skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well to be fair, blockchain doesn’t have much utility with them either.
Lots of people, given its the closest Github has to a "bookmark" feature.
I do this too. I don't want to have to resort to this, but I also don't want to risk Amazon taking away all of the books that I've paid for! All I want is to pay for DRM-free content.
Right, because I should wait days for banking wire transfers to get rescued out of the slush pile underneath a fax machine somewhere if I want to pay someone with a different bank.

Literal tens of billions of dollars are using these systems to great success. The numbers are refuting your arguments, and will continue to.

When we are all carrying counterfactual wallets, able to hold any number of cryptocurrency, or NFT ownership tokens (of the deed or lease to your house, social club entry etc), with social recovery from your closest family/friends when you smash your iPhone, then what will your argument against technology be, I wonder?
The reason macOS is so problem-free (relative to Linux) is that for practical purposes it "can't" be installed on all but a couple specific pieces of hardware.

That's the trade-off I've chosen: MacOS is guaranteed to work well on my laptop because they were designed and built together, for each other.

Put another way: the fact an apples-to-apples comparison to Linux is impossible is the reason macOS wins for me.
Here's the lawsuit the couple filed later: https://www.scapicchiolaw.com/pdf/Steiner.pdf
Innocent until proven guilty. Never believe someone accusing another without ample evidence.
Sounds like MLMs with a lower barrier of entry.
> It’s only crypto-bros who are trying to push “web3” as even a “thing”.

I keep saying that there are only two kinds of people peddling crypto: scammers, and gullible fools with tenuous grasp of reality.
My wife "purchased" a French movie on Amazon Prime Movies à few years ago (because it was pretty much the only way she could acquire it without piracy)

Recently she tried to watch it and Amazon just had "you can't access this content." Maybe Amazon didn't renew the license with publisher, maybe not, but in any case, Amazon really proved to me that no, we do not own digital content.

So, I pirated it for her. If doing things the "right/legal way" is going to screw us over because of fine print, then why bother?
Original vendor in name only. The quake team has been scattered to the winds and Id Software has been acquired.
I do not use D, but congrats!
Legal bills would be my guess. snicker
The article references some of the evidence that a part of the Sea People were Greeks.

The ancient sources list a large number of different tribes which composed the Sea People.

Whether all of them were Greeks or some of them had a completely different origin, nobody knows.

Of the Greeks we know more, as they had later known descendants, so we have a chance to identify their ancestors, either by DNA tests or by some cultural aspects.

Of the many other people that had existed in Southern Europe and who are mentioned in ancient sources, but who were later assimilated by the Greeks or by the Romans, we know much less, so it is difficult to identify any of the Sea People who might have been related to them.
Glad to hear you're ok!

If you see enough companies over a long enough time these risks materialize with great regularity. Common reasons: burn out (probably #1), underpaid and undervalued so easily 'poached' (I don't like that term but don't have a better one),chronic illness, accidents, death. The latter is fortunately rare, two instances across 200+ companies across 15 years.

But the other ones happen frequently enough to take them serious. Most companies, unless they are very small are usually able to mitigate this to a very large degree without breaking the bank.
Enforcement was left up to localities, so was extremely uneven. Fines were more the norm in cities, but you and your spouse could also lose your government aid job (as a guide in Guilin told me she was a teacher before having their second kid, this is well into the 2000s).

Usually you wouldn’t be punished for having twins (at least in the cities that is). My wife has friends that are twins, their parents struggled to have even one kid so used fertility drugs (where twins is a more common result).
I know of some cryptocurrency exchanges that offer stablecoins, which are a dollar-denominated asset that’s (theoretically) backed by cash in the bank. We’ve seen plenty of evidence that the largest stablecoin players are actually fraudsters.

I don’t know of any exchange that offers a deposit account that’s dollar-denominated but backed by cryptocurrency. I can think of lots of reasons for that, FDIC regulations being the least of them. But again, even that wouldn’t make the number of bitcoins in circulation increase: it would be an unstable (and illegal) financial fiction.
>Specifically for tinkering with FPGAs, I'd recommend looking into Numato. They're a small-ish business based out of India that produce cheap and cheerful FPGA boards. The products are well-made and support is great.

How comparable are they in power and featureset to chips from Xilinx and Altera?

>Whatever route you go, make sure to get good solder (e.g. Multicore).

With or without lead?

>Final thing, if you're looking for a cheap oscilloscope for getting started, check out EspoTek (disclaimer: I own the business). It's cheap and cheerful, and designed for newbies just getting into the hobby. A lot of effort has been put into the product, and it's still (semi) actively maintained on GitHub.
https://espotek.com/labrador.

I'll be sure to consider it!
That is a really good point. One thing that I found interesting is that most of the native desktop applications are moving to the cloud. For example, web browser: Mighty (https://www.mightyapp.com/), Design tool: Canva (https://www.canva.com/en_gb/), and many more like these.
> After the terrible droughts that caused the Bronze Age Collapse

This is still a matter of considerable debate. An alternate explanation for the LBA collapse was offered by Drews: a shift in military tactics from chariots with composite bows to armored infantry armed with Naue Type II swords (as well as javelins).
It was available in CenturyLink/Qwest areas. Not sure about now, a lot of the loop products have been grandfathered recently.

https://www.centurylink.com/wholesale/pcat/fcp.html

I was one of two providers in their 13 state region that used it. It was really successful and let us put in ADSL and then Ethernet over Copper in business parks.
Mozzie
Web3 as an inefficient way to use the web
I guess skiing comes with a high acceptance of risk to begin with.
This is probably the worst part about any kind of payment based system, whether it be money or proof of work- these systems do reflect the disadvantages of the economies of the world.

That said, since this problem already exists in the world, it is often overstated.

If a stamp is a reasonable cost, and only a one time cost, it will be largely invisible. 25 cents (a price set by the recipient) to send a message from a stranger won't have a big impact on most people, and it's important to recognize it's only the first time.

It's further important to know it would even be possible to refund the cost of the stamp back to the sender once the message is sent. The recipient could have a button that says "Return stamp" which would then let the sender re-use or in some other way organize the stamp.

Now let's contrast to today... Let's say I want to send a message to a big movie star or a CEO. The chances that I will be able to get their address is relatively low. Even if I do, they likely have someone they pay to filter their messages before it gets to them.
The principle is sound, but your managers' way of implementing it is stupid. Productivity shouldn't go down as a result of knowledge sharing, it should go up.
Hello, I'm a Compiler
The sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years without fresh air or water
Half-Life, er, wait a minute...
My family started watching 'The Chosen' a while ago, we're hooked.

As a programmer, I identify most closely with the Mathew character.
The video game industry is literally 10x more scummy than the cryptocoin industry.

edit: keep downvoting me morons. what is microtransactions? literally the same bullshit you bitch about like NFTs and IPOs.

and the video game industry is not just scum for that, but for the terrible code they write and how they drag down the entire computing industry with pervasive poor engineering

what is steam? origin? epic store? literally webshit like a cryptocurrency wallet + vendor lock in + a bunch of mutually incompatible software deliberately made that way in the interests of the vendors instead of using open standards
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/6s0wov/hea...
As with so many other things, through mastery and practice of the “right ways” you will often discover flaws in them and that is when that which you are practicing begins to become a true art form.
The price of the stock reflects the underlying value though, out of a increasing pool of resources. Companies transmute inputs into outputs of greater future value. Every stock is not a GameStop competing to extract a bigger share of a limited pool of tullip investors.
> it must have infinite money to replicate the content for infinite users

what?
They don't make their own FPGAs, they make boards with Xilinx and Altera/Intel chips.
> I just also find the tech interesting and find the copypaste comments in every thread pretty tiresome.

Most people do not find useless tech to be interesting.
I should have specified, but by cheap I mean comparable to Radioshack prices in the store's better days.
> In decentralization the only quality that matters is degree of autonomy. If I need your common access point to send/receive content the system is highly centralized as autonomy is fully vested in the third party content host.

Things exist on a spectrum. I have autonomy to choose where to (e.g.) host my family photos, and even self-host on a VPS or even perhaps at home (either with a static IP or dynamic DNS). While things may moved towards more centralization with Big Tech, does not mean it is centralized, just perhaps less decentralized / distributed.

> multiple centralized systems

This phrase approaches an oxymoron in my mind. (Bearing in mind de/centralization being on a spectrum.)
> but it’s never been about the money

That is such a fantastic luxury position to be in.
On the contrary, you never knew who might be reading. Maybe there's a kid who gets really freaked out by skeletons? It's not hurting you to have the warning there.
The difference between Web 2 and 3 is that no one had to write long Twitter threads daily on why Web 2 was the revolution, and what builders should be making with it. It was organic because there was demand from consumers, and people used the tools available to them to fulfill that demand.

Web 3 is artificial, with little to no demand outside of being a vehicle for unregulated speculation. The people most excited for Web 3 aren't builders nor consumers, but venture capitalists and people with a financial stake waiting to cash out.
I think the IT industry is filled with broad, vague clauses like this that aim to lay claim to all IP an employee creates (which can include art, music etc. as well).

Some employers make the excuse that it's only during office hours; others claim that this clause would "never actually be used".

In my experience it is rarely removed. I've turned down jobs because of it and others that I have accepted I have been extremely worried something like this would happen. I feel for the employee in question and hope they are able to retain control of their open-source code. Maybe this bad publicity encourages others to push back in the future because I generally find this behaviour quite unacceptable.
> 90% identical to humans

I mean, we share 90% of our DNA with mice, and 70% with worms.
Spam is the lack of privacy I was referring to.

To solve it, I'd say a protocol extension is needed.

Or maybe a protocol reduction.

The relay system is the source of lots of evil and was really designed for a bygone era. Eliminate "open" relays --- only accept email directly from the source server --- and most spam goes away with a simple privacy filter as I described above. It is easy to "spoof" an address, much harder to "spoof" a server.
My kids don't play survival at all really and although I have kept trying for years I can't find an actual enjoyable game in there at all really. Like you say, too much grinding, and then it just starts to feel completely pointless and arbitrary.
Ok, we found a graduate of Tom Cruise's programming school (Mission Impossible) .
Shanghai would only count those who have hukou (official residence) in the city, everyone else is basically a foreigner. For example if someone from Hunan had a kid in Shanghai, they would have Hunan hukou, not Shanghai hukou, and wouldn’t be counted in their numbers.

Migrant workers generally don’t bring their kids/families to these cities however, as they have no right to local public schooling and medical resources, it can be a really difficult life unless you are rich. Likewise, very few people with Shanghai hukou will go somewhere else (it does happen though people), mobility in China is really complicated by the hukou system.
As an employee, I’ve managed to evade these clauses by negotiating them as early as possible in the interview process. With smaller companies, it hasn’t really been as difficult as I expected.

However, my local laws provide some additional protection against this type of thing. I didn’t even realize it until I consulted with a lawyer who pointed out that my state’s laws don’t allow companies to claim IP generated in off hours. Of course, consult with a lawyer to confirm which jurisdiction actually applies to your employment.

As a manager on the other side of the table, I’ve had some strange experiences: On more than one occasion, employees have tried to open-source things they wrote for us without asking. Juniors especially may not fully understand the bounds of IP ownership, to the point that they think code they wrote is theirs, even if written for their job as paid works for hire. I’m not suggesting that’s what’s happening here, but after seeing developers walk straight into situations where they’re releasing company code without permission I reserve judgment when I see situations like this. If these libraries were developed on company time for company work products then the developer may not have a particularly strong claim for his ownership.

On the other hand, if these are entirely unreleased to his work then of course this is a ridiculous request.

EDIT: A quick look at the source code suggests this situation might not be as clear-cut in favor of the developer as the comments here suggest. Both of the repos in question appear to be derivative works of projects that Badoo (aka Bumble, the developer's employer) owns. The MVIKotlin library opens with this statement:

> This project is inspired by Badoo MVICore library.

And the Decompose repo has this statement in the opening:

> This project is inspired by Badoos RIBs fork of the Uber RIBs framework.

And unless I'm missing something, the developer worked for Badoo (Bumble) during the entire period. It would be extremely difficult to argue that a derivative work of your employer's IP, written during your time of employment and possibly during work time, is fully independent of the company. If the developer used these projects in any way for their work at Bumble (e.g. actually using these tools or libraries as part of the app) or he used company equipment/time/resources while building them, then it would be virtually impossible to argue that these works were not partially work-for-hire as part of his employment.
So borrowing and lending is no real world use case?

EDIT: This is genuine question. I want to understand if this is considered a real world use case or not.
> A BTC wallet is infinitely more user friendly than a banking website...

Until there is fraud, a dispute, or an innocent mistake.
It’s not about how many loops you have; it’s about what you put in them and how deep.
Pretty much everything "non-standard" on the blockchain is a smart contract, it's just a piece of code describing some expected behavior. NFTs are smart contracts for example.
Have you used in production at a decent scale for significant time? It's an SLA killer.
So... you can't put anything on top of the "box", and it's a pain to clean with all the bumps?

Yeah... no.
Corruption may be the de facto standard operating procedure for the majority of government, but that does not make it legal. However, being illegal does not mean that we the people stand a snowball’s chance in hell of draining that swamp.
Exactly. I would consider a token that follows something like Friedman's k-percent rule ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman's_k-percent_rule ), a legitimate token.

A token like this would jettison its pyramidal character. If it took off, it might convince me that there is value beyond scamming late adopters.

I haven't seen any gaining much traction however.
I have my own method of spotting spyware that dates back to CompuServ and 1991. If the hard drive or network are doing something and I didn't ask it to, throw the software in the garbage and block their domains. Nowadays people would surely find that method insane I'm sure.
> I am referring to the correct definition of the term where you are supposed to hack something.

Oh I see. Your contribution here was semantics? The press misused the term as you saw it even if it was obvious what they were referring to? How novel.
Open-source. The easiest way to the neuroscience with the shield for RaspberryPi
Hello everyone, as you know (or not), a few months ago I published a work about an inexpensive brain interface - ironbci (https://github.com/Ildaron/ironbci) - but I must own up, that the chips shortage slightly increased the cost of the device
so I quickly made a shield for Raspberry pi
this is OPEN SOURCE
I think this it is the easiest way to the neuroscience world for anyone who decided to start measuring biosignals
I have described the details here,
https://github.com/Ildaron/EEGwithRaspberryPI
if anyone has any ideas on how to make clear the page, let me know
> And still not a single example of a good real world use case

"real world use case" is in the eye of the beholder.

My grandmother never wanted a telephone (landline) and never understood the "real world use case" however much people told her they couldn't live without it.

She was not stupid in any ways I can think of. She just lived in a way that made the device uninteresting.

In any case, you should take a look at the gaming space.

Lots of movement around unique items, characters, or more generally control of virtual property and managing them through a blockchain so as to allow use across gaming platforms.

But that's not a "real world use case" after all, it's just gaming (a tiny, $90B industry).
Show HN: Parse Skype Export to make it human readable
I think it would accurately be described as Christian derived (being Western) but, given the exponential growth of published writing over time, I doubt the majority of written media is Christian based. Just my hunch..
I think this is not a good take. An NFT is a use case. You might find them asinine, as I do, but that’s still a use case. It’s surprising that people think “programmatic money and token system” doesn’t have a use case. Clearly it does, and judging this nascent technology for not fundamentally changing the world yet is shortsighted. Imagine when the first vacuum tube transistor was invented. Maybe you could invent an 8-bit adder, but addition of small numbers was already possible. It took many decades to fully realize that you could, e.g., network computers and make the internet.
The SEC could be called many things, but “massive” isn’t one of them. They have fewer than 5,000 employees, which makes them microscopic on the federal government’s scale and virtually nonexistent proportional to the size of market they’re tasked with regulating.
How is "purported interoperability" important here though? There were big news warning of highly proprietary cheap Apple chargers frying MacBooks as well. You're trying to blame USB-C for a problem that's completely orthogonal to it.
Copyright is not likely to subsist in a one or two line bug fix. There isn't enough creativity involved.
No it isn't a meme. Blockstream and some internet forums don't control Bitcoin. This is honestly just a conspiracy theory.
Maybe some people behave as you indicate but this is neither the common or original intent. TSLA is only one frothy example but they still (a) make things, (b) have a historical record, (c) report on past, present and forecasted performance, (d) have widely accepted "value", (e) can be readily exchanged for something else of value, (f) have governance that is ultimately responsible for performance, even if they're not the major cause of said performance.

Everybody investing in the stock market is not a Reddit day trader.
Hehe, that’s what I meant, but my math failed me
DNS servers do that.

You're just along for the ride.
My solution to this is to submit an exhaustive and borderline autistic list of prior work and inventions. I’ll describe each as vaguely possible to maximize the carve out. Never had it turned down or rejected.
Company WiFi falls under their "equipment"/"facilities" as far as I'm concerned and it's fair for the company to be upset about you using it for your personal benefit in my opinion.
Please be really careful about that kind of phrasing. If you work for a large organisation, it might be doing work on almost anything somewhere in the org and you might not even know that work exists. And yet now if your own project that is entirely unrelated to your own role and work for the employer can be linked to that other work you didn't even know about, your employer owns everything.
If I had a fraction of a bitcoin for every recruiter who has contacted me in the last two months with a breathless crypto startup job posting with boatloads of seed capital, I'd be "rich."

If the tech industry bubble pops in the near future, it will be because of crypto.

(EDIT: As a sidenote, it is interesting that when I filed my taxes for 2020 revenue Canada had added a question about cryptocurrency assets.)
Does it hijack back button? I couldn't come back to HN comments.
Is Osdev.org Down?
Is OSDEV.org down? :(
>and has accounted assets in Apple's system

But really what do they have? They rented something and now they lost access. If they had physical media on CD, DVD, or even stored locally as a stand-alone file that would be different.

Yes I'd be enraged but people have feared for years subscriptions and no physical media lead to this. Games and music have gone from disks, CDs, DVDs, to subscriptions. Today it's become so bad that even physical devices are now seen as owned by its manufacturer and you're not permitted to repair it or even open it to look, if you can mange to open your device.
It doesn't hurt anybody, and could potentially help some folks that might have some trauma, so I don't see the problem at all?
I finally ripped all the Wemo and Eero smart devices out of my home. They were unbearably finicky and kept not working for some minor reason and you’d have to just keep resetting everything. Wasn’t worth the effort. Now I just have a good old fashioned mechanical timer on the lamp in my living room. It never fails due to some random update or Wi-Fi setting.
From the lawsuit: “On or about August 15, 2019, the Defendants threatened to kill the Steiners when they sent an ominous funeral wreath to the Steiner residence.”

So exaggerated.
This is really neat and using rss should help you get over the initial hump of needing a large community to drive involvement.

I also like the fact that you just use people who voted up the same content to create groupings, instead of some big ML algorithm.