skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the title should be updated. It doesn't have anything to do with decentralization per se, but about cryptocurrencies, which is just a technology that happens to use decentralization as a technology.

I actually thought the article was gonna be about decentralization (as in P2P technology, like BitTorrent), but instead it's about the authors distaste for cryptocurrencies.

Edit: Maybe it's just me, but the article feels less and less honest the more I look into it. "Stephen Diehl" (the author) apparently founded a company that has the following tagline on GitHub "Adjoint digitises cash and settlement processes for multinational corporates." (https://github.com/adjoint-io) but I didn't find this disclosed in the post. There is a clear conflict of interest, but it's not highlighted for some reason.
I still prefer 97, runs great in a VM, faster than LibreOffice, save the text with copy and paste into my blog with IE6. I can almost smell the shiny Plymouth Horizon on the parking lot.
It may be an exaggeration for effect, but in any walk-in clinic, you're going to get at least one of those a day.
Placeholder text is a tough one... The example is usually a good idea, but it can be confusing to users, especially if the example text happens to be what they would have entered anyway, they may think it's safe to skip, then get frustrated when your validation tells them it's empty.

I don't know what the solution is, I'm not a UX engineer, I just know it can be a problem.
Not convinced all about control. In the UK bank transfers are already free and easy to do through the online banking UI so the bank doesn't lose anything. I think it's more that the banks have no incentive to participate in this system and do the bare minimum they can get away with, but I doubt there is some "anti-open-banking" sentiment as opposed to just apathy.

The whole payments aspect of Open Banking seems like an attempt by VC-backed companies to become gatekeepers of bank transfers for no good reason nor benefit to the end customer. They are trying to solve a problem that's inherently not there (in the UK bank transfers are already super easy to do and settle immediately) but they pretend like there is one.
The Tories have been in power for 11 years. I don't the BBC have been pro-them all this time, if at all.
Open source, serverless, developer experience, really going for SEO with this blog. But it doesn't say anything about what the product does or that it's MySQL compatible. Don't waste your time reading it.
The EU example has shown that you can simply require banks to adopt customer-friendly interoperability and low fees.

If it’s possible in a union of 27 nations with originally very disparate banking systems, it’s certainly possible in America. There’s just no political will.
This book is available in a bunch of e-book formats as a free download: https://www.baen.com/1632.html There’s also an updated version of the book one can buy on the same website.

Baen is a good source of science fiction and fantasy which, as often as not, has a conservative military slant to it. May not be everyone’s taste, but I also greatly enjoy reading Orson Scott Card who has a conservative (but not fundamentalist) religious slant to his stories.
I have ADHD and even 7 minutes of guided meditation does wonders for my restless mind in the morning. But mostly I feel out of habit and have not gotten back into it. I was diagnosed with ADHD at 25 so spend most of my life with racing thoughts.

The clarity I got from meditation was nice but it also feels like it impairs the way I am used to my brain working so the trade off was not really welcomed.

I cut my caffeine consumption drastically (several expressos a day to 1 regular cup) which helped with racing thoughts and started taking melatonin before bed which helps prevent me staying awake trying to sleep for hours. Those two things also came from meditation but I'm able to get them elsewhere now without losing some of the creativity I find in my thought patterns during the day.
An old guy once told me how veterinarians were often better doctors than medical doctors because their patients couldn't confuse the diagnosis with bad input.

But, I've also met simply belligerent doctors before, that simply couldn't be wrong no matter what the evidence said...

There's human error on both sides to take into account.
I’m not sure if the work is the same either way (I feel ambivalent on this question). If you know that no diagnosis is possible you have to simply alleviate the symptoms as best is possible (I wish therapy was thought more of in this way, maybe it’s not all in your head but we can’t figure it out so let’s help you deal with it), if there is a possible silver bullet you need to keep chasing that even if that chasing increases the symptoms.

But thinking this over that’s a false dichotomy, even if your doctors have exhausted their theories it doesn’t mean that some other doctor might not have an idea or there’s some variation on one of the existing theories that might explain things.

Likewise, even if an exact diagnosis is found, few treatments are 100% effective in all cases, and most diagnosis have special cases which complicate things in sometimes baffling ways.

Realistically, people usually need to both address symptoms directly and seek underlying causes to some degree when dealing with illness. That exact degree depends on the exact situation but it’s typically not 0% in either case.

I would add something else, ultimately, especially with vague complicated symptoms which occur both in firmly physiological and firmly psychological disorders, the primary goal is typically to return function to ones life. Whether or not the mechanism to do so is real or not is of secondary importance especially if it doesn’t cause much harm relative to its benefit (which is not a simple matter to evaluate in cases like long term antibiotics for chronic pain, but I think is easier to evaluate for things like exercise (it might not cure the underlying cause, but it is likely to be indirectly helpful and unlikely to harmful so…))
Pfizer agrees to let other companies make its Covid-19 pill
A lot of people who have received "generous unemployment benefits" are using it to scrape together rent and keep themselves fed. They never had the money for traveling or going out, and they don't have that money for shopping now.
Early Data Suggest Pfizer Pill May Prevent Severe Covid-19
> It's not like there's an intrinsic reason TCP packets are the way they are now, it's largely an arbitrary choice that we standardized on.

IP and TCP were very carefully designed and were not much like the networking standards of the time. It wasn't an arbitrary choice any more than designing a rocket engine is an "arbitrary choice".
Python's packaging infrastructure is a mess, but the even the _environment_ surrounding import, let alone the module semantics, largely hasn't changed since the introduction of venv.

For all the other failings of the Python 3 migration, the Python community strongly and rightly rejected 2to3 which would've eventually produced a babelesque mess if continued.
You should probably take some read at what neo-colonialism is. Just because on paper your country acquired independence does not mean it stopped being pillaged by foreign companies with the help of corrupt overlords.

Hell, even when your country pretends to be a democracy, and is responsible for colonizing other countries throughout history and massacring countless people (like France/USA/UK/China/Russia/Turkey has), you don't have free will as a people and you will still be exploited by psychopaths who run the show.

If you heard about DAPL in USA, or NDDL in France, you may know it takes a certain amount of people and anger (and arguably molotov cocktails) to stop corrupt corporations and government officials from stealing your land and polluting everything.
I believe some around 2000 Office and Windows reached their peaks of usability. They seemed to designed to get stuff done.

Since then it seems they crammed more and more "intelligent" functions into the software that made them less predictable. I still don't know under what circumstances Windows Search finds things sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. Lately Outlook search feels random. Teams search is a complete mess. When I write stuff in Word, Word seems very opinionated and messes up formatting all the time. Saving things to our disk is also an ordeal because they are pushing OneDrive.
Linux 5.17 to Boast a Big TCP Performance Optimization
> People just charge them overnight at home.

I don't have a garage, I live in a building of 7 apartments and no-one has a parking place.

To charge at home I'd need to pull a cable from my second floor window across the road, or sometimes around the corner if I don't find a parking spot in front of the building.

So until we put a ludicrous amount of curb-side charging columns, we need fast charging.

(I seldom use the car tho, long live public transport)
A running joke with my friends, is that as one of the oldest democracies in the world, we've had longer to figure out how to hide the corruption of our politicians, and also to inure the population to it.

One key difference in the UK is that it is at least, less intentional corruption and more a case of 'what can I get away with?', just like stealing a pen from your employer and taking it home. The UK MP equivalent is employing your spouse as office manager (when you don't really have an office), and paying a full salary, or claiming absurd travel expenses, or a second "home" in London close to Westminster.

It seems though, that over the last 20-30 years, "corruption" with UK politicians has gotten worse. Perhaps that's just because of the Internet making it easier to report it.

Amongst many recent ones, I always remember this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Anderson_(politician)#Arre...

mostly because of former Liverpool Mayor, Joe Anderson's typically British nickname. Oh, and giving building contracts to your friends. Tut tut.
That centralized exchanges exists doesn't somehow make decentralized cryptocurrencies less decentralized. Just like how centralized social media doesn't make decentralized social media less decentralized.
It's nice that they have solved backups in a very respectable manner which alleviates the feeling of being locked in.
Right. As an example from the other side, just this morning I read a Private Eye article (it's from last month, I am busy at work, I have a backlog) about a Labour MP who happens to be renting a London flat whose actual owners are hiding behind a series of offshore entities presumably to both dodge taxation and hide their identities. Officially Labour is staunchly against such things, but rather than help uncover what exactly is going on with her flat of course she, and Labour itself, threatened to sue any journalist who mentioned the matter... That is what sleaze looks like. We've got no proof there's any wrongdoing here, much less anything illegal but that sure would be easier to believe if they didn't threaten to sue people who report what they do know...

A lot of the Tory stuff is plainly corruption, but expect Tory papers in particular to soft pedal it. They don't want to get called out for not reporting a huge story, but they needn't emphasise how bad it really is.
The heat distribution is really only better if you give it time to warm up evenly. They get hot quickly, so many people assume they’re ready to use but they won’t have yet heated evenly (except on induction, but that would apply for cast iron as well).

Cast iron takes way longer to heat up, so it too can achieve similar heat distribution - just in four times as long.

Thanks for sharing that link. Their prices seem very reasonable for family cooking! Also, continuer sans accepter on the cookie pop up made my day.
And that's because of what, there are non white people in Canada? That's a belief looking for a justification. The UK, France Germany and Sweden are also racially diverse.
unplug or desolder it.
The problem is more who they were awarded to rather than the process. Having a “VIP lane” for friends, family, and donors is about as corrupt as it gets.
LA Wants to Ban iBuyers, Private Equity Firms from Profiting Off Housing
I am surprised that this article gotten any up votes. I once commented "if it was a country like Iran we would have called it terrorism" on an post that effectively said "country X did y" my account was banned on here due to down votes and reports.
In my mind this post is saying a similar thing.
We have different labels for when we do Vs when someone else does it.
The perfect solution would be to not own the battery packs, e.g. you buy the car without the battery and you swap the batteries that car manufacturer owns whenever you want to "recharge", for a fee.
Have you tried to implement row- and column-based security on direct access to cloud storage? It flat out does not work.

Sadly, those things are mutually exclusive at the moment and with the way things are deployed here (large multi-tenant platforms), the security has to take priority.

But if that's not your situation, then obviously it makes sense to make use of that!
Swedish Officials Call for EU-Wide Ban on ‘Proof of Work’ Crypto Mining
Where is Ruby Headed in 2021?
I'm sorry to say that the hypothetical African colonialist-scientist has examined your dental records and pronounced you British :(

Maybe he can be convinced by a tap water sample?
The vast majority of bacteria are not harmful so it might be more apt to ask why some bacteria are dangerous to us.
Working through it now - reading the Laws of Thought by George Boole was a spiritual experience for me. The connection between natural language, logic, and math finally made sense to me. Before I had a hard time understanding the saliency of things like Analytic Philosophy (what does language have to do with truth?) or why the work of someone like Chomsky would be so important to computer scientists. Boole wasn't the only person at time to work on a project to reduce logic to solvable equations (clearly that time in history was ripe for this work, and also Leibniz had laid some of the spiritual groundwork, himself inspired by Ramon Llull and Confucian texts) but the way he wrote about it really resonated with me.

The other surprising thing to me was that it didn't really resemble modern algebra at all. As a former math student I think it's easy to create a mental model of math history where when new fields are created they resemble the modern incarnation. But when you actually look at the primary founding texts its clear the ideas and notation are pretty unrefined at least compared to today's standards.
I wonder if Encyclopedia Britannica sets will be getting dug out if information like this is needed in a non-digital way.

They are a wealth of information and quite common through to ~20 years ago. I imagine sets of these will remain somewhat common for another 100 years in peoples garages or on display etc.
knowledge?

i doubt it, we are worse than ants for whoever able to reach us

and if they ever do, they'd do it from home, just like we look at bacterias from the lens of a microscope
> That index measures the perceived corruption, and would be subject to the same bias the article discusses.

Not sure on what grounds you make that statement.

Just actually reading the Wikipedia article:

“as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys”

And

“A study published in 2012 found a ‘very strong significant correlation’ between the Corruption Perceptions Index and two other proxies for corruption: black market activity and an overabundance of regulation.

All three metrics also had a highly significant correlation with real gross domestic product per capita”

And not saying there’s not corruption in UK or other western nations, but the aljazeera piece comes across like propaganda without much in the way of concrete data.
Why do we have things like "private" and "protected" if people can circumvent them?
> If we tried to swich half the cars to electric overnight

Let's not, then. The logistics of swapping 150 million cars in a single night would be a nightmare. Charging wouldn't be my first concern.

On a more realistic note, even if we outlawed the sale of ICE cars today and mandated that every single new car hitting the road was electric, the required growth of the grid would be feasible. It would take quite a few years to replace the entire fleet.
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The argument that "observer" as used in physics is misunderstood by laypeople makes sense. He then argues the same is happening with the word "decentralized" which makes no sense because laypeople don't know that word. I guess he's arguing that people see "decentralized" and read "democratized," but he fails to make that argument.
I will be adding more (secure) methods as soon as the protocol supports this
> America is the Ivy league college where everybody is keeping the score of their social status and nobody talks to anybody else.

You could make friends with old or working class people instead of moving to Mexico. The freeze is very much a fancy pants young people thing.
Sinofsky was pretty grounded in the early days but I've heard during the Windows 8 development he was burying his head in the sand, surrounding himself with yes-men and pretending like all (internal) feedback about the idiotic design was coming from people "afraid of change" (yes, literally replied that to someone that sent him honest feedback about the product).

The folks that came up with the "remove the start button" design in Windows 8 where the same PMs & designers that came up with the Ribbon in Office; and he knew early feedback about the Ribbon was mostly negative and yet in a short time it became very popular; so he must've thought the same thing was happening with the start menu (but as we know now, it wasn't, it was just very bad design - not "ahead of its time", just broken and idiotic).
Real time co-authoring with the cloud save locations is a killer for me as it got rid of a bunch of "<x> final copy (3) FINAL - Jim's edits" crap. I think that was 2016 initially I think but it's gotten improvements since. But for single user "I want to edit a document" there isn't much to add since 2000.
Stephen seems to be a perfect example of how being an expert on one subject doesn't mean that someone has any kind of deeper insight or experience about unrelated areas. If you look at the history of his blog, for the entire last year his mind has seemingly only been filled with hatred for crypto - the man seems to have a serious ideological hatred of the technology and obstinately refuses to ever reconsider his position.
> aid because it is not resilient to corruption

Good point. That's why we in the global north should fix our shit and not send raw money to the corrupt overlords our industry and secret services have placed in power overseas.

For example, subsidized food production from the EU is weaponized to destroy local markets in Africa, and that's a shame!
CheerpX: Using WebAssembly to run any programming language in the browser
> Really, it's the French administration's fondness for paperwork.

French business isn't any different in my experience.
When you do try bluetooth again, try full cans from a good brand. No earbuds at all. Check which codecs the cans will use. Just cans vs earbuds makes a hug sound and comfort difference. Literally, you get larger drivers and a larger battery, so physics is already on your side vs earbuds.
I remember reading it but it didn't strike as hard as reading your comment above.

Maybe it's a matter of social memory capacity and cycles. Or maybe it will just be forgotten entirely.
Imagine Coin: A token backed by your imagination
Ah, thank you. I never managed to put it quite clearly as that.

But thinking back and considering the intuition I built around when an abstraction makes sense and when it's just going to be unhelpful cruft, boils down to this.

Abstracting over behavior gets messy very quickly. Special cases will probably arise on the next requirement change. Unless they're already there and you missed the subtle interaction. And if you didn't, and actually handled that properly, your abstraction will have a lot of hooks and bells and whistles to support the different behaviors, and it'll just be hell to maintain.

Data can change underneath you, sure, but I think we as humans have a much better intuition about concrete things rather than algorithms, so it's easier to abstract data in a useful way. Which is why I think that works better.
South Korea Is Selling Millions of Photos to Facial Recognition Researchers
No it's not uniquely suited because the battery life is abysmal. The new Ford Lightning can only make it like 100 miles while towing before it needs to be recharged.

Multiple tests with Teslas are the same. When they're loaded down their range is very bad.
1. If you think about it, there is no reason why banks should always offer free money to cash hoarders in the form of interest. During a recession, central banks lower interest rates to incentivize spending and productive investment, which benefits the rest of society.

2. DeFi yield relies on Greater Fools essentially gambling their money on cryptocurrency pairs. It might not last forever. I'd rather have 5% yield in corporate bonds, denominated in a currency that I can pay rent and groceries with, than 20% in a shitcoin which might be worthless tomorrow.
Sure. I'm not saying everyone should stop drinking. I'm saying more people should actually do unbiased research into the impacts of drinking on their health because most people either under estimate the risk or the amount they actually drink.

That being said I do know a few people who actually only drink a beer or two a month with buddies. Good for them. I suppose that they could also drink an iced tea or diet coke and enjoy their friends company/be enjoyed my their friends just as much without the negative impact of the booze. I'm able to.

If someone is drinking more than a few beers than that isnt actually drinking in moderation. Many people who "drink occasionally" actually binge drink occasionally but since it is not that often they think no harm is being done.
> Nowadays C++ gets lost discussing language minutiae that it isn't as much fun as it used to be.

Yeah, I agree. C++ is no longer fun at all.
> It feels like GDocs but with the directory embedded in the sidebar.

> The power is in the edit and view being the same view.

This doesn't seem to be a distinguishing factor from Google Docs which also doesn't have a separate view. The other advantages you listed are nice, but also don't seem unique.
You are proving my point. The fact that there was no murderous mobs rampaging against the TN government move should tell you majority's support for reforms. Compare that to a SC killed in Delhi for allegedly "disrespecting the holy book", or the Bangladesh riots for the same reason a few days ago.
In my experience, many of the people who say things like this don't just have misconceptions, they have an axe to grind. In that case, preventing the spread of their misinformation may have more value than trying to 'educate' them.
If there's room, I always make the placeholder read something like "Example: 12345", which makes it clear that they need to change it and also maybe that it's a number or whatever. Can't always do that on really short input fields, but it helps.
And personally for me the UX of filling my gas tank (done in two or three minutes) vs. having to wait 15 to 60 minutes on one of my many tri-state weekend road trips is why I'm not excited yet to buy an EV.

So I'm gonna pay tons of more money for an EV yet not being offered the same level convenience. Thus eagerly awaiting the day where the same UX is offered.
How did so much of the media get the Steele dossier so wrong?