skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you count crypto in general as web 3, check out Monero.

It offers anonymized payments with low fees. Like Bitcoin but without the chain being visible to anybody.

Unlike with regular payments, the transactions are anonymous, irreversible, and requires no KYC. Most crypto are not fully anonymous. Beware other privacy coins based on zksnarks since their creators are generally anti-anonymity (in the sense they don’t want their tokens to be used in illicit transactions and have pledged to make that harder - this defeats the entire purpose of a privacy coin, and any solution to this would reduce privacy).

While monero is not fully anonymous under 100% of cases - it’s possible to do something to allow transactions to be linked back, such as using the same receiving and sending sub addresses multiple times for transactions - it’s pretty dang good. It’s pretty close to being digital cash. And the fees are pretty low (last I checked maybe $0.10?), which is more or less a permanent feature because it has dynamic block sizes.

BTW, for any blockchain, it’s a good thing for ex fees to be non-zero. Otherwise there is no cost to “spamming” the blockchain which congests the network and increases the size of the chain (potentially making it harder to host).

It is unfortunately based on POW, but on the bright side it uses an asic resistant CPU-based algorithm to prevent centralization.
> Merchants (generally large merchants) do not offer a discount for paying with debit cards because people spend more money when using credit cards.

Also, I assume that most credit companies (VISA, MC, etc.), have rules, expressly forbidding charging different rates for the use of credit cards. It makes sense, because they don't want to be avoided as a payment option.

I learned this, when I did my first shopping cart, and read the whole freakin' VISA Merchant's Manual.

There was some kind of loophole that gas stations used.
> our God and Savior
*your God and Savior
If communications are generally encrypted then that absolutely is surprising. In that example all the clients could be counting the emoji bs or whatever individually without any server even being aware of the message content.
net=host is also bad for security. It's not recommended to do this, there was at least one severe security bug in containerd.
Well we do have civics classes in California and Socio-Emotional Learning in elementary school.

The article doesn't say because it isn't happening. If it were happening, that would be the subject of the article.

Your comments about wider society, which have nothing to do with the article, shows that you have some very mistaken beliefs about trans people. To get at the heart of your mistake, if people could physically change their gender in a way that had all of their sexual organs working, would you object to them identifying as their new gender? That is ultimately what trans people would like to do.

The physiological differences between men and women that matter are due to development driven by testosterone. East Germany famously increased testosterone levels of women to help them win, but some women naturally have far more testosterone than others. The Olympics now requires those women to medically reduce their testosterone levels, just the same as trans athletes.

This "political club" simply brings gay and non-gay people together to fix society. Would you have objected to a black-white alliance club in the 60s?
After almost a decade doing python, I'd probably use a plain loop like this but with ".get(key, default)"
A similar question from 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17424627
All these “War on” political grandstanding does is kill a lot of people, increase a lot of taxes and inflate the poor into destitution.

War on Drugs. War on Terror. War on Cancer.

Same pig but different shades of lipstick.

US govt has become unbelievably bloated and overreaches every aspect of life today.

Slogans like these help them keep expanding and hurting the people.
Check out, also, Writers Guild of America West.[1] They provide an online service for registering a file of up to 10MB. IIRC the fee is $25 or $50. The result is legal evidence, acccording to them.

One use case, so I heard: Rather than showing a copyright date on an old script (which can date it and suggest is has been rejected many times), the cover page can specify "Registered with WGAw"

[1] https://wgawregistry.org/Register.aspx?CookieCheck=1
For one, chinese made Teslas are superior in quality to American ones. So looks like you are right, not every chinese product should be seen as inferior to japanese or even American.
NFTs are simply single issue tokens that can optionally be part of a collection. While most NFTs today take the form of a link to decentralized storage on solutions such as IPFS or Arweave, it is completely possible for an NFT to provide value as a token. For example you can have a project where NFTs provide access to services, as well as optionally have links to art. But you really don't need to have the art aspect at all, you can use them as access tokens or whatever you want really.
I've seen even planned outages and tests result in failed hardware.
Sorry, should have been more specific. I was referring to the gnome calculator: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calculator
I have never heard of dry fasting. It sounds pretty dangerous.
Right… I had it working at some point, I guess :focus-within has some limitations. (This could be solved by :target-within, if browsers implement it someday)
great comment. super smart.
Early days:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol)
Ah yes, "self-improvement":

- watching videos as 2x the speed

- speedreading

- listening to audiobook while doing chores

I'm sure there's plenty more I'm forgetting here.
I used to be active on Twitter. I had a third party client I really liked, I had it configured just right and used the service a lot. Then Twitter the corporation with the API removal crippled the third party clients in the interests of pushing their "one true client" vision so that the vision of a previous CEO or whatever would come true, that Twitter be a curated river of news and not interactions with people as much.

You know what happened? I stopped using Twitter and only very infrequently pop into it now.
> Decentralized systems democratize trust.

What you're asking us to trust is that:

1. We trust the coders to know what is best for us.
2. You can write perfect code so that our money is safe.
3. The price will never plummet.

I've observed:

1. Mt. Gox Failure
2. DAO Failure
3. First BTC price crash
4. USDT regulatory concerns
5. Lack of learning from failures
6. Politics still exist, they just moved to the coding layer
7. Willful ignorance of the scams and crimes cryptocurrencies has enabled
7.1 Because somehow cryptocurrency is better for us.
8. Hype over price security and software security
8.1 Because somehow cryptocurrency is better for us.

Trust in USDT is centralized in the corporation Tether and has none of the benefits you mentioned. Trust in BTC is hoping (praying?) that the price doesn't crash, and software doesn't control the price, humans do.
The treatment of melanoma is a true 21st century medical miracle.

When I was going through med school 2010-2013 metastatic melanoma had a 5 year survival of basically 0%. By the time I graduated, it was a chronic disease for a proportion of patients and getting better.
Yes, that answer is incorrect since it breaks with calculator conventions. The contents of the parentheses are calculated first (P in PEMDAS), and then the multiplication is done later (MD in PEMDAS). Implicit multiplication (which does not explicitly use a multiplication sign) has the same priority as any other multiplication:

a/b(c) = a/b*c = (a/b)*c

Since SpeedCrunch only accepts input in a single line, this would be the least unexpected way to interpret the expression, and consistent with how graphing calculators operate.

A horizontal fraction bar, which SpeedCrunch does not support (since it only accepts single-line input), implies parentheses around the numerator and denominator. For example:

ax
-- = (ax)/(by) = (a*x)/(b*y)
by

compared to

ax/by = a*x/b*y = ((a*x)/b)*y

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Implicit multiplication is a point of frequent confusion:

- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/science/math-equation-pem...

- https://www.themathdoctors.org/order-of-operations-implicit-...

To guarantee that the expression does not get misinterpreted, the person writing the expression should always add parentheses/brackets and explicit multiplication signs, or use horizontal division bars where possible, to make the expression unambiguous.
The reason you haven’t heard a coherent answer to what problems web3 is supposed to solve is because there aren’t any. It’s just a continuation of the past 5-10 years of cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes (which also include ICOs and NFTs). Just a bunch of hot air. As you correctly put it, it’s just a bunch of opportunists making money off of tech-gullible people.
> the majority of the time the immune system is a-ok with what cancer cells are doing

Ok, no. The majority of the time the immune system prevents tumor formation. Immune surveillance is not really debated [1]. Animals where the immune system is shut down and immunosuppressed patients have a much higher chance to develop cancer.

The paper you cite even underlines the point that immune evasion is a failure and not the rule.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1857231/
I wonder what the fundamentals are of coding, that you could practice, starting from "this is a football"

1: Naming Things
2: Testing (Unit or otherwise)
Since we are rehashing this for the 3rd (4th?) time, I'll repeat mine (and apparently many others) key critique: there is no thought at all to enabling parallel decoding, be it, thread-parallel or SIMD (or both). That makes it very much a past millennium style format that will age very poorly.

At the very least, break it into chunks and add an offset directory header. I'm sure one could do something much better, but it's a start.

EDIT: typo
>It is impossible to treat cancer without killing cancer cells

best treatment would be to find root cause and prevent cancer cells from growing in the first place, I'd imagine gene therapy will one day be used to help with this.

Early detection would also drastically improve outcomes
Did your TAM go into any details on that? Over a couple hundred load-balancers, the only issue we had was taking longer to register new instances and that affected only a couple of them. Running services weren't interrupted, latency remained, etc. which is what I'd expect for a single AZ failure.
It's possible that content-based suppression happens, but it's also possible that the genericized phrase organically generates more engagement by virtue of it being likeable to way more people. If all your followers celebrate the same holiday then it should be a wash but if huge chunks don't then it's purely the numbers doing their thing. Even some who celebrate the mentioned holiday might find the message exclusionary enough to not engage (a woke feedback loop, you could say), further burying it.
"The best technology is that who doesnt exists, because then you dont have any problems left".
...not forgetting that some other countries do the same.
Allies/ sheep? Sometimes it's a fine line.
I sincerely doubt a tool like this will give you access to the full Ruby ecosystem.

I definitely love the idea though, I struggle with lower level languages, although I consider myself fairly decent with both Python and JavaScript.
I haven't ever been high during work hours, but I have tried to program while high. I tunnel vision too hard to get things done. I find it impossible to debug or think about broad solutions. I also am under the suspicion that I'm dumber when high.
But you can determine NFT authenticity by only examining onchain data. You can for instance check the program ID that executed the mint and that it is verified (in the case of Solana, at least), it's a pretty simple verification system that is using entirely onchain data for validation.
Safari desktop shows always the first image ("The Donut Hole").
I’m curious what happens when a number of public speech monopolies align their interests with certain political group and implicitly blend with the government. I guess this theoretical situation is totally legal, doesn’t break any amendments, but it kind of smells strange.
This is explicitly satire criticizing the concept of ownership of goods being derived from arbitrary tokens rather than defined by the extant legal framework in virtually every jurisdiction. From the end of the article:

>Q: Is any of this for real?

>A: No. Good lord. If you want to protect your digital rights, hire a lawyer. If it wasn't immediately clear that this is a work of satire, we've got some NFTs to sell you.
It's still not clear to me that the profession is riskier than just "being an American"? If you have numbers you would like to link to, I'm happy to dig into them.
I think this is the correct way of doing it. Anyone can start their own instance and their own federation.

It'd actually be a massive breach of freedom if you were somehow not allowed to shut out servers from your Mastodon federation—kind of like not having the freedom to block someone on Twitter.
He was mostly right. Neural nets are mostly an artistic tool for creating awesome generative art. They don't give any scientific or mathematical answers.
There are many motivations for evil action. They don't contradict, they add. Having more does not make it less evil.
This isn't the first time something like this has been done; for a while Facebook used a PHP to C++ compiler before switching to compiling it directly to native code via a JIT:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHVM
^^ this, I'm not a crypto maxi, but for what I have seen so far, the main point of all of those coins, is to get earlier, and hope that someone *cough* Elon *cough* pump it , so we can finally escape the rat race.
Why are we finding benzene in so many products lately?
Yeah, habitual tense is very subtle in most forms of English.

The meme-famous Oscar Gable quote, "They don’t think it be like it is, but it do," is an example where some vernacular forms of English emphasize it more. Here, "be" is the habitual tense of "to be." It's not "bad" English. It's a tense you're not recognizing.
Python 3.6 had the same ordered dictionaries. It was deemed implementation-specific. With Python 3.7 ordering was made part of the language.
Well, they certainly fixed that problem.[1]

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-pr...
you keep saying this and you don't actually provide the text of the law
> War on Drugs. War on Terror. War on Cancer.

One of these is not like the others.
That is so relatable. I use Tomboy Notes instead of just plain text file as it is stuck on my desktop and keeps reminding me that downloading and trying out a new github project is something I can spend next 5 minutes on, but not the next hour doing.

I also somehow feel that just listing down tasks on Tomboy in terms of achievable chunks helps my focus.
The 2007 outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the UK was caused by an actual leak of infected fluid out of a lab in Surrey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_foot-and-m...

When the "battle of Covid disinformation" raged in the media, I often noticed that the factcheckers had a tendency to say that no human epidemic was ever provably linked to a lab leak.

While true, it was a bit misleading, precisely because of this non-human, but still very economically and societally important disease outbreak which happened in a very developed country and quite recently.

I do not really understand why so many people, including some who have no conflict of interest (unlike Peter Daszak!), tend to regard Wuhan lab leak as a dirty, stupid conspiracy theory. Shit happens all the time, no precautions are perfect. If Fukushima, Chernobyl or Challenger happened, a leak of a virus from a lab can happen as well.
That's the third comment that says the exact same thing.

Obviously, we are within the 'war on cancer' talking about the remainder, not the ones that the immune system dealt with successfully.
"Please don't fulminate." It's tedious and repetitive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. No, I'm not trying to defend profit-extracting VCs or whatever; just trying to defend this place from burning itself to a crisp. Comments like this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29588384 are just what we don't need in that regard.
Do you actually believe there is some sort of repression in HK? Black people are more repressed in the US than anyone in HK… I just visited HK on a business trip (had to quarantine) and there were no signs of oppression or any sort of police brutality at all.
Do you have some sources for further reading? That sounds disturbingly Orwellian.
Crystal is superficially similar but it pretty much ends there, and many off the differences feels pretty arbitrary.
I'd also like to know what's the best (or any) lossless audio compression process/tools.

My application is to send audio (podcast recordings) to a remote audio engineer friend who will do the post processing, then round trip it to me to complete the editing.

Wav is so big it makes a 1 hr podcast a difficult proposition.

MP3 is unsuitable because compression introduces too many artefacts the quality suffers unacceptably.

What do other people do in this circumstances?
> NFTs - which is just digital art?

I don't think it's that: it's a key associated within a particular distributed database to a hash of some digital (or digitized) art, as far as I know.
Their teaching credentials and oversight. How do I know, as a fellow member of society, that you are raising your children to participate politely in society instead of to harass minority groups?
Sure but what if I decided to ban you from using caffeine and throw you in jail because it’s addictive ?
Really appreciate you sharing this link. Seems like only plasticized items (bibs, rain jackets, purses) were affected, not any regular cloth-based clothes (sweatshirts, t-shirts, pajamas). I'll be sure we are careful sourcing plasticized items, and if there is evidence that their cloth-based items are affected please share with the rest of us.

We always wash clothes before wearing because of the chemicals used during manufacture, and to make clothes feel soft in the store.
The correct answer is yes. You're still paying to host the content even if you add new ways to pay to update a shortlink. ENS has to point somewhere and that someone will want to be paid for their time and resources.
Certificate Revocation Tracker
The OED entry[1] for forget (v.), under sense 1(b), has citations going back a couple centuries:

> b. To fail to recall to mind; not to recollect.

> 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 12 He says much the same of rabbits and onions, but I forget how he brings that to bear.

> 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest II. i. 3 I forget the sign [of the inn].

[1] https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/73319
https://www.who.int/news/item/20-10-2021-health-and-care-wor...
"The seven recalls announced previously this year were:

04/28/2021: Ulta Beauty Collection & SS Scented Hand Sanitizer

Specific lots of Scentsational Soaps & Candles scented Hand Sanitizers from the Black and White Collection and Photo Real Collection (3.38-ounce), and Ulta Beauty Collection scented Hand Sanitizer Spray (3.4-ounce) were recalled due to the presence of methanol (wood alcohol), benzene and acetaldehyde.

05/13/2021: Goose Creek, COCO TKO Hand Sanitizer

Scentsational Soaps & Candles extended the previous recall to include specific lots of Goose Creek Hand Sanitizer with Aloe (3.38-ounce) and COCO TKO Hand Sanitizer (3.4-ounce) due to the presence of methanol (wood alcohol), benzene and acetaldehyde.

07/14/2021: Neutrogena, Aveeno Sunscreen

Johnson & Johnson voluntarily recalled Neutrogena Beach Defense aerosol sunscreen, Neutrogena Cool Dry Sport aerosol sunscreen, Neutrogena Invisible Daily defense aerosol sunscreen, Neutrogena Ultra Sheer aerosol sunscreen and Aveeno Protect + Refresh aerosol sunscreen due to the presence of benzene in some samples.

09/30/2021: Coppertone Aerosol Sunscreen Products

Coppertone, owned by Beiersdorf, voluntarily recalled specific lots of Coppertone P&S Baby SPF50 Spray (5-ounce), Coppertone P&S Kids SPF50 Spray (5-ounce), Coppertone Sport Min SPF50 Spray (5-ounce), Coppertone P&S SPF50 Spray (5-ounce) and Coppertone Sport Spray SPF50 (1.6-ounce) due to the presence of benzene.

10/01/2021: Lotrimin AF and Tinactin Over the Counter Antifungal Spray Products

Bayer voluntarily recalled all unexpired Lotrimin AF and Tinactin antifungal spray products due to the presence of benzene in some samples. In the recall announcement, the company said, “Benzene is not an ingredient in any of Bayer Consumer Health products.” The affected products had lot numbers beginning with TN, CV or NAA.

11/17/2021: Oder Eaters spray products

Odor-Eaters, owned by Blistex Inc., voluntarily recalled 41 lots of Odor-Eaters Spray Powder and Odor-Eaters Stink Stoppers Spray due to the presence of benzene.

11/23/2021: Old Spice, Secret Aerosol Sprays

The Procter & Gamble Co. voluntarily recalled specific Old Spice and Secret aerosol spray antiperspirants and Old Spice Below Deck aerosol spray products due to the presence of benzene.

"

From: https://uspirg.org/news/usp/statement-procter-gamble%E2%80%9...
An obvious one would be permissionless lending/borrowing (Aave or Compound)
That's the problem: there's no single root cause to cancer. Every cancer type has an additional dozen subtypes with different causes. It's a mess.
> If you count crypto in general as web 3, check out Monero.

Genuine question, is crypto sometimes not counted as part of web3 by people in the space? I understand blockchain technology is distinct from crypto currency, but crypto always seems to be included as part of web3 no?

I'll check it out.

I know generally one focus of "web 3" is to simplify transactions especially by not having to integrate or work with credit card companies, local regulations etc especially in countries that don't have that infrastructure to as strong a degree.

Certainly an admirable goal, and one I'd love to see - but I don't believe that a lot of these issues can't be solved better and faster with "web 2" technologies (minus the anonymous piece which is a fair and clear advantage).
Again, it's not about the GC being sound, it's about the API that's being used. There's (imho) not a lot of value in figuring out if an API that can't be used is usable.

There are other GC crates that offer sound APIs. Research using those sounds very promising and good!
And I’d, in turn, amend that comment to strike the gratuitous swipe at “the media”.

At least “the media” I consume does not “parrot” social media toxicity. It may mention it if it gets traction, as is their job.
According to the mainstream interpretation, a/b(c) parses to:

(* (/ a b) c)

and not:

(/ a (* b c))

It's very ambiguous, though. No scientist would ever write expressions like that.
> Also if "web3" was disintermediated VC's wouldn't spend a single dollar on it, because you can't extract profit from something you don't own.

Then why are VCs pouring money into web3 projects every chance they can get?

Web3 has been pitched as a sort of idealized, democratic, community-owned concept, but the reality is mostly a bunch of projects pitching token sales to speculators who think they can sell those tokens to someone else in the future. Investors are cashing in by using their publicity to hype the token in exchange for some of those tokens to re-sell to other speculators. The actual service doesn't actually have to work because it's all speculation at this point.
I get you're pissed off but it is probably more productive to keep a lid on it and stay constructive.