skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My random thoughts on the value of crypto/blockchains:

- decentralized, distributed consensus mechanisms are valuable, clever pieces of tech. (The fact that the first major invention of this tech was by an anonymous person who disappeared should be far more alarming than the world seems to think it is)

- Using blockchains to create digital scarcity is a valuable, clever application of the tech. I expect these to become the default for things like event tickets within 10 years despite all the noise and bullshit around NFTs. That being said: NFTs do not in any way make shitty art valuable/not shitty. The bust of NFT art following the boom was so so so painfully obvious, I don’t understand how so many people got hoodwinked save for humanity’s propensity to be greedy.

- I think the value of cryptocurrencies is way way higher to non-western countries (very much not America) because it’s a border-less/government-less means of transferring value. For places like South America and Africa where the local economies are weak/volatile, the ability to transact in a medium that exists globally should be a great idea. America has a trustworthy financial system, there’s no real need for alternatives (I get that banks and the fed are their own ball of fuckery frequently, but in general, we aren’t Venezuela for example. A dollar is a dollar, it works pretty well almost anywhere).

The issues are:

- for this cryptocurrency mechanism to work as a real currency, it needs to be non-volatile, which would kill the opportunity to speculate (and therefore kill western interests/greed). I need to wake up in my village with the same amount of money I went to sleep with. Basically no crypto projects can offer that guarantee right now (ignoring stable coins)

- It’s highly adversarial to government interests, so they’ll stifle it however possible in general
Projects like Algorand and Chia are super interesting because of the tech and decentralization goals of them. The vast majority of these projects are just utopian libertarian bullshit that gets absolutely rocked when applied to the real world. Also, humans are just very greedy most of the time, so an unregulated space with relatively low friction on-ramps and the promise of wild returns will of course be abused and lead to spectacular blowouts like the last few months have brought.

The tech will continue, and things will rev back up over the next 3-5 years.

Lastly: Crypto still has a terrible user experience across the board. Arcane address hashes, basically no recourse if you make a typo, all the projects selling their inner tech and economic concepts that are just gibberish unless you’re a PhD (translated: doesn’t matter, no one actually cares).

Crypto desperately needs to be Uber-ified. I don’t mean what Uber has become, I mean what it was when it launched: an app with a button and a text field, you typed in where you wanted to go, and a clean slick car picked you up and got you there like magic. They weren’t advertising their routing and matching algorithms, the product was “feel like a rich guy at the push of a button”. Crypto needs a few of these.
Here's a short (unscientific) article (that kinda links to scinetific articles) about the link between lactic acid buildup and its relation in the brain. Sounds like exercise generates a natural nootropic. https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/lactic-acid-...
Good. For every benevolent use case there are a thousand spammers and scammers using this technique for junk and phishing.
I believe that the Brain-Computer analogy has been very harmful.

I grew up thinking of myself as a "brain on a stick" - my body didn't really matter and only my brain was important. I think read a bunch of science fiction that made fun of this idea, but I didn't realize it was making fun of it and I took it seriously.

You are not a brain on a stick - your body is important. Developing an understanding of your sensations and emotions is important. Developing an understanding of your deeply held beliefs and assumptions is important. Keeping your body healthy is important.
Is this supposed to be a visual representation of the crypto market?
Aren't SA spherically dished? What are the stickers made of to be flexible in 2 directions simultaneously?
You're a man of great taste!

Here you go: http://i2.wp.com/thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2015...
> it delivers so little for that spending, because our delivery of healthcare and education is extremely inefficient.

And why is that? Is something different in the soil or the air in the US than in ... let's say Finland? How much is it due to federalism? (Is 50+ different markets less efficient than a few big ones, like Germany or the UK?) Is it simply because entrenched interests rent-seeking?
If you think that people are going to pay money to tell you the truth, then you must have been asleep for the past week of "Verified" madness on Twitter.
I tried this alongside Void Linux, but I found I don't really need it.

TBH, this is really cool. I liked that I'm able to choose snapshots for booting - a very good recovery option. The interface is well polished, and comes with fzf for quick searching. It's a true dream for distro hoppers, since ZFS works like thin-provisioned partitions (though distro options are limited due to ZFS). Pretty cool in and out.

But it turned out to be a super-overkill for me. Firstly, I stopped dual-booting like a decade ago. I run everything else in VMs. Secondly, the host system these days hardly breaks. Lots of things work out-of-box unlike old days, and service settings can be isolated in containers. Thirdly, my host environment can be recreated within an hour including the download time and few trims, as long as `/home` is backed up. So I don't worry much about the root partition.

I wonder how this is working for others.
> Any language that doesn't depend on POSIX and has a rich library ecosystem, can happily run on top of type 1 hypervisors

That's interesting. Can you run for example Golang programs on ESXI? Go isn't exactly POSIX-free but it also doesn't need all of it.
Back in my day you just had to show up to a pitch meeting in a hoodie.
I wrote the article, fun to find it here.

I thought about that quite a bit as I was researching. Image Generation Models were given an image and a caption. This allows CLIPT to work.

But then I thought, music actually has an official notation system of the Standard notation on 5-line musical staves.

Do you think this described the music? or merely informs how it is to be performed?
Yes, we’ve tracked him here:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/LVKEB/history/20220525/1...

They’re gonna get this fucker.
"Democratic" means "people rule" not "majority vote".

By giving you the choice of which server to use, you choose your moderation. If other people choose (or choose to delegate the choice) to block you, that's still democracy.
It sounds like you have experience with the string-heavy CSS in JS. Here's some examples showing how this can be achieved using `csstype.Properties` objects: https://emotion.sh/docs/typescript

I'm sure you can imagine how easy it is to compose functions that accept and return `csstype.Properties` objects, and then at the end, you call `styled` with it to make a styled component. You can even pass styled a function, which takes in runtime-adjustable props, and of course, that function can itself use other functions, passing around those same or some derived runtime-adjustable props.

That said, I have no idea what you mean when you talk about ergonomics being better, can you elaborate? I re-read your initial comment but there wasn't anything in it not achievable in TS using the kinds of things mentioned in the "CSS in JS" section, perhaps there's something else I'm just not aware of? I do not know elm, let alone have experience writing it in non-trivial production codebases, so a concrete example would be great
> When everything is supposed to be a file on Unix, why is it that the networking API is entirely implemented with special-purpose syscalls and ioctls?

The internet existed for most of a decade before Berkeley Sockets. Surely there were other APIs out there. If none of them forced everything to go through a filesystem, maybe that means it's just a bad fit?
Bankrun Fraud
Alameda, FTX Executives Are Said to Have Known FTX Was Using Customer Funds
I put $1000 in at $100. Good thing I didn't know it was a bubble!

Best return on an investment-related activity I've made so far in my life.
That is 100% accurate.
I don't think you "become trans." I'm pretty sure you're just intrinsically trans.
You can use your many millions to move the market in small-caps and take your profits only from the other side.
You don't need a lot of muscle mass to stay strong enough to avoid injury. Any form of regular medium intensity exercise will probably be fine from that point of view.

Of course if you want to build big muscles, that's fine. I am always a little wary of people extolling the health benefits of doing so. Eating well and doing a moderate amount of exercise will get you 90% of the way to any purely health-related benefits that you'll get from more intense exercise. And more intense forms of exercise carry their own non-negligible risk of injury.

Attitudes to health, diet and exercise seem increasingly to vacillate between extremes. There's a happy medium between sitting on your couch eating cheetos and straining to lift huge weights four times a week.
That's weird, the E90 was the last phone I had with reliable phone features. The N900 could be buggy, but I've had iphones and pixels since then and I give answering a phone that is ringing in my pocket to be very often a miss, even now. More an issue with a touchscreen I think.
Healthcare is regulated much more closely, and Theranos broke a number of laws. Also, she never absconded and faced trial. Rumours are swirling that SBF is no longer on US soil.
“In a video meeting with Alameda employees late Wednesday Hong Kong time, Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison said that she, Mr. Bankman-Fried, and two other FTX executives, Nishad Singh and Gary Wang, were aware of the decision to send customer funds to Alameda”
500Mhz? We don't need a super computer for this, we were playing 3D 6DOF games on 100Mhz pentiums with 16MB of RAM with mutliplayer over dialup.

Our industry is a fucking joke.
Say a big pharma company spends $100M on a new drug - R&D, trials, certifications in US. They sell it for $100 a tablet in US for a couple years, at which point they have paid off their investments and made a small profit. Now they negotiate deliveries of the drug to say Canada.

First Canada's drug administration confirms the drug is approved by the FDA and approves it for use in Canada without further test, trials, etc. Second as the production costs almost nothing any price the pharma company gets is almost pure profit. So the price in Canada ends up at $1 a tablet.

Now think what would've happened if US didn't exist. All the R&D, trials, etc. would have to be paid by all the other countries in the world. There would be far fewer new drugs being developed and they would cost a lot more.
The book "Spark" by John Ratey also talks a lot about how regular aerobic exercise simply balances out a lot of systems, and very likely will help against everything from depression to Alzheimers.
I guess it depends on what one considers "exercise". I don't think lifting weights in disgusting smelly rooms translates improved cognition by itself but I don't mind if people think it does.

That said, I experienced a real physical and mental decline quickly after I gave up my morning routine because it was too hot. I felt it mere weeks into the pause. Pretty ordinary.
Part 2 of https://javascript.info/ then there is always MDN.
https://archive.ph/Mct5c
Not OP, but when I went through a manic episode at the start of the pandemic and believed myself to be near invincible I certainly thought I did.
Twitter's demise is ActivityPub's future
Well, if you take the exchanges away nobody has access to convenient liquidity. It's unlikely that mainstream cryptocurrency will have a future after we've seen so many failures at such a large scale.
if the coins are stolen or lost in some way, they cant be liquidated and thus shouldnt devalue the coin right? could reducing the availability actually be a way of preserving the market?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurobiological_effects_of_p...

"Neurobiological effects of physical exercise"

Lots of handwavy / subjective comments led me to post this.

Personally I prefer understanding the acronyms as to what's been measured in the body due to regular exercise. No need for anything less than hard detail, imo. BDNF/VEGF expression, etc etc. Worth reading and looking up all the words you don't know yet.
I'm sure that's the case for some of the landfills, but definitely not all of them.

In the US 70% of the methane from landfills is vented, rather than flared. That means that for some reason, either it's too expensive to do or something else is blocking this. And that's just the US.

You can also imagine that landfills in the developing world are better targets. Infrastructure is not as good there as it is in the US or in Europe.
FTX: Greed, Grift and Grandiosity
Yes, fiat currencies are inflationary and not a good long-term storage of value.

> Wouldn't the lack of trust in fiat currencies drive the price of Bitcoin too?

Only if the market believed that bitcoin is safer than fiat currency (which it's not). This is one aspect of the hyperinflation argument that gets overlooked. In order to have a hyperinflationary event, there must be an inherently more stable storage of value that everyone is trying to migrate to, which drives the value of the hyperinflated currency down. As it stands, fiat currencies are still way more trustworthy than crypto, primarily because crypto markets itself as a currency while being traded like a speculative asset. Currencies need to be stable in order to be trusted, bitcoin is not.
I haven't heard people mention it before but I've often wondered why physical exercise wasn't considered "intelligent" when so much of the brain was dedicated to tasks like moving around and coordination.
The y99.in Website seems to have what you want. You can create an open chat and share a like to it. People using the like only need to choose a unique username.

Here is a example chat I created.

https://y99.in/web/desktop/pages/807632
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That's for bond purchase and payback in Brazilian Reais with a bona fide government (with Lula back).

To guarantee an 8% payback in crypto is a completely different game, and there's a significant downside for someone taking the deal. The expected return rate is always going to be negative on a proposition like that.
Slightly off-topic question. What are you using to do the rendering and validation of forms in a "Django like" way in Go? I have a half-backed system build using the ideas coming from Django but I wonder if something a bit more robust exists.

My impression is that more and more people are just submitting forms a JSON through an heavy weight app to an API end-point and less people are using forms "the old way". So, if some "old people" have some pointers for another "CGI old dev", I would really enjoy them!
How do I disable dark mode on that website? I can’t read text very well in dark mode.
How would this work? How is the name encrypted before the pubkey is known? I've seen that it uses DNS to fetch another pubkey, but there is no encrypted DNS (DNSSEC is signed DNS).

DNS-over-HTTPS is only used in the last-mile --- recursive resolver to client, not NS to NS, so the request is still sent in plain. Besides, DNS-over-HTTPS still requires ... TLS ...
Yup yup. I should not have lead with you are wrong.

But the blue check mark is really how most people (myself included) decide if a source is real on twitter. And that was destroyed this week by someone who apparently does not actually understand how twitter works.

So assuming a lot of people also trust that check mark and now what should be a good reliable source of information gave out something that is false. It was clearly part of it.

Was that the only reason the stock dropped? Probably not. The stock market is effectively random and only barely involved in reality.
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but it is not a payment protocol. It is a trade protocol.
while I agree with the need to move fast enough to push a product. "cheap labor" in every startup I've seen has always been a bottleneck. The aim really should be picking a stack that allows A level talent to maximize their time delivering value, Not protecting junior engineers from cutting themselves.
I have some solid scandal dead company swag gear but have no idea how to contact you.
So, let’s assume that this hack is not meant to preserve money, but to destroy evidence. If you spread a lot of s** around and overwrite all this stuff with malware, does it create plausible deniability?
It has got to be an insider's improvised "plan B."
My naive assumption when looking at the design of Plan 9 from a distance, is that the filesystem could easily become leaky abstraction.

Sort of like how we now have USB-C everywhere, but you have to know what kind of cable is actually in the middle in many cases. Maybe it would better to split major feature sets across a few different physical plugs, so you know exactly what you have just by looking at it.
Some furniture store is probably going to get a great deal on office chairs, and some lucky investor will be able to buy up all their MacBook Pros at auction.
> Stick with Bitcoin and ETH and treat it as a high risk investment and you'll be fine.

What you want in a currency is fungiblity (if that’s an actual word) and a stable store of value.

What you get with crypto is a billion competing chains and a “high risk investment”.

To compensate for this you get exchanges who also share your view that customer deposits are a “high risk investment” instead of a warehousing operation which is their legal obligation.

Perhaps I’m not the target of crypto because I can see it for what it is and not the utopian dream people want you to see?
They tried to standardize a previous version and were voted down, the reasons for negative votes have not changed, one of them is that the proposed specification isn't enough to implement a clean-room copy.

I will follow up on the open-source idea when we start discussing the next vote.
I think it's not difficult to find instances ran by ethical people or ethical organizations on the fediverse. Throwing the baby with the bath water because you theoretically can stumble upon bad admins, is in the realm of a "ridiculous hypothetical" to me.
They’re not socialism for their exports! Novo Nordisk, one of the three insulin makers, is a Danish company. They’re as profitable as Eli Lilly. Guess where they make all their money?
Sure, but that’s about providing a ground path for the water line in case it becomes accidentally energized, not necessarily providing a ground electrode for the electrical service. In other words, you’d have to do that even if the metal water piping was not eligible to be used as a ground conductor:

NFPA 70

250.104(A)(1) General. Metal water piping system(s) installed in or attached to a building or structure shall be bonded to any of the following:

(1) Service equipment enclosure

(2) Grounded conductor at the service

(3) Grounding electrode conductor, if of sufficient size

(4) One or more grounding electrodes used, if the grounding electrode conductor or bonding jumper to the grounding electrode is of sufficient size

The bonding jumper(s) shall be installed in accordance with 250.64(A), 250.64(B), and 250.64(E). The points of attachment of the bonding jumper(s) shall be accessible. The bonding jumper(s) shall be sized in accordance with Table 250.102(C)(1) except that it shall not be required to be larger than 3/0 copper or 250 kcmil aluminum or copper-clad aluminum and except as permitted in 250.104(A)(2) and 250.104(A) (3).
The entire healthcare sector dropped. Why would an insurance company like Cigna fall because of a tweet about Eli Lilly?
yes, same hermit life. calm, slow, and quiet.
That makes sense, but would you say email then is safe? Or is it something you should watch out for scams on?

I am mainly wondering about Uniswap being described as safe.
The more interesting measure would be total economic value lost in each episode i.e. number of coins in existence multiplied by price decline.
Could you explain to me how "nibbleshifter" would use the "feature" for good?

What are you losing here "nibbleshifter"?

Why do you put infosec in scare quotes? Why are they "wankers"? Why scare quote and name call a legitimate profession? Because you have qualms?
It describes how a person might play it, that's all. It won't help anyone identify a song they've heard or pick one out by genre or style. That information isn't really "encoded" in sheet music.
The article has a small mistake, BRep stands for Boundary Representation, not Binary. Secondly, for point of reference, the basic design that the author uses as their benchmark that took them approximately an hour to an hour and a half to generate on these tools would, for me, an experienced user using a professional tool (CATIA in my case) take no longer than five minutes. Maybe more like sub 2 minutes if I was pushing it and the shape was known ahead of time. Just wanted to give people a perspective if they weren't aware of how quick something like that can be done by and experienced person using a professional tool.
I do not think the situation is the same. I believe GFCI gives excellent protection against shock even if the ground is faulty and the neutral is floating with respect to earth. (Nevertheless, I still want my home to have properly grounded three-pin sockets, even if it is implausible that it will ever make a difference.)

I hope an expert can chime in, but I suspect a 'spicy' trackpad would trigger GFCI.
Perhaps he will take some time to clear his head. Is there a monastery in South America where he can repent? Preferably one with no extradition treaty?
People making minimum wage typically are eligible for Medicaid, which provides insulin for free.
Once one has a kid he/she will immediately realize that physical competence is not a luxury but a must-have for basic survival.
You are totally missing the other side's responsibility with regards to the social contract.

Part of the social contract is the responsible use of that coercive power to actually provide social benefit. Capricious misuse of power is not aligned with the social contract.

So, for example, it would be unethical to coerce vaccination when vaccination does not stop the spread. It also would be unethical to coerce vaccination against a rapidly evolving pathogen when the vaccine is at least 2 variants behind and shows little if any efficacy against current variants. It also would be unethical to have lockdowns for a respiratory virus when there are no RCTs that demonstrate lockdowns stop the spread of such a virus. It would also be unethical to enforce cloth masking when the RCTs demonstrate negative effectiveness of cloth masking for respiratory viruses (more people get sick). All of these are massive violations of the social contract specifically because they would never have been effective. And even if you excuse the first few months under the guise of "We didn't know" the data rolled in very quickly on all those items but the policies remained.

So yes, the social contract might mean I have to be quarantined under certain conditions. But you don't get to toss whatever bullshit you want under the social contract.
If I remember Boyle's video correctly, Goldman Sachs' equivalent structure was about 30 entities.

This doesn't feel normal in any sense.
Smart man, when you fleece an entire country, you can't really "get out of town", but you can definitely go to Argentina. Best of luck you con man, may your ability to steal millions and get away serve as a shining beacon to every wannabe business/tech bro in our community