skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Exploration seems like a natural way for civilisation to live, but that's because exploration is needed to expand knowledge and grow more intelligent, we as a civilisation mostly became obsessed with intellect dozens generation ago, if not less, and gathering knowledge and exploring for us seems so important right now. It might be less important if important at all for species who have been intelligent for a long time and gathered orders of magnitude more knowledge than we do.

Most of the financial impetus for exploration comes from the promise of access to scare resources. But if you have the technology to traverse the stars then your species is either able to harness unfathomable amounts of energy such that you can bend space-time or you've done some kind of wild genetic engineering/cybernetic enhancements to the point where it's not really bound by the limitations of whatever biology its planetary evolution set it up with.

In both cases, they would have the means to functionally be living in a post-scarcity society. Either their consciousness is stored in some kind of long-term solid-state storage that can survive millennia long trips through space or energy is so cheap and available that it's hard to imagine them needing to keep going and searching to find more stuff. After you've explored and catalogued a hundred planets it's hard to imagine any real impetus to keep going.

Human civilization is already projected to cap out in population at around 11 Billion, and that's driven primarily by cultural and economic factors deriving from technology around access to healthcare, education, and other sources of diversion/entertainment/fulfillment. The idea that an advanced civilization must necessarily keep growing and growing in size doesn't seem to hold up for our own experience on Earth.
Yes, bad management exists. That's the #1 reason people cite for leaving companies. The problem is when you allow bad management to not care for your craft. If you find yourself copping the attitude of screw it, I get paid the same - then it's time for you to move on. Over time that attitude will rot you from the inside out.
I want to go back feeling like I felt when I had random raging boners and wild sexual thoughts in my brain when seeing a hot IG model or a super hot girl in the streets of Manhattan. That's 4 or 5 years ago maximum so it's too close to be a sign of aging

And if I could further improve my libido even more, then also feeling such sensations for "normal" girls.
I think you're describing "narrow banking". It doesn't exist in the US because the government doesn't allow it. As I understand it, they don't allow it because it would be obviously better for deposits individually, but would slow down the economy as a whole by driving up the price of loans, since all of the deposit money would suddenly be unavailable for lending.
I guess using Thunderbird would get many people away from relying exclusively on the web interface of gmail. Then the next step would be to make an e-mail account at another e-mail provider. Later maybe switch away from gmail entirely.
It would be maximally eco-friendly to transition agriculture away from chemical fertilizers (and pesticides, herbicides and fungicides/off-farm inputs in general) by focusing on soil generation and ecosystem development primarily through radical plant diversity/polyculture. For example,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8_i1EzR5U8
Cover crops, no-till & soil health - Quorum sensing in the soil microbiome (understanding the role of soil microbial interactions for soil health); Dr. Christine Jones

Early manifestations of this movement are in traditional farmers eliminating tillage/plowing ("no-till"); converting fields to rotations with diverse cover crops (not just a legume monoculture like soybeans, as has been practiced for thousands of years) to reduce or eliminate the need for fertilizers; reducing fallow periods through practices like "planting green" (sowing cash crops while the cover crop is still living), interplanting and companion planting; and use of fungal and bacterial biostimulants (application of cultivated strains of specific microbes and/or large scale brewing and application of compost tea). I view these practices as on the same spectrum as less commercially oriented approaches like permaculture food forests and foresee some kind of merger in the future.

Unfortunately, industrial influence will continue to steer research and advocacy toward hub-and-spoke systems (centralized fertilizer/GMO seed production + farmers selling into centrally managed distribution channels, or ultimately just the "growing" of calories in corporate-owned lab-factories) and away from distributed alternatives (farmers growing food using local inputs and nitrogen from the air via microbial activity + selling to local markets), simply because hubs allow for concentration of profit and control.
RIP First Republic - I hope something of their customer service culture stays on. Unsure that's realistic, but maybe JPM could have kind of "private business banking" or something?

I was a customer there for ~12 years through multiple companies. Hope everyone I've worked with is okay.
What insight are you seeking to learn or share here?

Do you not see nor understand the differences between animal vocalizations, human speech, and this?

I hope the above isn’t just a throwaway or snarky remark. That’s why I’m asking these questions.
> The healthcare and social service systems would not be able to function without the mandatory and voluntary unpaid 9 months work of the 17 - 19 year olds before they hit off for university.

Interesting take. Is there any supporting official position on this or just personal opinion?

If true I find it very scary that a country's health and social services systems would crumble were it not for the 3 months per year the teenagers of the country contribute. How do these systems handle the rest of the 9 months every year when the teenagers are unavailable on account of being in school. Why would a healthy society operate at the very limit of crashing down because the natality dropped or parents/teenagers start refusing to provide this service?

Now I've dealt with a lot of trainees in my life. All university graduates, including with PhDs. They all take weeks to months full time on the job until they're ready to do anything productive in the simplest of jobs. I can't imagine teenagers being or becoming anywhere near productive enough in 3 months per year (with 9 month breaks) to support a country's healthcare system from collapsing. And that's not even touching on the topic that you're forcing children to give up what's probably the last carefree time of their lives to do a job they may not want and are definitely not prepared to do.
Deface: Video Anonymization by Face Detection
You know, I did try Pinta before Krita, and I can't remember what but I found it didn't support something I needed.

This is odd to me because I don't really do much other than need layers, a good text tool, and some effects like blur or similar. I might give it a try again, it's been at least a year since I last looked at it.
Damon Knight, A For Anything.

There's a different story by another author where a similar machine brings on an economic depression, but I forget the title.
Financial privacy on a completely open and visible block chain, that makes transaction analysis incredibly easy, that has resulted in the FBI etc. consistently being able to "de-anonymise" users?

That's a really weird definition of "privacy". Crypto currency makes it easier for them, not harder. They don't even have to go to the effort of getting warrants because you're literally giving them your data saying "Track me, please!"
I’m not aware of any major social media site that makes users present a government issued ID during their normal registration flow. They might require it for registrations that trigger a fraud or similar alert, but it’s certainly not the norm.

If you want to get rid of a destructive and addictive thing, maybe it would be more effective to just advocate for that. Requiring a government ID and government categorization of every site on the Internet is not likely to accomplish what you want.
I mean paying for a game and then getting a low quality version of it without a sub isn't very compelling to a lot of PC gamers if I am being honest.
The most confusing part for me is not the restaurants, where I agree there is currently no choice but to tip unless you want to rip off the workers, but all these other places in-between that try to guilt you into tipping but the workers get paid a regular wage.
Lol.

> will decide they don’t need financial privacy

The block chain is publicly auditable. That's the opposite of privacy.

> that can get locked for having the wrong opinion

Any actual evidence of this happening?
There is an android version that works on my samsung. While it’s very “desktop”ish it’s amazing with the sylus.

The brushes are fantastic allow quickly painting grass and leaves.
Do you really think billionaires don't know what kind of business people are in, when they start to talk to them? Even if he could fool a few of them, they would quickly figure out he was just show and no business. The fact that some of the most powerful people continued to visit him for so many years, and even after his crimes started to be discussed, is very strange.
Ah, I see your point. I was stuck on the Waffle House story - in which almost all the a la carte freebies have already been teased out.

But if they start charging to use the Tabasco we're going to have a problem.
> If I drink water from a public water fountain why is that in the public's interest?

If there were no fountain, then many people would get water bottles and that's too big of a hassle.

Defining a public good is quite hard, and any definition will most likely other controversial terms like "reasonably" or "foreseeable" in them. However, I think a public good is something that can be shared by many people in reasonable amounts, and that cannot reasonably be attained by the average individual. It is usually characterized by its scale.

So for example, you can't build your own park, but you can use the public park without blasting your music on max volume.
I can't imagine the FAA will be thrilled with this...
There is no such thing as AI rights because AI is a piece of software. Software and hardware don't have rights.

With or without "AI," people are the ones running things. People are responsible for what they do, not machines.
One day I was walking down the boulevard (in a tie-dye rainbow shirt - perhaps this had something to do with it) and I only had two blocks to go to the post office. Homeboy comes to a stop in an old and busted car, and he hollers out "Hey, I'm ... like, a Uber... you wanna ride somewhere?" and I had a lasting creepy feeling that that would happen in broad daylight. I mean, I'm sure homeboy just wanted me to hand over a few bucks in cash for an easy ride, but imagine the suckers and predators that could be brought together by fake Uber.
I never argued for tightly controlling information. Let 4chan and EFnet do their thing. But at least allow for people to build platforms that are non-anonymous. There is a cost to anonymity and it is never paid for by the person who is expressing themselves.

Also, a water filtration plant could introduce psychotropic chemicals to placate a populace, so don’t let your guard down!
Also dictionaries.

> In August 2005, The New Oxford American Dictionary gained media coverage when it was leaked that the second edition contained at least one fictional entry. This later was determined to be the word "esquivalience", defined as "the wilful avoidance of one's official responsibilities", which had been added to the edition published in 2001. It was intended as a copyright trap, as the text of the book was distributed electronically and thus very easy to copy.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry
The course description for class MA0512 and MA0515 include in the course description " This code for the course is restricted to students who identify as Black, all genders." And " This code for the course is restricted to students who identify as Black male students." Respectively
"It's not from my culture and I find unfamiliar things scary, so I'm gonna call it NSFW"
I don’t believe there is anything illegal about organizing a company like you suggest. If it would work, why hasn’t anyone done it?

Democracy is not very good at decision making. For the outermost system which involves the potential for violence, the trade off makes sense. For systems nested within I’m not sure it does.
Really? Did you have a company asking you to commit code on the first week, you can barely get the credentials and your badge on the first week.
>IMHO, the simplest solution is single-term limits. Obviously, there are upside and downside trade-offs to such a policy. However, I think the upsides might be worth the downsides, especially since the system is so clearly being gamed by well-funded adversaries to the public interest.

The people in power are the ones to vote on enabling that, but they will never vote against their own power. We already have the power to do this collectively and that is to vote out the incumbent every election as a default.
Maybe you have a point with religion, but housing and banking are a necessary evil for everyone, regardless of their views on the market. I've contributed to the price of housing by virtue of existing and bidding it up in my city. That doesn't mean I'm buying a house to make money.
I am not sure that it was first, but Opera was the first browser that I remember having tabs. Outside of browsers, I think UltraEdit was the first application that I remember having tabs.
You can access gopher using a regular browser through Floodgap's proxy: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

A good gopher hole to visit to find recently-updated material is here: gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongusta/

Using a terminal, the old lynx browser is probably the most widely available and user-friendly client.

If you want a GUI, Skyjake's Lagrange browser is beautiful and available for Linux, Mac, and Windows: https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange
Yeah, in fact for me the trust in a banking system (or anything else that keeps my money) is not in being in control, but in knowing that if things go wrong (regardless of whether it's someone else's fault or my own) I can complain and have a more or less realistic expectation to get my money back. For example, my main credit card was used fraudulently a couple of times, through no fault of my own (AFAIK), but the bank rolled back the charges, cancelled the card and issued a new one. This makes me trust using the card.

In the last few years, at least in my country, many banks seem to be transitioning from "patchy security, but take responsibility" to "better security, but blame the client". I.e., they add lots of mandatory over-the-top 2FA, etc. but if a client complains of a transfer they didn't make, surely it's the client's fault, because security is really good. This makes me trust such banks much less. Firstly, because even being a tech-savvy user that doesn't typically fall for scams, etc., nobody is perfect and I don't think anyone is 100% free of making a security blunder in a moment of being sleep deprived, ill, drunk, etc. And secondly, because what if they get hacked somehow and they make me responsible? No, I very much prefer worse security but listening to clients.

Similarly, in crypto, "your keys, your coins" doesn't give me trust. What if I lose my keys somehow? In the bank, they know who I am, as long as I have a means of ID I can get my money. And as you mention, even if the bank fails, the government has my back.

For all these reasons, while I do hold some crypto, I'd never keep a significant portion of my assets in that form.
What if we edit HTML without CMS
A massively collaborative, open platform where anyone can participate and create anything.
Desperate people will work for desperate wages. That's not ethical, let alone for the richest country in the world. As a Frenchman, I'd suggest American people should get a bit more used to unions and strikes. It's not like the French system is fair, but it's a lot fairer. You can roll your eyes and think "it couldn't happen here, that's not how we do things", but every habit starts somewhen.
from the article "In one of many spins on the day's failures.."

I stopped reading there, the author has a clear bias against SpaceX. Expectations and what "success" meant for the test were set well in advanced from multiple sources.
Congrats and going for a change. I think if more people did this the world would be a better place :)
It's effectively the same. Monarchy isn't a king ruling over lords, it's a king balancing the interests of the lords so that they continue to grant him his kingship. A king who fails to balance this properly can easily lose his head. Monarchies are just disguised oligarchies, and e.g. Fascist Germany was no different - Hitler had to balance the interests of the various groups against each other enough so as not to lose his head, which in the end completely failed at the toll of millions dead.

A government "controlling" megacorps also need to balance these megacorps & other mega-influencers so that no one group becomes too powerful and too dissatisfied enough to overturn the current ruling system. Megacorps like Google obviously have plenty of tools at their disposal even in a democracy with "fair & free & secure elections" via shadow-banning, increasing prices/costs, curtailing suggestions, labeling disinformation, decreasing visibility, etc., to attempt to sway public opinion sufficiently to cause a desirable election outcome. This is before even attempting to actually sway elections via election rigging, ballot stuffing, etc., or bypass elections entirely through some sort of pseudo-paramilitary action (e.g. coup).

Of course, the more blatant these actions become, the more the interests of the other important influences can come into play (e.g. if Google ever did attempt a paramilitary coup, they would need heavy support elsewhere to ensure the military or the States didn't stop it), whereas Google shadow-banning certain political views can go largely ignored if it's not perceived by the public to matter much.
Browser makers don't seem to really want people interacting with non-web stuff from the web, or extending web capabilities with desktop apps, as that reduces your dependence on them. Still, there are some ways to do it. Firstly, the much more common need is to log in to SSO services, not act as an auth provider. OAuth is kind of messy but can be done and Conveyor makes it easy to register URL handlers, there's a demo of how to package the GitHub Desktop electron app here [1] which uses "Sign in with GitHub". One feature we've considered adding is doing "Sign in with ..." for you, so you don't need to use OAuth libs, your app starts and there's a logged in token in an env var already.

To extend the web from a desktop app there are a few ways to do it. Chrome extensions offer native messaging [2]. By pairing a desktop app with an extension you can have the minimal logic needed in the extension to bridge between your app and the page. But you have to get the user to install the extension manually, as Chrome will try to block apps doing it for you.

Another way for credentials specifically is to use SSL client certificates. They were designed specifically to let you log in to services with cryptographic keys. There's a discussion of the extinct <keygen> tag running elsewhere on HN right now. The app can generate a client certificate, get it signed by some authority, and install it into the user's key store. Now browsers should use it automatically when challenged by a server (except maybe Firefox?). You have to pay attention to how it's used to avoid bad browser UX, e.g. you'd have to use an XMLHttpRequest to ensure you control error handling if the cert is missing. But this is one way to make phishing harder, for example (there is no password for the user to type in).

Another way is to use loopback connections, but that's not ideal.

Ultimately, yes, the web is controlled by the Chrome team and they want you to only write Chrome apps. If you name your project "web3" you have to accept that it's kind of meaningless because you're not Chrome so your views and ideas don't matter, in the end. That's why it never made sense to me and I didn't work on it. In the early days it made a bit more sense because the Ethereum guys tried to make a custom browser called Mist using Electron, but they gave up and did a talk/blog post on why they burned out on it [3].

In the end I concluded the web just isn't a good proving ground for experimental or new ideas.

[1] https://hydraulic.software/blog/8-packaging-electron-apps.ht...

[2] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/nativeMessa...

[3] https://avsa.medium.com/sunsetting-mist-da21c8e943d2
I don't know if the text editor "holds it back entirely" to such an extent as to make it "not ready for mainstream", but definitely is a pain in the ass. I didn't even know adding text to an image could be made so complicated and buggy until I started using Krita.
And then some US states could decide whether to require placement of the Blockchain ID on the front bumper.

(Ah yes, states, the laboratories of democracy in our federalist system.)

> The phrase "laboratories of democracy" is often attributed to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, who served on the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939. In a dissenting opinion in the case of New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann (1932), Brandeis wrote:

> "It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country."

(the previous two paragraphs via ChatGPT 3.5., verified by me)

I would like to add the preceding sentence in the above quote from Brandeis’ dissent because it gives more context:

> “To stay experimentation in things social and economic is a grave responsibility. Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.”
Yes, that's my point. WASM is new. So why does it not just have strong cryptographic functions from the very beginning? Strong random generators are super important today. Why don't they just demand strong crypto functions in every implementation? I mean, this calls just for endless troubles, if you don't can trust a random generator in WASM (depending on the implementation).
There’s some sort of formula the IRS has for a percentage of income you need to claim in tips to keep them happy. Probably isn’t as important anymore than in the 90s when I was living with a waitress who I learned this stuff from who got almost all her tip money in cash, credit card tips get reported on the payslips.

As an aside, I used to watch in pure wonderment when she would do laundry or need money for something and go through her dirty clothes easily pulling a couple hundred dollars out of pockets.
Remove "online" from your sentence and the sentence will still be true.
I would imagine lobbying to enact a higher barrier to entry through regulation to reduce potential entrants to an existing market.