skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I buy the foodborne illness argument, but I'm not sure I agree with where they're going with overharvest and pollution.

Pollution is certainly bad FOR oysters, but synthetic oysters neither mitigate pollution, nor does reduced oyster farming lead to more wild oysters in the environment, as far as I know. Oysters can (and I gather often are) grown on structures that facilitate harvest, rather than necessarily competing for space with the wild ones. Plus, seeding oyster growing areas pretty much ensures more propagation of oysters in where they are farmed. And since oysters filter the water, growing fewer oysters (farmed or otherwise) would just increase pollution.

Since oysters are pretty easily cultivated, the solution to overharvest is to build more oyster growing structures and increase production... which leads to better water quality, which leads to healthier oyster populations. A virtuous cycle as I understand it.

EDIT: I must also confess here that I don't particularly love eating oysters. The irony of my positivity towards oyster farming is not lost on me :-)
Good luck running your mail server in your basement :) You will be able to receive most mail that is sent to you, but sending without being sent to spam or rejected is trickier, and I don't think sending reliably is possible at all from a residential network.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind[0]

The reason it changed me? I like starting with a blank slate for new projects without relying on huge monolithic frameworks. Such a book is invaluable for software engineers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_Mind%2C_Beginner's_Mind
If anyone is in this situation, we can look at solutions people used when they heated with wood in old homes.

In japan, people ate at tables with a thick quilt built in to cover your legs.

European sitting chairs were designed with “hoods” to trap as much heat as possible. Everyone wore long johns every day in the winter. A thick wool sweater was a requirement for life and you had blankets all over. Only the critical parts of the house with people in them were heated.

When you went to your bed, which was likely away from the fire, you would boil water and put in a bottle that you kept underneath your blankets all night.
There is a pattern: Pump up a success to insane valuations by promising something much bigger. Falcon 9 and Dragon are as impressive as they seem. Reducing the cost of getting to orbit is a huge achievement.

BUT the market is saturated. Literally the majority of mass lifted to orbit is Starlink satellites. Stalink has 500k subs. The math does not work.

This is like ARK basing 60% of their projected future Tesla valuation on robotaxis.
Do explain.

Eg for fake meat: if we don't know if saturated fats are good or not due to contradictive studies then what do we know of thousands of other substances in real vs fake meat which have not recieved not even 1% of the study/resources/research resoruces than "saturated fat good vs bad"?

How you can find that to be strawman or "wrong" is beyond me.

But then again, I've come to the sad conclusion that most researches in the field of nutrition and academia are complete morons incapable of grasping complexity.
As in if I know I will make $1m in sales I might choose to use better audio equipment.
It probably breaks down to whether or not she wants to play the game or not. If she's smart enough to get in a school like that she can certainly handle corporate BSing. I guess she could maybe be a PM or possibly make it in banking.
I'm not saying, of course, that such a parent should have their kids taken away by the government.

But I do think that a good parent would grant their kids a certain level of privacy and autonomy, depending on the child's age and the risks involved.

In this case, the risks of a kid eating meat are fairly low; one kid's chicken tenders aren't going to build a factory farm, and they can always change back to a vegetarian diet later.

(Of course, some vegetarians will have stomach issues if they suddenly start eating meat. The kid should know about that risk, but the reactions in question are usually very mild.)
I was gonna say augmented reality, but there are probably low-tech options that could do the trick.

I would start with "sticky note on the relevant machine" type interventions first.
Stratification of American society is largely due to people fleeing violent and property crime, especially once they have children. There is considerable hysteresis so it’s not as simple as lining up cost of living and crime stats, but a “nice neighborhood with good schools” will be considerably more expensive all else being equal.
> I'll know we've arrived when super hero films begin with a disclaimer.

That kind of thing has already been happening for quite a while, though. Books have long had disclaimers along the lines of ‘the following events and characters are entirely fictional and are not based on any people from the real world’ — I recall seeing them in e.g. Wodehouse’s books from the 1940s, so it’s not like it’s a new thing.
> He has a monopoly on what exactly?

You can argue about about the exact contours of different markets if you like, but they're quite obviously pointing to FB and Twitter being controlled by two tech billionaires.

What "hatefulness", exactly? They're stating a fact. Many people take issue with individuals with mercurial opinions having that much control over everyone else's communication.

> Social media is for losers.

Thanks for sharing all the opinions. On a message board.
> Social media is for losers.

It is for users*. It has a lot of issues, but it has its use cases.

Before you judge the post's tone, watch yours, and stop generalizing all social media users as losers.
Not being able to difinitively identify truth is different from not attempting to identify it.
What does it mean by being multiserver here?
Probably The Singularity by Ray Kurtzweil. Came across it at random digging through the tiny tech section of my university library.

I don't think until that point I had really understood the idea of accelerating progress, like I knew that I wanted to work in technology just out of interest, but that book really instilled in me that the pace of change could be really quite rapid through my career, which to me made it all the more exciting. Certainly in my career in software so far that's turned out to be the case.
The Santa Clara Principles
I can answer that fairly quick. No lol.
If you don't understand the internet was meant to be decentralized then what are you even doing here?
This Changes Everything - Naomi Klein.

This was a good alternative view to how we were taught the world was “meant” to be run
Yes but...

That often leads a dirty game. Litigation, especially license and IP related litigation, is often all about the meta, the strategy games and ulterior or adjacent motives.

The legal action itself, with associated costs and stresses can be scarier than the judgment. Deterrence or establishing legal cases and such can be the motive. Legal costs can be driven up to strategically raise stakes. Etc. It's nice when occasionally the system can be used to settle disputes or do justice.
Water from the pond is the same as water from my tap - they are both H20. Kind of like that, I imagine.
> Doing actual rigorous proofs a computer can verify is enormously tedious and many Mathematicians dislike it for that reason, because the inherently subjective "elegance" and "beauty" gets lost in translation.

Couldn't we also interpret this fact that computerized proofs are currently often very unelegant as strong evidence that not a lot is understood about this topic and thus doing such "ugly" computerized proofs is the best we can (in most cases) currently do?

Science at the boundary of human knowledge is often quite ugly; as our understanding of it grows, it often becomes more beautiful and elegant.
And yet they usually do.
The protocol that allows to federate is called "Activity Pub". Mastodon is just an implementation of it that looks like twitter, similar like how peertube is an implementation that competes with youtube. And this NextCloud Social is another implementation of Activity Pub
People comparing Twitter and Mastodon as though they’re equivalent. They’re not - Mastodon has Twitter-like properties but the core “network” model (centralized vs federated) of the two makes them distinct beasts.

That’s not people’s fault to make the comparison. Mastodon and the larger community does little to disambiguate this and make it clear.

(I say this as someone that’s used both Twitter and mastodon for years. They’re just different, period.)
Honestly I've never seen the issue you described on any windows machine on any network anywhere.
Their webpage has this to say about it in the FAQ, so I would say nope.

"Within the scope of microkernel operating systems, a multiserver spreads the operating system functionality over multiple user processes. Note how this differs from a single-server microkernel that concentrates all these functions into a single user process." - http://www.helenos.org/wiki/FAQ
That would lead to wider spreads. Then, liquidity would move to another country that did not impose that rule.
How big will his market be? I theorize it will be the same population whom moved to Canada back when Trump was elected. Maybe smaller because of network effects.
Ask HN: How do I get into robotics?
Hi,

FYI: Second year maths degree, work in Python and SQL, entry level knowledge of C and CPP.

I was inspired by the fluid movement displayed in the litter picker sort of arm one of the Boston Dynamic robots has and I would like to learn how to go about creating such a robot as a side project (just the arm). I want to know what resources I should look at to get started? I have no real experience soldering, EE or working with sensors. So some entry level projects recommendations may be best?

Thank you.
Pure luck is everyone in London believing you when you tell them the battle of Waterloo is going the other way. Or is this the lack of any virtue?
"Demon haunted world" by Carl Sagan
It allowed me the knowledge and linguistic framework to explore issues that had bothered me for years, like pseudoscience, the supernatural and poor critical thinking skills.
The chapter "The baloney detection kit" alone is worth the price of the book.
To me, that 25-minute long Tetris tune stands apart from all other SID music. It's like a movie soundtrack :)

For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny743c32gPg

BTW, thanks for sharing this. Most "top sid" lists are kind of predictable.
I’ve been using IntelliJ since version 2. It is the best tool I’ve ever used. It’s grown with me throughout my career, and supported almost every language and change that I’ve needed. I had to resort to using Xcode because I was doing iOS development. I tried AppCode, but my iOS days ended soon anyway. I am completely content and happy paying Jetbrains for the software. It’s high-quality, it’s awesome. I remember people trying to get me to use Eclipse back in the day, that’s a piece of garbage slung together.
I used to enjoy oysters in the past, before I learned about the significant health risks that come from eating them raw. If you're unlucky, you can be in for a seriously bad health trip.

Also knowing that oysters are essentially water filters, it seems strange to "eat the filter". I cannot even fathom eating Gulf coast oysters...

Having fake alternatives is nice. However, like the recent topic of the robotic industrial farming weed sprayer, I think it is engineering effort directed to the wrong place.

The #1 problem with transitioning from an animal based diet to plant based is the misunderstanding of what plant based diets can be. Ask a traditional meat eater what a vegetarian meal looks like, and they probably envision taking their steak away from the plate and just leaving some broccoli and potatoes. Indeed that's not very enticing.

Good vegetarian meals are practically art in terms of their combinations of textures and flavors, not to mention colors. But they take a lot more skill to make, so people rarely encounter them.

Instead, everyone is busy trying to replicate meat without meat - namely to replace that steak that was taken off their plate with something that is close to it.

Until we reach scale with lab grown meat (which even then I have doubts about long term downsides), no fake meat replacement is really good. They are manufactured, which means there are extra ingredients (or quantities of) that are not good for you. I think the reason for all this effort is that this is business. Companies want to sell you a thing; but a well made vegetarian meal is really just good plant ingredients and skilled preparation. It's hard to package that into a box which can be sold in the grocery store.
People have different umwelts.

An umwelt is an individual's subjective experience of the world, shaped by their sensory perceptions, language, culture, and values. Because people have different umwelts, they often perceive the world differently and may come into conflict with one another.

Simply put, people are unequal when it comes to understanding and without clear understanding many people will struggle finding words to explain what they mean.
> I doubt there is a single (professional) engineer that would say something like that.

I suspect an engineering professor would be even more compelled to highlight how social consensus is the foundation of everything else that follows. You only have to read the surface layers of this or that performance debate to see how it is unfortunately the case. "Performance" is a fluid term that doesn't mean much of anything on its own -- and people arguing that they've juiced another drop of performance juice from this or that application's fruit are often just talking past each other in terms of priorities or perspective.

The symbolic manipulation at the heart of mathematics is a byproduct of language -- another system beholden to social consensus. It's inescapable.
Way tangent but... NLP prompts remind me of websearch circa altavista.
In the US I can go to the supermarket and get "truffle macaroni and cheese" in a box for $5, because everyone knows that truffles are this rare, mysterious, and luxurious thing, and so incorporating them (or their essence) into relatively inexpensive food items allows companies to tack a small amount onto the price, but gives the consumers the feeling that even this luxurious thing is available to them.

Similar to why people might knowingly buy knock-off "designer" items.
Like Gnu Hurd or Minix3:

https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/

>>It is a collection of servers that run on the Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols, file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix kernel or similar kernels
Investigating the links between viruses and Alzheimer’s disease
Quantum Mechanics – Simple English Wikipedia
> But what this doesn't get at is that the very system of logic we use to make proofs is a social construct. Other cultures have had other systems of logic, and called valid arguments that we wouldn't today precisely because they were using a different system of logic.

I think you need to separate the process of developing mathematics, from the self-consistency and validity of the logical argument or mathematical structure itself. The process is social but the validity and mathematical structure itself is not.

Computer science has led to an explosion in different logics. We've never had more logics/formal systems than we do today, but whether any given formal system actually is consistent is not dependent on consensus, it is a fact, either true or false, completely independent of consensus.
Oysters seem difficult to replicate, and an unusual food to create. I had no idea anyone was working on this, and it's interesting to see such a positive result.
I mixed it up with bevorzugen[1] I think. Will fix it, thanks! :)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bevorzugen
Turned out some decentralized projects like Serum are just the big boys in a mask grabbing all your money, or a counterparty that was losing all of their own client's money.
The Global Trap, read it 20 years ago, and it made me see world in different view

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Global_Trap
"Exotic" network config, like having the default hyper-v adapter present? That one, that windows creates automatically once you enable hyper-v?
“All quiet on Western front”, as well as the follow up novels “Three Comrades” and “Arc de Triumph” by Erich Maria Remarque.

I’ve read it when I was in my late teens / early twenties and it sort of changed my outlook on things. My then very naive and straightforward view of the world where right and wrong are obvious was shattered. It’s kind of made me sad and that sadness has remained with me ever since.

Since that time it’s been my answer to a question about a book that has had the most impact on me.
Literally every single person working on this was thinking of the public welfare of the people. Public welfare will and should always trump individual liberties.
Frank Karlitschek also tweeted just two weeks ago: "Elon Musk just axed key Twitter teams. Sure. Who needs human rights, accessibility, AI ethics and curation. "

Not sure I fully understand the synthesis of "communication is too important to be controlled" and "firing the teams that controlled communication is bad".

https://twitter.com/fkarlitschek/status/1588865171900203008
Good points on both sides. I think the answer to your second question is, "first mover advantage, even if the product is bad"
What was it a great tool for? Definitely not what it was marketed for (access the world's knowledge).

To me it seems it was about as significant and useful as IBM Watson playing Jeopardy.
Brilliant post. I agree 100%. That article was nothing but food snobbery / gate-keeping. I would love to see this guy doing blind-folded taste tests. I am willing to bet he would score worse than 50%.

Regarding your excellent summary: If only there was a GPT-3 equivalent Chrome extension to automatically do this for me!
Yeah, there's one poor piece of case law from 1995, well before the modern Internet.

I understand people's fear of actually having to defend behavior on merits, but the literal death toll of Section 230 is a cost too high to avoid a couple court cases that will inevitably side with people doing the right thing.
Isn't that the difference between confirming to a schizophrenic that you believe them when they say they hear voices vs pretending that the voices they hear are real?

Not meant as an offensive analogy, trying to understand how it's different. Third party perception won't necessarily match first party perception.
It does not seem to be developed anymore, but Readlang[1] does exactly that. It has been very helpful early on as I was learning Spanish and German.

[1] https://readlang.com/
rogue traffic, unless you mean pink powder
Playbook: Taking over a company and turning it around
It's not about clustering, "multiserver" in this context means that parts that are stuffed together in the kernel on Linux or BSD run in separate userspace processes (i.e. networking, file system, device drivers, ...). This approach gives better isolation of those components, so a bug in one is less likely to affect others, and if one crashes, it can potentially be restarted, while the rest of the system keeps running. If done right, it can also make these individual parts simpler.

GNU/Hurd tries the same, but with POSIX compatibility and so far with mixed success. Other multiserver microkernel systems I know off are Minix and QNX. I'm sure there's more.
Atlas Shrugged

I read it while starting a company, and it was exactly what I needed to suffer that process.
No.

“Multiserver” (a term from the microkernel literature) means that the conventional basic OS services are split into several “server” processes with distinct responsibilities (a mounted filesystem, a network card, perhaps a hardware bus, etc.). This is the original conception of a microkernel- (as opposed to e.g. an exokernel-) style system and its architectural promise, although it’s not made necessary by the mere fact of being built on top of a microkernel: AFAIK L4Linux is a single server so the L4 microkernel basically acts as a simple VMM / HAL without further architectural benefits. (For other monolithic but userspace OS servers, look at wineserver in Linux, CSRSS and LXSS in Windows NT, etc. For multiserver systems of varying purity, look at QNX and Minix.)

What you’re thinking of is a “distributed OS”, although those academic efforts look terribly naïve from today’s distributed consensus standpoint. Good points of entry may be Barrelfish and Plan 9.
September’s Children
For what it's worth, capitalism and communism are entirely orthogonal. China for example is simultaneously a communist government at the moment whilst also being one of the biggest capitalistic nations. Capitalism is a form of monetarism whereas communism is a form of governance.
They live in a houses (I guess? Since they buy oil). They are not poor. Maybe bad "liquidity" and penny wise.

Many seniors seem to thing living in their house is cheap since they pay so little per month compared to renting. But in my experience that is usually because they cut down on repair and upkeep. They should just be renting flats, and if they can't due to shortages or insane rent, that is the problem not the heating bills.

Living in a house becomes way more expensive then you are too sick or weak to do the base upkeep yourself.
shouldnt have sanctioned russia so hard.
this would be vulnerable to DOSing. Imagine me, your competition, with a finger over a button that can make your money useless for the next five minutes.
Way to miss the point, and contribute nothing useful to the topic.
Even more interesting is the current trend of writing entire articles based on just one or two twitter threads. This appears to me like lazy journalism. Why not talk directly to the people and get their opinions?
3AC, DCG and Coincidences
Decentralisation means more people get responsibilities and therefore are liable if something really bad happens. It doesn't mean regulations don't apply.

With the way Tornado Cash went down, I disagree that DeFi is "deregulated". The stakes are as high as ever for the people working on these projects. The people getting scammed by DeFi companies just don't have as much money to burn on lawyers and influence to take action when their deals turn out too good to be true.
No plans to monetize. Contributions very welcome! :)
It's also arguable that having a billionaire who's put $44 billion of his money into a platform - under the public position of supporting freedom of speech, and being a good steward, governor of so - is a good ally to have, who will put whatever resources and time he can into securing Twitter as a platform (on top of the internet, that is more or less free depending on the country) for information to flow relatively freely without any one government (the majority of politicians often captured by one or more for-profit industrial complexes, rather than funded and influenced by their constituents - their country's population) influencing what narratives (whether true or not) are acceptable and which aren't.

History will show most recently that pharmaceutical industrial complex captured the U.S. government and health institutions, along with MSM-legacy media, including influencing/manipulating what narratives/talking points were allowed to flow on Twitter/Facebook et al.
https://usesummit.com/ allows to setup your own logic and then you can embed it on your own website. Target customer is agencies but maybe you still fit into the free plan and/or gives you ideas how to build your own.
> Investors losing their skin? That's all risk/reward. They took big risk for big reward but lost.

No, it's not OK and it's not all risk/reward. The risk is whether the product can succeed and be better than others' products/services - not whether the company you're investing in is a fraud - that's what the legal system tries to prevent.