skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wonder about this decentralization. If you really think of it all of the big players are already decentralized. The whole cloud is about decentralization. Hot swapping to new location when some datacenter goes down... Routing your traffic to nearest one to save fractions of cents on data transfer. I see no reason why this wouldn't work with multi-planetary system too?

The whole blockchain just seems so inefficient way of doing it. And with NFTs we aren't even putting data itself on the chain. Shouldn't whole point is that the data is there and will live forever on the chain, just latest node telling who owns it is updated as needed?
Even with the /s and assuming best intentions, this made me upset. Sorry I'm downvoting and flagging.
There really isn't much to learn aside from the API. SDL isn't a game engine, or even close to one.

Once you know how to open a window, poll for events (maybe even create custom events and use the event system for messaging or signals), load a texture from a file and make sprites, and maybe basic AABB collision detection with rects, you know most of what SDL is useful for. Everything else is "code the rest of the f'ing owl" territory, which is outside SDL's purview.
This is a bit of a tangent to your comment, but I still kinda wanted to point it out.

In chimpanzee cultures, the "alpha males" are rarely the strongest or most violent ones. It's usually the most charismatic chimps that get along with the most other members of the group and have their support. Usually the approval of the elders plays a big role.

In some of the Northeast woodland cultures talked about in the book they had similar leadership models based on charisma. Charisma here doesn't really mean just having a way with words (though it does also mean that). It means being able to understand the needs of all the members and having their approval

Whether or not you wanna call this "hierarchy without coercion" is mostly a matter of semantics and what you ultimately define as "hierarchy". But I think a key difference to point out is that these positions of leadership don't really hold any permanent power. They have a lot of influence, but that influence can be taken away as easily as it's given to them
Please cite your sources specific to fuel consumption in landing and holding patterns.

Again: You're going to extreme lengths to avoid admitting error.
Lusakasa/saka-key: A keyboard interface to the web
Hello, author of the linked blog post here.

I actually did another blog post about self-hosted chat platforms (Rocket.Chat in particular) just yesterday: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/lets-run-our-own-chat-plat...

(admittedly, the level of detail and quality of it could be higher, still working on that)

Either way, if nothing else, i wanted to drop by and express my agreement with your point about technologies to chat with others, both in video form and otherwise. Personally, i think that both the self-hosted options and the ones available in the cloud (such as Discord) can have a large positive impact on us, especially during the current times.

For example, they allow me to embrace a more asynchronous way of work - at my current company, we've essentially replaced the daily stand ups with the Standup & Prosper app (https://standup.teaminator.io/) and have discussions more freely in the chat channels otherwise, while still having weekly video meetings, which works for us.

At the same time, everything from Discord to even WhatsApp lets me keep in touch with my friends and acquaintances, even though we live pretty far away - actually, i've moved to the countryside almost a year ago and somehow it still hasn't felt lonely to me thanks to these technologies (while also having lots of other things to do).

I'm not sure precisely why that is, but those platforms somehow feel more enjoyable to me than something like Facebook or Instagram, they allow for a bit smaller and more personal/private conversations, that leave me feeling more socially satisfied than just "shouting into the void".

Of course, YouTube is also immensely useful and i can't believe that i forgot to mention 3D printing, even though my printer loves to cause me trouble every now and then: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/how-to-make-your-3d-prints...
> We are at all-time peak of distrust among individuals, corporations and the gov't. The only way forward is going to be trust-less systems where everyone can inspect why and how things are working.

I agree there's a lot of distrust in society but maybe not all-time peak because to interact with so many moving parts in our complex environment today, I think we may be trusting of more things. But perhaps that's for another conversation.

The main thing I'm curious about is your statement that the only way forward is thru trust-less systems. I personally believe we could also try to increase trust in other people and institutions.

Why do you think the only way forward is thru trust-less systems?
It'sprobably better that people emigrate to the UK with its relevatively impoverished forest cover and relieve pressure on countries with better preserved ecology.

Or are you against people moving from the countryside to London too?
I don't disagree that useEffect is a great extraction overall. But the mental load to understand it vs. explicit lifecycle methods is significantly worse.

The ability to subscribe is indeed amazing (this was much more verbose in class components).
It’s costs roughly $5 to send $1m in Bitcoin. And you can it from your phone, in minutes, any time day or night, and to anyone in the world with a phone.
No no, mining will occur until ~feb 2140. We are nowhere close to the mining incentives disappearing. Transaction prices are currently 1sat/byte $0.09/tx (cheapest possible price). If the last time you dabbled was 2014, I would encourage a review in 2021 as maturity has greatly increased. It’s still early too. There will only be 243k Sats per human on Earth. Get stackin’
> The vaccines don't stop people from spreading it though...? (dead comment that deserves a reply)

It is ostensibly for their own good and to prevent the collapse of the healthcare system that, coincidently, has reduced capacity over 2020.
Yes. It would be a “steal” for somebody that somehow both can’t run etherscan and extrapolate meaningful information but is in a position to make big financial decisions.

Are you a customer of this service?
Your confused too, resp is a text protocol. So is http. This isn't binary vs text protocol expermint. None of the http parsing should take seconds like this suggests.a simple protocol might be faster to handle but another post down below makes a similar point where something implented well can respond is micro seconds. Really all this shows is that handling text off a socket is faster then this http framework in eleixr
I wrote about exactly this - why you should care about the blockchain - here (1) and here (2). Curious what you think?

(1) https://mobile.twitter.com/viksit/status/1450518759387582472

(2) https://mobile.twitter.com/viksit/status/1452687368511655936
You should. People are generally selfish and dumb.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/nanny-state-strikes-again
Wait until you hear about the vaccines they made you get as a child, before you were allowed to go to school!
FOUO, for official use only. That’s non-secret but not appropriate for general release information (for some reason). CUI is the updated version of that level of classification.
I think I understand you better now. However, there is no 'challenging that assessment', since the assessment itself is useless (adds nothing to the conversation), and could be rephrased as "Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man". But instead of being as inoffensive as this quote from The Big Lebowski, the comments reads as, at best, rude, and at worst, abusive. Since the tactic of making the experience of others appear invalid is the cornerstone of abuse. And we should do better than being abusive to each other.

The thread moved on and I'll end the conversation at this point.
By then, maybe the version number will encode the program itself. :-)
My apologies. I see how my comment was dismissive of the work. My intentions were to point out related work. I'll update my comment

edit: looks like it's too late to edit or remove it
Even if Tesla provides insane value in ten years, to get in line with traditional/historical manufacturing company valuations while justifying their current valuation, that would necessitate something like $70 billion in free cash flow per year.

So in other words, if Tesla does everything right, executes perfectly on a global scale, suffers no major hiccups, and they grow their annual free cash flow by tens of thousands of percent from their current position, they'll finally justify their valuation and your ten year return from a current investment in Tesla will be 0%, not adjusted for inflation.

The bull case from here is thinking that Tesla's valuation will permanently stay in the upper atmosphere for decades to come, but at some point, the growth rates slow. There are only so many automobile purchasers on our planet, not to mention the competition which is picking up. My bet is that Tesla does not get to $70B in FCF by 2030. I also don't think the market will give them a 30x sales valuation forever, especially as their growth rates eventually begin to slow. They've already saturated Europe and are heavy into the Chinese market, and of course, their US + Canada market penetration goes without saying.

Maybe Tesla goes back to a normal valuation via a $3T market cap, giving current holders a great return (so long as they cash out at the peak). Who knows. But long term, I don't see how they justify their present $1T market cap, and as Ben Graham famously (and rightly) quipped, in the short term, the market is a voting machine. In the long term, it's a weighing machine. EVs are "in" right now, and they're getting lots of votes, but in ten years, EV manufacturing will be as boring as ICE car manufacturing is today and the industry's valuations will be weighed on its own merits.
Minimum wage in Portugal is €775 when dividing the yearly gross salary. The €665 figure is a misrepresentation in an international forum like this because Portugal pays salaries 14x a year instead of 12x.
+1 for an IntelliJ port.
Try deploying the same contract on a different chain, like Polygon. It's a lot more fun. Super cheap, almost instant and is a preview of the future. If ETH 2.0 is like that it'll be a game changer.
Especially when the risk to vaccinated lawmakers is so low.
> could run complicated programs on a global computer and not need to worry about running your own infra like a DB or hosting

You mean like serverless ?
That's the one, thanks
Single or even handful of global computers running everything sounds extremely scary... Something goes wrong or there is some issue and whole thing comes to halt with decent chunk of economy... Then fights start how to fix it. How to roll things back. What to reinstate. How that effects further things. What if at this point some physical transactions have happened?

Are we going back to 40s and world needing 4 computers?
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Can we find a source for this story reputable enough that the sidebar isn't half "Amber" alerts?

[EDIT:] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/world/europe/austria-chan...
Yeah road bike riding is absolutely what I want to avoid though. Suppose it’s personal preference but I hate those tiny tires. I’ve hit a curve + gravel/loose asphalt and had my front wheel slide sideways causing me to lay the bike down at full speed. Back in my BMX days I had a friend lose his top lip like this and I was riding right next to him (it got sewn back on). And I’m just a casual rider now a days. I’m not a commuter or sport rider, just gets me outside on a nice day. So I am taking in my surroundings and not necessarily 100% focused on the road.
That was not my experience in Beijing in January 2020, but I have not been since.
https://archive.today/ImKqS
Ask HN: Why Blog as a Developer?
The most repeated answers seem to be:

a) To get a (better) job, or some other career benefit.
b) To build a brand and/or following.
c) To become a better communicator.

Are there additional benefits, especially for someone with no need for a career or branding?

I feel compelled to collect my creations and thoughts in one place, but can't make a lot of sense of it. I feel it's almost entirely Ego driven, though I am certain no one gives a damn what I would write or do.
> I am however pro bodily autonomy at any cost, for whatever reason, in any condition.

Do you also oppose the assorted vaccinations that are often treated as a mandatory condition of public school attendance?
It's all explained in https://youtu.be/xCHab0dNnj4 — the ONE and ONLY thing a public blockchain is useful for is censorship-resistant payments.

Which might include good things (donation to your favorite whistleblower or buying weed or whatever) but definitely WILL include bad things — for example it is uniquely well-suited for paying ransoms, hence the ransomware explosion!

Again, this is the ONLY thing. It is horrendously bad in every way, there's just no other choice for this kind of usage.
(because (why (not lisp)))
Here's a way to look at it:

Web 1.0 - Permissioned Read-only

Web 2.0 - Permissioned Read & write

Web 3.0 - Permissionless Read, write & own
I suppose in some cases it is slightly cheaper way to do international money transfers. And that would be relatively simple problem to solve if world wished to do so.
100% agree on this and that's my point.

Was that code merged without any review? If so, that is a recipe for disaster.
Why no unit tests, integration tests, QA?
What was the speed at which the outage was resolved? If a sane deployment strategy is in place, I'd hope that no big damage was actually done; if the error budget was burning fast, there should be some manual/automatic rollback.

tl;dr they may have been a key factor in the outage, but it seems like it is a symptom of a deeper hole in the process.
https://searx.thegpm.org/
I'm not a 3D person or whatever, but is it possible to (asynchronously?) pre-compile shaders before you use them? Like, to run shader compilation behind the scenes while the user is playing the tutorial or whatever?
To start, I didn't know Zulip and it looks like a clickbait headline. Then, you read the article and you stumble upon a few well-known anti-blockchain arguments, that are designed to appeal to anti-something crowds.

"We believe that doing so would inevitably compromise the integrity of our 100% free and open-source project." Most blockchains projects are fully 100% free and open-source projects, even more so than other domains in software. But uniquely, the data is 100% free and available too!

"Cryptocurrencies have a significant negative impact on the environment." That is a PoW-only concern, which is well-known and is being technically addressed by PoS. Also, mining for PoW currently uses excess electricity which is *wasted anyway*. At that rate, Google and Facebook use a lot of energy too: Who needs to see videos and chat online with friends when we should all read books instead?

"Today’s reality is that cryptocurrencies are enabling massive amounts of criminal behavior". Probably no more than regular dollars: Everything is visible on blockchains (except some specialized chains) and it is poor judgement from criminals to use them. They will get caught, more quickly. Bad state and financial actors can much more easily hide things in the current financial world... look at all the Panama Papers and other ICIJ leaks!

"The lack of effective regulation of crypto assets puts people at high risk". The current financial regulations are a joke: You can use leverage on RobinHood and lose money at this casino pretty quickly. They will also cheat on you: restricting you to sell or instead selling stock you own without your consent, selling your order flow so financial giants can make the best of you! If you naively believe regulations are here, we're protected, think again. Most fines set by the US administration are used as a political tool (for instance against the French bank BNP Paribas for doing business in Iran). That said, blockchains regulations will come as the sector matures, you can just hope that they will be written by people who understand the technology.

Edit: Since I'm being downvoted, please state why in a comment!
Incredible to see this the day after the memoir about living under Pol Pot makes the front page.
This is what a couple of my former colleagues worked on under the name of "internet computer". No affiliation, but I find it interesting.

https://dfinity.org/
The ones with a nearly impeccable safety record, that we had many years of long term experience with, the ones that actually provided sterilizing immunity? Those are great!
You bring up a great point: how do we deliver high-quality software to the general public that is stable, easy-to-use, and secure, yet respects user privacy? Ad-tech and other forms of surveillance technologies have become quite prevalent in consumer technology in recent years, such as the proliferation of smart TVs with ads. I find free, open source software to respect my privacy and generally be stable and secure, but I find it harder to use than proprietary alternatives, and I think the reason it's harder to use is because there's no money being poured into making it easier to use. With the exception of Firefox it's hard for me to think of a commercially-backed desktop FOSS project, while when it comes to system software (e.g., operating systems, compilers, databases, Web servers, Web frameworks, etc.), I can list plenty of examples of commercially-backed projects. I don't think it's a coincidence that FOSS has done so well in the server room (where big companies have backed the development of Linux, MySQL, Node.js, LLVM/Clang, and many other projects) and in computer science academia (funded by grants from industry and government, as well as the free time of students and faculty; heck, RMS himself had an office at MIT and won awards with large monetary prizes), yet it has struggled to gain a significant foothold on desktops used by the general public except for LibreOffice and Firefox, the latter of which was quite popular during the interregnum of Internet Explorer 6 and Google Chrome.

There are two possible avenues to improve the situation on the desktop:

1. One challenge is the sheer complexity of modern desktop software. Take a program such as GIMP, LibreOffice, Firefox, and consider how many lines of code these programs are written in. Even for a senior-level software engineer it will take some on-boarding time to become familiar with the codebase of one of these projects. Modifying the program could become quite an effort. If even experienced software engineers struggle to find the time to contribute code to FOSS projects, then making such a contribution would be almost impossible for members of the general public, the vast majority of whom have no coding experience.

I'm wondering how much of this complexity could be pared down such that it would lead to a FOSS software ecosystem where it's easier for users, technical and non-technical, to make contributions. The easier it is to make contributions, the greater the likelihood we'll have a thriving ecosystem of FOSS for desktop computing. Alan Kay's Viewpoints Research Institute's STEPS project (http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf) appears to be an interesting starting point.

2. Another challenge is thinking of new funding mechanisms for FOSS that don't rely on unpredictable donations, the backing of large corporations, or licensing changes (such as the moves that MongoDB made a few years ago in an attempt to stop cloud service providers like Amazon). For example, there should be other business models Mozilla could use in case Google shuts off its funding, but the challenge is I'm struggling of thinking of them.
Can you replicate or scale yourself and moderate reddit too? Also, twitter. If possible, youtube. And if you're up for it, then instagram. It wouldn't also hurt to police (no pun) tiktok (: There's got be a way?
A meditation on recursive complexity and what actually makes me happy
What apparent innocence? No one has argued anything like this. Not the author. Not me. The thing you are objecting to isn't apparent innocence of western imperialism. The thing you are objecting to is the existence of a story that is about something else... to the point of historical denialism in all but the most technical sense.

It also happens to be true that the particular atrocities this story was about were committed by anti-western, anti-capitalists. The events she is describing really did happen... to her. That is the context. Preceding these events were other events. The story isn't about those.

Your comments are whataboutism.

And yes, it is tunnel vision. It is essentialism and it is zealotry. It is having one story in your mind that explains anything and everything. Everything boils down to capitalism and western colonialism. Any telling of events that doesn't conform to your one and only allowable story is rejected without inspection. As you said, you can't get past the first paragraph is it's not a simple anti capitalism/colonialism narrative. Who here is the one avoiding challenges to their comfortable biases? Who is the reactionary here?

In this case, it happens to be particularly awful, given that the perpetrators shared your specific tunnel vision. Even if the atrocities are committed by anticapitalists, an author has exactly one paragraph to clarify that colonialism that is the true culprit. It's like telling responding to a victim of fascism with a "but what about communism." There are parallels to every argument you bring up.
My mind was blown when I realized NYC and Barcelona are at the same latitude.
Agreed. I’d rather pay the $2k to somebody that can address my immediate specific concerns in an interactive way, and I’d certainly not give it to somebody that suggests that I don’t understand an entire market because I think their silly newsletter is overpriced.
Render Token: Distributed GPU rendering on the blockchain
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Speculation? You believe you can get more fiat money out than you put in.
As pointed out, in written language, structural units (like chapters, paragraphs, bullet-point lists...) are usually finished with... distinctive whitespace (indentation or vertical space).

Beginnings are usually more prominent (more whitespace, bigger fonts and different alignment, or introductory sentences with colons for lists), just like in Python.

I am only saying that there's no need to make up arguments against significant-indentation. You can like how it looks or not: that's pretty subjective, though.

The only two objective arguments for either side I can see are:

* Terminating "end" or "}" are superfluous if you are already indenting code.

* Re-indenting a block with no termination indicator can lead to subtle bugs (at least more of them compared to when an indicator for block end is present).
As a boomer, I’m amazed that a laptop can be had for less than a BBQ.
It goes even beyond that: you need proof of vaccination to attend any school in the US. In all 50 states. And it's been that way for 65 years[1].

The "pro bodily autonomy" message is smoke and mirrors, designed to put a palatable glaze on an increasingly fringe and reactionary position.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/docs/school-vaccinations.pdf
Serverless is just the execution context. You still need to worry about data storage. As I said, I didnt understand the difference until I tried to build something. It just feels different than serverless. One thing is that you still need maintain your serverless setup. If you stop paying the bills, your app dies. That doesn’t happen on the blockchain.