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> It would be nice if people could just talk about technical blockchain stuff without the most upvotes comment every time being a wholly unrelated tangent

Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree.

I haven't heard a single original crypto-contrarian argument in close to a year on HN.

It's all "tulips, ponzi, useless, no real use case, only used by criminals, won't you think of the children" instead of actually trying to understand why an entire industry is being built from the ground up.

Some folks here seem to believe that repeating things enough time will somehow make them real.
You are mostly correct. My kids and I played Minecraft 1.18 survival even in beta. The new ore distribution rules, especially for iron, greatly increase the grindiness of the beginning of the game. We were compelled to immediately dig down to Y=16, where iron is most common (except for extremely tall mountains that are rare biomes).

https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Ore?file=1-18-ore-distribu...

We did not find the world "riddled with holes," though, and gaps in Minecraft have always been easy to traverse by simply placing blocks.

1.18 ore distribution sucks. Going caving virtually requires full armor due to mobs, but now to get full armor you need to go caving (or get extremely lucky).
It is. The question is how much freedom and liberty should a society give up in exchange for it? I don’t think there is any one right answer… but no chewing gum is a bit extreme in my opinion.
That largely depends whether others contributed, and whether they assigned copyright.
Under a fiat system those workers were forced to put their hard earned life savings into the stock market or real estate in order to escape the ravages of inflation. Despite all the talk about the time value of money in finance, under a fiat regime it is impossible to save your earnings for the future in a bank account or Certificate of Deposit such that you come out ahead after inflation over time.

The fact that there is no option to save an enjoy positive inflation-adjusted returns without taking on market risk is an indication of what a scam the current system of fractional reserve banking and artificially manipulated interest rates is.

> Because "workers" aren't the people with vast reserves of wealth, they're the people who are paid by people with vast reserves of wealth.

Really? Workers have less wealth than rich people so it’s okay to steal their wages via inflation? /s

Please explain your reasoning further.
With what? A manual?

Parent is checking out a game because it was mentioned on HN and finds that the game’s web page doesn’t have a manual and your response is essentially: “Play the game sight-unseen, learn everything about it, write a manual and contribute it back to the project”? That’s not very realistic.

I could see creating an issue in the tracker, perhaps.
Can you share what state law provides this protection?
This isn’t the same story. I don’t think it should be marked [dupe].
> public housing, .. If you own one, you cannot own a second one.

How is this a downside? That's the only way a subsidizied public housing system could work.

It's ludicrous you are describing the negatives from the perspective of a investor instead of a resident, that was precisely the point of the whole scheme, to make it easier for a regular resident to live, who pays tax and contributes to the local economy.
I believe you are correct. Though, these moves often have the opposite effect on me. Especially with the name plastered over every object.
Kinda funny how they're driving us right back to piracy.

Digital content is not forever. If I can't purchase it and download it to my local hard drive, I'm not purchasing it.

Reminds me of those old anti piracy PSAs: "you wouldn't download a car." (note: yes, yes I would if I could).

But if the new car-buying process was "pay $20k for this Honda Civic, but just know that we are just allowing you to drive it, we can take it away from you at any time" you can be sure that either no one will ever buy cars again, or they'd just "steal" them.

If compliance is too hard or too inconvenient or just plain stupid or malicious, then people won't comply. Easy as that.
Ah I see, so you did realize that the bank responsible for your card would send you a statement, but they wouldn't send it in either the correct format, or within the necessary timeframe. Well that just sounds like a crappy situation all-around.
I think you get it better than they do. The biggest difference I notice is that in the early days of the web, people solved problems they had or saw and benefited from it. Now with crypto, all I see is a solution in search of a problem.
Me and my peers sharing WW2 knowledge at the water-cooler probably considerably reduced productivity at one of my jobs. Your work on a part of the application that I have no interaction with is just about as relevant. Sharing knowledge just in case costs time.
> With information, it's no longer the case.

It isn't always like that. If your data is on somebody else's platform (as for the author's data) your data is gone, possibly for good.

And by the way... onljne communities (and websites in general) come and go. The data you're relying upon today might not be there tomorrow (or it could get altered someway).
This is very dangerous territory indeed. Arguably the most taboo field in science right now. Sadly.
> The cool thing would be multi-host static binaries

My first thought was someone is thinking about something like:

https://ahgamut.github.io/c/2021/02/27/ape-cosmo/

There is also something similar that can make binaries that run even bare metal or as EFI apps. But I can't find at the moment. (Maybe someone else has the link?)
Not inline, but https://instances.vantage.sh/ is the way I've been looking at it for 5+ years.
I mean, physiologically. But, yes.
Ask HN: Should you store TOTP/Backup codes in password manager?
I've read many HN threads on this topic and gone back and forth on this ultimately deciding against it.
However I still need to 1) store the backup codes somewhere secure 2) keep backups of them, possibly offsite, which would mean I would want to 3) encrypt them with a strong passphrase, basically the exact same situation as securing and backing up my password database.

In which case why not store the backup codes in the password database? Instead of having to memorize another passphrase that will be very infrequently used and likely forgotten. And then why not make the jump and just store the TOTP secrets in the password manager?
Yea I also found this really surprising. Like you said, rape is one option, but you could still expect some mixing even if 90 or 99% of encounters were violent.
Fe? Iron-clad contract?

Nice pun.
>, it seems like the existing system could work fine by rolling per-contact email addresses to give out.

The problem is you can't give out "per-contact email addresses" to future unknown people when you can't predict who will legitimately send you email that's not spam.

The random-generated-rolling email addresses that hides real addresses such as systems in Apple/craigslist/ebay/domainWhoISprivacy can function because there's already a non-email type of _transaction_ or _activity_ to establish the first link for communication -- without requiring a reference to a person id. E.g. Consider that it's the _user_ that first enters the "fake" rolling email address into a shopping website. In that case, the activity is "shopping cart" and now the website can communicate back with that fake email.

That doesn't work for other real-life scenarios where the sender only has the person in mind to send a message but no transaction or other triggering activity to publish/discover a random email address. For that, you need stable easy-to-type addresses such as johndoe@example.com which you can put on business cards. But the problem is that spammers also know that non-random email address. So the cpu-puzzles approach was (attempting to) solve a different problem: people can publicize their stable email addresses but spammers also knowing it doesn't matter because they don't want to spend $$$ on cpu.
Micro payments may prove to be a compelling alternative to. Or at least that is the hope.
On the other hand, as much as I dislike Google, I use Google to filter spam on my email on my own domain and it seems to be extremely effective at that particular job.

Over past 6 or 7 years I have been using Google I remember only one case when valid mail was classified as spam. I receive about 10-20 spam a day and I get about one spam into my inbox per month.

In the past I would use catch all on my domain and give addresses like adobe.com@<my-domain> to companies.

It led to some fun stories like when I started getting a lot of spam to adobe.com@<my-domain> and Adobe support (I have been paying customer -- no more) claiming that they have absolutely not lost any of my information even though I could positively verify my adobe.com@<my-domain> address and password was available in one of publicly available databases.

Nowadays I am using more and more SSO + MFA and it kind of makes that pattern less useful.
China is indeed aspiring to copy western countries surveillance state, and taking it much further, but you are overestimating the infrastructure and data sharing already in place. The often discussed social credit system for example will start national operation soon, but in its absence, there is no national credit system. Ant Group was recently busted by regulators for not sharing credit data with the state [0] Facial recognition is very advanced in Xinjiang and first/second tier cities, but it is usually localized and data sharing between agencies seems very low. Life in China is full of legal grey zones, as is typical in developing countries, with things technically being not legal, but no one is there to enforce it.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/23/ant-group-to-share-consumer-...
Ask HN: Are paradigm shifting breakthroughs rarer or is it a bias in my eyes?
I feel that 10+ years back there used to be a lot of talk of a lot of technologies that would change the world following in the footsteps of Moore's law (although a bit more slowly).

In the decade since a lot of exciting developments have happened. Smartphones have become cheaper, world is so much more connected, EVs looking to finally breakthrough etc.

However exponential tech that takes us to something like 'singularity' does not seem to come up any more. Most growth is incremental and we hype every single Lab output with rarely seeing commercial breakthroughs.

I was personally always excited about material science breakthroughs using graphene etc. but seems like it is difficult to manufacture at scale even today.

Any specific tech or breakthrough you are personally waiting for coming to fruition ?
It’s more like $30 a day for every level 1 complaint open with TIO and cost goes up from there. I seem to remember level 3 is around $250 a day though memory is becoming increasingly unreliable.

Point is, even if TIO sides with the telco (unlikely, they encourage both parties to find a middle ground as they are consumer first oriented) on a case where it takes for example 10 days (again, unlikely) to resolve; the margin[1] on a residential NBN service with a budget provider like TPG has already evaporated and that’s without considering costs of having TIO liaison staff, etc.

It’s a good model because it encourages the telco to resolve the complaint properly and in the customers favour before the problem can make it to TIO as once it gets to them, it always costs the telco money. Provider is better off wearing $100 cost to resolve than have the complaint spend 3 days with TIO level 1, taking up time and resources whilst also becoming a publicised negative statistic (TIO regularly publish report outlining telco performance from a number of complaints perspective).

I think your suggestion is a good one. Just adding this detail because I think it’s important to note that the model is actually about encouraging better complaint handling and customer service than just being about fines and punishment.

[1] assuming 12 month term on approx $65/m service but I am speaking in broad terms
> Another Solidity alternative is Vyper.

Vitalik was pushing Vyper quite hard for a while, but he seems to have ramped that down.

I wonder if Vyper is in any way better than Solidity.

At any rate, smart contract languages have security / verifiability constraints that few other domain of application have, and I don't believe any of the current languages offer what is really needed (integrated formal proof of behavior of the smart contract).
They're just fans of portal.
The problem with Amazon is that a) for every story like yours, there are 5 that say the opposite, and b) it's all enabled by abusive labour practices.
> except for those inventions that either: (1) relate at the time ... to the employer’s business

So if the domain of your side project has nothing to do with what you're actively involved in at work, but your employer is involved in or has a business interest in that domain, the employer can claim ownership? Which for many large companies (especially e.g. Google) is a lot of domains?
Definitely.

I worked hard to get here. Saved 25-40% of my money, while working. Lived real "low on the hog."

It's "f**k you money." I just thought that the idea was for me to say "f**k you" to employers; not the other way 'round (which is what happened).
alacarte staticity
My understanding of the height limit (originally 128 and later 256) was that the lighting algorithm was O(height limit), and so it was hard to increase it arbitrarily. And then most of the shape of the terrain is dictated by the height limit—you couldn’t really have big mountains full of false summits, and indeed the terrain generation didn’t really have many low-frequency features that spanned large areas (but maybe they are boring because they are slow to traverse). For comparison, the highest peak in the European part of the Netherlands is around 320m whereas the Minecraft limit wouldn’t let you above 192m above sea level. Denmark has a highest peak of 170m so it would fit but the game wouldn’t generate such a thing as you’d only have 22m above the top to build. I wonder if one way around raising the height limit would be to offset the base height of chunks relative to each other, but that might lead to strange behaviour in other parts of the game. Maybe Microsoft have figured out a better fix to allow increasing the limit.
What? Yes, you can hold long and short positions simultaneously. Yes, there net position went from long to short to long very quickly, but that’s not the point. I can see you aren’t a trader. The point is that they forced the price down when the market depth was thin to liquidate other people’s leveraged long positions to drive the price way down, which triggered panic selling and more liquidations before buying back around the bottom…
I've gone between using k3s and full-blown k8s on a raspberry pi cluster at home.

Both work just fine in my humble opinion. K3s is a bit easier to install.

For context, I've been using Kubernetes at work since I think 2018 (amazon eks), and I'm quite familiar with it.

I highly recommend using k9s for day to day stuff. It's just so much easier than having to memorize a ton of different commands.
Right, if you are unlucky bad things can happen with a single provider.

I split my digital life and purchases between Amazon, Apple, and Google. Book purchases, occasional movie purchases, etc. I have moved on from having a massive personal library of physical books to mostly relying on digital media, eBooks and audio books. Splitting purchases between three vendors makes me feel a bit more secure.

Probably most peoples’ most precious digital asset class is their personal photos and videos. I use a very simple setup: when I am at home on wifi, my phone updates all photos and videos to Apple, Google, and Microsoft OneDrive. If I am, for example, hiking and take a dozen pictures and/or videos, then before getting home to my wifi, I review and delete what I don’t want available during my lifetime. A secondary advantage is that all three companies run automated deep learning based systems that present my own media to me in interesting ways. For most of my digital life I care about and work for privacy, except for my photos and videos where I want maximum enjoyment for myself, family, and friends. I like to create photo albums and share links with specific people - so much better than posting on social media.

EDIT: for book purchases, I also favor buying directly from publishers who provide ePub, Kindle, and PDF formats - all of which I save to all three cloud providers storage and for convenience import into one of Google’s, Apple’s, or, Amazon’s eBook readers.
I guess the HomeKit integration with Hue is the problem then.
Please read https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt and check all boxes that apply to your post yourself. Ideas such as yours have been around since the mid-1990’s and have been debated to death since then, so much so that the aforementioned template was created.
If by L2 you are referring to proof-of-stake, I don't think that technology can ever be made to work without needing to exist alongside a proof-of-work coin due to the "nothing at stake" issue.
If you wouldn't have written the library if it weren't for your job, and you use the library to get your job done... it doesn't really matter if it's open source. If you're in a jurisdiction and under an employment contract where your closed-source code is owned by the company, your equivalent open-source code is too.

If we're talking about hobby projects, that's different, but it seems from this tweet that this is something that could have been written internally as part of someone's job and never open-sourced, right?
This is not a universal position. I have seen employers large and small change proposed contracts in reasonable ways when asked by individuals. Some of them see this as a positive because it demonstrates that they did negotiate reasonably and so they are not requiring a contract of adhesion.
Times out on securityheaders (SH is in DigitalOcean) [1] and qualys [2]. osdev.org is hosted in Linode. Linode status page is green [3] so perhaps an individual VM or application issue. It also appears they had a lot of services exposed to the internet including FTP, SSH, NTP, MySQL and "MBBS Socket Harness" not sure what that is, so there is a possibility.

[1] - https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fosdev.org%2F&fo...

[2] - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=osdev.org

[3] - https://status.linode.com/
The combination of nostalgia for the early days of the Web combined with increasing distrust of the mega-tech companies combined with the pendulum swinging back to decentralized systems from centralized systems (the pendulum constantly swings back and forth) is the current zeitgeist of the moment. The problem is that the money markets (VC, private equity, crypto-hordes) simultaneously reject and passively support this decentralized approach meaning that the only way to get real traction for an Old School Style Decentralized Internet is to do it outside of the current realm of venture-backed entrepreneurship.

These financial markets support decentralization in that it serves to create new markets of opportunity not subservient to current market leaders, but at the same time reject decentralization in ways that would limit the ability for those new networks to monetize in the ways that would provide incentives for the investors and founders. Since decentralization favors the individual over an authority of any type, it's very difficult to gain support for decentralization from within current markets.

I really hope that we rethink the VC and public market-based underpinnings of our current tech echosystem. Many of the problems of what we're experiencing today with the steady decay of open and good quality Internet systems as well as the erosion of distrust in authority can really be traced to the way that money (and fortunes) are generated today. Walled gardens. Captive audiences. Standards balkanization. A shift from pay-to-own to rental subscription models. Locking down the ability for individuals to service their own systems in order to coerce continued vendor purchasing. All of these trends favor centralization, single-vendor ownership, and the behavior of market leaders to acquire and entrench their competition and thereby restrict choice.

I don't want to get too macro, but it's possible even many of the ills of modern day capitalism can be traced to financial markets that motivate bad behavior. But I'll keep it on subject and say that the Internet of the past was the Internet of the past not only because of decentralized technology but because of personal, non-financial interest motivations and technophile centric development that pursued the "what if" instead of the "what's in it for me".

I agree these are rose-tinted glasses, but it can be argued that the Internet would not have developed as it has today if it wasn't for the tech-centric naivete of the early Web innovators.
You can, but you have to use the old launcher, which is buried on the Minecraft site and avoid the dark pattern prompts to upgrade.
Then why do esoteric conlangs reach front page? I hope most people on HN find tech interesting regardless of practicality
How does the nail for the web3 hammer look like?

Because every use case I heard so far can already be solved more efficiently without blockchains.
Mice are weird in ways that disqualify them for aging research, IMO. For example, they and rats have two insulins (no other species does). We already know the insulin/igf-1 axis is important for aging.
Same. They'll never hire good coders this way.
Later in the chapter they pass by it again and it's dead or dying, which is attributed to his curse.
> where the frontend is a compiled SPA

This is pretty much just the same thing we do today, but wait...

> possibly hosted on decentralised platforms (IPFS)

We can use a filesystem that is extremely slow, and also loses all our files if we stop paying AWS to mirror them in S3!

> the backend is a decentralised blockchain

And we can use a really slow database where each write costs $100s in gas fees!

... see, much better!
Here's a site that follows most of the hacks: https://rekt.news
Chinese researchers turn to AI to build world’s smallest-most powerful coilgun
> That should cost them.

It could, if you choose, cost them your business.
That is because rational people know that the scam that is the fractional reserve banking system with it’s artificially low interest rates, is the direct reason why workers have no option to save their money in the bank while coming out ahead of inflation. If there were no inflation and banks had to pay you a meaningful rate to save with them, then there would be a viable option for those who do not wish to risk their life savings in the stock or real estate markets.

Tell me why is it, in a functioning economy, that the only option for wage earners to stay ahead of inflation is by risking their savings on volatile stocks or real estate?

Why is it not possible to save conservatively in a bank while staying ahead of inflation? In my opinion it is by design because it is easier for governments to steal wealth by inflation than it is by taxation.

Inflationary monetary policy is a scam designed to steal generational wealth. Bitcoin fixes this.
Wow that smells a lot like marketing bs.
There's a lot of companies working on the UX for Linux.

There's Ubuntu, ElementaryOS, Zorin...

They're not for me though, as what I care about is pretty contrary to the idea of mainstream. I don't really care whether Linux makes it to the mainstream or not, why should that be everyone's goal?

The lack of a unified direction might seems like a weakness of Linux but it's also its biggest strength. It's the reason it's the most used OS in the world now, when you include servers and Android devices. It's just so easy to adapt if you want to do something different.

So let the techies do their techie stuff and let the mainstream OS vendors focus on their users :)