skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making each method it's own resource is a kind of interesting challenge. I'd vastly prefer to see individual metric data resources exposed as such- each with their own url- or with range urls- instead of passing a generic DAO endpoint a payload requesting some metrics. But at some point I am sympathetic to the query simply being too verbose to handle.

Microsoft's OData was an interesting walking the line act. It was a fairly genuine attempt to make a webful, url-ish way of querying for data. Part of me still thinks it was a great idea part of me thinks it's not in the least different from GetMetricData, even though it's generic, even though it's urlish and rangeful; it's still not passing some sniff tests.
Is it "An" idea? Yes.
Does it scale or work at the scale of humanity or has any potential to do so? No.

There is a climate summit presently underway and the topic of nuclear energy has been completely banned from it. That should tell you enough about the political forces manipulating genuine climate concerns to further their own ends.[1]

[1]https://theferret.scot/were-barred-from-cop26-nuclear-indust...
China is also not participating, so that should tell you how serious this is.
All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected
>Even if we had the tech it wouldn’t be practical.

we're talking potential military / DARPA contracts here, you could still make a pretty penny on something impractical.
Gotta love that for something that’s supposedly about privacy, it’s news when someone opens their wallet
Can I ask you what your path into jazz has been like?

I've been playing myself for like 25 years, classically trained for my whole childhood. I've always enjoyed improvisation and love jazz piano so much, but I've found it really hard to build from my very limited improv vocabulary into "serious" jazz, and I've had a hard time learning how to learn jazz, if that makes sense.
If you subnet it as 2.0.0.0/31 it should work as far as I’m aware.
The Active Worlds (unrelated software) universe server is still running and the client is still updated. This page has descriptions of some 94 worlds (of several hundred running, of several thousand all time total) that may still be accessible.

http://wiki.activeworlds.com/index.php?title=Category%3AWorl...
The population of China is expected to halve in 45 years. Japan down to 1/3rd of its currently level by century’s end. We are doing it already, no need to impose a heartless bureaucracy over it.
Not entirely true. Changing consumer habits is possible, but not without it being replaced by something that's more sustainable AND more convenient.
PHP, surprisingly, has legs. I started using it at my job in circa 2000, then moved to Rails, then to Node, then back to PHP for another project. It had lots of problems in 2000. But it has been fixed over the years.

It's not the dinosaur people make it out to be. The main concern was the number of threads it creates, and how that limits its scalability. But modern *Nix cores can handle more than 1024 processes. Node definitely improves efficiency by using async architecture which reduces OS load, but PHP isn't the devil as some claim.

I think there's a treadmill habit of JS frameworks that make anything >2 years old seem out-of-date, but PHP has it's benefits... assuming one adheres to separation of concerns (something that was casually disregarded by the same pedants when they discovered React, Angular, and Vue).

Wow, that was a soapbox rant.
Given that everybody has limited time to learn new programming languages, does HN recommend learning Rust or Ada?
Lets all settle on MAMAA

M - Microsoft ( Technology Sector )

A - Apple ( Technology Sector )

M - Meta ( Communication Services Sector )

A - Alphabet ( Communication Services Sector )

A - Amazon ( Consumer Cyclical Sector )
Look up your local/city orchestra; in my local philharmonic they keep an entire page on their website updated with local teachers for every instrument.
>> next, all email has to be cryptographically signed by the sending domain using public key encryption. (No more spam)

How does this work? Would every email address need to get a public/private key? From where? Does someone get to control who can use email? How much does it cost? Do the certs expire? How do we manage the system for billions of email addresses?

I ask this with genuine interest - I'm not sure how a cert-required email system would work - or how it would help with spam...
Wow, I would have just assumed that all the money in the wallets were laundered to give the impression of credibility, but it sounds like you're saying the quarter million dollars in those wallets are likely all from real people? And with 6000 live youtube viewers as well, probably not all bots!? And their website is down even with Cloudflare DDOS protection, meaning their website is probably being overloaded by legitimate traffic??

I've stumbled across variants of "play video of smart people talking about complex topic with link to unrelated scam to get people to build trust and click through" but I never knew how successful they were until now with crypto transactions being open and such.
Wow, this might be one of the best Wikipedia pages I've ever encountered. Thanks for linking it!
That is how many people practice. Beginning to end every time. Maybe slowly, but muddle through the hard parts and blast through the easy parts. Maybe, maybe, replay a measure where you made a mistake a couple of times until you get it right exactly once and then continue.

This deliberate one-measure-until-it’s-perfect isn’t something many folks learn on their own.
How else would you describe a system where people are compelled to contribute or be punished? "A social contract from which we all benefit" was a line frequently used by slaveholders. A master elected by the majority is still your master. He can compel your participation. Free people have no masters.

Clearly some degree of slavery is necessary to support the peaceful coexistence fundamental to society. Namely the army, police, courts, and the commons. Beyond that, no society which purports to value liberty will mandate cooperation. The government, with its supreme power to enslave, should be restricted in scope to the administration of the peace, not ever-expanding into every aspect of our lives.
Is there any research on harnessing the same process as crustaceans? Sounds absurd to write, but genuinely curious.
Or why not comply with the license and open-source it? It's not like their social network is popular due to their technological edge, and if someone else copies that, their users would leave..
We had this in 1992 at my university
When I was a kid on a farm in Saskatchewan, there were hundreds of Cabbage butterflies in my backyard, and usually a dozen or so Monarchs. I remember the Monarchs being easy to catch with my hands, as if they weren't afraid.

Now that I know how much their population has depleted, these memories feel extremely idyllic to me.
This is not the center of Open Simulator activity. This is just someone's directory of it. With ads. Just as Yahoo was "the directory of the Internet". With ads. I've used Open Simulator and never heard of this site before.

A more useful site is Hypergrid Business.[1] This discusses the various players in the Open Simulator world and what they're doing. There already is a distributed, federated metaverse with no single ownership. It's just not all that big. There are currently 362 grid operators, each with their own servers and users. Some are commercial, some are personal. There's a list.

[1] https://www.hypergridbusiness.com/
yeah for their ailing HR Dept
By "composability" I mean you'd be able to train models separately and then perhaps slightly refine the composed model as a whole on the final task(s). And models would be using each other's outputs, sort of like today you can take an ImageNet backbone and put an object detection head on top, except at a higher level. I.e. an optical (+IR) multi-camera object tracking model, fused with lidar and radar, feeding into a path planning model. As of today, I have just described a billion dollars worth of modeling at least. That needs to be simpler and cheaper. Currently stuff like this has to be trained end to end, which, as you've pointed out, is very difficult to do, to the point where there are only a handful of companies that can convincingly pull it off (Tesla, Google, OpenAI, _maybe_ Facebook), and even they are arguably at a local minimum this approach allows. And this local minimum won't get us to "real" AI, which I think was the point of this rather rambling article.
You're correct. Any plan that calls for less consumption is a non-starter. At this point it's incredibly harmful to hold on to an approach that's going nowhere and never will. We no longer have the luxury to indulge fantasies.
Seems sadly outdated. Several of the linked userscripts are superseded (Github Dark is now a site native) or no longer published.
So basically, we should have used IPv4 addresses more profligately in the '90s, in order to pull the runout date forward from 2014 to 199x-200x, increasing the urgency of the transition.

That's not the worst idea I've ever heard.
People have been developing their ears their whole lives. It isn’t that hard to take that and convert it to keys.

I play several instruments but can only read music for piano. Guitar, banjo, and harmonica I play entirely by ear or sometimes with some tablature to get started.
I feel you are looking at this from the wrong perspective.

You are looking at this from the perspective of the user (not customer). Since you are not paying for any of this content you are not the customer.

It is trivial for sites to improve the UX (emphasis on U) but the site is optimising for CX (customer experience). Given that C pays the bills, not U, C wins.

Sites don't need headers to do the things you want. They don't do those things because they feel they improve _your_ life. They do them because ultimately they need things like advertising to pay the bills.
Yes, use of cards i.e. Credit Cards is likely to decline in the US. However that does not mean Credit Card use is declining at all.
Instead it's increasing. There is a movement an shift toward using Cards for business payments. Given that business payments are an order of magnitude larger than Consumer payments the actual amount charged on Cards is continuing to and will continue to increase
If they excavate properly I fully expect this to be a long long term project. This is Mexico so I'm not sure who has controls over such a project. I wonder how much french investment this has.
New desktop from the bsd universe. Available for Linux. No dependencies. Qt5 Based. Customisable. X11. Free of systemd. Multimonitor. Plaintext Config. Can reproduce the look of other desktop systems. Plug-ins. Widgets. Nothing about multi desktop.
I don't think free speech should be an absolute, there are situations such as vaccinations during a pandemic when free speech kills. Freedom vs security trade-off.
Coloured Petri Nets predate both and are relevant to crypto, I don't know enough to say if the idea was math/compsci jargon prior to that as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured_Petri_net
It would be interesting to know what the "green zone" means to them. They don't bother to link to any edifying documents.

But this is a very defensive treatise. A bad look.
That's a really offensive and unproductive take, especially considering Asian social norms.
Monarch butterflies are beautiful and I want them to continue to exist. I can’t speak for others but for me that is reason enough.
I don't think you are even trying to read what they are saying. All they're testing is how well the hydrogen will stay underground and how tight the seal is for all of the various formations. We already know it works.
I stopped using python long ago, out of the frustration with the breakage caused in the ecosystem first due to the 2/3 transition, and then by splitting again the ecosystem with all the async stuff they introduced, when having instead gone the way of gevent would have ended up in something like this.

The company I was at the time tried really hard to move to python 3. It was a huge codebase with thousands of engineers. After more than a year of work they cancelled the project and said they'll never upgrade to python 3, and instead started writing smaller "microservices" around the core product just to calm engineers anxiety to use python3. Now Django is suffering kind of the same problem with all the async stuff being bolted on, adding a lot of gotchas and side effects and incompatibilities around every corner. It is a mess.

I left that company and I will never use python again.

I love how Ruby seems to care about the ecosystem, and both ruby and rails keep innovating and providing awesome full stack solutions.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29052903
>Weiss tried to get a professor fired, her anti-cancel culture screeds are disingenuous

What are you referring to here?
> Github Dark is now a site native

Personally, I still prefer the user style over Github's solution. I find the official black theme has too much contrast (it was probably made for amoled), and the bluish-black variant looks ugly to me. The user style has very good greys, and as a bonus, I've fallen in love with the cross-hatch pattern background it provides.
It's so frustrating seeing nuclear pitted against renewables, while fossil fuel powerplants are still operating/being built, whose baseline power could be replaced by nuclear.

But somehow the idea took hold that nuclear would be built instead of solar, and not instead of coal.
It's not "omit zeroes". It's, "represent the last three octets with just one integer".

127.256 is valid, and would be equivalent to 127.0.1.0. The last integer can be up to 16777215 (2²⁴-1).

Similarly, if you instead include three groups of integers, the first two represents one octet each, and the last represents two. 127.2.256 is equivalent to 127.2.1.0.
Even if he was a murderer is that a reason to not give his family more than 2 weeks notice? They didn't murder anyone.
It has been established that political forces will do whatever thats needed to maximize their profit margin, that's not news.

In order for them to align with climate protection, I think the only reasonable solution would be to make the "climate friendly" solution to be also the most profitable one.

This could come from new technological innovations, government regulations, or raise education and awareness for their stakeholders.
>It sounds like you were either in the field for money or are just in a shitty company.

Isn't that most of office workers. If you are in a role that gives you some fulfilment then you should consider yourself lucky.
China isn't explicitly not participating though. The president hasn't traveled to any foreign country for 2 years now due to COVID.
slavery?
What inspired you to ask this?
I'd make a content addressable system to have better caching, balancing, backups and history of changes. I'd like the internet to preserve its knowledge into the future.

As for security, I'd enhance the web browsers to do internet hygiene - removing unwanted bits and blocking information leaks. The browser should protect user accounts from being linked together.

Another major issue is payments which today is a high friction backwards process and acts like a gatekeeper. We need an equitable solution for micro-payments without too large processing costs.

The last one is search - users can't customize the algorithmic feeds it generates and startups can't deep crawl to support inventing new applications. Search engine operators are guarding their ranking criteria and APIs too jealously while limiting our options.

So in short, ipfs/bittorrent like storage, nanny browser, easy payments and open search.
Plenty of recent related discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27663618
Yeah, I haven't been seeing Monarchs for some time now, though just in the past few weeks I saw both a Queen (Danaus gilippus, a relative of the Monarch) and two Snout-Nosed butterflies (Libytheana bachmanii, another migratory species).

Not sure why, but this season does seem to have more butterflies than usual, at least locally. So maybe it's not just Monarchs.
Especially when the incumbent, fossil fuel energy, has been propped up by subsidies and unpaid externalities for centuries.
>Mastodon, the software Trump is using to create Truth Social

I see this restated as fact, when the public has no access to its closed beta.

Where is the proof?
SVG is still a markup language, not one that is compiled or streamable. It's also not relational. While you can design a page with SVG it's not parametric in that you can't modify the content or the page and have it re-flow, resize or act responsivly.

I would also describe SVG as a very verbose instruction set rather than a reduced instruction set.
Hmmm...links to IV seem to be broken.
Depends on which side is moving to dismiss that particular juror and what finding in their favor would require.
Notably, there's a cartel-like coordinated pricing situation between the big three cloud providers, which manifests in the lack of price competition, and which we need to bust somehow.
I've been living in the Grover Beach area for ~4 years, but visiting the monarch grove for about 15. This year has been _one_ of the better so far. With the milkweed I planted at the house I bought this year here, and milkweed I've seen my neighbors planting, I hope to continue to the uprise of their proliferation. That being said, my parents reported that in the 80s, there were about 2000x more of them than even now, so...
Wow. Nostalgia...

They were insanely reliable/performant drives and after reading enough reviews I couldn't resist back in the day. Regarding benchmarks, they definitely had a bit more pep by the numbers.

My two 10k WD RPM's ended up in a redundant RAID in my Sun W2100z. They ran over a decade with 24/7 use as a Debian/Ubuntu OS LVM.
I use ddg and I wouldn't want to give up the bang operator shortcuts. I use them heavily.
HTTP should have had some kind of URI event pub/sub mechanism from the start, including notifications for URIs pending removal to facilitate archival without polling or whatever crazy ad-hoc madness you want to call archive.org's priceless efforts.

Still an unresolved issue to this day AFAIK.
I found this article difficult to read. There seems to be a slightly disorganised approach of jumping between specific companies and macroeconomic ideas, then sweeping generalisations about what "American capitalism" means - a topic which rarely comes with consensus.

It is unclear what the thesis of the article's author is, and why he thinks this evidence is linked to it. Although just personally - if the US does suffers a massive stock market crash then nobody has the right to be surprised.
Wanton disregard for human life is an Asian “social norm”? I truly hope you are wrong.
2 is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
And that would also be used in rate-limiting and integrated to apps so no need to implement it manually.
new address https://etherscan.io/address/0x292a727025726A5eb28de4B5FecbB...

this guy is pro. not your typical scammer. changes addresses often.
Neither the technology nor the fuel for nuclear plants are abundant or renewable. For example, can Iran build its own reactors? No. Can Somalia run its hypothetical reactors? No. Can Syria import enriched uranium? No. Can we have reactors without them blowing up every 50 years? No. Do we have a solution for containing nuclear waste without leaks and without ruining the local communities? No.

Enough with this joke of pitching nuclear as a viable alternative. I get it that technologists love it because it will enable them to rule over the developing countries and it will open many high paid jobs but let’s stop pretending. Nuclear is what oil was 100 years ago.
Most awesome userscripts in my experience are made for personal consumption. They are not distributed or documented. Some of the good ones I've made download so many pages from specific domains that it isn't sensible to share them. Some of them combine and implement ideas that could be made into bigger projects. Sharing those removes the opportunity.

But sometimes the tiniest tweaks are the best. Things like removing the points from HN so that it doesn't consume attention. Change "new" into "new threads" to make the link bigger. Hide logout. etc Perhaps one should release such one line scripts but I never did or see anyone do it.

I haven't updated it in 100 years but this was a fun concept.

http://go-here.nl/gm/wikipedia-clean-up.php

bit of php, bunch of check boxes, out comes a site specific userscript (in this case wp) that hides all menu entries you don't want on a website.

One could offer it to the website audience. Lots of links need to be where they are but are never useful. If I for example need those in the HN footer (except from guidelines and list) I'm sure I can find them when the need arises.
The Romans thought christians were crazy for being monotheists and tried to suppress them for decades. Eventually that religion took over most of the world for centuries.

Top 5 coins is easy. You can look at market cap or my list here.
bitcoin
ethereum
monero
.........

Look into ENS, IPFS, 'layer 2' chains, bip32, etc.

The core thing to keep in mind when thinking about cryptocurrency is that it is software. 2010 bitcoin is very different from 2021 bitcoin. There is a shitload of funding in the space and a lot of progress is being made. Just because 'bitcoin is slow' or 'bitcoin uses all the energy' today does not mean it will in 5 years.
Microsoft Rolled Out “Online Service Experience Packs” for Windows 11
This is an example of how the internet was originally intended: Every user of the internet has a public address that any other user can send and receive messages from.

The design works just like postal addressing. Your postal address contains the directions to your building from any location on earth. Even if you live in a dormitory building with many other residents, I can still send you a letter directly by adding "door number: 42" to your dorm's postal address.

IP addressing use numbers instead of English terms like "door" and "street". So I can't simply add "door number" to your building's IP address, your building has to be given enough addresses so each resident's computer can have their own. When your computer has a public IP address, I can send Internet packets directly to you.

Harvard was early to the slicing of the IPv4-address pie, so they had enough addresses each of their residents, including Zuck. Anyone with internet could put Zuck's IPv4 address on an Internet packet and it would end up on his computer. Most of these packets would be HTTP requests to facebook.com, to which his computer would reply with a page from the facebook website.

This is the internet working as intended.

But we ran out of IPv4 addresses in 2012, which has forced internet service providers to adopt an address-sharing scheme called network-address-translation (NAT) that makes it impossible to send letters directly to other people's computers. Imagine I wasn't allowed to put any room number or name on my letters. If I sent a letter to your dormitory, the staff there wouldn't know what to do with the letter and would be forced to return-to-sender or discard it. This is what NAT does, and it has turned the glory of the Internet into a centralized monster of control and censorship.

If you want to host a website with a public IPv4, only established cloud providers that obtained enough IPv4 addresses before it was too late can help you (primarily Amazon, Google and Microsoft).

The successor of IPv4, IPv6, brings enough address space for every person, their dog, their dog's fleas, and their dog's flea's microbes. We can go back to hosting websites from our dormitories, sending chat messages directly to our friends (not via Google, Facebook and Microsoft), and start new ISPs that missed out on the IPv4 pie that actually have a chance at competing with the likes of Comcast.

IPv6 reintroduces equity to the internet that facebook benefited from in it's inception.