skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A few minutes of work" is entirely disingenuous and misrepresents the problem at hand.

"Blockchains" are not just distributed databases. They are also distributed, open APIs, and consensus mechanisms for updating and managing the functionality that controls those APIs and the data that they produce.

I think about it this way: if you have one company that creates a database that many people use to build businesses around, then that company now holds a lot of power over the people who chose to build there. I believe that those people should have a say in the direction of the APIs that input/retrieve data, and ultimately should have some say in how long that database persists. The idea that we allow single entities to permanently control datasets seems absurd to me.

Now, from an engineering management perspective, think about how you manage multiple teams who have different agendas, different priorities, and different needs for those APIs and the child data. How do you govern that? How do you ensure that all nodes that replicate this data set and the APIs are up to date and not doing funny business?

This is all stuff that the decentralized community (web3) is trying to figure out together. It's DEEPLY interesting and ABSOLUTELY not "a few minutes work".
They're in the list, do you not see them?
I'm pretty sure we've moved past the need for nuclear. Renewables just work well enough. Given a better grid and sufficient overbuilding, combined with some storage (probably pumping water uphill) we can be on fuel free electricity.
I understand the criticism of AirPods. The Pros sound quite a bit better, you are absolutely right about that. I have no particular appreciation for them. (Their microphones make my life difficult, for example.) But, and I mean this intensely, few technical topics are worth dealing with jerks on the internet, and any misapprehension on this is probably my fault--I feel like I nerd-sniped you by engaging with the claim in question when it Absolutely Does Not Matter.

Forgive me if I misunderstand but it seems as though you're taking my post as some sort of appreciation for mediocre audio quality, and that isn't the point. It's not that there are "better" things to argue about--it's that there are less grinding people to discuss things with. It's not being "high and mighty" to not engage with people who are doing their best to make shitty the experience of engaging with them. The OP wanted to know why they were getting downvoted and the behavior, not the position, is the problem.

I'm far from perfect and I can be exhausting to deal with at times; I recognize this and I try to lay off the throttle. But I feel like HN is the only place I hang out on the internet where I find people who unironically act this way and then complain that nobody wants to interact with them. I may be very fortunate in that regard.
Sure, I don't disagree with that.
Why is this on hn front page? There is no need in giving attention to stories like this. This is nothing but short-lived internet drama that's easy to make fun of.
Maybe I missed it from skimming the article... How is the performance using the new JS engine compared to the previous one?

I seem to remember Sciter being super performant compared to regular web rendering engines.
That HN universally eschews Web3 should be an indication that there is something of value to be found in it.
'Winnie-the-Pooh' and Other Creations Are Entering the Public Domain
Checking the excerpt online, does this book include glorification of the military?
I recommend picking an area of your life you want to improve on the most, preferably one where you feel you’re not progressing fast enough.

Weight = “body”. Depression/burnout = “mind”. Other themes I’ve seen picked are specific countries (for language), or culture in general, or “year of zen” to learn how to deal with stress etc.
A problem with installation is that torque is only a proxy for tension. Torque alone is not incredibly accurate, so there are a lot of cases that could benefit from an easier way to accurately indicate tension than by externally measuring the stretch of the bolt (which often is not an option)
I have personally focused on C/C++, but I would say that Lisp has more natural interpretation to the way that processors and compilers work best. The last 20-40 years have been focused on making them work well for C/C++, which is made for a very simple type of processor, but it hasn’t been a great fit. Modern compilers look at C code and attempt to recognize intent rather than translate to instructions, and then even the processor re-orders everything based on guesses, whereas Lisp is more like a direct declaration of that intent, although somewhat more limited.

Stepping back, there may be some merit to going directly at the assembly. It would not surprise me if computer architects and programmers of the future could align to basically eliminate the concepts of compiler, optimizer, superscalar pipeline, re-order buffer etc. Its really getting ridiculous.
Banks, at least in my country, can choose to accept incoming or outgoing financial transactions. Worse, governments have the rights to seize your assets, close your bank accounts, etc. Not sure any of that is better. I'd rather have Google shut my account down with no recourse.

It's all shitty and it's all infuriating.
https://archive.is/UTQUO
I'm one of those people in a better-insuring job, and I still see a lot of thievery happening in plain sight. I recently had a telemedicine visit with my doctor, and the hospital sent me a separate "facility fee" bill for that. Apparently because the doctor was in his office at the hospital, I need to pay out-of-pocket for this non-medical facility charge. Since it's non-medical, my health insurance company doesn't even negotiate a rate for that charge, let alone pay it.

Fortunately my state requires that such fees be disclosed to the patient ahead of time, so I'm going to send in a written complaint pointing to that law and count on this fee being reduced or dismissed. However the fact that I even have to be able to find, interpret, and apply that law is a systemic failure.
I've had a good experience on the _buyer_ side with https://www.saatchiart.com
But they will send collections after you long before that no? It happened to me (Scrips, CA), while we were trying to negotiate payment with the hospital and the bill was only $500 - I didn't want to pay it out of principal because we were told it was $150 flat rate at the time of service... they were very quick to pull the trigger.

Is it at all advisable to ignore collections and risk court appearance?
I have a few simple plans:

Grow my education business - https://learnetto.com

Play music with my kids.

Travel and see more of my friends and family.

Happy new year, HN!
Music now in the public domain from first January, 2022
No pricing on the site, but I hope it's in the region of five thousand wrappages of Cardassian yamok sauce for a hundred gross.
> Okay but instead of it being known to just say one company, anything on the block chain is known to everyone.

Bitcoin != blockchain. Technology exists [1] to store data on the blockchain in a private manner without sacrificing its decentralized nature.

[1]: https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/ringCT.html
> The central bank considers it important “to use these new technologies and latest-generation payments infrastructure as valuable options to advance financial inclusion in the country,” the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said in a tweet late Wednesday.

Inclusion may be a consideration, but I suspect the real motivation is to allow the Bank of Mexico to more directly manipulate the real economy by disintermediating private banks. Instead of private banks holding an account at the Bank of Mexico with the private sector holding accounts at a private bank, the private sector would hold its money in a token created by the central bank. Private banks would then become custodians of the token because the average person is incapable of managing cryptographic keys.

To "inject" money into the economy, the central bank need only issue more tokens and credit them to each citizen directly. This avoids the many plumbing issues of government transfers we witnessed during 2020-2021.

In other words, CBDCs are a necessary development along the path to Universal Basic Income.
Just have them pay double the difference to reporter in fines.
If we, back in 1982, encrypted a document using triple-key 3DES, proposed in 1981, using CTR mode (1979), with a unique random key, storing the key using RSA-1024 (1977), that document would still be secure today. Even though DES came from NIST and the NSA.

Even if it’s a large document. Sweet32 really only works for CFB mode; while there are Sweet32-based attacks against CTR mode, they are a lot more difficult and often times not practical. I’m, of course, not advocating using 3DES, Blowfish, IDEA, or any other 64-bit block size cipher in a new system in 2022, but even ancient 3DES documents would still be secure today in many use cases.
I bootstrapped for ~2 years. Then raised two VC rounds. What exactly do you want to know? Your questions are a bit too generic to answer.
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Not OP but no. If someone buys in to a multi-level marketing scheme and starts peddling weight loss pills on Facebook, they certainly have spent real money on that and yet it is not a worthy cause because their only expectation is profit. NFTs have the possibility that the buyer is just genuinely a collector with no concern whatsoever for the value of the asset, but art collection is largely a financial venture. Not to mention that this simple art purchase contributed to higher gas fees for everyone else - why should we have to suffer just because you purchased something? - I don’t consider that a worthy “cause” at all.

In this space, you can donate to the EFF, sponsor open source projects, use services with subscription models over advertising models, donate to charities expanding internet and computing access globally, etc. which are all more “cause worthy” than buying digital art alone.
Mystery solved! https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026
Random predictions (USA centric):

- First completely port-less iPhone released (no sim slot, no lightning port).

- NYC's MTA increases fare price to $3. OMNY overtakes metrocard usage with the addition of weekly/monthly/unlimited passes. Reduced fair options are still available for those who qualify.

- Monero gets listed on a major crypto exchange (Coinbase, Gemini...).

- React server components are released causing another surge in JS frameworks.

- Democrats lose majority in House and Senate.

- Russia invades Ukraine with no push back.

- A Freak natural disaster hits in a completely unexpected place.
I think web3 means, most generally, decentralized Internet without big tech. How can this be achieved? By people sharing their computer/internet resources instead of relying on big tech servers. Why would they do that? Because they will receive incentives in the form of digital currency. Who will pay those incentives? People investing dollars into digital coins with speculative purposes and people providing services for digital coins.
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Doesn't surprise me because desktop email clients suck.

I have a license for EM client, which is a lot like "Outlook that doesn't crumble when you get 100 emails a day"

It still sucks. Every desktop email client has the problem that emails are hard to find and "disappear", not permanently, but when you need to find them in a hurry.

My wife uses the webmail client from Fastmail and has no trouble digging her email out when she spaces it for a few weeks. Sometimes I think about switching back.
Do you mean non-transferable not non fungible?
You can make that, for example to use as NTFs for permissions to enter a DAO where membership is not transferrable.
RR kicks serious ass. My only regret is that it can't be used on most of the embedded targets I develop for. (Although getting a gdb connection to such targets is itself a battle sometimes)
Yes, that seems like a cheaper option; however, I think when you have constant stresses over time, bolts can stretch or simply parts can wear over time and a paint score or even a frozen nut won't reveal lessened tension. Though maybe in this case the issue would have become a concern way before the bolts start to indicate a problem?
>pontification of impending doom from back when CB radio happened

OTOH, does the technology matter (especially WRT immersiveness)? Social media has been charged with multiple measurable societal ills that wouldn't have been conceivable with CB radio.

If the "metaverse" does fulfill its promise, sharply ratcheting up that immersiveness further still, is there any cause for concern?
Better better version:

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, and…what did you ask me again?
>Google

I don't think that helps the Web3 argument. Google has made a choice, whereas crypto it is a technical limitation (or, to some, a feature). It also isn't a very good talking point to say "it's no worse than Google"

Crypto needs to develop a better balance between bad 2FA with loop holes on the traditional side and absolute loss on the crypto side before a lot of people would feel comfortable with it. Maybe that should be one of its target killer apps.
Thiel is one of those people who genuinely concerns me.

He has become almost a magnet for some incredibly shady characters the past few years with this just being the latest example.

Then I feel like everything I have ever read about him from the gawker incident onwards just paints the picture of someone who and is fuelled by spite and further power.

The part that worries me in particular is that he is by all accounts extremely competent. But in just a few years he has managed to make this transition from successful tech entrepreneur type to someone who is now deeply entrenched in some key parts of society (law enforcement, intelligence community and politics) all while continually making statements that indicate psychopath like tendencies.

He genuinely seems like the absolutely last person you would want involved with any of those groups unless your politics happen to perfectly match up.
decentralized?? bro what are you talking about
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Based on the full article below: nothing to see here. Researcher tested positive after 7 days of being in Antarctica, after a negative PCR test at day 5. Slow incubation period, unexpected but not impossible
Just like guns and alcohol, right? You're refusing to actually think about this.
I agree with you.

My original thought was to help people better negotiate at the local hospital/health system by knowing what other people pay.

Perhaps like financial and tech firms, paying fines would just get rolled into the ledger as a cost of operating.
You forgot text encodings, endianess, ...
While I agree it's a good default to assume good faith, there has to be a point where we assume a specific person is arguing in bad faith. I'm not advocating assuming everyone who disagrees with me is disingenuous, but merely that it seems some people are.
Shell game street fraud (with cups and balls) is also "smart" in some way, but it's not really the right thing to do.
ok but who cares if crypto is legit or not. As long as you make money from it? I thought that was the whole game. Yes from the next sucker who will pay more than you , once you figure this out you game the system and make a profit. And move to the next game. I like his blog post. Understand the rules of the game and be a better player.
Exactly. Whither Tipper and Al and their PMRC?

And it continues today. People want to censor some songs, but not others, because presumably some are offensive in different ways.
Cooking for others. Drop off a surprise bag of home-made bagels for a breakfast, make soup for a sick person, call someone and ask them to come over for coffee and cake. Or sump'n.
I just use the LLVM toolchain -- on Windows and Linux. You really can't beat clang and lld, the ecosystem and tooling is fantastic.

If something absolutely requires MSVC ABI compatibility, I use "clang-cl".

God bless LLVM developers.
Now that you mentioned it… fine art serves a purpose of legal tax avoidance, and NFTs can do that too if they get dialed in just right.
Bluetooth needs to be replaced with:

Something allows a device to select what it connects with. I have a laptop, tablet and phone with me most of the time and managing the connection by disconnecting via the laptop/phone/tablet/car/whaever is silly - sometimes you have to kill bluetooth on two or three devices to get the device you want connected.

Something that has high quality audio in headset mode.

Something that makes data sharing easy. Having 500 different apps that must be the same on both ends of the connection so send a file or three is silly.
Regarding 1: Sure the game itself is centralized, for example Axie Infinity might even ban players who "cheat" according to their definition of cheating. So if you are a bad apple or get banned without justification, then block chain won't help you.

If however (some years down the line) the original game creator abandons the game, any group of people could jump in and revive the game (by re-creating or updating it or doing something completely novel) based on the state that is still available on the block chain.
Speaking of Click:

"Docopt, and many tools like it, are cool in how they work, but very few of these tools deal with nesting of commands and composability in a way like Click. To the best of the developer’s knowledge, Click is the first Python library that aims to create a level of composability of applications that goes beyond what the system itself supports.

Docopt, for instance, acts by parsing your help pages and then parsing according to those rules. The side effect of this is that docopt is quite rigid in how it handles the command line interface. The upside of docopt is that it gives you strong control over your help page; the downside is that due to this it cannot rewrap your output for the current terminal width, and it makes translations hard. On top of that, docopt is restricted to basic parsing. It does not handle argument dispatching and callback invocation or types. This means there is a lot of code that needs to be written in addition to the basic help page to handle the parsing results.

Most of all, however, it makes composability hard. While docopt does support dispatching to subcommands, it, for instance, does not directly support any kind of automatic subcommand enumeration based on what’s available or it does not enforce subcommands to work in a consistent way."

https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/8.0.x/why/#why-not-doco...
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Mac wants the flamethrower!
While all large farms are family farms as well, the total number of such large farms is, what, 10,000 in the USA? By a bunch of very rich people? The exact people who don't need their lifestyle subsidized by people in urban areas to keep living in the country otherwise they'll move away and stop growing our food.
> I, however, have more faith in other people, and am fine placing trust—to varying degrees—in others.

That's one perspective, another is: privilege.
Someone’s hood or frunk opening is a genuinely dangerous problem.

And we have regulation because not all adults know how dangerous the problem is.
What a rug pull. This is something expected from one man distros but it suck for everyone to be tossed into what now pile.
If you ask me it's the battery and the update process that is holding it back. I swore off of Apple earpods after a firmware updated basically made it useless for me and a whole load of first gen Airpod users. Will not buy anything expensive that I have to trash whole after the battery dies out. Apple never addressed the firmware issue either.
All of those are very simple consequences of marginalist dynamics.

It has been a long time since I have read it, but it's nice to see Adam Smith was so close to the answer centuries before people started distorting the problem politically and got all those obviously wrong but mainstream answers.
This is the same blame the victim line of thinking that cigarette companies perfected to get out of any responsibility for killing millions of people. It’s a Dark Pattern and we need to stop repeating it.

This notion that people don’t “have to use OSS” is demonstrably false. As is the “build a better mousetrap” aphorism that was so common during the dot com bubble. It can be true when there is one OSS tool in a space, but every tool eventually becomes a monopoly, or part of an oligarchy. There is not space in a grocery store for an infinite variety of soda (though by god do they try). There are many you will never have heard of because the noise ratio has climbed too high. Every. Single. Solution is an opportunity cost.

Same is if all of my friends try to throw a party in the same week. Nobody is going to all of them, and most people are only going to one. Some might not go to any for fear of picking wrong, and just opt out and do their own thing. If they go to the worst one then they missed out on a good time. That is partially on the host, yes. I don’t owe you an amazing time, but I owe you a not awful one.

I can’t sell a tool that minifies JavaScript files. That is a comoditized space. If all the tools suck? I’m entitled to be a little upset about it, and who are you to tell me otherwise? DevEx matters and many people still don’t try, at all.
I think you are right about high cost vs low cost plans. The low cost plans routinely get the worst rates... Kind of the opposite of price discrimination if those buyers are poor. This recent WSJ article might be of interest:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospital-prices-healthcare-insu...
Out of curiosity, on a somewhat related topic, have you tried nord-lock washers [1] in any of your applications? We looked at them for a small work boat we designed and built, but they were a bit pricey and it was just a prototype, so we ended up just using a dab of lock tight to avoid vibration. Was always curious to find someone who had practical experience with these things. I may use them on an upcoming autonomous boat project where there's nobody around to do rounds and tighten loose bolts that have shaken loose unexpectedly.

1. https://www.nord-lock.com/nord-lock/products/washers/
Again, none of this can be defined so absolutely. That is my point. And all of the things you mention are already regulated (gambling, etc.), or under consideration for regulation (such as New York City banning soda [0]).

I'm not saying that I'm for or against these regulations, but obviously there are boundaries where society needs to intervene, in one way or another. Portugal handled their drug problem in a very innovative way [1], and that's my preferred modal for ending the "drug war" (decriminalization and support for addicts). But it's still some form of regulation.

[0]: https://globalyouth.wharton.upenn.edu/articles/big-gulp-new-...

[1]: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2018/10/portugal-opioid
Sure, but where is that pure standard implemented?
can you share some of events/incidents that showed the concerning traits you mentioned?
Also, who are the shady characters he had associated himself with?