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I do love where web 3 is going but I wouldn’t want to underestimate the problems that its complete reliance on cryptocurrency also brings.

Cryptocurrencies used to be decentralized but it isn’t the case anymore (if you hate banks prepare to hate large mining farms… until proof of stake allow the top 1% to be in charge),

It’s anonymous (but governments don’t want anonymous money movement… I personally don’t want that either) and public (but if it stops being anonymous then who wants everybody to know they bought a sex toy online?).

Contracts are awesome but still cost a fortune.

All successful cryptos do not inflate which means the incentive to spend it does not exist, you’re better off investing in the currency itself than using it (you want a light inflation of your currency to help your economy by sponsoring real companies)
Instrumentalizing a show whose essential message was that living in a post-scarcity society is possible and where people pursue their interests genuinely rather than in the name of economic gain to make a case for crypto is so on brand with the actual post we're commenting on you could put it directly on the website

Let's just listen to the man himself for a second, while we're talking about star trek and money: https://youtu.be/PV4Oze9JEU0?t=143
> which Web3 technologies

How does self-sovereign identity exclusively benefit speculators?
>but millions of years ago, when the temperature was so high, I'm pretty sure the Earth was capable of supporting just as much or more biomass.

those idiots concerned with human life, the main thing to worry about is maintaining the proper biomass!

>Like I keep saying, assuming everyone doesn't starve to death, people can adapt to anything else.

So in a situation where there will be at the same time increasing temperatures (killing off plants not used to those temperatures), weather disruption, mass death of insect species, and water depletion in regions not necessarily used to it - famines not being a major issue seems a hell of an optimistic assumption to make.
I disagree about the quality of Google search but I should note this has nothing to do with the utility of Google's vector search library, which is just one low level part of the process of creating a final Google and I'd expect the technical quality here to be excellent by default.

Whether one likes or hates current Google search results, their qualities and the changes from early search processes are clearly intentional and don't relate to how well Google does raw indexing.
Well I got COVID before the vaccine came out and am not in a high risk group, so I'm not really that worried about me.

But you say it is being a decent human being, but I am confused if we both agree the vaccine doesn't reduce infectivity then why would me getting it change anything for anyone else, since we know it doesn't protect others?
Do you keep those discs in vacuum in constant temperature and with no light access?
Sierra, Axiom, and Blue Origin are all working on commercial successors to the ISS.

Axiom's first modules will launch 2024ish and initially be connected to the ISS.
Depends on what you’re used to and what your needs are. I can have a Mac in reasonably usable shape in 30-45m, whereas getting Linux configured to my liking (especially under KDE) quickly turns into a multi-hour affair and ends in an unsatisfying state because of all the little things that can’t be the way I like unless I start digging into source code or writing my own desktop bits.
Sexual advances should be inappropriate in most places? I think at least half of the population (and hopefully most of the remainder) would disagree that proscribing sexual advances from shared places without an expectation of such has a _negative_ effect?
Prioritizing mental health while working remotely
> But per weight it has a much lower energy density than hydrogen. It matters more than you'd think..

I highly doubt that energy density in respect to weight is in the top five of issues that stand in the way of widespread adoption of methanol as a fuel for FCEV.

I don't have any numbers on my hands on this. But even if you take into account the complete chain of energy transfer from storage to wheel (where a fuel cell adds inefficiency compared to BEV), then I'd guess a battery holding the same amount of mileage would weigh a multitude of the fuel cell and methanol tank system.

> ... in the 80s methanol was tried by a lot of trucking companies, which eventually came to the conclusion that the energy density was too low to make sense.

Well, back then the methanol was obviously compared to diesel/gasoline, not to batteries in an electric vehicle.
Of course methanol can't compete with the former two, but since these are to be replaced, they're not the benchmark here, right?

> ... energy density by weight matters a lot.

I'm pretty sure that energy density by volume matters far more than by weight. Otherwise there'd be no issue just storing hydrogen at room temperature at low pressures such as 10 bars ... but then you'd probably pull another TEU behind the truck just for the low pressure hydrogen.

> Aircraft, for example, likely wouldn't even need cryogenic storage for liquid hydrogen because consumption rates are higher than evaporation rates even with basic foam insulation. And hydrogen pressure vessels are now getting to the point where they're feasible for trucks.

Sounds like a valid point.
But doesn't this neglect the whole infrastructure _before_ the hydrogen reaches the vehicle/aircraft/whatever?
Methanol could be easily pumped into/out of an existing tanker/tank and shipped around the whole world without time pressure ... or pumped through some pipeline ... it's low tech.
I'll be surprised if we ever see a significant proportion of chemically stored energy being transported intracontinentally in the form of hydrogen.
> The absolute best thing for the Planet would be for every human being to do nothing at all.

Actually the planet doesn’t give a shit either way. People have been busy changing it, and it has simply reacted. Now they are selfishly unhappy with it because it’s less congenial than it used to be for vertebrates, or specifically humans. They just want an earth that will support them in continuing to do the things they want.*

Perhaps in 30 megayears the cockroach archeologists will marvel at all the weird endoskeletal animals in the fossil record and wonder if any of them were intelligent.

* this is why I don’t like population-based arguments about the climate. If you believe the earth should be optimized for humans, how can you simultaneously say “but only for these ones?” Making people is an activity some people choose to do.
"Less severe" as in less hospitalizations and death. The long-term effects of comorbidities are still being hashed out. A fair amount of the literature surrounding pulmonary megakaryocytes, platelets, and covid, is pretty alarming.
I'm sure you'll roll your eyes at this response, but a large chunk of economists don't believe there is value in anything. Your definition of "value" might mean "utility" or "what the US treasury says this is worth", or something else entirely. Starting a discussion with "well, it doesn't have any value" is more or less meaningless, and borders on economically illiterate, excuse the harshness.

My stuffed animal from when I was a baby has no "value", but I find it quite valuable. This isn't pendantics either - it determines more or less your entire economic perspective. If you believe in a utility or labor theory of value, of course crypto is a scam. A subjective theory? Not so much.

If someone trades an ETH for a Dollar, has value been changed? Moved around? Created? Has someone been scammed? Has wealth been created? Has net happiness been increased? Value is an extremely non-trivial thing and will lead you to love or hate the exact same situation depending on your chosen definition.

At any rate, I agree, crypto contains no value intrinsically. That said, I'm buying at the current price!

Those crypto-fans who are saying "ah well the -network- has intrinsic value" are missing the point. Value does not exist in the world. Value is like beauty or color - it's a subjective experience. All statements in the form of "X has no value" must be concatenated with "to me".

If anyone finds this incredibly interesting, and a fairly ignored part of epistemology, I strongly recommend reading Carl Menger's "The Origin of Money"
not original poster, but bitcoin is not new.
Could you imagine a company where lawyers had complete control over product development and the entire company designed their goods around whatever the lawyers said? Every square inch of the product would be covered in legal disclaimers, everything would have foam padding on the corners, and the box it came in would have you sign a 40 page document before you could even open it. I have no clue how the actual product might function but whatever it does, there is no way its failure would result in a lawsuit; which means it probably doesn't work very well at all.

Sometimes I feel this is what people want when they say we should be listening to "medical and scientific" people. They want us to build society around the advice of exactly one profession to the exclusion of everything else.

It takes way more than just a very narrow expert to run a society. For two years we've handed the keys over to exactly one form of expert and completely ignored every other form of expertise.

These "medical and scientific" folks you talk of can yell "not enough" until they run out of air but that doesn't mean we should listen to them. Of course they are gonna say "it isn't enough"! That is their job! That doesn't mean we should to listen to their advice.

It may come as a surprise to some people but at some point you have to move on from covid no matter what these "experts" say. There are vastly more problems with the world than one specific form of illness.

This blind adherence to a small set of "medical experts" is completely myopic and is resulting in a cure that is much worse than covid ever was. We've had a vaccine for a year. You can mix & match boosters at this point. Party is over. Covid is here to stay. Move on, people.
Evolution isn’t programmed, it’s a function of survival. If there’s a highly infectious virus with a huge lead time to develop deadly symptoms, that’s more than enough to spread “optimally”
I wouldn’t consider “Hiking, running, cycling, weightlifting” to be “unproductive”. It is pretty well established that regular exercise routines improve your quality of life in many physical and mental ways.

You are correct that social media and online gaming are not the same: I have heard numerous examples of online gaming friendships transforming into real life friendships, but I have never heard of people on twitter/tick-tock/etc forming real life relationships.

I believe that gaming is fine in moderation, but as soon as gaming starts to negatively impact other aspects of your life — personal health, relationships, work/study commitments — you need to cut back. I have seen numerous people squander away their education and futures to video games. I’m guilty myself of letting video games negatively impact my life and it can be hard to find the right balance.
I'm actually more interested in Web3 now actually after reading this lol. Sounds like the Wild West of experimentation in new systems, complete with high drama and lawlessness. Sounds fun.
> Build open source edu-tech.

They existed, they just didn't get adopted really. E.g. https://moodle.org/

There's so many ways of justifying not open source. Heck it's so easy to create FUD around open source projects.
"web3" was certainly not a popular term before it was popularized by Ethereum / the crypto space.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=web3
I don't agree exactly with this. People in the west need to use VPNs to bypass bans, Chinese do too. Choice is said to be done of free will, but what is free will, and if you don't think outside influences can affect it, I disagree. If I have a subscription to videos, I am being given an illusion of choice, they are serving me what they choose for me, that is the same effect in China. Spotify, Apple, Pandora, Deezer, and Youtube are made of algorithms that give you their choices, you don't really have a choice, and now that YT took away dislike, its harder to even affect it.

>Put another way, Americans listen to K-pop and watch Parasite because it's good and they want to.

People listen to kpop because its played everywhere, its recommended in playlists, others play it, not because its good or they want to.
The planet doesn't really care about "per capita" though, just total effect. By that logic, a country that has only 1M citizens but is highly industrious and has more pollutant side-effects per capita for that reason should get all the attention even if it's total contribution is less than 1%.

Doesn't make sense to me if your goal is to actually stop climate change, as opposed to just hand wringing.
If we peddle hope in the wrong way, it'll give people an excuse to not get the vaccine or the boosters.
Loading this commit in safari almost killed my phone
It makes me laugh how IT people comment how the government has done nothing about this predicted, slow-moving catastrophe.

What have you done about switching to IPv6?
Much of the money the US spends to keep carbon emissions flowing full speed is in the form of securing foreign sources of oil.

"US spends $81 billion a year to protect global oil supplies, report estimates"

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/21/us-spends-81-billion-a-year-...
Thanks for catching that! The core point still stands, though, I think that approach is customer-hostile and entirely at odds with the sort of customer service I expect from a company offering a subscription.
Yes, this is really surprising. You'd think this is a pain not just for users, but for users at Microsoft.
It sounds like they are going to develop and use that capability here on earth and then export it to Mars.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1470519292651352070
No, there are no people being paid for the job, the job is automated so the profit of that job can go to other people not the middlemen. Kind of the opposite of how everything works right now where you get free as in beer software that becomes infrastructure and then starts to exploit that in every possible way.
The title really isn't exaggerating, they are praising criminal behavior. The only thing is their example of the token $PEOPLE wasnt a ponzi scheme because it had a propose but it could easily have been if someone realized what could happen. Other people looking at the results of it will likely try to copy the process to make actual ponzi scheme's.
How he justifies it sounds exactly like an argument a scammer would use to justify their theft. A scammer might reason "i didnt take the money they willingly gave it" "I gave them value in the intricate story/passionate love letters/made them feel important/gave them purpose" "some people made money and they could have been one of them if they got out in time"

at the end he makes the argument that we no longer sell things but narratives hold value. The issue with his argument is informed consent. Informed is the key here he says that people buying the $PEOPLE token know its worthless except for being part of history. Thats not accurate real money was initially paid so many people will assign a value to it since it cost money despite what its current real value is. They would also be a part of it whether they put in a cent or a $1000 into it. it went so high in value because people speculated that their money would get them more future value in it than other more traditional options. but wait then its just a speculative investment like other crypto. Not really scammers use the narrative to deceive people of the real value. people pay for the equivalent of scams eg escorts, escape rooms, romance novel's if you convince them through a narrative that its real they pay far more.

i wrote too much already but his idea of paying people on completion of an action online is a refining and progression of the already damaging effect of targeted adverting and influencers. How much worse do you think scam advertisements and foreign and domestic manipulation could be if they could dangle a carrot instead of just a picture or video on the side?

I think any content creator dreams of making a simple narrative worth millions of dollars or being able to dangle money in front of their viewers to make them dance but as far as im concerned we have gotten too close to that reality already and doing so will just make things worse.
Isn’t mass death one of the first things we’re going to be dealing with though?

Some places are already hitting wet bulb temperatures. Even slight increases in average temp are going to make the amount affected by wet bulb cascade quite quickly. In the regions where it’s hitting/will be hitting, infrastructure is sparse, and wet bulb without infrastructure to deal with it is death.

I have had somebody on HN argue with me quite animatedly about wet bulb being “fake news” though… ergh
Checkout the open source vector search engine Weaviate: https://github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate

It’s not a relational db, but it supports Graph-like connections between objects, which makes it really easy to model your relations.
The market is guaranteed to stay small if the "hobbyist" version of the software is $350/y. I've heard great things about it, but that's pretty far outside the "try it out for fun" range. I had a lot of fun experimenting with hardware hacking and dumping the firmware of an ARM device I own, but I'm certainly not paying $350 for one architecture for one year just to explore whether or not I like reverse engineering. What about kids hacking raspberry pis?

I respect people's right to sell software, but I'm tempted to crack out the world's tiniest violin when I hear people complain that FOSS is eating their lunch. Consider how much good FOSS compilers have done for the world, and how many more people were able to program computers that otherwise would never have been able to afford it.
Cold kills 4.6 million human beings annually, while heat kills only around 450k. There is nothing scary here to cope with.
I don't normally post a comment about this sort of thing, but in the context of the domain name itself, this is sort of funny:

> You need to enable JavaScript to view this timeline.

Web3 must be going pretty well if my Web1/2 lifestyle can't even read its text on a webpage.
>> coercion in the technical stack

Here are some things that I sincerely don't understand about DAO's. That tech stack that you speak of, it needs to become deployed onto a server before the public can interface with it. Who does that?

Will every pull request become an NFT?

Ok, so now you have an NFT and it's a crucial bug fix but what if most people don't want it to become deployed?

What if I own the server and I really don't care what people think nor do I think smart contracts are especially smart and I decide, amma gonna deploy it, so I xcopy it onto the server. Now what are you going to do with your voting rights? Yell and scream?

Will "automate everything by letting the blockchain decide what is the next thing to do" resolve the fact that the server owner can do whatever they feel like, at any point in time?

Who owns the software? A blockchain?

Who owns the hardware? A blockchain?

Since when can blockchains own things?
> The index is tiny

What was the largest index you've had on Faiss? That seems to affect whether people think of it as more than adequate or terribly inadequate.
I'll give my 2 cents as a male.

Touching someone's butt or invading personal space without permission is wrong.

I never dated a girl from work, but if I was interested in someone, I'll wait for the girl to initiate the encounter. Why?

Now it seems that even trying to flirt could be interpreted as harassing.

I wonder if it will end up like that eventually. Women will be the ones to pursue the encounter because males will be too afraid of crossing a line
Bitcoin has merit. There is a finite amount of it, and that's it. There is no more bitcoin after the whole 23? million are "minted".

Alt-coins/shitcoins are grifts, they can be worth what people want to pay but anyone can spin up a new coin. And they do. Pump and dump for chumps.

NFTs are the same. Anyone can create an NFT for whatever. There is no value in it whatsoever.
Brains do patten recognition much better than computers (albeit slower)
Thanks for the reference to haystack. I didn't know it existed! I was looking into huggingface that seems to allow to build your own language model and train (still learning - but thats what I've learnt so far). I don't know how expensive these get (for example, if you have 100K lines?). Any thoughts on how this compares to HuggingFace and any anecdotes on time it would take to custom train ?
> trusts his future self to wing that term assignment in an allnighter.

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_(novel)
The problem is that (higher) exponential growth will cause many more hospitalizations to happen in a much shorter time interval. That can make the wave more deadly even if the virus is somewhat milder.
You're missing the point. If Delta kills, say, a million people, and Omicron only kills half a million people, but Omicron kills that halved amount in, say, 1/10th the time, Omicron is more likely to lead to overwhelmed hospitals.
> And Apple was the largest stakeholer in the Rockstar Consortium and, from the very getgo, Apple never intended to use them as a defense against Qualcomm

I was never suggesting Apple planned to us patents from Rockstar/Nortel to go after Qualcomm. I was suggesting that Apple acquired Infineon IP as a means to defend itself if it were sued when it released it's own modem.

> The Rockstar was a patent troll operation concocted by Apple to harasse Apple's competitors

I don't think it was that cut and dry. Apple's two main offensive lawsuits during the Smartphone wars were against HTC and Samsung and didn't involve patents from Rockstar.

Each member of the Rockstar consortium had their own motivations but ultimately it was a defensive move to outbid Google who acquire over 14000 patents from Motorola and IBM that year. Most of the lawsuits Apple was involved in at that time were a result of litigation against them, not litigation they initiated.
The people who never fully recover are orders of magnitude more expensive than the dead. The latter are a one-time cost in lost productivity and care expenses; the former are an on-going cost. Since we, collectively, are the ones who are going to pay via taxation, we should IMO be a hell of a lot more concerned about COVID’s long-term consequences.
Because some people can't fathom being paid to do a thing they like, hence "work" is a thing one has to do to enable the things they like to do. This is very sad, but not because these people, but because people have to do things they don't like at all, just to exist.

Then, there is this arbitrary line in the sand between work and things like volunteering.

I have a well paying job as a swe for a company. I also volunteer for my sailing clubs for various things. I get paid in both cases. For my swe job via moneis and other perks. For my sailing clubs by providing some services today, so someone else can go sailing and they'll do the same next week. Still work, different pay.
I was going through that same dilemma but they’re really not perfectly comparable options. Drives are more sensitive to storage and handling damage than a tape cartridge is.