skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why consider data redundancy the use case at all? If you really care about a file you could always back it up on multiple local drives and email it to those who want it - that's not what Web3 or crypto is about. Its about the storage of valuable data i.e. data whose integrity holds a lot of value: Public keys, account balances, etc.

I'm interested in culling the superfluous aspects of crypto, heaven knows they exist, so if you want to be involved in helping with that you should first become more competent on the subject.
For me it's just cringe. Imagine a VC would start selling hash trees to programmers. That's the feeling that his blog post invokes.
Me too. Yesterday I was trying to add a second app (3 docker-compose services) to one of my 5$/mo droplets and it started impacting and slowing down the other app. Debugging was harder too and could affect both... Perhaps at some point I'll try it again.
Tesla to recall 475,000 cars in the US
I built a tool that uses AI to automatically compare smartphones and recommend the best one for your needs.

This makes manual phone comparison a thing of the past.

Check it out and share your feedback with me.

New product categories will be added soon.
The paradox would be “this prediction will be wrong”

“All predictions are false” could be wrong, because other predictions are right even though some are wrong.
9 years ago Valve launched Steam Community Market. Still running still making them stupid amounts of money and providing some value to consumers.

I see no reason why this blockchainless centralized solution couldn't be replicated by anyone else in industry... No need for NFTs. Just do it...
What if I told you people are lying pieces of shit, say that they care about animal welfare in surveys and then in the supermarket buy the cheapest brand anyway?
food packaging > consumer > trash > water supply > food > consumer
Great post! Thanks for sharing all the details.
You should seriously look at all the most popular windows laptops at online stores.
Just buy some, this is tiresome.
> It's totally unclear to me how you can make a technology business based on the geographical database.

Routing engine using pure OSM data can be fully proprietary and in case of using additional data it is enough to make that data available. There is no requirement to open processing tools.

Google can make GoogleWithoutGoogleData Map app using OSM data and keep it fully proprietary.

They could take OSM data for roads and land use and own for shops.

Though if they would start merging OSM data and own they would need to publish own data. It would likely apply in case of taking traffic data and using OSM road geometries to process it.

warning: I am not a lawyer.
I've recently used SQLite for my personal project rigfoot.com

It's a "read only" and small website (at least for now), with just a bunch of daily visitors, a perfect use case for SQLite.

Funny thing is that in my case the database it's so small that it's pushed directly on the repo.

Especially for startups and little projects, SQLite is your best friend.
The process is the punishment here. The only adequate protection against capricious prosecution is that in principle you can make a stink and vote out the elected officials abusing their power.
The problem is not the length of the types, but rather the number of "obligations" introduced by each type. If you have Foo<Bar<Baz>>, and each one of those types has a single trait bound, the resulting type now has >3 obligations to evaluate (> because you also have Sized and WF checks for them as well). The deeper the type depth, the more potential obligations you end up with, which have in some cases can have exponential evaluation. We have caching in place to only evaluate a given obligation once, but it can't always kick in. I'm sure there are still things we can improve there, though.
If only I knew... Might be worth reading de Tocqueville[0] again I guess.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America
I see a lot of crypto predictions so I'll offer my own.

NFTs will deflate as they're mostly useless and corps just want to build their own walled gardens anyways.

Bitcoin will go up as people continue to realize that a currency outside the grips of politicians is safer than any fiat in the long term.

ETH will successfully move to PoS and sharding to allow 100.000 transactions / second.
Spain most probably.
Beautiful and Informative Notebooks of 2021
I mean, theoretically a people could overthrow its government at any moment simply by virtue of outnumbering it. Even if the military technically outguns a militia consisting of every single citizen, they are usually fairly hesitant when ordered to shoot to kill their own people[0].

The dream of crypto libertarians isn't to eliminate the monopoly of violence but to get into the position of controlling it, or at least be exempt from it. A monopoly of violence doesn't work because it's a literal monopoly, it works because it is recognized and under capitalism the recognition is largely based on money.

Crypto currencies can be regulated, sure, but the goal of web3 isn't simply to have thousands of coins to speculatively invest in. The long goal of web3 is to move all public records (and really all documents controlling ordinary people's lives) on-chain so that "smart contracts" on the chain can supersede actual law by automated enforcement. Having extreme wealth (and thus controlling a significant share of the consent) can still exempt you from the negative effects but if smart contracts can shape reality because all software obeys them, you can effectively write your own laws.

[0]: A lot of US police training involves drawing explicit conceptual distinctions between LEOs (sheep dogs), civilians (sheep) and criminals (wolves), with civilians being potential criminals or "wolves in sheep's clothing" and being prone to "mistaking sheep dogs for wolves" because they're a bit dim. Military training on the other hand usually reserves this kind of in-group/out-group dehumanization for people from different countries (with drone strikes infamously counting unidentified casualties as presumed enemy combatants if they're "of fighting age").
We already have it - it’s the 3 branches of government that provide for an independent judiciary.
I can see more acceptance from Facebook, google and Amazon (market place), but Netflix and Apple?
House prices is an interesting one, regardless of where you are in the world. Where I am prices have skyrocketed (my flat which was 3,600,000 in 2017 is now "worth" nearly double that now - 6,900,000) and any time you mention to anyone that this looks like the insane growth we had in the UK and USA prior to the 2007 crash you get brushed off as a lunatic.
More than once
Scalable Linear Algebra on a Relational Database System (2020)
This is unfortunately just one of many examples of generally widespread malaise of conflating correlation with causality.

It is especially common in certain "sciences" which typically involve a lot of data collection. Followed by attempts to crunch it up into some kind of popular and far reaching conclusions, intended to fool the examiners into awarding a PhD.
MMR means monthly recurring revenue and I am the solo author
To differentiate between murder and manslaughter (say, due to negligence), the idea of intent (or state of mind) is taken into account.
> Google will buy Tiktok

And immediately change its name to Google Fun Videos, changing it to Google DanceParty™ six months later
> I think the only reason why anyone still argues whether 8GB of RAM is enough is because of Apple still offering this miserable amount of memory on their Mac's

I don't really agree with that. I bought a Windows PC in 2012 with 8GB RAM and connected it to my TV, for watching YouTube and general surfing. It's still going strong. Typing this reply using that computer. A dozen Chrome tabs open, Spotify playing etc. Currently 2.9 GB in use according to Windows 7 task manager (maybe Windows 10/11 would use more RAM?). I think 8GB is more than enough in 2021 if all you want to do is have a few Chrome tabs open, watch YouTube etc. Which is the target market for low-end Macs I reckon.
For context, I've been an early bitcoin core contributor and paid 7.5 btc for this old laptop.
In all fairness, I've only profited from btc and am still invested, but it doesn't change the conclusions I've had to accept.
Graphene is all fine and well but only has builds for a handful of models from a single manufacturer and the oldest model that they recommend using was released just 13 months ago, suggesting users will need to buy a new phone on a very regular basis.

It's not really relevant to this guide's "User and device requirement":

> ANY Android 9+ device (Android 10+ recommended for better security)
I think it's both sides, but asymmetrically: I'm not being paid to not (re-)invest into crypto, and while I might make less than the true believers, there's an incentive to not be idologically skeptical (unlike some narratives, nothing stops banks, notaries, paypal etc. from simply absorbing crypto instead of being replaced by it, cryptocurency coding isn't fundamentally more difficult than other payment and distributed systems).

But if you are invested into crypto, you have a double incentive for delusion: you need to convince yourself and others that it will grow so it can grow and for the price not too collapse.All while having to deal with the temptation to cash out.

If real value is created, this problem doesn't exist as much. And of course, I might be biased and this might be a just so story, but I buy it.
Could also be Greece, iirc they're still in slightly dire straits in terms of debt
It's a long article which says that Web3 is a database which nobody owns followed by a lot of hand-wavy stuff that you see everywhere else.

The worst part of this is that I feel like I could get dragged into this. That at some point I'll have no choice but to start digging into this and dedicate time to other stacks because the money behind Web3 succeeds in shoving it down everyone's throats.

This is someone talking about technology fixing problems, but ignoring the messy real world. For example, we have repeatedly seen how governments can control things which "nobody owns."

Another item which stood out was the idea of Web3 taking back control from the big tech companies. But if they are monopolies, then shouldn't it be the government which takes them down?
Maybe it depends on the region/prefecture, but after 3 years working in Japan, my experience is quite different. The project suffers massive delays because nobody wants to make any decision and take any responsibility. My former boss (Japanese, but had worked for many years in the US), told me that Japanese managers don't want to take risks, because if something fails they need to apologize in public, and that is pretty much social suicide there.
I read all this and after seeing all the workarounds and special fixes to get back to a good workflow he had on the mac... I just have one question: Why use a Mac?

So he likes the extra performance (which he won't use 99.99% of the time), and he likes the screen (why not use an external screen like most sane people?).

I still don't understand. Why give up the amazing arch Linux for shitty Mac OS? Makes no sense whatsoever.
There will be the start of a cloud exodus due to the high profile outages, associated negative PR from end users, the completely missing ROI resulting in a pile of consulting opportunities opening up.
Google and Facebook will simply adopt web3 if it takes off (see Facebooks existing attempts). So maybe, but less so
I will (finally) realized what to do with my life
But all other stock allocations are an arms length transaction; so all you've done is reframe the question to "why do the founders retain so much equity?"

Why dont seed fund demand 16% instead of 8%? Why doesn't the 6th employee demand 5% instead of 3%?
This is probably accurate but where's the fun in that!? :P
Sure, but typically they won't take your money before some court hearing, and at that hearing you just present the letter.
Then so is designing kitchen knives for humans, who have more homicides, than any other species.
...and society to run the internet you depend on
Out of curiosity do you MILP solvers in your day job and if so which ones?
I see exactly the same as you - located in EU.
That's a bit misleading though. The problem with header files is that they tend to get (textually) included in lots of compilation units, and hence rebuilt a lot of times. I did an experiment on a codebase at work where turning on unity builds -- so effectively everything is a single c++ file -- resulted in a 2x speedup in real time, and a 12x reduction in 'user' time.

Of course, such approaches lead to slower hot rebuilds. There's trade-offs worthy of a book. But the point is that C++ is only massively parallel by adding a lot of extra work.

This problem could be overcome by reducing the complexity of header files, but that's generally difficult if template-types are used. In general, the solution is to write code that's closer to C than C++ in the header files. In particular using opaque pointers to hide data.

We're actually seeing a very similiar problem in the linked article. The chief problem is monomorphization (~templates) and the solution is to use boxing (~data hiding via opaque pointers).
I’ve found MacPorts to be better at running multiple versions of packages simultaneously, for example at my last job I needed to have 3 or 4 different versions of PHP running at the same time and it was a bit of a pain to do that with Homebrew compared to MacPorts.

Homebrew will often give you a more user-friendly config out of the box, whereas MacPorts will often leave you to configure things yourself.

When installing binaries I’ve found MacPorts to be much faster, however it needs to build from source much more often than Homebrew (especially on ARM) which takes far longer.
No it doesn't. It just creates the illusion of this and allows you to build systems with different tradeoffs.
At this point they definitely understand how it works but they are choosing to prosecute anyways to cover their asses
This represents a sun will rise tomorrow type bet, though obviously not nearly as guaranteed but still looking good!
Ok, so how is this remotely the same as PCs being cheaper? Well because to some people this matters a great deal. Why? Because much of the power held by large companies (and by governments) comes from the fact that they operate and control databases.

What a naive and short sighted world-view this is, it's almost grotesque. No company or government derives its power from holding a big database. By the same argument it would follow that Venezuela must be a really wealthy country because it's got lots of oil. And it's the same kind of argument as saying Stripe or Paypal or some other Fintech got big because they had the idea of "enabling payments on the internet".

Power is derived from getting others behind a cause and then executing on it. That's it.
> “Typically, you’ll have two people unloading each truck. Where we want to get with Stretch is to have one person unloading four or five trucks at the same time, using Stretches as tools.”

That sounds really stressful for that one person. Great when everything runs smoothly, but the moment something breaks down you might easily get overwhelmed, unless there are more workers on-site that can be pulled in from other tasks.

Cool technology, though. Anything that reduces the necessity of people to work unpleasant jobs seems like generally a good thing.
Stock market will continue to be pumped up by the US government

Housing market will continue to be pumped up by the U.K. government

Covid will be declared “over” in at least one major western country (probably UK)
Become financially independent and not have to work.
I tend to disagree with this. I've optimized build times on number of occasions on different projects, each being in the venue of multi-million LoC, and none of them benefited greatly from employing precompiled headers, which essentially should help alleviate exact this gap.

Running the build with -ftime-trace almost always has shown in my experiments that the bottlenecks are either in exploding number of template instatiations or more often than not in linking time.
Echoing the sentiment here, this is a great way to host smaller projects on the cheap, without adding the complexity/price of k8s, Nomad et al!

I do the same, and have spent some time automating the backup of such a set of standalone containers [0], in case others also find it useful.

[0] https://github.com/jareware/docker-volume-backup
Microplastics are everywhere now. Even in the fruits and vegetables themselves.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/53195056
> there is rumoured to be one ready for release soon

Is it anything more than a speculation that it's possible in principle?
They are fringe, not mainstream, people who go there seek out that kind of garbage content.

It would be very different if the majority participated
"Secure connection failed". PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR
>and rename tricks don't work because locks apply to files, not inodes

My experience is opposite, you can rename a locked file and place a new file with the name of the former one.

Depends on the lock type, I suppose.
There's a typo in the title. Should be "your".
> Meta/Facebook will release some VR solution that fail to gain traction

Lol
End of day you have to deal with physics. All those bits have to be stored somewhere. Have we really reached the point where the Facebook database can be stored in a distributed system across personal devices? Hell no! As a matter of fact, being centralized, FB can store that amount of data more efficiently than any Blockchain can even dream about.
Never been to USA, however will surely travel there someday.
* Inflation will rise, central banks will ignore infltion to satisfy banks.

* Omicron will be over by april.

* There will be more advanced large ai models.

* Protein based covid vaccines which lasts longer will be in common use.
Since the ICO craze in 2017 I've seen countless ideas and millions spent trying to use blockchain and crypto for everything you could possibly imagine, and yet I don't see anything meaningful has ever came out of it, apart from get rich quick schemes, ponzis and some virtual novelty items.

Bitcoin has been around for 12 years, but in real life I don't know anyone who has ever used something crypto related for anything else than risky investment, or basically gambling. I'm very skeptical.
I haven’t read the article but event ticketing is broken in that a small subset of people scoop up the tickets and on sell (scalp) them for profit, if they fixed that it would a positive
LinusTechTips explain how the community is trying to save YouTube dislike count
Food is a "critical and immediate" need for the poor (vs. chronic lead exposure, flood-prone slums, high infant mortality, etc.). And the situation has very likely changed (both on the pandemic and government response sides) in the ~4 months since the article was written.

So - with no date in the submission's title, it is badly misleading to the 99% of HN readers who are just skimming through. Vs. clicking on and closely reading the article.

(No, I don't have an update. Clicking on the "Vietnam" link at the bottom of the article, I see that The Guardian has no update, either.)
I think the UK already made that declaration.
Base64 is a well-known plain-text encoding format. Using it as an encryption format violates privacy laws.
Thank you. I read that Google Voice only provides US numbers, which I have a sneaking suspicion might become a problem for me if my address is not in the US. Coupled with not really wanting to be locked in to Google for another service, I did some more research. A provider called Sonetel seemed to have decent reviews and had great pricing for what I needed, but when reading through their docs I noticed them say their numbers cannot be used for identity verification with third party services :( So it's back to the drawing board. But the whole idea of:

a) Not using my personal number for online services

b) Using a virtual number instead of a phone provider SIM

...seems worth pursuing. I think a) above is more important for me than b), but my current phone provider does not yet support eSIM and my phone does not support dual sim, and I really don't want to carry two phones around...
Ain't that the dream. Best of luck!
Nice! I do something similar for a few production applications, but I use docker compose to bring the services up, so I don’t have to create the networks manually or remember all the command arguments. Works great.
Interesting how many comments here mention Bitcoin. The media and public discourse saturation of this topic seems to be at the top.
Bootstrapped all my life, raising first time
Guys - I have Bootstrapped businesses mostly and have done okay. Now building a dev platform for the digital health tech teams and raising seed. Never raised so consider myself not so good in raising funds, need help on pitch deck, may be connecting to the right investors, anyone up to help?
Oh no! It’s actually not the same Noah Glass, even though I’ve thought so for years, damn.

Thanks for pointing that out.
> I hope it cheers you up next time you feel down at work: you are still human, a soldier in this fight.

We're all tiny hydrogen nuclei churning around in the high-pressure stellar core of our corporate psychic prisons, waiting until we burn up or the whole things goes nova and the cycle can repeat.

Your optimism is commendable. I've become terminally jaded myself after reading this essay [0], juiciest bit quoted below.

[...] a meta-culture of Darwinism in the economy: one based on job-hopping, mergers, acquisitions, layoffs, cataclysmic reorganizations, outsourcing, unforgiving start-up ecosystems, and brutal corporate raiding. In this terrifying meta-world of the Titans, the Organization Man became the Clueless Man. Today, any time an organization grows too brittle, bureaucratic and disconnected from reality, it is simply killed, torn apart and cannibalized, rather than reformed. The result is the modern creative-destructive life cycle of the firm, which I’ll call the MacLeod Life Cycle.

[0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Elon has already stated they will accept dogecoin as payment
It's been taken down, but still available through https://web.archive.org/web/20211230160444/https://vpnovervi...
“Stocks” as in “they stock market, averaged”, sure. But compare your 1995 LEGO investment to Tesla or Amazon, and that headline becomes ridiculous. Classic case of survivorship bias, it seems to me.

(Credentials: Been investing in stocks for 20 years, and just purchased two pre-owned 1990s LEGO sets for my daughter for Christmas.)
Are you saying outcomes aren’t influenced by the skill of the doctor?

Are the outcomes of CS folks impacted by their skill?
With all due respect, the point of all these crypto buzzwords is to forgo what's 'good' for [centralized] businesses in favor of what users want. I can imagine the vast majority of Diablo players (assuming the market was ran legitimately) would prefer to still have the market, while Blizzard discovered they could make more money closing it. A high ideal (to me) for web3 is that users can uphold the system they want and be compensated for doing so at the same time.

While the web3 example still features a creator and early investors who may make the most money, users will prefer the market which promises to stay up via its contract code. We may be a long way from enough users understanding this to influence developers, and it may never reach that perfectly, but that's the direction web3 can hopefully push things.
Ertha: the Play-to-Earn Metaverse
We are at a crossroad here. If people don't push back in 2022, we are going to live in a society that makes "papers please" look like heaven compared to what we have.

Please read this book if you doubt what I'm saying. It's not a god damn conspiracy theory.

https://www.amazon.com/Real-Anthony-Fauci-Democracy-Children...