skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone already did Web3 a long time before Gavin Wood supposedly coined it (he didn't).

People were writing about Web 3, aka Web 3.0, two decades back. It was supposed to be about the semantic Web and various related concepts that would revolutionize information and knowledge systems.

The tech industry hype machine is a self-humiliating con machine more often than not. Web3 should be aggressively mocked to the extent the clown parade attempts to use it to hype more shit.

It was not uncommon to write about it as of 2009-2011. Even CNN wrote an article about it circa 2009:

"Web 2.0 is so over. Welcome to Web 3.0"

https://money.cnn.com/2009/01/07/technology/hempel_threepoin...

(yeah but, uhhhh, if we call it Web3 then it's totally different from calling it Web 3.0 and not so embarrassing mkay)
Rich people decide what happens in every system of trade and governance.

"Communist" China is a lot better if you're rich. So is "socialist" Europe. So is "capitalist" America.

The -isms have never really mattered.

The golden rule truly is "whoever has the gold makes the rules".
There are surely some fundamental problems in a society if an average person can't enjoy a decent life without being in debt.

Just pay off the money and then you're out, right?
The consensus among distributed systems people without a financial stake in it seems to be that practical proof of stake remains an open problem. Obviously no one that owns SOL or DOT or ADA or whatever is going to say that, but I’ve looked hard for a scalable, secure, reasonably cost effective PoS L1 and come up empty so far.
Different people have different expectations of their environment and those expectations are likely to change throughout their life, but blanket statements like "people need suburbs" is a bit much. Personally, I think they're the worse of all worlds. Suburbs combine the worse aspects of urban life and the worse aspects of rural life, then try to present themselves as some sort of idyllic compromise.

I'm going to make a claim that you'll probably think is absurd: there is far more in common between a small town and a big city than there is between a small town and the suburbs. A small town and a big city are places where people live. People know each other because they see each other on the street as they go to work or get groceries. They meet each other in local businesses or community centres. Suburbs are simply places where people have their homes. Everything else takes place elsewhere. People are unlikely to know someone a block or two over, unless their kids go to the same school, simply because they never encounter each other on the streets and their lives are completely divergent outside of their (so called) community.
San Francisco is a place where a Marxist-Leninist seeking elected office as the top prosecutor thought the most viable strategy for obtaining this position was to highlight how his parents, who are convicted murderers, were the real victims, while never once mentioning those they aided in the murder of.

If a conservative talk radio host had made up such a story five years ago about how extreme the San Francisco electorate is, it would be seen as outlandish even by Republicans.
I think this should be https://blog.klipse.tech/book/2021/12/19/100-things-I-learne...

100% agree with 37 & 38:

> 37. AsciiDoc rocks!

> 38. PlantUML rocks!
I'm getting so annoyed at companies requiring a phone number and then forcing MFA on me with it.

If you're going to force MFA on users give them another option besides receiving a text message or phone call. I don't want to live with my phone attached to my body at all time, sometimes I just want to log in without having to go find where I left it. I have Yubikey, let me use that, or worst case, send a code to my email.
You're right. I must have forgotten to convert the result back to percentage.
It's a bit more nuanced than that as there's just a subset of all possible nuclear power plant designs that needs the same enrichment facility than for military (bomb making) usage.
It’s not unusual: in Israel the names of your parents are written in your ID.
While true, vehicle dependency is a serious societal problem in North America that needs to be fixed. This is partially the reason. Nobody should need a personal vehicle in order to be able to live a baseline satisfactory life.
The father of web5 has spoken!
Air conditioning is rare in South African homes. They keep cool in the summer by opening their windows and doors, and with swimming pools.

South African businesses, however, almost all have air conditioning.
I think people are aware of that. The hard part is the question of how to solve it.
I'm returning a newly purchased 12.9" iPad Pro because the user experience is so awkward. Content is too small, the viewing area is too large, and the balance is awful on the $300 keyboard stand. I might swap for the 11".

I have a 39" 4k that I divide like you've described, two full width terminals on either side in pillar box framing my work area.

The 4:3 display is also why I initially considered a Framework laptop, but after exploring their performance and limitations, I'd rather just buy the panel and cyberdeck it for a fifth of the cost.
The military provides your clothes, your housing, your food, your laundry, your transport, your healthcare, and your chaplain. They can control your schedule 24 hours a day, decide who you're allowed to call or write to and what you're allowed to say, and decide what electric appliances you're allowed in your quarters. They can change your place of work to a foreign country, prevent you from resigning, and even literally have you imprisoned or executed.

While in some regards the military is like an employer, in other regards it's very different.
The comment you’re replying to is poking fun at a gag project; but I agree with you as well.

The ETH chain was about 500 gigs over the summer when I synced a full node, but it was growing fast. The amount of data stored is monotonically increasing for every full node in the network. You also need fast storage, you can’t use dirt cheap spinning platters. Maybe it won’t grow faster than storage cheapens, but I’m not sure I’d make that bet.
I though about a slightly different thing: Fourier series with rational coefficients, which I believe is not the same as simply Q times pi. Sin(x) has nothing to do with pi, apart from the fact it becomes 0 at pi times n, which seems irrelevant. It was based on an assumption that the nature is all-waves, so these components would pack our “synthetic, infinite” R (which we try to get rid of itt) naturally into these waves and then the computation would be left with just coefficients and their relations. The problem of iterations disappears, because instead of collecting a decimal error, we would collect more and more sines, as if they were fundamental, like sort of ‘i’, but many of them. But if you speak and think only sines, then the problem of unfolding them doesn’t exist. sin 3/4x + 1/7 sin 1/3x would be a simplest answer (an “anyternion”), probably written as (1,3/4)+(1/7,1/3) because these are the irreducible resulting wave parameters and sin is just an implied concept.

Anyway, it’s a stupid layman’s theory. I’m pretty sure that a parallel/on-demand digit computation in R-based models is much easier than trying to get rid of philosophically infinite things which in practice do not matter that much.
Don't disagree, but you won't get a paycheck standing on principle here.
It's indeed not a problem if the Wayland sessions wouldn't become the default in mainstream distributions and these pesky HiDPI displays didn't become more affordable and popular among users.

Don't get me wrong, the blame is squarely on the Java ecosystem that is too slow to keep up with the progress, Wayland developers did great job. The problem is that we still use some of that Java software, or some of that GTK2 software (GIMP), so it's better to accomodate the needs of that software, even if just temporarily.
Yes, there's definitely some degree natural immunity. There's mixed evidence as to whether it's stronger[0] or weaker[1] than full vaccination, but it's definitely better than nothing.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34735425/

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.12.21263461v...
Depends on if you can afford bankruptcy. I have a friend from high school who went through bankruptcy for medical debt. All it took was their landlord not renewing their lease for them to be homeless afterwards, because no one else would rent to them with a recent bankruptcy on their credit report. They don't make enough money for that bankruptcy to not have ruined their life.
> Needing to be root is a major deficiency though

Note: Linux also needs root for its namespaces. Or at least CAP_SYS_SYSADMIN, which grants enough that it's pretty much as good as root. See setns(2) and clone(2) for details. This is one of the complaints the plan 9 people have always had with Linux namespaces.
I think this might be a newer problem than 1996 actually. I have seen an awful lot of "modern" (2010s at least) devops which runs everything as root because the developer could not be bothered to understand the unix permissions model. I would guess that focus on security is something that waxes and wanes, rather than something that monotonically becomes more important in the culture.
What would be the improvement over a database?
putting it on a slick website instead of in a musty pawn shop in the bad part of town.
Fair enough, I haven’t figured out the exact breakdown from that link, although it seems fairly equally split to me.

Still, that map lends credence to my initial gut feeling, that defending China’s porn ban to someone with a seemingly Western perspective by saying it’s banned in a lot of other places too probably isn’t very effective - they most likely feel the same about these laws where they exist in the rest of Asia, Eastern Europe and in Africa, too. Presumably they’re comparing China to Western Europe and the US here.
The biggest issue I have with these analogies is that cells and organisms proliferate. It would be like a computer copying both its hardware and software to create new computers. This behavior is central to understating biology and absent in computer science
>Student loans (which are much lower interest rate and nothing like these loans)

Yo, student loan rates are like 7%. It's not a payday loan, but it is still essentially unfinanceable.
LOL as if coining that term was a positive qualification.
So if they didn't create a new user account and IAM account what would you see? If they just used the remote shell and the installed aws cli e.g. `aws s3 ls` would you be able to detect it?
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I'm installing heat pumps in the US.

* I'm tired of tenants installing window air conditioners.

* I pay for steam heat myself whereas tenants will pay for electricity used by their heat pump.
Three cheers, thank you for the nice exchange! Happy upcoming Holidays. I'll (obviously) post on HN if anything comes out of this.
Hawkins has been on Lex Fridmans podcast at least twice now. I think the first one is when he dives into this a bit. I don’t know where he’s at in the spectrum between right and wrong but i found that his ideas mapped well to my subjective experience of thinking, particularly the hierarchical reference frame concepts.
I highly recommend “Debt: The First 5000 Years” by late anthropologist David Graeber. He does a good job of highlighting the oddities of our existing financial system by comparing it to others throughout human history.
What's wrong with Cardanos consensus protocol as an L1?
> Student loans (which are much lower interest rate and nothing like these loans) can’t be discharged in bankruptcy but even those are open to modification or discharge in the event of hardship.

Student loans are not so easily discharged. Yes, in theory they can be written off in cases of "undue hardship." But in practice, good luck finding an attorney willing to take your case.
Trinidad and Tobago might as well threaten the world as well with some weird clause. Fact is that EU GDPR has zero application here in the states.
that was just a simplified example. they're basically saying you don't need gender dysmorphia to occassionally act like another gender because the genders aren't binary to begin with. something more easily acceptable in a culture that never adopted the binary concept.

its more analogous to nonbinary. the rest of us that care to validate this just say nonbinary. the people that aren't trying to take hormones to pass as a different gender, but wish to be called "they" anyway
Is it related to expert systems?
What does it mean "just too far away". It's gonna be much closer than a lot of airports e.g. London Stansted

I do not support any party
> I’m seeing posts here making it sound like 36% APR is acceptable. Look up usury folks. This is it. Debt that is intentionally structured so that it can never be repaid and keeps the borrower harnessed to the cart.

This is Brazil or Mexico. Or payday loans. It's emphatically not America at large unless you live in SF.

Please leave your bubble.
Huh? How does distributing new coins help with maintaining the do-not-call list?
I don't think so. The remaining countries in that area are not very pro-Russian. Thinking of the Baltics, Romania..

It's one thing to take a territory where most of the population wants you there. It's another to take an unwilling territory by force.

But it will lead to more military tension all over Europe that's for sure.
Nuclear waste from commercial reactors in the US is not fissile. Reprocessing would change that (producing plutonium), but that's why we don't have fast breeders in the US (personally, I favor changing that). I'm aware of no enrichment facilities co-located with nuclear power plants, certainly not in the US.
Why would you make ten bike trips back and forth to the grocery store that you pass every day on your way home from work?
>The US has relatively generous bankruptcy laws. Many people go through bankruptcy and rebuild their credit over several years.

Not for student loans.

https://bostonstudentloanlawyer.com/the-death-and-bankruptcy...

Like federal student loans, private student loans typically cannot be discharged in bankruptcy (although it is not impossible).
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Many (although not all) private student loans have this tiny little clause, often hidden away in the obscure depths of the promissory note (the loan contract that you signed, but probably didn’t read, when you first got the loan). The clause basically says the following (and I’m paraphrasing here): If the co-signer or the borrower dies or declares bankruptcy, the entire balance of the loan will be come due immediately.
> PayPal has begun to be perceived as one of the most customer un-friendly companies around... People are waking up to this

Begun? Is the perception now any different than it was e.g. 10 years ago? I feel it's always been the same.
Another cool thing about jails is that they're really easy to convert to bhyve virtual machines if your security needs or general paranoia levels increase at any point.
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Xi'an: Chinese city of 13M under lockdown as Covid cases rise
I write Python for a living but it is hard to get excited about. Even when I'm doing cool stuff with it I'm using pyspark API to call a Scala endpoint.
The language itself lacks a personality from my POV. Jack of all trades but master of none.
> But is it also not our responsability to properly understand the tools we use?

For that, those who built the tools must communicate how the tools work. It's not our responsibility, nor is it even possible, to read the mind of the people who made the tools.
I dont think discrimination solves discrimination
The cons makes search totally useless.
> Congregating in groups outside is frowned upon and likely to garner harassment by police

Making it that much worse -- there are no public indoor spaces but libraries.
I have to wonder about the glide ratio. All those fans will probably create a ton of drag. If for some reason you have a complete power/engine(s) failure, that thing is likely to become a lawn dart.

At least with a helicopter you can autorotate if you lose your engine. Unless this plane will get an airframe parachute, I would not fly in it.
Very nice blog! I was looking at Signal with their closed-doors development these days, and you have no idea of how much a post from time to time detailing the progress makes means for someone willing to contribute.

Some of the most exciting features for me are:

- Dendrite: we really need some efficient replacement for Synapse

- Sync V3 and Fast Joins: it will erase the feeling of slowness when I open the web client

- MLS: It will help to scale E2EE groups [1] (remember the 256 limit in WhatsApp groups ?)

- P2P: We received this year a first glance of what a network of Bluetooth Low-Energy devices can do with the Apple Find My network. A true p2p instant messaging system is not just a dream anymore.

- Metaverse, file storage: I have no idea if they will accomplish any of them, but having a new non-profit working in the field is always welcome.

[1] https://i.blackhat.com/USA-19/Wednesday/us-19-Robert-Messagi...
I understand. I had no idea how heavily this was politicized.

For us the DNC thing was just in the news when it happened and quickly overwhelmed by other news in that period.

Thanks for the links, I don't have time now but I'll read them in the days to come. I want to know more about this case. Especially because we use the product at work.
Monthly or biweekly seems to be the most common.
Can you send a file that big on Whatsapp?
In fact, they were proper names of different deities. Unlike El, Yahweh was envisioned as a storm god in the early literature, one among many Canaanite gods and goddesses including El, Asherah and Baal. Eventually, Yahweh and El were conflated, and became chief among gods. But Yahweh/El was not the only god worshiped, not until Elijah rose to prominence. For a very long time, Yahweh/El was not the only God, just the only one that had any sympathy for the Israelites.
Nice work, I guess, but ignores that the virus is airborne.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...
>This is Brazil or Mexico. Or payday loans. It's emphatically not America at large unless you live in SF.

Payday loans are America at large. And don't forget Credit Cards rates.
How are health checks supposed to help when you can't do anything?
Songs are probably the easiest.
It is. The expectation in an E2EE room is that everything that happens there is E2EE.

Breaking this expectation is a massive red flag, particularly because Matrix is often chosen with this expectation at the core of the decision.
Federal loans are actually sitting under 4% and private rates range all the way down to about 3%

Source: https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/current-interes...

Of course it's always possible to go find higher rates depending on the situation, but the averages are closer to 3-4% than 7%.
I made a purchase with my MIL's credit card on my account. It got blocked because of the name mismatch and they asked for bank statement for proof. The card got stolen in the meantime, my MIL lost the last bank statement for that card and she didn't have access to online banking.

They said they couldn't do anything unless I submitted the bank statement with the CC number. I told them to just delete all the cards from my account but that wasn't an option either.

That was around 5 years ago and I still don't have access to that account and I'm expecting to never be able to get in again.
> "and no loans around to distort prices."

As a result, private school remains kind of a luxury product for people who don't like the free public offering and can afford to pay to send their kids somewhere else.

I can only imagine that if we extended some version of our school loan program to primary/secondary education we would have a lot of highly indebted parents or, god forbid, children, and an explosion of private schools.

Ultimately, it would also drive prices up. The high end would need to be more exclusive (expensive) and everyone else would compete on perceived quality more than price.
I'm still trying to work out the numbers.

I'm quite surprised that Scandinavia is having even more problems than say the UK because you have rather a lot of useful topological features (really big hills and mountains and lakes at elevation - ie potential energy). You are also closer to the Ukraine than us for gas so that should be cheaper too.

Our consumer energy market is a bit strange. We have a national grid for eleccy and then have multiple "suppliers" who supposedly compete. The ones who went balls out have gone bust. They generally offered fixed and flexible rates based on the wholesale cost plus their margin. Then the wholesale cost went up rather a lot and they lost their margin and without money in the bank, they went bust. The govt agency for energy then enforced other suppliers to take us on. So I was a customer of "Green" and now I'm a customer of "Shell Energy". You can be sure that Shell are not losing out in any way 8)

I've just noticed that you use the term Nordic countries - is that a better/preferred term to use than Scandinavia?
> Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty does not have this reputation unlike Russia Today.

Wholly untrue and easily disproven.

RFE used to be one of the more important propaganda tool of the US against the Soviets. It was directly managed by the CIA until 1973.

If you look at their wikipedia page [1], you'll even see several references to it that used to be in their own "history" page. Strangely enough, all Wayback machine version now point to the current version since last year.

Nevertheless, at this point it's even been the subject of academic works [2].

RFE is now nominally financed by the US Congress, and overseen by a governmental agency called the Broadcasting Board of Governors, who are all directly named by the US president. The organisation it belongs to used to be called the United States Information Agency [3] until the 90's, and were the explicit international propaganda arm of the US. Trump changed the name and internal organistaion to the US Agency for Global Media [5].

It might not be an outright CIA shop anymore, but it is still following the editorial line of the US government at least as late as 2016 [6].

They also "coincidentally" often open subsidiary offices generally in the year before a conflict in the country next to said conflict (Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan and Iraq in 2002). Same for anti-communist revolutions, where RFE was instrumental for example in spreading the Romanian orphan story which led to the fall of Ceaucescu [7].

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Libert...

[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/43134017

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Information_Agen...

[4] https://www.csmonitor.com/1983/0620/062048.html

[5] https://www.usagm.gov/

[6] https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R43521

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_orphans
So where do you draw the line? Is there no sense of personal accountability? If someone screams doctor in a restaurant, I don't hold myself out as one. It's hard to feel sorry for people signing their names to attestations they know to be false.

Not to mention that in the current climate, limiting access to these markets would be interpreted as some conspiracy by the elite hedge funds or something. Look at how many call to remove qualifications to be come qualified investors.
I'm thinking back to the first time I cracked open a Java 101 book, which was a truly impenetrable and frustrating experience. I didn't even get the tooling stable enough to print hello world. It took me a few years later to engage with Code Academy to realize that programming is accessible and enjoyable.

So many of us owe you all a huge debt of gratitude. I have a stable career and lifestyle in part to your work which made programming accessible to people like me.