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How does DOI interact with blockchain? I did a quick Google search and didn’t find much (lots of mismatches against “DAO”). Does DOI need blockchain for any legit reasons, like provenance?

I’m no blockchain evangelist in its current state of “value” but this seems like a great test case for resolving the academic or legitimate origin of published material.

Sounds like the LLMs may be hiding something up there, likely a monolith of sorts?

This is just ad copy/white paper with a clickbait title

My guess would be, actually a very small number of people think he’s the antichrist. Why would anyone other than someone with decades of operating system passion even care who this guy is? They know he’s a rich guy. Big deal. I’d guess most people just live their lives and don’t care about Microsoft monopoly or FOSS or anything. The same can probably be said for his altruism—most people probably have no idea.

Current state is temporary. What’s coming next is organic, living code. Think less testing, more self-healing. Digital code microphages.

Soon our excitement over CICD and shipping every minute will look very naive. There’s a future coming where every request execution could be through a different effective code path/base.

I’m working on https://dropbag.co (fyi, not optimized for mobile web yet)

It’s a service for endurance athletes to configure nutrition packs to be available along the course at aid stations.

Right now it’s just a cool tool to build the bags based on your nutrition goals. I’m still doing a lot of outreach to race directors to get an opportunity to pilot the distribution of bags at an event.

I mean, I see what you're doing there. But it is more of a fallacy of language to get to accusing me of rationalizing human slavery. So that is a bit crappy.

Again, "the economy" is just supply/demand. "The economy" exists with or without humans. Animals are subject to natural resources around them. A human living "freely" in the forest is subject to it.

What you did in your later lines was fulfill my exact original recommendation to OP -- they are not talking about "slave to the economy", they are talking about "slave to the slave masters who manipulate our economy to a greater extent than we have resources to overcome".

It's all semantics, but phrases like "slave to the economy" come off as something a 13-year-old shouts after seeing a couple pop-psych youtube vids.

Probably not "incredibly stupid"

But, "the economy" is generally just a descriptor for what people need/want, and what they're willing to do for it.

A phrase like "slaves of the economy", with the implication that someone should be entitled to escape that condition, is about as ridiculous as thinking you are a "slave to nutrients" or a "slave to oxygen" or any other physical constraint. You can't escape it; you have to eat--what are you willing to do to get food?

However, what I think you're probably more upset about, and what you probably should instead be phrasing it as, is economic manipulation. That is something that can legitimately be unjust. Power and information are some tools to manipulate or benefit from economic conditions to a greater extent than others, and therefore have more boats or leisure time or political positions (or food or N95 masks or jobs etc etc)

but FAC at SpoCo would be AWESOME with 500k people. Like how do you even make that many Jello shots?

Iowa City has great aspects. New Pioneer Co-Op: having spent more life afterwards in Boulder, CO, I can safely say IC still holds the prize for ideal progressive food grocery option in the US (admittedly I haven’t been to Portland, and imagine they might compete). Prairie Lights is cool and all but I’d rather be at The Strand. Or Goblin Market or Samdmeyer’s in Chicago. Or Old Town in Stockholm.

Iowa City starts feeling small VERY quickly. The winters are cold. There are no amazing natural areas for activity. Downtown is getting more sterile every year (circa 20 years ago).

University of Iowa is a great example of a University scene, but if you are not a student or professor, you’ll quickly bump up against the guardrails of small town US economics.

Like others here, I use it to code (no longer a professional engineer, but keep side projects).

As soon as LLMs were introduced into the IDE it began to feeling like LLM autocomplete was almost reading my mind. With some context built up over a few hundred lines of initial architecture, autocomplete now sees around the same corners I am. It’s more than just “solve this contrived puzzle” or “write snake”. It combines the subject matter use case (informed by variable and type naming) underlying the architecture and sometimes produces really breathtaking and productive results. Like I said, it took some time but when it happened, it was pretty shocking.

Researchers are doing all kinds of cognitive studies on how birds (and other animals) use tools. Has anyone looked into the potential impacts (good and bad) for wide scale introduction of proven tools for use by other animals?

Off the top of my head, if a tool is made of plastic for example, we’d be littering our environments with questionable trash.

But conceptually, what’s the downside to leave a huge pile of defensive materials like bird spikes in the forest to help promote nest health?

Stopping short of given them weapons of course. (Shout out to the other comment about training animals to dismantle barbed wire.)

“Store of value”

To the moon.

Still grateful HN has enough crypto rationalists to push back on pyramid scheme noise.

Crypto could be useful — let’s build crypto apps with customer value.

Right now the customers are morally ambiguous nation states and criminals laundering money into real estate and back into fiat currency. Hold the bag.

Has the dollar been hacked?

“Bitcoin has never been hacked”

Don’t have to hack crypto to steal all the crypto.

My read on past studies is that one area of muscle mass loss that is problematic is around the heart.

Obviously it’s not a problem if an obese person’s quads shrinks 2x because they lift 2x weight every day.

Has the dollar been hacked?

Currency is not a “thing”—it is a promise. We invest in promises, whether currency, stock, etc.

Just did, mind blown. I didn't know "parasitic brooding" was a thing in any animals, but totally makes sense.

As always, the HN collective helps my brainspace and experience of the world grow a bit.

Edit: I’ll pay it forward with another one: my favorite fact about bluejays is their evolved mimicry of hawks’ screams, to scare away other birds.

We recently got a bird feeder with an attached camera (wifi-connected). I had always dabbled in bird watching, but this surprisingly took me to another level. I now feel protective of my local birds as if they were a pet like a dog. And I recognize them day after day.

My favorite bird before was the cardinal because of its amazing color and song.

Now, with the camera, I have realized the incredible intelligence and personality of woodpeckers. They are my new favorite.

The Cornell BirdLab app is another essential tool for appreciating how much life is around (at least in my region). It feels like a cheat code and has also helped me fall in love with a visually mild bird, the Brown Cowbird.

Always remember, only 31% of eligible voters voted for the current administration. 69% either disagree, or didn’t vote.

If the current administration doesn’t prove their value, the people will start to have a say in another 2 years at the house level.

The fact that the entries are still there is also fascinating. No one awake in D.C. to login and delete the entries?

John Prine’s song “Lake Marie” is a great song and story of a lake and its name.

Bob Dylan ranks it as his favorite Prine song.

Of course, I’d be happy to! That would be something in contrast to all the fortunate, welcomed, gleeful, and celebrated deaths we hear about frequently in Western news and experience in our own personal lives.

Instances where people are not ready to go, sorrowful, regretful, spiteful, guilty, etc.

I don’t want to trivialize the positive aspects this can have on someone who otherwise might have a sad or challenging death, and to that extent perhaps it’s just an evolved mechanism to make us accept death more gracefully.

But if you’ve ever stayed awake for many days or had other hallucinogenic experiences, you’ll know how powerfully thoughts can manifest. And how deep our memory actually goes. Clearly it’s inappropriate to vividly see your memories during waking life, but as you transition to death those barriers are less necessary as the body diverts increasingly scarce resources to surviving just a few moments longer.

UX is already working on this. AI as a first-class persona that can be deliberately designed for and accommodated. APIs and protocols are way too strict. Think HTML and black Times New Roman on white backgrounds from the old days. Clear information (text) and activation options (hyperlink) are all it needs.

don’t forget kitchen timers! besides music, a top 3 use case is being able to ask for a timer when your hands are messy with ingredients or loaded with a dish going into the oven.

we tried the Alexa/Home lighting solutions this last year and it gets so annoying to ask every morning to turn the lights on. even worse when one of the bulbs drops from the network or the wifi is down.

Would be interesting to get an AI take on the other side, what is the most likely range that the US stands to gain from this action?

After that, why don’t we just have these two AIs game theory it out with each other? They seem to have a more objective and holistic incentive structure than former TV celebrities and career politicians.

that’s super interesting. Is there such thing as an “archive browser” similar to a Tor browser? like you described, as soon as you get indexed you’ve got theoretically eternal free hosting.

an archive browser would be like traversing a 4D web, time and space. I’m down if other people think that’s cool

This is very cool. The Aaron Swartz piece is powerful.

I just came from a funeral. We all leave digital footprints, some more than others and some more intentionally than others. But it is still so transient relative to the longevity of the human race.

We have things like clock of the long now or whatever, but we really don’t have much that will stand as physical documentation of individuals. And the Terracotta Army is a really interesting analog to something like everyone having their own homepage memorialized forever.

What will have a longer lifespan: the archive.org data set or the Terracotta Army?

I totally agree with basically all that. I’m at an age where video games quickly bore me (totally respecting people who enjoy them), but I also have had some profound VR experiences that make me believe there is a moral imperative to create experiences for people to see what life is like in other peoples’ shoes, and travel to places they otherwise couldn’t, and to learn new things and concepts in ways we couldn’t before.

Your comment made me think something like, “People of VR”