skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Being unable to fix a "whoopsy" is the biggest weakness.

Who decides what is a "whoopsy" a legitimate user made, and what is a pretend-"whoopsy" conjured by a malicious actor? Giving people & automated systems ability to flag something as "whoopsy" and revert it or lock down entire account enables malicious abuse and honest mistakes; either can end up very costly or even effectively irreversible in some cases.

Trivial example: every day we see a new post on HN about somebody's Apple/Google/YT/payment processor/etc operation/content/account being marked as "whoopsy" by the support or anti-fraud team, and they losing access to data/finances.

The best way to think of cryptocurrencies being "too absolutist" (irreversible) is as of a complementary counterpart to the (fiat) money which is too open to interpretation and always subject to unexpected third party decisions.
Please see my response to the sibling comment, in which I attempt to respond to both of these critiques at once.
While I don't believe Windows should become Linux, I do believe that it would be cost-effective for Microsoft to do an "Apple OSX" stunt.

Apple saves lots of money and developers by building the OSX GUI over the top of the BSD foundation. The BSD guys produce a FOSS operating system. The Apple guys produce the Apple desktop that runs on top.

Microsoft could do the same. I once suggested on the Mini-Microsoft forum about 15 years back that Microsoft do an "Apple" and layer the Windows desktop over a Linux foundation. They angrily discarded that idea at the time.

But Microsoft is still having difficulties in trying to do 'the whole shebang'. They just don't have the resources to produce both the underlying OS and the Windows desktop at the speed and quality that is necessary. Either they have to cut corners, or suffer huge delays in getting the good stuff out the door. (Usually they cut corners AND don't get interface consistency across the desktop.)
$150+ to own one for a year?
I said _one_ good reason. If a tool did that, I might be a bit annoyed, but I'd at least understand _why_: I'd be less surprised if the colours and formatting disappeared, but tools like awk, cut, sed, &c., behaved.

Ideally, I'd just prefer is libxo was common outside of FreeBSD, and I didn't have to worry about massaging stuff into structured data.
>Generating an atmosphere on mars is all well and good, but it will just blow away again without some protection.

NASA estimates the Martian atmosphere is ~2.5e16 kgs[0]. Current estimate[1] is that the Martian atmosphere loses 2-3 kg/s. Presently losing something on the order of 1e-9 percentage per day. I think if humans ever have the ability to thicken the Martian atmosphere, we can cover the loss.

[0] https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/marsfact.htm...
[1] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.05.030
Culture Foundry Is Making a Run at the 4-Day Workweek
I disagree - it's clearly what consumers want. There are a million phone options, including ones with replaceable batteries, and overwhelmingly people choose the smaller form factor with nonreplaceable batteries.
The cycle threshold (Ct) is the quantitative value from PCR. This is mapped to counts per volume based on results in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32607521/ I believe.
This is good feedback... I knew there were places like Pendleton and the southeastern corner of the state that were still be sticks in the mud, but didn't really think in terms of that being a reason for a black market to continue to thrive (given access in so many places in WA, OR, CA in general)
Disagree. Left turns on green are a compromise that prevents people from going through the green 50yd past the intersection and banging a u-turn, which is exactly what they'll start doing if you don't let them turn left at the intersection but do let them legally turn left into businesses and whatnot across the street.

Divided roads mostly don't need left on green since they mostly have dedicated turn lanes.
There's also the potentially interesting idea of wallet-as-resume. IE allowing different types of access depending on what sorts of things you've done with your wallet in the past. Certainly not for all applications, but a certain level of implied competency might be appropriate in some cases.
> How does it deal with data you absolutely do _NOT_ want to be shared and propagated around?

That is censorship. The correct answer is you don't. When you obscure evil, it propagates. When you shine a light on it, it disinfects. Awareness of the thing leads to discernment of the thing. Unless you think people are default evil, bad ideas will stay bad ideas without an intermediary forcing their will upon them.
They don't prohibit it outright. They just require you to ask first. The article made no mention of if they asked or not.
I agree with these typography principles when they are applied to things that should be read from top to bottom and the entirety of the content actually consumed as a whole. There's just many circumstances that it is not appropriate and I would say an encyclopedia entry is not one of them. I want to be able to scan a lot of content without having to change pages to find where I want to start reading from. That and people are really abusing the modern typography principle to get me to scroll more and 'engage' rather than just convey the information in a nice way (most news sites and recipe sites are egregious) that I'm starting to get turned off by the style for the web even though it's based in good reasoning. For print it's still fine because you are also limited and also it's often a two-column layout which is still pretty efficient for scanning for key words or phrases while being easy to read. 'Above the fold' used to mean something but in current web so much content wants to apply these principles but also wants me to scroll ten miles get to the actual point of the content and it feels really disrespectful to me as the reader.
Now do the math on all the less important meetings that you have every day.
Even if nothing else pops out, it’s a huge error to point to illegal activity as some kind of bad, irrelevant use case. That smuggles in an assumption that lawbreakers are universally evil. There have been plenty of periods in history where those enforcing the law in a given country were the oppressors, and the resistant lawbreakers the innocent. It’s worth considering what the value proposition of crypto looks like if you were to find yourself living under an illegitimate authority. It may be marginal if the authority can stop it, but the more illegal activity we see in crypto the stronger the belief we should hold that it will be hard to suppress.
There is an old (2016, pre-Ethereum large adoption) book from Princeton, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction [1].

I find it good for the fundamentals. There is a corresponding Coursera class but I found that class a bit long-winded.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691171696/
I mean, there are some games from back in the day that are said to be pretty good, e.g. ‘Myst’ (still haven't gotten around to it).

Text adventures seem to attract authors with some ability: for example, ‘The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy’ and Adams' ‘Bureaucracy’. Plus more-modern games by e.g. Emily Short.
"X is optional" is completely different from "X is not suitable for the real world".

Everything in a modern language is optional, but people are not rushing to program in a assembly.
1. Propagation implies no such thing.

2. As with the OP, the content marketing piece referenced fails to discuss the DNS beyond resolver activity, and thereby presents the same painfully half-baked construction of the system.
> A University of Colorado/Boulder study shows that when forests burn across significant portions of the Rocky Mountains, the forests do not regrow. Even after 15 years post-fire, 80% of the surveyed plots contained no new trees.
This doesn't stop vehicles in an unprotected left turning and creaming pedestrians. Unless the signal also has a red turn arrow.
Lots of people asking about DAOs. So here are a couple of resources you can look up.

To look at a large list of different DAOs with info about what tech stack they run, how big the treasuries are, etc., look here: https://deepdao.io/#/deepdao/dashboard

Here is a good article written in layman's terms (it's CNBC after all) about the concept and current landscape of DAOs: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/25/what-are-daos-what-to-know-a...

If you want to get a peek into organizational minutiae that DAOs deal with the CabinDAO does a great of documenting it. For example: https://creators.mirror.xyz/Le68ptgaqsBh1g6w8UqqVL2kIrA_Lqn3...

And here is a mega-collection of resources on the ever-evolving landscape by a16z: https://future.a16z.com/dao-canon/

I am a happy member of two DAOs in case some people think it is a conflict of interest.
Did CF pretend they were benchmarking something other than the product they said they were benchmarking?
The part here is a "DNS for all" approach.

Once you have that, everyone can run their own hosting. Everyone could have their own Matrix server, or whatever flavour of messaging you want.
Sooo for the last few hundereds of millions of years, which included a much warmer periods than the current one, trees somehow always managed to regrow, and chose this very moment to cease doing it?
Pedestrians in the UK need to wait until all traffic are red, then they can cross the junction (even diagonally).

This is indeed different from continental Europe, as a pedestrian I kinda preferred the system in the UK, but you could wait quite a long time.
Thinking in OODA Loops
There's no insult in saying it isn't for me because ... but good job. Positive criticism can be useful too.
Before smartphones were ubiquitous I had trouble convincing folks that had only heard of the book that the title was in fact “The Medium is the Massage”, they were convinced I was the one who had it wrong.
This is described in section "okay, DNS records actually do “propagate”."
> I was pretty terrible about version control and saving things from that early in my career.

You and everyone else, I feel. I tried to find some of my early projects from two decades back, and despite having backups floating around on various hard-drives, I could not find them to save my life. I wish I'd accepted the good word of CVS/SVN back then!
You're already leaps and bounds into a good partnership - realistic expectations. Consider it again when you get downtime, no rush over here, more fun.
This is a lot of security to give away in order to read news articles for free.

From https://incoggo.com/faq/

If you’re a very security-minded individual (or you use your computer for very sensitive tasks), before using Incoggo you may want to be aware that the application does the following:

Upon installation, Incoggo adds a file to your system’s sudoers.d folder that whitelists specific commands from requiring a sudo password to perform. (This allows Incoggo to manage your system proxy settings, kill certain processes on shutdown / restart, and perform tasks related to Incoggo’s auto-updating feature without requiring that a sudo password be prompted each time.)

Incoggo loads external Javascript files when you visit specific domains (i.e. those we filter paywalls / clear cookies on / clear storage on / etc.).

Incoggo overwrites a few system defaults (re: open page / process limits) at runtime for performance reasons.

Upon installation, Incoggo also installs a trusted root certificate in your system keystore. This is required for Incoggo’s advanced filtering functionality to work (unlike the issues above – which we intend to clean up shortly – this one is a hard requirement for the app to work).
Was super easy to follow instructions and get the same steps done.

Can you/your friend point out what kind of lovelace widget is that? Named: Our VINDRIKTNING chart after normal cooking, that helpfully has 3 gradients (green/orange/red)?

Thanks.
Yeah was done by an agency, my point is you could pick some Envato theme and slap this on WP and it would be good to go. Anyway, we're pivoting hoping not to do that again.

Minor add, you don't need to use WP, it's a single page, no routing or anything required, just host it somewhere as static.

It is WP actually. Ha template used is $59 lol.
This is dead-on, but just to add to this, none of your investors are investing in your company for a 7 percent yearly return. The SPX will almost guarantee those. They want grossly outsized returns that are large enough for inflation to be a mere speedbump. Inflation shouldn't even enter the conversation.
AWS DocumentDB not MongoDB-compatible, says MongoDB Inc
Wait, the only picture is the one at the top of the article? That's absolutely a terrible picture of it.
It looks like the amount simply varies by season (high in winter, low in summer), unless I'm missing something...
>it's also certainly not automatically the person operating a machines fault

It is. If you work on a factory floor and you are operating machinery and kill someone, it's your fault. If you play ice hockey and accidently stick someone in the face, it's your fault. If you kill someone with your car because it's night time...
I would think the biggest point about collapsing a well is that the well IS a human-made, human-scale object. It IS a blunt instrument not a pin prick in that case.
Same with calling people "the unlucky group", that felt really disrespectful.
IPFS would make it easier to identify non-modified content hosts since the hash is always consistent. It's far easier to bury something using standard HTTP or HTTPS or even FTP.
I just question the value of using 0,5% of the worlds electricity to keep the NSA out if there are other options. For example, like the article suggests, if I could decide what nodes I trust as entry guards and so forth, any malicious actor could throw as much money as they want at the network.
Are there other payments rails that countries could build quickly as alternatives? Maybe a crypto play as well? It seems that enough large trading blocks may look into this like the EU (Iran sanctions), Russia, India (CAATSA threats) and China that an alternative(s) just might take off. This I think might lead to even bigger inflation as foreign goods would by nature get more expensive in dollar terms and US products would be cheaper for foreigners.
Why not be positive? Instead of insults you could give positive criticism. There's nothing positive gained from being negative.
Town crier job advert in the U.K. from 6 years ago

https://www.crediton.gov.uk/Portals/0/Downloads/job-vacancie...

Projectionist

https://careers.atg.co.uk/opportunities/job-search/job-detai...

Milkman quite common round here https://shonesmilkandnews.co.uk

Switchboard operator
https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/direct_apply/?vac_ref=916883814

Fairly sure elevator operators in Blackpool tower exist and ride in the car with you. Less sure about Eiffel Tower, I do remember one in the car on the Empire State Building. In india of course you can barely get in the elevator because of the operator and his stool.
Apple had it running since much earlier than 2016.

The earliest I heard of Apple running something like a permanent engineering centre in the city was in 2013.

I was saying them trying to hide its existence because for long Apple demanded its employees in China to even refrain from publishing the fact of their employment with them like on LinkedIn

But the industry is too small, everybody knew about it for years. So 2016, was more like an official inauguration, when Apple admitted its existence, moved all their offices in the city to Kerry plaza, and put a nameplate on it.
Cheerp is an interesting project - for anyone who doesn't know, it's a cross-compiler that takes C/C++ and compiles to WASM. So in its Flash-specific version, it's basically running a complete Flash Player compiled inside another virtual machine in the browser. But it's not free to deploy. I don't know what their licensing scheme is with HARMAN, the new owners of the AS3/AIR SDK, but there are limitations on the binaries HARMAN can distribute on such a VM: Each binary is locked to a certain domain (a requirement of their agreement with Adobe, who insisted that Flash Player will not be deployable anywhere on the open web outside a whitelist); H.264 and AAC aren't available because HARMAN doesn't have a license; RTMP isn't allowed for the same reason. The need for Cheerp to get HARMAN to produce a binary locked to a domain likely explains why Cheerp's pricing is... extremely opaque. It might be a solution for keeping access to certain projects... but truthfully, without Adobe CC support for the design/dev ecosystem that Flash Builder provided, it's almost impossible to maintain a Flash/AIR project anymore, and it's hard to see a use case that would justify keeping one alive any longer than necessary, let alone building a new one. It's a shame. But these days I use a combination of PixiJS, Howl, ThreeJS, websockets, etc. to more or less do the kind of responsive, generative stuff I used to do in Flash.
> Today, we’re excited to report that Cloudflare Workers is 196% faster than Fastly’s Compute@Edge based on the time to first byte from the tests we ran on 50 nodes using Catchpoint’s data from across the world.

Kind of? At minimum they made misleading representations. They used abbreviated explanations of how they're better and then expanded on what the test actually consisted of later on.
Thank you for pointing this out! I had no idea!
Is it just describing the top down approach basically: senior leadership has a vision, directors come up with strategy and have their direct reports execute on it, POs and PMs trying to do their jobs take the orders from above and come up with features and requirements, designers design it, BAs make user stories for backlog, developers develop it, KPIS and OKRs met, bonuses and promotions on track all around… product becomes bloated and users suffer from the breakneck speed of change under the guise of “innovation”?

Maybe I’m jaded from being in tech too long?
That one Blu-ray code would be interesting to see play out in a web3 world.

E: I realise after digging it back up it's what you said with encryption keys but maybe someone else wants to look at the link too or whatever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controvers...
The painting part incidentally happened to my partents.

They had a friend who was basically giving away his paintings but nobody wanted them (they were horrifying, Coraline-style, and actually a picture of his mind).

He even wanted to create a paining roll with similar horrors when they were painting their apparment.

He was a very good friend but the paintings were to much.

Then he died and a few years later his paintings prices hit the roof (various hundreds of thousands of euros). My parents are still glad to not have had the paintings because they were giving them nightmares :)
How is it any better than OpenID? OpenID doesn't require a blockchain at least.
Ah fair enough. My younger brother has quite severe Crohn's that he keeps in check with some pretty hectic drugs, and sadly had very little benefit from various diets and other changes. The rest of my family has IBS though, so this is good info for some of them to try
So what are we going to call actual web if this definition takes off?

I'd hate to see another "crypto" happen.
The UX part is mutually beneficial, so it's at least possible to make an argument that companies doing so are benefitting users more than traditional UX design processes would. I still think it's creating externalities for users and would appreciate informed consent (something along the lines of bringing back proper versions where nobody would ever be forced to upgrade).

Optimizing to the detriment of the user (eg for engagement, conversion, whatever) is straight malevolent and I've yet to run across a moral justification for it apart from market nihilism.
I totally agree with the skepticism that he is Satoshi Nakamoto. But the fact alone that he owns 1.1 million Bitcoin? How do we explain that? This make me curious, to say the least.
> So to create a decentralized system like crypto, you need crypto (as programmable money)?

I was saying to create a decentralized system like Ethereum (a database) or Orchid (a bandwidth market) you need crypto. FWIW, yes: to build crypto you also need crypto, but I would imagine programmers like us are used to bootstrapping issues as we deal with them daily.

> Also, can you elaborate on locking money in a pile? Do people lock money as the currency? How does it demotivate people (whose money is locked) to do bad things?

FWIW, in my descriptions here, I wasn't looking exactly at "demotivation" (which is extremely complex and works better in some places than in others... in the case of the decentralized databases often it is "you lose all of that money if anyone ever manages to catch you telling two people you voted on the order in which to commit transactions in different ways") but just the "it needs to be expensive to be bad" aspect (which involves defending against what people often call a "sybil attack", after the first patient to be diagnosed with multiple personality disorder): if you want to run a Tor node, maybe it should require tens of thousands of dollars per node locked up somewhere (which is proof of stake) or maybe it should require you to constantly burn electricity doing some arguably-"useless" math (aka, proof of work).

The issue is that it shouldn't be easy for me to just claim "I suddenly have a million nodes". The main defenses Tor has for this are "it is hard to get IP addresses"--which is honestly totally fair, and we may as well call it "proof of IPv4" ;P--and "maybe, if we get lucky enough, the cabal that runs their directory will manually notice somehow that you are evil (which I will note the article here claims is increasingly unlikely) and remove you from the list". This already does not seem to be sufficient even in the current world of IPv4, and implies that Tor will kind of need to continue to require all nodes to be IPv4 (they can let you access IPv6 content, of course, but the idea is that to talk to them would require IPv4, to make the IP addresses scarce) even in a potential future world where IPv6 becomes dominant (which would probably crash the market for IPv4 addresses, breaking this mechanism anyway!!).

(A note on that second one, btw: Tor has like 9 people who run the directory servers. Your client talks to them and attempts to get consensus on the state of the directory. If you were to go to 5 of those people with a crowbar and demand that they redirect all traffic to you, you win... and, when I asked Roger Dingledine what he'd do in such a situation when someone threatened his family over it, it was amazing that he somehow had never really considered the scenario. Meanwhile, those are just computers running somewhere which can be targeted for physical and remote intrusion, and there have been serious scares of such in the past! I'd argue that, instead of people whose job is to run the directory servers that you have to trust, the directory should be code running on a shared distributed database protocol--aka, Ethereum--which, of course, is what we are working on with Orchid ;P.)
Yeah that's terrifying. He didn't mention a roundabout, seems like that would probably be about the best solution there to me.
And yet including the additional restriction "this software may not be used to enslave people" makes the software no longer "free". It's odd how often slavery is mentioned in examples about how free copyleft software is, while the first of the so called four freedoms insists that using software to literally enslave people is a freedom that must be protected.
I can't speak to your situation but did you view that as racism or just unfriendliness? Just because we're less racist doesn't mean we're nice haha
Yes I've always tried to have a long view (out the window or down the room) beyond my monitor.
Anything for bass lines? I wanted to build somestuck. As a project, but I suck.