skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's really easy to be doubtful about web3, especially given how much BS is floating in the space, and the high amount of pure speculative trades having been made so far.

I still believe that there's something there, but I'm not sure what it is. I am also unsure that the current wave of companies will be able to find it.

The different between the early adoption of web2 and this current web3 cycle is that web2 brought a proper value to its users. I still fail to see how web3 is providing value at all.

Perhaps specific aspects of crypto (e.g. NFT used for real estate transactions) will be the killer app?
I believe in the existence of bitcoin.
No thanks, not after that display of attitude.

Scolding people for not giving you more than they already gave you for free is a behavior that will never get you what you want.

Update: eh, I'm in a good mood today so I'll tell you the name, it's Ladder. No link though. You may Google it as penance for being annoying.
I agree, but I've found it's more people doing what everyone else is doing, vs any real downside. I was screen sharing with someone recently who said 'thats cool, but I thought you used linux..'. They just thought linux was a terminal black screen I guess. Anyhow I showed them how I get around, work, some cool features, and they were sold enough to dual boot it.

I guess Desktop Linux's biggest hurdle is that most people have no idea it even exists, and there's zero advertising.
“the problem with an "ah, who can know the truth" approach is that it absolutely will be weaponized by bad faith actors.”

So are pens. Do you have any idea of the magnitude of horrors that have been committed by the stroke of a pen? Should we ban pens?
Why do some people feel that all college age kids needed a day off for mental health because Trump won an election or safe spaces because life is hard...but at the same time it's ridiculous that a high schooler was troubled by reading a graphic depiction of rape?
Is it me or would shitload of issues just go away if there was a viable centrist party?
> How do you draw the line?

Again, maturity of the thing the expertise revolves around is important here.

Since covid has been around less than 2 years and child-approved covid vaccines have been around for less than 1 year, I'd take a recommendation to vaccinate my kid against covid with a grain of salt. Especially since covid itself does not appear to impact children the same way it does adults (<0.03% of covid deaths have been children, etc.). Since covid is a highly politicized topic at the moment it's hard to tell if the doctor is recommending the vaccine because he actually feels it's beneficial vs. recommending the vaccine because despite feeling like it's not terribly beneficial, he's feeling pressure from governments to push the vaccine because they want to get kids back into schools.

Measles vaccines have been around over 50 years, have a proven utility and track record, and are not currently politicized. Plus measles is way more deadly to kids than covid, so in that case it's more cut and dry.

So my philosophy is to take covid-related advice with a grain of salt until the expertise around it is more mature. I think in 5 years we will have a much better idea of how necessary child covid vaccines really are (as well as how necessary cloth masks really are, etc.).

By the way, when I say "take with a grain of salt", I don't mean "don't give your kid the covid vaccine". I mean "Probably still give the kid covid vaccine but reserve the right to harbor doubts that it's actually necessary and quietly suspect the current political climate is putting pressure on hospitals to push the vaccine regardless of the actual merits of the vaccine"
Simple. You need wider pre-install base. That's the only barrier.
The First Amendment constrains school districts and other government actors in a specific manner not applicable to Facebook.
People give the IRS a lot of grief, but they do their best (imho) to provide reasonable guidance in edge cases to ensure compliance with statute they didn't write.

Edit: @toolz: I can both be satisfied how they provide customer service and dissatisfied that they were in bed with Intuit preventing obsoleting commercial tax prep services. Nuance! (HN throttled, had to reply here to your comment)
> The problem I have with statements like these is they focus on the misses while ignoring hits.

That's how trust works. It only takes 1 miss to lose it.

The issue isn't that experts are wrong or change their stance when the data changes. That isn't a problem and is exactly how things should work.

The issue is when politicians and leaders treat "expert opinion" as settled truth. Our decisions and policies need to be crafted knowing that experts are wrong and the situation changes when the data changes. Instead, politicians and leaders hold up expert opinion as settled and let the blame fall on the scientists, researchers, etc. when they "miss". If their work was not co-opted by politicians there would be no issue.
Their psychiatrist could simply have a personal issue with the treatment protocol and not want to use it due to their personal biases, or maybe the results from their last experiment were disheartening and they don't feel like giving it another go.
I went through the same challenge today. I find it insane that companies like confluent, databricks, external aws partners, snowflake, etc charge each of their training sessions $1000+, making them almost not worth it.
Eventually i bought a couple books, udemy courses and one of the aforementioned trainings and will share them with colleagues.
That would make the entire internet and basically all financial institutions worthless lol
Wouldn’t an open database lead to loads of ACID issues or is the point of blockchain to prevent that
The author is wondering why the creature is waiting. If it was my creature (just for the record: it is not!) I would perhaps try* the following: set up a few transfers so that IF someone tries to empty their account, immediately make a two-three or four competing transfer. As it is longer, it may win the other (just one transaction). So if e.g. account A is compromised (private key found), perpetrator sets up transaction from A to B, from B to C, from C to D. If the original owner tries to do a transaction from A to Z, immediately throw the A->B->C->D transactions.

*Would this actually work? Not a Ethereum/Bloclkchain guy myself.
There are also a couple of interviews of this company by Trent Palmer a general aviation SuperSTOL pilot on his Youtube channel [1]. I would recommend watching. There are a few companies making really good progress on EV VTOL aircraft.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/c/TrentPalmer1/videos
There is also the question of just how richly "welfare royalty" is actually living it up.

If they exist, it's nowhere near the levels portrayed in popular media.
I think it was two rape cases by the same person at two different schools I believe...and that the first case was covered up and/or dismissed by the school admins.
True! Although there's some lints that would require you to parse tokens, such as checking for single vs. double quotes, or number of spaces used for indentation.

However, python has a builtin tokenize module for that as well.
6T for 99 dollars with family pack. More than necessary

And its not only images. Images are 20% of my cloud only
Kids do understand racism. They are encountering it regular and ask about it regularly.
In today's telecom world where everything is tracked and logged down to the microsecond, it's extremely angering that the only reason we still get robocalls is because the players in the telecom game are making a lot of money from letting them happen.
Did your middle school though?
>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

>Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.
suggesting that anything that mentions "both sides" as having a problem is a reductionist argument, is itself a reductionist argument, and a major logical fallacy. It is perfectly possible for there to be issues that affect "both sides" to either different or equal extent, and an extreme position that one of those sides has on some other issue is irrelevant. Just think about which "side" is worse on the drug war and the incredible damage it has caused? If you come up with an answer of "which side" is worse, does that mean that everything the other side did is totally cool, totally non-destructive, etc? Of course not.

sorry for the lecture, but this argument is one of the few that triggers the hell out of me. the other one is, "I don't care about privacy violations because I'm not doing anything wrong"
Web3 doesn't mean anything, it's just the adopted jargon of a couple of groups with different visions for what it means.

I fear more posts relating to said nonsense will only legitimize those topics in the eyes of the uninformed.
In Canada, our IRS (the CRA) can only rat out your crimes to police if they’re “serious”, and that includes anything that could involve a sentence of 14 years.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/revenue-canada-has-new-powe...

So when we re-wrote all of our marijuana laws, most infractions were made to include a sentence that ranged “up to” 14 years, e.g. sharing a joint with a 17 year old or growing 5 plants instead of your legally permitted 4.

https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/cannabis/

Who says the war on drugs is dead…
I think platforms have gotten to a complexity where starting from a clean state isn't as easy anymore. Just look at fuschia, I know it's been in "early" development since at least 2013 and there's not much to show for it.

Things get A LOT more complicated when you add localisation, accessibility, UI and all the other things we take for granted.
A court order can't legally force someone to share incriminating information. Thus if prosecutors want a piece of information for other purposes (like to prosecute a bigger criminal) they will often grant criminal immunity on that point. Then the person being questioned has no 5th Amendment right to remain silent.
What exactly is click bait about the title? The point is to get people interested in the mission. Do you think people would rather read “NASA will launch mission to an asteroid in the main asteroid belt”?
Rocket engines have built-in computers, like ECUs in cars, that likely operate at a much finer update cycle than 50hz. Flight computers are not concerned with every aspect of timing when it comes to the engines, they just need to tell the engine's controller when to fire.
What is the CRT issue? Tried googling it but didn't find anything related to book banning
Are you insinuating that liberal issues before school boards aren't used as a political tool to rally the base?

Because I have several fundraising emails in a junk inbox that would indicate otherwise.
Standard bonus targets at Google, for example, are 20% of median salary at your grade, so $45k would be the standard bonus for an engineer making $225k (in base salary alone, not total comp) who "meets expectations". This is a pretty common salary level, according to levels.fyi
Terrible comment, this isn’t Reddit. Take your smugness somewhere else please.
This article is filled with absolutely 0 reasons why Web 3.0 should be taken seriously.

All it says is: Web 3.0 matters because I say so. And we will prove it,

Yes.. and?
But it's all Zuckerberg.

It's not just Facebook that I despise.
State of Storybook 2021
That's not Meta's salary ladder. [1]

I'm not saying there aren't exceptions, and maybe you're referring to a discretionary equity grant (explicitly not on the ladder) or folks who have been there a long time vesting equity (but that can happen anywhere with equity appreciation - including very much at Apple).

Staff engineers at Meta get like $500/yr, and principal engineers something in the $750-$1M range. However, we're talking top 1% of just the engineers at the company.

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google,Facebook,Microsoft&tr...
> the lower tax rate is an incentive to invest that money

Why do you think an incentive is needed? If the tax rate on investment gains was higher, do you think rich people would reduce the amount of money they invest? What would they do with their money other than investing it?

> the tax on labor should be brought down

Which government services would you cut to go along with the reduction in government tax revenue? Or would you put those payments on the next generation by borrowing?
It's actually even worse for government (or crown corps like Canada Post), since they pay way below Canadian market rate, which is already way below U.S. salaries. The government then isn't really in competition for the best talent who want the most money.
Small New Jersey Town to Auction Seized Maserati Quattoporte
“If they can get Capone, they can get you.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhsUHDJ0BFM
Is there much overlap when discussing a book in the middle school library that talks about dreaming of sexual assault? That seems to be the issue at hand here.

What about if those libraries had movies and they allowed rated R movies in middle schools? Would that be acceptable...or would it be censorship?
The SSO thing has come up before. Trustless, decentralized, immutable databases are essentially the exact opposite of what you want in an SSO system; it's hard to think of an application where blockchain technology has less promise than SSO, which is about fine-grained policy control, out-of-band account recovery (the hardest problem in SSO), instantaneous revocation, and centralization of controls.
There is no agreed upon definition of centrist.
Probably yes, especially if one looks at 2030 (or later) when a nuclear plant whose planning started today might be ready.

We do not need nuclear for diversity. Nuclear is utterly terrible at acting as a backup power source for a mostly renewable grid. Nuclear will either be most of the grid, or it will be pushed out entirely.
That's the Democratic Party.

What we don't have is a viable leftist party.
It's multiple districts in Texas, just around the Austin area they are attempting to remove these books from both LISD and RRISD. The Williamson County commissioners recently tried to withhold CARES act funding from both these districts because of these books, however, they had no problem releasing funding for other school districts within the county even though their school libraries have the same books.

This is all political stunts pulled by various right-wing groups. They are specifically targeting LISD and RRISD because these areas have recently trended towards Democrats.
What is the name of this cognitive bias that shows up in all web3 conversations about how internet/web2 ended up being a success and therefore web3 will too? If X led to Y, then Z that (we say) is similar to X will also lead to Y.
Also not a lawyer, but my understanding:

Lawyers, doctors, and therapists (also technically doctors) do not need to share and cannot be forced.

They cannot be forced to share privileged information they may have. However, this does not protect the class of information as a whole. IE if you share your medical or legal information to a third party, they can be forced to share it.
Yes, we read "To Kill a Mockingbird" when I was in 7th grade.
Enphase starts shipping IQ8, enables solar grid without battery
Ask HN: Open-Source Guitar Tab Dataset?
A comment [1] on a recent HN discussion got me to looking for a structured open source data set for guitar tabs. So far I have not been able to find anything too promising.

There are several great open source applications for creating and maintaining personal collections of tabs as well as several libraries and services that will scrape tabs from UG, but there does not seem to be any kind of community maintained set of guitar tabs. Can anyone point me to something I am missing here?

My vision would be something similar to the Radio Browser [2] which maintains a dataset (of online radio stations) used by several open source apps. When a user of one of the apps contributes a new station, it benefits all the users of the other apps too....

Would also be curious on folks thoughts on the licensing of such a collection. Does not seem like UG is paying any licensing fees for its user-contributed tabs, but it feels like if it was as easy as creating a public DB of tab files on GitHub, someone would have done it already....

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29469528

2. https://www.radio-browser.info/
I don't think so. The first thing to understand about US politics is that almost 40% of the population is evangelical. There can be no constructive political discourse with that type of demographic skew. In addition to the generally irrational beliefs held by evangelicals (e.g. the earth being 6000 years old), they tend to vote as a unified block. The remaining 60% of the population generally has disparate interests and doesn't have a strongly unified vote.
The linked post[1], ironically, really helps to cement why I consider web3 to be interesting technologically but mostly nonsense from a product perspective.

> As a first approximation all the big powerful internet companies are really database providers. Facebook is a database of people’s profiles, their friend graphs and their status updates. Paypal is a database of people’s account balances. Amazon is a database of SKUs, payment credentials and purchase histories. Google is a database of web pages and query histories.

This is profoundly, naively, staggeringly wrong. The products that these companies provide to users[2] are not "the databases" - they are "the ability to do useful, meaningful, real-life impactful things". Facebook is not valuable as a service because of its database - it's valuable because I am able to interact with that database in ways that result in other people seeing the thing that I posted. PayPal is not useful to me because of those recorded balances - it is useful because merchants and financial institutions respect those balances are being equivalent to money. And so on - Amazon is useful because things actually show up at my door, Google is useful because it can use those links/queries to serve me the page that I was searching for.

This is, ironically, why many claims of web3's supremacy fall flat. As this[3] long-but-very-worthwhile rant about NFTs in gaming makes clear, simply claiming "ownership" is almost meaningless for anything other than simple financial transactions (which, I callously suspect, is 99% of what web3 is actually intended for anyway). If you want to say that you "own" a video game gun, that's all well-and-good - but to actually use it in a new game, that requires implementation effort from coders and artists, balancing, support, etc. In fact, the pleasant-sounding ideal of "own your digital assets anywhere!" is nonsense - it's meaningless to _own_ something if you can't actually _do_ anything with it. Ironically, it is actually _better_ for the customer to have their data/assets/what-have-you in a single database owned-and-operated by a single company - because then there is a reason for that company to continue to provide support for interactions _with_ that data.

Don't get me wrong - the commodification of customer data by Big Tech enrages and unsettles me, too, and I feel uncomfortable with the fact that we mostly rent internet services rather than owning them. But I've yet to see a convincing argument that Web3's notion of "ownership" actually results in anything tangible, anything other than bragging rights. If there's a way of effecting that ownership such that you can actually _do_ something with it (other than selling it), I'll be interested.

[1] https://continuations.com/post/671863718643105792/web3crypto...

[2] Obviously, those databases are valuable to advertizing, targeting, marketing, etc. companies, but I'm focusing on the customer experience here. You can't build up a valuable database if you cannot attract customers - and, anyway, isn't one of the whole points of web3 that customer data _isn't_ for sale? (A likely story...)

[3] https://t.co/0X0mMRFD2O
"In Lake Travis ISD, all copies have been removed from library shelves. And just last week, Keller ISD, north of Fort Worth, restricted access to Out of Darkness in all high school libraries, citing the book’s “violence and difficult imagery.” Students in the district must ask a librarian for the book and show proof of parental consent."

I see your concern that a district choosing not to stock a book is not news, but in this case it sounds like the book was available and used in the curriculum in many districts for the past 6 years, and then only banned this year after the video by Kara Bell was publicized.
With all the news about cyberattacks/incidents, it may be a good occasion to learn more about cybersecurity and how cyberattacks are actually performed.

It happens that I wrote a book about Security and Rust :)

https://academy.kerkour.com/black-hat-rust
You are right, I was too quick to interpret the first time and thought you wrote that the best they could do is sell you three different policies that you cancel whenever you want to drop that benefit amount.
A) will be fine until 2038. I assume we have a lot of things that mashes time into an int or long. But such code is no worse off by virtue of the C library types being fixed.

B) -- manual calculation of size of structs instead of sizeof() -- yah, maybe it'll happen. I don't see much code this bad. If it's ever compiled on a different word length it's already been fixed.

C) Perhaps. For the most part alignment improves when you have a wider time_t, but you could have people counting the number of 32 bit fields and then needing 16 byte alignment for SSE later. Again, for the most part this penalty has been paid by code compiling on amd64, etc.
I worked for a large defence contractor and getting approval for anyone to pay for that would have been more difficult than actually learning how to fix it myself and fixing it myself. At which point I would never be allowed to contribute the fix back to the original project due to the no code export policy and airgapped network.

I could of course have done a clean room patch at home based on my retained knowledge but quite frankly I probably couldn’t be assed with it by the time I’d got home and eaten dinner due to the depression of working in such a horrible place.

That’s the reality of working for such folk.
It may be more than you want by I swear by

https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html

I use it for screenshots, demos, bug reports and other software dev tasks.

For other work I think the capture functionality is great but if I really need to edit video I will load it into Adobe Premier.