skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is “we here in Europe”? It’s equivalent to saying “we on planet earth do it this way”.

It’s 30+ completely different countries with different infrastructure, different views on how things should be done and different decision makers.

Your experience in X is different to Y.

E.g. as far as I know, no one in Netherlands “haphazardly tacks some pedestrian stuff at the end”.

Of course you’ll be more dependent on a car if you live in some parts and of course some will have cars where it isn’t necessary.

What we all do know and believe we can agree on, is that public transport (mainly trains and buses) in all of Europe is miles ahead and puts United States to shame.

There’s a reason why we don’t really have drive through ATMs and cities with towns are walkable and pedestrian first, while cars are second or even third behind bikes.
Many British and North American dialects both reduce /t/ and /d/ in spots, just differently:

> In North American English, the cluster /nt/ (but not /nd/) in the same environment as flapped /t/ may be realized as a nasal flap [ɾ̃]. Intervocalic /n/ is also often realized as a nasal flap, so words like winter and winner can become homophonous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapping
Perhaps the quality of arguments is an indicator here.
At this point in time I am tired of explaining the basics to new, naive newcomers who somehow think that distributed chains of hashes are some kind of new, breakthrough science.
I am tired in the same way as explaining to people that statistically they should vaccinate - the scientific base is already established but it looks like reasonable arguments no longer work.
There’s opportunity cost and I feel like a lot of web3 efforts to reinvent the wheel could be better spent on research into fighting cancer or genetic diseases.
Yeah, I'm Norwegian and when looking up morels to see what the Norwegian name would be the reaction I had to seeing it was that it looks like "sandmorkel" - gyromitra esculenta - which is toxic unless boiled, and which were warned to avoid having too many meals of even after boiling because the toxins build up.

More than one family have ended up hospitalized after standing over the pot just to smell it while boiling...
The cynicism in these threads on this topic is really something. It seems to correlate with an overall change in mindset in the tech space (maybe driven by the younger generation?).

I remember when startups and making lots of money was cheered on HN. A decade ago people would have been looking at the positives of this tech, figuring out how they could get involved and how they could make money and try to make it succeed. There was a much more optimistic atmosphere. It now seems that people making lots of money are reviled. It gels with the anti/post capitalism memes that are quite prevalent.

I’m not judging this view (I often find myself swinging between capitalist views and socialist views and try not to strongly subscribe to either) but I think it explains the cynicism in these “crypto” threads.
> Cryptocurrencies are the ultimate example of this and are an absolute boon to tax collectors, forensic accountants and fraudsters.

If it represents a boon to forensic accountants it cannot also be a godsend to fraudsters.
Comment I was responding to is complaining about vaccines being “dammed if you do dammed if you don’t”, so you’re shifting the goalposts a bit here by adding the extra restrictions for e.g. closing schools.

> sending kid's home from school for a week every time they have a fever has a real cost,

Hmm. This is what happened to me as a child in the U.K. in the 90s, but perhaps the increasing frequency of both parents working makes this harder now.

Closing schools, sure, that’s got social etc. costs.

> requiring kids to wear masks for 8 hours a day has a real cost.

I don’t see how this is true. Care to elaborate?

Also, your school days are 8 hours? Mine were 09:00-15:30, plus travel time.
Using certificate identities for logging in has been a thing since the 90s. It was (and is) still way better than passwords. The problem is that someone loses the cert and getting new ones is a usability disaster.

Websites intentionally switched to passwords because it was easier for users to understand. Web3 offers no breakthroughs here.
People have been hospitalized for just standing around the pot while cooking.

And a key point is that you need to know how to cook it, e.g. to boil it sufficiently in a well ventilated room and throw away the water.
I linked to the full thing for people with a genuine interest in the subject. Going into tit for tat would not really be helpful nor convince anyone as this is already deeply buried in politics.

The people who did the phase 1 report were amongst the best in their fields and did a good faith effort. Unfortunately people did not like their boring conclusion and prefer politics and speculation instead.
ZoneAlarm? Was in my default set of programs to install in the XP era.
Then you are assuming that the forager that sold the mushroom to the grocery knows more than you. Don't do this. Learn, read a lot and take the control about what you eat and don't. This is the safest way.

And this is not restricted to botany, you need geology knowledge also. Because edible species can poison you also. Some Agaricus species that are unmistakable and fine otherwise store high amounts of heavy metals when growing in contaminated soils. Don't ask me how I discovered it.
The article acknowledges this:

> There are some optimizations compilers can make assuming signed integers cannot underflow or overflow that unsigned does not get to participate in.
Over the years I've witnessed a lot of heated debates on HN... Is the JS ecosystem actually too complex? Is PHP really a fractal of bad design? Is learning vim worth the effort or is it all hype? Is golang fundamentally broken because it lacks(lacked) generics? Does anyone ever actually need k8s? Is nosql always the wrong choice? Is the linux desktop experience truly productive or should you just use a mac? Types or no types? 100% test coverage or overkill? X or Wayland? Gnome2 or Unity? Android or iPhone etc...

Yet, only in the cryptocurrency debate do defenders have to offer up a disclaimer about all the scams, hype, vaporware, fraud, waste, hacks, speculation, crime and other insanity before proceeding to make an appeal to the nebulous hope of future possibilities, as if cryptocurrency isn't older than instagram....
> I'm surprised so many people on Hacker News apparently still believe that you can "see all transactions" on every blockchain.

Most have no knowledge of the state of the industry. Their opposition is based on knee jerk reactions.
I heard "pretty" pronounced with a glottal stop in Cambridge and with a hard T elsewhere (London or around). It probably depends on the location or what surrounds the word?
- More and more people will actively disconnect all their devices from the internet for large chunks of their days/nights

- IOUs will become common again
>Unsigned does not mean "not negative", it means "modular arithmetic".

Signed is modular arithmetic with an offset.

An unsigned char called i can be thought of as "i mod 256"

A signed char called i can be thought of as "((i+128) mod 256) - 128"

All results for over/underflow hold for 'i' cast into a char if you do the above in both cases.

I think the premise of the article is quite reasonable. It's slightly easier to reason about over/underflow for unsigned arithmetic since it's not offset.
Looks like the cost of nuclear in Australia is not comparable.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/too-slow-too-expensive-why-nucle....
Who says "com-poo-ter"?!
Ask HN: Which websites/blogs do you visit which makes you happy?
Sites that makes you feel joyous, triggers your imagination, etc.

I visit the following sites:

https://bbc.com/travel
https://reddit.com/r/FoodPorn
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIix6MklfJFywa_36iDj8Sw

Amazon's ecommerce site

https://bjornfree.com/travel/

Thanks
That's a lot to consider, thanks!

Ideally, I want something already baked as an OS, but if that isn't an option, then here's my backup plan.

I want a system that could let you build a sandbox that consists of an emulator, and a pipe to the rest of the world that only speaks capabilities. This would allow you to run arbitrary code without risking the emulator by handling actual system calls.

At its core, a capability is a token, which should be both authorization and address for some resource, there shouldn't be any other thing required. That is very much at odds with a channel subject to snooping.

The thing is, if you have access to a single file, to keep it simple... it should be easy to write a filter that takes that access, and creates a new access that the filter then handles, to make the channel write only, or read only, a DBMS, etc.

If you can run that filter on the same machine, or somewhere across the internet, no data should go around the filter. It should be possible for the filter to hide any URLS, etc. of the source capability.

I'm sure those types of issues come up eventually even internally to programs, as you eventually implement the proverbial half a Lisp.

If you support libraries, or units... how does a capability get passed between them?

Like I said, lots to consider, thanks!
> Unsigned does not mean "not negative", it means "modular arithmetic".

In which case it has a terrible name. The name clearly indicates that the primary feature is that it is not signed, and the logical conclusion from that is that it is not negative.

That said, I agree; using signed types in C/C++ does generally seem safer and a majority of the techniques listed in the article are unsafe, logically confused, and/or inhibit optimisation. Using signed types in languages like C# is also generally more pleasant, because otherwise you end up with a lot of casts just to interact with the base types (like arrays), language features and third-party libraries.
There is absolutely nothing worth looking at with regards to cryptocurrency/blockchain junk.
I can see how it’s offensive to call it green but honestly I think the politicians really did do their job here.

Nuclear is a great option and should have been chosen 40 years ago but since it wasn’t we must take what we can get today. If I decide today I’m going to replace coal plants with nuclear, that means I’ll be burning coal for at least 20 years until the nuclear project is complete.

Much better then to, sure start building the nuclear plant, but also switch over to gas today, then complete the switch 10-30 years later.

And if the gas plants remain in operation until 2080 I’m optimistic enough to believe they’ll have been made to install CCS sometime in the early 2040s.
You are correct that there are plenty of game engines out there, JS and otherwise, and I am not trying to replicate or compete with that. I would potentially look at offering integrations with them for people who want this kind of sprite based action/platform/shooter game. My focus is more on a distributed compute framework specifically oriented at running online, multiplayer games where the Authoritative Game State is maintained server side and multiple game clients connect via websockets. There is a loosely connected rendering library for building menus, lobbies, chatrooms, deckbuilders, auction houses etc, and potentially the games themselves if SVG is sufficient. The shadow DOM also enables screen sharing, remote viewing and streaming applications (except canvas). This would also be suitable for creating non-gaming applications focused around online collaboration.

Sprites, animation, physics, canvas/webgl are out of scope, but it might make sense to pick something and make it the easy/default integration.

Hope this clarifies things. Thanks for the comment!
I dont eat my pets, but i do feed them with raw meat xD
Scot here. I'd just say it pretty much as you'd expect -like "awl turd". Maybe I'd drop the "t" and use a glottal stop if I'd been drinking. But I know plenty of people from the south of England who would pronounce this like "ooltered".

Update: I have been flipping back and forth between article and comments, and just discovered this is mentioned:

"""
So you hear the two different ts in “water” again, but more prominently you hear the British use “ooo” where the Americans use a sound that’s closer to an “aaa”. W/ooo/ter. W/aaa/ter. This one is also quite easy to learn because it’s a general thing. Somewhat more difficult is the next one. Again pay attention to the vowels.
"""

I think it's a slight mistake to describe this one as a "British" general pronunciation. While there are things we'd all pronounce similarly the "a" in "altered" and "water" would be pronounced "aw" in Scotland and Northern Ireland and possibly some of England.
Richard Hoptroff was prototyping the idea of a wrist watch [1], though the company pivoted into networking equipment later on.

- [1] https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/richard-hoptroffs-atomic-w...
Nobody mentioned the biggest disadvantage, which is losing determinism. Good luck debugging CI tests that run locally because some other PR added some quirky row to the db.

Rollbacks are not perfect because sometimes you need data to be visible outside of the tx.

Tests must be simple and as close to the real thing as possible. The main reason we have unit tests instead of integration is because they are simpler to exercise and maintain, thus giving a quicker feedback in the long run.
I found this too, I checked the top posts and it seemed as people were almost unanimously incorrect. These were likely "good" predictions too, it just shows how much of it is guesswork I suppose.
It's very situation-dependent, so here are a few things I've done:

1. In a work situation where I'm relatively senior, I've proactively communicated that I like minimally-interrupting notifications (email>slack>IRL). Even when someone taps me on the shoulder, they're a little sheepish about it, and I can request 30 seconds to jot down a note about where I left off. I also just feel more in control of the situation.

2. At home, I keep a note of the interruptions and talk to my wife about the overall issue after the 'crisis' has passed.

3. When I feel like I can't get something out of my head, I use Siri to write a reminder. I use https://rememberthemilk.com/ but almost anything will work. A poorly thought-out, awkward, run on sentence for the task title, and then if I have more thoughts bursting outof me, I can add those as notes over the course of the day. What's important to realize is that you'll have to 'groom' the task before you can actually do it, but getting it off your chest is priority #1, and if you're supposed to be mostly doing something els eyou won't have time for that in the moment.

More generally, it's all about insisting on 30 seconds to record some placeholder, even if it feels impolite to whoever is interrupting you. I'm 99.9% sure this will not get you fired, and it's worth whatever tiny annoyance it might give them - they should share the annoyance burden of the situation after all! In all likelihood, just having that shred of control will help you feel a ton better and potentially make people think twice about whether they need to tap you on the shoulder in the first place
Perhaps an order of magnitude more? You'd expect an airliner at about 4000 ft at 15 km from the airport, assuming it's trying to land. It's also illegal to fly lower than 1000 ft above inhabited areas in most of the world.
Good question.

Before you consider the various answers offered here, consider that attention is the key executive function of consciousness, and the ability to marshall it is a core aspect of what we call “self”.

Everyone is different, in ways that we cannot always control, or even perceive.

When you consider other people’s methods, be aware that your attention mechanisms may work differently and respond differently, whether you like it and want it that way or not.

“Attention” is a hardware module that comes with no instruction booklet.
I tend to look closely into projects that are outside of the echo chamber that can provide real world value and better economic models than web2 solutions.

My two favorites are:

helium where they build IoT global network, I use a helium GPS-alternative tracker for my moto which costs 10 times less than GPS tracker.

scPrime (although there are other storage alternatives) which build global S3-compatible storage using available disk space on HDs. There is a lot of real estate that is sitting right now that can be harvested for money easily with networks like this.
Deadly for sure, in the right amount. Huronensis is even worse because satanas colour is a flashing warning
> Digital self-custody of scarce assets is a new thing

But what really are the "scarce assets" that Web3 is enabling self-custody for? A token on a blockchain that has metadata pointing to a digital file that anyone can view and reproduce? By definition, every NFT is scarce in that each one is non-fungible. But this scarcity doesn't mean there's any meaningful value. An NFT alone doesn't inherently give you ownership of or rights to anything except the token itself.

The minute you want to attach some meaningful rights to an NFT, like legal ownership of the digital or physical asset the NFT points to, or the rights to an income stream produced by such, you have to enter the world of our traditional legal and financial systems.
> they're not even trying.

Wasn't their core business Advertising? Guess they are just not into these sidetracks much.
We mainly use http/websockets, but have also started using a feature that will give us the application icon of an executable on Windows.

We've previously used the webview lib [0] and we will look into it again, as they now support Microsoft's new Edge webview.
It's a C and Golang library.

retrokit definitely looks interesting, can you elaborate on the additional value provided in regards to a simple webview? I just saw that your use case is using it for a full browser.
We use a strict CSP for the UI, which works pretty well.

A collaboration sounds interesting, but as we are still bootstrapping, it will take some time until we'd have the resources to do that.

[0] https://github.com/webview/webview
> That is such a minute amount of carbon in comparison to the energy produced by a gas plant in generating power

Citation needed. A gas plant dwarves solar in energy output.

The whole point is that solar does have an emission and burying your head in the sand does no good when we are comparing solutions that don’t emit during generation but do to make (solar vs wind + batteries vs nuclear?).
> it moves records of transactions from many private places to one public place

True for some of its current incarnations, but it is absolutely not a built-in limitation and therefore not a valid criticism of the entire space.

As a matter of fact, a number of existing blockchains are already entirely opaque to analysis (zcash, monero, grin, beam, etc...), and in these, the effort required to actually connect participants and transactions is typically orders of magnitude larger than the economic rewards you'd derive from the answer.
I just looked up a random video of someone testing FSD 10.8 and in the first few minutes, it failed to signal before changing lanes and it almost caused an accident. All the while the driver is saying how good it is and how comfortable he is.. The car drives not smoothly at all and does random braking when around pedestrians.

The car also features a yoke instead of a wheel. Which makes holding the yoke while autopilot is driving almost impossible.

Autonomous driving is a mess.
I am sorry, but that is like expecting a medical community built for the most parts by experts to be "positive" and have every day in-depth discussion on astrology or homeopathy. We have just seen so much of this lately, and can spot the obvious flaws in the technical basis of this "concept" that is, let us be honest, nothing more than a contradictory "brand" that is being pushed to all media in the name of freedom and decentralization, neither of which it actually provides.

When there is just so much on a flawed concept, you cannot expect discussion to keep rehearsing the same old "Web3 is a scam" talk, and seeing its promoters discourages further from any healthy discussion.
Many British English accents don't like the letter T. Eg Cockney might replace it with a glottal stop, turning butter into bu'er.
If I meant COVID I'd say COVID. When I say flu I mean flu.

Why should spreading "flu" not be considered violence? Not deadly enough? Then who is going to decide where is the line drawn?

The libertarian answer to protecting yourself from viruses is private discrimination, not redefining NAP however you see fit.
The default Zig allocator will actually make it very hard to have unnoticed use-after-free. It doesn't re-use the virtual address space, it will discard the page entirely and get a new one, that make it far more likely that a use-after-free will get a segmentation fault.
At least my problem with this entire ecosystem is that it enables artificial scarcity on digital goods, which wasn't really feasible before.
Of course some people will say it's a matter of style and preference, but I just cannot mentally abide the use of the phrase "different to" in English English. As in "well, that's very different to the current version", etc.

Difference indicates departing from something. It's "different from".

Oh well, I guess they'll just have to continue being obviously wrong...
so is the hyperloop, digging cheaper tunnels, electric trucks, solar shingles, making starlink economically viable, cave rescue missions, ventilators, going to mars, getting rid of covid, intercontinental rocket traveling etc.
> then it is almost surely that the study was a correlation between IQ and some questionnaire result

No, because that once again assumes IQ tests are a relevant way to measure intelligence.
Bloomberg Billionaires Index
for work I can do alone, I sometimes create dedicated no interupption periods. typically no longer than a hour

I will sometimes, depending on the level of concentration, close all communication apps, phone on silent and lock doors.

for diffcult work with other people, that gets complex, I'll keep meetings to one or two attendees.

I also do a brain dump and write down in notepad, my problems and to do stuff, then prioritise the list
I don't think web3 is just competing with traditional finance, or at least not in the restricted sense of investing/especulation. Also web3 is not replacing anything that already exists, just like "web2" didn't (and to be frank web2 was as much as hyped term than anything else)

I see it more as retaining ownership some of the content we produce and happily give to twitter, youtube, facebook etc to monetise and have some more control over it

Things as being able to:

* remove access to site to display my content but still be published somewhere else if I wish to do so

* be able to serve my content to people that prefer to use another tools without relying on twitter to have a public API as long as I granted them access

* get the person getting hits and making money of ads to share some of that with me, or maybe pay my gas fees

* not be shut down because a given site or state decides my content is not worthy of it, they are still allowed to do this, but I could still continue via another "frontend" and people can choose

There are more use cases around this, and there are many gaps yet around the economics of it to make it accessible/free, make it desirable, legality, liability etc which I believe remain to be solved