skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Email would suck if you needed some central authority to grant you permission to send.

You do. If Gmail, Yahoo, or Microsoft block your sends, you might as well give up sending email.
And that's the political problem that crypto doesn't solve. In fact it doesn't even address it.

It's an everyone-for-themselves kind of project, in a massively connected and somewhat fragile physical and political ecosystem.

If you're one of the many with narcissistic tendencies who think more imaginary tokens make you a better person, and who resent the very idea of being massively connected - as opposed to a glorious sovereign individual of unlimited power and potential - it's definitely for you.

Which - coincidentally - is why it's surrounded by unsolved trust issues and scams.

But it's a terminal stage of capitalism world view, and on the way out. Not just because it's politically naive, unrealistic, and inherently unstable and untrustworthy, but also because ultimately it's physically unsustainable.

And that ultimately is going to become more and more obvious over the next couple of decades.
I don't have any references to hand, but drawing from both personal experience and anecdotal stories from places like r/nootropics, the link between cognitive performance and physical exercise is already well established and almost universally accepted. In comparison, brain training games and sudoku puzzles are rarely, if ever, mentioned as beneficial (again, anecdotally). Am I misunderstanding what's being speculated here?

Somewhat related - something that I do find quite curious from my own personal experience is that lifting heavy weights has a far greater impact on my ability to concentrate (and therefore perceived cognitive ability, I guess) than cardio/aerobic exercise does. Like night and day. I've recently started attributing it to creatine supplementation, but I do wonder if there's anything more to it than that.
Yeah, I have a feeling they're not returning his phone calls too quickly these days.
Another reason was that the GUI would not run on most systems.
Terra was sus from the beginning.

20% APY in dollars was too good to be true.

And when it started to crash most of us quickly converted everything away from it. I lost a few bucks though.

But I had a friend who didn't know better back then who tried to apply the "HODL" meme and yes, he lost everything
Plumbing (at least here in Massachusetts, maybe it’s national code?) is usually grounded back to the panel which also grounds to external driven ground rods. I believe that is in case the plumbing is accidentally energized due to a loose wire it has a route to ground.
Aren't landfills close to civilization usually, so it would not be hard to transfer the electricity some miles to charge Teslas, heat homes or power etc.

Where are landfills too remote to transport electricity away from?
Unfortunately, there are no (major) CAD programs you can own outside of FOSS.
> So, here’s the speculation / thesis: exercising, that is, operating our bodies at a higher than baseline level, with everything that entails - energy regulation, unconscious balancing, spatial awareness, etc - requires more computing power than crosswords, sudoku, finding relations between measure theory and first-order logic through category theory, etc

Even if this is true (which seems plausible, but I'm not aware of it being proven), I don't think it tells us anything about the extent to which we're looking at "exercise inhibits cognitive decline" vs. "cognitive decline inhibits exercise".
> dead of Covid

w/covid
skriptonit - polozhenie (slowed + reverb)
There is quite some evidence pointing to that. SBF's ma and pa seem to be quite involved in the ban-cash crowd[1][2].

However, S.Nakamoto was always anonymous and Bitcoin never stated to be anonymous, not even in the white paper. I think that the correct term here is pseudonymous.

P.S. To those suggesting regulation, do you realise that regulations are being crafted by people like these (SBF's family)? Is it really going to improve anything or just equalise it all with the absolute worst?

1. https://law.stanford.edu/directory/joseph-bankman/
2. https://law.stanford.edu/directory/barbara-fried/
In "Willpower" book they argue that you only need willpower to make a habit. Once the habit is established, you don't exercise willpower anymore.
> A couple a weeks ago I did a wire half way across the globe. It took almost 7 days for the money to arrive. With bitcoin? 60 minutes.

Ignoring the week-long wire detail (which deserves an explanation because that doesn't resonate with my experience), depending on when you sent that transaction, your wire could've lost a decent amount of value due to the price instability of bitcoin. Losing 5% in a matter of minutes because everyone is panicking is not a good deal.
Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/AZ1RI
I'd be surprised to learn that it's blacklisted from any feed readers. That illustrates the usefulness of separating reader app and hosting.
Yes, when you add a token manually, you’re warned that anyone can add a token and that you should exercise caution.
that's a popular urban myth, alas the origin is some predecessor language to German.

https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-
> A) it took linux a long time to add support

Linux has no support for ZFS. This is an out-of-tree patch set and therefor a no-go for most including myself.

ZFS intentionally has a terrible license and is owned by Oracle. People are free to do what they want but I wish all the time wasted on it could have been put in something more interesting.
The challenge Microsoft faces now is that "embrace" is actually a great thing, but now some people will always assume an ulterior motive.
3. Fund gain-of-function research.
it's not considered idiomatic Go to use frameworks, the stdlib provides everything.
It was not clear to me from your description, but it sounds like all of the developers are crammed into a shared space? For me, that is a huge differentiator of WFH - so many companies have trash working environments. Open office or similar which look pleasant, but are horrible for concentration.

I want a private space where I can close the door and have minimal visual and auditory disruptions. It does not have to be large, enough space for my monitors + chair. If I need to talk to someone else, we can do it in a different location.
Yes! The way it is now, the blue check's symbolism morphed from "verified account" to "paying account". It's very misleading from a UI standpoint to change the significance of the symbol like that.
People used to use a flag in objects to say 'invalid because constructor failed', or make the constructor infallible, and have a separated initialise method which could return an error code.
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I don't think this requires root at all.
Dunno, I feel the effect of lifting is mostly one of persistent clarity.

Whatever wandering thoughts I had bouncing around in my head before a set of heavy deadlifts, all that is gone after, because the effort of pulling up the bar doesn't permit anything but complete focus.
Hearing drugs for the first time in this shitshow. Care to elaborate a bit on this?
I hate SRFIs (and you should too)
> Any time there are price controls, there is scarcity

That's not true. It would be the case for (close to) perfectly competitive markets with lower margins, like petrol, basic foodstuffs to some extent etc. It does not apply to markets controlled by oligopolies/monopolies. Especially pharmaceuticals where margins are extremely high and producers of some drugs would still be able to make a profit if they cut (list) prices by a magnitude or two.

Only argument against is that it might decrease available funding for developing new drugs, which might be a legitimate concern. But in no way would reasonable prices controls result in a scarcity of almost all currently available drugs.
I think what's being challenged here is whether tasks that we consider "cognitively challenging" do actually require more "computing power" than physical exercise does. I guess it's decoupling "cognitively challenging" from "computing power".
creatine supplementation is supported by the literature to have cognitive benefits.

Also, lifting heavy does train your central nervous system too, which might be a pathway to better cognitive ability? (This second part is 100% bro science, though)
Media companies that also sell personal data
If you're planning on front-running any issues, I doubt you'd put articles like that (which publicly exhibit an almost pathological lack of self-awareness) on your website.
I absolutely agree with you, but I wanted to check some actual (non-fluffy) metrics to get a clearer picture. What I found was two interesting charts covering roughly the period of 1960 to 2020 in the US.

The first[1] shows "Real hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory employees", while the second[2] shows both the "Civilian Employment-Population Ratio" (in red) and "Wages and salary / GDP" (in blue).

While these don't specifically give much insight into the plight of the middle class, I think a case could be made that as more people entered the workforce, that lead to increased economic growth but proportionally less of that growth was enjoyed by each employee.

[1] https://assets.weforum.org/editor/Xkzpnpz_lnI-0WbTH1LJVUdu3J...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Goodwin2...
So, what you're saying is that some hackers are siphoning all the "funds" for no reason at all?

Or maybe, if they are hackers they can use/launder those in some way or another, but if this is SBF behind a mask then he can't?

I am far from an expert about money laundering techniques, but I find it hard to believe that it is impossible to launder, given the context.
What Everyone Seems to Get Wrong About Mastodon (Or What Mastodon't)
Oof. A missing equipment ground (the third pin on your outlet or its wiring) will not cause these issues. In fact, it’s legal to have an ungrounded three pin outlet in a retrofit situation as long as it’s GFCI protected and labeled.

I bet there’s a missing or poor neutral. If your neutral wiring has problems, then you are operating at anywhere between 0 and 240 VAC depending on what else is going on, e.g. whether the AC is running or the lights are on. Additionally, if you do have any sort of ground and that ground is (improperly) tied to neutral in more than one place, then you may have substantial current flow through “ground”, i.e. the actual Earth, your pipes, your steel building structure, your body, etc.

Get a true RMS voltmeter, (safely!) connect between hot and neutral, and switch lights and AC on and off. Repeat with the meter between neutral and ground.

And consider replacing the circuit breaker on the circuit you’re using with a GFCI breaker. Several common screwups will cause it to trip.
Most EA’s are just donating to givewell(global health and poverty). The long termists are a small portion of the movement and ai safety even smaller.
Keep learning some coding basics like some js, shell scripting, git, etc.

Think about corner cases and extreme/uncommon situations and build that into your work.

I've often encountered mockups/UIs where, say, they have a dropdown to choose from a list of usernames. That's a great UI for a startup with 10 people where they all fit on the screen, but how does that work at some big company with 50,000 employees? Think about how a UI is supposed to look and work if the underlying data becomes massive, more than can fit in memory for example.

Think about error conditions and notifications, how to get these in front of people who can action them, instead of buried in logs, or a popup that is distant from where the underlying cause happened.
"Wait a minute...
This isn't democracy,
This is anal sex!"
We're not likely to see one. DALL-E was trained by analyzing pixels along with the captions for images. It is the caption information which is used in understanding your prompts.

But music doesn't have a form that ties the audio portion so cleanly to a textual description. And when it does, those labels tend to be overly simplified and not really helpful. Music is, in fact, hard to describe.

One project that might interest you is Every Noise at Once[0], which does an amazing job of grouping known artists and songs by their sonic similarly, which results in similar style and listener appeal.

[0] https://everynoise.com/
>Keep in mind another name for censorship is moderation

No it's not, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33446064

On most social media sites they're implemented the same way (ie. posts deleted/hidden from other users), but the objectives are totally different.
Doesn't that imply that after a month without chocolate or potato chips I could easily avoid them for the rest of my life? Wish it were true.
> All the other details aside, this doesn't feel okay and I cannot believe that elected officials voted against legislation to prevent this sort of a markup situation. Whatever happened to them needing to represent the interests of the people?

Does it feel okay that the government does not fund R&D directly resulting in medicines in the public domain?

Seems like voters want low taxes, or voters are unable/unwilling to vote for politicians that would direct taxpayer resources to developing medicines, and hence private businesses have to fund the R&D.

In which case, once the hard part is done, the taxpayers now want to reap the rewards via price controls?

And if the argument is that taxpayers already fund R&D that the private companies use, then the problem is laws (or lack of enforcement) allowing private companies to patent discoveries made with taxpayer money, which seems like it would be blatantly illegal.
>It was, in retrospect, simply a bubble

It was clearly this since 2016, imho
Wow this is amazing, really goes to show how comical it all is.

I could PROBABLY tolerate all these, if the headlines were something like "Bitcoin reaches all time low and new level of people are discouraged. Retail investors should be extra diligent." but...

"You can <do some fucking stupid thing that I'm not going to do> now"

Feels like its written for someone with the intelligence of a child who doesn't think on their own and needs to be spoon fed what to do. I have no idea how people can stand journalism like this.

This goes along with "Why <really bad thing> is actually good." Makes me cringe to the depths of my soul that even a single solitary person would click something like that.
Curious. Even in America this is well-known procedure, they could just have phoned a medical professional?
> It sucks that people put their faith in tech geeks like me, and they got let down.

Well, not like you since you’re genuinely trying to solve real-world problems.

I had that feeling a lot during the dotcom era because you had a similar, although less pronounced, dynamic where some companies were focused on selling their technology as some kind of magic cure for every problem (this was also the era where you’d see startup founders proudly showing off millions of dollars worth of Sun servers running Oracle to process 100 orders a day). We’d get calls from our clients who’d get these shiny presentations but couldn’t understand how something made sense for their business, and we’d walk through it with them and confirm that it didn’t.

Most of those “it’s new and shiny! Buy now!” companies either folded or were acquired at more accurate valuations when bubble money dried up. I remember a couple of sales guys asking about jobs and it was like “you didn’t care what your prospects needed when money was easy, who can afford you now?”

My advice would always be to focus on what real thing you’re making better. If you can’t find one, either leave or have a fallback plan for things suddenly grinding to a halt. Lower-level staff are usually the ones left holding the bag unless your job is very clearly linked to revenue.
and they say "Don't do what they say in commercials..."
Behavior of spin glasses
Doesn't domain fronting (by definition) not cover all those who reverse proxy (with cache) their S3 bucket and other apps to reduce their egress bills?

The only part of the definition that applies is a subjective part... "for censorship circumvention".
Would the average individual be wrong about that? Is there a single billionaire who's beloved by their employees?
Apparently not:

From Middle High German ur-, from Old High German ur-, ir- (“thoroughly”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-#German
I wish front-end developers would use the right tool for the right situation. Not everything is a nail!

Forms are a great example. Browsers and back-end languages have supported those very well for a long time without the use of JavaScript.

Routing is another thing browsers and back-end languages do very well.

The SaaS we are building is in Laravel + Vue. Laravel has a powerful validation engine and top notch routing and session management. We leverage those 100%.

Vue shines for user interaction. Instead of a single SPA, we usually have one per rendered page (i.e. User Interface). Works very well.

I haven't found any downside to this approach vs a full-blown SPA. Only benefits.
Seen that in my own life. It's more of figuring out the alchemy of starting a flywheel, setting it in motion, and getting out of the way.

The hard parts are mostly front-loaded (excepting the phenomenon of hitting the wall) which seems profoundly unfair, but it is what it is.
That's a fun stat. We're 6x less likely to be spammed by opening a random email than scammed by investing in a random token on Uni.
There's also LFE which is rock solid and production ready.

(Lisp Flavored Erlang)

https://github.com/lfe/lfe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFE_(programming_language)
I can see a future where payments happens over lightning, BTC is savings, and apps/games/entertainment are built on ETH.

However I’ve grown less confident in ETHs longevity following the move to PoS. I’m concerned about the centralization of control and influence (eg transactions being dropped, tornado cash), lack of ability to withdrawal staked ETH, and general lack of trust created by the extreme number of scams. How do you view ETH long term, particularly wrt the proximity it has to these seemingly endless scams?
Boot environments are one of those magic features that when you've used it, it's hard to give up.

My NAS has long been on OpenIndiana. Boot environments mean zero risk OS upgrades. At one point I could have gone back to a 4 year old OS version and booted it with no data loss.

You can create one at any time, so it brings an even better take on VM snapshots to the physical machine world. Hacking on something and want a fallback? "Beadm create beforehacking" and you're safe.
WebAssembly (WASM) on the Server
> Because that's the truth

So the EU isn’t inept because they made a bad law. They are inept because they have no clue how to enforce it?

> GDPR mandates: "ask the user for consent if you collect more data than is strictly necessary, and the opt-out must be as simple as opt-in".

So the websites are asking the user - as the law dictates even if the buttons are the same size.

> AppStore rule on tracking was more effective precisely because Apple has the possibility to enforce it immediately.

So you’re cheering the government making a law that made the user experience worse that the government couldn’t enforce?
genius. maybe also publicly agree with yourself to show people it's possible
There is a very, very long history of that being a bad idea. There are some situations (commodity exchanges) it’s necessary, but they are heavily regulated and audited for that reason. They also have non trivial storage costs.

Gold depositories have the same issues as crypto exchanges have typically had - it’s almost inevitable that someone absconds with the actual gold without telling anyone, or ‘prints’ extra without backing assets, etc. and until someone does an audit or everyone tries to withdraw their gold/tokens/whatever, no one knows.

It also enables a lot of other scams.

[https://www.cftc.gov/LearnAndProtect/AdvisoriesAndArticles/f...]

For anyone reading, educate yourself so you don’t get defrauded.

Not all depositories are a bad idea in all situations - but be cautious.

(Also, historical footnote - the last credible audit of the gold at Fort Knox was in 1974, hah - https://www.usmint.gov/learn/history/historical-documents/in...)
> “When we can increase the fat content in edible seeds and nuts, a person can eat a lesser amount but still feel full, due to the increase in calories consumed,”

This seems wrong to me. Satiety is not determined by the caloric density.

With a nutritionally denser food (or a easily absorbed food) you will need less food for equivalent nutrition but you feel hungrier because the volume will be less.
SC22 – Supercomputing Conference
> If there was some kind of universal medicare in the US

You don't even need that. Just more/better regulation would suffice. You have countries with fully privatized healthcare systems like Switzerland or partially privatized ones like Germany or Netherlands which have no such problems.
Full-stack implies hardware. It's everything from the hardware up to the application layer.

It's very easy to redefine arbitrary terms to suit the needs of the moment.
100% agree. Working out for me is often an exercise in learning to be fully embodied and seeing what my limits are. At the age of 40 I finally feel like I understand myself a bit more on some deep level, probably because I'm not trying to ignore the reality of having a body.
https://twitter.com/carolinecapital/status/13790363463003054...

https://twitter.com/0x_charlemagne/status/159142224677375180...
> No one expects a multi-billion dollar exchange to vaporize over night.

Except for everyone who has?

We don't expect banks to vaporize because they're FDIC-insured with extreme regulations on their lending/investing, highly regulated.

But crypto exchanges are the wild west. Totally vulnerable to both hacking and ponzi scheme fraud. Essentially zero regulation or customer insurance. And "vaporizing over night" is how it always goes -- to quote the famous phrase, you go bankrupt slowly and then all at once.

So it's actually incredibly unreasonable to trust a company with essentially zero oversight to hold your funds.

And sure, there can be a movement towards more openness about funds/audits. But now customers have to decide... which auditors can be trusted to review the numbers, when it's the exchange selecting and paying the auditors? How can you even know? And do the auditors provide any defense against hacking?
Should say, [2007]
There’s such a thing as seniority of claims and it may often be the case that the mass of ordinary people don’t have the most senior claims but it isn’t about the size – investors (who, in some sense, have the most junior claims) will likely get hosed even though they’re big.

I think there are two ways to think about this:

1. If you’re a company and you have N classes of debt then probably ‘ordinary people’ will all be in the same class (this can vary, eg if you’re a big retail store then wages owed will likely be a different more senior class of debt than anything you owe customers). So the more senior claims are more likely to be big companies as are the more junior claims, and it is unlikely that the ‘ordinary people’ class of debt will be the most senior. For FTX I expect the hedge funds and retail customers to have the same seniority.

2. Hedge funds, etc, will be able to retain lawyers and seek representation in the bankruptcy process in a way that is unaffordable to ordinary people. So they might end up with favourable timelines/restructurings or better accounting of what they’re owed but those arrangements can’t be that the big members of the class get a higher proportion of their money back than the smaller members.
In a sense yes. I started a low carb diet a month ago and at this point i no longer actively crave those things. Not saying I would never eat them again but I have definitely lost the habit of doing so.