skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In service of art is still a legitimate and important use case! Not sure that's what crypto is for though.
I think you're focusing on racism to the exclusion of all else.

Britain has sold off vast swathes of housing stock and is privatising ever more healthcare delivery. Zero-hour contracts are a thing nowadays. Industries that most countries run as a public service have been privatised.

Collectivism has been replaced with neoliberalism. Our country has swung miles to the right both socially and fiscally. But yes, you can be out and brown.
Who titled this? Isn’t “streamers” almost exclusively used to refer people on Twitch etc.? This is in contrast to what most people would call a ‘streaming service’, which is what the article is actually talking about.
He was also wrong about Tesla.

There was a crash in 1999, but the underlying economic shift created by the internet was real and major companies survived it.

I suspect something similar is likely here.
I know others who share the same opinion as you, so I can relate.

That being said, the Any type would be there in any case - this is not JVM specific. "null" is, but I think it's not too much of a big deal with Java 3's Union-types, see: https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/other-new-features/expl...

The only problem is that if you now use native Java libraries, you'll be confronted with everything being explicitly nullable (no runtime error problems though). But that's a small price to pay for having access to this huge ecosystem.
Exactly. XMPP's a little younger than AOL, but the idea of having more than one device connected to the Internet and using them simultaneously, was sheer opulence at one point. Combined with XMPP being an open protocol and difficulty incrementing protocol versions, lead to the shortcomings described.
Modifications to 3D printers made before you ever print with them.
Yes, see libtpms for the most prominent software TPM implementation for emulators: https://github.com/stefanberger/libtpms
Sorry, after awhile I've started to feel frustrated with the dominant narrative on HN.

When I'm interested to get a feel for the range of crypto projects with significant traction, I sometimes start here: https://snapshot.org/#/

But it's hard to point to a single place. There are many worlds in crypto. Twitter is a portal to some. One must go on an adventure.

Here's something a friend works on: https://www.regen.network/

For me, crypto enables experimenting with new kinds of corporate structures. That's what I work on. I think we have a decent shot at replacing the current model—basically psychopathic projections of sick humans minds—with something that won't destroy Earth.

It's very hard to do that without programmable money.
If the 30-odd studies are chosen adversarially to persuade you to believe something that isn't true, probably asking someone more trustworthy for relevant studies would be a good idea.

If you're not familiar with the field the studies are in, it might be a good idea to rely on the opinion of someone who is; unfortunately, this means you have to judge whose opinion to rely on, which puts you in the position of trying to guess who's really familiar with the field. It's going to be hard for you to do better at this than just believing whatever is most popular.

Scott Alexander wrote a post about this actually: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...
Excellent article. Learned much for this even though I have used PHP for about 20 years. PHP has vastly improved since version 7 - both in terms of language features as well as in terms of performance.

However, error handling continues to be an issue. It isn't uncommon for PHP to fail silently. That would be one complaint I have against PHP.
Oh boy did OP make a big mistake: "Also, it’s now obvious that use of bitcoin (and related blockchains) for payments is almost entirely scams and illegal stuff."

When I say this, I typically get a landslide of people claiming they send infinite monies to their impoverished family members in ____ foreign country because the USA limits / regulates / taxes transfers over US$10k. Do you see the implication? This means they are sending more than US$10k in BTC. Think about that for a split second.

How dumb does this person feel sending $10,000 in BTC to a family member a few years ago, as now it it is worth hundreds of thousands, if not millions, which means their family members are crazy rich and they are not. Assuming their target family even has the infrastructure to convert BTC to their local currency of said impoverished nation.

But what do I know.

OP also missed a heavy part of the analogy to XML: people didn't gamble with their life savings by using XML.
My memory of my kid’s school years include a lot of disrespect by the school, PTA, and other parents of my family’s lives, boundaries, and resources.

My memory of being a kid is that I could not count on my parents to do something I needed. I probably could not have gotten that short narrative from my parents and all it would say if either actually did it was “I didn’t help.”

So, on the one hand, as an honest parent I find such a requirement boundary crossing and a(nother) waste of my time; time I could spend doing something meaningful with my kid. On the other hand, as a former kid, I find the requirement a dealbreaker and I wouldn’t have even tried. Meanwhile, dishonest people are just going to write dishonest narratives.
Some people deserve to have their ability to financially transact censored. Pedophiles, rapists, violent criminals in general. Bitcoin empowers them.
Problem is, there's not much point in writing high-level Forth - there are much better options out there for that.
No, no, no.

They injected ivermectin into their eyeballs to eradicate the flu which didn’t impact their eyesight.
It’s also tied inextricably to Austro-libertarianism and I think that’s no accident. My wild conspiracy theory is that the founders of blockchain are cashed up libertarians who created it to promote libertarian economics (which overwhelmingly benefit the cashed up among us)
So basically like getting grounded, which I thought was the worst that could happen but looking back it was probably for the best and made me rethink some bad behaviors.

I believe the key there is the fact that my parents made it clear why I was being grounded and spent the time explaining it to me.
I'm only a student, but I personally really liked https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/

This is better for more advanced topics, like dynamic programming (well, advanced for me, anyway). I started out taking over an hour to solve the first problem in the problem sets, but they build on each other slowly, so I was soon able to see solutions within minutes. It took me a weekend to go through chapters I was struggling with, and I did really well on my coding interview the next day.
Ecosystem is the key word here. Crypto currency enables an economic ecosystem to expand where as without crypto this ecosystem and all the network effects and innovation of said ecosystem would not exist.
You can have low friction exit pathways that still capture that resentment/feedback.

'We're sorry to see you go! Are you cancelling X because (price/UI/technical issues/moving/no longer need/etc)'
Welcome to the New Economy
There is never a best language. You make it sound like PHP is almost worthless in 2021 which is also not true.
In my experience there is one situation where no code shines, namely, in enterprise support and deployment assisting software.

I've worked at a company that sold products to enterprise. There you have programmers writing complex features but you also have complex per-client requirements. Basically, software engineers maintained a nocode product that support / solution engineers use (not so much end users). So yes, there is a real programmer in the loop, but surprisingly, things also often get done without involving this programmer.
I also switched my dev team to it once it grew sufficiently large (at a now acquired startup). The primary thing it enables is actually having a structured conversation about your changes, and having several _revisions_ of your changes through which the reviewer can navigate, much like Gerrit or its progenitor - Critique. Once you experience that, there's simply no going back to anything else.

The UX makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a dirty spoon, but it's still worth it, in spite of the UX. I'm baffled why MS/GitHub can't just go ahead and rip it off at this point, to replace its own utterly atrocious PR review workflow.
We already have gold, though.
> The main use case in El Salvador is having instant payments

What's the average time for a bitcoin transaction these days?

Ten minutes, ok.

So those people in El Salvador actually aren't transacting in BitCoin, they're doing transactions by having a number change in a centralized database somewhere that someone owns, and then claims that all transactions are backed by bitcoin, whatever that means.

And the difference between that, and having your bank update their centralized database as a result of a transaction going through the VISA network is... what, exactly?
Yeah but then you've ended up with weird JSON.
Chrome used to have an option of a blank page, but it was removed "for user convenience"
People will not trust voting systems they cannot understand the workings of. This is one reason digital voting should not be a thing.
I will keep that in mind. I'm up late working a lot lately, maybe a night to just watch a stupid movie instead and sleep in is just what I need.
Really? A 'what about the children' argument? I'm not even pro-Bitcoin, but skip the moral panic.
The sheer amount of permissions required for Conversations is mine boggling. What's Bluetooth and WiFi permissions for?
It starts with one of the most interesting story ever and it just flips itself with all the bashing of bitcoin.

Just my take.
I haven't lived in Europe for a while but it used to be common to issue online-only debit cards (VISA Electron, Maestro etc) for this reason, have these fallen out of fashion?
Ok, I'm just trying to understand. Not trying to make you create a scientific classiciation :D I just disagree as a .NET developer.
I took chloroquine as a prophylactic treatment. Not against covid, obviously; against malaria. Also, I took prophylactic treatments for measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, polio, and another dozen or so diseases. I'm currently taking vitamin D; my original justification for this was as a prophylactic against covid, but now it's just a prophylactic against hypovitaminosis D.

I had alarming symptoms after the chloroquine treatments, and regret having done it. But nobody would ever put chloroquine in the "no known side effects" bucket.
> How so? Ruby just released a new version with a JIT and new concurrency model. Rails is releasing a new major version later this year with a bunch of great improvements. Shopify, Stripe and others are putting a ton of improvements into the Ruby interpreter.

Do all of these make it faster than PHP?
Yeah, one side effect of Bitcoin is that it created 1000x more believers in crackpot Austrian economics. This may end up legitimizing some bad economics.
I think baroque cycle broke that mold a bit. Otherwise I agree.
There is Edit > Copy As SVG

Not an intuitive location (I was expecting it in File > Save As), but its there.
A lot of people write SW without underestanding the consequences. See recent NPM disaster for one example. Or Firefox (UI, "features") for another example. Ok, and Solar Winds for the best example.
My point is there is no actual need, and all needs are contrived by policy for policy's sake, usually caused by security nerds (my people) whose rationale is identity because identity, and then we index on geeking out on writing security protocols without product use cases for the people subject to it.

The real problems in identity proofing are things like task delegation, substitute decision makers in elder care, parents doing things on behalf of their kids and kids asserting their parents permission, federation of user attributes with privacy, etc. These aren't difficult technical problems, except you need some way to transfer risk and accountability, which is an absolute quagmire. Universal digital identity (because let's face it, that's what it necessarily is) approaches these problems with a necessary component of a solution, but that's not what it's mainly going to be used for.

Maybe this yields a thought experiment where let's say I write an app for parents and kids where kids can use it to show they have their parents permission to be in a park after dark, walk to school by themselves, participation in a class trip, travel by themselves on a train or plane, get consent for emergency medical procedures, etc. Then that kid grows up and it switches from their parents to being a drivers license, age of majority card, school graduation certificates, their last STD test, list of employers and past salaries, speeding tickets, criminal records, lowest rated tweets, sexual partners etc. Sounds like it could be a real product right? Except that kid never wanted the stupid app that monitors them, the hovering parents who imposed it on them just use them as a source of narcisistic supply, and then their entire life is one of being subject to some proxy for these helicopter parents. The app is capitivity, or more accurately, entry into a panopticon that deprives them of their basic humanity. This is why digital identity is a terrible idea in pretty much every version I've seen so far. It's not chosen, it's imposed, and that's not a product, that's a mandate laundered through tech.
Firefox is significantly less secure than Chrome, though it may be more private.
PHP is used far more than Ruby. Wordpress alone dwarfes any Ruby usage.
This reasoning is really strange and reeks of bitterness. Do you have anything backing up your claim BTC is used for mostly illegal activities? Please provide some very clear citations for that claim.
Can someone tell me where to get a definitive list of DOI prefixes? I tried to find this some time ago and came away very frustrated. The system seems in reality very opaque.
100 Years of Erlang
Why would you think money is not about belief?

If people stopped believing in fiat, there would be a major bank run.

So yes, the value of crypto, just as like the value of fiat, is based on belief.
Thank you

You'll save me from arthritis and carpal tunnel
It’s sort of a genie in a bottle proof of concept. It becomes whatever its desiderants wish for, about half the time, maybe. I think if you really want to understand why it has become so powerful, then you have to change the question of “how does this solve a problem people have and therefore empower people?”, to “but how does it apparently empower its worshippers without solving a problem at all?”

I am basically not talking about the merits of its technical design; I am talking about the impact of having a software that a nontrivial minority of society view as a money pump whose only input resource constraint is lines of code + cheap hash compute.

In a way you can reframe it like this: when you learn lisp, you realize, code is just data. Bitcoin had some people conclude, code could also be money. Then the ethereum fans have another epiphany: money can be computation etc and so on w the others.

I think it’s less so fidelity to being the optimal remedy for the present’s ailments, and more being wedded to the inpouring of dedication of a few talented coders being caught up in a style of financialized mass sociotechnological engagement that was not really possible to witness until fairly recently w the modern internet
You are not addressing the point: having enough capital to support a completely valid short position against an irrational market is staggeringly hard to do, to the point the most reliable short in history was still in danger of wiping out the person who was right about it and ended up making a huge amount of money from it.
Forgdt this pontification. The answer is to ride the wave and get rich!
Any generic UGC video hosting sites that is the size of YouTube, will be ended up like YouTube.
Wait BBQ?
It’s possible to give many examples of problems computers solve.

For example: I can edit text on a computer more easily than with pencil and paper.

Blockchain proponents find it very difficult to give similar answers for what blockchains make possible.
Are you arguing that we should know which roots contain water and which parts of a horse are best for making bow strings? Circumstances change, skills evolve with the circumstances. Yes, there is a danger of sudden reversal of circumstances, but we still have our ability to relearn and rediscover the "old" skills if need be.

If friction was "positive and promoted good code", the best code would be on punch cards.
You have no idea what you're talking about.

I actually agree that suicide/euthanasia is a human right, but one that can only legally come about after careful rational deliberation and seeking medical counseling.

Most people who commit suicide are mentally ill, often barely aware of what it actually means and what will be the consequences at the time of the act.
Luckily with the advent of Proton and actual anti-cheats being supported by Linux, the last thing keeping me on this utterly disgusting platform will be gone.

I won't miss Windows one second. Now just to find the right distribution environment...
Religion + pyramind scheme. Most bitcoin evangelists are heavily invested in crypto, and stand to personally gain from their missionary work.
What Is ISSU?
You could build a censorship resistant payment system without the insanely excessive hoarding of base wealth

A key tenet of crypto is that you cannot, in fact, do that. To make the system secure it needs to make the people running it rich or they wouldn't bother. This is debated, of course, but so far blockchains that don't have "number go up" have been stillborn.
Who’s to say what “the original goal” was? Satoshi wasn’t that vocal and explicit about their vision in many ways.

As for the early community, there may be as many narratives as there were bitcoiners.

And even if satoshi would have posted a more explicit manifesto, who’s to say that they are the authority to dictate the goals of a project they abandoned almost a decade ago and that others have picked up?

Saying “nobody buys their coffee settled and priced in bitcoin; that was the whole point and should have happened in <10 years” is simply a straw man.

Hell, several of the “failures” points the author brings up are considered features by some.

The existence of permissionless and liquid cryptocurrency markets have political and economic implications. That you do not agree with them does not make it a failure; you just have a different perspective.

All that aside, I think it’s too early still to call Bitcoin’s success or failure.
I think it's intended to read:

A quarter of (US adults on Twitter) account for 97% of tweets

That seems to be based on this result from the article:

An analysis of tweets by this representative sample of U.S. adult Twitter users from June 12 to Sept. 12, 2021, finds that the most active 25% of U.S. adults on Twitter by tweet volume produced 97% of all tweets from these users.
Embedded AI (EAI)
Do you mean 2005?
Non-Violent Drug Offender – Dread Post
Drug charges often lead to the most severe and strict penalties for any person that is found to possess, consume, distribute and sell the products. However, even if the person is a non-violent drug offender, he or she may find himself or herself in the same circumstances as a large drug dealer because of the way the laws have these penalties.
Please please contact me. I’m working on something that’s even easier. It will be open source so this is not a marketing pitch. But it’s quite near the point where I would like outside eyes on it.
Clubhouse was a fun novelty, but listening to meandering conversations with long pauses quickly lost its appeal compared to sped-up podcasts which offered similar conversations.
Can you not imagine a future where the value of the USD is continually inflated by the FED to benefit particular segment of society, and wanting an out? What if there was this currency that no government could inflate away for political reasons, that you could really rely on to be free of short-term economic thinking?
These are being made by Dialog and looking at the tools appear to be a relative of the GreenPAK devices. They were essentially very very small mixed signal programmable logic devices but the data sheets detailed every bit in the bitstream. With any luck these new parts will be the same. They are already using Yosys for synthesis.
https://hn.algolia.com
Agree, but I want to add that in the other direction I wish JS took some hints from Python:
Mainly: (1) Richer standard api (there isn't even built-in 'range' in JS); (2) flexible indexing (negative indexes, tuple indexes, JS does not even have to go all numpy).

Fix these 2 points and JS+TS is a clear winner over Python as a programming language (not ecosystem... There are still way better libraries and integrations Python)

(Oh and also fixing JS 'with' would be nice)
There is also a proposal about generics: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/generics
HTTP Made Easy
Haeckel's Siphonophores
There is probably a set of "good languages to learn" for every individual. There are two good reasons to learn a programming language:

1. You're using it for actual work

2. Learning it will teach you something fundamental

I feel like the only way 2. might happen with PHP is if it's the first language you're learning.
Not that I code in PHP anymore, and I havent for years (felt like I had to say that).

But PHP is a quite nice language with a lot less ceremony than many other languages. Especially nowadays as the article says.

Go make a Wordpress site!
> services like AIM didn't successfully move to mobile

AIM is a lot like AIM, and it worked fine on BlackBerries.
A decentralized, global currency that makes sending/receiving money cheap & easy anywhere in the globe. I do think payments will come in time as well with Visa & Square both heavily invested in the space.

It doesn't need to be optimal or better than any of the other solutions. Because the above is enough.

Something like that takes time. Like you said it's not just about the technology (which itself has evolved a lot). It's about momentum, knowledge and trust.

We now have the crypto.com stadium in LA (ex Staples Center). It's gaining momentum with the public, corporations, and financial institutions. The decentralized nature has made it so far resilient to bans & attacks.

It's fine if crypto gets heavily regulated. In fact in my opinion that would only build trust in it. The space does not need to be the wild west.

But people take more time to change than technology.
haha, yeah, keep peeling the onion https://handle.net/
How about instantaneous, near free payments and money transfer anywhere in the world? Please take a look at the lightning network.
They aren't stupid. Sensors get hot while they're taking an image, and if you can't dissipate the heat quickly enough you have to limit the exposure time. It's likely that new Fuji sensors just run cooler, so they can increase the time they're active.
We live in mostly great times in the first world countries. Peace, and compared to previous times, almost no one is starving and almost everyone has a roof or could get one.

It's always easy to take things for granted, but the real power of Bitcoin shows when things go sidewards. One could say that governments printing a lot of money is already the beginning. Bitcoin (as well as other stuff such as Gold or even global competition) are acting as a certain counterweight against control by other people.

Maybe without these counterweights, we would already be in a much worse situation right now.