skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People don't care about tokens, they care about all the other assets that blockchain enthusiasts are always talking about tokenizing like houses, art, land-deeds, shipping containers etc etc.

You were talking about smart contracts. My answer was about smart contracts I've seen deployed - things like the lighting network and Ethereum's ICO's. If you are saying using the blockchains to manage land-deeds will never work, well maybe you are right. As far as I am aware using a blockchain to directly manage the things you mention hasn't been made to work yet, and to be honest I don't see how it could be made to work.

But using a block chain indirectly to control some of these things seems possible. That's what Ethereum ICO's endeavour to do, and perhaps out there is an ICO out there that works now (I haven't been following). If so it works via the mechanism I described. The ICO turns the "thing" being controlled (CPU Cycles, storage, or whatever) into a tradable commodity which is another way it the flow of the commodity is controlled by money. As you must be aware successful virtual currencies control the flow of money, which in turns means they can be used to control the flow of the commodity. Smart contracts control flow of virtual currencies. QED - smart controls can control commodities.

None of this depends on governments, guns or violence. Instead it depends on there being a market. The reason the value in the virtual currency is secure is because there are lots of people willing to pay for it. The reason purchasing CPU Cycles is secure is because there are lots of people willing to sell you CPU cycles and so a vendor doesn't deliver CPU cycles the customers just move on, the vendor dies but the market continues on happily.

How this could be extended to land-deeds is, as you say, difficult to imagine. But claiming this means "Smart contracts are DOA" is just plain wrong - they work for lots of things, just not the examples you happened to be thinking about.
In order to reduce the likelihood my child is victimized online by questionable corporate behavior, I've redirected facebook.com to infowars.com in /etc/hosts.
The Grid.

I heard about it two years ago and recommend it often.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/The-Grid

https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Best-Books-2016
> love and appreciate

Normal people don't talk like that about connector sockets.
Reading Microsoft stories on Forbes.com is like reading about Slenderman on a site run by 9 yo girls. All rumors are true and the end is coming in 45 minutes unless we freak out about it enough.
There is an unofficial implementation for it.

https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
I really like the Thinkpad’s trackpoint if I must use a portable. If I can use a full,ergonomic desktop, the Logitech Marble Mouse is fantastic and cheap.
I would imagine an act is not a crime till it is investigated by investigators or tried in court. Everything you hear now a days is "allegedly" because no one wants to be definitive and then get sued for libel in the chance they are wrong.

Perfect example. Nicholas Cruz
..just googling and picking an article.

"Cruz is accused of gunning down students and teachers in various classrooms at the school in Parkland on February 14, in one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history."

Why is he accused? We all know he did it. Why not say "Cruz gunned down..."? This is after he confessed to it, after security footage was reviewed.
Am I missing out by only knowing C# and JavaScript
All peripheral knowledge and technologies aside I really only know C# and JavaScript.

People on Hacker News seem to know a lot of different languages and it has me wondering if I am not as good of a developer because I only know those two languages.

I do need to take a second to point out the obvious. I've had exposure to a lot of different languages and technologies but I only consider myself proficient in C# and JavaScript.
Wiretapping the Secret Service can be easy and fun [video]
35% is higher than I would have guessed but not out of bounds of my expectations. Also like a typical New Yorker I'm completely ignoring Staten Island. In terms of commuting patterns and geography it would make more sense to unify PATH with the subway, make Hoboken a borough, and cede SI to NJ in exchange.
Realistically, a home built drone could be using anything for comms, including the civilian mobile networks or wifi band. Coupled with a tracking directional antenna, such a setup would be very difficult to detect or jam.
Well, that is a rather well discussed matter, going back to at least Simon Kuznets.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=problems%20with%20gdp&b...
Knowing multiple business owners who have complained about remote employees faking hours, installing mouse simulators to trick time tracking software, etc, I'm not particularly sympathetic.
Here is a comparison of `asyncio` (Python), `async` (Ruby) and Go: https://github.com/socketry/async-await/tree/master/examples...

I wrote a similar article but for Ruby: https://www.codeotaku.com/journal/2018-06/asynchronous-ruby/...

Yes, it's a good model for many use cases.

One thing I wondered about Ruby, is it really necessary to have the `await` keyword?
If you only defend the speech of people you agree with, you are against free speech and a free society.
The problem is the delivery mechanism. Charging is always going to be a bottleneck, unless we invent mass production supercapacitors on the order of what graphene promised (which is seems to be highly unlikely). Edit: even with supercapacitors, the amperage required seems unlikely.

Assuming self-parking as a baseline (although it's not strictly required), cars would be able to position themselves over an automated battery pack replacement station. Replacing the discharged pack could take less time than a petroleum refuel, so EVs could be more convenient than petroleum vehicles (any replacement technology should offer more benefits than what it replaces).

The station could then move the pack underground for recharging. This underground area would have much higher density compared to cars (where batteries are, what, 10% of the volume?). In addition, dead packs could be identified and scheduled for pickup and recycling.

The first problem that most people would bring up is: replacing a worn pack with a new one. This problem actually turns out to be an advantage: disclose the mileage of the pack and allow the customer to pay less for it. I don't need a 300mi pack if I'm just going 5mi to work. This way, more useful lifetime can still be extracted from old packs while turning the recycling problem into a logistically simpler problem (no more complicated than delivering petroleum to fuel stations).

The only real problem with this is the clamping mechanism between the car and the pack. It would need to be standardized. Reliability: mechanical systems fail - it's the undercarriage of the car, there's dust and other particulate getting in the way.
"Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge" is my favorite work by Karl Popper. His 1945 work on the Paradox of Tolerance seems more appropriate here.
Twitter is under no obligation to provide him that platform.
I find the analogy between free speech (which he has, literally can say whatever he wants) and a platform being obligated to distribute _everyone’s_ content bizarre.

Does a newspaper publish everyone’s comments? If I call you and ask you to repeat what I say to ten friends will you do it?

Alex jones’s right to talk garbage != his “faux-right” to have platforms publish it.
> not being asked which app I want to open a link in all the time

Huh? Just tap "always use this app", you can the default later if you want. That button is right there every time :-)
To me, the crux of the problem is how the platforms see themselves, vs. how many in media and the informed general public see them.

The informed general public opinion seems to be that Facebook and Twitter have mainstream media-level responsibility, i.e., with great distribution, comes great power, comes great responsibility. They are akin to newspapers in a way in this view, and have a responsibility to only promote reasoned perspectives.

Facebook and Twitter, on the other hand, seem to see themselves more like a grocery store magazine rack, which have carried a wide variety of magazines including conspiratorial BS like the National Enquirer for years without any controversy whatsoever.

These two positions seem to be at loggerheads and operating on completely different planes.
And Hacker News!!
Though I can't be sure, I think a big reason for his retirement had to do with the Two Minutes Hate he was subjected to at the hands of the Internet Outrage Machine. PG has always had a knack for being misunderstood, and I think disappearing from the spotlight was his way of making sure that problem didn't hurt YC.

Unfortunately for you and me, that means no more great essays. It's kind of funny because, in retrospect, "What You Can't Say" almost prophesied how this all went down; his only mistake was not seeing the storm coming.
I have no idea if this comment is satire.
Could you explain exactly how blockchains allow societies to create ideas? I'm not sure how append only lists allow idea sharing in ways a database does not.
Genuine question... how is whatsapp a social website vs just a chat application? Perhaps I've missed something critical about it but the way I've used it and seen anyone else use it is just as a replacement for SMS
The problem here is that the project was made public for others to use/view. If someone wants to do a private project that impacts no-one else, it is then completely up to them as to whether they continue or not as it their choice.

However, when one starts a project and says "look at me and the fabulous stuff I am doing" then it does not show them in a good light when they give up because they are now in the drudge work.

In a public situation, they are essentially saying that they are not worth their hire when the normal drudge work starts. I can understand stepping back from a project for all sorts of reasons, except for the reason that it is hard work to continue because drudgery.

Most of the work that most of us have to do is not exciting, not learning new things, not even interesting. It is just drudgery that needs to be done to get to the eventual goal that we started with. This is life.

The thing is that even drudgery work can be viewed in a very positive light if we continue to see it as essential for the final goal we started with. We will see the need for it and we work willingly towards the completion of it for the purpose of what we will achieve in the end.

The journey is a part of the destination and it is an essential part of the whole process. A journey without a destination and a destination without a journey are both meaningless without the other. Both are the two sides of each other.
I'll bite. How on Earth does blockchain in any way improve social media? Even an ounce?
They won’t ban a world leader and it’s unreasonable to expect them to.
The Economics of Science Fiction
Those are not the conventionally understood definitions of web 1 and 2. 1 is about bringing massive audiences to conventional publishing. 2 is about democratizing the creator pool and welcoming p2p and ucg. I have no idea what you mean by societies.
I’m stealing this tip and propagating it.
How much review does 'cperciva do of the source code and build-dependencies that are copied to the air-gapped machine, which presumably originate from internet-connected machines?

I verify that the source code being compiled is the source code which is published in a signed tarball. Yes, someone could have tampered with the internet-connected system where I do Tarsnap development, but their tampering would be visible in the source code.

Build dependencies are verified to be the packages shipped by Debian. If someone has tampered with the Debian gcc package, we've lost even without Tarsnap binary packages.

Also, how secure is the kernel on the air-gapped machine against malicious filesystems on the USB stick? (If it's running Linux, the answer is almost certainly "not;" I could imagine FreeBSD is better but I don't know how much people have explored that.)

I don't use a filesystem on the USB stick I use for sneakernet, for exactly this reason -- I write and read files to it using tar. (Yes, you can write to a USB stick as a raw device just like you would write to a tape drive.)
Wow that guy got a lot of responses quick, I feel trolled.
Concur all around. I think I’m down about 10% range in 3.5 years. Other family members own 3 different Smart electric drives and they’re down only 2-4% in the same timeframe. (Those cars have liquid cooled batteries, which appears to dramatically reduce long-term range loss.)
Everyone's moved to WhatsApp and IG these days. If you know asians, WeChat is also very strong. People are just moving on.
IM is honestly the number 1 social media right now. Its real communication with people you actually care about and not a popularity contest or marketing and no algorithm trying to tell you what you should be looking at.
One more thing that I'm not sure I understand.

Since I'll need an _acme-challenge.* PER-DOMAIN, doesn't this just move the goalpost to setting up the CNAME records (instead of TXT records directly), assuming my current registrar doesn't support wildcard CNAME entries?

If I'm understanding DNS 01 ACME challenges correctly, to register two subdomains first.one.example.com and second.one.example.com, I need to set up TWO TXT records, _acme-challenge.first.one.example.com and _acme-challenge.second.one.example.com. This means I need two CNAME records (or one if wildcards were enabled)...

I do thank you for your input, thinking about this has lead me to the possibility of just running my own nameserver all-together, I'm going to evaluate all these approaches and see how they pan out, and write a blog post to share.
Dan, Remote in asia okay?
No, different rules apply for world leaders.

Their position on Jones is that he hasn’t broken their ToS on their platform, but they will ban him if he does.
>Nobody really thinks humans have the ability to wipe out all life on Earth do they?

'all life on earth' as in down to microorganisms, amoeba etc? No, I would hope not. Short of wiping out the atmosphere in it's entirety, PLUS destroying the surface of the entire earth do an as-yet-unknown depth sufficient to reach every existing colony of microorganisms etc, humanity's destructive abilities don't extend that far, yet.

But do humans have the ability to wipe out all sophisticated life on earth i.e. all plants, mammals, fish, and so on such to turn the clock back on a few billion years of evolution? Yeah I certainly believe that's within our abilities, and indeed likely if current activities continue uninterrupted.
https://themysteriousworld.com/10-highest-flying-birds-in-th...
I think that's very good, to be honest.
ok, thanks for the clarification. so if fermi and you are looking up at all the stars in the night sky and he says to you, "where is everyone??" you would say, "what do you mean? why would there be anyone out there?"

i don't think most people would have that intuition but it's fair.

drake's equation is a fun way to try to answer fermi. it seems you would assign n_e or f_1 a value close to 0
it's too many options, I don't want to have to choose and think which option I'm going to want more often as long as it works

If slightly more people had had that attitude in 1998, Apple would not exist today.
Yeah, I'd be shocked if the coordinated banning at other companies doesn't trigger a lawsuit. I'm sure it's in the ToS that they can ban you anytime for any reason though.

But still, where do you draw the line? Tons of hateful content on every platform.

The root problem is that blame and poor reasoning is still seductive to many people. If our first instinct was to ask "How do I know this is true?" until we got to something we could verify outside of the main source itself sensationalists wouldn't have quite the voice they do.
What sort of R&D needs to be accomplished for blockchain to hit the transformative stage? And how does it lead to web 3.0?
Instagram has a pretty craptastic UI itself. It's a pain in the ass to copy images from the web UI (Have to use the inspector to get the link) and the video player doesn't let you skip ahead or move back.
Tesla originally had a demo of this 'replace the pack under the car' method (called "Fast Pack Swap"; see: https://vimeo.com/68832891). But they seem to have backed off that idea, probably for a variety of logistical reasons.

I remember reading about an underground battery swap system in a 1980's electronics encyclopedia too, but it seems the barriers are too great for the size batteries needed for a good long-range EV.
Asking Twitter to enforce its rules fairly is not an attack on free speech.
Jamming is easy enough if the drone requires realtime active control, especially if it's on well known frequencies and modulations - but autonomous flight using GPS, 9DOF accelerometers/gyros/magnetometers, and computer vision - is all current hobby-grade reality.

The main reason those are not (yet?) being used for terror attacks is that the skill level required to pull that off is quite high, and the people planning terror attacks seem to find it easier to recruit suicide bombers than geeks.

If any of _these_ guys: http://ardupilot.org/about/team - got "radicalized", I suspect they'd be very difficult to defend against...
You've still got two complete power systems, electric and gasoline. The BMW i3 is available with a range extender option (a motorcycle engine with a generator), but it adds about $4,000 to the base price and significantly increases the servicing costs. That's not a dealbreaker on a $40,000 car, but it does become a significant issue if we're aiming to get EVs down to the price point of a Honda Civic.
Snap's UI is horrendous and it has nothing to do with ads. Kids can invest innumerable hours to find and utilize all the hidden ways to interact but your average adult is just going to do the basics and will put it down.

That's fine. Kids are often the market these social media companies target as they launch anyway.
Thanks for sharing! I've just made a landing page :)
https://sspipe.github.io/
It seems that everything was running just fine according to plan until Trump was elected and now there's a huge crusade to use all the technological might of Google, Facebook, etc to shut down whatever caused that to happen and save democracy. I hear a lot of technological luminaries in AI and technology saying the next most important thing that has to be done is to end "fake news". That big tech is hiring in AI to detect "hate". It's a Manhattan project to save the status quo!

Forget slaughterbots, or rogue AI, the real disruptive technology that is going to end the world and requires coordinated action by all the major players is Alex Jones with a social media account!

The media has been highly controlled since the broadcast era with a small oligopoly of federally licensed broadcasters allowed to conduct mass influence operations. Since the 1996 telecommunications act things have gotten more and more centralized till we have 5 companies that control 90% of media, so of course people are looking for other options.

Congrats to Twitter for being the least technologically adept company and thus being kind of garbage at censorship thus leading to them being the vanguard of free speech.
Are you working constant 80 hour weeks? Is everyone lying about big city costs? Or do you consider 3 housemates and a 2 hour commute to be not hurting for cash?

Something has to be up here.
It would be interesting for someone to perform such a study in the UK, which already has a near-perfect and near-complete data set of which schools made an offer to each student.

You wouldn't even need any data from the universities themselves:

- UCAS has the data for university offers and admissions (including subject studied)

- HMRC (UK equivalent of IRS) knows whether you were employed and how much you earned

If they were somehow allowed to join their data and then release a data set stripped of PII, which includes offers, acceptances and income over time, that would be super-useful for those who see choosing a university as primarily or partially a way to increase their future income.
If you read what Elon Musk wrote...he does not believe Tesla will be private in the long term. He believes the stock price is a distraction, and invites people to crap on, or harm the company because they are shorting it.

Public companies have pressure to perform every quarter, rather than focus on the long term goal. General Motors stopped reporting quarterly car sales (or monthly?) because it's a distraction. GM's focus, is actually electric vehicles and self driving cars.

Per Musk's announcement, once Tesla is stable, and producing at a constant rate with predictable growth...like Amazon like Berkshire Hathaway, like Starbucks, then he will consider making Tesla public again.

Interesting note...Tesla is worth more than GM.
>wish they had some way to make money

No one wants to pay for things anymore so what we have is a cycle of good tech that runs on investor money and makes none on it's own and then it gets sold to microsoft or whoever and they attempt to turn it in to something that makes money on it's own without charging for the service until everyone gets so sick of the product they move to the next new thing.
Ballot stuffing is a diagnosable problem. Electronics obfuscate. It's the principle that matters.
Exactly. Governments shouldn't be drawing these lines but someone needs to and corporations are a good choice. If people don't like it they can vote with their dollars. If companies make the wrong move their business will suffer, so they're incentivized to do the popular thing at least. If the wrong thing becomes popular to the majority, then we're all screwed anyway.
I have started writing blog posts on things I have gained technical expertise in. I have no audience so really I write for the hell of it, but I do announce it on my LinkedIn feed (but I have less than 100 connections).

There's also the fear that putting words in public opens me to criticism, if someone can think of a better way of doing things, if my mental (or worse, technical!) model is wrong. Someone may take it too far and it leaks onto my personal life. In reality I see far worse practices than mine at work every day, so I hope if someone stumbles onto my blog that they get value out of whatever they read. It's also published with hugo on GitHub pages, absolutely no ads, and I'm not selling anything - for me, the blog really is about giving back.

Lastly, time. Today I knocked out a blog post on a light topic in about an hour. No revisions, just finished writing it and hit publish. I thought of the topic over the weekend and today was just put a few short examples and write about them. I'm not positive that I was detailed enough, or my explanations are good enough, etc. So time is another big factor, unless you're willing to risk publishing mistakes due to lack of polish
I found it interesting when visiting south-east asia that many government style posters - such as reporting vandalism or unclean bathrooms - all had a WeChat number to contact as opposed to any sort of traditional telephone number.
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Only a small percentage of users buys stuff through Alexa, report claims
This is my thought too. Why do you have to assume that users are choosing a different platform as opposed to just not using their phone/computer?
There used to be a kext that would make Mac text fields respect vim keybindings. (Maybe there still is, but I've lost track of how to use kexts safely these days, or whether it's even possible.) I miss it terribly.
Not all potential graduates affected would have become mothers, so from that standpoint it’s not applicable to a significant portion of the graduating class.

But the real issue is the women were artificially denied an opportunity to decide by themselves.