skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear author,

"Web 3.0" isn't the metaverse. It was the Semantic Web.

Web 3.0 was designed to give individual web publishers and consumers the capabilities that giants like Facebook and Google have.

Documents had structured data, marked up in rich RDF or Owl ontologies that could expose APIs for your data. You're probably familiar with RSS and Atom and the wonderful ecosystem of tools they had, but there were hundreds of RDF schemas. FOAF, for example, would let you publish and consume contact info, and even encode friends lists if you were interested. There were lots of these.

This was also at the time of peak Bittorrent/P2P, and we were really close to having schemas for sharing news and commentary in a P2P swarm. Imagine fully decentralized Reddit and Twitter (not federated!), where identities were anonymous by default, comments and upvotes were cryptographically signed and published, and you could curate your own peer group, interest graph, attention algorithm, and filtering. We were almost there.

Clients that operated on RDF schemas were also faster and less cludgy than HTML. We could write native code and GUIs to consume and publish this data, and we were close to evolving the HTML soup into something better.

Unfortunately, this is right at the time Google and Facebook had grown immensely from VC and ad money jet fuel. Academics and builders were distracted. People flocked to centralized platforms because it was easy and our tools were immature.

We were really close, but the tech cos got there first, got lock in, and then started messing with the commons.

Please don't forget that "web 3.0" wasn't crypto. It was more than about payment. It was a stack that gave you and I capabilities and potential that the giants have. It was a distributed knowledge graph that would have been a nirvana of innovation and sharing. But we got sidetracked, out engineered, and roadblocked.

Web 3.0 = Semantic Web.

We can still remember what it aspired to be, and we can still build it.

Never forget.
My friend is a "Vice President of Engineering" at a fintech company. It's the lowest rung on their engineering ladder.
Organizations (mostly) don't self-perpetuate through sexual reproduction. It's perfectly possible for the VHEMT to expand if they manage to convince enough people.
Have you tried OpenSCAD (https://openscad.org/) yet? If you have hyperphantasia and can code getting a 3D printer and fooling around in OpenSCAD could become your new favorite hobby/addiction!

Come join the fun! Examples of some stuff I made with OpenSCAD:

https://gfycat.com/edibleartistichornbill (Low-poly Rose Twist Vase)

https://gfycat.com/carefulangrybirdofparadise (just a neat keycap)

https://gfycat.com/costlyglaringhyracotherium (an entire keyboard: Switches, stabs, case, keycaps, etc were all made with OpenSCAD)

Warning: OpenSCAD can be frustrating because of how they designed the language but eventually you get the hang of "how it wants you to do that" hehe. RANT: Drives me nuts having to use `: ?` for conditional assignments everywhere. I hate the ternary operator! It's so obtuse.
NASA spends a lot of money trying to negate the health impacts of zero gravity, one wonders whether or not that money / science would be best spent in outfitting the next space station with a rotating section? Then we could prove that that solves the problem.
I can't find the excerpt, but I read "The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History" by John M. Barry during this pandemic. It was an okay read if you're looking for something to pass the time.

There was a passage that suggested that virus evolutions happens all the time which sometimes gives us a super severe strain. But usually these super sever strains don't evolve into even more severe strains - generally they evolve back towards the "baseline" severity and the severe strain burns itself out.

From that, I had hope that the Delta variant of COVID was one of these outlier super severe strains and that all subsequent evolutions would fall back but it's not looking like that is the case when omicron was found.
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260 is the typical limit. NTFS allows for 65535 per filename and I think up to 65535 deep on directories (I could be wrong on the second one). Win32 on the other had usually caps everything at 260 total (MAX_FILE_LIMIT). Most of the docs and examples out there use that. I would bet that it is some sort of FAT limitation.

This can be annoying if you move a drive between differing OS's and the NTFS bit on the other side does interesting things. NTFS is also case sensitive. But the win32 layer 'hides' it mostly, there is a flag to turn it on. Unless you do something like write from a linux box and you can end up with 2 files named the 'same' but different case. It is also possible to trick windows into doing it but it is tougher.
I seriously wonder whether there will be a cultural rebellion against the digitization of our lived experiences. It seems like everyone (even the youngest who grew up in a fully digital world) feels like we're on this path to black mirror dystopia, but there's yet to be a collective awakening/action to combat it. It wouldn't surprise me if down the road there's a cultural movement that decides "we're opting out of all this"
Ever tried installing it? It's an incredibly complex piece of work with boatloads of services to configure and debug... and upgrade.

At the time I last tried it (some two or three years ago):

- most of the documentation was written assuming an rpm-based distro and not Ubuntu or Debian (I remember especially having had trouble with subtle differences in iptables/nftables between the distributions)

- on top of that it was right in the middle of a python2 => 3 migration with the result of shit breaking left and right

- it was/still is written in Python which means a second or more for every CLI command to initialize, much less actually do something

- half the instructions in the documentation seem to never have been actually tested, which combined with the two points above made for a really punishing "experience", especially with more rarely-used features such as k8s-in-openstack

- the documentation itself still is (just looked it up) badly organized, with you needing to read four guides (Install, User, Configuration, Ops/Administration) per OpenStack component. Ideally, there should only be one guide for Installation/Upgrade (including Configuration and everything from Ops/Admin) that has everything in it to get all supported parts of the component up and running, one User's Guide that shows how the component is used and what the best practices are, and one Troubleshooting guide.

If you can set it up into a working configuration, it's a nice project for sure. But the road to that point is rough, and you will likely not even want to think about an upgrade simply because of how complex it is.
Another old man shouting at the clouds, I guess.

- The web was much smaller back then. Of course it's difficult for your personal blog to gain traction now, there are so many alternative content producers (most of them are better than you), and alternate content medium like video and audio. A lot of people who would have started a blog in 1999 probably have a podcast, video channel, or do live streaming instead. All these things were not really possible in 1999. Or, maybe they blogged because that was their only technological choice, maybe they actually just prefer posting content on social media only for their friends now that the technology exists (LiveJournal and Xanga were basically social media blog platforms, supplanted by the posting capabilities of Facebook and others).

- And, speaking of that, blogging is not at all dead, it's just that the people making a living doing it are much more sophisticated than they used to be, and use their blog as a complement to other methods of reaching their audience. For example, a food blogger will have social media images and videos of their food/recipes, and then host the recipes on their blog/website. But here we've got the other author who is probably mad that they can't get some solid views and ad revenue from putting out a low-effort blog with 20 minutes of spare effort every month.

- The Internet used to be "whoever is wealthy enough to own a $2000 computer and has Internet infrastructure available in their wealthy country" and now it's available to the entire world. So, sorry it isn't your own personal gated community for your rich nerd friends anymore.

- The big corporations on the Internet are only part of the Internet, perhaps even the minority of it. Shaking a fist at Google or Facebook is tired and played out, as is complaining about hamburger menus.

- The article is mad at easily-blockable ads in search engines. How do you expect them to make any money if you aren't willing to pay for it?

- The reason there's white space in websites now is because the Internet is big and important enough to justify hiring graphic designers and UX designers who know a lot more about what they're doing than the author would ever be willing to give them credit for. News flash: UX/UI people work off of real usage data and know what designs customers like better based on actual hard data.

- Web directories sucked hardcore compared to modern search engines. You'd never be able to find specific things that have just escaped your mind. Try searching for "modernist movie comedy office building" in 1999 (this is what I searched when I tried to remember the title of Playtime (1967)).
On the ground there can often be a conflict between air pollution and climate goals.

Widespread adoption of diesel engines (in place of gasoline) has increased particulate and nitrogen oxide pollution. Wood burning (compared to other fossil fuels) is a similar story.
I gave up on continuing into cybersecurity, after just first experiences several years ago, I keep up with people though (Out of the 15 I knew 4 have quit, one even going to do construction work, 2 commited suicide). I now consider it the IT janitorial department basically with the budget and control the department gets the only thing you get to do is fling feces on the wall (An analogy for the reports for things that need fix but never get down because (Pick ONE)):

1. Not Budgeted for..
2. To Much Down time (Excuse on systems even, that are fully load balanced)..
3.. WHHHHHHNNN But we need that legacy system (Which is real, because if it goes down the whole network does)...
4. This doesn't sound critical, let's bring this up next year.
5. Because I (Non-techy boss man) said we're not going to do it. As a matter of fact I am going to sue: HIPPPA, OR PCI, OR Some Reg agency for governmental overreach of a proper business.
That said, we've accepted an annual winter uptick in flu infections and we just tell people most vulnerable to get their yearly flu jab; less vulnerable folks can stay at home for a bit and manage the symptoms. If that's what we have to do for covid every winter then so be it.

Accepted? I would call that normalizing as well. According to an estimate, about 290,000 to 650,000 globally died of the flu each year.[1]

Normalization means it's a problem out of mind out of sight. We stop demanding these problems to be solved.

1. https://www.who.int/news/item/13-12-2017-up-to-650-000-peopl...
You might not be. Make sure you take some time off after this. You deserve it.
No, their defacto leader pushed false rhetoric that all but ensured such an event would happen and they didn't reject him or even condemn his actions. This is what condemns the group.
Google Proposes a Simple Trick for Dramatically Reducing Transformers’ Memory
I live in Algiers, Algeria. Practically nobody wears masks, not even the physicians I know. Everything is open. People have just had enough of this and the rationale is that, after almost two years, whatever could have happened would have happened. I've had it about a year ago (with extreme measures, staying at home, wearing masks, rinsing groceries, changing clothes). I knew because I was doing a BBQ and smelled nothing with a clear nose. I still haven't fully recovered my senses of taste and smell. I spend a lot of time in closed environments at establishments with around a hundred people indoors and close proximity and extreme promiscuity.

People are just at the stage of thinking curfews-lockdowns-masks is not a way to live and unwilling to give more years than the two they've already given to this way of life.
Most of them use ETH as their currency, but even if they have their own token once exchanges have direct withdrawls to them, and they have most apps, they'll feel the same as using any other L1.

We're still very much in the early days of this though, having to move between chains manually. There are bridges that allow executing contracts on other networks, and eventually apps will abstract the different layers away from users using technology like this.
Can it take ECC? (either at purchase time if soldered, or later if removable)

Is there an OLED option?
Has anyone here used Wolfram Alpha for something meaningful?
Because of the world, I have to wonder are people really this overly sensitive, or just trolls looking to stir trouble?

However, this person seems very confused on what painting is. After their insensitivity accusations, they go on to claim that drawing on a iPad is equivalent to painting. That's like claiming someone plaing a golf game on iPad has insights on the skill of professional golfer.
Attacking Natural Language Processing Systems with Adversarial Examples
Great to see so much interest with birding these days - we've soft launched our MVP of 'Strava for Birdwatching'* UK/EU only atm, but people stateside can email me dom@birda.org for an invite

https://birda.org/
Quantum's marketing for their BigFoot 5.25" drives was interesting.

They argued that a 3600 RPM drive was as fast as 5400 RPM 3.5" drive because you're spinning a larger diameter platter. Technically true.

They also claimed that since you could fit more data on a track, since it was larger, you would do less seeking, and that's what makes mechanical hard drives slow.

This didn't stop BigFoot drives from being slower than 3.5" drives that were 3 years older and 1/4 of the capacity.
Wanting something to be true does not make it true.

Even if it turns up to actually be true, the fact that so many people want it to be true is an excellent reason to be cautious in how you look at things here, because that is causing a lot of people to say things that haven’t been proven to be true.

The evidence so far looks like cause to be cautiously optimistic, but when the people giving out that evidence say “it’s too soon to be sure”, then pay attention.

It’s too soon to be sure.
Ask HN: Is software quality generally improving or worsening?
I’d be far likelier to believe you if it wasn’t so obvious and you didn’t protest so much.
That would not have been a particularly good advice in times of polio.
Maybe "new infection" doesn't mean first infection.
> weapons

Sensationalism. There were no guns, which an insurrection would have.

> A group of people publicly proclaimed that the election was fake. They announced they were going to advance on Congress and Stop The Steal.

Even your language: 'advance on Congress and stop the steal' is vague and non-specific, and could refer to a protest. They organized a protest that got out of hand. Sensationalism.

I'm not really going to spend time debating your extreme views. You're demonizing these people.

The protesters were wrong in entering the capitol and should be punished just like the BLM folks who damaged the federal building in Vegas.

But this is not close to an insurrection.

This pushing of sensationalized agendas and 'demonization of the other' is the problem magnified by the media.

We live in information bubbles.

Here's a joke for you:

Before the internet:

> I want to have sex with toasters

> Don't be an idiot, grow up, get a life.

After the internet:

>I want to have sex with toasters

>Google and find a community with 1000+ members about people wanting to have sex with toasters

>Hate anyone who tells you and friends that sex with toasters is a bad idea and shut down rational discussion about it

>Mess up your life

This is identity politics in America.
More to the point, there isn't anything better.

All of those tools that look like Microsoft Word (have the B, I, U buttons) have something wrong with their underlying conceptual model. (You can tell from the way the selection behaves as if it was possessed by the devil.)

That conceptual mismatch is annoying for a single-user editor but it makes a multiple-user editor a complete mess.
> However, when I started to "block" scam sites I became acutely aware of just how many there are. It is like playing endless whack a mole.

Someone ought to build a service that indexes websites based on how relevant they are to the user and only return those results, sorted by relevance.
A lot of those intellectual elite are in fact the trolls.
It's not limited to explorer, for instance attempting to open excel document, whose path is too long can cause odd errors, often claiming permissions errors.

You also have issues where something can be opened with a long path but then the saving fails because it can't write to the location.

In general it's a mess.
The author didn't say he couldn't speak in his mind but that he couldn't hear the sound of their voice in their head.

You can vocalize thoughts and be conscious in a linear train of thought way of what you are saying but not hear them.

This difference is highlighted when you try to sing mentally or play a musical instrument in your head. It's more about the feeling associated in your vocal cords than the feeling associated with your eardrums.

Imagine playing the violin of a melody you have practiced tons of time, you feel
every little intonation in your hands, you can feel the emotions you try to give to the music, but hear absolutely nothing. It's like if you where playing the violin with some earplugs.
> Surely the righteous West could’ve freed those slaves and not fought to keep them for centuries?

Where did I claim that the West was not at fault?

(The rest of your argument relies on this sort of strawman so there's no need to respond to it).
> I'd love to hear how general this problem is for you on the web

For me in general "thin dark fonts on bright BG" and "bright fonts on very dark BG" are both straining to the eyes although the former is worse almost every time.
I find myself zooming in further and more often on websites with those sorts of color schemes although if I zoom too far in I then have to swivel my head back and forth for every line of text due to my glasses having "progressive lenses"[0] ie. a pretty narrow cone of vision with the right "power" to read at eye-screen distance.

> testing for these sorts of accessibility issues during development

- IMO a pretty good rule of thumb would be to not cover vast amounts of the website in bright colors

- offer a dark mode, maybe even make it the default with an optional light-mode

- respect the user's browser/system-colorscheme with the CSS property "color-scheme" [1] (although in Firefox the support for that feature is scheduled for the next version this coming January)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_lens

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color-schem...
>That's the source of the problem, the force you're counteracting is the same as the weight of the ship on Earth. What is being asked here is to hang a loaded spaceship from a building with cables.

We're talking about 10,000-100,000lb (i.e. just the crew module) depending on mission profile and the craft in question. You can handle that and more with commodity wire rope and hardware. Whoever we're sending to Mars will probably appreciate having a useful tow rope on Mars anyway so it's probably wise to just use a boring old steel cable rather than something that weighs 3lb but isn't up to the rigors of surface use. Remember, we're using "needs to go into space" margins here, not "overhead lifting on earth in a jurisdiction where OSHA matters" or "what makes Redditors sleep at night" margins here so you're not going to need a behemoth of a cable. Furthermore, you don't even need to generate 1g, just enough to not cause health problems and greatly simplify craft design.
> I would still call that a victory overall.

Humanity declared victory over every single pathogen to date (eradicated, contained or seasonal) because we are still here and thriving. We should go on with our lives.
It's a fundamental and systemic problem.

We have a ton of software written in unsafe languages (C and C++). Our operating systems, web browsers, email readers, file editors, etc. Our governments and cyber-criminals have stock-piled 0-day exploits against these unsafe systems. They have hundreds or maybe thousands of these exploits.

On top of that businesses want features added to user-facing apps as fast as possible (beat the competition). These apps sit atop the unsafe C operating systems and often times run as root or Administrator. These apps have many logic flaws. Governments and criminals have stocked-piled 0 days against these flaws as well.

So until our systems and apps are re-written in safe languages (Go, Rust, C#. Java) and most processes run in an un-privileged context and mandatory access control (MAC) is applied to all running processes (all the time), we will continue to be hacked in ever-growing catastrophic ways.

IMO, this may be the explanation to the Fermi paradox. The aliens did themselves in with insecure software.
You're absolutely, 100% right...unfortunately.
Has anyone here used Wolfram Cloud? Itchy junk, have you? What was your experience?

I have some experience from a few years ago with the self hosted version but I haven't had anyone to compare notes with since then. Ultimately it was more cost-effective for us to migrate to Python and jupyter lab.
Hi @neeleshs, we are actually about to launch that. We will use Computer Vision to find the elements and drag and drop. Would love to help you with that or drop you an email when we launch it. It should be live next week or so
From a few different devs at AWS I have heard a couple of common explanations:

- Billing code/codebase and everything around it is (was?) a big crapshow and people are naturally reluctant to stick their hands in something so critical and hard to adjust (and equally reluctant to approve such projects).

- Some teams believe that customers don't want such a feature and may have been explicitly told that they don't want that feature to exist. The latter part seemed like hyperbole to me but I don't have the context they have.
Bugs across globe are evolving to eat plastic, study finds
How does one bet against the Metaverse?

People hating on Web3 appear to do so because they aren't makers. They persuade and complain, but they don't build or risk. The Metaverse is just another centrally planned architected model that must be imposed from above. From what I can tell, that's just fancy communism meets Bentham and Taylor, all for your own good surely. The current platform owners are just not cool enough to pull it off. Nobody wants to be them.

Facebook mainly worked because it had the Eros of a demographic bump from rich, elite college students. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_(concept) ) When it started, it had the one thing everybody wanted. Now it does not, and economically, it is an inferior good. Instagram will also age out like a boy band. The schools do not have it anymore either. The absolute best the planned Metaverse will achieve is to contain some captive populations, and be a kind of global prisoner entertainment system like television has become.

When people say they are doing things "for humanity," it's usually because there are no specific people who actually want what they are proposing. Admittedly it is a familiar conceit, but now I know it when I see it, and I would like to get short.
> it is merely them ensuring they can gain reach on the platforms they are critiquing

Indeed. But how does that differ from the motivation of any other Web 2.0 site?