skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could talk about why this doesn't make sense on a technical level, or how Ethereum doesn't really have that much to do with AR or VR conceptually. Those are separate conversations. What really jumps out at me as odd though is the suggestion that NFTs would give consumers more agency over the IPs they interact with.

If I'm remembering the last NFT cycle correctly, what actually happened was that a lot of existing content got linked to tokens that transferred no rights over that content and that were basically completely pointless. Noticing this, some of the real content owners then looked into taking their content down so that the tokens would seem more valuable to any rich buyers that wanted to claim that they owned memes. It's very difficult for me to see how that result is pro-culture.

I think that a lot of the hype around NFTs is nonsensical and that the tokens are going to be mostly meaningless in the long run, but even in a world where NFTs do work, they're just as bad if not worse than any existing IP system that exists today. The goal of NFTs is to provide a mechanism that allows people to permenently own a non-tangible piece of shared culture in perpetuity for as long as they want until they decide to sell it to another buyer.

That's the complete opposite of what I was asking for above. Nobody is looking at the dystopian potential of the metaverse and saying, "the problem with existing copyright systems is that the ownership eventually expires."
It will crash the market if somebody put a sell order like that.
This is one of the most frustrating things about being invested in the Apple ecosystem. I've hit the 200gb limit and I'll be damned if I'll pay 330% more for storage that I don't need. Instead I'm deleting my oldest photos from iCloud and moving them over to OneDrive.
None of the big lie states have paperless voting machines. Eg: Georgia prints out an actual ballot for the voter.
It’s a fascinating look into the process; shame that there is probably a lot of material like this wallowing in filing cabinets somewhere.
As someone over a year into a burnout... good for them for guarding themselves from overextending. Maintaining a project is hard even if you have the whole of your energy and attention to devote. It's a lot harder when you're trying to power through.

I've held off finishing and releasing half a dozen projects over the last year because while I think they'd be useful I know I don't have bandwidth to support them.
> The miners can move to locations where the externalities aren't considered.

Which is the same problem with banning crypto. Unless you can get every government in the world, or a smaller goal of every government in the G20, to ban crypto, there will still be demand, thus an incentive for miners, for crypto.
Anybody who has thought about this problem and you might want to trust to build such a "FOSS solution" had the same conclusion:

Use paper ballots

It's boring but it works. Lots of places do this successfully. You don't need different software, you need to stop using software.
I'm legitimately curious how you would mandate platform portability and also prevent communication from the third party in the form of a law?

The only way to do that is to mandate that the platform (Apple/Google) give the third party the ability to move the user, which it is doing here with the most universal identifier.
We need to make a subreddit for this
That's operating expense not capital expense.
The little card they give you at CVS.
I was with you until this somehow turned into "both sides are equally bad". We should absolutely push for greater transparency and verifiability into the internals of such critical infrastructure.

The fact that one side has not prioritized this isn't similar to the other side's repeated attempts to overthrow our government.
Russian millionaire admits killing man he 'mistook for bear'
You've arrived at heaven and the afterlife through non-religious ways.
No need to sell it all at once. Ten thousand here, ten thousand there...
> Every single big company will only allow their payment method.

Did you read the comment you replied to?

Even if this passes, Apple will still be able to require that all apps offer Apple pay as an option for in-app payments.

They just won't be able to prevent developers from offering additional payment options, or from informing users about Apple's 30% cut, or from charging a different price to users who opt to pay using another method.
>the most hesitant are the highly educated class

Citation?
There are a few on github. None with any traction though. The one thing they all lack is lobbyists and slick salesmen.
You have to register to vote and link your vote to your registration.

The vaccine-card equivalent of Republican Voter ID requirements would be mandating that everyone present a vaccine card before being allowed to vote with the intent of discouraging eligible Republican voters.

The equivalent of present-day pollbooth security in vaccine-card form would be requiring people to associate themselves with an official vaccine record before shopping / working / etc. You wouldn't have to present an ID on the spot, but the records would be checked to look for two people claiming the same vaccination record, someone trying to claim a record that didn't exist, etc. Discrepancies would be investigated and if you were found to have fraudulently represented your vaccination status you'd be in trouble.
kinda agree

- session persistence

- dealing with cdns

- dealing with regional proxies

- dealing with captchas

- dealing with websocket data

- dealing with custom session handshake sequences

list goes on and on and on, but probably just edge cases haha
I don't know why you're arguing reality is so great though. Other then us needing to exist in it, there's nothing here to recommend it. Hence caves and then houses.
It works in identical fashion to mosh. I don't see any trade-offs except:

1. et has scrolling support

2. et does not have local echo of your input like mosh does

Edit: The comments below do a very good job of explaining the differences. TIL.
It is cost free. It prevents people from filing it again. It provides insight into later problems. It provides a place where people can ask and offer advice on working around it. Sometimes an intractable bug becomes more tractable later. It can provide a clue to a later bug report. Sometimes someone new has a brainwave on how to fix it.
Good comment. Additionally, we can't forget the fact that, for all their external policy blunders (which are many), the Chinese leadership is extremely skilled in manipulating domestic public opinion. They have mastered the weaponization of online mobs and are using them to foster a nasty brand of ethno-nationalism that can force even the biggest corporations and foreign celebrities to bend to their will.
Because 99% of open source software has about 1-3 real devs and after they give up there is no one who can be bothered to take over. Several older projects like X11 and CUPS have no real developers anymore.
Pixd: Tool for visualizing binary data using a colour palette
Raising a child by being a father is a much larger achievement than writing any software. I’d say the same if you mentioned someone like Linus Torvalds.
Does anyone know what technologies are used in the backend at Reddit? Not that their frequent outages are the result of language or framework choices - that's just plain old developer incompetence - but I wonder if they have chosen some technologies that are beyond the capabilities of the types of chowderheads who would work at a place like Reddit.
> In an unusual study, nine people who received these monoclonal antibodies were deliberately exposed to mosquitoes carrying the parasite that causes malaria.

How the heck did this get past IRB? Is malaria treatable enough that exposing people to it can be done ethical?
I’m pretty unhappy about Adobe’s “app store” on MacOS. I’m unhappier about debris from countless non-app store apps, all with difference license engines, update engines, sites that disappear or change, it’s a mess.

Devs, feel free to raise your price and charge me an extra 15% or whatever you need to make up what you think Apple is “stealing” from you. I’m not that price sensitive, just don’t make me think about all your homegrown BS hoops I jump through for your percentage points.

As a consumer I want one store, one purchase history, one subscription list, one update engine, total peace of mind. Percentage of consumers that genuinely want to track that stuff separately rounds to zero.

I also can’t help but notice that SetApp apps work on my Mac and on iOS without this bill. (I try apps “for free” from SetApp, then I buy them on App Store. Costs me a good deal more, but I’m making sure the dev knows the app store is fine with me thanks.) And SetApp, like Apple Arcade, or Xbox GamePass is even less to track, as you no longer worry per app, it’s the whole library for one price.

Speaking of which, I’m also wondering if someone is going to force me, as a consumer who chose a mobile appliance, to screw up my phone, are they planning to screw up my console too? Fair is fair:

“Senators Blumenthal, Blackburn, and Klobuchar recognize that independent 3rd party developers are being restricted in anti-competitive ways that impact what users pay for video games and other software,” said Ernesto Falcon, Senior Legislative Counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “The Open App Markets Act will put a stop to these practices, which will lower the costs for both developers and their customers by setting forth common sense competition policy for the industry.”

Or, you know, we can wait it out, let the market decide.
I’m on gigabit fibre, yes
thank god it stopped me from mindlessly scrolling.. yet here i am on hn, lol.
Mosh apparently fixed the lag issue where typing is very slow on far away servers. Trying to ssh a server on the other side of the world is annoying.
So are they anonymous and therefore transferable?
I had impostor syndrome for years and eventually stopped caring what other people think. I have a fancy title. I say dumb stuff in meetings and smart people roll their eyes. I am an actual impostor now.
China's Xi aims to mobilize the masses with populist crackdowns
Would love a citation for that.

Texas lifted all restrictions including masks and has lower infection rates per capita than most places with mask mandates and Covid restrictions.

So the statement you make with arrogance may actually be wrong misinformation.
How old is too old to fix a messed up life?
I am in my mid thirties. My life is messed up. Nothing like chronic disease or criminal
stuff or drugs. I just don't do much. I am socially and vocationally extremely alienated.

I am not in much psychological pain. I just don't do much.

I hate to see my life go to waste.

I have so far not found a therapist, friend, or mentor who is of any help.

Anybody else having dealt with similar issues, how did you start living your life after wasting years asleep at the wheel?

People say mid 30s is not too old but those people are usually working with more than I am.
the same way we mandate almost anything. by trusting that the vast majority of people are sane and rational and will follow the law. most petty laws have a very, very minimal chance of getting caught if broken.
I see your point, but to me its starting to splice hairs because at the time the meta wasn't something that changed much, there was effectively a pre-determined set of actions in the first 10 or so minutes and most matches were less than 16 minutes so perfecting your opening via almost a programmatic efficiency was pretty normal.

The proper inject time (for instance) is just X*N seconds since game start, the second best time is right after that.
I realize my reaction is, in a sense, completely off-topic, but what I notice most is that they didn’t think Docker solves this problem for them. In fact, I believe this is the first time in 4 years where I’ve seen a company try to solve this problem without making Docker the center of their effort (though they bundle the nightly build in Docker, it seems a minor part of their strategy, and could have easily been a traditional VM instead). They are being creative. The crucial thing is they didn’t feel this problem was solved by Docker, so they did something original and, in some sense, this amounts to a vote-of-no-confidence on the question “Does Docker solve our development problems?” A question that, back in 2016, most people thought Docker would solve. It is possible that 5 years from now, when we look back, we will remember this as the moment when the momentum and focus and energy of the tech industry began to shift in new directions. Because, certainly, for the last 5 years most of the tech industry has been asking “How will Docker solve all the problems of development environments.”
https://archive.is/LuWP8
This is a great tool! Keep the good work!
Rule of thumb is withdrawing 4% per year is a safe rate that will weather market turmoil if your assets are returning market average rates. A $1.4M portfolio will allow for a safe $56,000 withdrawal per year.
The title “Mosh: SSH for 2012” is amusing because now in 2021, ssh is still king.
Some of it - my custom HAL is OSS, and I've published the full repo code to one of my firmwares.
But that is my point. Most people got the latest war news from the government sanctioned newsreels playing in the movie theaters. Any photos of the war were approved by the government before they were run in printed media. Letters home were famously read individually to cross out unacceptable content under the pretext of protecting frontline strategies.

The government had a very strong stranglehold on what information the population received. Today that is not the case, and there are very good reasons for it, but in the event that world war three occurred, it would put the West at a severe disadvantage.

World War Three is a dramatic thought, but it isn't even happening and the West is already feeling the pain of this situation. Destabilizing election and covid misinformation being spewed by China and Russia are prime examples.
That's fair; you are of course welcome to your own views on life and death. But I don't think there's a "we", here. Some people are accepting of death, and aren't interested in the idea of immortality, or even a significant amount of life extension. Others... are. Neither viewpoint is wrong, or bad.

I don't think I'd want to live forever, but I think the time we get is far too short. I want to see an end to scarcity and poverty. I want to see thriving colonies on Mars. I want to see us figure out superluminal travel and visit other star systems.

Sure, we may also annihilate ourselves in the next century, but I'd rather be optimistic about these things, and it bums me out that I almost certainly won't be around to see them.

I've spent a lot of time on Alcor's website, reading about cryopreservation, and have considered signing up. But I'm worried about what could happen if it works. The culture shock of waking up even a century after your death sounds difficult to handle, let alone many centuries. Aside from being a small window to the past, what of value would I have to a future society? Would I feel without purpose, and wish I hadn't done it?
its like gitbook / notion / google docs, except more laggier
Wait, which side are you talking about? Is it the same side that’s been pushing election security bills with the most basic attempts to improve security of elections?

We don’t even need security – we need confidence. And this recent idea that it takes weeks to count votes, that we might not know the results for weeks – is completely unacceptable and is already doing irreparable damage to people’s faith in elections.
Wanted to cut down my reddit consumption anyways... :|
Thank you SO much for this. The false equivalency fallacy is part of the problem. The misdeeds on the sides are absolutely asymmetrical.
All that is being washed away. I foresee Hong Kong will be a regular mainland, primarily Mandarin-speaking city within a couple of decades.
I lived in HK for the better part of a decade (I still do, technically, despite COVID fencing me outside of HK and inside Singapore) and it's hard to articulate just how distressing it is to watch a place that you dearly love literally disappear before your eyes.

I have permanent residency and had planned to make HK my long-term home; those plans have evaporated. My friends who've been there even longer than me - many of them from the colonial days - are in the same boat, trying to work out how to sell property they thought they'd always hold and decide where to set up what are effectively completely new lives.

At the same time, I feel like this sense of melancholy is almost fraudulent, because I have an option, unlike a lot of the people I know.

I can just leave; that avenue isn't available to the lady who's sold flowers on the corner outside my flat for longer than I've been there, or to my local friends whose families didn't take part in the pre-1997 passport arbitrage or who were born too late to get a BNO.

Their entire way of life is fundamentally changing in a way they have no control over, and it's heartbreaking.
> Less than 50% of people have taken the full vaccine in America.

The majority of people in the better states are fully vaccinated.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

> There's a lot of people who agree with us.

Yeah, and they're mostly poorly-educated people in lesser states. (The sort of people you'd find at r/NoNewNormal. Right, Nick?)

https://www.prri.org/research/religious-vaccines-covid-vacci...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
What the world can do is allow immigration from Hong Kong, while that is still possible.
Good thing starlink service was made available in Germany earlier this year.
In that case, it could be in your best interest for the court case to last a decade, when you can buy a decent beach house.
I don't know.

If you look at something like chess, which was often thought of as very difficult, the first thing we designed that was really good at the game made us realize that you needed next to no logic to win if you had a computer fast enough to try a billion moves. But we thought object recognition would be super easy, far less than AI tier, and we still can't do it reasonably well.

I'm much more convinced that humans suck at estimating the hardness of problems, and not very convinced we keep cheating the classification of AI.
This seems maybe relevant, it's from DefCon this year, streamed just a few days ago. On the other hand, it's not until ~8:15 that he starts talking about voting system vendors. Everything before that is general background on vulnerability disclosure programs, etc.

At 11:30 he starts to actually talk about which vendors have VDPs.

Eventually makes it to ES&S and Dominion having good policies, and also being the bulk of voting systems in use.

And reaching the end, this is a focused video about disclosure programs, with no content about whether or what vulnerabilities have been found, how the companies responded, etc. So maybe not all that relevant.
I'd like to point to the excellent REMI [1] library that provides similar capabilities to Lona. You can create web apps by only writing Python. They can also be executed as GUI programs. You can even choose REMI to be the output backend of PySimpleGUI [2].

Not sure what the differences are, but good to know there are similar approaches :) Maybe every project can learn from each other. Thanks for sharing!

[1] https://github.com/dddomodossola/remi
[2] https://pysimplegui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Generally, I agree with you. I don't care about what you don't care about. I like the way Apple implements things, I've mostly liked their privacy-protecting moves until this latest fiasco.

But I'm not sure this is bad. With Apple being the only app store, all the possible apps are in their App Store. If there were other stores, perhaps Apple could actually clean all the garbage out of their store. Give them the opportunity to hawk their wares on less reputable stores. This also can potentially lead to Apple touting the "luxury-brandness", or simply the exclusivity of their app store -- they seem to really like that.

I'd also love to see an app store that's entirely focused on open source apps, perhaps with no payment method required. I bet there'd be no end to the types of storefronts we would see. As long as you can continue to opt-in to what you want, this doesn't seem too bad.
Honestly, I'm frustrated as hell that known bullshit is taken as truth (flat earth? come on!) and I agree with other responses (including yours) that picking one person or group to be "the authority" clearly is a target for manipulation. But when is enough, enough? There was a time when academics were the source of truth, and yes, sometimes they bone it, but they at least try to correct it. I dunno, I'm ready to go back to that, because this free-for-all of "alternative facts" can't be a good thing, can it?
This is an obvious take. It's like consciousness, you have to be aware of consciousness in order to be conscious.

The only way to be an impostor is to be aware that you are one.
you could get a $5/mo vps and you can make your own vpn. it does not anonymize you, but it does give you an ip in the area you want and it won't be on any block lists since only you use it.
Well, in one case, we work very hard to try to get everyone vaccinated driving vans around with shots and doing everything we can to get shots in arms (and is free). In another case we have no problem telling people that the ID office within 100 miles is open the 5th Wednesday of months that have a 5th Wednesday (and is a "nominal" fee). Because in one case society benefits from everyone getting shots and in the other case the decision makers benefit from not everyone getting an ID.

That is to say, one major difference is the availability of the papers.
Autistic kids can now be electrocuted by teachers in USA if they are disobedient
mosh has very good latency hiding and your connection can actually be interrupted for longer than a TCP session would tolerate.

The latency hiding alone makes it worth it; SSH is miserable over links with any lag, mosh feels as responsive as typing locally until you get into hundreds of milliseconds of latency.
This is where CQRS comes in. Every unique action has its own command id, so if a user clicks submit twice, the same command id is being sent twice and after the first success all future ones don't affect anymore change, they just return automatic success since that command id succeeded in the past.

Combine this with versioning, where you assert an event stream version on write, and now you're able to affect change on a known state that cannot have changed (and if it did change, your command would fail and cause no persisted changes server-side).
As an Australian, it's mind blowing that there's no nation-wide agency to run elections. Yes, I know about Federalism, but with states like Texas and Florida around, it's probably best to leave elections the adults in the room.
Unless being life support if what you want to be known for: the superhero that can work with shitty code bases and get results while improving them. Guess what most software company have: plenty of shitty but mission critical code!
No, they aren't. Those are privileges.

Shopping is a privilege granted to those who have money, which isn't a right.

Working is a privilege granted to those who have skills the market is willing to pay for, which isn't a right.

Participation in society is preconditioned on obeying the law, and can be taken away through arrest and imprisonment.
Same here. A lot of users started using streaming services for movies/shows and music because the $10 per month was a decent enough deal to not have to bother torrenting/downloading pirated copies. But if these companies are putting geo-locks and other such restrictions on VPN, then they will just go back to pirating again especially with the rise of webtorrent and free streaming sites like fmoviesgo or popcorntime.