skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that one of the most exciting facets of web3 stuff is around how easy it makes authentication and authorization scenarios. I've been working on a project that is an interactive NFT art project, where the interactive capabilities of the art are only possible for the owners of the piece. Providing authorization to the service is as simple as verifying ownership of the token. It's been pretty fun, I used an open source game engine as both the art generative tool as well as the interactive HTML5 app that allows for users to interact with their art.

That, and utilizing wallets as proof of identity, is so mindnumbingly simple compared to OAuth+OIDC for authentication and varying strategies for authorization. Granted the project is a small scale project, but with web3 architectural changes, it is empowering me to create a 2 person project (I am the only engineer too), that would be much more daunting of a project in traditional web architecture.

It's very exciting stuff, and I hope that people are able to see the tech for the possibilities it provides, especially when it comes to the NFT space. An NFT is just simply a single issue token, it can do whatever the developer wants, despite the common misperception being it is solely a link to a static image file on arweave / IPFS. Unfortunately the market is completely saturated with low-effort projects so it is very, very difficult to get eyes on innovative projects, but I hope that can change, and hope that I can create a project that allows even a small amount of people to see that there is so much more to the technology than what people have considered in 2021.
Maybe your initial comment was not clear. Reproduced below:

> Excitement cannot overcome a lack of exploitable natural resources at the destination.

In context ("the more SpaceX progresses, the more people will get excited about space and investment money will be thrown at space technology"), I assumed your point was that natural resources on Mars cannot be economically relevant to Earth-based investors, and therefore no such investment money will be "thrown" at Mars colonization regardless of how "excited" people are about the idea. Hence the substance of my reply.

Did you instead mean to say that air, water, food, and radiation shielding are intractable problems for Mars colonization?
That would be nice. There are so many attempt to clone it and the clones are always missing some important piece of what makes rails rails. Lack of good, heavily integrated libraries is a universal failure of all of the ones I’ve seen.
I'm curious what is the significance of 8kHz for running an interpreter? Am I missing something obvious?
> She had this weird plan to "take all the money and leave me with all the debt" which she proudly told my brother.

This sounds like a nightmare.
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I made heavy use of G+, circles and whatnot. It was genuinely a pretty decent experience. And there's quite a few more people on there than you'd expect.
Paper, stamps, and seals. Guess that's technology as well.

Before then we just bashed each other with rocks I guess.
That talks to the horror of occupation and colonisation. It’s doesn’t address the thread’s proposition of why some countries had a different path afterwards like India and Singapore to mention a couple
Blackrock alone manages 6T. A trillion ain’t what it used to be.
You might not use "an IDE", but you can get language server support for a ton of languages in almost any text editor worth using these days. There are Vim LSP plugins for TypeScript, even.
Just for added advice: Toyota also makes battery powered cars alongside their hydrogen cars. Tesla however does not make hydrogen powered cars at all. So without getting into details, it's clear that Toyota knows more about how each technology stack up against each other. So for Tesla to be right on this, it means that without having any knowledge of hydrogen cars they still know that it can't work, even over a company that knows something about both.

It can be described as Toyota having both eyes open whereas Tesla is blind in one eye, but still claiming that the latter sees better.
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/book/

https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/ponzi.html

https://www.ft.com/content/9e787670-6aa7-4479-934f-f4a9fedf4...
So it’s a “luxury” in the security world? This is what gets me thinking: I think anti-bot companies are really pushing their marketing for a bunch of things that are very superfluous to most people/businesses.
Like, it seems they’re trying really hard to make a case for anti-bot where it’s merely an extra
I wonder if CNN thinks the same way about their company name

QED
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Rather than answering the question about your opinion about “the whole race/IQ debate” (your words), you’re going out of your way to… what? Admonish me for being rude for bringing up the literal topic at hand (a public writer and possible reasons why he would have negative attention)?

Also, I don’t think “the whole race/IQ debate” is a real thing that people engage in for germane reasons, so you didn’t do a stellar job not answering the question :)
https://tailscale.com works beautifully for that, with minimal setup.
This is the single most hacker news comment I have ever read
Sorry, I should have qualified it:

How did they do it in one night before technology?
No, you're just rephrasing "the ends justifies the means", except the with added moral superiority of "I'm voting so that makes use of force ok".

'Voluntarily' supporting mandatory laws misses the entire point: that individual acts matter and sacrifice for others matters.

Especially when voting for tax schemes that might cost you very little because they're sold as "only taxing those that can afford it" or "the 1%" or whatever.

>If you voluntarily elect a government that will make it into law or work toward its establishment, your redemption is assured, because you did it voluntarily.0

You've just re-invented indulgences.
Here in lovely Oceania, Big Brother is watching you.

"War is peace

Freedom is slavery

Ignorance is strength.”

And the profits flow to former politicians:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/malcolm-and-lucy-turnbul...

"Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull have been revealed as investors in an American technology company supplying police forces with a new generation of cloud-based software to manage emergency responses and investigations.

The former prime minister and former Sydney lord mayor are among the backers behind the $US101 million raised in the latest funding round for Mark43, which announced its first Australian contract with NSW Police earlier this year."
Let's see, a public organization sets a fixed-price bid that is completely static and available for anyone to see... yeah, I'm not really surprised that they were outbid.
When will the bulb light up when the switch is closed?
Redwood does this in TypeScript
I recommend avoiding Twitter if the goal is to actually understand the fundamental principles underlying blockchains. Most of Twitter is about memes and marketing and not actually about the fundamentals of the technology and how it can be utilized to do worthwhile things.

If you want to understand the technology then learning a little bit about hash function and public/private key cryptography will give you the necessary conceptual prerequisites for making sense of smart contracts. At that point you can start reading about the actual implementation details of various blockchains or look further into distributed consensus mechanisms because blockchains are fundamentally about linearizing concurrent event streams and reaching consensus in distributed systems.
Fischer-Tropsch. But today, it's the reverse, most hydrogen is produced from methane.
ive seen first hand at an amazon sortation/distribution warehouse i worked to construct just last year used QNX for their automated conveyor and barcode sortation system, i guess since its a real-time OS? I love the UI as well and it was really neat to see QNX in the wild.
Picric acid's reputation for sensitivity to detonation has somehow greatly inflated in recent decades. It was safely fired out of artillery pieces millions of times during World War I. It was known to chemists for decades before it was considered/known as an explosive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picric_acid#History

It has friction and impact sensitivity comparable to TNT (see tables 13.4.6.5.1 and 13.5.1.5) according to the UN's "Classification Procedures, Test Methods and Criteria Relating to Explosives of Class 1":

https://unece.org/DAM/trans/danger/publi/manual/Rev5/English...
I really feel the same about javascript with typescript. It feels a heck of a lot like new grads or old c#/java devs trying to keep up with the times by switching to javascript, but then resisting the code structure and loose typings.
I was talking about the players.
Studios will have no choice but to support it because gamers will expect it. Just like Sony has been forced to accept cross-play in Fortnite. All it takes is one big game with NFT support to start it.
Can you provide some examples of these happening ? Or even better some statistics ?
There was a problem with early night vision camcorders, in that they could kind of see through beachwear. So maybe that's part of the reason.
I love LFP batteries and feel they are not given enough importance in the energy transition future. I was wondering by chance if there is a way to estimate the material amount used in these batteries to check if their limiting factor in scaling is lower than typical high Nickel batteries. I was wondering if Phosphate is a concern if not Lithium.
Ruby isn't forcing you to use static types. That being said, I actually think something like Sorbet makes even solo/small teams more productive because it trades some additional time writing boilerplate for dramatically reducing the number of bugs you write.
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Distribution. Local counties handle tallying, they report to state representatives whether it's pony express, telegraph, trucks or otherwise.

States run their own elections and vote for candidates, electoral votes from states are tallied.

Makes Santa Claus look like a bitch right?
If the debris cloud expands and cascades with other collisions, what will happen to SpaceX's stock?

Will we lose GPS?
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Some of our assets are hundreds of years old already.

One of them is half a million years old, but still made by human(ish) hands.

Preserving the data for future generations is part of the job.
"The trick is making it the same day you sign the deal and making it all inclusive."

I think the original contract is enforceable at the time it was originally agreed to. Coming up with additional terms, even if they were on the same day, wouldn't not change the original contract. Imagine signing up for a credit card offer and then sending a certified letter to the bank informing them that you will only pay a lower interest rate that you designate.

I think the stronger argument is the "incorporated by reference" argument, given the fact that those could be changed at a later time. The terms of a contract need to be clear, and any ambiguity would likely be settled in favor of the party to be charged.

I have always been suspicious of the "Click to Agree" box at then end of a long contract that no one, including the company offering it, has ever read. The problem is that there are so many (generally unlikely) contingencies that have to be accounted for. What other choice is there when there may be substantial liability in question?
I think almost all users would like easily swappable iPhone batteries. All users would have liked Fords with multiple colours rather than black. Many users would have asked for text messages over 160 characters in 1990 or Facebook with their own themes on the page. Tradeoffs abound.

Sometimes what users want will get you to a billion. Sometimes it’ll kill you. What’s the difference?
Meh, for a lot of business models it makes a lot of sense. I wholeheartedly disagree with the sentiment, but that doesn't change the fact that deflecting automation tools/scraping is the best way to keep people coming to your site. If you're showing ads or pushing unique/paywalled data, it's probably well worth it to ensure that you've got scraping prevention. Those people need every dollar they can get, and if their power-users can circumvent them entirely it's considered a threat to their practice.
Including for the physical vaulting of the item, in most cases.
And if California had the same death rate as Florida, there'd be an additional 40k dead people. These things aren't remotely symmetrical and it's such a disservice to pretend like "both sides are bad".
IPFS is one of several storage layers.
That's always been my problem with this. For everything that timezones currently solve, they suggest using solar time instead. So time zones, with a new name.

Currently we reference local time for most things, and UTC when coordination is required. The suggestion appears to boil down to using UTC (or equivalent) as the default, and time zones for everything that requires coordination. Except renaming timezones so we can pretend they were solved.
The legals took several years to get right. This is, indeed, the hard part.
Which to me says this is solving the wrong problem. Towns and cities are designed to promote drunk driving by putting the bars and houses at opposite ends of long wide roads.
Recreating Fortune Telling from Super Mario Bros. DX
Hey, that's microkernel's dream come true
Morality is the way you act when nobody is watching and the consequences are all but non-existent.

I don't think driving more slowly to stay under the speed limit in an enforcement blitz is moral behavior. I think driving as safely as practicable for the safety of pedestrians when there is no enforcement (eg in a poor and corrupt country) might well be moral.

If you have different definition of what morality is, that's ok but there's not much to discuss.
I’m fairly positive title insurance has nothing to do with losing the title. It’s dealing with the problem: someone sold you a house, but they weren’t actually allowed to do that.

With possibilities ranging from they didn’t actually own the house, to they were mentally competent to make the decision, to the house was incorrectly registered in the gov systems.

You would still need this in a title-in-NFT world, because an NFT is just supplanting the government title office, which is actually the final source of truth on ownership (not the literal paper title).

And like the government office, which is really acting as a convoluted database (which is all the NFT chain is doing as well), you still have all the problems of dealing with fallible humans.

It’s basically a case of the naive rewrite — the current solution is too complex, so we’ll scrap it and start over… without realizing some of the complexity was accidental, but it was largely essential from dealing with all the edge cases.
Having used inline typing in PHP and Python I don't really see the benefit of putting it in a separate file either, but when I was reading about it earlier in the year it sounded like Matz wanted types relegated to a separate file, so that's what happened.
The static languages I've used most are actually Haskell and recently Pony (mostly for things that involve a bunch of maths and processing in parallel). Just brought Go/Java up because it seems everyone is trying to turn every language into those.

I don't want Ruby to become another TS because I'd use a typed language if I wanted one. The problems I use Ruby for don't need the speed of a statically typed language and it's nice using a dynamic one for.
The more complex the chemistry, the less economically viable.

Hydrogen is just H2. Diesel is a complex hydrocarbon.

A viable future, would be a highly distributed network of hydrogen stations, with Hydrogen generated from solar energy, with enough reserve capacity to act as a base load plant.

Extracting energy from hydrogen is a well understood process.
That undermines the "Full" in full self-driving.
Yeah, it's totally the fault of the CDC that people continue to do things that don't make sense. Totally a top down problem, all they had to do was get the messaging right and no one would have done anything wildly incoherent for the entire pandemic.
There's a reason it didn't come from a typed language... It uses a lot of dynamic features and metaprogramming.
By the time they get giant with [interpreted language], the giant org cannot pivot to Java without sacrificing a year of forward momentum on product development.

It's far easier for them to adopt a static analysis tool that mimics the type safety that Java provides than to migrate their codebase.
> So California looks at Florida in horror, even though COVID just keeps on truckin' through Cali.

California’s recent COVID death rate per 100K population is 2/3 Floridas, and the COVID incidence is concentrated in the counties with Florida-like attitudes.
It's the manipulative, click-bait title that I have issue with.

NYT chose to misrepresent the purpetrators in it's article. That's not journalism.

NYT's conclusion of who is to blame could have gone either way:

1) be manipulative by support americans and their interests regardless of the truth
2) be objective, report the facts, identify contributing factors without overtly blaming
3) be manipulative by damning americans, encouraging americans to hate each other and their country, feed into everybody's victim mentality

I much, much would 2. But if I can't have 2, I'd prefer 1 over 3. My kids futures will be better off if they are encouraged to appreciate what's good in their country rather than always looking for reasons to hate it
I understand that some things exist longer than their owners do. We already have mechanisms in place to manage the transition of ownership of those things. What is insufficient about those mechanisms? What is accomplished by these properties you say should be true?
Good critique, but misplaced. Web3 is fundamentally about economic and speech freedom. Simple really. It’s a thesis though, we will see if it proves itself out.
After supervising graduate students for about ten years (in a field in the social sciences), I’ve started giving new M.A. students a similar bit of advice: attend research conferences, both to hear the presentations and to meet other researchers, and join academic societies.

It took me a while to notice this, but I gradually came to see that students who eventually succeeded in academia—finishing their Ph.D.s on time, publishing papers, getting jobs—had usually gotten involved early in the broader academic community, while many who stumbled had had trouble breaking out of the undergraduate mentality of just taking classes and studying in the library by themselves.
As with most technological advances and innovations, people - even laggards of technological adoption - tend to over-estimate in the near term and under-estimate in the long term in terms of predicting the 'impact' of a given technology. So based on nothing at all other than witnessing corporations and industries rise and fall for more than 2 decades now because of new technologies, let's say 7 years before you're out. Fair?
I wish that Duff’s device wasn’t invented.
... nobody needs 'web3', just like nobody needed the blockchain grifters.
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What? Your comments support my point, they don't refute it. Blockchains are a (naive) application of distributed computing principles, not the foundation of them...
I am losing the addiction battle with my phone
are we slowly replicating the human brain ?
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You spent two paragraphs arguing that FPTP voting systems are responsible for the stability of the US, Canada and Britain, ("If [FPTP is] so bad, why was the US stable for so long with literally the exact same system we have now?") whereas countries that use consensus-oriented systems tend to collapse into autocracies ("The number of parliamentary countries using PR that have collapsed probably exceeds the total number of FPTP countries globally.") ... and then your final paragraph argues "Voting or electoral systems just don't matter that much- culture does. If you're a basically stable society, you can use any voting method and be fine."

So which is it? Is FPTP the lynchpin of stable democracies, or otherwise irrelevant? Are you making an explicit statement about politics or an implicit statement about culture, here?
> medicine has not fully embraced the scientific method but some strange "evidence-based" variant.

Why would you not want to follow a conservative, evidence-based variant of the scientific method?

> During the early stages of the pandemic, high ranking officials suggested we should not use masks because it was not yet "proven" the virus was transmitted via aerosols. And this was a catastrophic decision.

And the current administration continues to employ this official and give them a microphone
Especially given that "Web 3.0" was already a term and (for better or worse) was mostly seen as synonymous with "Semantic Web". TBH, I never liked "Web 3.0" as a meaningless marketing buzzword then, but this is even worse because now we've overloaded a term which had a meaning with a confusingly similar term ("Web 3.0" vs "web3") which means something pretty much totally unrelated.

And yes, I know that terms in English get overloaded and that's part of life. Fine... but at least do it when there's a good reason for it. There's no particular reason to call this crypto/blockchain/ethereum/smart-contract/defi stuff "Web3". It could just as easily be "Web 4.0" or "Web 5.0" or "Fzbnnng^ztttzz@)@lyzmkizt" or whatever.
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A Xiaomi phone might’ve shipped with a censorship list in Europe
It’s not an estimate in NYC - that was measured.
XP explorer is so much faster it blows my damn mind. I ran it inside Windows 10 in VirtualBox, the explorer window opens instantly and navigates instantly, while the new explorer has lag with every operation. The best way to see this is to copy or rename a file. Explorer, a Microsoft product (presumably better integrated with the kernel) will take a second or two to show the result of the action that it itself performed (!!), while Sublime Text open in the background will detect the change and display it instantly. Madness!
A google search tells me there are far more efficient processes available, one almost at 25% efficiency. None of them commercially viable yet.
Could something like this work at range? I have a fantasy of flying a drone along a beach and generating a map of all the plastics locations..
I'd be happy if daylight savings time was terminated. DST is fine if you're a kid, as a lifetime goes by before you gotta reset the clocks. But as an older person, changing the clocks is a constant nuisance.
Maybe a curated marketplace would be a good place for those projects?
"As you can tell, there is some significant variance across the different forms of IPC and OS variants, and to understand the true limits, you basically need to dive deep into the network buffers and OS-specific handling, influenced by a number of possibly system-specific variables or settings, including default max values, hard-code kernel limits, run-time configurable settings such as sysctl(8)s etc. etc."

NetBSD allows one to experiment with smaller hard-coded limits.

When compiling the kernel, uncomment

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Please see a health professional, try to exercise and eat healthy, and take all advices here cautiously as we are not doctors lol.
Should React be a web standard? How about Typescript?

AMP being built into browsers wouldn't be an improvement.

These technologies are built on top of web standards. It's a different level of the stack.