skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, even if the web3 moniker has been spearheaded by Ethereum and Parity/Polkadot related projects (it’s been a thing since ~2015 and until about last year its use has mostly been following Gavin Wood and crew), in my mind for a typical web3 app that doesn’t involve payments, the only blockchain/crypto-related functionality would be the built-in key management and using it for authn/authz. Possibly signing messages that are relayed p2p or c2s, no need to post transactions on the blockchain or hold any cryptocurrency at all.

For web2 (which was also abused to death as a buzzword), the defining technical component was asynchronous requests through js and dhtml. Decoupling the rendering of views from data.

For web3 it’s decoupled frontends and backends (the frontends should support being self-hosted/run locally), peer-to-peer and federated architectures, having not SPoF.
Nope. You can still play with a Mojang account. I do.
‘Cosmological coupling’ is making black holes bigger, study suggests
I don't know whether it is or (more importantly) will be bullshit but one aspect of web3 I think has been a victory to webstandards: an actual decentralized SSO standard.

I know it must be easy to use Google's or Facebook SSO. But why rely on a Third party for this? And why - as user - must i open new accounts on all these webservice?
It’s like that headline about the internet being a glorified fax machine in 1999. [0]

It was wrong to put your name on that piece for posterity to see (and mock you) , but if you listened to that article and shorted the Nasdaq you’d have made 5000% type returns .

And if Krugman himself listened to his own brain , he’d have had enough money not to care about that piece or make people forget about it

The web3 might not be bullshit , but if you want to make money the only trade out there is to bet that it is .

Bulls who say that web3 is in its early days surely mean the technical early days , because financially the web3 is already priced for world domination .

Bulls forget that when you have to learn a programming language to profit off a trend you already missed on life changing money and hockey stick price increase (bitcoin 2010-2020 and Ethereum 2015-2020)

[0] https://twitter.com/kevincadogan/status/1195521960437932033?...
Quake I is literally the only game I want to play (I play video games like few hours per year, but memories of the Quake I multiplayer blooshed back in the student years are pretty much alive).

Does anyone have a good link on how to run Quake on Macbook M1? I've tried Steam, Wine and some other resources, but couldn't make it work. :/
Long before FedEx even enters the story, I feel that "ditch the lemon car (and mechanic) and find alternatives" would have been a better move.

Buying parts that dont fit the car and blaming the mechanics... sketchy. Did the mechanic check what he was signing up to replace? "He'd rebuilt them before"... but mistakenly ordered OEM parts for what was now a home rebuild of non-stock parts in the first place?

No. One would take pride in bodging those back into shape with a rebuild, not forget it had happened.
Talk to a work contract specialized lawyer. Even apart from this issue, there might be other issues in the contract, so why not alway talk to one before signing.
Yandex's Emoji-to-English translation engine seems to be able to figure it out!

Seriously ... https://translate.yandex.com/?lang=emj-en&text=%F0%9F%91%89%....
[I'm not answering what you asked, but I hope it's useful anyway.]

I'm in charge of a dozen of T.A. in the university, and for the virtual Math clases each has been using Zoom/Meet/Teams/Jitsi. (I actually don't remember if someone used Jitsi for the clases.) The T.A. have a very strong opinion about which one is the best, and one of the reasons is the whiteboard support.
Web3 is a web of lies. It promises proof or original for digital content which is a) nonsense and b) impossible. It promises easy transfer of digital rights while not doing that at all and it is actually impossible with current crypto tech. It promises decentralized money while making extremely centralized system. It promises severig ties with money printing and then blatantly money prints with zero oversight. It promises investments, but that that is completely manipulated by major player as they wish. It promises security but ”lol, not your keys not your money”. It promises getting rich, but conveniently forgets that crypto is negative sum casino. It promises going green, but is fully conscious that it will never happen because fundamentally there need to be punishment for bad actors and energy is it in crypto.

Basically every tech where inventor looks you in the face and says that ”black is white” can be called web3.
I wouldn't say they're common, but I see plenty of at-home generators (Generac is popular, there are others) here in the Northeast USA. We have lots of old trees, and lots of snow, which maybe you share, but I guess it's our propensity to ignore infrastructure maintenance that leads to more, longer power outages.

In the last ~12 months, I've thrice lost power for more than four hours. Once you start losing a fridge's worth of groceries every 4 months, amongst the other challenges with power outages, the at-home generators start to look attractive.
i have a 5kw https://www.phocos.com/product/psw-h-hybrid-inverter-charger...
phocos solar inverter but their only "interface" currently is a bluetooth "app" that requires me to stay near the inverter and there is no logging or use some sort of rs232 interface with a windows app. uh.

they do have a "cloud" option but that requires additional device purchase and a subscription service. shit.

i would love to integrate it with a home-assistant network at home but till now nothing.
good thing this generator had a linux app otherwise it would've been like my case
If the crypto community wants to demonstrate that it isn't a giant Ponzi scheme, why not come up with a non-deflationary token, which will not massively reward 'early adopters' at the expense of everyone else, in perpetuity? (A non-deflationary token would be one where the supply grows by some reasonable percentage every year, effectively acting as a flat tax on one's holdings).

In reality, non-deflationary cryptocurrencies have been tried on various occasions. Surprise! None of them have taken off because "number doesn't go up".
Oh hmm, how do you use kubectl for programmatic deployments? I've used it before but it required an intermediate machine with cluster access to run kubectl on, which is less convenient than git-ops.
It reminds me this SMBC comics https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
> It led to some of the worst mass murder in the 20th century. The CIA, MI6 assisted the new leader, Suharto in killing between 1-3 million Indonesians.

Not to take away from the weight of 1-3 million people, but you do realise Stalin and mao killed 60-100m people each right? 1-3m million unfortunately isn’t the Worst mass murder in the 20th century
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>Just two more weeks
Well I guess that's a show worth seeing then ...
If the company owns it, the the (gpl or whatever) licensing was not legal, so the core devs cannot 'fork it', since that would be illegal. They can rewrite the project from scratch though.
Usually you will have to go to areas you haven't been to previously to get to see the new world generation.
If you have done a ton of exploration it may be a long walk from your spawn point.
Them not finding anything to pin him with in the raid makes me think they brought out the dirty weapons to end this man. Sad to see good engineers assassinated openly in Western nations.(by their own agencies even, but no need to fear us, fear the Russians and Chinese, they're baaaaaaad
Now that you mention, SarsCovid2 might have originated in either a pangolin, a bat or a bioweapons laboratory, according to early media reports. I can't believe that I am being serious, but it is what it is.
I don't think his point is that he will move them secretly, that's why he put quotes around, which I understand as just not publicly announced, or let's say, discreetly. The point is that if Satoshi starts selling, that's enough to start a crash considering how many BTC he has.
I think this actually might be a slight negative tbh - since everything is split into chunks and generated on demand, you lose the ability to do larger passes over multiple chucks at gen time. No real way to do tectonics or weather patterns as you don't necessarily know what's in your chunk neighborhood.
Computing Workload live migration.
The admins have had two years to fix staffing/equipment shortages. If they're still struggling it's not the public that should suffer.
Or just simply some other homecoming soldier kissing his consenting girlfriend.
AI training is outpacing Moore’s Law
That's the worst part of it. The move has very little benefit for them.
This guy has a nice talk entitled What's wrong with TED talks": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo5cKRmJaf0

The founder even responded to it, which means it hit a nerve.
And conveniently they reserve for themselves double digit percentage amounts of future assets by the way of premine. The levels of hypocrisy in crypto are mind boggling.
Ok, first of all you said its a misinformation and disinformation and I provided the verge link where they says exactly "Apple confirmed the incident in a statement to The Verge." And now you are saying "you then post another article which links back to the original source that was already presented to you, but which still does not claim what you originally claimed." Yes it links back but it also mentions they have confirmed it with apple.

You are intentionally trying to summarize in a way that favors you tbh . Also i trust verge over some random people on internet trying to say its misinformation or disinformation. And regarding the first one I already mentioned the fedex thing.
Ye well political riots in the US seems really uncommon compared to e.g. Europe or whatever. How would they rate France in the same scale? How many European "capitols" would be stormed if the museum' police picked up riot gear for the day?
specifically, a16z is hyping the hell out of it
Trump social media firm raises $1bn from investors
The problem with web3.0 is decentralizing all the things is super hard and really user unfriendly. At this point i'd be happy with something more like web 2.5 where the important bits are decentralized from a central authority (identity management for eg) and able to integrate nicely with centralized platforms.
Ask HN: Anyone know where I can download bulk horoscopes?
I’m making a fun personal project that reads horoscopes to friends.

Anyone know where I can download bulk horoscopes?
Ironically the people pushing for Web3 are mostly those that do not understand why decentralisation is key^1. The projects pushed by these individuals and corporations are largely very centralised.

Look at the Solana fiasco a while back where the network went down and required a coordinated restart.

Another centralising power in these "smart" blockchains are the stable coin issuers. In the event of a hard fork^2 Tether and USDC essentially have the power to decide single-handedly decide which chain ends up being the correct one. Why? Because they can't support two chains, the value of the tokens would be split in half. So, for example. Let's say Tether decides that Eth 2.0 is not something they would like to support, they would simply say "We will not redeem any coins on Eth 2.0" and that would be it. The value of the DeFi on that chain would evaporate instantly and no one would use it. The fact that almost no-one talks about this is pretty scary.

^1 Only Bitcoin is actually sufficiently decentralised to withstand large take-over attempts and politics, IMO.

^2 Ethereum hard forks every 6 months by design, by the way
So it's semi practical (alignment) and mostly aesthetic..
>However the landscape today is much different: Lego pricing is just wow, the sets are way too expensive.

The high pricing is part of the brand image as well. It gives buyers the feeling their buying something premium that could also be an investment, more of a collector's item instead of just a toy, similar to a Rolex watch, which could appreciate in value over time and maybe sell it later for more than they originally paid.
Hey, I'm not sure if you'll see this but I work at Amazon and can at least try to get a human for you. I can't promise magical solutions but I can get you some real person attention. Email me at my HN handle at protonmail dot com and we'll move the discussion to my work address from there.
Recent progress in ammonia fuel cells and their potential applications (2020)
See my comment above, I am standing by to try to help.
They want the official repo.
Was it? I thought HBO was a cable channel, which of course is streamed and compressed, but TV has always been streamed and compressed (even in analog days - 422 is compression standard as it throws away a ton of chroma, interlacing is compression as it throws away half the data, both rely on the brain to recover), so I assume you're talking about unicast streaming.

I'm sure it would have looked fine if it was streaming at 20mbit.

In the UK, the DPP sets contribution bitrates for close-to-tx programs* HD are 45mbit h264 or 60mbit mpeg2 for live contribution, if you have to compress it (clearly 1.5gbit is preferred), and for UHD I think it's 90Mbit h265. Those bitrates are set to assume another compression layer, but I suspect if that episode had gone out on say BBC One HD it would have been running at 15mbit+ for the entire time.

* Game of Thrones I suspect would be classed as a close-to-tx delviery to reduce chances of leaks - certainly I know a broadcaster in Austrialia was receiving it on an NTT decoder over an MPLS from their LA office rather than as a file)
We have high temp electronics that are used in deep wells, nuclear reactors and scientific instruments… Do they go to 400C+? I don’t know but even on digikey you can find IC’s with operating temperatures above 200C and even 250C fairly easily.

The issue with Venus is really cost vs benefit any probe would have a very short life span as in hours to maybe maybe days.

At the same cost you can send probably multiple missions to Mars that would last months if not years.

We had probes on Venus using 1960’s technology we can do that again. Selling the political oversight and even the public on this however is far harder than designing and building them.
Gangsters legitimizing their money, and a society willing to whore itself out to profit off of it, tarnishes any overall definition of "successful" you can apply to Singapore. They're much like Saudi Arabia, which is also very successful financially, with a fairly high quality of life. In both cases, the injustices and degradation of liberty is more important to my view of what a successful society looks like. They're an ethical Potemkin village, keeping the "dirty"things from which they profit a few degrees of separation from their ostensibly clean financial dynamo.

Singapore, on the surface of things, almost has things right. The problems arise when you look past to the superficial goods into the overall social functioning - there's some really dark evil with deep ties to Singapore.

Also, to make things clear, the US has its fair share of problems like this. Notably, the war on drugs and the cartels enabled by our failed policies are an absolute travesty.

The advantage of liberalizing speech is the ability of a society to continually evolve toward the improvement of human wellbeing. When societies suppress speech, that's a telltale signal that those in power are engaged in shady business they don't want the peasants to squawk about.

All that said, Singapore is a remarkably civilized and pleasant place to visit - I just wouldn't want to live there. If it gets held to account through revolution or civil breakdown, its failure mode will be spectacular.
It’s a bit unclear, but I read it as that they thought not many people outside the US is aware of the bias inside the US.
This is the reason why you don't want to place all your eggs in one basket, or why you don't place them in one walled garden. They have all the power and can do what they want. Guilty until proven innocent doesn't come into this, you're guilty and you have no recourse.

In my view this is a form of theft and should be treated as such.

This is why the open decentralised web is important.
> the fundamental difference is they're not trying to create a world in which we don't trust anyone

This. Massive effort and talent seems to be directed towards what is intuitively a dead end: trust is something between people, not something between devices. Any protocol no matter how ingeniously crafted will be subverted when it leaves the silicon layer and hits the human layer (unless you create the ultimate dystopia where people are collared and tracked on permanent basis or something equivalent)

Nevertheless, imho the human-centric vision of computing is misfiring, losing battle after battle (from self-sovereign computing, to social media, to mobile etc) and at some point it will lose the war. Maybe the silver lining of the cryptofunded "web3" marketing onslaught for "alternatives" is to give the real-deal one more window of opportunity...
The Rebels of Distributed Power
Usually the clause where they claim ownership needs to have the phrase "Related to the business", or "During work hours with company equipment". If it tries to claim all IP during the course of the employment, redline it and hand it back
There is no end to this kind of escalation short of forking the entire digital economy.

You have your own phone, now what? ISPs and card providers will be pressured to deny their services, banks to close accounts, antivirus companies to yank licences, antispam companies to blacklist domains, open source projects to create new licensing schemes that ban certain viewpoints. There are multiple points of failure along the way.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29415031.
Seems exceedingly unlikely to me.
What were you able to do in the 90s that you cannot do now on the web? I do not subscribe to this mumbo jumbo about gatekeepers, data stealing, centralised internet etc. While true, you are literally free to use any service you like, nobody is forcing you to spend your dollar here or there.

Good products are usually driven by commercial entities. I would love to use something else besides Android or iOS that is not backed by a commercial giant, which WORKS, is not full of spyware and has a healthy ecosystem but nobody is making one, nobody is able to put 2 and 2 together there.

Are the products you buy online going to physically move differently when you use the "decentralised" internet? Are the small businesses going to revive because of that? AMZN did not kill them, the consumer did. It's the consumer that spends the dollar and dictates such outcomes - none of which are going to be fixed by Web 3. For me, the centralisation that amazon provides is a feature, not a bug. You will not kill AMZN until you understand why it works the way it does and start competing with them. Don't tell me it can't be done because AliExpress is giggling in the background.

I have a few friends doing a fortune on AMZN without even seeing the products they sell (FBA). Adapt or die, it's just nature.
That doesn't seem to be the same tech being talked about in the original article...
https://bandcamp.com
It sounds like they couldn't find any data about the LD50 of "peppermint oil," which i doubt is a standardized enough product to be generic for that purpose.

Friend of mine has an amusing story about the Christmas he got one of the 5lb chocolate bars as a gift, and spent the day eating it while watching football. Apparently 5lb of chocolate at once is bad for the digestion and having suffered himself, he was keen to warn others of the danger.

Of course today those are 3lb so that's much better right? Once again the modern world protects us from our own foolishness.
They should really enable a sharded server networking protocol to allow some MMO elements. Each server would handle a limited area and players would automatically connect to a server when they go to a certain distance.

I'm sure players would pay to access it if it worked.
Compared to the purchasing power difference between 1800 and 2021, a dollar buys (almost) exactly as much in 2021 as it did in 2020. ("Almost" in parentheses, because at any reasonable precision, the 20/21 difference will probably round to zero.)

When they're big enough, differences of quantity become differences of quality.
I reject the term 'web3'. Let start with the simple fact that blockchain is not web-based. Actually, lets end with that fact, too. This tech, whether or not you believe it is going anywhere, is quite simply not the web.
I object to the wording of this headline, as it elides the steady stream of "content" that has been produced by fans over that same period. The article itself seems to take knowledge of this for granted, by casually mentioning "mods" and "modders" in the text, and assuming familiarity with Quaddicted, which doesn't jibe with the headline either.
If it's in finance then unfortunately this is really just how it works in the US. If a bank has the slightest inkling that you're someone on a sanctions list (or that you have a connection to some "bad" country like Venezuela, Iran or Cuba) they'll drop you like a stone.

So yeah I agree it sucks, but the issue is not that every company which complies with OFAC is an incompetent loser. It's that the USA has declared a few countries as enemies and has some tough laws to enforce this both domestically and within its sphere of influence (foreign transactions with a "US nexus"[0] fall under OFAC). If I recall there's no upper bound on the fines for contravening OFAC and there's no leniency for accidentally breaking it even though you demonstrably tried to identify people, or were tricked. So these companies are incentivized to err on the side of extreme caution.

[0] - this is a fun one, iirc this can mean obvious things like "a company has a subsidiary or office in the USA", or "a transaction was conducted in USD" or even "an American citizen was in the room when the transaction was performed".
The thing that cryptocurrencies have really successfully decentralized and democratized is becoming a shareholder — of cryptocurrency schemes.

Anyone can buy a share of a coin, and make a profit as long as the amount of fiat currency put into the chain keeps growing. Every new user convinced it's going "to the moon" pays dividends to existing holders. This automatically creates a financial incentive to become an astroturfer for the project.
Let's not do anything then, and let the emperor do as he wish... /s