild, a little sweet, and flakes well. I agree bluegills are better than catfish, but depending on the catfish I prefer them over tilapia.

I hear that water quality and, to a lesser extent, water chemistry has a huge impact on taste. I've sort of noticed that in certain lakes compared to others.
$30 billion in ETH locked on the PoS network will be worthless if they don't switch.

Meanwhile, there's no technical way for the miners to keep the switch from happening.
> key differentiators

From browsing comments, nobody on HN rides downhill. Which makes sense. A solid year of no concussions from some forced time off (hey titanium rods, what's up) and I'm a better programmer than I've ever been.

But anyway.

Strava won't track downhill runs as separate from the lift ride. Everyone agrees that this sucks. Nobody has made a move at a solution (as far as I know).

If MTBX has solved this problem, and no others, it's worth its weight in gold.
Getting an internship at a company with solid engineering culture.
I will agree that the "broke Ethereum" rhetoric is stupid. It relies on elevating Yuga Lab's tweets to a level of credibility that they lost, their community should turn on them for deflecting responsibility.

But I would say that there are unintended consequences of Ethereum's EIP1559 burning. A lot of tokens sold off as people were positioning for this sale. In the past, this money would have been recirculated from miners back into these leading tokens and projects and economy. This time it hasn't really happened because it was burned. Ethereum hasn't "priced in" any scarcity based on this burning, its still swung by the general tech sector swinging. Not a fan of this outcome personally. But yes, I'm all for letting the burns continue, just want communities and projects to be more discerning.
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I'm not sure if this has come before but for me it'd be ffmpeg. The things it can do!
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It's great to have a note system where you can get general information about a subject. However, such a system will not encourage you to read and recollect the information on a regular basis.

It seems to me that the only good personal knowledge management system is a self-testing tool, like Anki. When going through your daily tests, completed questions can have links to the source of the information. If you find yourself interested in studying the material again, you can follow the link, or retest using decks that you can build on the fly based on the tags of the question that caught your interest.

Personally, I just link to the original material that I found, instead of a personal note system. When I write notes, I write them by hand and regularly throw away binders of material. The handwriting was the important part, fully reinforced by constant self-testing.

The reason that this is so difficult, though, for technology, is the rate of change and how much technological bifurcation exists. Each company that I might go to will have their own stack of similar technologies with the same goals. How many languages do I actually want to know all the details of? Probably one. The ability to think as a programmer (or server administrator, network administrator, container system engineer, etc.) is the important part. Otherwise, I can learn the details of any utility on the fly as needed. It will stick with practice, and doesn't require the same level of personal knowledge management.

Learning a language, or things that don't change much (STEM subjects, for example), can benefit from the use of such a system.
There are many books, but one thing to consider is that when catholics were gaining political power... they all got shot.
I may not have explicitly stated it in the parent comment, but it's quite explicit other places.

Either a system is sustainable or it's not. If it is, it can continue forever. And, if it's not, it won't. One way or another, it won't, though you can pick the method early on, and later, reality will force it on you. The history of civilization collapse is the history of this reality being forced on groups of people who thought it didn't apply to them.

Plastics in their current form won't exist as new products in 1000 years (though the current stuff probably won't have broken down entirely). Either something far less vile and toxic to "all life" will have been found, or, more likely, industrial civilization will have done the usual "overshoot and collapse" thing, so we won't have the technology to make them in their current form then.

None of that changes the fact that plastic are toxic to life now - and, so, we ought not be using nearly as much of them. I don't mind "durable plastics" quite as much, but the bulk of it is single use, and splitting out all our recycling, I'm regularly reminded of just how much plastic one cannot avoid, even when trying to minimize it.

If the reality (which it probably is...) is that people won't stop doing anything until the external reality we live in forces their hand, the outcomes are almost always far worse than if we decide to stop doing those things earlier.

Plastics are convenient, certainly. They're also a horrid biotoxin that has, quite literally, blanketed the planet in the form of microplastics. We have no idea what to do with the stuff, and burying it only works for so long (and if you're really careful to not let the bits and pieces leech into groundwater). But, I mean, at least you can get water without having to use a drinking fountain!
Fertilizer overuse causing runoff is half the concern, that part causes algae blooms.

On the other half is that fertilizers are either mined (unlikely) or manufactured from nitrogen in the air plus hydrogen. The downside is that the hydrogen is almost entirely made from natural gas.

So, fertilizers start as mostly fossil fuel energetically, and end up feeding algae blooms if overused. This seems like a huge deal to me, I've been keeping an eye on this kind of project for a long time. Reducing use of fertilizer means less fossil fuel use, and if it's generated locally and in the right amounts it is bound to help on the waste side too.
That's probably a personal preference or maybe due to water quality. They're one of my favorite. There's a great TED talk our there about water quality and fish flavor, but I don't remember the person.
Paying Strava user and big cyclist here.

One thing I wish Strava would add - better route discovery. I know they recently added “routes” to the maps tab that you can filter based on elevation and distance, but I find they only show the same 2-3 routes every time I look.

Because of this, I’ve ended up going to segments I ride on, looking at the top performers of the day, then checking their routes to discover new places to ride.

If they had “route influencers” or some way to tap into the vast local knowledges that some users have I would love that.
Replacing cryptocurrency can literally be done overnight. That's not true of international shipping.
But if PoS comes after everyone stops caring about ETH (or PoS), it still fails. PoS isn't the hard part. Getting ETH successfully onto PoS is the hard part.
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what goalposts changed? i pointed out same
limits in 2001, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2020.

please actually read my work and please don’t make stuff up.
I've heard people call it "a replacement for `fopen()`". Similarly, I like ZeroMQ as a replacement for sockets.