skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This same user is arguing that Crypto is justified because it helps people in dictatorial or corrupt nations protect their money.

I really can't stand this hypocrisy - "it's working as intended to drop transactions even after charging exorbitant transaction fees - by the way it also is protecting impoverished people's money". You cannot tell me this is a good-faith argument.
I have no clue who you are but from reading your answer, I bet your coworkers love working with you and I bet you write nice maintainable code. You are probably better than you think.
Wax defeats the entire purpose of making a paper straw. Oil would not stay in the paper.

Just use plastic, it's better for the environment anyway.
The problem I see is, as you say, not the structure of personal knowledge, but recall.

Once I can recall something, that usually leads me to where I need to go. It's sometimes that initial failure to recall what I wanted to remember that can prevent me from acting until much later.

This is why I don't like any structure to my personal data. I throw every single thing I jot down into Apple Notes and either I'll come back to it when I see it above the fold or if I do a search query.

I like Apple Notes, but it really sucks in a lot of ways. The search function is crappy as crap gets. I don't know how indexing could be so poor. There's no way to tag or label notes other than by placing notes in folders. Notes does nothing to try and help you extract meaning from your unstructured text.

What I want more than anything that tries to impose the job of organization on to the user is something that lets me treat it like a dumping ground, does its best to extract any implicit structure or meaning and keywords from my notes, lets me add relationships optionally, and then gets out of my way. I don't need silos or folders or schemas or graphs or any such nonsense.
Could this even result in (temporary?) carbon capture?
With a more optimized contract, the same number of transactions would have been submitted, and the aggregate computational load would have been smaller, leading to less congestion.
I’ve tried a bunch of these sorts of tools. And nothing stuck over the years.

But two things did after all, recently:

1. Using Bear.app. I realized that I just hated slow, sloggy note apps. Bear is native and very fast! Faster than Apple’s own Notes.app!

2. Not worrying about organizing too much. Especially upfront. I just start dumping everything. Then _maybe_ organize later. But more often not. Just leave it as is. I can usually find it fast with a simple keyword search anyways.
Afon/avon means river in Welsh. The Ben Avon thing is likely an accident of transliteration. I known "Ben" means mountain in Scottish (Gallic).

The Brythonic languages - Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and I think there's one in Brittany (Franch). Those are the still living ones and as well as those there is a Cornish revival and languages such as Cumbric which only now live on in counting numbers. That lot is the, if you like, the old, original languages of Britain. Britain here means the lands of the Britons which also includes lesser Britain as well as Great Britain, which is northern France - Brittany.

So, although we have the johnny come lately English language, which is only about 1500 years old, we also have the far older languages here in the UK. All of those languages have fed and fed off each other. The Brythonics have taken on the Roman alphabet in their own distinct way as has English.

It is all too easy for us anglophones to forget that the alphabet we use was not invented here (Latin), nor was the term alphabet (aleph-beth - Hebrew I think). English is often described as the lingua franca - "language of the Franks" or French! Lingua Franca is a hangover from the days of the Holy Roman empire.
> spending a bit more to get good quality paper straws

I am yet to see one of these
I got a metal straw which is nice.

The main downside is you have to rinse it, and it comes with a brush to clean which I sometimes use. However I haven’t ever actually noticed it getting dirty. I drink water / tea flavored with stevia so it might not be as clean if you drink something else.
This is the type of stuff that makes me laugh.
But first you claimed you didn’t wrote the tweet

Occam’s razor: did you get hacked or did you reply and blocked for the taken out of context content
Well OK then, but your point was that "the original version must have been acceptable because Googlers later cited the final version, gotcha!", and the more review and improvement it undergoes by whomever, the less sense your point makes.
jjri is right; if you click the link it says "Bookface access is only for YC founders."
Meat has a history going back to the dawn of man as a primary source of sustenance. It's delicious, and thousands of millennia of evolution predisposes me to enjoy it more than less emitting alternatives.

The fact that meat has value is unrelated to the current state of the industry, which as I have said, is problematic.

The point I'm making is about the intrinsic value of the thing, because the GP wants to compare meat to cryptocurrency.

My point is that they're not comparable, regardless of the realities of mass produced meat and that industry's sustainability problems.

Dismissing issues with crypto as "meh, meat is a problem too" is a little bit like watching the Amazon burn down and concluding "meh, driving cars are a problem too".
If anything, higher atmospheric CO2 is probably locally better for the Amazon.
Yes, I am under the same impression that the spam detection takes some false positives lately. Even an official government mail which was a .gov equivalent.
Glad I am not the only one noticing.
I have tried to convince people to not purchase stuff that has non-stick properties and / or water resistance in clothes etc.

Unfortunately, people close to me don't care and now this. I have also wondered why the new straws are so much better than the old paper ones. This makes me so incredibly sad since I really try to avoid to purchase stuff with these kinds of chemicals in them among others.

Just like one hour ago I was stopping at a fast food restaurant and ate, they had these kinds of straws which I imagine contains PFAS.

Fuck. Even if you really try it seems you can't avoid it.
How is incinerating supposed to be better than burying (not composting)?

Edit: Yes, I obviously understand there's an energy release, but is finding yet another way to burn more oil and get carbon into the atmosphere really what we need at this point in time?
People are obsessed with "recycling" plastic, instead of doing the right thing and burning it for energy. It's some kind of emotional "I'm not wasting it" thing.
SICP has timeless advice that I follow: Write programs.
Good point! Using dyn Trait syntax (aka, dynamic dispatch) uses type erasure and is kind-of like Go and Java's implementation of Generics I guess. You can definitely use that in Rust but the article is about impl Trait syntax which is for concrete types (not type erased)
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> […] all that effort for fertilizer.

Food to feed your troops (and workers in armament factories) is a strategic military resource.

You have to either grow it yourself or import it. Artificial fertilizer allows you stop importing nitrogen (which could be blocked by embargoes) and make it locally, which would allow you to potentially grow food locally and not import it either (again, embargoes).
While the low-effort statements stemming from the obsession with crypto carbon output annoy me as well, energy budget is an essentially zero-sum game (ignoring anomalous areas like those with net excess geothermal), and zero-carbon energy can be achieved by increasing 0C production or decreasing consumption.

As with almost every ecological issue, decreasing consumption is the more economically and logistically viable part of the solution, especially when it comes to cryptocurrency where the value-per-unit-energy is so many orders of magnitude lower than traditional systems.
Repurposing flags not always well-motivated, but one legitimate reason to do this is the memory (and particularly cache) footprint.

Often flags are local to a particular object. If there are lots of such objects, you want each to take as little space as possible. You should check out the contortions linux devs go through to make struct page small [0]. This is important, because there is one such struct per page of physical memory. The memory use is a near-constant percentage of your total memory, and you wouldn't want it to be any larger than necessary.

Even when there are not a lot of these objects, in low-latency software it's important to hit the cache. Your program should always just be as compact in memory as possible.

Semantically flags are booleans (is proposition P true of this object). They are stored compactly as bitsets, often implicitly, say:

#define FLAG_1 0x01
#define FLAG_2 0x02
/* ... */
#define FLAG_8 0x80

struct order {
u32 qty;
u16 id;
u8 type;
u8 flags;
};

This struct will fit into 8 bytes. This is great, as you probably won't waste space to alignment in many cases -- 8 is a good multiple. But if you wanted to add FLAG_9 here, your flags would become a u16, and your struct would, frustratingly, stop fitting into 8 bytes. To avoid this, one might repurpose flags.

Another example of this is intrustive flagging, using, for example, the high or low bits of a pointer aligned to 2^n bytes. If you run out of bits there, not much you can do.

[0] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/linux/...
I think you may not be appreciating your ADHD hyper focus (speaking from experience). It may be that sysadmin type work was interesting to you in a way that allowed you to use that to your advantage.

Other people, however, may very well not have that same interest. Maybe what gets them hyper-focused is art or literature or who knows what. Not to say of course it is not possible but you may be smarter than you think.
There's no reasoning about (lack of) fundamentals or e-waste with crypto loyalists.

Just let it play out naturally: let the scammers scam, the gamblers gamble, the bag holders hold bags and the vanity coins go boom and bust. Can't do a thing about it; accepting this is much better for your sanity.

And well, all the electronics that are wasted on digital La-La land? It's a tell tale sign of the decadence of our times.

That too will come to an end, when earth finally forces us to get our priorities straight. It can only continue for so long...
The term ass.ets is quite an interesting choice of words in this regard.
Though besides that time (including current trends) might also have been a very important factor.
I would imagine a Deus Ex game might've sold better rn (with the increased hunger for cyperpunk-ish games after Cyperpunk 2077) than in the last few years. Though with the dev times on those games planning for future trends might be unreasonable.
That is a bit like saying Amazon shareholders are only going to buy for the AWS revenue and not the Amazon.com sales.

Miners of all people do detailed calculations to the nth degree. “Gas war”s will make more incentive for people to start buying up more cards and heating their basements.
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They used to be waxed back in the day. They worked, but if you were careless they would collapse. I think it's a reasonable trade off, but many people hated them.
i think that's implied in the article, where the researcher wonders why the new straws last longer than what i think you're asking.
It's WAY WAY better! The plastic does not accumulate, and you get to use the energy embodied in the plastic, instead of pumping more oil out of the ground.

It's one of those rare win/win things, with no downsides. Of course people won't do it because you have to "recycle" it - which is worse for the environment, but it's an emotional thing, so don't expect people to listen to reason.
You do realise this article is in fact describing exactly what that who-knows-what is, right?
Haha, yeah, that's what I get for doing a "well, akshully" on my phone.
https://tetr.io/

even on an ancient laptop, it runs smoothly. I had no idea a javascript game could look/play this good. I've spent 100 hours on it since I first saw it posted here on HN
The entire ETH VM is running at about 0.8 MIPS right now. Yes. That is not an exaggeration, current gas limit is 30 million / 3 gas for simpliest add instruction / 12 seconds per block. The calculation power of the network is absolutely inconsequential to the operation of the network. 99.999% of all the energy used is just for Proof of Work. Once they move to Proof of Stake, if they even do, most of the power usage will be to run the hard drives to hold the increasingly massive ledger that will spawn from it.
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> it was our human bias of knowing Obama is black

As a side note - Obama is multiracial (white mother). As a multiracial person who makes no effort to fit into American racial categories and whose general attitude toward them is "Your social construction of race is fucked up, man", it astounds me that people would expect an AI to see what's not actually there. Biologically, Barack Obama is half-black and half-white, and probably a whole lot more complicated than that because "black" and "white" are themselves leaky abstractions that we've imposed on the immense variability of human skin tones. Why wouldn't you expect him to autocomplete to a white man 50% of the time and a black man 50% of the time?
It's very profitable to create a token, pump up the price and run with the money, rather than building something actually useful. Combine that with the fact that it's incredibly hard or impossible to build something useful on a blockchain. This means that the incentives simply aren't there for non-scam projects. All currently functioning products are directly or indirectly just fueling this broken incentive model.

In 2017, people tried to innovate and imagine new applications for blockchain. There was AirBnB on blockchain, Uber on blockchain, dentists on blockchain, and thousands of other projects. All of these failed (their founders got rich), and now the whole space has devolved into just JPGs and blatant Ponzi-schemes with imaginary yields and elaborate "tokenomics". They aren't even trying to build anything useful anymore.

Just to be clear, I'm talking about these "crypto", "blockchain", and "Web 3.0" products, which are nothing but false promises. Bitcoin, and some stablecoins are working as intended, and are certainly useful as money.
The Apache HTTP Server and the GNU Scientific Library come to mind.
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I figured I'd get some downvotes mentioning PLTR here. ;-)

GPalantir is definitely being more open with their demo now, so there are some good ones on their youtube channel.

You can skim through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-GSj-Exms

I'm impressed by how polished everything looks. As a person who does UX / product design, their working software looks better than most designer's portfolio mockups.

I'm impressed by how fast and snappy everything works or feels.

I'm impressed by how rich and custom tailored their UI component library is.

I'm impressed by how focused and tailored their UI for job at hand.

I'm impressed by how every single page in their application looks beautiful, not just a handful.

They actually have all their React UI library published as opensource here. https://blueprintjs.com/

If there's anyone from pltr reading this, good job. Your design people are amazing.
Disk usage history.

Like the du command, except it shows the size of directories over time. Doesn't have to be precise, daily historical snapshots of directory sizes isfine.

When your disk is almost full, you want to know which directory grew the most recently, not which directory takes up the most space
Russia reroutes internet traffic in occupied Ukraine to its infrastructure
+1. Burying plastic (in a place where it's safe to do so) would be a form of carbon sequestration so should be considered a positive.
> The sex appeal of the Knowledge Graph derives from the fantasy of not having to decide what’s most important

I write way more notes because that decision is taken away from me.

> Not only will the graph tell you what’s most important

While I’m sure some people do, I never thought to use the graph for finding what’s important. It’s always been about the connection between topics rather than the number of connections. The act of consciously connecting the topic to another topic is a great way to internalise it.

The notes also do help me write blog posts when I want to. But their structures do not get determined by the graph.

The thing I like the most about having a graph is just doing a “wiki surfing” in your own wiki. It’s quite fun and sometimes I make new connections with an old topic.

I do agree that showing off how many nodes/connection your graph has is bullshit.

Despite the disagreements, I still quite liked the post :)
just reported by some of our clients. We have emails sent through sendgrid and the links are throwing this error (assuming sendgrid tracking links use Godaddy SSL).
For one, you can generate electricity. It does produce CO2, however, whereas burying sequesters the carbon.
I don't believe I can prioritize these between more or less important things, but this is the set of things that I usually credit:

* Programming competitions. The main utility I got out of this wasn't learning obscure data structures or algorithms (which tend to often not be very relevant), but rather the experience in coming up with corner cases that might break my own code, and how to write and debug code without sitting in front of the computer. I guess in short it's the ability to separate the algorithm from the implementation and track down failures to one or the other.

* Going to school and getting a CS degree. Learning in general is useful, but I believe that the structure of a full CS degree is generally better than picking things up ad-hoc, especially in guiding you towards areas you wouldn't otherwise think to learn about (e.g., I wouldn't have picked up information visualization on my own).

* Seek out and learn as much as you can in general. You never know when randomly learning some topic in some distaff field might come in useful; one time, I happened to discover (while looking up information on ptrace in a debugger-like side-project I was working on at the time) that Linux supported hardware watchpoints via perf... and a few days later, we had to resort to that to track down a bug that wouldn't reproduce in gdb.

* Peruse other projects for how they do stuff. Part of the above, but you'll pick up on "huh, that's an interesting thing to do" as you learn about how they work. If you're curious about how something works, just open up the source code to see how it works. At the very least, doing so frequently will give you a good sense of how to quickly find stuff in large, unfamiliar projects, which is apparently not as common a skill as I take it to be.
Such a great point! I wish more people embraced having two philosophies. One for them as an individual and one for policy making/discussion. E.g. I never want to myself rely on the social safety net. Yet at the same time, I want nobody, no matter how bad their decisions are to die because their basic human needs like food and shelter aren't met. I think a functioning society, especially a democracy, requires these two mindsets from their citizenry.
Do you think this is too optimistic?

https://manifold.markets/LarsDoucet/will-ethereum-switch-to-...
Alternatively, they could just throw an rsync one-liner into a crontab and slurp down a backup copy of the files once per day, in case they make a mistake. This optimizes for the common case (the days where you don't make a mistake) and removes the requirement that everyone on the team needs to know git.
No. It's like saying that we need more food (and technology to produce it) to sustain an ever growing population, rather than saying we should mass-murder our population to bring it back within an acceptable boundary. This will bring investments, technology advancements, and trigger a race to generate energy in a better way.

We will always consume more energy (and food!) as our civilization progresses, I am embracing that without blocking that. Also, even without crypto we still need to find better energy sources anyways, so what's the pushback all about? We are just kicking the can down the road with no action other than "criminalizing" crypto.