skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I adopted GTD right before I left college, and I sometimes wonder how I ever would have managed to adapt to the explosion of tiny, attention-grabbing tasks that adult life supplies without it. Admittedly, it feels a little clunky and "enterprise-grade" in places, but the underlying principles are so rock-solid and obvious-in-hindsight it feels magical.

Plus, org-mode really helps to make the over-engineered parts more frictionless--I run my life off of org-agenda now, where creating a new project, capturing tasks for it, and refiling them as needed are only a few keystrokes away. Keeping with the theme of hyped productivity books, I also take inspiration from Deep Work to tag certain actions as being ":deep:", so that after clocking into those tasks, I can look at a clock report at the end of the day/week to understand how many hours I actually spent working on "important" stuff. It's very motivating to make that number go up!

I know not everyone feels the need to be so intentional about their productivity landscape--indeed, a lot of very naturally productive people I know explicitly /don't/. But for those of us who aren't one of those magicians, I highly recommend putting some thought into at least a bare-bones system.
Even if this was the only/biggest source, you can browbeat the automotive industry to stop making so many heavy, gas guzzling vehicles. You can browbeat politicians into prioritizing public transportation & vehicle regulations over lobbying efforts from the automotive industry.

Our "broken culture" isn't innate in us, it was designed.
Another UK one -- I recently used The Glasses Company and was very happy with the result.

To check the quality, I got good brand-name frames at what seemed like a low-markup price (exactly the same as my existing frames for half the price) and their cheapest lenses, and I'm really happy with the results. I'll probably put in another order with fancier lenses.
This was a failure of traditional financial institutions and people who are ok with them, not of crypto.

Satoshi wouldn't be encouraging people to put their coins on a trusted third party like that. All fundamental crypto values say this.
Computer chip made using mushroom skin could be easily recycled
> Terrible headline

It made sense to me, I think you read the headline like the abbreviation "AI" and not like name "AL" maybe?
More like when Michael Scott promised to pay for the scholarships, haha
I understand that there are different opinions and priorities but consider that a lot of people to be entirely lacking in any virtue and compassion restricted only by the power that they do not (currently) possess.

To empower those folk is how you end up with nazis, which is the point.
We need to launch more processes so we can KILL THEM TOO! psychopath eyes
That's the way I see it. Anarcho-libertrian cryptobros who think government regulation is a net negative are like people who don't wear seat belts because they know somebody who died in a crash despite wearing one. It is true that sometimes these safety measures don't prevent the bad thing from happening, but if you focus on those cases then you miss all the times it did work.
A new climate reality is taking shape as renewables become widespread
I'd be interested to know exactly which primaries he donated to. The two sides are not Democrat/Republican, it should be finally obvious to everyone else after these midterms that the sides are actually Trump Republicans vs Democrats+GOP.
Apple and Amazon conspired to raise iPhone and iPad prices, claims class action
What it's like living as a female psychopath
> each reply gets longer and less relevant

Each gets longer and more detailed, as I defend my position. If length and details are a problem for you, then we'd better end the discussion here.

me: "This is actually why bribes to randomly selected citizens would be easier to catch."

you: "you said that it would be easy to catch the people taking this style of bribe"

I said easier. You misquoted me as saying easy. Easier != easy. We're comparing sortition to the current electoral system. Sortition just has to be better, it doesn't have to be perfect. Moreover, I said, "Many elected politicians have been criminally convicted of corruption", so it's not in fact impossible.

> now you’re trying to argue a separate issue: whether reps will take these bribes at all

> however, your initial comment assumes that they might take these bribes, and my reply is based on that assumption. when you abandon that assumption, you’re not actually responding to me

This is a misunderstanding. Of course some legislators (I won't call them "reps") might accept bribes. The problem is when some don't. When you're trying to bribe a bunch of random strangers, the number who don't accept bribes, even if the number is small, will blow up the whole bribery system and will send the bribers to jail.

Even if there's some level of bribery in sortition — which I believe can't be high, for reasons explained earlier — it would be vastly better than the current electoral system, which is legalized bribery via campaign contributions.
> Coal is accumulated and relatively low, nuclear is concentrated and can reach several orders of magnitude more. Really, is not so useful to compare both cases except for whataboutism.

That's nice but you still have to wear a dosimeter around fly ash.
I run an independent music label and I was confused as to why no matter what I did, my Spotify stats always stayed low... No matter how much I shared links on Twitter or other social media sites, month after month, my monthly listeners on Spotify would stay below 20 listeners, despite having published over 30 songs that were well supported on other streaming sites like YouTube and Audiomack...

Politics also have a huge effect on even what is shared successfully on the web. Companies go to great links to ensure that you don't leave their platform, which also cuts artists out of pay a lot as well.

I also found that Shazam also incorrectly identified many of my songs, and pointed them to music by other artists, that looked like they were getting a lot more plays than me.

The only way I could explain it is that things aren't fair. There is money involved, and the people at the top of the food chain work very hard to ensure they make it without any thought of the independent musicians like us. It's sad, but the gap between being listened to and not being listened too is widening greatly despite all the equality the internet originally promised.

Luckily I run my own website, where the stats and streams aren't all mysteriously low too.
MacKenzie Scott can’t give her wealth away fast enough, for example

To be fair, neither can Bill Gates.

So it points to something fundamental about the way in which wealth works that these people can't give money away fast enough. Doesn't mean it's a problem though. Having money flowing up to Gates, Bezos, Scott and then having them give it away is probably the best we can do in the current legal and regulatory environment. Because the reality is that any efforts to change how things currently work would meet with too much resistance from others in power.
Ask HN: Why are floating lights reported mostly in rural areas not cities?
> The same classmate later told me that she had moved to Berlin to work at a German company, but still hadn't finished setting up her residency paperwork. The latest step at that time was receiving a letter from some German department, which she had to put in another envelope and send back, in order to receive another letter inviting her to set up an appointment to come and be interviewed.

I'm going to guess that letter was some kind of verification from the Department of Labor to say that the person was legitimately needed to do a job that couldn't be done by some EU person. They need to hand it off to the Immigration Department to let them apply for a residency permit. I'm not entirely sure, because I never had any to get any similar letter, and I was exempt from that process.

However, as for the question of keeping government departments separate and isolated from each other, this isn't really a bit of German bureaucracy gone mad. It used to be that Common Law countries would like to keep government departments firewalled from each other, to prevent the government from building up Super Files about everyone that they could use to oppress them later on. I think the Common Law countries have generally become so happy with their government that they no longer fear it as a possible source of oppression, whereas Germans have recent history of actual government overreach, and retain or regained this tradition of keeping government departments separated from each other. Obviously the questions of which boundaries can be crossed and which boundaries should not be crossed is going to be an issue that is up to each separate country to decide based on its own history. (For instance, the German government did a police check on me, to make sure I didn't have a criminal record, but I wasn't part of that; whereas to get a residency permit for Australia, the applicant has to get their own police checks - when the immigration department asks for it - and then pass them on.)

I think this kind of issue should definitely be kept separate from the question of how difficult it is to open a business, and the use of notaries etc etc. You're entitled to be irritated by it, but it's a political decision of a country about perceived risks, not ignorance or rentseekers who can't be worked around. So your irritation should be directed to the Department for Avoiding Totalitarian Dictatorship, and not the Department for Overwhelming Bureaucracy.
Okay, it's back to basics, I guess...

How would you feel if someone did this to you?

1. :-)

2. :-|

3. :-(

How do you think someone else would feel if you did this to them?

1. :-)

2. :-|

3. :-(
It's about 1/7,000,000 of global emissions. Less than any country I believe (except maybe Vatican City, but that's not listed on this map). Larger than many small towns and airports.
> It's more about what happens once there is an issue

But again, when I've seen distributed infrastructure, it's very uncommon to see issues hitting one instance while others are not being hit by the very same issue.

When you introduce change, you introduce it to all running instances, all at once or over a period of time. You might be in luck if you're doing blue/green deployment, but you can achieve the same thing with a staging + production environment mostly.
> In defi exchanges you place your coins into a smart contract

Oh, you mean the "smart" "contracts" (which are neither) that routinely have trivial exploitable errors that even their authors are unaware of?
I agree. If management wants software development to be more like the trades they need to recognize that training is a line item cost that needs to be paid as part of the employment arrangement with both time and money allocated for it.
Show HN: Built a web app to create leaderboards
The best large-scale example of Chesterton's Fence that I've seen so far.
thoughtful but too simplistic -- each industrial economy is filled with PRO and ANTI forces for the last decades.. the superficial unity is actually enforced by game rules underneath.. conflicts internally are daily. Its obvious now that the game rules give "decision makers" a very large lever to enforce status quo, while entrepreneurial and protest forces socially and economically bubble away.
I miss the Nokia N900 form factor (although, larger would have been nicer).

It combined touch-screen AND a full keyboard.
So the onus on reporters to ferret out fraud has the same moral weight as tobacco lobbyists? Except they make $35k/year, get fired every 6 months as their newsrooms undergo layoffs due to lack of clicks, and get sued for investigating anyone powerful enough to matter? Can't imagine why more people don't sign up for that.
Setting up a calendar reminder for 8 years from now
Schopenhauer: "Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills."

I've wrestled with this question from time to time and, to the extent I've found a solution, the key is duration:

In the short term, choices are mutable (but determined by character), and character is fixed.

In the long term, character is mutable, and determined by some inner nature plus the integral of experience, influence, and choice.

There's still a recursive element here, because the investments you make in yourself are strongly influenced by a prior version of that self. (In a limited sense, this resembles coherent extrapolated volition.) Still, I've found it more helpful to think about short-term vs. long-term processes - in the sense of stock vs. flow, intercept vs. slope, or short-term vs. long term elasticity - than about recursion. Adding time conveys an intuitive understanding not only of what you can and can't change, but what you should and shouldn't.

To phrase it a simpler way: willpower is a muscle, as are most other traits. Most people can be strong, but not all at once, and when you see someone lifting a heavy weight it means they've been training for a long time.
Budding elons is the best description of the majority of HN opinions when it comes to people.
I find it frustrating that it's difficult to get real stats in North America. You either hear from animals rights groups who will always tell you everything is bad, or farmers Op-eds who say nothing is, but not an impartial source with real data to form a clear picture. Which means any decision to avoid the prospect of bad treatment of animals is a guess erring on the side of caution, and people proselytize on the strength of conjecture. To say nothing of the fact that people will not agree on what poor treatment of animals means; for activists, it's absolute by virtue of captivity, close quarters, and death. Consumers of animal products obviously don't agree with that metric and don't care.

Surely greater transparency and regulation could be achievable. No reason consumers still have to be in the dark and have to make decisions based on vagaries, anecdotes, cherry-picking. I expect lobbying groups have opposed this but this will blow up in their faces.
Not sure if the question is meant seriously but there are important differences between a serious attempt of private currency and any one of the "less serious":

Bitcoin has a real multi stakeholder maintainership, where no single party can hard fork the currency or change the rules in any important way from the ones the users signed up for. This is what people mean when they say hard forks should be close to impossible to pull off. The only exceptions are where there is absolute consensus, such as pure security issues.

Closely related to the above, the issuance model is clearly known to everyone in advance and will not change. The issuance is not the same thing as the consensus rules. That helps force stakeholders to play fair.

There is no founder or foreground representative that has an undue influence in development. Even the core developers will have to convince everyone that their changes are sound and will not change the rules of anyone's investment, and more often than not, ends up with them dropped if consensus can not be reached.

Again related to the above, there was no pre-mine. Since there was no central party, no one owned any coins before the public blockchain started. So no one could sell or promise any future winnings. There's this whole founding myth to build culture on, and npt everything may be true, but what's clear is that an effort was made to prove there was no pre-mine (someone included today's paper in the genesis block, before which per the protocol no coins can exist).

The first mover advantage does not enter this. You could start a new serious attempt at a currency along the same lines as above, but very few bother when you are competing with outright scams. Personally I believe we have to wait some time to shake out the scammers before we can see any serious attempts at competing.
Decentralization refers to many things, it depends on the discussion.

No it doesn't. Decentralization in cryptocurrency always meant being able to make transactions without a central controlling authority. Someone has mislead you to a strange backwards rationalization to say bitcoin is unique.

they also do validation which is why its important for wallet owners and services to run their own nodes even if they dont mine.

They might validate blocks before rebroadcasting them. This is not the same as miners dictating the ordering of transactions that goes in to a block. These are two different things. One is vital, one is a very minor convenience. Have you read the actual bitcoin pdf? Have you read about cryptocurrencies outside of /r/bitcoin ?

It actually isn't crucial for someone to run their own node, someone just needs a way to query the current state of the chain.

Yes, it is because they are highly centralized chains that might as well run on sql and/or ghost chains with no users.

Where are you getting nonsense like this? This is circular logic, your 'evidence ' is just saying the same thing over and over. Ethereum has had more transactions than bitcoin for the last four years. Here is actual evidence:

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactions-btc-eth.ht...

Yes, offchain transaction batching is a good scaling strategy. Satoshi recommended it as a solution.

Satoshi recommended lifting the block size limit and having relatively few nodes that could handle huge amounts of on chain traffic. I don't remember anything about stopping at 1.166 KB/s as throughput.

I assure you, running one costs a lot more than 10$/month. Perhaps you should check the math on your claim.

Your evidence is "I assure you" ? I'll show you actual evidence and you can check my math.

Here you can see a 700KB average block size roughly every 10 minutes. That is 1.166.66 KB/s

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/size-btc.html#3m

A $10/month VPS will have a 1 gigabit connection. That is going to be 125 megabytes per second. That is 107,204 times faster than the bandwidth of the bitcoin network. The entire bitcoin blockchain is only 437 gigabytes. That VPS could download the entire chain from the last 13 years in about an hour. To give you some reference of how much faster that is than what is needed, an SR71 blackbird at a top speed of mach 3.3 is only 75,600 times faster than a slug.

As for drive space, the entire chain will fit on a 512 GB thumb drive. These can be bought for $40 USD. Here is where the average fee for a single transaction was over $62 USD. A average single transaction cost more than storing the entire chain on an SSD because of the terrible bitcoin throughput.

https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-512GB-Ultra-Flash-Drive/dp/B0...

I would check your math, but you didn't give any at all. You have been taken in by a complete lack of real information. Try asking about it on /r/bitcoin and watch your comment be deleted or shadow banned. There is a reason you aren't getting any real information.
Centralized exchanges are the polar opposite of what Satoshi was advocating for.
Uhhh you set a stop loss number.

If it hits x sell. So if I was given a coin currently "worth" $15,000 for $5. I could set a stop loss of $6 and always make a profit since my initial investment was $5. Asleep, awake, doesn't matter.
One more gambling den down. How many more to go?
Then it proves that crypto is flawed for other reasons.
Well, at least he kept this one short!
OK, so it's bucket shop and an exchange. With a side order of boiler room.
Also quite a lot sent to republicans from the CO-CEO: https://www.ft.com/content/428c7800-c72d-4c59-9940-4376fea6e...
https://sherman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congre....
Well, let's not forget that BTC has gone up from $300 to $15,000 in the meantime, meaning those fractions are still worth 50x what they were back in 2014. Although who knows what the value of BTC will be once the funds are released, which is itself an event that's likely to crash the market through oversupply.
Thanks. All the best with your product!
Philip Wadler, "Monads for functional programming".

"A Tutorial on Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis",
Howard M. Heys.

They have to be worked through, not just read.
The next Google search engine will be Generative AI
Anand Agarwal's edx course on electronics made me finally get some understanding of the topic after years of struggling over Horrowitz/Hill and the like. Was also free back in the day.
A perfect article — for the gullible populace that believes Million / Billion / Trillion are basically the same: “a lot”.

Total El Salvador BTC investment? 0.2% GDP.

Perhaps add a bit of basic arithmetic education to your Journalism degree?
High ACV B2B is right on. The most common customer use-cases that we've been seeing:

– Devtool SaaS (engineers want to debug over Slack)

– High-touch SaaS (software with a strong services component, like tax software)

– Agencies (sales & marketing agencies use Slack as primary ticketings/comms platform)
This is my experience as well: openness scales with trip distance.

If you're on the subway, you're probably just trying to get yourself to work, probably stressed out, lots of creeps and weirdos, etc. Get on the train, don't bother anyone, get out of each other's way, get off the train at your stop.

Whereas on Amtrak (and to a lesser extent buses) I've struck up conversations with people and had people strike up conversations with me. There's something psychologically different about being settled in one place for a while, as opposed to in a situation where everyone is up and moving and rushing past each other.
NASA Is Returning to the Moon This Week. Why Do We Feel Conflicted?
It is unfortunate and no creditor should be exactly "happy" about the situation or completely satisfied with the outcome.

But everyone early on crypto knew there were some risks involved. And there is a chance you, or other creditors would have, for whatever reason, withdrawn and converted earlier to less USD (or even lost everything). Getting a fraction now can be a win for many. Call it "enforced diamond hands" if you like the meme...

I guess in the average case it is a fair outcome.
> I have a lot of thoughts on this that are too long for a Tweet or Toot. Since some of my followers asked though I decided do a longform version of this

People should leave Twitter and start blogs so that they can talk about more complex things with more nuance
> you can publicly claim you were hacked

1) What

2) H

Ref: https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1591989554881658880
I think it's safer to assume they saw the implosion of FTX and figured now was a good time to take the money and run. No crypto exchange deserves the benefit of the doubt in the court of public opinion; everybody is safer if they assume all crypto exchanges are thieving snakes.

At the very least, if you really want to be in on the crypto thing, keep the funny money yourself in your own wallet, and wait a few years/decades for government regulation to catch up before you trust any crypto exchange.
>The only reason it exists is because smart contracts didn't exist when they first started.

Calm down. That is not true. Smart contract based exchanges do not let people exchange real money into crypto. There will always need to be offchain exchanges for trading USD for crypto. Additionally, trading off chain is much cheaper than on chain.

Centralized exchanges will always exist because people want on / off ramps, people want low fees, and because people are willing to trust others.
patch-package automatically makes a `patches` directory at the top level of your project with `{package-name}+{package-version}.patch` files in it.
Engineering:

Third year math phys and its accompanying book (McQuarrie). It blew my mind when I learned McQuarrie is a chemist.

Engineering's role in society:

Schumacher's "Small is beautiful" and "Guide for the perplexed" was the straw finally broke me free of the technocrat worldview. (Although Illich's argument that a car's average speed is 3mph made me question my love for cars)