skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only do you watch ads on cable, but they watch you watching ads (and shows) and then resell that information to better target more ads and so on.

We are paying data harvesters for the privilage of supplying them with the raw materials to make even more money.
> there are enough dictators and ultra rich people who don’t want to die

I mean, who does? That’s why people have invented a myriad coping mechanisms.

> I imagine that some of this research is being done in secret.

Maybe if that was an engineering problem... But we lack so much fundamental knowledge. It’s the same as saying someone is working on time travel device. Good movie plot, completely implausible.
I based my statement on that paragraph, since the mechanisms the article describes are clearly insufficient to ensure privacy when the participants collude. However the part only mentioned by name, PrivacyPass, uses blind signatures and thus might actually work.
> I loved Nim and considered it to be my second choice. But something pulled me off. Maybe the GC.

I was under the impression that the Nim GC was basically entirely optional. Is that not the case? They also added a bunch of other ways to get basically the same thing, did they not? I remember atomic reference counting and so on being presented as basically a drop-in way, but maybe I misunderstood.
Thank you for your answer. Personally, as a gamer the idea of cross game microtransactions and collectibles does not interest me. Minecraft skins are free and easy to create, you can make yourself look like Mario if you want, or anything else. The idea of putting that on the blockchain instead seems dystopian. On top of that, I’m pretty sure that Nintendo would never want to do such a thing.
What are the thresholds? Do I have to approve payment? If not, what happens when I land on a low-quality site that gamed SEO/titles/etc to capture my click and waste my time? Can I revoke payments?

In principle, I like this. But the devil is in the details. Patreon incentivizes pretty high quality content because creators need to convince patrons to jump through quite a few steps to contribute (perhaps too many). In the worst case scenario, Web Monetization could incentivize clickbait that steals focus and tries to cheat the `isActive()` algorithm as long as possible.
> I still don't understand though why Nim is not as popular as Go.

Young ecosystem, language still in flux, doesn't have name of big company.
You can take away future money by choosing better sites to access and building a list of good and bad sites to remember, or by adblocking and unblocking and paying on good sites.
I'm honestly not surprised. With the difficulty of learning online for many students, the resebtfullness resulting from still having to pay the same tuition for what are effectively online courses and added to that, the complete invasion of privacy and lack of trust these proctoring apps signal is enough to make any student cheat. Treat all students like the lowest common denominator and you'll get backlash. It's like a mini protest each individual can partake in.
The thing is businesses can not rebuild and move buildings quickly. When jobs disappear rents will go down. It seems impossible San Francisco could be the next Detroit but it’s actually not that improbable. There is just so much inertia keeping businesses from being able to move that they can’t or won’t. The actually physical cost to spent billions to build a headquarters but also the need to be closely located to other businesses that you will work with. Without this inertia you would see much more businesses leaving than are now, and there are more than ever leaving.
> Hopefully banks the world over will start to standardise their API's and we'll have access to more and more third party apps which can help people with their finances!

I got good news for you, Europe has already been working on a solution for this for a long time, finally coming to fruition now. Nordigen seems to be using PSD2 as well.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Services_Directive
India's Bitcoin Exchanges Breathe Sigh of Relief as Gov Reconsiders Crypto Ban
"As the Indian finance minister tones down the government's previous position that fuelled fears of a total crypto ban, India's crypto industry welcome the remarks as a sign that a regulatory framework is in the making."
I've been working on https://github.com/projectnessie/nessie for about a year now. Its similar to Dolt in spirit but aimed at big data/data lakes. Would welcome feedback from the community.

Its very exciting to see this field picking up speed. Tons of interesting problems to be solved :-)
I would also suggest donating only to non-profits that make
everything they do as open/transparent/public domain as
possible.

In my limited experience there seems to be a correlation between
an organization's productivity in solving their existential problem
and how open the org is.

The more
secretive the organization (and the less public domain content it produces) the more likely it spends a
significant amount of its resource on fundraising and cushy
salaries for its management.

Allen Institute, Wikimedia, Internet Archive, are examples where $1 in inputs leads to $100 in public domain output.
100% this.

SO much of what is considered "non-profit dysfunction" is a direct result of funders restricting donation utilization.

Only X% for opex, y% for capex, z% for comms, where x+y+z == around 5% of funds donated.

Can't run an organization like that well.
A rabbit hole. As I said.
Some specialty teas could use a gentle steep. You are right.

I like my method. Easy to use.

Bitterness is not inherent to tea. I don't accept this in teas.
Do you have stairs in your house?

I think the cost of moderation grows at a rate higher than revenue that can be earned in most cases.
Kudos to MacKenzie Scott for helping bring this issue to light with her massive unrestricted giving.
Can we also start hosing down rich white kids who drop out of rehab?
on chromebook with rockchip cpu and 4gb memory, handles c#, go, and dart project just fine
Maybe, among other things. We’re just scratching the surface there.
From what I've read, mining makes digital currency subject to control by governments that can subsidize or even monopolize the mining process. So a mining-free currency might be closer to the dream of a currency that is not subject to government manipulation. That's assuming a different technology doesn't just expose a different hack.
Here's the maths:

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4940236
https://ergodicityeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/ergo...
What rights do you actually have in a tweet?

Which of those rights are actually transferable?

What rights do you have in a tweet that you made in your capacity as an employee of a company?

What rights do twitter as a company have with respect to tweets? Or to impose restrictions on the ability of people to transfer rights with respect to tweets?
> As someone living in the European Union I'd be extremely surprised if bitcoin isn't taxed/regulated to death within 1-2 years here.

The EU has no fiscal competence, this is left to the individual states.

I don't think much Bitcoin mining is done in the EU? Much of the EU has the most expensive electricity in the world.

From a fiscal point of view the taxation of cryptocurrencies depends on each nation. Many have already decided, by law, how to tax Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. For example in Portugal if I'm not mistaken Bitcoin is considered a currency and gains made on currencies are not taxed. In other countries it's considered capital gains. Etc.

None of it is harmonized.

The EU simply doesn't have the authority at the moment when it comes to fiscal matters (it's the same for taxes on cars, gold, jewelry, whatever).

The EU probably can issue a rule banning mining using proof of work in the EU that'd then have to be translated into national laws: but I don't think that'd change anything.

Banning mining in China, however... That one would probably have consequences.
Cool project but I think he's still right - you normally don't want GC on your microcontroller and often you don't want heap allocations at all. Very difficult to write Go with those constraints.
Sounds like a DIY of the Photonic Sentry.
> Is there a way to pause or speed up/increase or whitelist sites with this tool/process? This will 100% cause scammers to find ways to abuse this system just like scammy ad-filled sites, and there seems little point of contributing if your money will go towards building a new scamming industry.

You can manually stop the extension on scammy websites, and it only works when the page is open and active, and stops when you go idle. For the money involved (subscriptions are $5 USD/month, and you get less than $0.46/ active hour of use), and the hassle ( to withdraw money from a wallet you need to prove your identity), i don't think abuse will be very profitable.
Official Girl Scout Cookies Power Ratings
In the US, you can look up every single non-profit's finances.

The 990 form has almost everything you would want, though, not line-item level of detail.

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/tax-exempt-organiz...
All you have to do is gain a few hundred feet of elevation on a hike and watch the horizon.
How can I see a list of banks I can actually connect to in each country?

Ps. This looks great, and I will try it out, if my bank in Denmark supports it/is supported. :)
Yeah because it is no longer notable to be using Rust. It is notable to be using Zig.
> Wikipedia asks for money once a year

if once == "allYearLong" { clapYourHands() }

I don't think that I've opened a Wikipedia page in months, that didn't have a beg header.

But, to be fair, I do consider it a valuable resource; especially as a way to direct people with different language requirements to a common definition, and begfests are better than ads (as long as they don't get too intrusive, as some PBS stations get).
That’s a rather uncharitable interpretation.

Another interpretation would be “expert in field that uses maths technique a lot critiques use of that technique in field that uses it less frequently”.

Empirically that’s useful, eg physicists often make substantial contributions to economic models/math.
https://www.worldfinance.com/strategy/why-gdp-is-no-longer-t...

I'm not a big fan of single-number evaluations. Especially for such a huge country.

Then there's Godharts's Law : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
You’d need to manufacture bodies first, since the ones we have aren’t supposed to work beyond 80-90 years, on average.
It seems that people mistakenly cry 'censorship!' when most of the time cancel culture is really plain moderation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderation
I think it could work if web browsers standardized on some crypto to mine, maybe one like Ethereum where you can pay for distributed code to be run, and you could easily give some to websites you visit.
90 million a year is an inflated expenditure for the most productice website to ever exist? Its an absolute pittance, that the turnover of a midsized bakery chain!

Would you care to backup this outrageous claim by demonstrating similarly popular website, awash with content, that spends less?
This. 100% this.
> How about a test that fakes that body part which receives sensory data and triggers a response? Perhaps it can lead to the same results as having a real brain! /s

You're joking, but this "fake brain" would be an AGI, and building an AGI has many active fields of research and development around it. Of course most of these fields don't care about perfectly replicating human brains and embodying such artificial minds, because it's just extra work, and building a mind without a body is already hard enough.
Everybody who wants a copy already has one for free, that's what "publicly accessible" means.
HomeKit makes IKEA’s cheap buttons and motion sensors much more powerful
> So a less misleading headline might be: Couples that refuse relationship counselling have higher divorce rates. But that would surprise noone.

Relationship counseling is delegating responsibility for your relationship to a third party. Or, in most cases, transferring blame for your psychological shortcomings to your spouse via a faux neutral third party.

(I don't doubt that there are good counselor, but they are probably even rarer than good psychologists.)
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/bullshit
I don't disagree about any of what you said here in isolation, but I'm not sure that the complaints that the author has stem from Rust being inherently more popular.

Sure, adding features is generally a sign that you're trying to capture/retain users (I recently learned that weak equality operators were added to JavaScript for this exact reason and Brendan Eich regrets it *a lot*), but at the same time it feels like things could be more cohesive than they are.

But yeah, I agree that hype trains lose momentum when things become more common. With that said, I don't really feel like Rust is popular/common enough to lose hype. Basically no one uses it in production in comparison to the obvious alternatives and it'd be a bit odd for it to lose hype so soon.
> So, calm down—Dr. Seuss hasn’t been “canceled.”

This talking point keeps getting repeated over and over online in what I assume is an attempt to downplay "cancel culture" and portray mostly conservatives and concerned liberals as knee-jerk reactionaries. However, Dr. Seuss got dropped from Read Across America Day despite the annual tradition of him being included.[1] Many schools have said they're not technically "banning" Dr. Seuss, just not talking about him much anymore.[2] And online bookstores and resellers have made some of his books forbidden and have exercised their power to deem some of his images offensive or not.[3]

It's unclear what the status of Dr. Seuss will be in a year from now, but it's not hard to imagine his very name becoming just toxic enough not to bother with. This is textbook cancelation. Yet any attempt to point out that this is how it begins is routinely given dismissive "slippery slope fallacy, bro" type arguments. Yes, we know Dr. Seuss Enterprises can protect its IP and not publish whatever they like. Not the issue at hand. We're talking about a slow (or not so slow) reframing of the author's entire reputation. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's also ok to be a frog in the water and wonder out loud whether the temperature is rising and we might get boiled someday.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-joe-biden-break-dr-seuss...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/01/us/loudoun-county-public-scho...

[2] https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-seuss-books-deemed-offensive...
> most of the time cancel culture is really plain moderation

Most moderation ends with people losing their jobs? Really?
He Got $300k from Credit-Card Rewards. The IRS Said It Was Taxable Income
Measuring Angle and Distance with Your Thumb
I wouldn't donate to universities in general. The have growing endowments which they don't spend. It also adds the income inequality in the US, you are essentially donating to the education of rich people.

Note that PG talks about non-profits not schools.
Elections are how you control where your tax money goes.

Micro-earmarks by voters would create enormous imbalances. Police get so much money for equipment that they can’t spend it all, while public defenders go unfunded.
In any case, if you use an ad blocker, which you absolutely should, the ads don't impact you

That is already the status quo. The entire premise of this article is that web monetization will reduce the actual ads. It changes nothing if I still have to use my ad blocker. I don't think and but avery small minority of content creators will actually reduce their ads, and these might in any case be the people who are already very conscious of and respectfully of their consumers' privacy.
Proof of Slime. I can see the headlines now: Sunk Cost - Blobchain Miner Cracks Foundation in Massive Slime Spill
I prefer innovation over prohibition.
> a bottlenose dolphin with a hagfish stuck in its blowhole

ugh ugh ugh
Yes, but until then, the dam is still leaking like a sieve, and any hole that can be plugged needs to be plugged.
If the problem is that languages don't have enough adoption, then spreading people out over even more languages is the opposite of useful.
This reminds me of the time I looked over at my friend's stereo in his room at uni. "Why's it saying 'nod 15c'?" I enquired, utterly genuinely?
Indeed, that happened in the state where I grew up. When they started the state lottery, it was with the promise that the money would be spent on "education." Sure enough, the lottery money went to the education fund, and the contribution from the general fund was reduced by the same amount.
Wikimedia? last time they were on HN there was a discussion about how only a tiny fraction of their donations go to Wikipedia and the rest is used for other pet projects most people wouldn't necessarily care about. I think the conclusion was that wikimedia exists to grow bigger and ask for more donations not necessarily to be good stewards of said donations.

Otherwise wouldn't they be trying to create an endowment that keeps the lights perpetually on at Wikipedia without Jimmy needing to beg every year?
In covid times, I'm finding it much much easier to breathe while running because off the mask. Seems to keep the breath both warmer and more moist.
I suspect a lot of people didn't realize how much power was being used for bitcoin.

New information should ideally get people to re-evaluate their initial opinions about something (ideally).
Twitter is worth and spends billions but wikipedia should run on fumes? Are people here collectively insane?
Can you explain in your opinion how mining is a "destructive activity" yet before there were plenty of other "destructive activity".

Money is destructive, period. And plastic.
Wikimedia used to produce an amazing amount of value with only a tiny budget.

Lately it's budget has gone up by a factor of 100x, and its usefulness/impact has stayed pretty much the same.

Either is was amazing value for money before, or it's a waste of money now. Or both.
Thank for the disclosure.

1. Are there legitimate safe spaces for people who like friction? Or are they only for people who LARP as Don Draper and Jordan Belfort?

2. How was/is cheating in this sense addressed in print advertisements?

3. This makes sense, but I think the alternative would call for more friction and ethical data collection/sharing on behalf of personalization.

4. The last sentence was the most helpful. Who is the "network" in question?

(Now for my disclosure: If you can't tell I need to sit down and figure out how the online ad business actually works, I likely can count on my hands many times I've ever clicked an ad online and I've definitely purchased something in that manner far less if ever).

Thank you!
Borat is a caricature of a Central Asian man and the author is also from Central Asia. Hmm
Reality check: a million people have had the idea of paying a monthly fee not to see ads on the internet, and tons of people have tried it, including Google [1].

And absolutely nobody has been able to make it work over the past 20-ish years.

I'm not going to pretend I know the exact reason why it doesn't work, there are lots of reasons that can be debated.

But the fact that it's been attempted by tons of really smart people at companies large and small and nobody's been able to pull it off, tells me that it's not going to happen. I'm not a pessimistic person at all, but the evidence here is overwhelming.

The technology to make it happen is easy, but the human side isn't: whether it's an unsolvable economic, coordination, or simply consumer demand problem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Contributor
I wouldn't say that is true. For something like React Native, the apps are plenty fast as JS is just used as an expressive control layer for the heavy lifting done in native code.

I think a well maintained React Native for desktop is a really good way forward.

People don't really care about a native "look and feel" any more so long as it's pretty, consistent, and integrates into the OS. Which is why electron is popular. I think the slowness of having everything rendered by a webview is the main drawback of electron, which is solved by React Native which only needs to run JSC or V8 somewhere.
In a sense, everything you do, read, see, hear, experience, changes your personality. Usually the changes are so small that they can be observed only as they accumulate over the years. Sometimes, there are big changes (usually surrounding traumas of various kind, physical and mental). But the truth is, personality is a dynamic, ever-evolving construct.
I remember reading somewhere that this technique was inspired by Reagan strategic defense initiative, aka Star Wars program, and was actually in use. I would love to see some kind of effectiveness comparison table.
...and shooting sparrows with cannons becomes shooting mosquitoes with lasers since 2021 ;-)
nevertheless, I like the project, much dedication was going into this, lot to learn from...
Someone here asked about gut-brain axis. The truth is that we don’t have even surface-level understanding of what truly shapes consciousness. Maybe it’s the whole package that makes you - you.
It seems like your argument is more agains collectibles in general. I also can go online and look at the art for various rare Pokémon cards for example. I think you underestimate the psychological component of ‘ownership’ and the extra satisfaction that might bring a collector.

An anecdote,

I am an avid jazz record collector (vinyl). Every record I own is available to me on Spotify and I actually frequently find new records to purchase on Spotify (they have a great jazz selection).

Interestingly, or maybe not, I find that I listen to the records I own more than those I don’t even though I have access to so many more.

I also find myself having significantly more patience with the records I buy blindly than I would a random thing that comes on algorithm radio.

The point being, ownership creates psychological attachment which in turn creates some intangible form of value that I can’t quite put a number on but I definitely feel.
Why not batch these with a hash to a list of hashes? Is it that one extra level of indirection makes it too hard to explain to friends and newcomer investors what you own?
Around makerspaces, mesh networking plans rank slightly above perpetual motion machines. It's not impossible but there are substantial challenges. Ask any ham involved in packet radio for the past 40 years.
IIRC at one point Facebook was a 1GB+ executable transpiled from PHP to C++ using HipHop, and that certainly fits any reasonable definition of a monolith, so yes, monoliths can be scaled to an absurd degree.
I kind of want to know what happens if you eat it. It probably puts psyllium husk to shame.
>From what I've read, mining makes digital currency subject to control by governments that can subsidize or even monopolize the mining process.

If governments can subsidize the mining process, can't they also subsidize the staking process?
Minor complaint - went to mouse up to click on pricing and I suppose my cursor went out of the viewing window, and I got an annoying "wait don't leave" pop-up. I'm sure this is intentional and perhaps it's better for your business to have it, but I personally find it a good reason to close the tab.

Perhaps add a tiny waiting period when the mouse leaves in case it is accidental and not aimed at hitting the "x"?