skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm definitely not a fan of the current state of DeFi and crypto in general (NFTs are stupid), but it's just ignorant to claim that there are no "real world" use cases. To believe that, you'd also have to believe that savings accounts are not a "real world" use case.

In reality, the market for money is extremely important for everyday life. Being able to trade off money now for more money later, and being able to do it in a variety of ways, is an essential ingredient modern exponential GDP growth and high quality of life to materialize.

IMO current DeFi products do this in a way that is already better than the traditional banking sector, and it gets better all the time. I suspect that in 20 years a majority of US people will use some kind of DeFi product instead of a savings account.
In the US, I don't think they could (but it may depend on the details of how you did it). They could sue you for contract violation, but would they? There's no upside for them to do so.
My friends and I converted an existing world to 1.8 (hard difficulty). Even with full iron armor I got wrecked the first time I dug down to the cave beneath our base. Was not expecting the sheer number of mobs.
The same author has a newer version of the utility called btop (written in C++): https://github.com/aristocratos/btop .
I got that impression too, but it does say "But the path he has chosen involves one of the toughest problems in battery science, which is how to make an anode out of pure lithium or sodium metal."

I suppose that implies he's trying to make an anode out of pure lithium or sodium, but you never know with science journalism.
> Nobody has ever taken the "god's eye view" with the intent to be nice.

I second what the other guy said: this is an interesting point. But I'd also second the point about not knowing their intent (more with Bretton Woods than Visa/Mastercard; the latter is obviously fair enough). Also, I think it's telling that you left out Dodd-Frank when making that point, because it pretty clearly undercuts it.
Android is not Linux same as MacOS is not Unix
Much like Veloren?
I refuse to work at Twitter for its racist policies against whites
#1 He was trying to avoid another race riot. Forced mixing of Malays and Chinese was supposed to prevent that (even today there are strict rules on % of races in HDBs).

#2 is another way of saying "those fucking commies".

It would be equally politically practical to have a similar program in most countries but we don't. Indeed many (especially younger people) are screaming for a program like this. Yet public housing programs tend to be watered down and dismantled instead.

LKY lacking in ideology (other than fervent anticommunism) isnt especially interesting. It's very normal for people to chase power without much in the way of ideology. Boris Johnson is similarly lacking in ideology but the last thing he'd do is build some council houses.

What IS interesting is how the material circumstances of Singapore managed to keep him on a tight leash.
> Custom instructions / features that are only available on AWS silicon

If there are custom instructions added, AWS customers aren't aware of them. Feature set pretty much unchanged too. It's a non-effect on that front.
Easy looking back across history at all the various paradigm shifts simultaneously to wonder why there isn’t one happening now, but the collapsed time of history isn’t the same as living in real time.
That’s not how you calculate amps. We don’t know if it’s single or three phase. It’s 113 amps @ 240v single phase.
How much traffic does that generate? On average, there are ~300 billion messages sent daily - the majority coming from automated services and/or bulk messaging providers. Sure, Gmail and Google Workspaces have a lot of "market share", but that is meaningless in the context of worldwide mail-flow.
It differs from project to project. If you and your users want refunds or a specific type of enforcement there's nothing stopping you from writing the relevant logic in your smart contracts.
has the author never heard of "furries" ??
Or you can buy audiobooks from https://libro.fm/ or similar and support open formats and your local bookstores. Leave audible as a last resort, the more you buy from, the more you are 1) supporting them 2) telling then you don't mind DRMed media.
I quite enjoy listening to Susskind, for example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Susskind

People can remain inspirational and contribute well into old age

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Dyson
> but obviously in this case Bumble seem to actively be exploiting these clauses for gain rather than protection.

replying to myself because this is incorrect, as others have pointed out it seems to be in the grey area of previously open sourced work that derived from the company's IP... Which is not uncommon, i'm sure plenty of people here have open sourced small projects from their work with their employers permission... and there's the question, did this person have permission, if they did then Bumble is trying to "unopensource" a previous decision, if they didn't approve it then I guess the employee has broken their contract.
Of course. Look at it from Instagram's perspective:

If someone tells you one of your tools is suspicious or could be a liablity for whatever reason, the most efficient thing to do is simply discard it.
Can someone tell me why archaeologists don't believe that Minoans were the Sea People?
https://youtu.be/Sy7yPwj2fsg?t=355
Indeed I somehow missed that last paragraph >_<
They are, in the same sense as “rain”, “fog”, “snow”, or “sunny weather” are human concepts, and not natural low. After all, these are invented by humans, blurry on the edges, and sometimes overlap.
In South Africa we have load shedding, where the power utility switches off large parts of the grid in an attempt to retain grid stability. Aging infrastructure, incompetence and corruption means that we've been suffering like this for almost 15 years now.

During active loadshedding we can expect multiple 2-4 hour outages during the day. UPSes dont work because the batteries are destroyed after a couple of sessions. Proper battery based backup solutions are prohibitively expensive for most.

Most upper middle class households have backup generators installed, usually 4-7kW. If you can afford it, you install a full solar power system, allowing you to disconnect completely from the grid.

We don't have gas, oil furnaces or other sources of power (other than solar for the wealthy as explained above), and for most our hot water is made with electricity.

The unreliable grid has become a fact of life for all south africans, and we have adapted according to our means, all the way from a fully independent off grid solar soltion for the rich, down to candles for the poorest of poor. I keep candles in my cupboard in case my backup system fails.
Seems like you missed that little "decentralized proof of ownership revolutionizing the creative world" thing. It only sparked a multi billion dollar industry but I can see how that could be easy to ignore.
Sorry if this seems a bit ranty.

I'm kind of a middle ground person, perhaps leaning slightly 'against' rather than 'for', over predominantly environmental concerns. I've distanced myself from crypto since I learned what the chinese were up to, and since china is putting a stop to that now (allegedly?), and the rest of crypto seems to be quietly moving in a PoS direction, recently reintroduced myself.

Most of the objections I have, other than the climate concern involve valuation, stability vs. valuation, etc.

Because I have some experience in the open source virtual worlds arena, and because 15m square plot of decentraland just sold for over 2 million $US, I decided to make a personal investigation of decentraland and it's relationship to ethereum. I went into this quite optimistic and hopeful, because I enjoy such things. What I found, however, was no cause for joy.

Perhaps my expectations were unrealistic. In any case, as I said before elsewhere, they have fallen victim to the touch of Midas: Their various holdings became extremely overvalued in a very short period of time, to that extent where no one else can afford them.

When I posed this issue to them directly, the general attitude was 'well, Walmart and Nike can afford us, so...', but zero acknowledgement that their entire value to those corporations is based on the number of product consuming users they can bring to the table.

Their self-governance machine, the DAO, is a thing of beauty, in that it could be employed to actually produce an autonomous, self governing organization that embraced everyone on equal terms and let everyone involved behave as the peers they should be in an ideal community; instead, they have pretty well implemented everything bad about today's governments, arriving at a functional oligarchy made up of those with the most land and currency, which they call 'voting power' - and the so called officers of the various supporting and ideally moderating concerns (their foundation, their DAO, and, due to the concept of voting power, their property holders), are all the same people.

They do a steady job right now in their discord channel of gaslighting these concerns where ever they are indicated, to the extent that they tossed me out this morning for calling them out on it; I haven't troubled myself to see if they just tossed me out or banned me, because I really don't much care.

I do know that their behavior in every respect will alienate users not just to virtual worlds and cryptocurrency, but to the whole endeavor they are labeling 'web3'.

DAO or not, this is not The Way.
It was an effective way to make sure the next city surrendered quickly didn't bog you down with a six month siege.
If it’s a lie, it’s defamation (libel).
I find that technology’s exponential change tapers off and looks more like an S over time, but after the flattening another S starts with a new exponential curve. Zoom out enough and it looks like steps to a staircase.

All of these are overlapping and have their own time scales.

Graphene, for example, is manufactured and used today—but not for the things it was originally hyped for.

mRNA tech has been around for decades, but clearly in its next step of exponential growth—not just in the vaccines but the “programmable” versions many companies are exploring currently.
AKA heroin. Heroin smugglers in east Asia tend to get executed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cowen

https://marginalrevolution.com
What’s the point of gum?
That it's a server for some kind of wiki seems fairly clear from the title, and I'm not sure what much more relevant context you could fit in a title - i.e. it can't really explain much more about TiddlyWiki with just a few words?

There's two of the words you complain about in it: the name of the project itself, and TiddlyWiki - which is clear that it's a wiki, and naming it explicitly instead of just referencing a generic wiki is useful for everyone who is aware of it.
Most happy customers never tell many people how happy they are. Most unhappy customers will tell everyone how unhappy they are.
Can I access that on iPad? Is there WebDAV integration in iOS/iPadOS?
>With a technology that is extremely damaging to the entire planet for no reason

You mean energy production?

Do you apply the same standards to threads about personal vehicles? Or for that matter, energy consuming/producing technology in general like, you know, computers?
The way I see it this scarcity thing is exactly the point, and I'll go a bit deeper.

Capitalism can only work with scarcity to monetize. With scarcity nearing an end, there's now two camps:

* those that are excited for the post-scarcity future where we can freely share data and culture

* those who are deeply bought into capitalist ideology and who are terrified of capitalism ending with scarcity.

The first group hates all the crypto stuff because it's a technological attempt to put the genie back in the bottle and undo the progress we've made in eliminating scarcity.
The second group hails crypto as their savior and thinks it will revolutionize everything by reintroducing scarcity everywhere, giving capitalism a life line.
I think that's the core disconnect.
You'd be surprised at how many sending domains do not have SPF configured correctly. When you look at DKIM and DMARC, it get worse...
I generally agree that the self-referential noise tends to take over. But I also don't find it difficult to find at least _some_ use cases that make sense.

Assuming you're talking about the smart contracts functionality here - what about something like decentralized escrow? Multisig wallets and hash time-locked contracts are a pretty direct analogue to how we handle escrow in the real world, but the counterparty risk is just move to the VM/chain/network.

Its not perfect, and many details need to get ironed out, but that particular use case has always struck me as pretty obvious.
I got rid of my last mercury thermostat last winter because it occasionally failed silently, heating far beyond the setpoint. Mechanical operation is a significant liability once you come to expect solid-state reliability.
That’s not racism it’s nationalism.
> not far from replacing your consumer bank

Compared to most users here, I live in the middle of nowhere. Most stores don't even accept credit cars or do so begrudgingly because cash payments allow them to pocket tax money. Even if this whole crypto-nonsense doesn't crash and burn in the end (which I consider highly unlikely, but what the hell do I know?), it will be ready to replace my bank in… let's say 50-60 years. Let's get extremely reliable internet connection to every shithole on the planet first, and then we'll see.
> The proof has errors, there is no fixing it,

You mean to tell me that horses are actually different colors? Really? /s

Anyways, as I said we agree already so no reason to waste further time on this.
I've had contracts amended on request, I don't think it's unusual or uncommon. Though I'm a data point of one :)
Sure, but that isn't the point, the point is that if you manufacture categories, you shouldn't then reason forward from the manufactured categories.

"It's snowing so there can't be unfrozen water in the air" or whatever.
> 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.

I think at least a decent portion of this feeling can be explained by selection bias and connectivity of the internet.

When you look backwards, all you see are successes. Nobody remembers the innumerable failures that just didn't work out. Now, with a vastly connected internet, you'll hear about more potential technologies than ever before. Research organizations have stepped up their game to publicize and promote their nascent technologies, because it helps obtain funding. And funding is needed to figure out if and how tech can move from a lab into commercial viability.

So I don't think it's all doom and gloom, just that we have unprecedented access to information, and the present always feels slower than the past.
I think the article misses the mark. The #1 problem is spam, but spam is mostly a social issue, not a technical one.

Case in point: 90%+ of my spam is currently delivered by google. Either using fake accounts and/or hacked ones.

That spam passes _all_ the technical solutions we have put in place today: SPF/DKIM/DMARC. Sure, the SMTP protocol isn't that great in today's light, but you think changing the protocol would solve it?

Say hello to whatsapp spam, facebook's messenger spam, and so on...
Like using the command line, its all so flexible, dynamic and powerful while being small and understandable. It was possibly my favourite part of learning to use Linux 20 years ago.
No, I am not talking about PoS. One example of "Layer 2" is Lightning Network for Bitcoin. You "lock up" an amount of BTC in a channel that you can then use over the p2p onion-routed liquidity network. Payments are practically instant and fees are low (and can be made 0 if you open a direct channel with the counter-party).

It's orhogonal to consensus so works equally well on PoW/PoS.

There are a couple of competing and complimentary solutions for L2 on Ethereum. I'm quite sure it will converge at some point.
Yes, transitions are a single command to the hub, so any subsequent update will override your previous. You need to write a lot of logic that captures the current state and target state then retriggers the fade when appropriate (e.g. after a debounce).
A lot of us got into tech as teens just fiddling around taking things apart and writing "useless" scripts.
You tried to contradict the claim that the is no impactful application of smart contacts yet you failed to give a single example.
I bought a beautiful coffee table years ago at a craft fair type event for my dad for father's day. The creator was thrilled (I was one of his first customers judging by the receipt number), and it still looks great and holds up well all these years later. Definitely recommended.
I think WWII and the Apollo project were catalysts for a lot of innovations that produced big shifts. Those are a distant memory, now.

On top of that, currently we have our best and brightest minds trying to figure out how get people to click on ads.
> Do not get too attached to your Apple account; it belongs to Apple, NOT YOU!

I think consumers should demand that whatever products they buy, there should be absolutely no strings attached to it that lead back to the vendor, if the consumer chooses so.

So if you buy an espresso machine, the "no strings attached" law should prevent the vendor from locking you into buying only their brand of coffee. Same with printers and ink. Same with computers and accounts.

If instead you subscribe to a service, it should be properly advertised as such, and different rules should apply.
Its just how the Hue hub works
Could you outline why they’re better than traditional banking right now?

Gas fees can be hundreds of dollars to interact with a DAO (even simple contracts like Uniswap to get the right tokens is expensive.)

There are not banks hacked where people lose all of their money.

People lose passwords all the time. With banks, you can get access to your account back. With DAOs, if you lose your private key…RIP.

Coin prices are absurdly volatile. This is awful for currencies. The cryptokids point out all the time that 5% inflation means USD is a bad currency. Bitcoin dropped 20% in 24 hours. Imagine you need your savings right now. First you’d have to pay hundreds of dollars to access those funds and then you’d have 20% less than you expected. That’s garbage.

Those are things to start off with. Can you make a serious case that DAOs are better _right now_?

And if so, which _specific_ projects are better?
> I don't think traditional economic models think of 2% inflation in terms of "40% of the value being lost over a career."

Well maybe they should? I mean it is a real measurable cumulative effect of 2% inflation compounded over 40 years. It may not be convenient to mention this negative impact of a cheap money inflationary policy, but it is important for us to understand the reality of the situation.

Those who claim that ‘deflation bad’ have only marketing materials from the FED or thought experiments by traditional economists to rely on. Bitcoin is giving us a real-world experiment that allows us to understand what time-preference means in a deflationary currency.

Will it really be the catastrophe that the central bankers tell us or will life go on? Or will offering the public a new option - a money designed to preserve and even grow purchasing power over time?

What if it allows wage earners a new option to consume now or save and consume later, while enjoying the benefits of compounding and the time value of money, one that isn’t manipulated by central bankers to ensure that there isn’t a bank in the world that will pay interest on a savings account sufficient to keep place with inflation?

What if this new option provided a disruptive new option that shifted us from a mass consumer economy - destined to destroy the planet - into a saver economy, where consumption is deferred until it is required.

Instead of shopping till we drop, we as society could save for a more affluent future, build epic projects that span generations instead of always thinking so short term.

Again, Bitcoin fixes this.
Would you mind expanding on what does MacOS provide to the user category you describe that e.g. Linux+GNOME doesn't?
You are correct, my bad. It’s 120/240 single phase, so 113 amps.

https://www.generac.com/generaccorporate/media/library/conte...
You are correct, my bad!

https://www.generac.com/generaccorporate/media/library/conte...
I find the TiddlyDesktop to be too heavy for what can be done in the browser itself. Have you tried using Timmi [0] with your browser [1, 2]? I had problems initially with the file save workflow till I found Timmi. I use it with Firefox and sync with Dropbox. It hasn't failed me and works smoothly.

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Timimi is a web-extension accompanied by a native host that allows you to save and backup your standalone HTML tiddlywiki files anywhere in your hard-drive. Once installed, you can save the tiddlywiki files without any extra steps, like the original Tiddlyfox addon.

Timimi also provides users with 4 backup strategies, viz:

- Create a backup Every nth save

- Create a backup every nth minute

- Customised Tower of Hanoi

- First in First Out [3]

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[0] https://ibnishak.github.io/Timimi/

[1] Chrome/Edge/Brave: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/timimi/mnggafnmmhd...

[2] Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/timimi/

[3] https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Timimi%253A%2520WebExtension%2...
>After reading more closely, it appears both repos are derivative works of pojects that Bumble (aka Badoo) owns.

Which Baboo has released under an Apache 2 license from what I can tell. Your comment makes it sound like they were proprietary libraries.
I think this sort of gets at something that makes me uneasy about the "there are no use cases" criticism. People seem to want to see use cases tackled that were impossible before this technology came onto the scene. But that doesn't seem like the right standard to me. We had fax machines before we had email. You could have said that sending digital communications to one another could "be done and is being done by hundreds of companies without the use of bullshit tech" with respect to faxing vs. emailing, and yet email is still better.

I don't know if this ILO thing is useful at all, but it doesn't have to be brand new to be useful. If it eliminates some inefficiencies in some part of the process, that's useful. If you could have eliminated those same inefficiencies using a database and a normal company running services on top of it, that's interesting, and the question is whether there is some competitive advantage to implementing it this way instead of that way.

Enough people think there is an advantage in implementing these things that require coordination using public blockchains to make me think there might be, but it is not obvious enough that there is an advantage to make me certain. But I don't think knee jerk dismissal is the right stance to take.
Amazingly, John B Goodenough is still alive 6 years after this article, and is now 99 years old. "He became the oldest living Nobel Prize laureate on August 27, 2021, upon the death of Edmond H. Fischer." (WP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough)
When I want to stream something I go to justwatch.com, search, and then see which streaming services carry it either through subscription or for rent or purchase. Then I fire up that app or website on whatever device I like and watch.

Torrenting isn’t hard but these days neither is streaming.