skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which ones have you tried, and which category do they fall into?
Utrecht in The Netherlands is a good example of reconstruction. Where a 12-lane motorway through the city center - created in the seventies - was removed to restore a canal that existed for hundreds of years, since the birth of the city. It is such an enormous improvement, now that the project is finished.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/14/utrecht-restor...
Yes, it is more difficult. Just observe children, it's delusional to deny it.

The biological decay is obvious - for now - but the mental factor is way underrated. Mature people often don't have the time or the mental space to dive into something and "forget the world" like youngsters have. Almost without exception mature people prioritize their family or at least they are accountable for it. They may find time after retirement but then the biological decay will be more advanced.

During college (Architecture, a field dependent on creativity) I remember hard-working colleagues in their 40s and 50s, people with jobs, sometimes family and they couldn't pass the same bar as the youngsters. While youngsters could spend days debating some theory and shaking it till the foundations, older people barely had the time and mental space to execute. I heard literally teachers saying that they had to lower the bar for them or they would be there indefinitely without major improvements.
“Space Station for Sharks”
Human capital, innovation, and growth
It's just grain for the pigs.
This is a tangent, but so much of the supermarket nowadays is junk.

Go to the protein section, and there is literally no product that is just protein, everything has added artificial sweetener or some lab concoction with god knows what.

Go to the frozen food section. 80% junk. Ice cream, frozen potato chips, frozen pizzas. Oh look, some frozen fruit in the corner.

Go to the cereals section. 80% junk. If you look really hard, you can find some wholegrain cereal without added sugar.

Is this the equivalent of when social media companies optimize heavily around taking advantage of dopamine spikes in their customers, instead of doing things in their customer's actual best interests?

Speaking to an older relative, things were not like this in the mid 20th century.

How much cheaper would food be if the healthy staples could be bought in bulk, and our supply chains and packaging were optimized around that?
> Presumably the satellites need to determine their positions based on the positions of the ground stations.

The satellites broadcast a rough guide to their collective positions (an almanac) to recievers and a precise guide to their specific exact location (the ephemeris) to ground clients (phones, GPS receivers, etc).

Master Ground control stations update the satellites with that information every four hours or so .. strictly speaking the satellites don't do any computation of their own position - they broadcast their weekly lapsed epoch signal and echo data frames from their last Master Ground Station update.

Orbital changes can result from solar wind pressure, magnetic forces, passing objects with mass, etc.

It's the GPS receivers that do the 'heavy' positional computations for individual fixes .. and the Master Stations that do the somewhat harder work of constellation updates.

( There's a wealth of accuracy processing that can be run in parallel or post - differential base station GPS, forward error correction, post aquisition corrections, et al )

[1] https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/GPS_Ground_Segment

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_signals
Or even better example the gore community.
As someone who bikes everywhere, I'd say 80% of these situations don't even need a cargo bike. The cargo bike covers maybe another 15%, and the rest you can deal with by renting a van once or twice a year.
I suggest you watch this video[1] by the awesome channel "Not Just Bikes". Bakfiets are a dutch cargo bike you can literally use for 99% of all your errands. People in a city do not need personal cars. And even Cargo bikes are only useful for 10-20% of occasions, depending on if you have big shopping tours or kids. For the 1 or 2 occasions a year where a car is needed, car sharing is the way to go.

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhzEnWCgHA
While I also think that humanity would be better off with less cars, I think one shouldn't mix up those matters. To some extend, humanity needs cars and we should push for making those cars as efficient and environmental friendly as possible. Hence electric cars. They are the technology which allows us to use cars into the future.

However I agree, wherever possible, less cars would be good. Public transit and bicycles work well in those regions, which have the proper infrastructure. Some European cities are quite good in this respect, others are following.

Fun fact though: between an efficient electric car (like the Tesla Model 3) and an electric train or even a Diesel bus, there is little efficiency difference, in a lot of cases the electric car wins. But trains win on not contributing to congested streets etc.
Humans amaze me.

We do things that creates enough problem that then cause other problems. But instead of solving the root problems we solve further up the stack and in that process waste further resources. And as a byproduct create more problems.

Examples: instead of banning plastics, instead of throwing it in the water, instead of recycling we go about fixing the micro plastic that keep leeching in the water.
They looked so happy and energetic before apple murdered them all. And we thought apple was so big and powerful but now that we see how frightened they are by these insignificant animations....
> And we're on the cusp of making it non-polluting, cheap and sustainable

Electric cars? They're not really any of these things. They're just not quite as bad as gas vehicles.
But various ecological crisis are becoming more and more obvious to everyone.

Anyone who cares about the environment including ecosystem breakdown and climate change will go meatless one way or another.
> they're going to dump the property and split the proceeds.

so you do agree that it is the individual that made the decision to sell, and that it isn't because the corporation is forcing them to sell.

Therefore, the character changes or selling is really just a sum of the aggregate behaviour of all of those individuals. It's like blaming the flood, when each individual rain drop is the reason for the flood in the first place.
> That's purely due to sanctions, which can affect cryptocurrency as well due to the entire ledger being public.

Woah boy, that's a lot to unpack. I guess you heard some news about recent sanctions to TornadoCash... and then you thought that cryptocurrency can be confiscated/frozen as what happened with Russian's USD reserves?

What has happened so far: some arrest of at least one developer, some freezing of some (centralized-)stablecoin accounts, some closure of github accounts, etc. But pure (as in, not centralized stablecoin) cryptocurrency stored in cold wallets cannot be frozen at all; and that's the whole point of cryptocurrency.
Unpaywalled version

https://web.archive.org/web/20220814083831/https://www.econo...
Mobility devices are great for bike lanes. What's funny about this comparison is that you're ignoring children, who absolutely cannot drive.
Which vault? Hashicorp vault? CyberArk Vault?
I take your point(s) that the argument cant be "Everyone just use bikes and trains". That's obviously not practical but to be fair it's not what is being suggested either.

But in relation to the point you made about bad or cold weather being a factor for bikes being an impractical mode of transport. Please take a few minutes to consider the points and examples provided in this video (1).

TLDW: There is a town in Finland (Oulu) where cycling is a primary mode of transport (over a fifth of of all trips are by bike and 77% of people cycle occasionally) even in winter when it gets down to -20 Celsius.

Weather is always spouted as a reason for not investing in bike infrastructure which is really annoying because that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. It's the lack of safe and adequate bike infrastructure that stops people from cycling. Anyway, I thought it was worth adding that point of nuance to the discussion.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
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You're doing a lot of hand waving which basically boils down to equating "it can solve the problem in some scenarios" with "it's the optimal choice".

Can you use a cargo bike to do groceries? Sure. Can you rent a car to carry a mattress? yes. Can you carry two children on a bicycle? Ehh, ok, let's pretend you can, or you just take the bus.

But this is ignoring the fact that in the past hundred years, people have repeatedly chosen to own a car. Yes, including in places with good public transport. And surprising enough, even when the cost of a car + maintenance + repairs + financing + gas is a lot higher than just taking the bus, not to mention the comparatively trivial price of a bike. The very fact that you just don't see that many cargo bikes anywhere, but see cars everywhere is a pretty strong hint. That's the default hypothesis - that cars actually do bring value in people's lives. All you're offering to counter this is a list of "in specific contexts, bike may solve the same problem in shittier ways". I'm sorry, but I just don't see how freezing your ass off in winter on a bike is even remotely acceptable.

In my youth I actually tried this. Spent a winter with a motorcycle, and another winter with a bike. Both were complete and utter failures. I actually burned a set of gloves when I left them on the engine to get warm. And biking on the snow and ice... ugh. The bruises.

Plus small practical things. A cargo bike or a bike with a trailer basically take just as much parking space as a small car. And are a hellof a lot easier to steal.

Cars may kill more people than bikes, but you can't snap your fingers Thanos-style and have all cars replaced with bikes. Dramatically increasing the number of bikes in the street means mixing bikes with cars, which means a lot more dead people. I know it's the car's fault, but such is life, the universe is not fair. Still means more dead people.

> Bicycle rates are not statistically correlated with neither local climate, nor topology for that matter. Infrastructure is more or less the sole deciding factor.

I call bullshit. Smelly, stinky bullshit. In the same city, with the same infrastructure, I see with my own eyes bikes and electric scooters disappearing in winter and reappearing in spring. That'd be just impossible if climate had no bearing and only infrastructure mattered.
> The smiley face predates Apple by decades

And a circle, line and dot predates everything by centuries. So I guess all copyright is pointless.

Or maybe that's not the system works at all and it's based on infringing a specific design.
Interesting, do you think you have a chance at competing against Microsoft's own tools, like Teams?

Regardless how crappy Teams is at certain things, the people that decide "we're using Teams" often barely use it themselves.
I never seen frozen fruit, but frozen vegetables are super common.
My point was: INCOME issue is certainly mentioned in this article, not wealth issue. I see a disconnect between per capita GDP doubling in a generation and median person seemingly losing some buying power in same time - hard to understand where the money goes.

It's easy to explain where the WEALTH goes, sure, but not where INCOME goes.

As for "needed" - well, goal of this whole thing is to provide overall growth. Concentration of wealth boosts growth. Concentration of income reduces growth. That's the principal difference.
I think the problem is that we already have the networks and protocols to synchronize time (NTP, PTP, etc.), but not for timezone DB data.
> 10 years ago they were worth $10 each, I wonder how much they’re worth in another decade.

Maybe not that much more. At some point the demand for ipv4 addresses is going to wither as ipv6 adaptation grows. 10 years ago we were at <1% ipv6 adaptation, now we're at 40%. Give it another decade and I can imagine someone like google or apple sunsetting ipv4 support completely and after that ipv4 addresses aren't going to be worth much anymore.
Bash vs csh?
> [...] so complex and difficult that a genuine meritocracy ensues, one that cannot be ignored or papered over with accolades or associations. Either your code works or it doesn't.

I don't think complexity automatically breeds meritocracy, and I don't think software is a meritocracy. There's still a "human side" of things that may drown out true merit.

For example my first OSS project went something like this: I wrote something from scratch with thousands of lines of code and put it out under the GPL. I told my friend about it. My friend forked the project, wrote only a handful of lines of code of his own, and did a better job at advertising his fork than I did on mine. The result was that he basically stole control over the OSS project from me by doing a better job as a marketer rather than as a programmer. ...nothing meritocratic about that.

One thing that has happened to me quite a lot working in commercial environments. Me: "Hey boss, I see your team is trying to tackle problem X with solution Y which doesn't take into account complexity Z. Let me solve that for you." Boss: "Okay, explain complexity Z to me." Me: "Yadda, yadda, yadda, ..." Boss: "I don't understand. It must be because you're a bad communicator." Me: "It may be because I'm smarter than you, and, as a corollary, you're dumber than I. Throw in some Dunning-Kruger effect." Boss: "I'm not dumb, you're dumb, and whenever I let you near any complex problem, you end up making me feel dumb. I don't like feeling that way. Go write some HTML, where I don't end up feeling that way as I go about micromanaging you."
There are other places I. The world where this is not true. For example, more than 50% of all households within this S-Bahn ring in Berlin (let’s call that the extended center) do not own a car. The bike may also replace a second or third car. Not counting the cost of manufacture is just sloppy.

They also picked a car that is twice as efficient as the average car for comparison and the most meat-heavy fiery possible (essentially meat only). That’s interesting as a though experiment, but not as a basis for policy- which is exactly what they state in their preface.
This just isn't true. It is actually really common to have this section near the meats.

Vegetarian meats are usually (but not always) either kept chilled or frozen, so it simply gets put somewhere around dairy and meat. For refrigerated sections, it is usually but not always in its own section. For the freezers, it is just kept in a section with space.

Of course, there are exceptions and sometimes it is just mixed in with regular product. Vegan cheese with the cheeses and ground "meat" with the other ground meat.

Most vegetarians and vegans I know seek the stuff out and learn where to look for it - including myself (not quite vegetarian, but a pescetarian that leans very heavily towards veggie)
Manually managing a stack is significantly more expensive compared to utilizing the call stack for recursion. Modern hardware and calling conventions are designed to make call stacks fast.

You should measure this!
Having worked on both sides, being a former VFX programmer and artist makes tech companies afraid of your expense plus they incorrectly think your used to pampered treatment. In tech companies, they see VFX films and do not realize they are seeing the collaborative work of thousands of digital workers - so they expect the programming output of thousands of people. It is a no win situation, because to get them to understand you have to convince them they believe in fantasy.
Almost all popular open-source software has paying patrons – companies/universities that give time to the individual to work on that open-source project while keeping them gainfully employed.

In recent memory I cannot think of any serious open-source software that doesn't have individuals from well-paying tech companies contributing to it in significant ways. These projects are usually of higher quality and are done in the spirit of the open-source ethos - everything is done in the open with open governance etc. Usually expectation is everyone contributes and gets a lot of value for a lot less effort due to the collective effort.

Then, there's a long tail of unpaid software that's put out in GitHub etc. whose quality is highly suspect. They are done as a hobby of an individual, may not even have a proper project community structure (website, mailing list, seeking contributors etc).

Then, there's another category of open-source – these are commercial ventures that want to garner the goodwill associated with open-source model/movement to further the adoption of their commercial offering. Nothing wrong with it, as long as they are honest about it. They are different in some fundamental ways. They intend to control the fate of the project very tightly and privately and there is no open governance of the project. Entirety of the project may not be open-source. Big chunks of the critical functionality may be closed source. At some point they may change the open-source license of the project to make it more onerous.

Some of the best open-source software that I have seen that do both open-source and commercial parts really really well are sqlite, haproxy, nginx.
How did you get your hands on lab-grown meat? Isn't it still in prototype stage?
Probably the highest point in my physics "career" was when my advisor recommended Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur [0] to me. It was after I had basically decided to abandon hope at academia and become an engineer, but I was just barely past the threshold of being able to understand the contents. I worked through the book solo and really greatly enjoyed it; highly visual and well paced. I'd recommend it to any undergrad+ who has made it past bra-kets and wants to see how far the rabbit hole goes.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18781406-quantum-field-t...
Humans can do much better science than a probe.
Then what would be the point in publishing it? Open source isn't just copying files to GitHub. If you aren't putting yourself out there and helping others understand how they might benefit from your work, then it's like a tree falling in the forest. Evangelizing is probably the bulk of the effort. So who would risk embarrassing themselves by evangelizing a giant hairball they slapped together? Any open source of note, you can always count on the fact that someone poured their heart and soul into it, at some point in the project's lifecycle.
No, in Poland it’s because there is simply a long wait for on and not because people trust their gp (quite the opposite in many cases)
You have to admit yes and no are pretty useful words!
Look at Microsoft buying sunrise, even though the server based calendar outlook feature was arguably fully fledged. There’s always space:
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Let's assume I start my own demurrage currency and division of labor, there is an obvious problem that if the project has any success whatsoever, it will be shut down by the central bank because I am stepping on their toes.

Even if the central bank is not banning my currency, I will still have to pay taxes in the national currency, I have absolutely nothing against paying taxes but the point of the entire idea is that taxes will be paid in the new currency, if there is a constant outflow of my currency into euro or whatever, then the demurrage currency will go out of circulation very quickly. This problem isn't unique to demurrage, it is true of any non legal tender currency but foreign currency has countries where the money can be used to pay taxes which gives it a leg up over any non national currency.

So now I must go to a tax haven even though I have no desire to avoid paying taxes. Most tax havens are islands that are incredibly far away from any continental mainland. The cost of living will be much higher because of shipping costs and exporting will be prohibitive for anything that with a short shelf life and isn't priced in whole euros per kilogram.

Even if I find a tax haven, I will have to migrate there and most tax havens are incredibly expensive to migrate to, requiring $250k of investments for permanent residence. Once I am there I will need to cover my own living expenses there. This means I am going to need a remote job or work in some tourist industry as anything else is nonviable due to the extreme distances and the lack of land to be self sufficient for the island as a whole.

Even if I successfully migrate, I will now need to buy my own land and start a land trust that charges a land value tax and pays out every resident a citizen's dividend.

Once I have done all that, I am going to need to start a regular business that competes in the capitalist system, because I cannot rely on the island to immediately recognize my currency as legal tender instead I would have it start out offering payment in both the national currency and the local currency while offering 0% financing in the local currency to encourage people to use it.

All of this is incredibly difficult, it will take decades of working in the capitalistic system to escape it and then there is the very real risk of it failing.

There is no way I can succeed at this. Everything is stopping me. I could try to skip doing this legally by conquering my own land with military force but that isn't what I believe in.

So what I have decided to do is try my luck and see how far I can go by planning to retire in one of those locations but I have no delusions that my plans will actually happen within a lifetime if I go at it individually.
> We need to engineer peaceful ways that violently rearrange the economy.

Why not simply make sure that life is comfortable on the tail end of the of the curve and call it a day? The simple fact that so far only war makes the curve flatten suggests that this is not a curve we want to flatten. Nobody comes through a war feeling good.
> If you don't take adequate or sufficient, reasonable means to protect and enforce your IP, then you run the risk of losing your IP rights.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/enforce-your-intellectu...
As a meat eater, I love mushrooms and I think they are so much better as a healthy food than those weird Beyond meats. I also love vegan patties made with various kind of nuts, beans and veggies.

I don’t get this appeal of turning goos and veggies into ‘meat’. Just make them their own thing. You don’t rly have to compete with meat.
> What you're missing is that real humans occasionally need to move a mattress.

The corollary is that real human civilizations have to move goods over roads with ICE trucks for the foreseeable future unless batteries approach the energy density of diesel.
Researchers have new evidence to explain why thinking hard makes you tired
> It is thought, then, that the whole premise of being offered a trial by ordeal was a mental trick to force the guilty to confess, and it worked.

US intelligence does the same thing today with their continued use within their ranks of the completely unscientific polygraph test.
Why would they do that? Phishing campaigns rely on perfectly mimicking the look of a target website, for which all you need is right click->download image. Painting AI seems useless for such attacks.