skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> scams, vaporware, fraud, waste, crime

In my country, this also describes the day to day situation. You can't trust doctors because they make up diagnoses, people pay taxes but it never shows up in infrastructure, schools or anywhere; daily alerts by banks warning against some new clever form of fraud, until recently there was a fair chance new banks would vanish with customer money (I still only trust a few reputable banks), actual family destroying pyramid schemes, ransoms attached to child kidnappings not data, politicians stealing from their constituents, police not trusted because of lack of transparency and corruption, bribes as a defacto tax.

The combination of high levels of poverty and lack of regulation is what leads to the proliferation of scams and dishonest behaviors. Poverty lowers the threshold of criminality, lack of regulation and lack of an enforced justice system enables its flourishing. Poverty also catalyzes more susceptible victims of such crimes.

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> only in the cryptocurrency debate do defenders have to offer up a disclaimer

Financial activity in crypto lacks regulation, which attracts predators, who create scams that attract the poor who are not necessarily gullible, just gambles from desperation.

> Android or iPhone

In Android vs iPhone or Windows vs Mac, people do argue about vulnerability to malware and the merits and demerits of locked down platforms.

I'd also argue your examples are not appropriate, they're more clashes of belief systems and less people freely interacting in market like scenarios. Consider that kickstarter is rife with vaporware, hype and scams. Scams, fraud and hacks in Roblox and Entropia. Crime, speculation and hacks in Habbo Hotel. Western financial systems discriminate against certain professions and citizens of entire countries due to some cost benefit calculations related to fraud.

If you have a system where money can exchange hands, you'll find psychopaths preying on the poor and careless. Oh and this isn't just poor countries and virtual markets, psychopaths preying on the poor and desperate also occurs for developed countries too (you just give them fancy names like debt bubbles and mortgage crises).
Have you tried time boxing? Reading what you said, it may work for you.

The principle is simple: instead of trying to tell yourself "I'm going to focus on X until it's done", instead say "I'm going to work on X for Y minutes". You can experiment with what Y works for you. 20-30 minutes is a reasonable starting point.

During that time, remove potential distractions. No notifications, phone on silent, no distracting websites open (eg HN, reddit, whatever), no Discord, etc. Use a timer if that helps. I'd actually get a physical timer as this seems to be more tangible and removes the temptation of getting distracted by your phone.

After that time, give yourself 5 minutes to do whatever. HN, reddit, email, Twitter, it doesn't matter.

There's really no point in self-flagellation when it comes to distraction. Just try and work with it.
Trading tokens on a ledger definitely has zero impact on larger human civilization.

Im really entertained by other nerds making wild claims like this. It's like the internet is jumping the shark. We just don't know what to do with all this anymore. Problems are being created so we can come up with solutions nobody asked for.
IP Lookup API
This is one of the reasons I use Gentoo in my desktops: you can run a "stable" (as in old) system, but pull a more recent version of a library or application if you need it. For example, I remember having problems accessing files that I had stored in my mobile phone. Solution: updating libmtp and libmtp only. I suppose you can't do this in a distro such as Debian without upgrading half the packages.

Are there more distros that allow you to do this?
While it's very unlikely, we simply don't know if some unknown side-effect will pop up in 10 years and the only way to find out is to wait 10 years and verify empirically.
What if I Set up a node with an independent protocol who has followed regulation and keep it up and all of us do the same....

Then WE- are web 3.

Its only centralized if we ALL do not stay true and totally redesign!--usually for profit.

Should we judge the chess board before we play?

Believing decentralization promises are gone again then, Jojo?

Dont believe scared billionaire news. They want you banking on CBDCs --and they cant get that until all of the threats (programmers contributing to HN) are full of disillussionment and quit dissenting and creating well designed decentralized blockchains.

Get away from sold out Bitcoin and ETH and coinbase and the like.

Node up with projects that are Designed for and Maintain Decentralizarion. My fav is Polkadot.

Doing Our part by never working for or supporting sold out protocols is centralizations' threat.

When CBDCs come around its free coins and those are going to be like zombie manna. Dont eat zombie manna.

So node up. We still write the rules!

Until its MUSK Web3, its still open game for us to make it-- ours.

What are you here for anyway?

Node up. Just pick an independent project thats adhereing to regulations.

Below is proof of my argument.
(view all for full effect)

coindesk.com/markets/2016/01/30/how-to-save-bitcoins-node-network-from-centralization/

protocol.com/fintech/polkadot-ethereum-gavin-wood

"Whether a blockchain is centralized or decentralized
simply refers to the rights of participants on the ledger, and
is therefore a question of design."

https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/2017_BC_Byte.pdf
His will says the code shall be open-sourced, unless he gets murdered
>The 3 referring physicians in New Brunswick engaged the Public Health Agency of Canada’s Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System (CJDSS) to actively investigate the possibility of human prion disease, but to date, all test results have been negative for known forms of human prion disease.

https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/ocmoh/cdc/neu...

So it does not seem to be prions, despite the similarities.
In the spirit of saving the search - yes, it does offer the ability to decrease coverage as needed, with premiums decreasing by the same percentage as well (i.e. if you decrease benefit by half, premiums decrease by half, too).

Here's a link if it's helpful! https://www.ladderlife.com/laddering
Visualizing Bayes Theorem (2009)
Yeah that looks like a big loophole that is ripe for abuse.
> They cost tons of money more than predicted and the benefit is negligable (see example of france). Thats according to newest research and statistics (see germany which went full ahead renewables, closing down atomic AND coal).

Germany has multiple times CO2 per MWh generated than France, is that only a negligible benefit? Not even talking about Germany coal mines still operational and being a significant part of energy generation, and Germany buying that "bad" French nuclear energy.

Nuclear power is expensive and very long term, it should never rely on private investment, because only the public sector can be that long term. Until massive energy storage is solved and affordable, nuclear is by far the best option.
Is it called "unsigned" though?

In Racket (and in mathematics) we call those natural numbers. The very notion of "unsigned" was invented by video game programmers at Bell Labs. In mathematics positive numbers are still signed (they just have a positive sign).
Yes, maybe. But we also shouldn't require infinite population growth.
Others below point out that it is indeed falsifiable but more importantly, why would it discredit the theory if you can't disprove it? You can certainly disprove some versions of it and as far as I can seen there has been a lot of outrage and occlusion by the Chinese government but very little effort to actually disprove anything.
The simple solution to this is to completely disconnect insured patients from hospital billing. If a person is insured then they only pay to the insurance company, a specific dollar amount copay they previously agreed on their insurance contract, all hospital billing should be handled by the insurance company.
Evaluation-Driven Machine Learning
Is there any suggestion that there was anything to learn from manuals being sold in eBay that wouldn't already be well known? Did the person selling the manuals get prosecuted? Was someone court martialed for releasing them?
This wouldn’t be a service, but rather a product.

I want to lean in heavily into existing AWS services and have everything e2e pre-wired, testable with great CI experience and essentially following best AWS practices.
I agree with you on some level - blockchains have an financial information leakage problem that needs to be addressed. But the difference with legacy systems is not on the government level - you don't have ANY financial privacy from your government, and this is by design. There is difference however in that on blockchain you have no financial privacy from anyone (so from other government, including totalitarian ones, from moral busy-bodies, from criminals etc).

There are some projects that try to address this. For payments that is (famously) Monero and ZCash. There is nothing in production for smart-contract-like capability ATM. But there are attempts to build such capability on top of ZEXE [0] paper and there is Aleph-Zero [1], which is unlikely to succeed (they bought DAG idea, and they will fail), but their research/code is likely to spawn better variants.

[0]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9152634/
[1]: https://alephzero.org/
What are you trying to argue here? I’m not claiming that the thing I described is good, only that it is a way to get memory management wrong without calling malloc, so the fact that emplace exists is irrelevant. I think I still don’t understand what your point is because you seem to be arguing against something I’m not claiming.
No, the debate I was having was about the explicit mention of "increasing CO2", which is just plain false. There are a lot of people that parrot this around the world, by just guessing in line with their beliefs, but the data is pretty clear.
It does not express intent. I remember being a junior C programmer and using "unsigned" to express my intent (it's greater than or equal to zero).

In reality, like all C keywords, it's completely misleading and actually really means "weird_arithmetic_mode_that_will_mess_you_up".
It probably wouldn’t be a perfect trello clone. And of course it’s just a demo of capabilities with a plan to develop highly scripted.
> A US citizen getting extradited to Russia as a favor would not be treated so casually.

It just wouldn’t fucking happen because America think themselves above every other nation. Case in point, Anne Sacoolas.
I would suggest that your argument doesn't pay enough attention to the second word in "scarce asset" -- asset.

These unique tokens almost always point to digital files that are accessible to everyone and anyone, and that can be viewed, downloaded and reproduced by everyone and anyone.

To the extent that a person might consider these files are "assets" at all, the bigger issue is that ownership of a non-fungible token is still just ownership of a non-fungible token. It doesn't on its own convey any ownership of or economic interest in the "asset" it points to. If you want the token to convey ownership or economic rights, you're back to the traditional legal and financial worlds Web3 is supposed to be supplanting.

To the extent that a person might consider the NFT itself to be an "asset", the question is where the value is derived if the NFT is merely a pointer to a digital file that you don't have ownership of or an economic interest in.
Imagine paying someone for a sandwich and being obligated to give them access to view your bank account balance (past, present and future) in perpetuity.
Since you could watch this all unfold in real time (and can go back and read mailing list archives back ab initio) you can easily see the participants and their positions and arguments. The “people who made Unicode” came from and continue to come from all over the world.

Also, do you remember what (polyglot computing) life was like before Unicode?
I think Venus will eventually be very interesting, but the lack of access to its surface means that all mineable materials will need to be imported, which is a big problem.

For getting started on long term self sufficiency in space (which should be a goal, if we’re taking crewed spacefaring seriously) we can’t really do much better than Mars. Once there’s more infrastructure in place for in-space manufacturing other destinations become a lot more practical.
It's always funny to me that these people can find so much support with this romance.
I don't about other block chains but that's a problem that Monero has (partially?) solved by tying transactions to two other wallets each transaction so that it is hard to follow your steps. Of course it doesn't solve all other blockchains problems but I would be curious to see it discussed more. The main criticism I have seen about it is that it allows criminality to move funds under the govts radar, which is not a criticism I'd brush off lightly but I don't how do you combine privacy and protection from govts.
I don't know how big the New South Wales battery is but Victoria has just switched on on:

"The 300 MW / 450 MWh battery will consist of 210 Tesla Megapacks covering an area smaller than the football oval at Geelong’s GMHBA Stadium"

https://victorianbigbattery.com.au/
This is definitely not true in PostgreSQL. In PostgreSQL rolling back a transaction just requires writing a couple of bytes of data while truncating requires taking a lock on every table you want to truncate and then for every table probably write more data than the rollback required and then you need to do the commit which is also more expensive than a rollback.
One thing I've always been curious about: what insurance plan, if any, do the rich use in the US? I'm not talking about the 1% but the 0.1%. Let's say, a famous movie actor or singer. Do they use fully non-insurance, out of pocket healthcare for primary physicians and specialists? What about surgeries? I wonder if there is in practice a separate health care system for them.
The same exact people that I saw domain squatting and left behind when told to put pop-unders on our pages are now closing their scammy SEO outfits to go full web3.
> disguising itself as a major nutrient

Honey is a nutrient? I thought it was water + sugar?
There have been a few times I got some surprise medic bills. At the time they went to soft collections before I was even notified and even then took 6 months for the first notification. I inquired a out the bill and the agency was firm. I literally told them "there is no fucking way I will ever pay this and I can wait out the 7 years" a couple times. They just disappeared into thin air faster than they appeared.

There is some policy I didn't agree to that allows them to bill me 6+ months later

My policy is your request for payment is denied. Damn the costs
It would be nice to see something like that standardised so you could use it in portable code.

It doesn't solve the problem though. You still need to write some code for what to do if there's an overflow, and you need separate handling for underflow. So the signed case is now:

extern void g1(int);
extern void g2(int);
extern void g3(int);
void f(int x, int y)
{
int x_minus_y;
if(__builtin_ssubl_overflow(x, y, &x_minus_y))
g1(x_minus_y);
else if(x > y)
g2(...); /* overflow */
else
g3(...); /* underflow */
}

Work in progress. I've given up on figuring out what arguments to pass to g2 and g3. Since the difference won't fit in an int, you would need to offset-adjust the value somehow in order to fit it in an int. Seems messy. Maybe you can think of something simpler.
I'm not sure "known" is very comforting when we have no reason to believe that we have a complete inventory of all possible prion diseases in humans.
I had the same expectations, and the article was weirdly light on technical details. Aside from the fact that there's nothing much going on tooling-wise.
This is a complicated issue and requires a careful approach. I don't think any serious fact checkers simply declare non-mainstream views as false, rather they would highlight only issues where a clear scientific consensus exist. So you flag an article about masks being ineffective and quote a clear analysis, or you flag an article about the Chinese (or US) government purposefully spreading covid, but you don't flag an article discussing the evidence for and against origin theories. See e.g. also the EU imitative on Russian disinformation:

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/
The EU just recently decided that nuclear energy is green because some of the influential countries failed to get into renewables and now need to greenwash their rotting nuclear fleet. I rather trust my local scientists who care about peoples health.
More like Reddit minus global rules. But I also see differences. Subreddit admins manage both feed and comments. Here you can have that decoupled. The fun bit is comment tree moderation. Imagine different subtrees culled for different people - effectively no global view on a comment section (unless you disable your user/comment moderation sources temporarily).
> Dirty databases make the tests non-deterministic.

If this is the case, is the test really testing something useful? Tests should verify that the code works as it's intended to work. If pre-existing (but presumably valid) data can break the test, then surely there's states where whatever behaviour is being tested won't work in production?

Provided the test is creating and verifying its own data, it's not really non-deterministic except in a very technical sense.
Nuclear is gonna take 20 years at minimum for the Netherlands, it's not the money but the red tape.

And no amount of money can make the bureaucracy work faster. It's been tried.
> Your wife's screaming in pain during labor, are you really going to jump on your phone and check to see if the anesthesiologist in front of you is in-network? And what do you do if s/he's not?

I think it was the economist Kenneth Arrow that used situations like this as an example of why health care cannot be treated like other markets. Free Markets™ require information by buyers, and there tends to be asymmetry in this regard in medicine more than in many other markets.

* https://web.stanford.edu/~jay/health_class/Readings/Lecture0...

Usually when buying a product or service you know the price ahead of time, but with medical treatment this is often impossible for non-elective / emergency procedures.
When I am interrupted, I almost always ask "Hey, can I talk to you in 5 min?" Unless it is an emergency, the answer is "yes".

Then I spend those 5 minute capturing context. This makes it easier (not easy, but easier) to return to the task after the discussion.

Another good thing to do is limit chances to be interrupted. Sign out of slack, close your email. Check these once every few hours. Oftentimes someone will ping you then solve their own issue with further research.

The above answer the headline question, but the deeper one comes in your text. "How can I live in the present" is how I interpret that. I don't know how to answer that, but focusing on the shortness of time you have on this planet has helped me be more present.
What is the small web? (2020)
A very long time ago (around 2000) I came up with the idea to record my car's engine sound, use a FFT on that, find the dominant frequency change over time, and then use the car's gear ratio / wheel size to find back the power curve. I'd drive my car both ways on an empty street, in 2nd gear, from idle to the rev limiter. Then I'd compute the two curves and average them.

It was fascinating: the curve plotted was matching nearly exactly the power curve given by the car manufacturer.

I think it's the first Java program I wrote. I copy/pasted some discrete FFT code I found somewhere.

It was a nice little project for it's way simpler than trying to fingerprint audio using FFT like Shazam does: yet I got to learn a bit about harmonics, FFT / amplitude over time vs amplitude over frequency, car drag coefficient, etc.

As I never throw anything I probably still have that crappy code somewhere!
web3 is a collection of nonsense that will make a group of rich people richer.
Gas kills 40x more people than nuclear, notwithstanding climate change impact.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Mysterious Neurodegenerative in Canada
That definitely sounds like lots of fraud and probably so e tax complications
Why is it even doing this on the main thread at all? The obvious thing would be to have a background thread polling for changes and then sending messages asynchronously to the main thread if a change actually occurred...
Nope. It is not a given that liberals "reflexively" do the opposite of Trump. There's a huge shared overlap about a distrust of China. I know that I rejected the lab leak theory because of WHO's press release and articles on foreignpolicy.com, but at that time I didn't know about the conflict of interest.
To be able to say to your bosses that you have 100% code coverage.

No, I agree. Hitting the database is slower but not that much slower (at least if you use PostgreSQL and do rollback after every test). And since the goal is correctness I think that this performance hit is small enough to be worth taking.
Might be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puio5dly9N8&t=587s
IMHO bjarne's comment sums it up nicely ...

"Use ints until you have a reason not to. Don't use unsigned unless you are fiddling with bit patterns, and never mix signed and unsigned.."
Facts on the ground are continuously changing and have been for the duration of the pandemic: e.g. risk of myocarditis for young males. Medical bodies are reacting to these changes, in that case by recommending against Moderna for people younger than 30.

Another example is the recommendation for AstraZeneca which was first not offered to older people because of unclear efficiency data, and then not offered to younger people because of the risk of blood clots.

Yet another example is the recommendation for boosters against Omicron. Israel's backing off from recommending a fourth to the general population because among other things the faster loss of protection.
Just another shitty 'crypto' technology fulfilling a hypothetical usecase that doesn't exist in the real world.

Show me meaningful usage of blockchain/public ledgers, then show me a scenario where you need to bind something between two ledgers.

All this software built is like a Minecraft theme park trying to sell tickets to real people to go on virtual rollercoasters.
Both of you are wrong. ZK fundamentally does not allow to hide the rules (the code). It only allows to hide particular executions. So yes, while you can have an ERC20 interface and some censorious garbage inside (I look at you, USDC), you can't hide that fact from observers.