skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe we're getting closer but I don't think "You (and the author) think this transformation is over" is accurate. There is no pre/post. Change is continuous. Business is tumultuous.

Speaking for myself, I think over/not-over is part illusion to shake. It is part of the theory, which has failed. A pre-digital world and a digital world... where our first principles economics will finally play out. That day is not coming, marginal cost economics is not going to play to the "logical" conclusion.

There is a real reality out there. In it, digitisation of content has consistently led to monopoly. Google produce the world's most popular operating system and web browser just to support their search monopoly. They have no intention of being a neutral pipe.

To get grandiose... I feel like we are/were misguided by deterministic thinking. We see the possibilities of digitization, and assume they're inevitable. They aren't. They were opportunities, but they were never just going to manifest themselves.

The WWW was/is free because TBL made it that way. We believed that openness was an inevitability. Reality has schooled us.
I've been watching the @cryptopunksbot Twitter account: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1373488203785629698

It's a bot that tweets whenever someone "buys" a cryptopunk, which is apparently a pixel artwork of a face.

These have supposedly been being sold at a rate of around one per hour, for around 20 ETH each ($35k).

I could see a rich person buying one of these out of boredom. But it seems certain that insiders must be buying these to create a false sense of demand.

It's probably time for some sort of awareness campaign (which this article is doing).
Also the serial poisoning of birds of prey - prosecutions in Tubbut and Violet Town and reports of it being more widespread.
In what way do you think that you think about intrinsic value?
I can take the title to a court and say “this proves that house is mine, give it back”.
What legal force does an NFT bring to what it claims to authenticate?

Even a certificate of authenticity for a painting is still notionally a legal contract between the authenticator and buyers: after all, there will be consequences if they cannot show they could reasonably support the identity they establish for something.

What does an NFT do? Nothing. There are no consequences in the real world. You can make another blockchain with more NFTs. It doesn't even establish an interesting digital history for an item: they're tied to hashes, not data.
I still can't see how a blockchain here would do something that a database wouldn't. A DB of authentic serial numbers with a way to mark them as claimed is all you need. If your new widget's serial is already marked as claimed on the manufacturer's website then you most likely have a counterfeit, no blockchain necessary.
Avoiding greenhouse gases from the outset is certainly the better alternative. However, it is unavoidable that we will continue to emit massive amounts of greenhouse gases for the next few years. Reforestation is the simplest and most cost-effective "carbon capture technology". At the same time, this restores lost habitat and thus averts another catastrophe: The loss of biodiversity.
Illegal or not, it seems to be happening: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26530373
TBH once you start using a fair number of dependencies (say, your average Flask or Django app) you end up with so many workarounds and flags like ignore_missing_imports that the benefit of mypy is marginal compared with other tools like flake and unit tests. I tend to use it more with libraries and less with applications.
Unwanted online engagement I can't figure out
https://ayushirawat.com/automate-any-chat-messenger-with-python

This is a simple 3-4 line tutorial, which already there in docs. Not only this post has so many reactions, but making a YT video for this simple sh*t is too much.

Most of her posts have code copy pasted from the docs of that project on which the tutorial is written. And each and every post has a YT video.

Not only this, check out her GitHub --> https://github.com/ayushi7rawat

Basically there is not even 1 project which is useful to the open source community, and she's already having 1100+ followers !

It does not end here. Her LinkedIn(https://in.linkedin.com/in/ayushi7rawat) posts mostly have links to her blog posts. But here too, she has 14,000 followers !

Sometimes I think, these are bots. But still, if someone can explain the reason for this level of online engagement.
This isn't even that common in the US. Sure, there's a chance of retiring early. For most of us, that won't happen prior to age 50, if at all.
Key points are: this mechanism of collection can be much more effective for non-profits. And importantly once the automated passive payments are in place, it is easy to give users other options for what to do with the money (it doesn't have to be trees but its probably the most marketable start outside the HN community).

The napkin math on trees has been done quite a bit here already. I'm on mobile but I would look at the Stripe Climate thread for some references.
Hot take: Per-application sandboxing is (in general) fundamentally flawed idea, as applications are just tools to manipulate data, while data needs to be protected from unintended manipulations, but such protection should not encumber intended manipulations. What manipulation is intended depends on worflow, not application. Such setup can work on phones due to their limited use cases, but not on desktop.

What we need are tools for per-workflow sandboxing. Assign each data to worflow/project (with separate uid), and then execute applications as a part of the project. So applications would have access to data of the project in which they are executed.
I'm sure all the new marketplaces facilitating it are making tons of it right now.
It’s based on wearing an Apple Watch to bed with HeartWatch and AutoSleep running. About a month of night data preceding the therapy and two months since then.
Are there blockchains that people actually use or care about?
This is very true. I built a game to go along with our wedding invitations. I’ve been maintaining it for the past 6 months, and it has stopped working on one browser or the other multiple times. This is despite the fact that I’m using a popular actively maintained JavaScript engine.

It noticed just a few days ago that is wasn’t working on my iPhone because mobileSafari decided to stop reporting itself as safari and only as “mobile safari”.
I think I know who you are talking about. He was unfailingly polite with me, but it was very clear that he was not very interested too. I also was coming back from a semi-academic position.

Do not be very hard on you (or him). Every job opening I interview candidates for we receive piles and piles of academia refugees, mostly postgrads fleeing their postdocs. They tend to know very little about software (or domain knowledge of our field) but they will try anything: junior, senior and even managerial roles. Signal to noise tends to be very low, so any competitive places ignore most of them. It is a problem for competent people in this life situation, because they get ignored too.
My parents were both public school teachers (so our family income was definitely not high). The aid MIT offered was in the form of loans.
Doesn't seem to recognize the latest Chromium version of IE Edge
Source on Beeple's business partner buying it?
This was a Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/745629624/cutiepi-raspb...

(I am a backer, but I haven't received mine yet, so don't yet have an opinion on the product)
> Proximity to a delta of good universities

What good unis are in Guangdong (GD) province? The most famous ones I know are in Shanghai and Beijing. From my limited experience with hiring in Shenzhen, almost no one was from GD, nor went to uni in GD. Most went to uni in Shanghai or Beijing.

> The foundational organizations

I think the OP is referring to big gov't research (DARPA, etc.) that is the backbone of technologies behind the Internet and integrated circuits. Do similar orgs (and history) exist in Shenzhen? Again, my impression is that most of those orgs exist in Shanghai and Beijing.
Did the “Hotel Rwanda” Hero Become a Terrorist?
Excuse my ignorance, because I haven't looked into NFTs too carefully, but how do you decide which blockchain (or even block) is authoritative for a given item? Seems like something like a painting could be sold on an unlimited number of chains? If it's time priority (oldest wins), what's preventing miners from copying artwork from slower chains before they're included in a block?
What seems to be happening is that people (including you) are guessing that it is happening. Where is the evidence at?

Rest assure, the arm of the law is long and slow working, but eventually people breaking the law (especially in blockchain-land) will feel the effects of it, sooner or later.

As I said before, blockchains makes it easier for law enforcement, not harder, unless you're using cryptocurrencies like zcash, but they are not widely used currently.

Disclaimer: I'm myself not into NFTs because it mostly seems like hype at this point, I own zero NFTs myself and have no interest in buying. But I also care about accuracy.
That list is flag planting of the first order — like a dog claiming territory as a kingdom after a few stray golden showers here and there.

Yes, ML has been applied to all those topics, but to narrow/superficial applications & with limited success (in most of those areas, any how). The applications have also been explored in relatively ad-hoc ways, with little improvement in systematic understanding/knowledge of any of those fields.
Private keys are what's stopping other people from selling unauthentic NFTs for the same thing.
Safari absolutely does not support PWAs in a meaningful way when compared with other platforms. Service Worker support is fine, but one of its main features is its use in combination with the Push API, which is not supported in Safari. This omitted feature alone alone makes web apps on iOS far less valuable than native apps. There are other omissions as well, but this one in the most glaring.
I think C# generics also work this way, at least to an extent. For example, a single instance of generic hashmap code can store any value as long as it's one word in size, which the most common sizes of integer, floating-point number, and pointer are.

EDIT: as many comments on that post say, sorry!
Ah sure, I was referring to the:

> Passing responsibility of not distributing evil software from the gatekeepers to the user.

As in, we can have gatekeepers but also force software to define explicit access policies. Like, maybe a program that needs regularly files will create a folder where they have access to files and any files placed there afterwards can be used by the program without asking for access. For all other files/folders it would ask for specific access, and the access could be given as session based or normal and apply to the selected files only?

Having a default folder (per application) could then be used by programs like word processors or wtv to have a place to save automatically so the ux doesn't suffer in the basic case. Saving files outside authorised folders would not need permission unless they were overwriting a file that wasn't permitted previously, but access to other things in a non permitted folder would require permission still?

This could live with existing package managers curation and sandboxing, but even if the programs somehow got into a compromised state they would be limited?
I mean art has long been a money laundering favourite. NFTs are a useful optimisation.

Hell, buying "worthless" NFTs right now is probably moving some big crime bucks: pay someone a grand for a thing, the wait a week and claim "mania" coz it's now suddenly bring bought for 20 grand.
> why as a society should we be subject to the whims of individual philanthropists

Well, what do the alternatives look like? It's not like powerful politicians aren't self-aggrandizing; I'm sure many of them would like to effect structural change, but the structural change they want is probably pretty suspect. Nor is it the case that "political majorities", writ large, have an untarnished reputation for gentleness and decency.
The move to remote work is saving me about 1.5 hours of commute each day, plus a couple hundred in gas money each month. The return to the office later this year will be brutal.
It seems like some of OP's criticisms of Flatpak are not actually criticisms of Flatpak, but rather criticisms of the way Linux works.

Perhaps OP would be happier with a capabilities-based operating system (like Google's new Fuschia system).

It just seems like these complaints leveled against Flatpak are asking the authors to achieve nearly impossible goals given the complexity of doing sandboxing at the app level in Linux.
I understand that investment banking has always been like this. Why now, the complaints or attention?
Audio books.

Because of WFH, found a lot of additional time. Used that for listening to around 10 audio books in the past year. Most of the books I read were from a project management and entrepreneurship perspective. I used/discussed concepts learnt for work and felt slightly better off because of that. An example was using 5-whys for process improvement from The Lean Startup.
> developed by one guy in his rented basement and big corporations make billions on the back of it without sharing a penny. We need a royalty system

I mean isn’t this what a software patent is for? And you guys hate those. It’s how you are properly compensated for your inventions.
Funny, bestie's boyfriend became more important
In your description, what's the difference between an NFT and a gag USD million bill with Bush, Obama, Trump or Biden's face on it? This makes it even harder to understand why anyone should care. Hell, it starts to make the people who thought Beanie Babies were a long term investment seem smart.
Tons of companies that aren't in California don't have non-competes or have very limited ones. I've never had a meaningful non-compete in the course of my career. (Had a very narrow one when one company was acquired.)

I'm certainly not a fan of non-competes but note that, even in California, a company can drag you into an expensive court battle over non-solicitation clauses, NDAs, etc. It's also a matter of non-competes not being enforceable in general. A small company may still choose not to hire you if they think there's a possibility they may need to go to court.
(Disclosure, am founder of Construct 3, we made a browser based game engine: https://editor.construct.net)

Interesting to see this progress, and unlike the myriad of other web based software looks like they've done a pretty good job of making it feel native like in the browser. I don't feel too threatened by Godot's progress here, fortunately our engine occupies a fairly specific niche that doesn't overlap too much with Godot's market and would allow them to co-exist.

It does look a little heavy (12.5mb transferred/77mb resources to load cold) and is slower to load than I would expect. Doesn't appear like HTTP2 is supported which would probably speed things up nicely.

For anyone wondering what's the point of this, browser based software is incredibly beneficial to educational institutes especially in the Covid environment - we for example are getting educational institutes who typically use Unity and other software moving to us because it's far easier to get remote classrooms set up with their wide variety of devices students have at home.

I do think the future of software is in the browser. There are just so many advantages. Not to everyone's liking of course but I do feel it's inevitable. We went web only as it has the huge advantage of one code base to maintain, I would assume a large risk on Godot's part here is having to maintain multiple code bases.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_identification_laws_in_t...

Notice this started before Trump was elected? The rest of your comment is trying to support your belief this is somehow about Trump, therefore ignored.
> I think cultivating curiosity about others is integral to building empathy

See the dart game scene in the show Ted Lasso:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ4YSXv6Xkg
Of course we're guessing what's happening. What's wrong with that? That's pretty much the definition of empiricism.

The evidence is the fact that these pixelated faces are being "sold" for a nice car's worth of money every hour.
Just wanted to drop a link here to a page I maintain tracking as many Pi CM4-based projects as I've found: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/boards_cm (including the CutiePi).

The Compute Module 4 is the first revision (similar to the regular 4 model B) that is fast enough to actually be a practical/sensible replacement for a great deal of use cases where traditionally low power PC hardware would be preferred (though often more expensive).

The one common theme though is the soldering of the hirose connectors is a bear to do manually.
> I hate this idea of people telling other people what to do or what’s good for them.

What if that's what I want to do?
It doesn't work in Safari or mobile browsers. It's quite far from the expectations of a versatile web platform. WebAssembly has a lot of potential, so one day... perhaps.
> EVERYTHING, from the hardware design, firmware, enclosure, all the way to the user interface, is open source.
A Behemoth –“That Brings an End to Time and Space and the Laws of Physics”
The faq about battery concerns me a bit. "Achieved about 5 hours of standby time."

Reporting standby time seems like a question dodge.
So basically reproducible builds with a dependency list and the CVE list could provide more certainty about the tools we use?

What about websites though? Hash-summed files aren't going to save us, because resources can be loaded dynamically and the client can't know the hash before retrieval.

Reproducible builds would be a great first start. Forcing governments to use opensource may be another step.
Sounds like a neat idea to leverage in b2c.
How Scientific Taxonomy Constructed the Myth of Race
I’m curious if it’s $27K of 2017 Bitcoin or today’s Bitcoin. If it’s the latter it’s $385K.
In the olden days, they called it hubris, and it was a sin against the gods.
You can actually download all their articles as a PDF with a small yearly subscription. If that's not an option I've had good luck with pandoc in the past.
Venge.io
The web is reliably the best platform for the games our nonprofit produces. And we've produced dozens of them played by young people around the world for the past 15 years. (Yes, we've had setbacks with deprecation of Flash and Unity Web Player but webGL has been fantastic.)

Although the games are also available through the appstores or for direct download, those channels are not as accessible for many people, especially those on the other side of the digital-divide. No smartphone, tablet, or home PC? Then turn to the web instead: our evidence-based and award-winning games are used by educators in classrooms, by parents at home, and by young people who access them via public libraries.

The web is the best outlet for these games because it is by far the most accessible of platforms. These games are also much safer from a privacy perspective via the web than installing an always-on & always-tracking game from Google Play.

And though these are not AAA games and they don't include microtransactions or advertisements that merely means nobody is getting rich from them. But that isn't our goal. Our goal is to drive positive change in the most efficient way possible.

Genuinely free video games via the web is how to safely reach and empower hundreds of thousands of young people around the world about issues important to them.
One should not base one's opinion of SpaceX engineers on this one example.
Show HN: Mimetype – Golang library for content type identification
It looks like the daughter board is bigger than the mother board (the rasp pi)
The fact not a single person can explain it in simple terms to me is a huge red flag on its own.
Are vim users going to be able to use vi? Genuine question. I’ve barely used either.
I feel you're moving the goalposts a bit. Perfect is the enemy of good, etc. Also surely the tooling would get a lot of investment and improvement poured into it if the proposal went through.

Anyway, if this kind of thing really took off, I could well imagine there being regulation for SaaS products having to do audits involving this, for example.
If the author was serious about promoting the idea the article would be published in an open manner (not behind a pay wall).

The concept is good, but good luck enforcing it with closed source software companies.

Anyone that is really interested can already find that info for OS software but where it would really be useful is with closed source software. Where I personally would really love to see it implemented is with embedded devices.

I've been recently hacking a not so old IP cam in my spare time. Hardware is great... It has 600mhz 32bit cpu with 64mb ram, hardware h264 (1080p 30fps close to real-time) encoding, bi-directional audio, WiFi, USB host, ptz, free gpio, Ethernet all for around $20 (indoor version) but software is abysmal. It runs Linux Kernel v3 (almost a decade old). Upon startup immediately starts streaming video/audio to a server in China while the mobile app requires you to "register" for an account with a phone number. The only way it can receive the video is from the Chinese server and it displays ads on 20% of its screen. Ridiculous. Thankfully it is pretty easy to hack, but what about all non technical people who buy it?
And people claimed that Brexit was all downside and there would be no benefits....
Its much easier to have educational content about an engine if you can run tutorials directly in the web browser. Don't underestimate the importance of this for producing accessible educational content about an engine at scale.
What ticks me off is the hyperbole. "We're revolutionizing drug discovery" and "we'll reduce your attrition rate by orders of magnitude".

No, no you won't. If your offering a tool that fixes a specific issue I'm facing, then ok, I'll listen. But scientists don't take well to bullshit.
From my experience in medical equipment, I wouldn't have guessed 20% wrong... maybe closer to sub 5% wrong. Though I guess we weren't tracking individual components on boards... but we were definitely counting every nut, bolt and screw that we were using in assembly.

I definitely hear your second part though. Having cobbled together an SBOM, it's definitely a pain. We got some value of it, since it really did give us a sense of the scale and shape of our dependencies.
ECC works on consumer motherboards nowadays, my X570 motherboard works really well with ECC.
Not to mention the performance. Perhaps it's improved since, but just a year ago it took an upwards of 10-20 seconds to type check a trivial repository.
Looking at the specs [1], I can't help but feel for $200 getting Wifi 4 (N, from 2008) and BT 4.0 (from 2010) leaves me underwhelmed. Maybe it was a cost decision, maybe licensing? Maybe due to power constraints? But damn, Wifi 4 is just objectively terrible and needs obliterating, it's borderline unusable and leaves me worried about the longevity of using such old standards in 2/3 years time (if that's the expecting lifetime of the product)

1: https://shop.cutiepi.io/products/cutiepi-tablet
> ...the other person is just as intelligent as myself.

Similarly, I also recognize that there's a lot of stuff I just don't understand. Square peg, round hole. Not just unknown unknowns. Stuff that I will never truly grasp. So I need to swallow my pride and accept help from people who do get it.

Like a never ending treasure hunt adventure game. I just have to keep looking.
Go read https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/blog/ if you filter out the snarky “I’m so badass” posts there’s actually good advice in a ton of topics such as health insurance / coverage, investments, and how not to be a wasteful person mostly :)