skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The immutability of a blockchain isn't fundamental; it's rooted in the consensus of the chain state. Look at the Ethereum "The DAO" state-fix hard-fork: if the entire community of node operators agrees to forcefully alter the state-database of the chain, they can do arbitrarily anything they like to that state.

But crucially, this "community of node operators" consists of a multilateral coalition of people and companies operating under every different society / government jurisdiction on the planet, with no single government that can compel enough operators at once to actually get the majority required to compel the state of the blockchain to change.

In other words, blockchains are systems with democratic recourse, but not authoritarian recourse. They can be altered from the bottom up to fix problems caused by immutability, if basically "a referendum run against a representative sampling of the population of Earth" agrees with the alteration; but they cannot be commanded to change from the top down, just because some individual entity with a conflux of power wants it to happen. No legal system can force a smart contract to do what you like; but common sense and human empathy can still override bad machine decisions when necessary.
I thought they start at about 250 km after launch and then boost up to around 400 km. They don't have very powerful thrusters or gyros so they couldn't boost faster then they fell out of orbit.

It seems that they are far safer once they have boosted up into operational orbit - that's why only the recently launched Starlinks fell back to earth.
the thing is; scarcity will be created by us animals if we keep our current economic model. But it is also true that we are a bit more clever than most animals and we can at least try to manage if not avoid scarcity.
>this has translated into

Is that a necessary result, or just a matter of how the economy was organized and money distributed? In other words, does politics and culture come into play in the result?
Your comment struck because superciliously I agree, but when thinking about it, it's quite true. Both are strongly related but quite different, just as a marathon runner (though better than average) will not set world records on a 100m sprint.

A software engineer can easily use a XGB model and get some outputs, but is a long way from having a deep understanding of statistical distributions.
A ML engineer can easily put together a Django website, but is far from designing a maintainable software application.
Only 30 years ago we had never seen a brown dwarf, even though its existence had been theorized much earlier. There are not enough brown dwarfs to account for the missing mass in the universe, but is it at all possible that some other type of body that we have not yet seen could account for it? Or is the requirement that dark matter be non-baryonic a fundamental requirement of the theory?
At leadt in Civ 6, at difficulty levels 6 and above, you can actually loose to the AI. I agree so, that in those cases winning means behaving like a cyborg Hitler clone. There are only so many ways you can hit the leading AI player down on culture or science victories.
TC is a protocol that lets users privatize their wallets. "Privacy is good" and "privacy is not a crime" should be enough reason to understand its value.

Some example applications:

- User wants to anonymously donate to another country that their current regime is currently at war with.

- User wants to pay for an abortion without it being easily traceable.

- User with a public ENS identity wants to hold ETH on a private account that is not linked to their public identity. This might be for safety reasons, or another reason such as wanting to make investments that are not broadcast to the entire world.

The attack against TC is the US government saying "you are not entitled to privacy here, and if you even so much as try to seek privacy, you will be treated as a criminal and have all of your assets frozen."
I'm familiar with the following frameworks:

- Public Narrative (Story of Self, Story of Us, Story of Now)
- LOTS (Language Of The Senses)
- BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front)
- Situation, Complication, Resolution (with order adapted to the audience)
- finding the Villain (works great for crowdfunding) - make sure they will not find that the Villain is you;)
- "The best pitches are conversations"
- and the good old: Problem - Solution

IMO BLUF and Complication-Situation-Resolution are best for execs-kind of audience.
You can pretty easily install whatever you want on whatever cloud provider you want if you have an actual VM you access. If that's outside of your capability, you shouldn't be using a VM.

That said, there are providers that will sell you paid for OSes for a monthly extra fee. They're just not US technology giants :)
While it may not have the shine and polish of Sid Meier’s Civilization 6, at least FreeCiv doesn’t force glitchy unwanted advertise-- er, launcher updates that break the game years after release:

https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/comments/nkdh4d/follow_up_to_th...

Truly can’t describe how aggravating it is to have Civ 6, my after-work happy place, effectively torn from my hands years after purchase by some MBA manager and bargain-bin programmer. Bypassing the launcher only sort-of works on my PC. Can’t roll back to an earlier version because Steam. At least we’ll always have FreeCiv.
Meta's chatbot says the company 'exploits people'
They should simply make the part easily replaceable in a way that does not require a complete disassemble of the printer from top to bottom.
The key thing to understand is that any specific satellite spends far more time over the ocean than over a dense city.

So for each busy satellite you have 10 to 100 others on the same orbit which are still cruising over the ocean.

To maximize efficiency you want to have similar load wherever the satellite is.
Maybe because often when you need it you can't take the time to shop around like you can with TV and cars.
I thought it was going to be about USB
This always encourages a human strategy where the optimal behavior is to sandbag in whatever way the AI is measuring your progress, and then slingshot past them once the opportunity arises. Not to say that can't be fun for some people, but it's definitely not a silver bullet.
Back when Netflix first started, and they were sending out DVDs instead of doing streaming, my stepdad, who is now in his mid-80s wanted to get his money worth. So, he started ripping the movies immediately and returning them the same day, ordering more as quickly as he could. When I went to visit he'd always have added more to his bookcases of DVDs. He recently setup a NAS and Plex and copied them all over. They, my parents, have a streaming service, but they live in the boonies so the connection isn't great, and having thousands of movies and shows ready to go is great for them.

Some old people know a thing or two.
Digital signatures is the underlying technology of blockchain.

And the most popular use of digital signatures? Application integrity and authenticity.

Git is a perfect answer why blockchain is almost never the answer. It implements an immutable distributed log, just without the mutually distrusting part, and does it for a millionth of the computational resources.
That's what Google has been heralding since Google became newsworthy, so I'd imagine a lot of orgs picked that up.
It seems to me that this whole issue is fairly simple: does the blockchain technology solve any real-world problem that people have?
A mere analysis of its logic says it does not, actually, solve any meaningful problem whatsoever. Secure transactions are already feasible, it doesn't prevent mischief and the way to settle a dispute is always the same (through the legal system) and decentralization prevents it from scaling.

C. Muratori puts it more elegantly than I do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbYutOsrpvs
Interesting, when I was describing Žižek to my brother, I said that he speaks as if he's constantly snoring cocaine.
Another approach:

Have each reviewable location publish a key on a sign in their establishment. Make reviewers scan a QR code and sign their comment with that key.

That ensures that while the key doesn't leak every review must be written by someone who has physically visited.

Obviously you need to trust every physical visitor to not publish the sign, but I suspect that might be sufficient to stop spam nonetheless.
Yes, learning what syntax you need to write to make something execute is knowledge. When to use that approach is wisdom.

My biggest challenge is recognising that, having learned a particular approach, it doesn't need applying everywhere. For example, just because I know how to configure Kubernetes, it doesn't mean I need to host every application with Kubernetes.
Do what you want to do and when you no longer want to do it, stop.
Presumably for the same reasons not all work is outsourced to India.
The idea is to propose a model that does not need dark matter to describe observations.
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I would much prefer all of that over just giving them tons of economic bonuses I can never keep up with. (I'm currently playing Civ 6 on Immortal, where it's simply impossible to keep up at first, and I miss out on all of the wonders, but I still win in the end game simply because the AI is stupid.)

I remember Brad Wardell claiming Galactic Civilizations would have the best AI possible, and it was certainly decent, but players still identified plenty of situations where the AI was being stupid. Brad said he did that intentionally because doing otherwise would be too mean. Thing is, hardcore players did use all of those tricks. At the highest difficulty level, the AI should too.

Use the reasonable, nice, historical AI for the middle difficulty levels, but allow players to choose AI that is just desperate to win.
They were first to push crun[1], in place of runc, that is your C code in the stack :-)

[1] https://github.com/containers/crun
> Yeah but the same argument could be made for the web. Why build a react app that complicates everything instead of just a plain HTML site.

Yes. Yes!! Exactly the same argument can be made about the web. Why is the answer to this "let's do the same in email" and not "why don't we work to reduce overengineering and complexity"?
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
>There is an obvious way out. Increase immigration. The US does this well. Why doesn't Japan? Because of racism and xenophobia.

Because the US was created as a ragtag coalition of immigrants from all kinds of countries. Their whole shtick is based on being a melting pot. Japan is a much more ethnically homogenous nation.

Besides, this coming of immigrants didn't work so well for the natives in the US (the native Americans that is).

>No one talks about it (wouldn't be surprised if I got downvoted for mentioning it) but Japan is mad racist. They do not like foreigners.

Well, if they thought like that for my country, I wouldn't like them either.

"Not liking" people coming over is not the same as being racist, any more than a tribe in the Amazon not liking tourists or Americans/Europeans coming over to live with them would be "racist". They want to maintain their way of life, and that's up to them.

Besides, cultures which had seggregation up until the 60s, have a huge majority of blacks in jail even today, and routinely have cops kill them unarmed, shouldn't throw stones.
This is amazing!

A great example of focusing on the positive in any and all situations!
> The new approach makes sense to me, Fedora is the upstream to RHEL, RHEL is the upstream to CentOS.

What are you talking about? The outrage was about ditching CentOS 8, and introducing CentOS stream, which is upstream to RHEL.
I agree with what you say. I've witnessed more than enough software with absolutely abysmal UI/UX and don't have time for that myself - except for when I really need to, like this one truly abysmal phone app for an energy company which I need to use to pay for my energy.

It looks and acts like it was designed/coded by idiots; additional popups to remind me to rate the app (already did and it was very negative!), a popup with an "okay, got it" prompt - the only prompt - which instead of setting that yes, I actually did get it, just pops up again the next time reminding me to use some feature I don't want to use.

And so on.

That's obviously the fault of the people involved in vomiting out the abysmal application(s).

But yes I agree, most people simply don't care about the technology, they just want a Thing to do the thing they want it to do, no muss no fuss. This situation has always been the case and I can't envisage a time when it will change.
> I don't know anyone who has legitimate uses for a coin mixer other than laundering/covering their tracks.

Thank you for writing "I don't know anyone" instead of a more typical "no one ever".
Well, I'd delete to remove the disinformation, not to hide my mistake. Effect is the same of course.
The problem is that users cannot tell if they are being spied upon or not as long as they use in-app browsers. Avoid them! Go web apps instead of native apps for better privacy in general.

Regardless, i don't consider it to be acceptable behaviour by Instagram to inject their tracking into all web pages i access through their app just because they can.
I hope the industry catches on quickly. New color spaces, new displays.
I'd love to see the guts of that switch.

For a lark I once put an AC power supply driven from a bunch of tiny hearing aid batteries into the outer shell of a 9V block battery. A casual DC voltage measurement would yield a big fat zero but a small bulb would light up. Magic!
A ton of kids these days aren't that tech savvy. I work with high school kids and many have a real lack of understanding about how things work. A large number have no idea how to much with software outside of browser, believe that internet traffic travels through satellites to get between continents, and can't even debug simple printer jams.
I have a hard time imagine the shape of dark-matter. What does that look like, a particle iceberg squeezed into a hidden dimension that surrounds all things? Like a Neutrino that does not travell, but instead waves like seaweed?
How does it look in 3dimensional terms?
I thought it was about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_descriptor
Coming from a small country, it is amazing to me that an urban area of at least 1 million people is referred to as a village. I consider myself to live in a town and that has only 12000 residents.
I think the take is partially right in that people are too entitled when it comes to these things, but there's a reason why that is and there's differences on the side of companies offering these benefits.

A lot of companies do openly tout and incentivize people to move to their platforms loudly advertising their free features. And given that these are infrastructure platforms, they do that knowing very well that there is a certain kind of lock-in. If you create outsized expectations in your users in the name of spurring growth, you don't get to complain about them.

I think Sourcehut does this in an ideal way. On the site it very clearly says that it's currently free, but as soon as it goes stable it expects users to pay, in fact they actually sent me an email reminding me of that fact. There's no shiny "we have all these shiny features, the first dose is free!" behaviour.
There are $146B USD of daily transactions that go through the automated clearing house (ACH) system.

While Visa doesn't give a daily transaction amounts, going off of sources online, in 2018, it looks like they processed around or slightly more than 1B credit and debit transactions with an average value of $80.

$3.5B in daily transactions is nothing to sneeze at, but it's a relatively (very) small slice of the monetary system.
The Kindle is inexpensive, has great support, has a huge library (open to non-US people with non-US credit cards), and you could just email a MOBI to it (which is great if the Kindle owner is your parent). It's only disadvantage was that it did not support ePub and so one had to go through Calibre.

Now that Kindle is supporting ePUB and no Calibre-tion is needed, I don't even see what the Kobo value prop is.
the main message I get from degrowthers is that we should, first and foremost, abandon the idea of growth as the driver of our economy. After we have assumed that growth is silly, we can start discussing about how a post-growth economy will look like. It's going to be a slow process, probably mostly guided through legislation.
The alternative is an increasing speed of crises and collapses (destroy and regrow).
This is why many crypto proponents will say things like "not your keys not your coins" which means, do not hold tokens in a custodial service without understanding the risk.

Many advocates of decentralization and blockchain do not want to support centralized services like Celsius.

This is an area that laws and regulation could be added to protect users. If a service is holding user funds, there should be recourse to allow those users to withdraw the funds to a base layer, or if the funds are at risk of being frozen as we see with Celsius, this should be more clearly indicated. FDIC style insurance could be addressed in some hypothetical future crypto banks, giving users further protection.
So you want to make a native GUI without a native language? Rust might be "a sane language" but it is not the best at GUI, the best tool I've tried is Qt.
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

Your stepdad sounds awesome :)
Rely on taxes that can't be evaded: taxes on usage of natural resources, the largest category of which is land value taxes. Perhaps industrial scale emission of CO2 could also be taxed.

Land value taxes not only are evasion-proof - which means they are extremely fair in applying to all equally - but they require very little administration, and no invasions of privacy, to enforce (a consequence of a person needing to include their land in the government maintained land title registry in order to enforce their ownership over it).

They are also considered by many economists as the "perfect tax" due to their economic efficiency:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

Ultimately though the public sector will need to shrink as a share of GDP, as the LVT alone cannot support current spending levels. In other words, the trend seen in this graph will have to reverse:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...

Two interest groups stand to lose from the change I describe:

Those who own real estate, and those whose income derives from government spending.

I would suggest the constructive path forward is to propose a multi-trillion dollar settlement package for both groups, to compensate them for the losses they would incur from transitioning to the new system I describe, which has much less government spending, and much higher taxes on land ownership.

The settlement can be paid for over subsequent decades, similar to the bonds the UK issued to pay former owners of slaves as part of its Slavery Abolition Act of 1833.

As costly as all of this sounds, it would probably actually be much less costly than perpetuating an increasingly inefficient system, which leads to escalating culture wars, and growing repression.
Non-causal filters can be quite useful, and can be realized when the entire input sequence is available. And if one puts in a delay line, then can work without needing access to future timesteps.

A bit harder to realize with electronics or mechanics than software though...
> Anyone can take the Chromium web engine and build their own browser on top, with tremendous amounts of control.

No. There's no "tremendous amount of control". You're still ~100% reliant on Chrome to produce all the features.

> where someone pulls out the Gecko rendering engine and builds an open source product/business on top of it.

What would be that business? Browsers are free.

On top of that: you've ripped out the rendering engine. Now what? You still have to update it, and develop it, and keep up with the rest of the industry.
Why should we want to become the "dominant species in the universe" and not be statisfied with a good life within our means?
The US does this well

Not lately. The immigration system is a mess full of perverse incentives, and was deliberately engineered that way in the mid-90s to maximize dysfunction.
Yes, let's pretend that there wasn't an organised campaign to discredit EVs, even though basic science made it clear they would be superior, even if you ignored climate change.

And why would you ignore climate change? Possibly because of the organised campaign to discredit the idea even though basic science made it clear it was a problem.

But now, they'll deny that crime against humanity even happened. "No one actually denied climate change they were just worried about government overreach" while demial is still being done by the same people.

It was all published in newspapers, we have it on record. We have academic studies of how many times certain newspapers admitted that climate change was caused by humans in their op-eds.

We have databases that track their lies over decades:

https://www.partnershipforresponsiblegrowth.org/research-1/c...

But no, now the people who let themselves be convinced by those lies bizarrely blame "Greens" or "environmentalists" for complaiming that EVs were too easy. Which despite being obvious lies doesn't seem to be considered "hate", but pointing out the well documented truth is?
the author of this blog post appears to be disagreeing with some people's attitude and explaining another view of the situation. They are not imposing on anyone's freedom of speech or (as far as I can tell) intending to. They are also just offering words, perhaps in the hopes of changing some people's minds.

I wonder, what makes this "useless" in your mind?

> “You didn’t pay for it so shut up you entitled free user” is one of those ideas that just don’t work in practice.

I agree with this, but not for any of the extremely dumb "reasons" you've provided.
It could also be that there are a series of different communication technologies. By the time we move onto the 3rd, noone is listening for the first. For instance AM radio, FM radio, TV, Spread spectrum analogue, digital, ... hypersuperfastwave ...

Since each tech spreads from the source in a small sphere-shaped shell depending on when that technology was invented, you need a huge co-incidence for someone else's shell to hit you WHEN you are listening for that type of communication.
Basically every corporation you can work for will have you doing something meaningless (and is dedicated to a meaningless pursuit besides). As the world population shrinks in the deep future, perhaps that will change - but right now it definitely will not.

As such, I have trouble seeing why you'd think any work you do means anything. Most likely it doesn't and that's okay. It is not within your control to have meaningful work available. It is within your control to have a healthier attitude towards your workplace and your work.
Well, there is also price and features. I've got a Kobo Elipsa, it was an impulse buy at a book store and I regret it because for just a little bit more you can get a Remarkable 2. The Remarkable is lighter, less bulky, faster, and has this fantastic warm backlight. The Elipsa felt like outdated, heavy tech from the start, isn't waterproof, and its notetaking functions are unusable (it's just too slow). The OS is rarely if ever updated.

Equivalent Kindles seem to be much cheaper cheaper, though, and with overall better features and maintenance. And the store is much larger. The downside is obviously that you make yourself dependent on a fairly evil company that destroys culture and the lives of many aspiring authors. But most people don't care about that.