skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I see this kind of thing written for every person someone thinks is Satoshi Nakamoto. There are so many vagueries and a, "They think so too, but they'll lie if you ask them," comment at the end is just laughable. "Hey, we've got anecdotes! And inverse initials! Other proof? Nah."

And I say this with no opinion about who he is.

Edit: I also don't understand the speculation at this point. Bitcoin is out there, has been for a while, and it's not going away. I'd wager the original coins will never be touched. Figuring out who it is won't really change anything at this point, and it's clear that whoever it is doesn't want people to know (assuming they're alive) - why can't "we" generally respect that?
First, the author is wrong by your own terms. If you think a 13yo Python script is the state of the art for ZFS recovery, that still doesn't comport with what the author said ("all data must be considered lost, there is no option for recovery"). The author is facially wrong. If you had said "I once had a corrupt pool I couldn't recover", that's a useful data point. But instead you tied your wagon to someone who obviously doesn't know much about what they are talking about.

Second, you managed to ignore my two other original points -- 1) Is the state of other filesystems any better re: recovery in similar circumstances (show your work, when XFS is afflicted with the exact same type of corruption, how is it better)?, and 2) is it possible are you better positioned to deal with corruption with ZFS (because it's usually not silent)?

I'm not saying ZFS is better for you. You are obviously not predisposed. What I am saying is -- your argument has to be better supported for it to make any sense.
I am not sure why this is an issue.

For example my framework laptop USB C ports are replaceable (for the laptop side).

Also you can buy magsafe like connectors for USB C if you have a regular laptop.

Having one USB C charger for my phone, my laptop, my earbuds, my battery and my remarkable is such a life improvement on trip vs the old barrel connectors. It just doesn't even compare. And we just talk about charging here, one of the multiple uses of USB C.
Space isn't the issue when it comes to power generation
Huh? Why wouldn't they have gone off IBM's design? It seems extremely likely they would have had several copies in their 'clean room'.
The orignal linked piece is a clearer read/explanation with fewer seo/ads:
https://www.mathsisfun.com/measure/estimate-distance.html
Okay, so you’re shilling for somebody else’s country. A bit sad, but it’s not for me to judge.

> Also, you're sentences do not make sense. "Why you are doing this"

That’s your sentence, I just quoted it.

>China is a country where people live in fear of publicly expressing their opinion

Just like the US - you don’t have any protections against an employer firing you for something you said in your free time, because it “goes against company values”.

You’re also mistaking freedom of press with freedom of speech, but again, that’s a minor mistake in this context.

But most of all: you still hadn’t shown any actual data to back your ideas.
> So its not that far from the build system we already have.

Yup.

The key contribution Nix brings is arranging the outputs of builds into the nix store, in such a way that you can trust that building a package with the same set of inputs will result in a package that behaves the same way. (This then allows e.g. different versions of the same package).

There's some friction, since with some software, if you try and build things but disallow writing to arbitrary files (e.g. no writing to $HOME), the tools might have assumed they could, so things might not work. -- That's 'purity' in some sense, in that what inputs the package building uses is totally declared.

I liked the analogy introduced from a tweag post from a couple of weeks ago https://www.tweag.io/blog/2022-07-14-taming-unix-with-nix/ (big discussion yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32355327) that illustrated nix as 'pure', but interacting with the Unix system by way of files. -- You have a pure way of managing an impure system. (Which is loosely comparable to how Haskell can be pure, but still do impure stuff like Input/Output).
I wonder how this impacts carbon vs, say, eliminating the parking lot and encouraging better public transit and biking and using the reclaimed space for more housing or commerce.
> Surely the first casualties of a gale or hurricane are panels.

Actually, windmills.

Seriously, I asked my electrical inspector why there are so few domestic-y scale windmills in my part of New Mexico, where for several months a year we have raging wind every day. "Nobody builds one that can last more than a year or so out here".

The panels, on the other hand, are just fine.
I'm glad we finally all agree there is a breakup clause. If you want to argue that Musk will lose in court or that he promised Twitter share holders be will buy the company then I will still be here for that.
Online reading is all sizzle and no steak. It’s akin to making a meal out of condiments: Each individual element is tasty but the overall meal leaves you dissatisfied.
For fun I did with Horizon Workrooms, and it was quite the mind blowing experience.
My laptop's screen was streamed to the headset and looked larger than IRL.
I was sitting on my couch in my living room, and noticed an unexpected benefit of VR: no more screen glare from the sun behind me!

VR headsets are not yet a replacement for IRL screens, but I can see that happening one day.
AR-15s put in all Madison County schools to enhance security in case of shooter
I did the dualboot thing for a couple of years, but it's a hassle to have to close all your open windows, tabs, documents etc. These days I'd rather just run a single OS.
> Cabs are terrible. Driver's are mean.

I'm sorry they hurt you, but I assure you this is not a universal trait of taxi drivers everywhere in 2022.
Been thinking about this since the 1990's VR headsets

http://videogamekraken.com/cybermaxx-by-victormaxx
Interesting. I don't find the Nix language itself especially complex, however, the whole system built with it is not that easy. For instance, packaging process is very well documented, making a derivation looked simple and reasonable until I decided package some code for myself. At this point things stopped being smooth. According to the documentation I needed to explicitly import my nix file from the top-level list of all packages which was not what I wanted, I'm unsure anybody except me would want my package (at least at the early stage of development). Intuitively, I was sure it wasn't necessary, there definitely must be a simpler way to toy with packaging but skimming through the documentation didn't reveal any answer. Looking at the source code left the impression that I needed a lot more time to understand how things worked behind the hood.
On the other hand replacing pyenv with Nix was very pleasant experience. Overriding an existing package with my fork on github was almost a one-liner.
I'm not sure why it would be surprising or bad that creators upload to YouTube and alternative platforms. I don't like exclusivity and I'm glad that that doesn't appear to be a major strategy for any of them. As for engagement, what I understand you to be arguing is that because Odysee doesn't have the same userbase as YouTube, it is bad? Can you see why this argument would invalidate anyone trying to compete with any incumbent in any market?

My comment was really to reinforce that the platform is competitive now. As I said, it just needs more content creators.
Thank you so much for your response! This is fascinating to me, and makes me really sad that there's only a tiny overpriced market for vinyl where I live, really no place where I can go and 'dig through bins' to find gems :(
The Imperative for Sustainable AI
Every time I rewatch the Sopranos, the "non me ne importa" gesture gets into my vocabulary for a while. (I think of it more as the "vaffanculo" gesture though, as it almost always accompanies this phrase in the show).

It has this wonderful quality of vulgar, spiteful dismissal that we don't have a good expression for in English - although the somewhat common "jerk off" gesture is similar in intent, that one is pretty nsfw.
Thank you so much for your response! This is fascinating to me (I'm really into stuff like city pop and dance music), and makes me really sad that there's only a tiny overpriced market for vinyl where I live, really no place where I can go and 'dig through bins' to find gems :(
The one true god who created America as a shining city on a hill, through his apostles, the founding fathers. I think you'll find the 1st Amendment says no such thing; that was an interpretation recently corrected by the Supreme Court.
Churches satisfied our need for tribe that seems to be a need of a large majority of humans. Churches weren't just about teaching values to aspire to, but also providing a ready made community that was stable and provided tribal activities in person. If you intend to turn anywhere, you need to understand what was without the cynicism of non-majority experiences of system breakdowns.

Online communities don't do that job well. Worse, online communities are not stable and people are inclined to be more hateful.

Humans need both sides of our nature satisfied. We are tribal but we must also have outlets for individual time, activities, and a achievement. We need to own things on our own too.
Especially since it's implemented server-side.

Even works with curl :-)

curl --no-buffer https://robpike.io
> People who think otherwise probably don’t understand why people like javascript and python and will never write any product that catches on.

Ironically, this has been posted on a popular site written in a dialect of scheme:

http://arclanguage.org/

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
Perhaps.

As an anecdotal data point, I showed the tweet with the picture to my wife (who has zero astronomy knowledge) without telling her anything and her immediate first reaction was "it looks like chorizo!".
The homebrewer in me was like "what do headphones have to do with brewing"
No one is arguing that in good faith. There is a tendency for car drivers to be let off easy in accidents, because people immediately assumed that the cyclist “probably deserved it” and the cyclist is usually too dead to argue back. Which is why some people are wary of people trying to “victim blame” cyclists.
I doubt any conservatives politicians have had any influence on SF politics in a long time. SF is multiple shades of blue.
I have used nReal glasses for dev work - they are incredibly light, and are ideal for use outside in situations where a laptop screen would be washed out, or perhaps when travelling, especially if privacy is an issue. The audio is pretty good too, as their intended purpose is really to watch films. Plugs and plays with many, but not all devices. (Hilarious aside: the windows device driver identifies as something similar to 'US Naval research 7" screen'?!). ETA: Can optionally be fitted with spectacle lenses.
I think the first step to solving problems is acknowledging them: lazy? cool. duck-typed? cool. weird thunk stack traces, eh, workable.

Lazy and pure and duck-typed and broken ass stack traces? Fuck that. Fuck that in particular.

Eelco fucked up. Badly. nixpkgs uses Haskell type signatures as comments in the core ‘lib’s, because duck-typed pure lazy functional is fucking insane.
Ah sounds like my father. He’s currently going through Musk is Jesus’ second coming and covid is a hoax phase.
Some Thoughts on Collecting Computers
This is just normal behavior of people in regions, where government do not interfere into normal life too much, and where not too much strangers.

In regions, where government interfere much, like ex-communists countries, and where population changed fast, this behavior becomes counter productive.

Because for this need long term relations with neighbors.

Only one nuance, to have such relations, one must be enough similar to his neighbors, at lest don't consider them extra-terrestrials, have similar everyday behavior, similar income, similar education, etc.
But in long term communities this happen automatically.
Anyone else noticed steep decline in frozen meal quality?
Fair point, and I'd known that once.

That said, the river runs through the Appalachians, and is quite old.
Loads fine with no ads on Android with Firefox + UBlock Origin
From an economics perspective, his first point is exactly correct.

Solar dumps tons of nearly free energy when it's sunny in summer, but produces much less in the winter, and even less on random bad weather days/weeks. ...and zero after dusk.

This has the impact of flooding the market periodically which makes financing the alternative power much more expensive.

In that environment, the plants you turn to for such rapid on/off production are burning fossil fuels.

You could also do nuclear, but there's no benefit to turning nuclear off, it actually obviates building any solar for day/summer/clearskies-only production.

This would all be obviated if batteries were cost-effective, but they aren't yet.
Bluetooth audio isn't fantastic in my experience. I prefer wired if I'm looking for sound quality.

Still you'll enjoy something you made yourself more than the $200 version you just bought.
That's exactly what the real Satoshi Nakamoto would say!
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that (at least from a contract law perspective) you could interpret that as "purchasing" a revocable license to play the game. It's still misleading in the sense of common English, but that probably wouldn't stop a lawyer...
Having done a fair share of substance abuse, I can tell you that screen and social media addiction is exactly like any other addiction. The brain mechanics behind it are the same. "Just another hit and then I am done".

The Power of Habit (the book) helped me identify my bad habits the moment they triggered.

Also, what's fascinating is that addictions seem to bundle together. If I get off the sauce, start working out, etc, it becomes immediately easier to ignore the phone, social media, and other reflexive behavior, like snacking for no reason.
Yeah, I generally agree with the article but it's a weird kind of focus that makes it feel odd and a few claims rubbed me the wrong way too.

One charitable interpretation is that when discussing renewable energy with the American public you need to start by validating some of their current beliefs before sneaking some truth in, because if you just said "solar is cheap and green and we should have been building lots of it for years" you'd hit up against talking points they've been pre-programmed with.

Whereas if you start from "solar takes up lots of space and kills all biological life touched by its shadow" then they think you're one of them and you can subtly suggest that if you're already building canopies to keep the sun off of cars, then maybe solar panels would be good there?

It's analogous to pretending to believe that Covid-19 was a Chinese Bioweapon intentionally leaked from a lab, just so you can suggest to people that are otherwise beyond help that ".. and if that's true then maybe we should wear masks to prevent it spreading?".

Might help. Probably worth a go.
I had a similar wakeup call a couple of years back.

I'd become really invested in online communities on Twitter, Reddit and Discord. Like others participating, I was becoming increasingly radicalised to the dominant group opinions there, and my world view was being gradually reshaped by every interaction with these echo chambers. I was repeating what I read there to friends and family offline, much to their bemusement. It was addictive and consuming!

My trigger point for escaping this was unintentional. These happened to be a series of 'left-wing' online spaces (though what I'm about to write could occur anywhere really), and I was becoming increasingly internally critical of some of the dogma. After a certain incident on Reddit, where a moderator of a high-profile subreddit was banned site-wide for linking to a critical article about a Reddit admin, I posed a question on the Discord: what if this admin wasn't really what they say they are?

The reaction was swift and fierce - people I'd talked nicely and comradely with for months and years lining up to shout down my question, calling it offensive, sending me insults, calling me a bigot. I was then banned from the server.

This surprised and upset me to begin with, but then I started questioning myself and my motivations. Why was I so bothered about this? Why had I invested so much of my time and energy into these communities? Why would simply asking a question cause such a calamity? Did any of this really matter? Was engaging with any of this having a positive effect on anyone, including myself?

Over time, this led to two major changes in how I approached using the internet. Firstly, attempting to broaden my mind to consider other views and opinions, avoiding dogma and narrow thinking (this is still in progress!). Secondly, not being as tied to accounts and identities online - I deleted or deactivated all my social media accounts, and now just create throwaways whenever I get a desire to comment. This helps me feel that I can walk away whenever I want to or need to.

That said, I've found I still can't give up entirely on consuming social media, it's too addictive. But I hope this is a step in the right direction.

I hope my sharing of these insights provides some value to others who may be experiencing similar.
I know someone who laughs by saying LOL instead of actually laughing. So there is a difference between slang and internet slang.
Also, Apple’s AirPort wifi devices ran NetBSD.
PLA and PETG start to soften at lower temps, 60C and 80C respectively. But ABS is up at 105C, so it won't have any chance of deforming in a hot car or something.

I still think 80C on PETG should be high enough, and it's a much nicer material to print.
If it makes you feel any better, I did the same thing, but I live semi-urban, and it was similarly egregious.

I don’t have a firebox, but I suppose it kept the recycling man in business.
A mounted bicyclist at a walking pace has a lower cross section than a parent with a stroller or a person in a wheelchair. Sidewalks are multi-modal, until we can get rid of the scourge of cars, anybody opting not to use them should be encouraged as long they're being civil.
- This is a good place to start: https://developer.android.com/courses/android-basics-kotlin/...

- As a beginner I suggest narrowing your learning scope. What I mean is that focus more on developer.android.com and not some outdated material from a blogger and YouTuber. I am currently mentoring an Android beginner and it seems some YouTuber decides to teach him that every variable should be declared static. Yes, imagine the horror when I saw 20 or more static MediaPlayer variables. My point is, it might overwhelm you.

- Stick to the official JetBrains and Android channels for now.

- Keep everything updated. As soon as Android Studio or any third-party library releases an update, download and install it right away. This is much better than keeping everything mostly outdated.

- As a beginner, it's okay to start with MVC architecture. When you get comfortable as you go along, you can invest in learning the more advanced architecture. But MVC is still fine.

- I'm not sure if you want to dig right away with Jetpack Compose, if yes I suggest learn first on the XML layout. It's a good foundation regarding Android UI.

- Familiarize early in your learning the concepts of threading/coroutines.

- Learn Activity lifecycle as much as you can: https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/ac...

- Learn Android's Context: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Cont...

I think that's it for now.
Stuck it on my wallet. Apple wallet. Got some laughs at the cashier
Most studies lump red meat together with processed meat products, but when treated as separate food categories, the negative associations with red meat tend to disappear. That said, red meat clearly promotes inflammation, which is necessary for things like building muscle. Optimal health results from the right balance of inflammation, not its minimization. The authors focus no anti-inflammatory foods because most Americans are imbalanced toward inflammatory processed foods. It's very individual though - allergies, autoimmune responses and other inflammatory cascades are complex; I get debilitating inflammation from tomatoes.
Kubernetes on Digital Ocean: using kops vs. the Managed K8 service
comparison between home backed solution and managed solution for deploying K8 on Digital Ocean cloud provider.
You copy pasted something you were about to write on Reddit?
My guess:

Satoshi doesn't exist, it's a code name, and it's a CIA/FED project to test digital currencies, we all know the digital USD / EUR are coming, what better way to test the security and get ideas/suggestions? Releasing it in the wild is perfect for that

Why do i believe this?

No western government wanted to ban or regulate them despite massive adoption, money laundering risks, scams, ponzi schemes, insider trading and all the nice stuff that comes with it

Bonus: https://whoissatoshi.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/satoshi-in-cal...

Just like with DDG, what a surprise :D ;)
I sold so many holsters and clips when I worked at RadioShack in the early 00’s. We would get something like $20 for selling the phone (they called it a “spiff” on top of our normal commission), and if we sold the accessories, we’d get another bonus (I think it was something like $3, $5, $10 based on how many accessories you added on). Car charger, leather case or holster, spare charger for home/office, etc.

I personally don’t remember having a leather case or holster myself, but I did use the belt clips lol
Using Landlock to Sandbox GNU Make
You aren’t dumb. Nix is that rarest of birds: something damned-near impossible to learn well that’s still worth it.

Learning Nix well from the Internet is a horror film. But… once you do it’s shockingly, actually worth it.

Getting anything complicated working/building under Nix is a PITA, the payoff is that when you fix broken things, they stay fixed.
Explain to me how companies and state are the same.
Were you the guy who left this voicemail for Mike Judge?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kiwgG6T9se0
Access logs are a pretty typical thing, regardless of what system. Also a best practice. And also part of many compliance frameworks.
But at the time the First Amendment was written, the "country" (read: voters) was much more culturally homogeneous and less diverse (effectively: western European, male, land-owning).

Which is to say, as a consequence of increased liberty and acceptance over the past 250ish years, we now have challenges that the framers didn't have to deal with.
Intel is going to use that money to spend on buybacks and dividends.

I'm 100% against tax payer funded chip fabs. It's just a handout to huge corporations.

Already happening: https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/intel-cuts-fab-buildout-...

Also, look for huge executive bonuses in the near future.
This article is from 2012. The Dylos was one of the first relativelely affordable PM2.5 monitors. Now we have a much higher range of pretty accurate fine dust sensors using the laser scattering method.

We work a lot with the Plantower PMS5003 model (we use for our open-source DIY monitor kits) and its a very reliable module which is also used in the purple air and typically cost you around USD 15-20.

It is important to know that these sensors are factory calibrated for specific kinds of dust, for example the "arizona road dust" and thus if you measure different kinds of dust (like the wood dust in the article), the accuracy might be off.

Also the measurements are influenced by high humidty so it is important to use comprensation algorithms for this or preheat the air before measurements to reduce the humidity.