skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Society should certainly protect people from being scammed by others, but I don't think that's what web3 is. It's not a "pyramid scheme" in the traditional sense because it's not a scheme. It's just a pyramid. It's a collective delusion. If people believe in it, great. If they think they can profit from it then they should try. If they win, cool. If they lose, also cool.

I definitely don't think web3 should be 'stopped' on moral grounds. Maybe it should on environment grounds, or on the grounds of how annoying web3 evangelists are, but stopping it to protect people from investing in something silly is not a good idea. Let people learn from their mistakes (or maybe I'll learn to be less cynical when NFTs turn out to be the next BTC, which I also regret not buying, or Amazon stock that I didn't buy, or Apple, or Pixar, or MSFT... this is a long list.)
You are surprised? We already know that a prosecutor will try for higher sentences near an election and... well, they are elected. It isn't hard to imagine that an elected official works with other elected officials, especially if they want to do other things in government.
D's module system benefited greatly by getting rid of the preprocessor. I implemented precompiled headers for C++, and so knew that a robust and successful module system wasn't compatible with preprocessing.
And I've worked on large Java projects.

Things that have like 420+ dependencies (spring boot + some other requirements). I timed the maven clean compile. And it takes around 2min.
That's true, but insisting that you're right about something that you know nothing about is a sign of lesser intelligence.
I think that, as with any debate, “worthwhile causes” cannot be defined so absolutely.

I know people who “want” to spend money on addictive and destructive drugs, because they’re continuously compelled by a pathological chemical imbalance to do so.

Does that mean an addiction to heroin or Xanax is a “real and worthy cause”? How about an addiction to online gambling with generative art of monkeys/lions/pixel art?
Criminal endeavours are not equal. Some are trading drugs and murdering people, others are overthrowing authoritarian dictators like Putin or Lukashenko.

As you can imagine, the latter activity is criminal in Russia and Belarus.
Yes.

"Actually both systems give power to those who are already wealthy" isn't the argument for democratization and decentralizations crypto believers apparently think it is.
Unfortunately, the US will likely come after you for taxes and penalties. And due to the pull that the US has on financial institutions outside of the country, its very likely they can get their hands on your money.
The problem is that there are too few developers, and most software is just moving data around and structuring that data with forms etc.

Most of those operations are often trivial, and can be done with software that manipulates data instead, like excel or specialized software. They're like "interface and UI brought on a silver platter".

> They have to interact with software, because it's the only realistic way to do their jobs

The world was running fine without software. I just think you don't developers constantly making new software that get tossed away. At some point, some software stay.

In my view there is a "software bubble", there is too much software. Either 3 things:

* Either users need to use excel and make good usage of macros

* Either users need to learn how to write python scripts that handle CSVs, make things dirty where each user is responsible for his own mess, but can send his data through structured formats (csv or else).

* Either we need some new kind of software that handles generic data, that is easier to use, with languages like scratch or something else.
I think religion is generally bad
All the above applies for the flu as well, so why do we insist on inventing a new set of rules for Corona ?

With vaccine and booster shots, both require a similar amount of hospital resources.

The current way is simply not sustainable.
I think it helps to have some of the not-exactly-stated background: their build did not originally take 2mn, it suddenly shot up to this from around 20s seemingly overnight, so they investigated what happened, and as that's lime they also produced a nice article out of it.

That's my assumption anyway because that's about what I went through, minus the blog post: had a project I was working on, at one point I noticed the clean builds were getting really long, we're talking >10mn. Initially I figured it might be Serde (as that project is really serde-heavy) and the compile time had crept up on me unnoticed, so I moved all the serialized and deserialized types in a sub-crate in case that did anything... and it did not.

Then I busted out the -Ztimings getting about the same result Lime did (ungodly amount of time spent producing the binary for no clear reason), tried fiddling with some compile-time options (went nowhere near as deep there, I looked at -Z self-profile fairly quickly IIRC), finally found the evaluate_obligation stuff. From there I didn't bust out the profiler to see what was what, instead through I don't quite remember which chain got me to issue 91598 (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/91598).

Added a follow to the issue and various PRs proposed for it, and locked the project to 1.56.
Not betting on this one but:

- There will correction on stock market. And solution is to pump it up even higher...

- 2-3 covid variants and we will still being doing this same approach then, with 5th dose of "vaccine"
Here in Finland they innovated a long time ago by building/owning more electricity production capability than they use and selling to themselves "at cost" instead of market rate when it makes sense.

This also ties into the nuclear reactors (and the new OL3 reactors) where the parts of the industry that use lots of electricity (paper/cardboard/cellulose here in Finland) are the biggest single owners. Basically they want to be damn sure they can get the electricity they need when they need it at a price they can still make a profit from whatever they use it for.
I hope you don't use the VM snapshotting feature as backup method? I had problems when running a database service on it for obvious reasons.
Actually I was referring to the Ford rollover thing: https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/ford-hid-suv-...

And to the GM ignition thing: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2014/10/3/18073458/gm-car-r...
I have verified that every single result is relevant. I do not believe there is any censorship of these results in my case.

Anyone else?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Odysee&ia=web

The first results:

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apps.apple.com https://apps.apple.com › us › app › odysee › id1539444143

Odysee: The New YouTube for the Far-Right - GNET
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Odysee Overview - Reclaim The Net
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reclaimthenet.org
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Odysee: a new video platform backed by LBRY
publish0x.com
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techcrunch.com
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LBRY - Content Freedom
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Etc
Land of the free... to shut up and pay their credit card debts and student loans.
Speaking of Matrix and the implied association, Keanu's not too impressed by Facebook's hijacking of Neal Stephenson's term/concept either https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZyu0_vYhs
This is awesome because it generates a fun paradox.
This kind of white-balance fuckery became very apparent last year, when the skies in the bay area turned orange and red from smoke. On many phone cameras, the photos were automatically color "corrected" to be completely wrong, with no option to avoid this.
* The pandemic will gradually lose attention not because people stop dying but because new topics will dominate the news and people just don’t want to hear about it. By the end of the year the new normal of widespread mask wearing, vaccination and wfh will be established for the coming decade.

* There will be a growing awareness between the mismatch in the heavy web dev build tools that were designed for the feature-starved browsers of the IE era and the reality of today’s evergreen browser landscape. New frameworks and build tools will show up to take advantage of what browsers can do now.

* Because almost nobody develops on 8 GB anymore and software keeps bloating, by the end of the year it will have become a bad idea to recommend 8 GB RAM PC’s even for casual use. 16 GB will become the minimum spec for futureproofing, but it will take another three years for the PC market to catch up.

* The climate will be a dominant topic again, thanks to the IPCC reports dropping and the petering out of the pandemic. Governments will fail to make progress on climate accords because the hope that technology will save the status quo will outmatch the pressure for societal change. The private sector will surprisingly start filling the gap. There will be massive private green technology investment but still few results in CCS and newgen nuclear, which will eventually turn out to only be small parts of the solution. If it is a record breaking year for severe weather, climate protests will turn grim.
- 2022 is going to be slow and forgetful year of complacency

- Covid19 virus will mutate and people will be moderately compliant to recurring booster doses

- No significant climate change policies

- Housing prices will not go down yet people/entities will keep buying them

- America will invest heavily in arms deals and ignore investing in infrastructure and aid in local and foreign lands

- China and America will get involved in a proxy war
- Fiat backed government issues e-cash will see greater push
Web3 is 'the future' if you're invested in crypto.

If you're not (or have been and got out), then it's nothing but the delusion of a sect of believers who want to wish it into existence.

Being invested fundamentally changes the way people think and allows them to come up with any justification for their investment. It's not just crypto, but pretty much everything else where people expect easy returns at the expense of other people, nature, other countries, the future, etc.

There is nothing special or magical about this technology. Just because it uses an immutable data structure called 'block chain' and cryptographic hashes left and right, doesn't automatically make it useful or needed. In fact, the opposite is true due to the POW being a race to burn as much (mostly) coal for the benefit of very few.

The fact that the vast majority of crypto enthusiasts, who have absolutely no idea how it works and what it represents, decided to part with their fiat in the hope that money grows on Merkle trees and pushed the price to astronomical levels does not validate the technology itself, but rather is an example of human psychology and greed at work.

I hope the whole crypto delusion crumbles as quickly as possible before it takes down the whole world economy with it. Or maybe that is exactly what must happen so that the world wakes up to reality. Maybe that is the whole point of it.
You've put in words something that has been around my mind for so much time. Thanks for sharing the thought! I would say some of my problems are related to what you just wrote.

I've been an avid reader all my life, mostly of fiction novels, but not only.

Over time, as the habits of my work have permeated into my daily life I've found the following:

- I skim over most written text to get to gist of it, even for novels

- as a consequence, I usually lose the nuance and the details of a text, even though I get mostly 80% of the content. I find myself needing to go back when I don't understand why something happens, or a character comes out of nowhere, etc.

The same thing has also filtered to my non-reading habits, for example when listening to people. I quickly switch to getting the gist of what someone is telling me and making up the rest in my mind.

And this has gotten me into trouble several times, even though it is an effective technique most of the time when programming or with similarly related tasks and you research across many tabs and search results and you need to get knowledge quickly without stopping to read everything.

I've tried to slow down myself and really listen until the end when people talk to me, and making a conscious effort to try to remember what they're saying to me, or what I'm reading. This works better.

I also feel that having access to all those helps, reminders, and also search engines, has greatly deteriorated my memory capacity or willingness to store facts, plans, ideas, in my mind, as I know I can retrieve it later if I need it, or I trust tools to remind me of things. I've become more forgetful over time.

Well...at least it is important to be aware to try to fix it.

I'm not from the US, I think it is a global phenomenon for similar cultures.
That vision of Web3, "Just put everything on the blockchain" is doomed to fail and I don't know anyone who ever seriously proposed it.

Blockchains are best suited for data subject to manipulation, i.e. data in which there is profit to alter. If we were to naivly build "Web3" in theory with this in mind, then the majority of activity would be peer-to-peer, federated, or partially centralized, while the exchange of security credentials would take place on an efficient broadcast layer.

The trick is to do as much off chain as possible - and if trust becomes an issue, develop a minimally on chain scheme. Its still early days, if you ask me how exactly this looks in 20 years I couldn't tell you.
> That's a pretty bad incentive though and you end up with very large dependency trees similar to JS. And we know how that went.

That's... not the same thing at all.

Rust lets you have multiple crate in a single workspace, which allows parallelising the build (because crates are the concurrency unit of building rust).

That's got nothing whatsoever to do with pulling random crates, which is a separate issue.
D just reads and compiles each module only once, no matter how many times it is imported, or whatever rat's nest the import graph is.

Modules could be precompiled, but I found that it was faster (and easier) to just recompile them.

(And not having a preprocessor eliminates several passes.)
> Since then, pricing using a replication portfolio in this way has been a cornerstone of financial maths - the price of a thing and a perfect hedge/replacement for the thing must be the same.

And the reason for this is arbitrage. If you can perfectly hedge your position in Asset A using Asset B (and vice versa), then you can make a profit by simultaneously buying the lower-priced asset while selling the higher-priced asset[1]. Thus causing the prices of the two assets to converge.

[1] Many of these assets are simply contracts, which means you don’t have to buy the asset before you can sell it: you simply create a new instance of by “writing something on a piece of paper” and sell that.
I'm not seeing any of this on T-mobile cellualar or otherwise. This leads me to think it is either something enforced by the USA inside the USA, or something only allowed in the USA. (I'm in the EU to be specific)
Not sure why you’re downvoted because this is a legit question. Even if web3 is build on a large number of blockchains, you still need whole blockchains downloaded in order to be trustless. Currently probably only a tiny percentage of crypto users have downloaded whole blockchains, and instead defer to third parties.
Because ~~developers~~ people are arseholes?

Developers are arseholes because they are "mighty wizards of computers", but in reality they arrogant codemonkeys who didn't discern the difference between a computer and monitor two years ago, before they took "learn PHP in 10 days and shovel the money" course.

PM are arseholes because they are measured on "innovations", not on "made 10 years old code/feature which is used by 0.5% of users is refactored and now works fine even on a $100 notebook from Walmart".

Business people are arseholes because the only thing they care is money. Sell users data for 3% revenue increase? Sure! Add obnoxious ads everywhere for 5% revenue increase? ABSOLUTELY! Hire another two developers to at least attempt to solve 1400+ known problems with the product? NO FUCKING WAY, IT COSTS MONEY!

Users are arseholes because... because they are, list is too long and others commenters would happily fill out on that part.

Everyone is hostile to everyone, but in case of web/IT products the entry bar is now lower than "You Must Be This Tall to Ride" sign in an amusement park, which allowed literally millions of people to participate in this "show".
> A blockchain is a worse database. It is slower, requires way more storage and compute, doesn’t have customer support, etc.

Please Mr Albert Wenger. You are a VC and not a technical expert on what is a database or a blockchain.

It makes absolutely no sense to compare a database to a blockchain. These things are completely different and have entirely nothing in common except that they persist data. You wouldn't compare a file to a database to make a point, would you? Also, you don't have the authority anyways to make that comparison as I doubt you know the technical details that differentiate a database from a blockchain.

Databases aren't blockchains and blockchains aren't databases. Stop comparing them for your ignorance's sake.
I (my company) use a similar approach: a single dedicated server with docker containers, by using dokku [0], for an heroku-like self-hosted PaaS.

Most of our applications are either:

- app developped in-house (django/flask): Procfile + deploy with git push

- standard app with a docker image available: deploy directly

Dokku comes with useful "service" plugins for databases, auto https (letsencrypt), virtual hosts... Overall, a good experience.

[0] https://dokku.com/
Nice writeup, and at the core not too different from what I'm doing myself (albeit with the server at home, not colo'd, and the specs are far more modest).

The only thing I'd change in your workflow, perhaps, is switching from docker CLI commands to docker-compose. That'd make things a lot more reproducible and easy to read, and if you group relevant containers into a compose file, they're also automagically networked together, which is handy.

Your "trick" of grouping TCP ports by the hundreds is something I might steal, I've been using $lastport+1 for a while and now there's a bit of guesswork involved whenever I need to do things that don't go through the proxy. Then again, that's not often, so I might leave it.
Its also not very feasible in large teams..
The December 30k puts are pretty cheap!
He supported a dude whose platform was mostly right-leaning populism. If he was just supporting Republicans because they were the closest to Libertarian ideals, why would support the dude driving the party away from Libertarian ideals?
Voyager probe will leave solar system.

Water will be discovered on Mars.

Russia will further it's expansion, EU will send strongly worded letter.
What people don't get is the simple math of masks. For example, a 70% filtration-rate mask (let's say, surgical one) is not just 25% worse than an N95 mask - it's actually 5 times worse. And an N95/FFP2 is not just 4% worse than an N95/FFP3 one - it's 5 times worse. Also, things are drastically changing with Omicron - an N95 may not be enough to protect you during a prolonged exposure. If you use the above math, you will see that going to work 22 days a month and spending 8 hours a day with an N95 mask is equivalent to being without a mask for more than a day during that month.
OpenGL on macOS has been stuck on 4.1 + some 4.2 extensions since 2012 IIRC.
There's also the case of many "scalable protocols to fix blockchains" relying on people with a lot of cash to run the nodes.

And things like DAOs replacing "single entities or small group of entities" with the rule of the mob, which is just as scary.
I don’t follow? Even in your specific example, it would be +3 to whatever floor the elevator says you’re currently on. Though, usually people refer to the exact floor number per the elevator signs.
> I trust the wikimedia foundation

The board members change so it can go wrong.

> ..where you cannot trust any single person..

You are missing the point. Obviously society runs based on mutual trust. One can not ignore the fact that a few people or group in power can create great damage. Crypto makes it possible to create "trust by design" systems so that a small group can not do great damage or censor things that undermine their power.
There's projects like Yunohost [0] and Freedombox [1] that aim to make all this easier for the average person. Interested to hear about more such software projects.

[0] https://yunohost.org

[1] https://freedombox.org
I think it’s ok to select jurors based some basic abilities. I don’t know if this considered discrimination based on IQ in the US. But if a grown person has the mind of a 5year old or doesn’t know how to walk up stairs I think it’s fair to say “you shouldn’t be in a jury”. Likewise if a person doesn’t understand the concept of zooming an image or slow motion, then I think it’s quite fair to exclude them from jury duty.
Great: But do you know if how your final price compared with the final price that they charge insurance companies? How would you know that they didn't give you a higher-than-insurance price as your quote, making your "cash discount" not really a bargain?

I'll add that "discounts" aren't always very helpful nor is it something you can plan for if you have emergency surgery.
> become a bad idea to recommend 8 GB RAM PC’s even for casual use. 16 GB will become the minimum spec

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. Anyone outside of Apple ecosystem doesn't even bother answering.
Trading drugs is not equal to murdering people. For many, the only access to life-enabling medicine such as medicinal cannabis is buying it illegally.
Similar experience when applying for a job at a major UK university back in 2009. My Dell laptop with Ubuntu crashed when trying to present my slides. There was an old iMac at the back of the room taunting me.

I ended up working there through a different route and bought a 2010 13” MBP that served me perfectly for four years before I sold it for an impressive amount of cash to buy a 2014 15” which was also flawless.
This smells like clickbait. No charges have been filed, just a statement from a governor who has a history of bloviating about the press.

“Likely to be charged” is a huge stretch.
Absolutely agree - any technology is only useful if it solves a problem.

IMO, Blockchain/Crypto seem to come from a perspective of "how can we apply blockchain to X?" rather than asking "What problem are we trying to solve, and what requirements would any solution need to meet?" BEFORE deciding what technology options there are which could solve it.

Pitching 'Web 3' as a technical solution rather than solving a problem inevitably leads to 'when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail' (which is my personal opinion of the whole crypto space).
on top of that decentralized part is already the web itself is pretty much it