skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious because I'd bet you're right that such a thing would be adopted really quickly if it were user-friendly but my biggest question is whether everybody would be limited to a single identity or if you'd allow multiples. If you allow multiples, would 'identities' be free? If so, I'd be concerned that the same thing would happen to your company and product that happened to Web 1.0: In THEORY we'll all have control over our own data, but in actuality, running software takes time, expertise, and money, so aren't we all (meaning the general public/average person) going to have a choose an intermediary anyway? And you think it should be your company. (Which maybe it should, idk).

I'd also be a bit concerned about:

- Ability to spin up alts and anonymous pseuds is a key component to Internet use, for me. One great thing about email is how easy it is to get an email address; I don't need a credit card, address, ID, etc. I don't need to use a real name. And so on. This is one of the things that makes the Web so powerful a force for the marginalized. For instance, I had an email address when I was 6. That's illegal now, but 13 year olds can have them. Or say you're a lady in Afghanistan.

- This information persisting over time and being unalterable might result in some very uncomfortable social situations if people keep the same credentials for decades.

None of this is a reason not to do such a thing, and I think it's a good idea and one I'd actually use in a heartbeat, I'm just not under any illusions I'd be doing much other than switching my 'alliance' away from an email service provider.
In general communications with your more distant friends have considerably higher Shannon entropy than communications with close friends, for obvious reasons. Which means that often it's a real treat to get messages like that.
This.

I had a client who once sold anti-virus software and even ZetaOS.

Somehow they pivoted to selling mobile speakers and toys.
> The idea that we use our email accounts, attached to huge corporations which siphon every detail about us for their advertising engines is absolutely absurd.

That's what the companies want, though. Facebook and Twitter don't trust me because I have an email address, they trust me because I have a _Google_ email address.

Having a Gmail account means that Google trusts you. Google only trusts you if you provide a reputable phone number.

If you host your own email, you can't do anything because nobody trusts you.

Changing the protocol from email to crypto won't fix that. I either have to be reputable ("Yes I'm wealthy, Google trusts me, I have a phone number which means I have a bank account, which means I'm a legal citizen with a government ID, and this is my legal name") or I can't get in. Standing up my own throw-away identity will be as useless tomorrow as a Mailinator address is today.

For you and me, email auth is a dark pattern. For the companies, it's a feature. It keeps out freeloaders, spammers, and criminals.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act prevents any hospital which accepts Medicare/Medicaid from turning away patients in critical conditions. They have to at least provide stabilization and some kind of basic medical screening services to everyone who arrives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_an...

As for other doctor's offices or planned procedures, I think they already can decide to not work with you if you don't pay them. Maybe there's something similar for general practice stuff related to Medicare/Medicaid as well but for exclusively private pay practices I can't imagine something forcing those providers to offer non-emergency services.
See. They know it is a scam.

These types of NFTs will be the first to fall when the buyers realise that the NFT sellers are running out of ideas for their JPEGs and remixes with no-one else left to buy them.

The right-click-save people will soon declare victory of the fight overall, given that these fake NFTs will both lose this small fight. But it won't be the last of NFTs in general.

Someone will find a 'killer-app', that uses NFTs.
If you can't extract pricing data from your existing IT infrastructure for less than US$2M, you've got deeper problems than this law (or you use one of the Big Three consulting companies for all your IT work)
Many Kimsufi offerings are not fitted with ECC, I don't think some of the lower-end CPUs (the Atoms) even support it at all.

Their middle-budget brand SoYouStart seens to only offer machines with ECC, I started using one recently, so I assume you are right and the main brand operates likewise.
What ability do prosecutors have to maneuver their case onto a particular judge's docket? How would they do that?
I totally get why people stay away from this stuff, but I've found the best way to understand what is going on in this space and what it potentially has to offer is to actually use it and experiment with it which is something any naturally inquisitive person would do. The quality of journalism (which as far as I can tell many are relying on to form opinions) surrounding anything crypto or "web 3" related has been astonishingly lazy and just flat out bad for a long time.
https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif
>It was a largely illiterate society that originally enjoyed the works of Homer and Shakespeare, for instance.

Were the works of Homer and Shakespeare enjoyed by a significant chunk of the population, or only by the elites at the time?
C++ at the End of 2021
Telegram problem is that unlike WhatsApp they don't have a billion dollar corporation backing them. I wouldn't be surprised if they were bleeding money.
Wizard of the coast is mostly a publishing company. I think the playing cards came later.
Not having a single person be the executive likely helps. In a parliamentary democracy, the prime minister would have to tell the justice minister to do this. The justice minister would likely refuse. The prime minister’s recourse would be to fire the justice minister and get a new one appointed, but that’s a big step. Assuming that’s overcome, the new compliant justice minister would have to tell the public prosecutor to do it. In many countries that’s an independent office, and the justice minister wouldn’t have much standing. So you’re back to trying to fire people, and the petty vindictive prosecution is turning into a government-ending event; the PM is likely to be seeking alternative employment…

Executive presidency/governor systems, like those used in the US, have a generally higher dependency on individuals behaving properly.
To my knowledge, yes. I'm Norwegian, and we're usually sort of reserved and private. Obviously it varies, the older generation is more open.
Even small things like striking up a conversation with someone while waiting for the bus is 'frowned upon', people keep to themselves and mind their own business. People who talk to you at bus stops are 'weirdos' (very over-simplified, but that's the general opinion).

I'd love to live in a place where it's more normal to just strike up a conversation with someone. I'm not usually the one to start a conversation, but if someone does, I'll usually be fine with it.

Oh, and don't even get me started on eye contact; that's some scary shuff! How does even eye contact work? I have no idea...
>Why chastise them for being proactive?

Who is chastising whom? As an M3 owner I'm thrilled they're being proactive with this recall. I'm also thrilled that this issue is minor and any failure is easily detected. My camera is working fine, and as long as it continues to work fine I'm not at (extra) risk of hitting anyone.

Compare this to a critical safety issue like a malfunctioning accelerator cable or a defective hood-latch -- those are things that could pop up at any moment without any warning and kill people. My point above is that safety-critical recalls exist on a spectrum, and this one is about as benign as you get. Whereas the Model S frunk issue is not benign at all.
The key pivot was not changing from film cameras to digital cameras, where indeed many components and skills are identical, but from film business (the majority of which is/was film and development process/chemistry/equipment/services, not cameras) to a camera-only business. Some companies did that pivot, some (like Kodak) did not.
I always like to imagine how we will look back onto subjects 5 years from now, which helps to come up with more precise terminology and potential perspectives:

"Generation 1 of play2earn gaming popularized in 2021/2022 was based on an ongoing influx of capital and generated profits only in the form of its redistribution. This changed when ... "
I kind of went through the same stuff as you, really appreciate your answer.
This is a really good idea!

Along those lines: maybe we could use a middleware pattern for APIs, frameworks, etc where the interface/package would be built as a layer above two or more services.

That way the developer could switch between them at any time, or even failover automatically.

So for example, rather than going onto GitHub to download an SDK for something like Mailgun, you'd download a middleware framework built on Mailgun and Sendgrid.

This pattern could be used to identify vulnerabilities in software at the conceptual level, by helping developers to avoid marrying their code to individual providers like AWS. Some mission critical software could even be certified as using all adversarial interoperability frameworks.

It could even help third party services pull themselves up by their bootstraps, if they get added to one of these middlewares. An instant user base without having to rely on marketing or word of mouth.

And could be used to identify monopolies when there's no middleware for a service.
The open network that we built has free accounts, free transactions, no resource staking requirements, etc. Gas on Ethereum is absolutely a problem and absolutely does not scale.

We do not have mining (proof of stake), and have been certified carbon neutral (https://medium.com/ultra-io/ultras-blockchain-is-carbonneutr...)
Would this tool have have scaled as well as 24 separate OS processes?

I remember hitting this same issue many years ago. Some primitive in the library (c++) didn’t on the surface appear to involve shared state and cache write lock but of course it did if you thought about it. Since I switched over to more application level coding I don’t work that low level very much and tend to scale with processes now (typically not needing that much parallelism anyway) so i don’t often have to think these things through anymore.
I agree with your point, but just to be clear for people:

When you bring that RAW photo into something like Lightroom or Capture One they’re automatically applying a base curve to the photo before you do anything.

In Capture One you can set that to “flat” which I believe is fairly unprocessed, and it takes a lot of work to get it to a usable state from there. They also have other options, and they recently changed their default setting and it’s pretty incredible how different it is from their old default.
Lots of good advice already. Time is necessary. I’ll also add exercise and meditation. And not light stuff - real heavy hard exercise and deep long focused meditation. I’d also suggest getting out and meeting new people, but it’s not quite appropriate given the pandemic. Best of luck to you!
You connect best with people who are like you in some way. Sports fans like to hang around with sports fans. Outdoors folks like to hang around with outdoors folks. Avid readers find fulfillment in book clubs. There's no magic here, and "popularity" isn't going to do a thing against loneliness.

This is nothing new. Great minds like Voltaire met regularly with like-minded people to discuss philosophy and science in excruciating detail as far as everyone else was concerned. One could consider them the "nerds" of their time, and yet they had social lives, just not so much outside of their circles (much like everyone else).

Your connections come from activities where you share experiences with others doing things you all enjoy, so seek out those enjoyable activities and the connections will slowly build as you meet people in those circles. That's how I met my wife.
Thats the fun part, you don't have to purchase any cryptocurrency. All you need is a crypto wallet and you have a public/private key pair.

Crypto only empowers this by encouraging people to maintain their keys with a serious financial incentive.
1. Find a new job as a data scientist or analytics engineer (mathewanalytics.com)

2. Finish up a R and Python library to automate common data science tasks

3. Get better at Google Cloud Platform

4. Find a girlfriend
"2007, the service went live for approximately three months before McCaleb moved on to other projects, having decided it was not worth his time"

lol, interesting.
Interesting Books I've Read in 2021
I dunno, people continuously lose vast sums of money at casinos and there are no riots against casinos. Some people just seem to like losing money.
ABSOLUTELY.

Accounts and transactions are free on our network. We think eventually all networks will have to go this route. Paying per-transaction is mind-bogglingly anti-user.
The definition of extraversion and introversion that has felt most accurate to me is that extraverts feel energized by social connection, while introverts feel energized by alone time. It does not necessarily correspond to how gregarious or outgoing you are or are perceived to be.

I have never been or desired to be the life of the party. But I like being at the party, and I get bored and lonely quickly when I'm by myself.

In contrast, I had a boss who truly was the gregarious, social butterfly type -- but it drained her, and she would need to withdraw and have extended alone time to feel rejuvenated.

In the end, few of us are 100% either way. We all need periods of social time and alone time. But understanding these labels in terms of what energizes you has been very helpful to me.
I'm using branle (https://branle.fiatjaf.com/) as my client and you can follow me with my pubkey: 22e804d26ed16b68db5259e78449e96dab5d464c8f470bda3eb1a70467f2c793.

You can find my pubring on my bio after following me.
There's no ability to discover others at this time!

Nostr relay registry hosted here (https://nostr-registry.netlify.app) by fiatjaf.

Exciting times!
I didn't say there was no point developing it. I said that the author missed the point of why PC's (and the internet) were adopted.

There's been hundreds of technologies developed because they were interesting to the developer, and then failed to find a market (or found a niche market and stayed there). Web3 currently looks to be one of those.

But who knows? If a killer app emerges, a reason for the average person to use it, then it'll succeed. Trying to predict this in advance is notoriously difficult.
> Web3s “killer app” is government services.

I don't understand. Can you give an example?

A government is already a central entity. If you have some service controlled by a central entity, why not build it in the standard database-on-a-server approach which is much easier?
This seems like an area where the federal government could take a leaf out of Texas' new found love for citizen-driven lawsuits: allow individuals rather than CMS to sue hospitals for the damages (up to US$2M starting tomorrow).

My guess is that you'd see the hospital IT and pricing infrastructure do a reasonable impression of faster-than-light travel and the information would be available by January 3rd.
I agree with almost everything you say, but calling people disingenuous is lame.

If it's your kid, you hug them, they touch everything, they drool on everything. It doesn't matter if they're slightly contagious or heavily contagious, you're going to get saturated by them regardless.

So without any "disingenousness", I claim vaccinations help slow the spread for normal interactions, but it probably doesn't help much to stop kids spreading it to their parents.
I don't know that a truck driver or a nurse has a better social life than a software developer. Sounds plausible but far from certain.
No, it's largely CPU bound. I had a 68040 that would take around 45 seconds to generate ssh keys, and my little NetBSD Macintosh IIci with a 25MHz 68030 and no L2 card took 22 seconds for a single short TLS 1.2 transaction to a local test server. This wouldn't be a big problem if it weren't for the fact many servers just don't wait.

Shameless plug: a crypto client library oriented to old things. https://github.com/classilla/cryanc
I hope that you are right. Using open networks for transparent governance is the right way to go for democracies.
> This actually rules out nearly any non-UTF8 character set (besides ASCII.)

It doesn't--pretty much any character set that has seen widespread use in the past few decades would be compatible. Any single-byte charsets that are ASCII compatible (such as most Windows CP* sets or the entire ISO-8859-* suite) would work. Most Asiatic charsets (e.g., EUC-JP, Shift-JIS, Big5, GBK) that use variable-width encodings follow the rule that characters in the 0x00-0x7f range are ASCII and subsequent characters in the 0x40-0xff range, and so are themselves compatible as well.

So actually the list of notable incompatible charsets is easier to write out: UTF-16, UTF-32, EBCDIC, and ISO-2022-* charsets (which are mode-switching).
I can't really give you much advice, because I'm just getting out of that period (now over 5 years) myself. But I do have one piece of advice: never let yourself, or anyone else, define you by your worst moments in life. Instead, define yourself by how you've learned from them and how that reflects in your current actions. Unlike most of the stuff you'll need to do to recover, this can be done instantly.

Also, to people who suggested moving somewhere else: while I do agree that it can provide a bit of a spark, that's all it'll do. You won't become a different person just by changing places. You need to act on it. I made the mistake of assuming that moving would change more than it did until it was too late.
I don't know why you want to balance your furnace load between the two zones, but anyway if you're comfortable, you can do it by raising the upstairs temperature. But to optimize for comfort, set both thermostats the same, and let the lower floor do more work. If you're heating the same amount of air to the same average temperature, I don't see why the overall efficiency would be different.
YearCompass: Close 2021, Plan 2022
For me, I had a lot of life changes, dramatically for the better, and it was hard. I recommend the book Transitions, Making Sense of Life's Changes. It helped me understand and think about change in a new way and to embrace the in-between when something ends before something else begins.
Firstly going to therapy and being direct with what you want. “I’m not as social as I’d like to be.” And then directly working on it witj as little self judgement as possible. In this way your therapist is your coach and your sport is socializing.

Secondly is to practice. Nerds love nerd meetups- look at anime con, gencon, games done quick, etc. find a local group like this and integrate, which is a fancy word for showing up and participating.
Technically they didn't ... Facebook/Meta did.

I remember when I had to pay 1€ per year for What's App that was only 8 years ago...
For me it isn't so much being a 'nerd', which I am, as being very much an introvert as well. And most people don't know this, but introverts still want to be around people, just need alone time too, so I understand where you are coming from. If you find yourself not doing things or not experiencing things or not participating in conversations because they do not revolve around tech and science, and I know this sounds dumb, but force yourself to do it. I had a low point in my life and decided to force myself to say yes to things I really didn't want to do, and over the years I found out there is a reason people like sports, or concerts or whatever, and other things I tried once and knew it is not for me. And you don't have to change your interests or try to be popular or care about fashion like Graham talks about. I don't like sports in general, but I will always go to a college football game if invited, it is fun, even if you don't enjoy football, also there are other people at super bowl parties that don't watch football either; but I will never go to a nightclub again, once was enough to know. Your social circle expands and one day saying 'yes' to something will lead you to meet someone you will eventually start a family with and then your social circle will slowly shirk and that is okay.
Fun to think that games spun out fickr and slack. I wish we saw more kids looking up to Fake and Butterfield rather than say, Musk.
I'm sure there's ponderous pontification of impending doom from back when CB radio happened: "Mindless chatter and incivility will make sure no one uses it!"

The real doom was that even tho it was a cool fad, not many people actually really wanted the capability, few had need for the product. When "the Metaverse(TM) (brought to you by Carl's JR)" flops and they come to write the official autopsies of "where'd all the stock value go?" I doubt that will make the list of reasons.

"People acted like people. Whocouldanode? Sorry about your retirement money, but check out our newest investment opportunity it's got MOAR blockchain on it!"
Markdown uses backticks around code.

https://docs.github.com/en/github/writing-on-github/getting-...
In 2006, I even knew people here in Germany who were "renting mailorder DVDs from the US".

It dawned to me a few years ago that this service was Netflix, before they went streaming.
> On the flip side, I wonder if mastering the fundamentals and the things that will not change in the next 50 years is a wiser approach.

This will never go out of style. All these new frameworks are all built on javascript or such technologies, and knowing the underlying technology will always pay for itself in dividends.

Learning a framework-du-jour will only let you be proficient in that framework
> there is some small downtime when I deploy new versions of things

Some time ago I was looking for an easier way to fix this. It seemed to me that a good way would be to have the reverse proxy (e.g. nginx or similar) hold the requests into the app restarts. Fit the user, this would mean a ~10s hiccup rather than 504 errors.

I didn't find an easy way to do it with nginx though and was sort of disappointed. Maybe other reverse proxies make this easier? Or maybe there is a stand-alone tool to do this?

[edit: one app I host can only be run single-instance as it keeps some state in-process. It can outsource it to Redis, but that seems overkill if it's only needed during upgrades, 10s/week or so]
There's far more innocuous examples, such as french fries and soda and sweets. Is it a real and worthy cause for someone to create a restaurant that serves junk food? Junk food that causes diabetes and heart disease?

Apparently it's okay to be Coca-Cola or McDonald's or Mars. Those are real and worthy corps blessed by boomers of yore.

If someone is addicted to gambling, there are plenty of casinos which are also worthwhile businesses apparently. Legal in many states, nations and territories.