skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For whom? Folks at Google, Facebook, and Amazon that are building distributed databases aren't re-writing their backends to use blockchains, for obvious reasons.

As for people who aren't building general-purpose distributed databases, a solution to the Byzantine generals problem is more of a solution to a problem that they don't have - as other posts in this thread demonstrate.
Re sharing fiber: Yeah, true for me.

I did have Quest DSL in the 90's and loved I could pick my ISP. (Hello Spiretech!)

Worked great, until it didn't and it was always another phone glitching it. Still, for the mid 90's, getting 600kbps in was sweet!

Seems like they were very aggressive about loop distance, not setting realistic expectations.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That's the way threads turn into downward spirals.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maximum speed is 251 for the human, 240 for the computer! It's "trucks overtaking each other"-simulator for two players.
In that scenario all future paintings from that artist go up in sale price and the artist profits.
Yeah, I was on irc in the 90’s and missed that one. I had to look it up on urbandictionary, which was entertaining.
> was allowed to keep the extras and ended up with a 1 year supply of coke zero for myself and all my friends.

that's pros or con? :P
It will be hard to avoid if it will become omnipresent
No, real estate is even worse.

Surely you need a backdoor for courts to fix problems? And if you have a backdoor, then what's the point of the whole fucking blockchain?

I say this having bought a house, and knowing the BS paperwork and costs involved.
> if we get better at producing electronics, you would expect their price to decline

I would also expect the value of the electronics industry, and its profits, to rise. Where's the additional money to denote that value coming from?

> There was practically no inflation in the United States during the 19th century

I can't speak to inflation in the 19th century. I'm not an economist and expert like the writer of that article. But as a percentage of household income, basic necessities (food, clothing, transportation, entertainment, energy) have undoubtedly become cheaper since the 19th century, despite inflation. Goods and services that don't follow normal supply-demand logic (education) or have excessive regulation controlling supply (healthcare, real estate) are the exception to this.

> the major exception in that period being the Civil War, a period of when the government needed to generate more revenue by printing more money

Money printing is the proximate cause, but not the root cause. The war increased demand, leading to increased prices i.e. inflation. The government printed more money to pay for the war, but it could alternatively have taken on more debt (and maybe it did, I'm not an economist or a historian).
Sort of like Zero Inbox. You need to fight and win the battles in order to not lose the war - which you will never win but can definitely lose.
So maybe you're rich then?
That's a nice idea. You could call it Google Reader, or something. Or make it a Youtube-like site that only shows Google-hosted "channels" and call it Google Plus!
Long Beach here using gigabit Frontier and it's been great. Easily the best home internet service I've ever had.

I plug my Google WiFi (yes I work at Google) directly into the modem and ignore the router they gave me entirely. It's real nice not having to deal with that huge box.
The way you deal with this in international trade is by putting up a irrevocable letter of credit, which against documentary proof (I.e. proof of quality and shipment) will release the sums. This have worked for millennia.
I thought your point was the psychology: you don't have to anymore but you still do.
The Outer Space Treaty prohibits the claiming of territory in space or on other planetary bodies. This treaty is signed by all of the major spacefaring states. If states begin to extract resources or establish permanent habitation beyond scientific expeditions such as the ISS, the terms of this treaty will not be tenable. There is no magic solution to prevent states from being self-interested and claiming resources for themselves, but hopefully the resolution will be a new treaty which provides a framework for peaceful, fair, and sustainable development of space. Some self-enrichment can be allowed while also ensuring that some of the benefits flow to all of humanity. The alternative, if no such agreement can be reached between the spacefaring powers, is a free-for-all in which states withdraw from the OST and do whatever they want. This seems likely to lead to monopolization of the solar system’s resources by a few states. It also seems likely to lead to confrontation between the spacefaring powers.
$80+ for GbPS is an understatement. I pay $80/mo for a symmetric 250Mbps line. 1G would cost me over $500/mo
I'll just say; both of these seem like buckets of good priorities. I too wish some aspects of the onboarding were simpler, but I also am very very excited about Spaces, and have a number of communities I'm stoked to onboard once that feature launches.

Kudos to you and the team and I've been really enjoying tracking your progress over the last ~4 years.
I'm building a hobby computer from scratch with a modern 80s era CPU. Anyone doing this kind of thing as a hobby has to decide what kind of project it is, what you want to get out of it, and where you draw the line between modern and old.

For me, I had never done electronics before so actually wiring up the components and doing logic at a electrical level was interesting in itself. But also I'm interested applying my programming knowledge to the limitations of that era. It's sort of an art project. No matter what, a computer today with an 8Bit CPU isn't practical.

I'm going to have a 6502 CPU, I'm going to try for 1MB of RAM banked, SD card for storage, and I'm thinking of using a Pi Pico as a VGA graphics card. Obviously using a Pi Pico in a project with an 8bit CPU is "silly" but that still satisfies my own goal. Other people working on these types of computers tracking down chips from that era or are building their own TTL-logic basic graphics cards because they have different goals.
See the "AssistiveTouch for Apple Watch" section of the linked post. This allows you to use the watch with the same hand that is wearing the watch.
It's really odd sometimes how much they focus on disability features, while also completely ignoring localization in entire countries.
Royalties apply on re-sale, not every transfer. Royalties on sales going back to the original creator is pretty normal practice in the arts and creative industries (music, writing, art, photography).

The good thing, compared to traditional markets, is that this is something that can be (loosely) enforced with smart contracts, the % rate is flexible, and the current NFT royalties are typically far better for the artists (eg: 10% NFT platform fee instead of 50% gallery fee).
Ditto. Well my tinnitus is not constant, but of course it tends to ramp up when trying to do things where it's really inconvenient, like sleeping.

I wonder if these sounds will be available as part of the bedtime application (thereby sherlocking most existing applications) as that's by far my biggest requirement for covering sounds, the combination of insomnia and tinnitus makes it rather hard to fall asleep without some sort of rain sound, but short or glitchy rain loops create extremely recognisable patterns my brain latches on to have something to do, which keeps me from sleeping.
Yes, that difference, as I pointed out, is one reason why sensible used cars are overpriced. (Another is the "market for lemons" effect)

Now you're comparing a $40K new car to a $8K used car, which is not a reasonable comparison. Yes, used cars will save you some money, but they will generally cost you more money than driving a new Corolla or Civic. Poke around on Edmunds' TCO calculator. The problem with your argument is that you can save more and more money by imagining buying an even more expensive car to compare to. I mean, you could have bought an $80K car with 10% down, right? Now you saved $72K!!!
> Johnstone's topological topos is very easy to describe: take the monoid of continuous endomaps of the one-point compactification of the discrete natural numbers, considered as a category, then take sheaves for the canonical coverage.

I really wish technical authors wouldn't say "very easy" when they mean "readers will need a substantial intellectual investment such as a Ph.D".
>Podcasts are a great example of this...

And yet plenty of middlemen exist for podcasts, too - Earwolf, Stitcher, yadda yadda. Sure, barriers to entry trend toward zero, but that doesn't mean everyone's going to see what you're selling. Many people will need to partner with someone who can help get their shit in front of people who want it, and those partners are going to want a cut.

Record labels, Instagrams and Etsys will show up to the NFT party in spades.
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How did you find it? I'd love to buy a few of these a year but the information I can find seems to be for either brick-and-mortar or angel/vc investments.
Agreed. As a huge customization fan, accessibility features oftentimes are the only way to get customization options that aren't exposed otherwise. One that comes to mind is setting your display to black and white, disabling animations, etc. Thankfully I don't have any disabilities, but I hate animations and other things like that, so I'm also a huge fan of accessibility features.
Nothing. Just like nothing stopped Taylor Swift from rerecording her entire library to license her music herself. If artists sign their NFT rights away, that's on them.
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A "…by reasonable readers" can be assumed.

If you want scrupulous disclosure of relevant affiliations inline in every single comment where they could apply, I think you're in the wrong place.

As you note, it's not a site guideline. As I've noted in a sibling thread, it wouldn't fit the minimalist HN presentation, and would place an onerous burden on both writers & readers.

It'd also especially encumber people with deep personal knoweldge and interest in some topics, if every related post required boilerplate "I'm employed by X"/etc inserts.

But putting it in the bio for the curious/suspicious is a very honorable thing to do!
In the end, data is transported as electrical current so it is not completely off :)
Even more to the point is that these bugs were found in Debian's unstable/testing distribution. Reiterating that the release process is happening as it should and the bugs are being found by people who volunteered to help test the software.
> Doesn't every ISP do this? Isn't that why we have the wording of "up to n Mbps"?

No. At least in NYC, every provider I've ever had (several) normally achieved the advertised speeds during the daytime mostly, and overnight (e.g. 3 am).

But it might go down 25% or even 50% in the evenings once everyone gets home and starts watching Netflix, at certain times on weekends, etc.

(Obviously COVID has changed these patterns a bit.)

That's always felt generally reasonable to me for residential contracts -- that the capacity is there except during peak residential usage or temporary maintenance.

"Up to" with regard to internet speeds generally means you will reach that capacity at non-peak times.

If you can't regularly achieve max capacity at 3 am, then the advertised speeds are fraudulent. After all, bringing this to its logical conclusion, companies can't advertise "up to infinite speed" even though that's "mathematically true".
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Hosting an irc Network is more work than you might think. Just a new domain name and a VPS with a service running on it might not be enough.
If SPY dropped 40% I'd suggest that it's gone on sale.
I think the big news in Podcasts is centralization. Many new podcasts get their money either from "networks" or by being part of one of the podcast walled gardens (e.g. Spotify). I suspect traditional podcasts will go the way of blogs soon and be largely superseded by several competing commercial platforms (think Medium). See, for example, the moves by Apple to turn their Podcasts app into a subscription platform: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-leads-the-next-...
I agree but it's worth noting that Beeple was selling JPGs for $5000+ in the mid 2010s as a commissioned artist in the music industry. So the NFTs have also brought some transparency to a successful digital artist along with the crazy valuations.
I get the impression that a lot of folks take it as an article of faith that accuracy problems in the database must be due to a shortcoming of the database itself.

But if you replace the database with a spreadsheet, everyone seems to be able to intuitively understand that accuracy problems with the information in the spreadsheet aren't (necessarily) due to shortcomings in the basic idea behind Microsoft Excel. They're more often due to data entry errors, or the fact that it's fundamentally difficult to keep track of everything that happens in the messy, messy real world.

(Realistically, the former is just a special case of the latter.)
The are! It's just not an everyday occurrence - and so is worth much more - so most zero days end up in nation state hands.
The Amish near me have a little hut (kind a looks like a guard shack) at the end of their driveway. That is where they keep their cell phone.
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In addition to what you just said, it's significantly faster to sign than it is to type/text, not to mention the nuances of face-to-face communication that can get lost in a text-based world!
I'm not sure how much that definition holds water. Am I disabled if I'm temporarily not able to do cognitive work?
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American law also allows for a court to invalidate any and all contracts deemed not legal, or not enforceable, or subject to a bankruptsy, or any of a billion other reasons.

What now?

What you have done here is make the simple case simpler, and the hard parts impossible.

You made the ACTUAL problems WORSE, because you do not understand what the ACTUAL problems even are in the space where you try to sprinkle "blockchain" as if it adds any value at all.
My point is, he speaks exactly how he learned to speak in environment of rich people.

He is not all that much how actual working class behaves. Instead, he is his how middle class imagines working class. And people who vote him are economically not the poorest either. And he is also what poor people imagine super rich to be.
Ask HN: Open Standards for Data Logging?
I'm trying to design an open source (hardware-based) data logger, and would like to stick to open standards as much as possible.

What are some key standards to keep in mind for a generic data logger for things like timestamps, individual record format, file format(s), metadata, etc.?
I don't have feelings about it either way. I think you're reading way too much into my comment. It's just a new interesting way to structure a contract. Neither good nor evil. I certainly don't think it's "evil" like the comment I replied.
Energy used for PoW per transaction is a dumb metric.

Satoshi actually made the most efficient decentralized money that can ever exist and prevented more externalities in the world than potentially any human ever will.
Interesting tidbit: Apparently ~2% of households with internet still used dial-up as of November 2019.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/185532/us-household-dial...
I have a theory that once you get something out there, it establishes you as a person who can ship stuff independently. Even if it's not a success, it'll introduce you to people who may help you discover better ideas. If you can build a bit of a brand, some people will follow you around and help promote your projects just because they like you.

I haven't tested this yet, because I haven't shipped my 90%-complete project from 2 years ago yet…
The metadata is an IPFS hash in most cases that you can use to validate against the file regardless of where the file is stored. At any rate NFT market places are working on surfacing quality data to users to show them this information. Some NFTs are small enough to be embedded on-chain. Some use IPFS + Filecoin or other decentralized archive service like Arweave. Some don't. Surfacing that to users will become more important as the space evolves.
To be clear, I don't think it's the case that christine.website has any advertising whatsoever (or even meaningful JS?) but I think your diagnosis is correct more broadly.
Security isn't the only thing that locks provide, they also provide access, which electronic locks will always be worse at.

I say this as a person who used to own a smart lock and went back to a regular one because I was tired of getting locked out by dead batteries and malfunctioning bluetooth.

Also on one occasion someone who was not authorized (fortunately a guest), unlocked my door and entered my house with the electronic lock because I happened to be sitting near the door on the inside.

More electronics does not mean more better.
I'm not sure what exactly they mean by neurodiversity here but as a misanthrope I definitely hate background noise. Before the pandemic I would frequently get distracted by getting irritated at other people nearby talking, chewing, walking, just being around me at all. I also found it helpful to listen to things like forest sounds, rain, and so on sometimes. It does get pretty depressing though when you step back and realize you're listening to artificial nature sounds while staring at a screen under office lights.
EVs will dominate the market at some point in the next 15-25 years or so.

Tesla is priced as if it's going to absolutely dominate the automotive market. And there's no reason to believe that's true.

Automotive is currently a super fragmented market with many players, why will that change in a couple decades when it has been true for the past century or so?

There will be at least 3-4 major players in NA just as there are now, maybe more.
One of these is not like the other. Programming and hacking are usually much more respectful groups than gaming.

Gaming is a cesspool of edgy teenagers (hence people screaming the N-word in various lobbies) it's not really limited to women.

That being said playing any FPS with voice chat as a girl/woman makes for a pitiful experience. My gf won't play Rainbow Six Siege anymore because she kept getting team killed for making callouts.
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Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin extend the power of a person's imagination out of their mind and into the minds of other people. They do this because the cryptocurrencies create rules that people have a very hard time breaking, and people can communicate ideas through those rules. In this way, bitcoin does not subtract humans, it extends the human mind outward.
>is the app democratizing finance or encouraging risky behavior?

For anyone who paid attention to the WSB fiasco This isnt a meaningful question.

When Robinhood halted trading on a stock that had the very real potential to harm monied, cloistered elites it basically confirmed whatever definition of "finance" it claimed to represent was rigged from the start. the app is no different than facebook. You arent an empowered investor, you are their product.
User presence is defined in present time. There are no FIDO police who'll burn down your factory or arrest your executives if your device doesn't do this, but removing this safeguard has (at least potentially) negative consequences.

I believe some theoretical attacks against user privacy would benefit from being able to attempt a huge number of "authentication" steps without annoying the human by making them touch the sensor. As with the Socialist Millionaire's Protocol or Magic Wormhole, we're relying on the fact that humans get annoyed fairly quickly and will just give up if it doesn't work, so attacks that require a large number of iterations cannot mechanically succeed.
In addition to the answers you got refuting load as a problem: "Last updated since" headers are indeed a thing. Look for example at how RSS gets cached in wordpress [0] or the classical blog engine serendipity [1]. Also, push instead of pull is also common. Made popular for feeds by pubsubhubbub, since enterprise-ready renamed to WebSub [2]. Readers like bazqux do support that.

[0]: https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/270f2011f8ec7265...

[1]: https://github.com/s9y/Serendipity/blob/e2044472c202a8368774...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub
Translation:

"Yes, it's true, we expanded the ToS and banned crypto mining. We received many orders for servers with large disks. Large storage boxes (?) are also increasingly often rented. With storage boxes 1/2"

"this leads to bandwidth problems on the host systems. With Chia mining, there is the additional problem that the many read and write accesses put a lot of strain on the drives which will lead to failure. 2/2"
> Bitcoin has always been an application for demonstrating the engineering achievements behind it (solving byzantine faults, fungibility of data), so we can build even greater tools like smart contracts, programmable money, trust-less p2p networks, etc so many things.

If you were to categorize all discussions about BTC between live humans into two buckets: discussions about the price of BTC and discussions about applications build on the bitcoin blockchain, which one do you think would win? I'd wager that >99% of all discussions are about the price. Yet the price is completely irrelevant to the applications built on the blockchain. They work just as well if the price of BTC is 1/10,000th the current price.

So it becomes very hard for people to buy the claim that actually this is all about technology and not about getting rich.
Christel was selling something she didn't own.
A related set of advice from a Nobel laureate: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5198756/
This is an interesting idea, do you have any resources to help me better understand how this would work?
I live in the rural USA and pay $175 for 55 mb/s down, 10mb up on a good day. And if a bad thunderstorm hits it will be down for days.
I pay 600CZK (~30USD) for a 1000/60 DOCSIS Internet connection (with a public IPv4 IP!) in the Czech Republic. Granted, it's to a flat in a city, not an isolated house in the suburbs, but I'm pretty sure Vodafone's rates are flat.
“Nothing here that can’t be done on Linux, with better customization.”

I get that there are reasons why people would want nothing to do with any of this and just objects to Apple because the desktop doesn’t ship with a tiling window manager.

But to me this stuff illustrates why we actually need companies like Apple.
You take the word "disabled" literally.

And yes, it's situational. That's what we learned in experience design.

Another example: a parent holding their baby. They "lost" one arm in that situation.
That’s interesting. Since I type far quicker than I can speak, I would have definitely expected typing to be quicker than signing.
> What's been written about this?

A great many cryptolocker programs.

And several websites you can access via Tor to buy illegal drugs from the comfort of your own home via cryptocurrencies.
I've started a few Google et al. maps of them but never get around to actually doing something with them.

Maybe I'll move my 3am hobby up a notch and start posting or contributing to forgottenairfields.
Great, but how can they detect what you're exactly doing in your VM?