skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a house token is an interesting idea, once you accept the inevitability of having to interface with the real world.

If you had one and it got stolen, you'd file a court case with your state or local authority. They would then add a record saying that the ownership is disputed. If you won the case, they'd add a new record saying that the house still belongs to you. It turns it from "I'm screwed" to "Ugh, a legal hassle", the exact same as if your paper deed got stolen.

You'll probably say "but why bother then?" The main reason is standardization. I have no idea how to check housing records for other states, let alone other countries. Some shitty broken website created by a lowest bidder contractor? Request a copy by mail that probably costs money because someone has to physically print out a copy themselves? Instead, everybody everywhere can use the same software stack instead of reinventing the wheel N times. Checking the current state of things becomes trivial.

It's also trivial to do private house sales then. One transaction signed by both parties, and you're done.
Yikes. The amount of times I type a message only to delete it, people I'm talking to will probably be horrified if they saw me give a wall of text to be replaced with "cool".
> All the generations of how to manage the town has left and now the model for organization in society has become corruption.

Arguably in many cases the social behavior remains the same, but is defined as "corruption" within the context of the introduced political system. The "corruption" is undesirable in large part because the outcomes are being compared to alien systems that produce economic benefits previously unfathomable. And that perspective shock would have been inevitable, whether conquered or not, once they began interacting with the outside world. Look at some of the Amazonian and similar tribes elsewhere that were introduced to the outside world in the latter half of the 20th century.

Quid quo pro and careful cultivation of personal relationships existed everywhere. That's the default state of small societies and, in many cases, even very large ones. Heck, it's still the case in many wealthy, ostensibly modern societies today, like China. Such behavior is corruption from the perspective of the modern authoritative structure, yet the same cultural norms the Chinese had been beneficially practicing for millennia.
Omg that's me! @debbshock on Twitter. Thanks for quoting me
In case you're using Google docs/drive for docs at the moment, I've built https://neat.wiki for precisely this purpose. If it's documentation for code there are better options though.
Munich reverted to Windows in 2017, then reverted back to Linux in 2020. it is expected that the 2017 rollback was a case of corruption and a waste of money. The first shift was allegedly explicitly against the wishes of many users.
I don't fully understand your logic. Are you saying that theft will prevent the adoption of this technology?

People get shit stolen in the real world, and in the current implementation of the internet all the time. What happens when your Google account gets fished and someone steals tens of millions of dollars from your company? Do we shut down the internet and call it a day? No, not really. It has no effect on adoption.

The fact is that when you invent the ship, you invent the shipwreck. So it goes with all new technologies, and so it always has. Have we ever simply said, "Welp, there are costs to go along with the benefits of this new tech. Let's just give up here!" Not to my recollection. We simply make the ships more crash-resistant.

The problems with new tech are almost always obvious early on, but the solutions require creativity and frequently result in hugely successful businesses.

Consider early criticisms[0] of the internet from 1995:

> "Every voice can be heard cheaply and instantly. The result? Every voice is heard. The cacophany more closely resembles citizens band radio, complete with handles, harrasment, and anonymous threats. When most everyone shouts, few listen." True enough. There's a cacophony. So what? The internet survives. Algorithms rank posts and tweets and surface the best insights.

> "How about electronic publishing? Try reading a book on disc. At best, it's an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can't tote that laptop to the beach." True enough. So what? We got Kindles, and smart phones, and higher-res screens, and people bring laptops to cafes instead of beaches.

> "…the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don't know what to ignore and what's worth reading. Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them…" True enough. So what? A few years later this problem was largely solved by Google, which is now worth a trillion dollars.

> "…who'd prefer cybersex to the real thing?"* Hundreds of millions of people are addicted to porn. Not saying it's a great result, but the fact remains that problems don't stop adoption.

And do you remember how much credit card fraud there was in 90s e-commerce, when security was trash and almost nobody was used to regularly checking their digital bank statements, so it would take weeks or months for people to even notice? Hell, there's still a lot of fraud today. E-commerce still reigns supreme.

Sure, people will get their NFT good stolen. It will happen frequently. It already has happened many times. This will not hurt NFT adoption. It will simply spur innovation in security and defense, which it already has if you actually look into early solutions (e.g. custodians, insurance).

At best, you're simply pointing out problems that people will innovate to solve.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirv...
If you click on the timestamp for the comment, you'll be presented with an option to "favorite" the comment.
try https://www.alovez.com/ or https://www.snapfeel.com/
I think what we've lost on the modern Internet from forums is a stable-ish social order. You knew people in a different way, remembered names and faces, understood personalities and attitudes. Some came and went but for the most part, there was some sort of community with social hierarchy and structure, agreed-upon values.

I think losing that is a large part of why Internet discussion has kind of turned to shit. Lacking real belonging, people create ephemeral tribes out of their perceived identity instead.
That's where I am! I have a lot of houseplants (on the order of about 100) and now that I own property with outdoor space I've been interested in getting into potted outdoor houseplants. My tiny backyard has a lot of perennials, but what I don't have are many trees or any extra ground space, so I'd love to have some small potted hardy trees, particularly given my love of the real deal (i.e. adult trees in nature).
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Interesting, but it should probaby be divided by the desire / expectations to navigate the power process too. Otherwise, it gets too far away from the common usage of the word.
You are right, placing the navigation on the sidebar is more useful than the links to GitHub and Slack.
Yeah the new coalition signed all those agreements back in 2020 (Munich, Hamburg, Dortmund...) but I don't know how far are they with actually implementing those plans.
> Hacker News. Similar to Reddit, but aimed towards a more technical audience. However, you don't get a dedicated space for your links.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=darekkay.com

(I was going to say 'you do sort of', excepting that you can't stop others' submissions going there - but then I realised that's even more 'control' than Reddit gives you, since it's inherently only your site; if others submitted it it's still your content.)
The PaperBoxEra CNFT Project
Here is a project with a captivating backstory and some out of this world, artwork.

The PaperBoxEra CNFT Project has a lot of talent, and its gaining momentum in the Metaverse.

The story is set in a universe far (but not too far) away. A civilisation living on their planet (not to dissimilar to our own) were at harmony with one another when suddenly, they were all exposed to extreme radiation that started to awaken the populations sinister side…
I'm really bummed about the negativity in the comments. I for one have high hopes for this as the current generation of web powered chats are huge pain for me. Maybe open protocols can take the lead again, at least for a while. It has happened before. Let other people work for our benefit with a bit of encouragement, it costs very little and an eventual failure will do you no harm.
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Php change from 4.x to 5.x broke my web sites and I still don't trust php after that. I guess they might do it again from 7.x to 8.x, we'll see.

If having the same code working for a long time is the most important for you then you should probably use java or .net. Maybe c++ also but that is not as popular for building web apps.
Yes but in practice it’s the same for a learner (or only a small discount)
I don't think salaries across Europe are comparable. There are huge discrepancies between locations.

For example, in Berlin it seems to me that average salaries are around 70k EUR/year (6.6k USD/month) and really good salaries are well above 90k EUR/year (8.5k USD/month).

You can see more data in https://www.levels.fyi, which it is skewed to the high side, but gives you an idea about what good offers are nowadays.
This came up in the thread on Bank Python (last week?). These systems have frameworks for implementing Directed Acyclic Graphs of functions in Python to simplify migrating Excel workflows into peer reviewed, version controlled code.
It's a little bit ironic that you mention that here, since I do feel that way on HN. And yes, I do recognize usernames occasionally and I also get recognized (and emailed!) on occasion :)
https://www.mkdocs.org/. Probably not the latest or greatest, but it produces nice looking documentation from markdown. Serves my purposes well.
> this isn’t about my personal politics.

...and yet, the rest of your comment is all your politically motivated beliefs and suggestions for policy based on those beliefs. Why do you believe all government is corrupt or incompetent? It can't be direct observation; there's just too much of it for one person to do that. Why do you focus on schools and homelessness, instead of (for example) military spending or corporate non-taxation? Could it be because of something you read, written by someone with a distinct political agenda?

"I'm not political, but <political opinion>" is one of the oldest tricks in the book, disingenuously trying to put one's own opinions above the "mere" politics others believe in. Stop. Own your political beliefs. Engage as an equal, not a superior authority representing "common sense" or whatever.
Given that it is already an antiparassitic drug the null hypotesys should be that it is "only" an antiparassitic drug
"digital sovereignty" is a nice phrase
I discovered https://utteranc.es just yesterday. Nice UX, but it's built atop (and requires / supports authN only through) GitHub.
I think that's a reasonable definition of freedom ... and not at all what Snowden is talking about. That underscores why it's so hard to discuss. The word itself is a Rorschach test.
> Vote by mail is an equally awful idea.

Based on what evidence, exactly? We don't have to argue hypotheticals here - it's been working great across multiple states for many years.

> We should instead not have a single day to vote and allow people to cast their votes over the course of a week or so, with legislation for employers to give employees at least one day off to vote.

Love all of these ideas too.
Al Lowe knew that 40 years ago :)

Behind the Scenes w/ SIERRA On-Line's Al Lowe (Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest, etc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9DZ3LWWsRE

Just look at those neat boxes with archived build environments for all of his games.
It certainly would be possible in anarcho-capitalist society. In fact, US in the 19th century was much closer to laissez-faire ideals than today and went through a surge of private road and water channel construction (I could also mention railroads here, but if I'm not mistaken, they relied on government intervention to get the land). I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work for air travel just as well.
I dunno, you're talking about what you can and cannot draw into your sphere of influence. You have, in your analogy, the option to refuse anyway. Probably cheaper to not use a vending machine anyway.
It might be helpful if you said where you were observing all this, because it's not universal.
My take on some of these comments as someone who has used Emacs almost exclusively for my day job for around 4 years:

Emacs is not rock solid.

It's easy to bring Emacs to a standstill with something as simple as a long string. This is especially apparent outside Linux, e.g. on Mac OS (Windows is a whole other story). It's a fundamental flaw in the text editor, and I don't know if there is any solution on the horizon.

Text editing can also become noticeably slower once many of the must-have Emacs packages are in use.

At the same time, becoming somewhat proficient at Emacs and knowing a thing or two about Emacs Lisp has made me a better programmer, and certainly more productive in the use of my editor.

If Emacs can solve some of its performance issues, and perhaps make things like the Debug Adapter Protocol easier to set up, it will continue to be in a league of its own and an essential editor to many for the foreseeable future.
> I wouldn't pull Excel from the dead hands of physicists

Accountants I understand but physicists? I'd have thought they mostly use Matlab or maybe Mathematica.
What are these "random reboots" people keep mentioning?

My Windows boxes usually run about 12 to 14 days between (manual!) reboots, and those reboots are normally done to switch between operating systems.

It's been literally years since Microsoft removed automatic reboots and even updates can be be postponed for several weeks and scheduled at the user's convenience.

There are plenty of bad things about Windows, but tired old stories about "random reboots" or bluescreens just aren't part of it anymore.
Yeah, with the right magic settings and possibly use of ANSI.SYS, some early versions of TP could be gotten to run on the 2000.

TP7 could not, but I could use the DOS PC version to compile and assemble software for the 2000.
What’s New with NewSQL?
I havent done that in so long, as a Software Engineer I appreciate the work the developers put into the game so I usually buy games these days.
Feels like it could make a decent "tracker" of sorts, phoning home a ping on every new tab open. More useful if it works on mobile chrome.
Ocean Garbage Patches Have a Microscopic Problem
Isn't the whole thing made up to fit observation though? Why is that any more arbitrary than, say, electromagnetism existing?
Really fascinating article. I hope that it holds true (less than 50% chance). It would mean that Japanese have genetic makeup that protects them from delta variant.
On Netflix Bingeing
Weirdest criticism I've heard. Either someone know it's all Safari in a skin (due to Apple's restriction), or someone didn't heard of this limitation.
… and the security deposit and liability from the person absolutely trashing the place! Holy hell that’s a personal risk.

I’m all for housing stability, but just blindly giving someone a place to stay without any additional support services when there are clearly mental health issues… well it’s a bold move Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off.
I don't know if this is the case, but these are exactly the sort of awful "customer retention" strategies I would expect from an organization where somebody is being judged/rewarded based on minimizing customer turnover metrics below some threshold.
Indeed. Eat many plants, fruits, berries, and all the organs of animals (skip brains if you're afraid of CZD). Avoid wheat and cereals that much. Seems beer was a-okay though? Modern hunter gatherers do walk/jog for 7 to 9 hours a day, so...
(At 3kph with occasional sprinting. Seems to be what our gait is optimised for to avoid injuries)

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...
Looks similar to the seemingly-dormant Unglue initiative for funding books[1].

[1]: https://unglue.it/
one of slack's worst features
Ethereum Blockchain Developer Guide
Learning containers from the bottom up
MLM companies in USA: An elementary analysis
While I applaud the technical implementation, as someone who needs to e to compose their thoughts and often drafts in the input box of chat apps, with the final messages usually winding up shorter.... That's a fucking terrifying feature.
TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana)
The innovation the author describes would look more like:

Phil: I'm just walking down a fine wee snicket.

Bob: What's the frequency Kenneth?

Phil: ■■■■■■■

Bob: ■■■

3 others typing...
If you view a body of water as a single thing, would you think it odd that its wave interferes with itself in the double slit? The issue isn't unintuitive phenomena (intuitive being patterns in microscopic/macroscopic scale which match by analogy to patterns you've learnt all your life from phenomena at your scale), but inadequately modeled phenomena

https://youtu.be/citY6G8ePJw?t=223

> But what can I call it? I can say they behave like a particle-wave or they behave in a typical quantum mechanical manner. There isn't any word for it, if I say they behave like particles, I give the wrong impression if I say they behave like waves. They behave in their own inimitable way. Which, technically, could be called the quantum mechanical way. They behave in a way that is nothing like anything you have seen before. Your experience with things you have seen before is inadequate, is incomplete. The behavior of things on a very tiny scale is simply different ... Well, there's at least one simplification, at least electrons behave exactly in this respect as photons, that is they're both screwy, but in exactly the same way ... But the difficulty really is psychological, and exists in the perpetual torment that exists from your saying to yourself "But how can it be like that?" which really is a reflection of an uncontrolled by say an utterly vain desire to see it in terms of some analogy with something familiar. I will not describe it in terms of an analogy with something familiar. I'll simply describe it
You can still do that in any society. Even though it's illegal, you can run a red light or cheat on your taxes. The notion that you somehow can't is just mauvaise foi. Of course you can. You're choosing not to.

Seems like you are describing freedom from consequences, not the ability to make choices, because that's available now and to the barbarian. I'm not sure which society has no consequences.
If you're in the UK you may wish to not add comments until after you have read the draft of the UK Online Safety Bill.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-online-safe...

The short of it: You are obliged to support processes to keep people safe, protect vulnerable users, provide complaint processes... and failure to take any of this seriously can have serious financial and legal penalties.

The current draft does not differentiate between a hobby static website with comments about Raspberry Pis, and harmful content via Facebook... the penalties are equal if this is a hobby effort or if you're Facebook.

It's not a great piece of law even in draft form.

PS: @dang this might apply to HN as the definition of a site with links to the UK is merely "a significant number of UK users" without clarity on what defines significant.
Vanga: The AI That Upsells Better Than Any Human
What regular food today? The processed food from hypercapitalism that led to obesity to 40% of the population?

But I broadly agree with you.
Food, exercise, and luck in avoiding sickness. It was true throughout human prehistory and today as well.
> everyone left for Libera and the community wasn't split at all

Sadly Libera.Chat is only at about half the size [0] that Freenode was. Sure, a lot of those lost will not have been active participants anymore (just keeping their bouncer/client running) but all of them?

[0] https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php
+1 for Material MkDocs. It’s beautiful and functional by default so I can just focus on documenting.
Ah, I hadnt looked at the issues. Saw this in ubuntu firefox and android chrome.
That’s not that great analogy for fine tuning. The quantized representative value of Pi is arbitrary based our numerical system, the relationship that derives it is fixed if the relationship would change circles indeed would not exist.

Let’s move the analogy to triangles a triangle has 180 degrees but that only holds true when it’s on a flat surface if you have a curvature it can have more or less than 180 degrees.

So this isn’t a fine tuning problem on its own, if you would lived in a universe where triangles have less or more than 180 degrees it would represent a universe with negative or positive curvature.

The issue with fine tuning is that the curvature of the universe is directly tied to the mass/energy density and any deviation from an extremely narrow range which our universe seems to sit in out of all possible values would not just produce a universe with triangles with fewer or more degrees than 180 but would either produce a universe that would collapse on itself within a blink of an eye or expand so fast that gravity would never be strong enough to cause even the most basic structures to form.

So the issue really is that to produce a universe which will form galaxies and stars and survive long enough to produce life you need a lot of parameters at a certain very specific value even the smallest of deviations would not produce a universe that would ever support life, yet alone an intelligent life. What’s even stranger iirc is that the values have to be really what they are now you can’t simply 2X all of them to maintain the proportions and get the same result.

And this is really what people are looking to solve, yes the androcentric is a solution if they were anything than what they are now we wouldn’t be here to discuss why, but the issue is that out of all other possible combinations you don’t seem to find another stable state and that is the true mystery.
And so users can move to another homeserver with different standards, or run their own. This isn't possible if Discord or Skype or Telegram block your users.
The Julia-code has some performance flaws in the hot loop (like making a superfluous copy of a matrix before just reading it.)
threading is a slack-ism, I prefer one linear scrollback instead of having to click into conversations
I don't find this to be true at all.

> you need an external server

Spoiler, you need an external server for everything on the web; you've just been brainwashed to think serverless is actually that.
On Amazon it's $10 right now, and ebay also has discs for sale.
That sounds about as nonsensical as saying "If you don‘t draw your own icons I don't think you can call yourself a professional developer".
Very few developers actually do both of those things. If you said "If you couldn‘t learn how to run your own servers…" I could possibly see that.
This actually convinced me that PHP isn't as bad as it used to be. Though it's still not all that inviting, knowing Python, Typescript, F# etc...

From Pyjokes: Coding in PHP is like peeing in a swimming pool. Everybody has done it, but it's best not to talk about it.
You severely understimate the amount of idling going on on IRC.
Not if you value your mental health. PHP is legacy over complicated dugshit mainly used by people who have never learned how to code properly