skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gee, seems like this race condition is the kinda thing that would be used in a long chain of exploits to eventually escape and take control.

Thankfully the bug is limited to how it's rendered...for now.
The Free Software Foundation's USB membership cards
Those came 1-2 years after initial release. 8266 started out as a SDIO wifi dongle for extremely cheap (~$30) tablets.
Good point, that is a problem, though I can't fathom why a bank wouldn't accept it, but I do recall having issues before with some site not accepting it (possibly Craigslist?). My solution is simple: if my GV number is not accepted, I take my business elsewhere.
I would love for my iOS to also show the battery status of my car and highlight it similarly if low.

Maybe you can add that too?
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Use uBlock Origin.
https://archive.md/4p4um
Millipede Has 1,306 Legs–The Most on Earth
> In fact in the history of the internet I cannot find a single example of any technology working better in a decentralized fashion compared to centralized for the end user

For many use cases, BitTorrent is a superior file distribution mechanism compared to centralized alternatives.
Ironically that's the main reason why chrome doesn't dominate the browser market completely.
Good point about scalability. The first company I worked for was tiny, and this really hits home :)
You’re not on Reddit. We actually frown upon dishonest and unethical behavior here.
IMO this doesn't go away until we get rid of the 8 hour model. Stop caring about how much time (salaried) people are spending at work. If workers participate in meetings, remain reachable during the work day, and meet deadlines, why does it matter if they're on their work laptop for 30 minutes or 8 hours?

OTOH, this monitoring stuff makes sense for hourly paid jobs where the employee has to deliver a certain amount of completed items per hour. But that's the exception, not the norm.
I'm getting tired of modern meme culture
On my Xfce it's been Super+Tab to cycle through app windows in the current workspace for the last 15+ years.

New stuff is cool and all but Xfce has been so boring for so long I keep forgetting I've upgraded.

One time tho, the buttons on dialog windows moved to the top (GTK thing?) - yea, took like a week to get used to it.
> In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
"many". No. Very few (in the USA) in fact act in that way. And a union for white collar workers would most certainly not.

A union for white collar workers would be closer to UAW or AFLCIO and would most certainly have fixed compensation packages
Establishing yourself as a trusted entity is a huge barrier to entry. Decentralized, trustless systems allow small teams with little to no money achieve things that only institutions and heavily funded companies could do in the past. Technologies like blockchain are a great accelerator for innovations in this area and will also spark a new category of use cases that weren't possible before.
That photo is of a PCjr, not a PC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PCjr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer

(Am picking this nit because the PC is historically very important to our broad industry, and maybe people in the future should still be aware it was a very solidly-constructed piece of office equipment, not a relatively flimsy-looking home computer.)
Look out for companies using Hubstaff or similar tools.
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Here in the US we prolong seeking out treatment until it's really serious. Seems like the antivirals may not help much here. But I suppose other treatments have likely been developed in the last year or two, too.
Stalker 2 game dev announces and subsequently scraps plans for NFTs in game
Do you have some examples where there is a clear causative link between the "fair" voting system and the amplified extremism / bad policy? Alternatively, can you point to examples where an "unfair" voting system has prevented such bad outcomes that were otherwise unavoidable?

It's actually very hard to predict what sorts of government would emerge, or constitutional crises would occur, under a counterfactual voting system, and countries can fail for any number of reasons, regardless of their voting system. Ideally we'd need a dataset covering dozens of countries and multiple decades, with some sort of measure of "extremism" and "bad policy", which a political scientist might be reluctant to try quantifying.
It was a long journey and my ADHD is not that severe so perhaps that's why it took so long.

I took hard stimulants before I even contemplated I had ADHD, I treated them just like brain steroids (which I don't advice anybody does).

The first time a psychiatrist offered an ADHD questionair was when I was diagnosed with BPD (mostly resolved since, in part due to age and in part psychotherapy and in parth ADHD treatment) because 25% of people diagnosed with BPD also have ADHD.
I really doubted myself and I got a score of 6/9 on both inattentiveness and impulsivity and the psychiatrisy said I needed 7/9 but she was willing to prescribe concerta or atomoxetine (I can't remember which) but I stupidly declined since I had access to hard stimulants and I did not see the benefit at the time.

I gave up illegal stimulants after my daughter was born but I kept using modafinil and nicotine as a cruth whenever shit got real at work; my psychoterapist kept asking me why I don't want to see a psychiatrist colleague of hers that's open minded about ADHD.

Eventually I did, and to my surprise the psychiatrist did a very thorough interview and concluded I most certainly do have ADHD and prescribed Concerta.

I still doubt I have ADHD sometimes, until I take a break from the meds, that's when reality kicks in and I'm sure I have ADHD again :)
See, your comment makes sense and is a valid point. I do agree that the world was a more violent place and I don't think monogamy is the reason that women had it bad (most likely has to do with a patriarchal culture and an uneducated population).

Theirs is a borderline flame bait comment that added nothing to the discussion.
Wouldn't that NFT point to a comment on a central service though? Or would the NFT contain the actual comment itself?

Is there a difference between buying a "comment on HN" and the text of that comment?
Yeah, Musk blatantly lying about these things really doesn’t help their case one bit. It’s hard to hide behind “autopilot is just marketing” when their popular CEO is lying about its capabilities left and right.
I get mostly the same features with self-hosted and local traditional apps for a fraction of the price and much lower general financial risk as well.
I think that’s used to determine your online status rather than a centrally tracked metric. But it’s fair to say that your status is watched by some managers with nothing better to do.
This is just sad. It would encourage future Sackler like businesses to earn billions and then just pay a part of it to go scot free.
Risk analysis of Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) and mitigation
This sounds so much more difficult and costly than have qualified managers.
> In fact in the history of the internet I cannot find a single example of any technology working better in a decentralized fashion compared to centralized for the end user

Torrents?
The core argument for x^2 is basically just that it's the only function with linear derivative, so for rational voters who calculate marginal benefit of additional votes purchased at cost x^2 (in terms of likelihood of changing the outcome of the "election"), you get a welfare maximizing outcome.

There's some assumptions underlying the theoretical result, but there's also a lot active experimentation in the real world, a few links: https://www.radicalxchange.org/concepts/quadratic-voting/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting

Here's what I believe is the key paper on the topic https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pandp.20181002 (appendix: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2790624)

Lalley, Steven P., and E. Glen Weyl. 2018. "Quadratic Voting: How Mechanism Design Can Radicalize Democracy." AEA Papers and Proceedings, 108: 33-37.
I guess it depends on what you mean by novel but the startup scene is very strong in the bay currently. I moved out to Utah last year for a cheaper place to live and obviously that’s nice, but the amount of casual racism and lack of diversity is shocking. I took things like tolerance and even basic regards for the planet for granted while I lived in the bay, and I’m dismayed at how rare that is across the rest of the US.
The reason I'm hyped about crypto (which in this article seems to be incorrectly equated to "web3") is because of the new possibilities it brings. The reason I put my money into stupid shit in crypto is because I don't know if it will work or not, but I'm excited to know if it will. Some of it does, most doesn't. I learn, progress has been made.

Imagine a whole new continent is discovered, and all the people back home are criticizing those who go there because it's not particularly safe at the moment, and look how warm and cozy they could be back in civilization.

No one's asking you to go to web3, stay here if you like. Hell, I found out today there's still people using gopher. There's room for all of us.
Reminder that you shouldn't use FIPS because you want to be more secure. It won't help with that, and may even make you less secure. Only ever enable FIPS mode if you have a legal requirement to.
It's interesting because even FANG companies can't agree on testing. I've heard Facebook and Google are very different in this regard.
More overlap than I realized:

> Block bought Credit Karma's tax-prep business in 2020. It plans to offer tax returns through its Cash App.

https://squareup.com/us/en/press/credit-karma-tax
I think this is a toxic way to look at it. Casting it as "they", you're implicitly condoning partisanship/tribalism and putting people into bins. Discussions around this would be guaranteed to be vile and full of hatred. Not just from "your" side, but "they" will also see you in the same way.

As technologists, we ought to be better than this. Think about this like we do with on-prem vs cloud. It is decentralization vs. centralization, but far more muted and less political. We should approach this with a mature contemplation, not cheap tribalism.
Why can't you verify the code you run locally?
This has got to be trolling. Almost every point is nonsense or at best uninformed vitriol. I literally don't know where to start with a comment so I'll just make a series of points related to claims in the article.

Nobody has ever claimed that you can run normal computer programs on the Ethereum blockchain. It isn't meant to run fucking Doom. Smart-contracts are more like financial protocols.

Blockchains are a form of database but they are not meant to store large amounts of data. That's more a job for IPFS.

Ethereum is migrating to a layered architecture and users are meant to stay on Layer 2's which provide substantially cheaper transactions.

I'm a fan of cryptocurrencies because I think there should be a spectrum of centralization <-> decentralization. If someone wants to stay centralized then fine but I should be able to handle my own money without a bank. I also believe that cryptocurrencies reduce financial friction and overhead. Taking donations is as simple as posting your public address. Taking payments means just integrating a library in your application instead of signing up with a service.

I'm a fan of NFTs because I think people should have ownership of digital items. I think if I pay money for Hearthstone cards then I should be able to sell them on my own terms just like Pokemon cards in real life.
>>>Better in what sense? Its extremely difficult to actually use cryptocurrency for selling things beyond cryptocurrency related instruments.

https://cryptoemporium.eu/

https://www.chainbytes.com/

Sell physical assets for crypto, then cash out at a Crypto ATM in your currency of choice, if you absolutely need to. A big part of the problem is Crypto ATMs aren't prolific enough. Restrictions on money-handling businesses come into play there, which is argued as anti-terrorism/organized crime measures but is really just gatekeeping/rent-seeking by the established players.
In fact in the history of the internet I cannot find a single example of any technology working better in a decentralized fashion compared to centralized for the end user

Usenet.
Doesnt have to be if DOD is riding on your back with cameras on all the sats etc.
The windows 98 one brought back some serious memories! That was when I first started to really dig into computers and started to want to control and change everything I could.
(I will also hypothesize that the time the person is working is actually irrelevant to you. If you have a high performer, and you found out they managed that level of performance only working 2 hours, as tracked by whatever software, would you fire them? If not, quit creating bullshit metrics - address the one you actually care about, the person's performance).
Forget blockchains. TCP/IP, BGP, DNS, etc. they are all fantastic. What they give us is _connectivity_.

The problem is commerce (Amazon et al), search (Google), social (Facebook), etc. or, in general, the information layer built on top. David Clark said (in 1992!)

"The network as an Information Mesh. An old goal, not yet achieved."

The information theoretic and algorithmic ideas have matured (in no small part due to cryptocurrencies, yes, among other things).It's time to build that information mesh. I want a social identity that's not tied to a particular product/company. I want to shop online using a distributed protocol where reputation is independent of the platform. I want a search engine that can validate the identity and verify the integrity of the content it indexes. We can build such a thing now.
Yes. The assertables crate provides three macro flavors, to handle the three purposes of panic, or Err, or branch:

assert*!(...) // () or panic! help message

assume*!(...) // Result Ok(true) or Err help message

assure*!(...) // Result Ok(true) or Ok(false)
You could, if the code came from a signed blob that is verified. No need for a blockchain to allow that, it's basically what Mobile OSes are doing, and with multisig you can verify both the developer and the OS vendor.
There's a big rise in, well, everyone asking everyone to do stuff.

People keep asking me to stand inside little circles, put things on my face, walk in specific directions, etc.

The more you acquiesce to silly stuff, the more it happens.
Greg Egan wrote a few of those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogonal_(series)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(novel)

Diaspora starts in this universe but ends up somewhere else.
Windows 11 still leaves a few things in the legacy Control Panel, but there's less that's only accessible there than there was in Windows 10, and every recent dev channel build has moved more things into the modern Settings app.

More importantly, they've gotten pretty good about linking into legacy Control Panel applets from the modern settings app-- so, even if a setting hasn't been migrated yet, you should be able to find a link to it in a logical place from the new Settings app. That's not new in Windows 11 (Windows 10 is pretty good about it too, for the most part), but the Settings reorganization in Windows 11 helped this along a bit.
I won’t argue about the climate, obviously SoCal is sunnier but I never was a fan of the heat waves and smog of LA. My own personal definition for a good climate is a temperature that gives the ability to do things outside year-round but I do love visiting that part of California!
>> People searching for meaning in life and selling positive messages is so condescending, annoying, and useless

In some cases,absolutely! If the results of such bending of meaning weren't actively harmful (eg Vaccine denialism) perhaps it could be ignored.
>the value proposition of all the crypto nonsense is that some people don't like trusted entities.

Becoming a trusted entity is hard. Crypto allows for the creation of systems that don't require trusted entites. That's a huge win for the little guy and catalyst for innovation.
- Introduces exchange risk and tax complexities for most merchants.
This is great, but I don't need it at 10^9 times the cost.

Imagine if a single red apple costed about $100M, yet it had rather unique qualities such as indisputable, provable lack of contamination. That's the kind of cost difference we're talking about here.
The person you're replying to has already addressed your points:

> Yes, blockchains are slower and more expensive. This is the current cost of enabling the two facets above. If we're not comparing blockchain dapps to other systems that offer the same assurances, then we're comparing apples and oranges.

Could you please respond more meaningfully to the conversation?
"mostly" being the key word :) If you're self-hosting, then your server is a weak point. It goes down, your app goes down. The additional cost and risk that comes with using blockchains provides a platform for your app to run on that you don't have to manage and is highly resistant to being shut down.

Likewise, there always exists the possibility that your server can be compromised and the code can be altered. The immutability of the blockchain guarantees that your code cannot be changed, with or without your knowledge.
Crypto isn’t about technology. It’s about wealth and power (literally!) on top of a (slow) distributed database.

As technologists, we ought to recognize the difference and see the forests for the trees. As a technologist, I cannot unsee the patterns nor look away.

I’m sure you’d find similar musings in 2600 or Phrack decades ago.
Unionization in the US is very different than in Norway.

Anti-Union bias in the US is well founded and rational due to the terrible union laws we have, combined with the terrible track record of US unions
> I don’t understand what problem web3 can solve that a trusted entity cannot

So that means HN really loved the .org takeover [0], and the price increases for .io [1]
and now the holder of all our beloved trendy top level domains are going into the hands of the great Ethos Capital (again) who are going to do all of the above again. [2] /s

Nothing terrible to see here folks, its for your own good! /s

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21611677

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/04/ethos-capital-grabbing...

[2] https://www.geekwire.com/2021/domain-name-registry-donuts-ac...
> opens up possibilities for your app to be shut down

Is this a big worry for a lot of people or is just one of the possible things that can go wrong incidental to doing business, like a traffic ticket is to driving?
> Imagine a whole new continent is discovered, and all the people back home are criticizing those who go there because it's not particularly safe at the moment, and look how warm and cozy they could be back in civilization.

Imagine a whole new black hole is discovered, and all the people back home are like "but it just absorbs everything that crosses the event horizon" and "it will destroy everything you put near it" and "it's the end of everything you care about" and saying you shouldn't try to spend any more time getting close to it.

Someone is going out of that scenario (or not) looking (or not) a little the worse for wear. So the question is: do you feel lucky?
Absolutely, we form such weird attachments to things we saw as kids that we don't really remember well at all.

ST:TOS I highly recommend because it remains engaging/entertaining and is fascinating to see as a lens into the late 60s, but "good" it is not.

ST:TNG I love and I think is the better show but it shocked me too when I tried to rewatch in order after ST:TOS. The first seasons are not great! I really had erased a lot of it from my memory. I realize now that it's not until a couple seasons in that it became the show I remember, that show was lucky to hang in there long enough to hit its stride.
Raft by Stephen Baxter comes to mind. It's his first book, so it's far from perfect, but it's quite interesting.

Some of his other books the physics are the same as ours but the locations are so exotic that they might as well qualify.
Absolutely! But not every place is like that :)
I don't understand what problem email can solve that mail cannot.

Sorry to be sarcastic.

I am still skeptical of most web3 use cases touted on twitter, but have personally experienced a few that have made me pause and be a bit more open minded.

Personal experiences:
- Transferring money was in seconds, compared to Fidelity/Venmo which took 3 days!!!
- Very easy to loan money against crypto holdings vs stocks
- ResearchDao's like ResearchHub
Are you sure...? I've been using Firefox as my default browser on iOS for awhile now.
Checking the Opensea API:
https://docs.opensea.io/reference/asset-object

NFTs require at least one of two centralized services to remain functional - the original URL and the Opensea cached URL. So proof of ownership is decentralized, but the actual image is not.
Worth emphasizing that, as the article states, there's a lot of ongoing experimentation with quadratic voting. Wikipedia has a good overview (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting#Applications), but users include Colorado's House of Reps and several civic platforms in Taiwan.
There are easy mitigations for those things though. My self hosted apps run on immutable infrastructure and are replicated and load balanced. Still stupid cheap and easy.
Kudos to Indian govt, this should be the default for any e-commerce websites. I have to resort to PayPal to avoid my credit card being stored in the e-commerce merchant sites but some of sites do not support PayPal. It seems that Amazon somehow would not even allow me to delete my old and expired credit card from my account.
Good for you. Not everyone needs to use Tor -- slow and inefficient, can't even do a proper 1080p livestream. Good for them.

But some people are willing to pay 10^9 the cost for certain guarantees. Good for them too, that such options now exist. Why the irrational hate?
Examples where you he innovations are better than centralized alternatives?
Some of Greg Egan's novels are based on very novel Physics I believe. His more "accessible" novel Permutation City is a HN favorite.
I thought I did... That quoted paragraph doesn't negate my point which is that I do get the same (or very similar) assurances elsewhere, so I think the comparison is valid.
If they can install monitoring software on your client they can see what software you’re running, what its hash is, what special permissions it has and what api calls it’s making. If this is something you need to do I would recommend you accomplish it outside of the computer.
Propriety is a noun
The problem you cite doesn't seem so common, or so large, that it is worth changing literally the entire architecture of everything over.

Maybe it will be someday, but it definitely isn't today, nor does it seem to be happening particularly soon!

Until developers feel like that day is coming, this neither makes sense, nor will it go anywhere.

(as an aside, the non-payment one seems kind of silly, since the blockchain apps don't work without payment either - network fees, etc. Sometimes they are covered, sometimes not)

You can't define away comparisons with how things are done now by saying it can only be compared with things that offer the same assurances.
That makes no sense - all software architectures are tradeoffs of these sorts. Privacy vs Security vs Ease of Use vs Cost vs Performance vs ...

People are quite literally going to ask themselves whether it is worth getting those features for the current cost. They aren't going to say "well, we can't compare the cost because the current system doesn't do that". They are going to say "is it worth <cost> to get these things".