skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where Web3 comes in. The last two decades have proven that building a scalable system that decentralizes content is a challenge. While the technology to build such systems exists, no content platform achieves decentralization at scale.

There is one notable exception: Bitcoin.

I don't consider myself well versed in crypto, but there's a whole wikipedia page on its scalability problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_scalability_problem

The transaction processing capacity maximum estimated using an average or median transaction size is between 3.3 and 7 transactions per second.

And that page doesn't touch on the energy consumption:

According to the Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance (CCAF), Bitcoin currently consumes around 110 Terawatt Hours per year — 0.55% of global electricity production, or roughly equivalent to the annual energy draw of small countries like Malaysia or Sweden.

https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actuall...

I'm guessing that these problems get brought up a lot, but as it relates to this article, I wouldn't build my argument on Bitcoin being a pillar of scaling. Perhaps virality, but I'd argue that has more to do with financial speculation than solving end-user problems.
NFTs as they're being used is silly, but to me the fact the article makes a brief mention about "digital ownership" makes me realize why I agree with Proudhon on the absurdity of property rights. Basically, everyone needs some kind of means of subsistence. In Proudhon's day most people lived by subsistence farming, so land was an essential element to that. And thus, the contention was what happens when all the land is owned? Do those born afterward become diminished by the need to purchase or rent land? Or is ownership contingent on the possession of it as in its direct use. Meaning that someone who inherits some title to land has no valid claim if they can only use/consume it? Today, people still need land to subsist but not in the same way that people did in the 19th century. As such, the whole idea of title ownership whether it's an Ethereum smart contract or an old fashioned title from the government it needs state enforcement as without this element it's worthless. Thus, the real problem with NFTs and just title/absentee ownership is the fact that it attempts to deprive people of subsistence rights whether in the physical world with using state violence to prevent people from finding shelter, food, medical care, and so forth. Or whether it's non-physical such as trying to make it illegal to distribute content ranging from images of art to information regarding circuit designs and chemical formulas for essential medicines. So to me, NFTs as certificates of "authentic ownership" seem like another example of the absurdity of title ownership. Your piece of paper or JSON file does not entitle you or others to absentee ownership. Use and possession are the only true means of ownership and absent that you must lean on the state to enforce it and the only means to enforce is through violence of various means (physical, structural, financial, etc).
Tons? https://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-bz-hurricane-season...
>“In Orlando if a house predates 2010 and is worth less than $300,000, no company is going to write [insurance for] you,” warned Locke Burt, CEO of Security First Insurance Co. in a June 2020 Sun Sentinel article.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/homeowners-insurance/why-is-h...
Residents there that cannot afford the insurance that exists might as well mean that it doesn't exist the same way life saving surgery cannot be purchased by a person makes it nonexistant.
Actually both Google and Bing suck. I miss the times when the search results were actually relevant.

The worst is Google, even if I try to verbatim search something, the results are about what Google thinks I should be interested in, not about what I am actually looking for.

I see here a huge market for search engines which deliver relevant results.
Don’t those still rely on the gateway for wherever you mint it on IPFS staying up? The NFT link only points to a gateway which can go down then you’re at the mercy of it being replicated across nodes right?
Selfish and Opaque Transaction Ordering in the Bitcoin Blockchain [pdf]
Covid antiviral pill halves hospitalisations and deaths, maker says
A spooky occurrence in the open-source ecosystem: Hacktoberfest 2020
The Plague of the Poor
> Sometimes big true-true different from small true-true.

More often, people who lie to you about the small things are also lying to you about the big things.

One might even nurse a prejudice against accepting the word of sources who lie consistently, casually and without need, suspecting that "true" actually means something different to them. Taking the more charitable interpretation.
Every time I read this kind of post, I just substitute "Scrum"/"Agile" keyword with "AK47".
> and more

I am not sure about that - there are some "pathological" phenomena in classical math that are rejected (for the lack of proof) in constructive math.
Consistency Is Key, But...
In the US, you only pay taxes on income and gains. In other words, you’re not going to pay taxes on those tokens until you redeem them for fiat currency. The tax is an percentage of the fiat currency you receive, not the token value.

Just like stocks (you don’t pay for any changes in value to the stock until you sell it for fiat currency).
Very common, frequently toxic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformer_oil
It sounds like you attended a poorly run conference that was not able to accommodate your disability and still refused to accommodate you after you were forced to self-advocate

All conferences I've been to are good about offering suggestions for near-by childcare or even on-site child care for all parents. If that wasn't offered, that's more evidence the conference wasn't run well. It's not appropriate to have a 1 year old babbling over a speaker giving a presentation and the organizers should have quietly spoke to the person caring for the child and removed them from the situation.

I don't think that has anything to do with CoCs.
Great question! For new events we have 8 workers that process multiple customers at a time so the time to querability is typically pretty fast!
Fortinet, Shopify and more report issues after root CA certificate
The person who submitted that particular PR is trolling (clear from their comments in the original #2690 thread) - this was satire.
“He is punctual and dependable, but not real good at thinking on his feet.”

Doesn’t this describe most people that do well in large organizations?
Depending on the context you should take responsibility in both circumstances.

Crossing your own line is obvious. But you should still take responsibility when crossing someone else's if you feel they're acting in good faith / being reasonable about the offense, even if you disagree with them. And probably another caveat or two I can't think of off the top of my head.
> new and wild ideas

Only "wild" as in "stupid". Ethereum has been around for ages, and it still has nothing to do with "decentralizing the web". Its advanced functionality is only used for building things like automated Ponzi schemes.
Here's more information about the program: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

I believe YouTube has the same type of program.
Hi, yes exactly. Backend is on Java + spring boot webflux, because of Kafka most mature client and frontend react + typescript.
Huge companies that pump out billions in profits and form the basis of modern life aren’t “real things”?!
Sorry, but now who's the one shifting the goalposts?

Masks on public transport or vaccine requirements for entering another country are very small things that can have a big effect on the virus. It's unreasonable to demand a "pure" response to the virus.
I want to believe in PWAs. But in the real world they are just way too clunky. I’ve observed this on both software I’ve written, and on PWAs from teams that should objectively know what they’re doing like Google Calendar.
Banking-Crisis Interventions, 1257-2019 [pdf]
It's a self trimming wingsail. Its only purpose is to maintain the angle of attack of the main wing, much like how a horizontal stabilizer works on an airplane.

Personally I think it is something that is brilliant, and it is actually the primary feature that enables autonomous operation as a drone. There are no halyards or sheets, no ropes anywhere. All you have to do is maintain an angle of attack relative to the wind, and you have propulsion.

BTW, the founder holds the wind propulsion land speed record, and the wing design for this is an evolution of that design. When you're moving at 4 times the wind speed, no human can possibly keep up with the continuous trimming demands of a sail. This design does it perfectly, and at an overall reduction in total complexity.
Netflix provides the ISP with the box, afaik the box contains a signed certificate for a Netflix subdomain specific to that box. The "real" Netflix servers direct the customer to that subdomain for the actual content.
It's not intercepting anything. It's classical social engineering that got automated with bots.
The legion of Apple fans who make fun of Java's long names just have no leg to stand on.
And again, like the recent misunderstanding of Macbook and iPad, it's not for techbros, it's for creatorbros.
Yeah I got a kick out of that too.

“Send the money back or we’ll follow the laws we were supposed to be following anyway!”

Patio11 had a thread on Twitter better than this article.
How to Crash Our Product
I gave Bing an honest try, and I wanted it to work for me... but it is just horrible at finding what I am looking for.
> I do find it disappointing that there is no reliable local storage system for the web. I get the resistance to trackers but there should be a way to request permission to store data that isn't deleted except for explicit action by users.

I've built a number of apps in the last year or two that use browser local storage. It also annoys me that the idea around "storing data in your browser" is automatically attributed to ad tracking. I have to go out of my way in my apps to inform users that yes this app uses localStorage/cookies, but no this is not used for any ad tracking, rather for actually storing your app's data.
> I'll bet a lot of people quit for similar reasons.

Most of us on HN are not multi-millionaires, or even millionaires.
Surely many of the problems highlighted in this article apply whether it's web or native. Unless all the app's data is generated on device, it needs some way to synchronize with a server, which might either be an "offline-first sync all the data approach" or an "online-only sync a little bit at a time approach".
Disappointed by the release. No big changes. Still using processes instead of threads for connections. No build-in sharding/high availability (like Sql Server Always On Availability Group). No good way to pass session variables to triggers (like username). No scheduled tasks like in MySql. Temporal tables are still not supported 10 years after the spec. is ready.
> Maths would be far more accessible if mathematicians described everything in plain English

Are you sure about that?

Take Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion as an explanation of orbital mechanics and try and do anything with just these plaintext definitions (courtesy of Wikipedia):

The three laws state that:

1. The orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci.
2. A line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time.
3. The square of a planet's orbital period is proportional to the cube of the length of the semi-major axis of its orbit.

Now try and apply this without ever falling into mathematical notations. And translate this into every language under the Sun unless you really want it to only be comprehensible to English readers.

Or take this formula, converted into plain English:

The distance of a planet from the sun is proportional to the semi-latus rectum and one more than the product of the eccentricity of the orbit and the cosine of the angle between the planet's current position and its nearest approach.

To help out since at least one term in there may be unfamiliar to most readers (courtesy of Wikipedia):

The latus rectum is the chord parallel to the directrix and passing through a focus; its half-length is the semi-latus rectum (ℓ).

Now, take that and suppose we have the distance from the sun and all the other values, but not the angle, rephrase that abomination so that we can solve for the angle. Without using mathematical notation. The only good thing about dropping mathematical notation is that we'd be able to slow down technological process substantially as we wouldn't even be able to get to orbit anymore.

That idea of "solve for θ" is "just" a basic application of algebra. An act that would become impossible to do with any kind of reasonable efficiency and confidence about correctness without something like our current mathematical notation, and plain English (very anglocentric, guess we don't want anyone outside the anglosphere to participate) would be a poor alternate.
Are there any real success stories for "ontolgies" like this? It seems like a lot of them are made, but they're ultimately not that useful.

I've been forced to use some, and it seems that someone got paid a lot of money to come up with something that's incomplete and poorly models the domain. So the net change is some XML doodads that no one really wanted or needed.
yeah, also thought of this. An iPhone is essentially a small network of interconnected processors communicating with each other!
PWAs lead to the walls of Apple's walled garden being torn down.

They'll fight it with subtlety until the end, and I hope they burn in hell for it.
Thanks, love seeing that
> How about a joke in the context of saving money that said "Must've been done by a Jew"

That's not really the same at all. The difference being one is a self-deprecating joke while the other is not.

To your second point, that's why I think it was a poor translation but I'm just guessing at this point. I agree on the cringe.
Can you point to a good introduction to Conflict-free replicated data types (CRDT)?

It's crossed my (short attention span) radar a couple times and seems interesting. I really love the idea about being able to use it, but also "forget" about it while developing.

Does "leaky abstraction" apply here? If you constrain things enough, can a dev really use it and forget about the details?
I think that a developer distaste for relational databases was a major driver. Digging back into correspondence on this a few months ago (when this came up on HN) I found clear statements that Mozilla opposed anything relational. The SQLite version is a convenient excuse for some developers who, at the time, we're enamoured with "NoSQL".

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28156831
Not barbed wire: high voltage electric fence wire. Run a single strand near the top with a charger (you can get solar powered ones if there's no AC nearby) and that will stop them in their tracks.
This reads to me as yet another screed by someone who has never worked outside the tech industry. Software Engineering is IMO the best, most privileged job available in the US, and I suspect in much of the world. Life-long tech workers have no idea how much worse conditions are even for “knowledge workers” in other fields.

Case in point, when we get a tired of the office grind we can publish a manifesto that slams tons of people we’ve worked with in the past (with no fear of consequences from those burned bridges), move to a resort wherever we want, and still expect to either make great pay with benefits while fully remote, or realistically start our own business with a great chance of success (and can easily raise funding to defray the risk if we want to).

I’m grateful to work in software. It’s a wonderful thing that we have so much privilege. And so of course, at a time when the world has been quite stirred up and most of our lives affected, it’s great to see many engineers have the freedom to change jobs to fit their lives better, and that they’re exercising that freedom.

But could we observe and write about all that without the anger and entitlement? For anyone who has worked in other fields, or even less in-demand jobs in tech, it just comes across as whiny and out of touch.
It’s not revenue and not reportable until you exchange the tokens for fiat currency (I.e. sell it)
I am very sympathetic to this change. It probably doesn't go far enough to be honest.

This type of change is important because without it moderation is more difficult. What can feel like a masochistic job becomes near impossible where every decision is treated as though it violates soeone's free speech. In reality people who don't want to abide by the CoC are free to say whatever they want in spaces they manage.
That's almost like rejecting my example of current US inventions (or at least those from 10 years ago) because the US is technically at war in Irak or Afghanistan. The Renaissance, Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution happened in the propsperous centers of those European countries, in cities that hadn't heard of conquest for a century or more. They were also often the result of international relationships between thinkers and artists across the continent. Competition surely provided some motivation for the Industrial Revolution, but it was not the main impetus, nor was it a major factor for the others.
“My faith unbreakable, My blood is pure”
Someone at google thought this was a good idea? "My blood is pure"? Seriously? That's practically a line straight out of Mein Kampf.. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist151/Nazi/hitl...

Click the doodle, slide 7.
Technically Ethereum is moving to proof of stake; no more miners, no more massive (well, less egregious) environmental impact. I would say that BTC is the big problem here, which is one reason why I personally don’t think it will have staying power long term.

You have a point about proof of work in general though.
The Cyber Monoculture Risk
you are willfully merging two separate topic into one trying to shut down an argument by adjacency, as if the trite answers you bring could move the discussion forward. do you have points of your own that relate to the topic at hand?
There are some exceptions like exercising stock options where you’re taxed for the difference between the strike price and the fair market value at the time of exercise (I’m not sure why the law is this way).
'You need to diversify'

What? You can take a $100 investment and invest in a single stock or you could put $10 in a diversified portfolio....or put $100 in an index fund...

None of these options require investing more money..
Have you stuck a volt-meter to your laptop to see if it is actually running a current through the body of the laptop? If it is, might be worth having the laptop serviced.
But it got merged. That change is live on their official website now.
Just as real as the fascination... there are two sides to any idea, more often than not. To your point, indeed it's not very clear to me what does Cloudflare want to achieve in this area.
No, Netflix's applications would have users of that ISP use the CDN server which they would locate within SK Telecom's network.

Netflix calls it their Open Connect Appliance: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/

That server would, of course, have a connection to the Internet, they push logs to AWS and get updates from Netflix's authoritative servers in Netflix's other datacenters, but they also serve HTTPS connections to thousands of ISP users; the upstream traffic would be minimal.
For some context, it looks like this might be the original message that started all of this mess... I'm not a Ruby person, but I thought it would be interesting to actually go back and follow the trail of what happened from the original mailing list messages (as opposed to what someone wrote on Twitter).

The original message:

>Another example - perhaps somebody could fix that (many errors have that
source!)

>Date.today

>Date.today +1 # no error, but wrong result!

># Maybe this has been written for women, having calculated their age ;)
[1]

Thankfully, it looks like many of the replies just ignored the comment. One helpfully added:

>(btw: please don't make sexist comments, it's discouraging to many people.) [2]

Others took it a bit further:

>No. Knock that bullshit off. [3]

>You're in the wrong here. Take the loss, own up to it, and do better next time. [4]

And somewhat predictably, things devolved from there...

> What's next? Don't make enterprise java jokes / comments, it's discouraging to many people. [5]

[1] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...

[2] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...

[3] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...

[4] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...

[5] http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/...
Interesting, that "Age (over 40)" are cited as "Protected class". So people over 40, which feel harassed by many of these "new rules" can actually do something about it?
how do you ensure that new company isn't the same or just slightly better than older company. Everyone seems to promise rainbows and ponies in the interview.
hmm i don't know. generally speaking, money today is not the same as money tomorrow. and so,

if you think about money as a commodity, to be consumed, transformed, redeployed, similar to let's say... corn. what would you do, as a grain processor, if your supplier decided to show up with 500k bushels six months too early?
Reasonable people believe that they have a duty to be careful about how they communicate, and have a duty to consider others intent.
Not much more to say other than Noms was my favorite project (https://github.com/attic-labs/noms) for a while until acquisition and the engineers are now the ones behind Replicache (https://replicache.dev/).

I think this is going to be the next "Realm" that works everywhere.
How do you deal with the face that the browser may just decide to wipe the storage at any time?
My guess Netflix can guide that by handing back different IPs when the end user requests the netflix server name. They can also handle it in application the netflix application can look and see it is in a network that has a box and just goto that ip/host/proxy instead of the generic one. Netflix still controls the keys. No MITM needed.
I use the vscode plugin. As a matter of fact I seem to be using vscode for more and more admin tasks including kube management.
> coin crap in order to "decentralization-wash" their public image

I’d guess it has nothing to do with that and way less dramatic.

They are a company that benefits and profits from having a large network. It makes sense to try and be part of alternate networks.

A lot of people, including myself, see their growth as also having made small businesses/sites/apps more competitive on an increasingly centralized web from way more evil players in the game.

The Crypto noise aside, I also think a decentralized Internet is exciting. At the very least, I’m glad they are throwing money at and will see where this goes research helps things go.
And plenty of people's experiences with social media have been positive.

Think of the LGBT teen in a small town in the midwest who can find a social group to discuss their. Hobby groups, pick up sports groups, etc.

Teens who were already finding 2-3 hours "and then greatly increased their use" a day for doomscrolling between school and homework probably would feel the same if they spent it watching TV.
But in this case the Compound contract specified this was intended to happen, therefore it's not an accident nor was the money transferred to the wrong account. The whole point of the contract is that it's a perfect, unambiguous, clear representation of intent.

Right?