skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with a lot of cryptocurrency stuff, web3 is very overhyped yet also genuinely promising and useful. The ecosystem is not yet at a point where it's streamlined enough for mainstream adoption, but it's possible to build working MVPs for very interesting services with privacy and decentralization guarantees that just weren't feasible pre-web3.

Of course that does come at some cost and from a pure surface user experience level a lot of these services do still feel like "existing things but worse". It takes a while for these kinds of structural changes to catch up in some ways, though there's already plenty of web3 services that are genuinely useful in their own right, too.

Disclaimer: I get paid to develop web3 applications and I like my job
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Thread with caution, tho. Yahoo Combinator itself is just as woke as lugenpresse quoted here and so just around 90% """activism""" too. No, not hacktivism even, just usual swamp.

Anecdote: for me, the most amazing discovery was a woke slogan found in... Gentleman's Quarterly.
> Can such a model be trained effectively if isolated reports of false positives are rejected without meaningful investigation?

No, and much like YouTube auto terminating accounts with 10 years of content there is absolutely no excuse for certain very obvious cases to be handled without human interaction. There absolutely must be flags that stop terminations without a human.
Web2 adoption was organic, driven by programmers and it definitely made the end user experience much better. With web3 we are jumping ahead of what it will be before even there has been consensus on it. For now it's an idea with possibilities. What is worse is VC's, hustlers, influencers (Gary Vee etc),Elite crypto tribes(polka) are selling the 'product' that doesn't exist yet. I say let it organically evolve and not prematurely bring in the marketers to sell it.
When you create an account, and do nothing shady for years, in fact buying their products and spending money with them, and THEN you get cut off, that’s what we’re talking about here. And that their moderation needs to not be so digital and one sided.
Ye well MS can't wish the old offline installers out of existence I guess.
I generally agree.

A point on Linus' videos though: his criticism is objectively not fair to the community.

I have been using linux for everything (work/gaming/devops etc) for over 7 years now. To this date I still stumble uppon simple issues that a normal user would probably never figute out how to solve. Linus is right in this regard, there is waaay to go, linux distros are not yet plug and play for normies.

However, and this is my problem with Linus' criticism: He has taken an existing subset of the people in the linux community (toxic gatekeepets who will also claim limux is noobie friendly) and he is replying to the whole community in frustration, as if we all are these people. So the thousands of volunteered effort, delivered for free to all of us, gets a slap from Linus because some specific people set some arbitrarily high expectations. He actually disclaims this fact, but I don't buy the disclaimer.

It is not polite/fair to say "this sucks, the other sucks, X thing is horrible" when people have volunteered so much free work to get it to this state.

For that reason, I am annoyed at his take on the challenge. I see luke's stance as waay more appropriate.

I am grateful to everyone who has contributed to this wonderful ecosystem. Yes, there is way to go.
But it's not a support trick, it's a "the executive team doesn't want to look embarrassed."

Writing the executive team isn't some trick to get real support, it's something that people figured out you could do and that executives would give vague responses to in order to save face; having seen the end result of a "write the CEO", usually the executive response is just a vague "make this go away", and the "how" of that is left to the imagination of the reader.

Please understand that it's highly doubtful that there is any official policy on what to do with support emails received at the executive level; the end result is that the person who wrote the email gets what they want, but it's not because the executive put any thought into the actual situation, it's because they just wanted an annoying person to go away and wanted to avoid bad PR.

That's all this is, a quick cost-benefit analysis of "what does doing nothing cost me here?" for some executive. For each story you read where writing the executive helps, probably there are a dozen (if not far more) met with radio silence. I've seen customers write the CEO when they were flagrantly and intentionally violating our licensing policy in hopes that the CEO would change something. I've seen them write our product VP because the customer felt they were entitled to salary compensation for the duration while an issue they had with our product was investigated.

Writing the CEO isn't a way to get basic problems fixed, it's a gamble that your particular issue and the circumstances around it are a big enough PR problem that the normal channels of raising concerns aren't enough.
You need to get something that explicitly says what you want; if you want the freedom to work on one particular open source project then get them to give you that clause; but also thinkw hether you want it more general; It's very difficult because my understanding is you can't even do drive-by fixes in random projects without an OK.
> In practice if you want to share family photos with your family do you upload those photos to a third party like a social media site or a cloud provider for all your family to access? That is centralized: an agreed upon location for everyone to access.

As there are multiple places where the family photos can be posted (Facebook, 500px, Google, etc), that demonstrates that the web is decentralized.

What it may not be is distributed, where one can easily self-host:

* https://berty.tech/blog/decentralized-distributed-centralize...
That was notch's original idea for portals in multiplayer I recall reading. A portal would take you to another server.
So anything that relies on the name of the executing file will break.
>Dutch banks invented the iDin standard,

Oh this is genius! Why aren't others doing it? My guess is that Banks have no incentive to do so? After all Auth and validated personal information is not their business anyway?
Sure, let’s accept that cryptofinance creates bizarre incentives for people to irrationally support a change.

Consider on the other side of the table how the economics and network effects have created incentives for everyone to depend on centralized architecture to the point where if you’re not acting through any of the top two companies in any given market, you’re effectively shut off from large parts of modern economy and social life.

Incentives are broken all over, that doesn’t mean the cause is wrong.
Yes it is bullshit. Any of you positive activists have any financial literacy? I've not met a single person who is positive about cryptocurrencies that also has a finance degree, that is not also a conman selling crap securities. Every respectable financially knowledgeable person I know calls them a fraud.
> the web has been decentralised

maybe the web per se, but in practical terms it depends on the DNS which is decidedly not decentralized.
What you are attempting to do was done long back by a Rishi and great astrologer in ancient India named Brighu. But unfortunately large parts of his bulk horoscopes got lost. In some parts of india you get astrologers who have parts of this corpus and if your birth data is available, you will get a good accurate reading.

I will advice you to learn Vedic astrology which accounts for earths precession and hence is very accurate if your concepts are clear. Any book by B V Raman will help. Remember there are nearly a billion combinations 9 power 12. - 12 house and 9 planets. Good luck.
I dedicated the last 3 years of my life to build "web3". In my case it means building a new democratic Internet (whatever that means) on top of ENS+IPFS. I a few projects in this direction, the current one is Esteroids.

Is this a good idea? dunno yet. Is this BS? I hope not, my intentions are surely good, no BS in them. Are there plenty of BS web3 projects? Yes, of course, same as in any other area of IT. But I really don't think the web3 idea is inherently BS, there's really plenty of value to be found in it.
Sounds like you should just switch to linux and save some money!
To me, lockdown means you tell people they can’t do certain things or they have to do certain things a certain way. And that’s what happened during the Olympics.
> The confusion here is most people confuse the web for the internet. The internet is a big decentralized network thanks to BGP. The web is an application riding that network thanks to HTTP.

Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but aren’t you making exactly that error above? DNS both predates and exposes networking infrastructure that isn’t the web.

And for what it’s worth, I would consider DNS decentralized: it’s a system of different servers that coordinate to share information. No one party owns the DNS network.

Confusing the fact that DNS’s information is authoritative for centralization would presumably ensnare every blockchain as well, since they entire point of a distributed ledger is to be authoritative.

But I figure that’s the least of blockchain’s problems, given that the underlying network topology of even the largest distributed ledgers tends to be around a dozen “big fish.” Not very decentralized in practice.
The rationale is that what other people here are saying - that Bumble (Badoo) should have paid them on company time to contribute to open-source - was already happening.

Bumble owns under the Badoo repository two projects, called badoo/MVI-Core and badoo/RIBs. These libraries are developed on company time by employees, as open-source.

If you check MVIKotlin and Decompose, you'll see that they're conceptually equivalent. You could therefore argue it is, in fact, using company resources.

But badoo/MVI-Core and badoo/RIBs are the two official frameworks written and released by Badoo. Then, what is MVIKotlin and Decompose, and does Badoo own the rights to it - if it was developed on company time, based on pre-existing source code owned by the company?
It means that every one of their tweets is about a woke topic.

Don't shoot the messenger. It's not my fault that the term was transformed into a toxic ridicule by the right.

When in first learned the term it was in connection with conscious rap and meant people who think and consider important social issues.

Now it's apperantly right wing hate speech.
Concluding that his existing design is good enough.
OK, that's good to hear. But now I need suggestions and feedback...

In a previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24220858 I've suggested the following:

13.8. $COMPANY and any Group Company will not attempt to claim copyright, intellectual property rights, nor patent right to any creation done outside of working hours (also known as employees free time), outside of the premises, and not using any $COMPANY facilities, as long as any such creation does not relate to the employees current responsibilities, and as long as it does not directly compete with $COMPANY business model and business activities.

13.9. As long as you do not go against clause 13.8, you are not obligated to disclose to us your creations.

But this is just my wishful thinking of mine that nobody replied to... and not something that I've actually managed to get written and signed. What I'd like to see is a concrete example of such a clause in a real, existing, signed by both parties, actual contract.
Two years ago my team (then) was maintaining 15 or so projects in production, and landing 3-4 more every quarter. Each project was de facto owned by one person who did the bulk of the work on 2-3 projects.

After a team member left and a new maintainer had to step in to maintain an unfamiliar code base, our new EM decided that the bus factor must be raised across all projects. So every quarter we shifted responsibilities to new projects and had someone else take over ownership - the idea being that the previous person would still support and we'd not be in trouble in case someone left. That's not what happened though.

It didn't really matter if the old owner was around to support. Productivity plummeted with every project. It was as if every owner of every project had left the team every quarter.

Now I'm more convinced than ever that it's better to pay the price of an owner leaving if and when it happens, rather than try to prevent or mitigate that risk up front. The productivity costs are far too high for most software products.
Hmmm, not working on my latest iphone mobile safari.
All other examples are working…
Yes, the other one is a small stub article about a proprietary Microsoft protocol for authenticating email logins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Password_Authentication

I guess that’s what led you to “keep googling” the same term over and over?
I would guess their position would be that they owned the code/copyright from the very outset, and didn't approve applying the APL to it. The license they want to use might be one that forbids posting the source code.
Are you calling me an asshole? For what?
He was in an occupied country ruled by two sets of rulers: the imperial occupiers and those who were willing to collaborate with the oppressors. Jesus often spoke up for the downtrodden and condemned those with wealth and power. Those rulers tried to silence him and eventually executed him. There's a reason why the oppressed sometimes look to Jesus for inspiration.

And the skin color may not have been important in Jesus' time, but it is now. At least in terms of the American religious experience. Here, they almost universally portray Jesus as white. In a country where churches are the most racially segregated institutions, that means something.
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Fair points, and I'd love to find that out. Perhaps start lobbying with one of the existing laptop manufacturers? They might do some market research to understand if there is an actual market for it.

> I'd 100% buy an e-ink laptop
> how many people does it take to make a market for that?

I honestly have no idea but my guess is, more than one. Probably _a lot_ more. Not only the company would need to sell the first batch but they'd have to keep improving on it, selling more and getting them replaced constantly, otherwise it would become vapourware after the first (few) iterations. If the first iteration is not great, at least some users will hold off and think twice about getting the second. If it's not good enough for a lot of the users, I suspect it would go totally bust after the second iteration.

It's not just the cost of the hardware either, they would likely need to solve drivers, and if it's going to be a dev laptop, they'd at least need to support both Linux and Windows. This is no small feat.

Sure, they could try to offload drivers and software to the display manufacturer, but now you'd have to prove to them that there's a market worth pursuing as well.
> It's 75% Chinese, 15% Malay, then Indian. That makes it more homogeneous than Malaysia.

The former does not imply the latter unless you consider Chinese and Indians to be less diverse than Malaysians. Which is dubious, considering Chinese and Indian Singaporeans come from all kinds of different places across two regions much larger than Malaysia.

Of course the Singaporean government has been hard at work to homogenize their population, e.g. the Speak Mandarin Campaign to get all Chinese Singaporean to speak the same language, but that wouldn't have been necessary if they'd been homogeneous from the beginning.
> Otherwise I see a very dark future where super large companies kill people's livelihoods and nothing can be done.

Hmm, this sounds very familiar, like a certain political class was doing this recently.
Point of implementation:

This page reacts poorly to changes in the user-agent’s default font sizes, because it defines the size of blocks like “The Yesterweb” in pixels, but fills it with contents in an unknown font family and size so that its contents are liable to overflow messily (that is, in the “CSS is awesome” meme way). Things are made more complex by the use of the magic monospace, so that the font size inside the body element is not scaled according to the number that’s almost certainly 16px (1.2 [for html] × 1.2 [for body] × 16px = 23.04px), but rather according to the number that’s probably 13px (1.2 × 1.2 × 13px = 18.72px). I long ago changed my monospace font size to 16px, so I get overflow.

I wonder whether browser makers would be open to the idea of removing the monospace font size thing. Shrinking the font-size to 81.25% is just a bad idea in general in almost all monospace fonts used now (… and it was never a particularly good idea in the first place). These days, almost no one hits it because it’s rare to use just `font-family: monospace` (instead it’ll normally be a foolishly complex list of options that mostly just makes things worse these days, except in Firefox on Windows pending https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713680), and when people do hit it they normally get confused if they’re not familiar with it and almost always want to work around it.

But bringing it back to a more useful discussion point: this is a good demonstration of a problem that used to occur regularly, but is now exceedingly rare. The concept of responsive design and especially mobile devices helped make this happen.
You can go the other way, what's the simplest yet unprovable axiom set relevant for the turing machine? You can try encoding this one.
Hipmunk had a great feature for sorting by “pain” and filtering takeoff / land times easier than anyone.

But ITA was so comprehensive you could find loopholes, like when you add an additional destination and your first class ticket drops in price by 50% etc. It is super missed in the mileage community!
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How is Bitcoin inflationary? Even without coin lossage (a ridiculous concept in any other financial system, short of literally setting your money on fire), the network is programmed to eventually stop minting coins. Fixed supply on increased demand (if it’s the economic substitute we’ve all been promised) is the precondition for deflationary movement. No amount of “pricing in” changes that.
Yes, sort-of, the supply grows by a fixed absolute quantity every year. I don't really consider it to be a serious attempt at a useful cryptocurrency though.

I suspect any coin attempting price-stability (minimum requirement for a useful currency) would need some kind of central bank to control and guarantee the supply. (We have that already too! It's called Tether and it ain't great.)
> A robust and abstracted data layer allows application developers to spend more time thinking about application logic and less time thinking about data.

I don't think you can fully replicate a general database in blockchain, at least not to any decent performance/size level. And interacting with the blockchain will always be more complex than interacting with your own database. A blockchain app will always take more developer resources than a non-blockchain app.

Also, another problem with federated services is money. In a centralized app, one party controls the app and can exploit it for money and use that money to pay developers. They can even run at a loss the first years to create a good product until they start making money. With federated apps, it's harder to invest and blockchain doesn't change the fact that people don't like to pay for services they have gotten for free previously. Crowdfunding existed before too and not too many projects got enough to even start.

The third point is... people just don't care about decentralized/centralized. So insisting on going blockchain is a technology choice that's probably not going to bring you too many users (other than fans of the tech) and it's going to cost you more developer time. It doesn't make too much sense.
Red Hat has an explicit clause in the contract allowing work on open source projects. As always best to consult a lawyer (not one connected to the company) if this is likely to be important to you.
Yes, that's the problem.

I think there should be a law organizing how big companies need to deal with high value (to the user) customer accounts.

Unilaterally taking away hundreds of euros, irreplacable memories, etc., then putting the burden on individual users to sue, seems very lopsided.
The page with your personalized recommendations does not have an RSS feed itself. The recommendations are prioritized based on how strongly you are connected to sources that posted it - RSS feeds and users. This prioritized list does not have an obvious way to be translated to a chronological RSS feed.

If such RSS feed includes content from all sources that you are connected to - then your RSS feed would have too much noise. The only way I can think of converting it to an RSS feed is if you choose how many top recommendations you would like to see in that feed per day.

This is how the email newsletter works today (you can subscribe here: https://linklonk.com/profile) - you choose when (daily/weekly and at what time) and how many top recommendation you want to delivered to your email inbox. And you can rate items from the email.

> Can it be seeded with known liked feeds or content?

Yes, you can seed your recommendations - simply submit (https://linklonk.com/submit) links to content that those feeds posted or directly submit links to those feeds. If you use RSS readers then you can the list of feeds you are subscribed to as an OPML file. I haven't built an automatic way to import OPML files, but if you send your OPML file to me by email, I would be happy to import it for you.

> And can you 'pin' liked feeds in some way, to say 'I always want to see content from here'?

To soft-pin a feed that you liked you need to upvote content from that feed. That will cause your connection to the feed to be stronger than to others and items from that feed will show up at the top for you.

There is no explicit pinning functionality - something that would effectively set the connection weight to infinity. The value proposition of LinkLonk is that it keeps track of how useful the content from each feed and user has been for you and prioritizes new content accordingly. I know this is very different from a traditional way of subscribing to RSS feeds, where you are either subscribed or not (boolean). On LinkLonk your subscription has a weight (float). In the days of Google Reader, there was something similar I think if you sorted your content "by magic". Only on LinkLonk, there is no magic - the mechanism that connects you to feeds and users is transparent and controlled by your upvotes.

> Is this a reader, or another source?
It is a different kind of reader - one that automatically manages your subscriptions.
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You should absolutely continue this pursuit, but keep in mind that the biggest things you can do to avoid a legal dispute are to clearly communicate expectations and not work with assholes. A well-written contract is like a solid deadbolt on your front door: it’ll make reasonable people think twice, but a determined attacker will just smash a window and go through it (or, to explicate the metaphor, sue you anyway knowing the legal process itself is sufficiently painful to wear you down even if they don’t have a case).