skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose I'm asking for an "explain it to me like I'm five" response here, but when I read things like (from TFA):

> When you have an internet service that serves hundreds of millions or billions of people, there is a huge asymmetry of power and knowledge between the service provider and individual users. To fix this, you’d want a system that provides a way for users to organize and act collectively. You’d want users to receive a straightforward digital representation of their economic and governance rights. You’d want a system that has unambiguous rules along with mechanisms to enforce those rules. And you’d want this all to be available globally and accessible to anyone. Sounds useful, right? Well, the system I’ve described is basically a blockchain.

I think: a blockchain is an append-only distributed transaction ledger. But how is the system Dixon describes "basically a blockchain?" A blockchain has some of those properties, sure: it's available globally and accessible to anyone (with the technology to access it). It has mechanisms to enforce its rules, e.g., you only get to append transactions to the ledger and you can't modify past transactions without the tampering being obvious. But the "non-protocol" parts here -- providing a way for users to organize and act collectively, receiving a straightforward digital representation (?) of their economic and governance rights -- seem to me to be orthogonal to blockchains. What legally recognized rights you have in anything stems from, well, laws -- from legally binding contracts. Those don't need the blockchain. If you buy the "digital original" of your favorite meme for $3M, a transaction entry on a blockchain could be agreed to be the bill of sale -- but so could any number of things off the blockchain. What the blockchain brings to the party that's entirely new seems to be the ability to get ridiculous sales prices because there's currently a frenzy for anything NFT.

And this is an issue I have with an awful lot of Let's Build It On The Blockchain! thinking right now: it's not that I can't see value in the concept of blockchains, it's that there seems to be a "it's good because it's on The Blockchain!" frenzy around a lot of things that are transparently dubious (see: millions of NFT scams, the insistence that digital in-game assets can be easily transferred between games built on entirely different back-end systems just because blockchain, etc.).

And stepping back from that, the whole "Web3" pitch is "we can build an entirely decentralized Internet now because BLOCKCHAIN!" But, again: why are blockchains critical to this idea? We already built a decentralized Internet before blockchains; it was called (checks notes) "The Internet". I get that the idea is the new blockchain-based everything can't be centralized, but y'know, that's what we thought about the non-blockchain Internet a quarter-century ago. All the tools we had then to not be centralized still exist now. The issue with centralization now isn't a technological one -- which makes me pretty skeptical of purely technological solutions.
I am not sure I get your argument; we wait until climate change has ruined somewhere, and then decide?
> Honestly it doesn't feel that great.

You get used to it. After a while, you prefer it, in no small part due to having that outside perspective that is all too valuable in realizing how bad groupthink is.
Thank you! Credit to https://www.thehypefactory.uk
America is an alienating place but I don't think it's for the reasons you mention (they play a factor more recently, but alienation has been an American attribute for quite some time - See Bowling Alone by Putnam written in 2000.).

What has driven alienation in America? You could make the case for hyper-individualism and that plays a big part. The way our cities are designed also plays a role - mostly they're designed around the automobile which doesn't afford us opportunities to run into people we might know as we walk around. Cars are privacy bubbles that allow us to be isolated as we travel around. Look at a European city. There are often people just chatting on a corner or in a piazza - interaction happens much more often in those contexts because those cities tend to be set up in such a way to allow it to happen.

Finally, I think the American fetishization (for lack of a better word) of work plays a role. We Americans tend to define ourselves by the work we do to a larger degree than people in many other parts of the world.

Given the isolation that was already there in American culture, along comes social media and initially it kind of looked like it was going to help be an antidote to that isolation - I think a lot of folks wanted out of the isolation and thought that was going to be a way out. But it ends up often making it even worse - and definitely exacerbates the division between tribal groups. Our alienation causes us to want to identify with these tribal groups for a feeling of belonging and these tribes end up "shitting on" other tribes not aligned with them.
Yeah idk, I don't know much about it. But it seems like centralization and gas fees are inversely related. The only way to scale is to use the L2's and L3's which are basically just smaller blockchains that clear on the L1 less often.

So for smaller transactions where you don't care about global immutability that much, you just let it get done on an L3 and then your gas fee is much much lower. Creates kind of a tree structure.

Again i don't know sh!t, but basically having a globally immutable decentralized blockchain that works for tons of transactions seems impossbile
Is code actually being written faster? Or with fewer people? I am not convinced that it is.
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Like weather and climate are not the same thing, there will be places that are more/less affected (but no-one will escape, I agree). The question is, given my preferences and the impending changes, where should live to most increase my happiness?
This is desirable?
Maybe. Those seem pretty low-level though; I'm thinking of something abstract enough to be used with TypeScript or GraphQL just as easily as Rust or Kotlin. So byte-layouts are likely too specific.

(Correct me if I'm wrong about how Protocol Buffers work)

I think Serde is the closest thing I've seen to what I'm getting at; the way it can freely translate between XML and JSON and Rust structures without any help. But of course it's not a standalone schema language.
Webpack sure has problems (for example speed) but most of the more niche things that people do aren't actually supported by it but implemented through the plugin system, at which point any category of niche/sane kind of flies out of the window. If you enable people to do weird things people will do weird and maybe unwise things.
The best solution might be to take notes of how people tend to develop js stuff nowadays, scrap javascript completely and use something completely new that doesn't have the issues of javascript. But that seems rather unrealistic at this point.
Should have been Neptune right.
Does the kind of flippant nature of packet management in js ecosystem origins in the idea of js use cases being something "not so important"? And when js expanded on backend the package management approach was inherited?
Unfortunately that left them with the motivation to write their own bus sized holes instead!
Perhaps a dumb question, but if we have some idea of where it was and its probable orbit back then, then why don’t we have some idea of where it is now?
I think this is key. Staying away from burnable areas while still having access to fresh water (untouched by rising salination levels) is a strong play.
Amazing how they could design and built such a device in four months...

/s
Got my towel.
Learning Typescript was probably one of the best investments of time I have ever made. It took like 3 hours to learn all together and saved me at least 20 hours of debugging already.
Well, permissionless transactions is the exact thing that is not going to happen in scale. With cash, you are required to deanonymize transactions unless they're small (<10k USD), and with the recently passed infrastructure bill changes to 6050I, the same would apply to cryptocurrencies.

In effect there would be a bifurcation - you can either have permissionless transactions, or you can interact with the real world; since all the legitimate businesses and law-abiding people would have to avoid the "permissionless" system unless they can break the anonymity of the transaction and verify that any required filters have been applied.
Thank you. Another vital point - trying to tell people the real critical path is over there but no-one agreed it in the plan is .. ahh well
Genuine question as I quite frankly stay the hell away from it: Can malicious NPM packages compromise your build infrastructure?
Craziest x86 Instructions (with comment from designer of RdSeed) [video]
I just started watching it yesterday. At this point I feel like I can't participate in American cultural society anymore without watching it. :)
Well for one thing contraception methods were less effective and the wage labor relation didn't exist or was wildly different for most of that time.
Our society doesn't have much incentive in speaking about things which are seen as negative like death or divorce.

Marrying and having kids is also a pillar of the economy / consumption.
Having multiple kids and spending several hundreds of thousands of dollars (in the US) between school, healthcare, nanny, sports gears, clothes drives the economic machine.

If men knew the dire consequences of divorce and stopped marrying and having kids, the whole GDP would take a hit.
As we say in Maine, you can’t get there from here.
About half the people I know in leadership roles in Silicon Valley came from Stanford and Berkeley. About half of the senior designers I know came from the D School. Heck, basically all senior leads on Palantir's Gotham platform came from the same Stanford fraternity. Startups in Silicon Valley are profoundly parochial in their membership.
https://rigtorp.se/notes/hashing/ and links therein (https://github.com/martinus/better-faster-stronger-mixer ) are almost certainly preferable to this mixer.
I wonder how much this changes when normalized by hours. What I mean is that it's ranked by hours viewed, but some movies are a lot longer than others for example.
> Require MFA

But allow at least 2 hardware keys and not only SMS.
I don't know the biology, so I can't answer specifically, but surely there are many cases of "useless" and even detrimental elements being stored in living bodies. Just look at heavy metal accumulation in animals for example.
I don't think all consequences are fixed. At this point, no one can assure the security of any npm package. What are they doing to restore confidence?
Note that Solarflare requires a per NIC license to get that by-pass. And like Melanox those NICs are not cheap. Kernel by-pass on COTS without recourse to high end NICs w/ or w/o FPGA and the like is needed. I am benchmarking eRPC built on top of DPDK on AWS to that end [1]. And not having to play sys-admin
and figure out configs or at least simplifying that work would help. DPDK isn't a necessarily straightforward library.
[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi19-kalia.pdf
That’s fair. I would agree there is a certain “big words == more intellectual == smarter” or “more difficult == smarter” fallacy that arises somewhat frequently in contemporary humanities papers.

I think part of it might originate from the fact that the abstractions used for talking about things in the humanities aren’t fixed as well as they are in science. Take the abstract in question for example—the writer uses the palimpsest as a sort of visual analogue and abstraction to try to describe interactions and relationships between texts/narratives—while it’s not an absurd metaphor, it’s difficult to grok, because there is no real standardized metaphor for describing this set of relationships. You could argue the object of study isn’t as well defined as it is in the sciences where we have fairly standardized abstractions like “waveform” etc. that make it a lost easier to talk about things clearly.
If by “whole world” you mean the wilderness, then sure! Otherwise we’ve had no issues laying cables to any place people live, so long as it makes sense to do so.
As a counter to this, consider the fire-season that is now yearly in California with increasing intensity. Living in the inland regions that are now routinely smoke-filled for significant periods is challenging, and provides strong impetus to move. This is both noticeable, and not fast progressing.
Got to be honest I tended to use the distribution packages for Perl back in the day. That would have been Debian or FreeBSD ports back then. If the module was missing I would shrug it and make do. This cultural approach came from a place I work which was airgapped so we had a local package mirror server which was loaded from Debian CDs.

Also no distracting internet or Google and you had only the man pages to work off.

I really don’t like the culture of ”download any old shit off the internet, ram it in a container and throw it into production”. It keeps me awake. One day the whole thing will come crashing down and instantly spawn a costly magic enterprise solution which will cost a fortune just to mitigate that risk which doesn’t actually mitigate it all just allow the box to be ticked on a compliance form.
There are short summaries on YouTube you can watch. I watched one and it seemed quite good. It was about 15 minutes and now I can at least understand references to it.
The moon already has a whole lot of helium 3 that'd be economically viable right now, if there were a use for it yet.
I don’t see why. I think it’s generally silly to think of your work computer/account as a place for anything private. Even if they won’t normally look at it, it’s all fair game if e.g. someone subpoenas them. My employer had a team which did a similar thing to the GP (had a spreadsheet with everyone’s password) in case someone was out and had some crucial file on their computer. And while they have since stopped doing that, it is because they improved processes such that it wasn’t needed and not because it became acceptable for the team to fail to carry out a large portion of their business activities or obligations because someone important was sick.

The problem is that the spreadsheet meant that exploiting one user meant exploiting the whole team but you can have this kind of privilege escalation in plenty of other ways. An easy way is to give people lots of permissions so that they can get their work done, or to just be bad at revoking permissions once they are no longer needed. Plenty of companies deliberately give people wide read permissions as a part of a culture of openness.
The problem in Idiocracy was evaporation concentrating the ions until there was eventually too much for the plants to grow. I'm not sure what the solution is on real farms.
Here's some code you can dig into: https://github.com/zxing/zxing

It's a very good one, and one that has been copied for a lot of custom QR scanners
Show HN: US-BR, a fork of US-intl for brazilian / portuguese programmers
Hi.

I've been using the US-intl keyboard layout for a while, as ABTN2 (the standard Brazilian Portuguese) layout treats ' and " as dead keys, which makes programming incredibly annoying for me.

However, US-intl makes accented letters like ã, à and â annoying to type, requiring holding Alt as you press the respective keys.

As a solution, I decided to make a small fork of US-intl that changes ~, ` and ^ to dead keys, while leaving ' and " as non-dead keys (as you can easily type á with Alt+a).

It's nothing major or substantial, but I thought I'd share it in case some other brazilian / portuguese-speaking programmer might need it.

You can find it here: https://github.com/SkyLeite/us-br
> We generate types from GraphQL schemas.

This also makes it easier to stub out protobuf/thrift later on. It's a win-win on so many levels.
People don't directly import thousands of modules. It's actually a lot closer to your "10 stable dependencies". But those dependencies have dependencies that have dependencies. It's a little hard to point the finger at application developers here, IMO.
The native Word file format is so complicated because it was basically a filesystem in a file, designed for extensibility scenarios such as embedding documents into other documents via OLE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COM_Structured_Storage
It would be a bit of a surprise since the unit of measure is inches and I'm not sure what inches would have to do with quantum computing. I feel like the inch is essentially a random factor here.
I just tried the Windows (GUI) version. Three times in a row, I entered numbers into two cells, and when I tried to sum them into a third cell the app closed without an error message. I think I'll give it a pass.
> And if it gets too much, “sorry I gotta call my boss” is a believable excuse to get out of anything you find awkward or if you’ve had enough. Knowing you have that parachute might make it easier.

Unless this is true, I don't think that's a great idea.

Don't be pathetic and lie. Be honest. What's wrong with saying "Sorry $NEW_PERSON, I have to go. It was great to meet you."

If you're interested in the negative effects of "white lies" I'd recommend picking up Lying by Sam Harris.
> Fellow tech nerds

I think you've answered your own question "why is it any more interesting" in this (HN) context.
Water in the plant, cells, really anywhere. Same thing happens when we eat or drink something. Various molecules enter our blood, organs, etc.
Prince Rupert to Skidegate (the route we took) is 7 hours, and the reverse trip would have been about the same. I thought it was rather a pleasant ride. Wikipedia says the QotN's regular route from Port Hardy to Prince Rupert was 18 hours. I'd probably get a little bored, though I'm sure the scenery is amazing.

I think most passengers don't expect the ship to scrape it's bottom on a rock at full speed. It sunk in the middle of the night, so probably a lot of the passengers were asleep before they had to scramble to the lifeboats. All but two people got off.

Rupert to Skidegate is mostly open sea, but I could imagine navigating some of those narrow fjords could be a little nerve-wracking. I think they have to time their routes to account for the huge tidal changes they get there, which cause some pretty strong currents.

Incidently, the QotN was the only ship in the Canadian ferry fleet that didn't have a double hull. Not sure it would have made a difference in this case.
First, I am glad you found a place that suits you. I grew up in a suburb adjacent to a major city up until high school, then I moved to the rural midwest. As a minority, I found it near impossible to fit in. All of my beliefs, from ethnicity-based to city-based, were misaligned to the general consensus of the rural mindset.

Sure, there was open space and generally it was green or pale yellow from the corns, but it was a terrible place for a young mind. I didn't like football or wrestling and I didn't love confederate flags on pick up trucks. The general take was that I was an outsider not to be friends with. Eventually, I made friends but I can still hear the "he is okay, he is like a white [insert minority]" from adults and people at school.

This was in the late 90's and early 2000's before Fox and CNN doubled-down on extreme views. People in rural America hated immigrants just as much then as they do know.
Throwing a fit while the VP is around often helps :). It always amazes me how quickly things get done when the guy who controls the budget wants something.
There are philosophy schools (eg. philosophical materialism, not very well known outside spanish speaking countries https://www.fgbueno.es/ing/gbm.htm) that not only they don't that, they consider philosophy as a second grade knowledge, where first grade knowledge come from sciences and techniques, and philosophy works with the concepts and ideas that come from them.

Philosophy itself, in fact, was born when people took the concepts used in geometry and started using them to build systems of ideas (quite the opposite of the widespread view of philosophy as the "origin" of science)
Fun! It could use some work on a path finder algorithm though. Having to manually lead around the (many) fences and tables and other obstacles is more annoying than just clicking at my goal and having it figure out the way there.

It also makes my elderly MBP 2015 heat up and make tons of fan noise. I'm not sure if it would be a great fit for family stuff with even older and less powerful machines.
I would assume that a few nation state actors have already hoovered up all that leaked information and have it implemented in a system that is ready to steal identities, drain accounts, and otherwise wreak havoc on a large scale. They are just waiting for the higher ups to pull the trigger if and when they decide to deploy it.
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Is it useful to me if I don't have any crypto to put in it? Because I'm interested in the IPFS access etc, but I don't hold any crypto.
> Sagan’s fame was way out of proportion to the scope of his contributions from original research.

The same could be said about Stephan Jay Gould. The same could be said about Albert Einstein, and it would be truer of Einstein than Sagan (when one studies History of Science, it is a shock to discover nearly all of the insights attributed to Einstein were not his own: In 1905, Albert Einstein postulated that the speed of light c with respect to any inertial frame is a constant and is independent of the motion of the light source. But he didn't just pull this rabbit out of his hat. There is a long history of science of at least the notion of the finite speed of light, and Einstein is standing on the shoulders of giants when he publishes his Special Theory of Relativity, and heavily relied on the work of three mathematicians to develop General Relativity, and a forth for his work on Black Holes. But neither Relativity nor the constancy of the speed of light were Einstein's ideas, and not remotely so. History just gave him all the credit.)

I like Gould and Einstein as much as anyone, but I don't quite follow the logic of Sagan's unpopularity among peers. It isn't like Sagan did nothing at all, nor even very little: he pioneered planetary science and exobiology. And only one of those alone should be enough credential! Carl Sagan pretty much single-handedly (with the help of Sir David Attenborough) popularized science. This isn't science, but had he done nothing else whatsoever, this would have been enough to justify his notoriety, and in itself is important (just how many did Sagan influence to study science in advanced education? and careers in science? I expect, more than any other yet). Sagan was a huge contributor to our understanding of Mars, but was pretty much the very first to realize just what was going on with Venus' atmosphere, which makes his work pivotal in the revolution in Earth's climate science, not to mention his astute theories about liquid on Titan's surface, and water in Europa.

Again, I don't quite get the notions that Carl Sagan didn't contribute enough, or that he was weak in hard science. But it is easy to understand his puny human scientist-peers that toiled their career away in obscurity and retired with a mortgage.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is pretty darn famous. I don't know anything of his contributions, but I'm not sure it matters. How could anyone not like him? The only answer I can fathom is his (presumed) economic success. IOW, envy.
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