skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone has an opinion. I know who he's tacitly 'addressing'. My opinion is it's an indirection; appeal to the mob to not address the actual subject. Like the archive being cleared of evidence (by 'someone'...no proof and all that). Or 'leaving social media', by posting to social media. And after pages of self flagellation mixed with a thick layer of 'but, you know, couldn't be helped', he ends the whole thing with What do you want from me? which certainly reads to me like "let it go". To me, it's a performance piece. But there is certainly room for other readings...we'll have to agree to disagree.
Fun fact: to this day you still cannot have request parameters with “.” in them, because a dot is not valid in a variable name—even though register_globals was removed several major versions ago.

The value of a form input with the name “foo.bar” will instead be available under $_POST[“foo_bar”].
And this deeply cynical rant:

https://toldby.ai/uI9LA3HiSkO

Once upon a time, there was a young man named Jason.

He did what all parents encourage their children to do. He got up early, studied hard, did well in school, participated in extracurricular activities, got great grades, made friends, did not date for several years, was not very attractive, went to a prestigious college, met the girl of his dreams, did not spend much time with said girl until he did, did not engage in any premarital activities, got married at the end of college, got a job, moved to a big house, earned a big salary, told his wife he loved her every day, taught his daughter to not have premarital sex just because she can, paid a lot of money into a pension fund, watched a lot of reality TV, read the news, and on its 20th anniversary took his wife on a modest European vacation.

This story is not just about Jason. It may also be about other people in his generation who all did the same things. What is it like to be like them? Because Jason and his peers did everything right, he does not believe he will ever have to worry.

That is because Jason is not intellectually curious. He is only interested in his own little world.

Jason believes in the retirement system, the company he works for, the banks, the government, the media, the rule of law, the peace of capitalists everywhere that will dominate the geopolitical landscape for another several centuries.

In other words, Jason is a sucker.

He is a sucker because he doesn't understand that to have a retirement account means that you have just contributed to a scheme that when push comes to shove has no real value.

He is a sucker because he need not know that stocks are really shares in nothing other than an intricate system to distract, confuse, or flatter the investor.

He is a sucker because he does not understand that his pension, just like Social Security, is just a joke.

And why does Jason need all these myths?

Because without them he would be frightened to death.

And so Jason, along with everyone else of his generation, contributes to a massive scam on an epic scale.

However, he is a good boy, that Jason.
I'm astonished it's running Windows !
Uncensorability, mostly.

Stripe is an American company. Why should Iranians be bared from participating in the decentralized web?
And they're all in San Francisco!
> especially since they are NOT cheaper to do transactions in and are NOT anonymous and are definitely NOT (yet) even close to green

If you take the bad parts of every cryptocurrency and made them into one single bad cryptocurrency, then yes, you would be correct, but all of these things are better in certain cryptocurrencies than traditional financial systems.

Cryptocurrency doesn't mean only Bitcoin or Ethereum.
Please no, a lot more energy and carbon will be wasted undoing the damage done by full stack engineers now suddenly finding out about memory management problems.
How is Go so high? It’s far higher than even Java or Erlang. Is it due to a high CPU usage that compile times in Go are so fast?
The most important objective of a democracy should be the peaceful transition of power, facilitated by a perception of legitimacy and fairness. Anything else is secondary to that perception. Peaceful transitions of power are important foremost because political violence is abhorrent. Secondly, systems with established track records for peaceful transitions of power encourage people to feel confident about the future, which in turn encourages long term investment and robust economic growth.
yeah, we should use electric stoves powered coal or natural gas. 40% of global electricity is from coal. that has twice the co2 emissions as natural gas.

For some reason, in the late 1990’s I thought fixing the obvious things was obvious to everyone else. Instead we burn more coal now globally than ever before

Natural gas isn’t going anywhere for decades.
Crypto Is Forbidden for Muslims, Indonesia’s National Religious Council Rules (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-forbidden-muslims-indo...)

15 points | dave_aiello | 7 days ago | 10 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29195932
There's a huge scale scale issue there though. When you buy an asset pack from the Unity store you bundle it with your game and it gets shipped with every copy (by whatever distribution means you use). Unity isn't involved in the last mile distribution. They don't need to care that I bought a copy of your game which contained assets from their store.

Further, assets aren't used the same way between games. Just because Game A and Game B use the same weapon asset pack doesn't mean it's fungible between games. Game A might use a damage scale from 0-1000 while Game B is rolling virtual dice with bell curve distributions. Game C uses a sword asset pack but shoots the swords out of a sword shooting bazooka strapped to a unicorn.

If I love Game C with its accurate unicorn physics, I don't care that it uses the same asset pack as Game B that's a D&D workalike.

There's virtually no utility for anyone storing the license of an asset pack on a blockchain. Unity doesn't care if I own a license to a game using an asset pack, they're not going to take on the cost of distributing it to me. Unicorn Bazooka doesn't want to give free advertising to the D&D workalike game by associating with it on a blockchain.
Reminds me of Pied Piper...

"If we could do it, we could build a completely decentralized version of our current internet," Hendricks says. "With no firewalls, no tolls, no government regulation, no spying. Information would be totally free in every sense of the word."
That might be true in Germany, but in The Netherlands it's a cheaper to buy and the down payment is just a few percent for fees and taxes.
Cutting the realtor out of the equation.
>It’s kinda like McDonalds doing a promotion. If you bring a Burger King packaging you get a free Big Mac.

Doesn't that statement show how crazy this is? This never happens in the real world so why would it happen in the virtual world.

Also I'm way behind on this stuff but isn't trading of different things in different contexts the reason we invented money?
Fuel cell cars are electric cars. Since hydrogen is much more plentiful than lithium, it's nearly a certainty that the vast majority of cars will eventually switch over to hydrogen.
That is not the best analogy, because I assume less risk at home than elsewhere. My question was about the threat, and since adversaries are not installing cameras in people's home your comment does not answer my question.
and what about historically substantiated accidents ? Chernobyl, 3 mile island, Fukushima, etc. Not to mention that ~115 of the of all the 460 operational nuclear reactors in the world are close to the sea, just waiting for Tsunami's
Encrypt your video fragments, decrypt inside video blob element. Thats how pirate websites do it.
As you know, Bob, they let anybody on here regardless of occupation or knowledge of Phil Graham. So some random commenter could perfectly well be an aerospace engineer. Or someone that's never been employed in their whole life.
> especially since they are NOT cheaper to do transactions in and are NOT anonymous and are definitely NOT (yet) even close to green

citation needed

As a whole I agree with your statement objectively, but this cannot be said for each blockchain uniformly.

We also don’t need the internet to communicate, gift cards are used to pay scammers, there are other much larger consumers of oil like cars and planes. It’s disingenuous to dismiss this technology for these reasons, there are definite upsides worth exploring that you have alluded to.
I especially like how he did this all after getting out of rehab trying to spend his time on something productive. Mad respect.
Bingo. I'm eager to hear counterarguments from "Web3" proponents
I don’t hate my job. My contract didn’t get extended twice because of culture fit issues (e.g. me taking 1 hour to question the business model and improving it — since I am not a business person that’s not my place).

A job in programming != programming your own project(s)

I am talking about the latter.
We are a 30 people team with 10 reps on the floor. We use pipedrive and the bar to win a smaller team like us is set too high. We currently pay $2500 P/M but with this tactic, I suspect you will never win my business.
It is usable only in a VM, sadly.

If you like to hack around and enjoy playing Diablo 1 on obscure software, Serenity OS is for you :)
Ah, so they did. Reading for the win. :)
The Unholy Matrimony of China’s Real Estate and LGFVs
I see a number artisans managing their business on pen and paper, and handwrite receipts.

It works for them, but I wont tell random people starting a business now to go with pen and paper, 99% of the time that would be a bad advice when there are much much better alternatives now.
Sounds like Notion or similar is the way to go.
The best way to hide anything is to make adversary think that it does not exists.
OpenAI isn't quite so good about the whole Checkhov's Gun thing... or avoiding going on long, crazy rants.
Speech is an action. Saying someone got fired for their actions (which were primarily speech, not physical actions) is the same thing as firing someone for their speech.

And I don't really care about the Dixie Chicks, they were right, but people don't have to listen to them either. The same way I feel about all these people that are claiming that they have been cancelled. They might be right, I don't think most of them are, but none of us have to listen to them, they are not entitled to anything.

Walmart and Amazon could certainly try to do those things, but both of those specifics do at least have some legal questions that I am not qualified to answer.

And I'm going to go out on a limb that you haven't seen every textbook in the South. And while I will fully admit here that it may not be pervasive, it certainly was taught in some schools in the South. Another term more frequently used is the "war for southern independence". While not as objectionable, it certainly was not the intent of the Civil War.
Great thread, particularly the part on "land" in games. I've always found it a little off putting that so many cryptocurrency projects essentially advertise themselves by promising that early adopters will become landed gentry.

Also, I read the Transitional Gains Trap paper a few years ago and really liked it, but forgot the name and couldn't find it again, so you helped me find it again, thanks!
Every once and a while the FTC does some hero shit
why would mcdonalds do that?
This is on the top of my list of "least helpful error messages" and isn't just a golang thing, any dynamically linked executable will throw this error in an unexpected execution environment.

Cheatsheet (standard issue hello world -- hello.c)

# gcc -o hello ./hello.c

# file ./hello
./hello: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0, BuildID[sha1]=1e41ccb72d7a36ab5ac0c2c11bcd0e994e5eb013, not stripped

This bit is what throws that error if unavailable:

"interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2"

Also, if ldd / file are unavailable but readelf is:

# readelf -a ./hello | grep interpreter

[Requesting program interpreter: /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2]

# readelf -a ./hello | grep NEEDED

0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6]
wow, that's a really hard problem to do well (IE, as well as a human expert with many hours to relisten).hopefully the repo will be fleshed out a bit more and a pretrained model provided.
Welcome to the Bay Area, where the only people who can buy houses are those that can funnel the retirement funds of the world into their pockets.

The answer for us is that all the local service providers live far outside the core urban areas and have terrible commutes. Or they double or triple-up, multiple families per unit. As the area becomes increasingly unlivable for people that do the local gruntwork, a number of them leave the metro area. Those that stay have less competition, and so they start charging higher wages. Eventually the local economy equalizes at a much higher price point; local service workers find they make a livable wage again; globalized tech workers find that most of their income is eaten up by daycare, housecleaning, gardening, and restaurant meals out (to say nothing of housing); and the whole region settles into an uneasy truce, yet enjoys great geographic arbitrage opportunities over other regions. We can go make Halifax unaffordable and live like a king there, for example.
> People really need to stop trying to sound smart

> Get over yourself.

Right back atcha.

Good grief, "stoichiometric mixture" is not a reasonable person's danger threshold. The mechanical energy alone is terrifying, which was the point of bringing up COPVs.

While we're at it, let's put giant flywheels in chemical cars to do regenerative breaking. They'll probably have less mechanical energy than the titanic so they're probably no big deal, right? Right.
After arguing (correctly, IMO) that futurists make ridiculous predictions, he predicts a colony on Mars? Why? To what end? What would it do and who would care? Who would want to travel months through space one way just to do… what will anyone be able to do on Mars anyway? I can see some tourism of a particularly extreme sort but the idea of a Mars colony strikes me as totally insane.

Also predicting that most education will be online after everyone spent a year and a half discovering how terrible both Zoom school and Zoom university are is a bold (and likely wrong) prediction.

I buy that the future is female given current trends, but basically the whole list of predictions in the second half of the article is exactly the mistake he explains futurists make in the first half!
Not a single mention about the climate crisis and sixth mass extinction. Simply pure utopian thought.
> We haven't been back to the Moon

...because until basically now, the tech for doing so was an immensely expensive, one shot, disposable rocket, which could only carry a return vehicle, one lander and a small crew. As a result, the only use for moon missions was (1) to do trivial kinds of science such as could be done with the very limited kinds of instruments that could be carried, and (2) for national bragging rights.

With the science done, with the missions becoming routine and boring, the only entity that could afford to go stopped spending its money.

This is all right on the cusp of changing.
He posted a list of real, hard problems, all of which are correct. You posted an empty sales-pitch. The problem is not over-thinking.

Going with your analogy, think a bit more carefully: does that guy in the parking lot who sold you a Big Mac receipt have the power to compel Burger King to give you free food? That’s all the power an NFT has — there’s nothing magic about it, just a question about whether the business in question wants to do it. If they do, they don’t need a blockchain. If they don’t, a blockchain can’t make them.
> It powers many many websites including Youtube.

And this was such a scalability problem that Youtube decided to spend the unimaginable amount of pain and suffering to rewrite in C++.
Not disagreeing but just reminding.

It’s hard to compete with “let everyone else in the world pay for the true cost of this energy”.

That’s what makes fossil affordable and why we need carbon taxes right this second.
Mac also caved after a real highpoint of good definition in the 90s.

With MS, they just seemed to stop paying attention to their own guidance and much preferred doing their own thing (see most editions of Office!), people just got fed up and it seems like it crumbled from there.
> with a custom html/css/js engine

That almost sounds like confusing goals with ways to me. Unless those very specific ways are your goal for some reason, if you were to "build a decent and snappy GUI operating system from scratch", you probably wouldn't end up with those things in it. You'd end up with something more similar to Oberon, Smalltalk, or VPRI's system (was it Frank or something like that?).
Not OP but I think he’s assuming that programmers are on demand like temps, as in once the system is “done,” they are fired. Obviously it doesn’t actually work this way but that might be the logic.
I see. Makes sense. Are such airbnb experiences common, though? Given other controls such as reviews, are they expected to be long lived? I could maybe see the harm caused to a few individuals, which is deplorable, but once a single extortion event happens the expectancy of income is reduced.
Yeah here we have a minimum director salary (which is basically median wage instead of minimum), after that everything is pulled out through profit.
In general I don't think it's fair to describe anything as a dark pattern this is clearly communicated in a contract.

Same with "Here’s a similar problem with a different scenario: You sign a one-year contract with a SaaS provider. You start paying immediately. The process to get API access, build integrations, set up the software, and onboard and train your team takes three months.

In those three months, you still paid for a service you couldn’t use yet. In fact, you had to pay to set it up! You had to pay upfront to get the functionality you needed."

Do I generally think that's a bad policy? Sure (depending on whether there are significant resources required on the software company's side for you to build your integration).

If you're told this is going to be the case and agree to it, is it a dark pattern? Clearly not.
> they didn't prioritize economic and political self-sustaining capability in drawing borders

And even further, they weaponized this. They wanted inherently unstable countries that required their presence to function.

That was what culminated in the Rwandan genocide, intentionally setting up a country such that without their invisible hand propping one side up, the other would seek to destroy it.
I almost want to stoke the fire and make a joke about rewriting things in rust, as the energy expensive seems comparable.

Anyway you can take my Erlang from my cold, dead hands.
Runtime footprint and CPU is pretty tiny for Go. It’s shockingly low cost to run it. I am frequently surprised.
This would make sense if all computers ever did was mathematical micro-benchmarks.

Can you create a web framework in C that has as many features as Rails or Django? And what's the power consumption of that?

Higher level languages do more stuff. It's not like Guido and Matz just woke up one day and were like "fuck your CPU".

Plus, compilation requires a decent amount of power, as shown in those graphs. Does every C/C++ project run perfectly with no bugs the first time?
While many of the members are just starting their journey, the NFTs are more of an incentivization for the creators of learning resources, I think.

The resources themselves, when created, should reach as many people as possible.
> Sometimes the traditional digital item (say an NFT) has an associated real-world contract attached to it that extends some sort of right/ownership of a physical item in the real world.

Does it? Do you have any examples of this? How does the ownership get enforced?

This seems to address the most salient criticism of NFTs which is that the only thing which changes ownership is the NFT itself, but I have never seen it in practice.
> my prediction is that we won't even have our first manned mission to Mars this century.

Well that's a wacky prediction. What makes you think that?

We haven't been back to the Moon in 50 years, sure, but we've barely been trying until recently. We're very close to having vehicles that can get to the Moon and Mars.
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The cartoon faces have always been yellow, but the human ones, e.g. hands or gendered faces, were not until 2015 (on iOS).
https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2/

There was a lot of discourse about it at the time. https://www.fastcompany.com/3016256/are-emojis-racist
Hi bdash! Great to see you here, and I hope life is going well for you too :)
As far as I know you still need to load 200kb+ JS from a third party (ampproject.org) to use even basic built-in browser features like forms. See for example https://amp.dev/documentation/components/amp-form/?referrer=...

If AMP only was a stricter subset of HTML with some limits on page size I don't think the backlash would be so hard. Instead it's a framework that includes massive overhead, third party dependencies, explicit carve-outs for ads and a unnecessary 7 second load delay if you choose not to load their js.

EDIT: Also built in scroll-jacking, hiding the actual origin of the content, and a bunch of other anti-features.

This is one of those things where google might have started with a good idea, but the reasonable person left the room after a single-sentence pitch and left it up to whatever braintrust of marketers and LOC-counting managers stayed.
1. He's not IDW

2. He does extend empathy to others. Have you read his writing?

3. Freddie is repentent of his sins, whereas many in the PC/woke crowd are not. There can be no real forgiveness where there is not first repentance.
I mostly agree with one caveat. The bitcoin signature "dumb contract" is intentionally a form of automata just shy of Turing completeness. Therefore there's no way to hack in any arbitrary feature (like NFTs) without having a fork. Granted NFTs don't do anything computationally complex, so all it would take is modifying bitcoins stack machine with a single additional op code for minting Chuck E Cheese tokens (I propose 0xCEC). Now we just need to get all the miners to agree to a hard fork adding this one mundane feature that honestly shouldn't upset anyone and you can just ignore if you don't like it. In other words, it will never happen.
> BYD, which is the biggest producer of batteries in the world, sells shipping container sized lithium iron phosphate sized battery packs for large scale solar backup.

Tesla has been playing in that space too with their Megapack.

https://www.tesla.com/en_AU/blog/introducing-megapack-utilit...

There was a pretty bad fire with them in Australia. https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-megapack-fire-austr...
I think they should offset all of these things against the probability that the IDE you have to use has its own ozone hole.

That stab is mostly aimed in the direction of C# and Java