skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, the gist of web3 is to do away with the need for having centralized organizations who control a particular resource. For example domain names, identities, speech. In the beginning, the web was supposed to be an egalitarian and democratic space. Of course corporations and governments seized as much control as they could. Today we have companies that dictate arbitrary rules. For example, there is nothing you can do to grow your Twitter account. If Youtube decides they don't like you anymore, your audience is gone. Your domain name is not really yours, etc.

Supposedly web 3.0 would fix this problem by making sure decision power is decentralized. Will it deliver? I personally doubt it, because it's easy to create an anonymous oligarchy under an apparent layer of decentralization. Still, I'm sure some applications will succeed.
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First, be wary of general advice.

That said, do you find yourself spending most your time making or consuming? At some point I just started making stuff for the majority of my time and this was a tipping point for starting to improve my skills in particular areas and narrow my focus.
I would also like to say that being a part of the Hacker News website and community is golden. I think that I have said enough...

Besides that, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone!
Visiting or living in foreign countries for business or tourism is not "colonialism".
Thank you good sir
I don’t work in the field and I am not autistic. I have a daughter who is, and just recently spent holiday times with a family that also has members who are.

I don’t think neurotypical people can really empathize. I am saying this as someone who have had altered states of consciousness with psychedelics. It is not the same thing, but it was a different enough experience that I know that people who have not taken psychedelics or have had visionary experiences, cannot really relate to my experiences with altered states of consciousness, and those attempts at “empathizing” are shallow.

There are two kinds of things when we talk about empathy. One is the kind of empathy that comes from shared experience, and I doubt neurotypical people can really have an inkling of what it is like without having experienced altered states of consciousness.

The other kind of empathy is where one recognizes that the other person is suffering. The reasons and circumstances by which someone suffers is unique to the individual person, but what is shared universally is that each person has suffered.

Rather than empathizing with someone by saying they are a “little” or “a lot” autistic, it’s more precise to look at the person before you, in the present moment, and share the experience of suffering.

If we are talking about therapy, the author makes a great case for clinical outcomes being biased towards mitigating the impact an autist has on other people, and not the impact to the autist herself. The whole point of explaining the spectrum like a spectral signature rather than a gradient is to have a better framework for helping people.
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Are you a shareholder when you short it? Can a non-shareholder make shareholder inquiries?
Amazon prime video used to use it (I think both server and client, but I can't fully remember).
Too bad there's no good payable intersection of software dev, video games, and three position bullseye rifle. Hah :(
He wants to become a shareholder so he can ask questions to the board.

Shareholders have additional rights.
If using a computer would kill me I would spend my time telling others about how to avoid the same thing happening to them.
Project Hail Mary was special because it was so straightforward. It didn't try to beat you over the head with some grand message about society. It's just a science teacher doing cool stuff in space. Refreshing, in my opinion.
Correct, should have dropped the 'net'.
Will there be reparations or is the US going to keep the lands? Is it OK if the Chinese do it now and teach their schoolchildren about it 100 years later?

Looking from the outside this just looks like pulling up the ladder. "Oh we did kill them off but that was years ago. These other countries, though..."
Web 2 as a term itself was coined much later when people needed to distinguish web 3 from status quo
Yes, that's exactly what I meant to describe.
Clearly it depends on your definition of real.

But it’s not a complicated concept to get. Like a person who is drunk might see double, when in fact there is one object. A person who is on a lot of amphetamines might believe they are being purposely followed when in fact there are no people intentionally following them.

Those perceptions are not real, in any commonly understood meaning of the word. It’s easy to understand what the parent comment meant in that context as well.
Don't we accept that our children will die and countless others will suffer long-term consequences every time we take a car instead of walking? As long as the suffering is sufficiently vague and indirect (such as with air pollution and global warming) people choose to sacrifice themselves and others all the time. Covid is new, but this dilemma is old as time.

Whether you like it or not, participating in the endless rat race is how some people are able to (sometimes barely) afford to feed their children, or pay for medical treatment. Do poor people make you sick? How about those who would choose quality of life over a little life expectancy?

Some elders would rather see and hug their (grand-)children more often than live another two years in social isolation. Do you find such elders disgusting as well?
An unintentional bug that keeps happening. The correct remediation is to disable the bot or feature until it stops violating the law.
After 15 years as a freelance developer I’ve started a rural wireless ISP. It hasn’t entirely displaced my freelance work, but allows me to help people in a way that being a developer didn’t (tangibly, at least).

Now I install internet access for people, on infrastructure I have built, and I see how happy they are when they go from 2 to 100mbps (this is often in a field in the middle of nowhere). This means they can talk to their families, actually do the work that pays their bills, and just generally entertain themselves.

It is very rewarding. And I know all these people as they are essentially my neighbours.
I don't know what point you're trying to prove here, since I don't think I've ever heard of Microsoft suing individuals for illegal Windows keys and certainly not in the past 10 years. If you start an LLC and attempt to commercialize on piracy then you'll probably get sued, but regardless they are a lot more lax than, say, Oracle on this issue.
The model checking would not check the output but the trace of operations.

It might prove that all bytes of the output were written to at least once, that dereferenced pointers point toward either the input or some other valid structure, and other properties like this.
My hot take: a bunch of shitty gluten free food products have displaced better, cheaper, quality food. The people who think they are gluten intolerant are worse off, the people who are gluten tolerant are worse off, and the .5% of actual celiac sufferers are better off.
If people are awed, I doubt this is caused by the production value of the video stream though.
It’s very hard to answer for you because it’s likely about personal growth and realisation more than anything else. But I can tell you what I did, or rather what happened to me.

I started as a developer, because I was good, I gradually became the lead enterprise architect (I’ve never hated anything more than TOGAF by the way), and eventually “fell” into management. While doing this I rode locally fame ladder in Danish public sector digitalisation which means I’ve had a massive impact on our overall national strategy for IT architecture but like 5 people know who I am. I’m not sure I ever actually liked that work, but it was thrilling to be part of something “important”, so I felt like I liked it. Eventually I had my first child, and 9 months later I had a depression caused by stress so severe I spent a night in a psychward. Long story short I was diagnosed with ADHD at almost 40, and told that I needed to figure out how I wanted to live my life.

Turns out I like problem solving and that I hate project management. So I quit the public sector and found a job in a company where I could be a programmer again, I made sure to find a company where I wouldn’t have to deal with a whole lot of the Atlassian sort bureaucracies surrounding programming and it’s frankly been a bliss.

I’ve gone from not thinking I could ever work more than 30 hours a week until my children left our house to back to full time.

So chances are you probably already know what kind of work you like, but it’s just really hard to figure it out. One thing that I thought I would miss was feeling “important” but the truth is that I was never actually “important”. If it hadn’t been me someone else would’ve done it.

(For reference I’m Danish, having a break down here gets you 6 months sick leave with pay and costs you basically nothing out of your own pocket. This made things easier to say the least.)
Web 3.0 utilizes crypto in order to build something more than just the cryptocurrencies built in the past. A blockchain is useful in a decentralized system where a shared ledger is required. There are several different types of projects that are branding themselves Web3 -- and I think they are all correct; Web3 is a totally new web built by the people and controlled by the people.

> encompensate technologies like edge computing which are decentralising ownership of compute and data back to devices.

I've been working on just that [1], and I think many other projects are as well. If you stop focusing on the 'value' of 'coins' in the market and, instead, narrow in on the merits of the underlying technology, I think you'll quickly find that all the building blocks are there to get to this decentralized ownership model we are all seeking so eagerly.

[1] https://github.com/publiusfederalist/federalist
I’ve been contemplating this topic as well, though more for social issues which I think that I’ve thought deeper on than the other person. The end state is that I believe that I know more than them and therefore my conclusions are “more correct”. It results in a physiological response and I end up in an argumentative state trying to get them to see my position but in the process, failing to query their point of view.

I’m torn because I think there are genuine cases where I do have more information, but I don’t want to become an argumentative person, and logically if offered a 1% choice to possibly learn something new, it would be more beneficial to learn than to not.

I was thinking next time I could try to guess their assumptions and reasoning and they can fill me in on the difference. Then point out and see if they accounted for any extra information I had.
That famous Oppenheimer quote is from 1965, not 1945.

After the Trinity test he went on to work for the US government for some years on nuclear weapons, which goes against the usual "what have we done?" sentiment that quote is meant to convey.
Also, the financial services in the main were solid remain. One or two high profile hedge fund managers do not an industry make.
I was referring to rayiner's post. Not yours.
My experience is that LSD, when good, is great, but when bad, can be disastrous. Mushrooms, while not as crisp and euphoric as LSD, don't seem to ever leave me scarred, even with large doses. I'll be laughing about a bad trip on mushrooms after I come down, but will be left unable to function in society for 6 months after a bad trip on LSD.
Why do you have to whisper telephone numbers?
In an N-dimensional system, as N goes up, every member in a normally distributed population is increasingly likely to be at an extreme along some dimension (this is related to the fact that a hypercube's volume is disproportionately close to edges and corners as dimensionality goes up). Even if you just stick to the big 5 psychological breakdown, the probability that someone is in the middle 80% on every measure is only about 1/3, so it's not surprising that most of us are a pretty big distance from normal overall.
Apollo also cost $280B inflation adjusted, so like 25x. And Apollo was a mad dash, with many risks taken. JWST is slow and steady. Like I'm a space buff and even I was pretty surprised when I learned how cowboy the moon decent in particular was. They had one shot, and had to fly the lander by hand, without any actual experience (they had to rely on a super cool craft which offset the weight to act like 1/6g).

Like... Apollo was utterly bonkers, bordering on full-Kerbal, in so many ways. It cost lives (5 training flight accidents, 3 in Apollo 1 fire), almost lost another 3 in Apollo 13.

JWST is proving out tons of new science and technology, but at a much more pedestrian peace.
I’ve been using Chrome Remote Desktop with my parents. Takes a bit to install but once they have it, they just click on the Remote Desktop in Chrome, give you the code, accept the connection and you are in. For iOS devices - a FaceTime call you can now share screen (I think its only iOS 15) and its much easier to tell them where to click to troubleshoot. Both solutions have been working really well for me recently.
For users

Web1: read only

Web2: read-write

Web3: read-write-own
Oh please. This whole setting an example business really has no connection to reality. The UK is in the driving seat here, destabilizing the UK benefits nobody but the financial powers in the UK figured that they'd rather be bigger fish in a much smaller pond that they control. The end result always was predictable.

But Scotland and Ireland don't really benefit from 'The City' and as such lost a lot more than they gained. These side effects, conveniently ignored by the 'leave' camp come with a major cost attached, which will likely negate all of the gains.
>Everyone on it lived nearby and if you were an ass you were close enough to get punched in the face.

That and getting banned actually hosed you.
It sometimes creeps me out to consider how much information may one day be extracted from artifacts we create today.
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And thereby marginalizing a real problem.

Everybody these days is a programmer.

Everybody is an investor.

Everybody is a trader.

Everybody is an entrepreneur.

No thank you
Tgif [0] is interesting too, Prolog-based, with Hyper-Structured-Graphics [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tgif_(program)

[1] http://bourbon.usc.edu/tgif/hgviewer.html
> I know that if it is 5 times less likely to put people in hospitals but 10 times more transmissible then there will be 2 times more people in hospitals, but are there more arguments?

If it is more transmissible, people will be put into hospitals faster, and its not linear. Something that has an R of 1.1 will very slowly burn through part of the population then eventually die out as immunity reduces R just below 1.

Something that has R=11 will infect almost everyone, and very quickly, even if we halve transmission with drastic measures limiting contact etc.
> "Thanks to local toll or long distance fees your local BBS was literally local. Everyone on it lived nearby and if you were an ass you were close enough to get punched in the face."

What? This is mindblowing to me, being born in 1997. I can't imagine an online experience like this, it sounds pretty neat.
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After the night, it went from 11% to 15%, ans it says "charging". So I guess I wasn't right when I say it didn't charge.
I don't think it's unfair. They aren't the worst villain, but they are up there.
I also drew the short straw for on-call this weekend. I've probably already clocked up 10hrs following a network failure at one of our datacenters.

I'm not an essential worker, but I want to pass on my Christmas wishes to people who are; doctors, nurses, healthcare assistance, ambulance crews, fire crews, police and everyone else who keeps the world turning over the Christmas holiday. Thank you all for your hard work!
As an outsider, I didn't really expect to see any 'improvement' without simultaneous economic and political reform. Simply pulling out of the EU without any other major changes didn't seem like enough to bring what supporters wanted.
It's a bug, but it's also an example of what I think of as differential accountability:

* Bugs in the bot inevitably assign ownership to the writer rather than from the writer.

* Bugs in the billing system invariably overcharge customers

* Bugs in the image recognition system invariably select white people.

Well-meaning people still follow their incentives. Corners have to get cut somewhere.

I totally agree this isn't specific to MS. We have seen the enemy, and it is us.
Not an expert in any way, but what I've seen it described more than once is: web3 is the normal web with added payments/finances and decentralized identity, normally via metamask. It theoretically doesn't need blockchain, but I think the term itself is more commonly associated with it though.

You can still just do something that you authenticate using metamask or some other form of DID without using blockchain for anything else and still call your application web3, and I think this is a good distinction to make. Metamask is really good as an identity provider that is always online and doesn't require a centralized party, you can still get value from it without touching the finance part at all.
I did get a number of pages during those times. This was in port of rotterdam which is basically always busy, little bit less on holidays but still.

There is that sort of special vibe with the other people working though. Same as an overnight deployment when everyone else is asleep
This is a cool idea, I dig it!
Just get th mix of chemicals right. I know the upper limit for an adult is 4x 20mg dexamphetamine retard (20x tintin) + 4 x 80mg of Elvanse. To relax my doctor prescribes 2x 20mg of Xanax. That’s per day. For me it works to smoke some kush in the evening. With this combo I’m in hyperfocus all day which means I can read a book a day. I do not recommend this mixture to everybody. But my impulsiveness is gone which included the need to take mdma and party in the weekend. If a specialist is referring to current academic research that is solely based on children. You can remove the glass sealing by saying you didn’t expect communistic politics in balancing your productivity multiplier from a professional is highly effective. This is also called the Deutsche Bank recipe.
“These advancements aren’t incremental; they are quantum leap improvements.” I hope that physicist Dennis Whyte was being misquoted here.

We need to rapidly ramp down the use of fossil fuels and replace them with technology that works today, such as photovoltaics and nuclear fission (in the interim). Aspirational projects that might possibly have a working proof-of-concept in a decade or five are not part of the solution to the climate crisis.
Ask HN: Do you know any computer language where collections are unified?
In most languages creating array, list, set, mapping, usually requires different code to create them and to access them.

Do you know any language where you create generic collection and just specify what you require of it?

For example, you might specify that you require collection to be indexed with numbers, and have quick access to elements by their index. Or have ability to add element at the end quickly or have the ability to find next element quickly. Or have elements with quick parent access, or quick children access, or quick arbitrary inserts or you want collection to be indexed multidimensionally.

Language itself would pick the right algorithms for your collection for example picking fixed length immutable array (for the purposes of iteration), but also set (for quickly checking presence of element).

Creation, access and writing should be kept as similar as possible with different algorithms.

This system should of course be extensible. So that you could implement fast access to elements by creating and updating various task specific indexes into your data and have them available though built in language syntax.

The only thing that comes to my mind that somewhat attempted this is C++ template library, which offers various collections and iterators while trying to keep the interface mostly algorithm agnostic.
Google says that was used it BBS from the 80s and 90s. I wouldn't call it modern.
Take care, hope the quiet holds!
This is a pretty good post about the question: https://jaygraber.medium.com/web3-is-self-certifying-9dad77f...
> I get the feeling much of academia shuts down such attempts to preserve their grip on knowledge and thus their authority

There might be fields like that, but in biology, it really just is that we've accumulated so much knowledge over the past 150 years that I genuinely can't explain modern CRISPR research to a layperson until they've taken courses in molecular biology, microbiology, chemistry, genetics and biochemistry (or the equivalent amount of self-study).

The field is genuinely vast and complex, and there's no way to hide that complexity behind an abstraction without being misleading.
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