skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey! Author of the thread here. Thanks for your comments!

> This is an extremely solved problem.

Not with the properties of Sign-In with Ethereum (SIE), which is single, user generated authentication credentials, a self-custody portable username in a naming system that isn't reliant on a trusted-third party, and that people are already getting for other reasons (to use Ethereum, so extra incentive to get set up, not just SSO incentive).

> ordinary home users are effectively tethered to their email accounts, because that's how you reset a login

Yep, and I don't expect that to change very much anytime soon, but there is a small but growing community of people tethered to their Ethereum wallets and ENS names and using those instead. Given the advantages and crypto incentives, I expect it to continue to grow. Note also that service can always require a user to also provide an email address, it just wouldn't be used for authentication.

> The actual last thing in the world home users want is an authentication system where credential loss is literally irrevocable.

Doesn't have to be. Three things on this point:

1) Depends on how your wallet provider works. There are already some wallet providers with social recovery (multisig under the hood), etc.

2) Crypto incentives (unrelated to sign-in) mean that the private key management industry ("wallets") is already highly incentivized to make it very difficult for people to totally lose access to their accounts (because then lost money). That's a key part of my point: private key management has never been good enough for average people, but crypto incentives have spurred on a massive industry to solve this problem. And while it's not totally solved (still needs lots of improvement), it has improved rapidly in the last five years to be much better than ever before, and I expect it to continue to improve.

3) What I've described is just on the user side. If a web2 service adopted this (not aware of any right now, it's pretty much just web3 services that use it), they can always do things like require you provide an email address or other information, and they can still have a process for reassigning your account with them to a different Ethereum account.

> The actual last thing in the world corporate users want is an authentication system their IT department doesn't control absolutely.

Again, depends on what you want, you can make it so that you have access to all of your company's employees Ethereum accounts.

> Internet identity evangelists tend to overlook the fact that people have multiple identities on purpose.

Yep. I don't expect this to replace everything else immediately, but I do expect overtime for this to become a ubiquitous option, such that a user could use their one Ethereum account everywhere if they wanted to.

Also, re the need for multiple identities: as I point out in the thread, a person can generated as many Ethereum accounts and have as many ENS names as they'd like, using their real name or pseudonym, or whatever they'd like.

Anyway, sorry for long comment, thanks for engaging!
There's a lot of great work in Wikimedia commons, but I think there are 2 primary / very common issues:
* Format - many of these maps are .svg or illustrator-created images with no projection information, which makes data extraction very difficult. This is why we're trying to share with GIS-formatted data, so people can do with it what they'd like.
* Sourcing - very often, a map is depicted with a source of "own work". That, unfortunately, really isn't good enough & we're trying to source all objects in OHM. What's scary is that putting something in Wikimedia almost ensures wide propagation as "fact", even if it lacks a source. Here's an example... the base map is sourced, but where did this red line come from? It appears to be hand-drawn on a map... who drew it? How'd they get that outline? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comancheria.jpg
We implemented this with 30 people. No wokesplosions, just private positive feedback.
Beyond the etymologies, I learned what a calque is from your comment, so thanks for that.
Thanks for explaining - that makes sense.
looks at C++
We LOVE those youtube timelines. Unfortunately, you can't zoom in & you cannot hit pause or easily scrub back and forth.

We're also big fans of WhosOnFirst!
Given enough inflation you will eventually get full employment and wages will catch up with productivity increases. If you have 1% inflation for a decade the economic system is going to fix itself eventually but it's going to take forever, which is why anti inflation sentiments have built up as people get used to the new normal and are scared of change.
re: 40 hours vs 1 hour - I used that example because the commenter further up the thread explicitly said:

> it is none of your business if they used 40 hours a week or 1 hour a week doing it
It is appalling that, after every other general-computing architecture in common use either started out with a popcount instruction, or had one added later at substantial expense, RISC-V came out without one.

It still doesn't have any. The proposed B, "bitmanip" extension has it (along with a raft of trivial variations: count leading zeroes, count trailing ones, yada yada) but that is not ratified and not implemented in any chip I know of. Since B is a huge extension, we can expect it will be routinely omitted even after it's ratified, and compilers will need special prodding to produce any such instructions.

It should have been in the base instruction set. We probably can blame its lack on the academic origins of the design. CS professors probably think of it as a thing not needed to implement Lisp, therefore not worth class time.

(Some people say, "Oh, but you can trap and emulate it", which adds insult to injury. Trapping and emulating eliminates all the value the instruction offers.)
That isn't exactly how Google sorts or filters results today.

"Yes, we do use PageRank internally, among many, many other signals. It's not quite the same as the original paper, there are lots of quirks (eg, disavowed links, ignored links, etc.), and, again, we use a lot of other signals that can be much stronger." [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/JohnMu/status/1232014208180592641
John Mu, Search Advocate at Google.
Another caveat: they still might not want to date you. Making real human connections is just significantly more difficult for some people than it is for others, but on the plus side you are much more the person you want to be, so you can feel good about that anyway.
Living with them is probably more than just rent.
I checked through the source code for System 7.1 at https://www.macintoshrepository.org/1398-mac-os-7-1-source-c... . You look correct (A=assembly, H=header, C=c, P=pascal, R=resource)

% find ~/Downloads/System\ 7.1\ Source/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 basename | cut -d. -f 2- | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20
869 A
308 H
189 C
162 P
85 R
69 MAKE
31 M.A
28 O
11 RSRC
11 AII
...
:) We've gotta start somewhere! ;) Please join in & help out!
And what would do that “read data off disk, then write other data back”, if not a program? Even if you use a monitor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_code_monitor) to write a program, that’s still a program.

The only way to avoid that is to hand-punch a tape or something like that (with lots of practice and patience, it may be possible to program a small PROM or write an early floppy by hand)
Arecibo Observatory Collapse Simulation in 8K [video]
Probably a two part objection:

First, abandoning a new branch of computing that started with the development of a specialized notation. As I said elsewhere, the power this offers cannot be appreciated without a suitable frame of reference. This can be either the use of APL (to a good degree of competency, not just dabbling) or a reasonable analog, such as musical notation.

The timing for the introduction of J was terrible. Computers made the transition from text-only terminal output to full-on, character-agnostic and graphically-rich output just around that time. I can't fault Iverson for this, nobody has a crystal ball. Having the inventor/founder of APL leave the language behind for a half measure that was primarily a reaction to character-only computers did a lot of damage to APL. One has to wonder how things might have evolved had he stayed the course he charted. After three decades of educating an entire community on the value and power of notation he threw it all away purely due to a mistimed decision about computer hardware of the day. As I said elsewhere, not the first time and not the last time someone in technology makes a bad decision. None of us are immune to this.
What type of savage doesn't peel ginger with a spoon? Learned that from a Tibetan making momos. He would then use the side of a clever to crush the ginger before mincing.
The thing that irks me more than churn is not providing pathways forward. It's like, if you're going to get rid of bookmarks, then either give me an add-on that brings them back or give me time to adjust to not having bookmarks. Gnome used to be one of the worst at communicating their intentions. You never knew what you were going to get if you were going to upgrade Gnome. But I come from the philosophy of frontend JavaScript development where everything is announced, has a deprecation warnings, features extracted into libraries, and so forth. The people who work on GNU/Linux related development come off as very arrogant in their decision making, even if they aren't intending to be arrogant.

Just so people are aware, I understand that things could have changed in the last 9 years. However, those kind of user experiences can permanently ruin the reputation of OSS projects.
> The indebted poor have revolving credit at best (think 10%-ish APR) or short-term credit (payday loans: 15%+ APR). Inflation does not help those situations

Forcing down inflation raises interest rates, and lower interest rates help the significantly indebted a lot. Interest is literally a siphon that takes wealth from people that are earning it and gives it to those who already had it.
And the debt to wealth ratio of the bottom wealth decile of the UK is 3:1

The debt to wealth ratio of the top wealth decile is, obviously, a lot smaller. They might borrow when it's tax efficient to do so, but they don't need to. Also lower interest rates actually reduce the returns they're getting on lending their money. Sure, low interest rates don't hurt their property portfolios, and are fantastic for people becoming rich by starting companies that burn through a lot of borrowed cash (and create jobs), but in general interest is a subsidy for the rich.
When I was a kid, I had a job delivering spam. A lot it does not come from the post office but from other delivery services.
Tell us more - is having to sign in to edit a barrier? Should we rethink that? (also, I've made a note to fix that... I believe that was from an old ThinkQuest dataset. TY!)
“One of the control samples, IVI 14, had a very high sperm count of 396.62 million that was outside two standard deviations of the mean (2 ± SD), so the analysis was redone without this sample.”

Yeah having chuck norris in your study is going to skew any set of results.
Acceptance rates are meaningless. There is no limit on the denominator.
But as you can see from the gigantic list on that page, most grocery stores don't belong to those top 3.

I live in NYC, for example, and I don't know a single grocery store here that belongs to a national chain or even a regional one -- they're all local. (With the sole exception of Target, but that surely doesn't make up even 1% of grocery sales here.)

So the ecommerce market is entirely different. There's no grocery store equivalent of Amazon's 40% share. And people can easily visit different grocery stores, but Prime members tend to shop mostly exclusively on Amazon for the obvious reasons, so it's locked-in in a very unique way.
That’s an interesting characterization, because I would have said precisely the opposite: I’ve seen that he consistently goes out of his way to denounce notions like “it’s not real X unless you make it with Y.” He’s pretty outspoken that it’s better to adapt recipes based on your own preferences, skills, and ingredient availability than to try to chase “authenticity.” It’s not uncommon to hear him say things like “it’s probably more traditional to include X in this recipe, but I don’t like that flavor, so I’m leaving it out.” I’m genuinely curious why you characterize him as a food snob.
Most states require all kinds of hoops to evict a resident. Even without a a lease. You can’t just lock them out. Sometimes the penalties for a wrongful eviction can be severe. And, in some states, there are criminal penalties.

(As a practical matter, it rarely comes to this as a couch-surfer will go find another couch instead of wasting money on attorneys and the like. But, typically, the owner of the property can’t just unilaterally decide a resident is a trespasser and kick them out.)
>> If they kicked them out at 18, the nephews would definitely need to work and may realize the importance of having a better job/career

It worked for me when my parents kicked me out. Took around a decade though.
Oh I totally agree, the US education system doesn't put any emphasis on helping kids figure out what they want to do after school. If a kid asks "when am I ever going to use this?", it's a sign you need to back up and lay some more groundwork. I don't know why it was different for me, but looking back I think it was important.
> Has it not occurred to you that it's precisely the modern economic knowledge, technology and techniques that have driven us away from gold backed dollars

It hasn't because its patently false. Both the gold confiscation in 1931 and cutting the cord of gold-backing in 1971 were both done as desparately rushed moves to reneg on the governments promise to uphold the value of the dollar. These weren't thoughtful reasoned well discussed actions. It had nothing to do with technology or best practices. It was a purely a politically expedient way to prevent collapse of an insolvent dollar.

> macroeconomists have spent the majority of the last century proposing and carrying out natural experiments

You don't run experiments in macroeconomics. Controls are impossible. And studies have so many confounding variables that any conclusions we come to are many orders of magnitude less certain than anything in the hard sciences.

> our post-gold standard economic crises have not been proportionally more devastating than the Great Depression

You must have misunderstood me. I never said any such thing.
Yep - we've just started getting some traction. I would expect that we'll have Europe from 1800-2021 done within a few months. Perhaps you would like to join in?

Separately, missing data is different from inaccurate data, no? I'm sure we have many inaccuracies, as well, but we're working to fix those.
> The real problem is that the Fed isn't powerful enough. It can only set the interest rate and it can't even set it below 0%,

AFAICT, experts have for years (even before the recent spat of foreign NIRP uses provided additional experience on the effects and raised new questions about whether the Fed would use them) long indicated that the Fed can set and pursue a negative target rate, but has never really shown interest in doing.
The way I understand it, it means that you can run a client on your manually defined data containers and not care about the networking aspect of wildland-specific environment.
I'm interested in what sort of "multifactor authentication token" and how IT support were able to grant this request.

Are we talking about a physical token like an old-fashioned SecurID OTP keyfob or a Yubikey? Or something custom?

Or are we just talking about a code that real employees get via TOTP or worse SMS?

It seems like the same week large employers figured out they would need to FedEx the new guy a laptop since he can't come to the office, they would likewise realise they want to make sure they FedEx that laptop to his actual home, not some building site a scammer told them to send it to. And so you'd hope that physical tokens likewise can't just be sent to some random social engineer based on one chat.

Even if you do succeed in getting them to FedEx the token to a building site, that's not a trivial extra step to retrieve. If some teenage "criminal mastermind" gives their parents home address to get the token delivered, they've also told cops where to start looking for the "hacker".

Whereas if it's just a code then I can more easily imagine IT support just pastes it into Slack for you.
Companies which don't respect "do not contact" requests get /dev/nulled at the domain level for me.

(This includes bulk mail services.)

I encourage 1) practicing this behaviour and 2) loudly advertising it.
So, looks like contacts and internal knowledge are much more important for a PHD than it is for most professions, but the situation is still much better than for politicians.

I'd say that means the PHD job market has a large problem. When politicians are the ones you can compare yourself to look good, it's because things are not good at all.
Generations ago, elite colleges had quotas preventing or discouraging certain groups from applying. Those barriers have been removed. As it turns out, selecting for intelligence yields more for endowments and other benefits than selecting for prestige or lineage. This may not be completely fair, but is more fair than the old way.Tons of people apply to these schools. The SAT is still a useful despite being an imperfect filter.
Hey, dev is ongoing! What hex shade should it be? I agree, it needs to be better!!
Thats Indian Varna system right there.
https://archive.is/kVD8q
Its a bit old, but amazing for some history of the modern system around Space.

The New Ocean by William R. Burrows.

Talks about the intentional setup for NASA TO be a 'civilian agency' and not military.
The blockchain is vast and growing. Discovery is difficult.

Google prevents new searches or tries to but if you have the link you can visit without google. Same as the blockchain you would need to know where to look.
Which is only possible if you are using a version of postgres which is new enough, and isn't restricted, such as some versions of RDS. Which, explains the whole original post.
I would say that the difference between your example and these reputation managers is that they are often themselves directly responsible for the problems they create:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/24/technology/on...

I guess this is more analogous to flipping someone’s breakers in their house and then charging them to flip them back on.
You can be very specific here: exactly 90% isn't in the top 10%.
Setting aside the other comments, I think it depends on your definition of “easier”.

Yes - it is easier in terms of up-front investment to have a scheduled (daily, weekly) downtime. But that often means the downtime is not automated - it’s someone doing the work, often out of hours when they’re not fresh, things can do wrong, etc. And it also means that the duration of the work is limited to the scheduled downtime. Some large upgrades just won’t fit in the allotted time, and you need to schedule an outage.

On the other hand, creating a system designed for zero downtime (ie, in-place upgrades, removal of big batch jobs etc) is a lot more of an investment up front, and makes upgrade planning more complex, but ultimately it saves time and effort because you can do all the changes during working hours, and “upgrades” become just how you deploy code - part of the core skill set of your team - and you do them 10 times a day.

The main difference that I’ve seen is that the scheduled downtime approach tends to create a much more conservative upgrade cycle, much bigger upgrades, and more risk of an upgrade failing - which means that a pile of features don’t get released. Also, certain customers will push back and demand a ton of documentation and detailed release notes and advanced warning of the upgrades etc - this creates loads of unproductive work for a small company. A continuous deployment model tends to reduce these problems because you’re not externalising your upgrade schedule and you don’t have a single big upgrade that can go bang, so maybe one feature doesn’t get released but everything else does.

Having taken both approaches (and even moved a company from scheduled to continuous) I would never go back to a scheduled downtime approach.
This is really interesting!

Do you know anything about the tools/methodologies of the teams that went part WFH and the adjustments they made when changing up their workstyle?

For example, do you know things like whether meetings were held at their previously scheduled times, vs. whether people started shifting them around to "meet when we're all here", or whether conversations and decisions were pushed organizationally to be more public, visible, and documented, vs made by whoever was in the office, because they could have a hallway chat?

Anecdotally, a friend of mine works at a "remote-first" company, where even when the whole team is in the office, they'll typically meet through zoom/hangouts at their desks, and I have other friends who are "the remote person" on an in-office team. There's a huge gap in the experiences of those two, which is why I ask about those kind of factors in your experience.
People have been doing this for forever, it's not a new technique by Kenji.
> Degrees don't make you marriage material.

This gets said so much on fora with men who regard themselves as “redpilled”, but it makes no sense to me personally. As a bookish and arts-inclined person, so much of my worldview, the things that occupy my thoughts during the day, has been formed by the canon of literature, music, films. No woman would seem dating and marriage material to me if she weren’t similarly erudite and we would have some common ground in that respect. It has been the number-one factor driving all my relationships over my life.

Often the man claiming that men don’t care about a woman’s education, goes on to say that what matters is that the woman knows, for example, how to cook. That, too, has never made sense to me. I live in a country where for the childless, eating out good healthy food is not appreciably more expensive than cooking at home, and a woman who chooses to take advantage of that and use her valuable time for other pursuits, would seem more attractive.
Bullshit. Oklahoma has a 4% unemployment rate and a very low cost of living. Some other states are similar. Anyone who's willing to show up and work hard can survive there.
We are in contact with mappedin but thanks for the tip!
I sincerely think you missed the last 3+ years of anything he did (I don't know how he used to communicate before) because if there is one thing I cannot say of him is that he's a food snob.

He is opinionated, but explains why he does things (often offering a scientific reasoning/experiment), especially if he's not following the traditional way, he seems to give context on what would be more traditional, and is quick in communicating "but you do you"...
It's interesting how few (I haven't actually seen any) of the comment replies are addressing the parents. I'd probably put equal onus on the parents to have better parented their children into adulthood.
Docs are not far away. Here's a practical introduction. https://docs.wildland.io/#a-practical-introduction-to-wildla...
> Is it because they have lower expectations for what their children need to live a "good" life

Yes, I think the minimally acceptable quality of life is certainly relative.

> that they just have more hope that things will work out somehow

Possibly, if everyone around you is on an upward trajectory, I can see that changing people’s calculus.

> or that they somehow don't care about these concerns?

I think a big factor is how (financially) independent women are and what kind of access to birth control (especially IUDs) they have. I suspect many of the women who have or had 3+ children would not have if they had similar options to those in developed countries today.