skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find your two concepts of boredom incredibly different one from the other.

When you have dopamine tablets as low hanging fruit you use them as much as you can so to keep your mind busy, in a simple society you don’t have those tablets all around 24/7.

People are praying on our boredom in our contemporary society, it wasn’t like that in the past.

Plus, I don’t think the default to be being slightly bored but being slightly mentally inactive, boredom is a modern concept of our very complex modernity.
I'm really not sure what you are disputing here. PAKEs are for preventing man in the middle attacks, not for securing a local program or preventing malicious code from running in the browser. No one is advocating, use a PAKE and all your problems are gone - it's about addressing key exchange over the wire and eliminating an entire class of attack. Password managers are a tough subject - they are like coffee . Yes, there may be small amounts of toxic stuff in it, but that is offset by a factor of 10,000 by the number of people who do not get in a wreck on the way to work, thanks to being awake and aware form 70mg of caffeine.
If a person cares about holding Government accountable then they demand answers to why action is taken. In my mind, a rational person would say, "what marginal benefit is accomplished by this action." So that is what I ask you, have you seen real estimated numbers for what is hoped to be accomplished here? If not, why is that not important, I thought this was supposed to be motivated by facts and figures. If these decisions aren't being motivated by numbers then what objective basis is being used to make this decision?
The failsafe would be to only show routes that an inexperienced driver in a 2WD sedan can handle comfortably across a wide range of weather conditions--and perhaps refuse to route in heavy snowfall across secondary routes at all. Is that what people would want?

In the US West in particular, there are a lot of routes that are very dependent on weather conditions, current maintenance, driver skill/familiarity, and vehicle. It's hard for a GPS unit to make the "right" recommendation on a lot of secondary/tertiary routes.

And as a friend of mine was noting the other day, road closures are often recorded by public safety officials making phone calls.
I’m Canadian and am extremely happy with the state of healthcare. It has nothing to do with propaganda but personal experience.

Please don’t claim to speak for me. Your view does not match the typical Canadian’s.
It is weird to me that someone can watch their kid (I know that this is a godparent) go down this path and not intervene. If the cause of dropping out really was distraction, it is sad that the parent didn't take the device from the child. The kid's parents paid for this conduit monthly.
Probably could have made out the panicked expressions on the faces of the aircrew!
HFCS, fat and salt
Just because suppression wasn't successful doesn't mean it wasn't attempted. And the attempt itself, by leading Western scientists who attempted to forestall any discussion and gaslight dissenters with accusations of anti-Chinese bigotry and scientific ignorance, is to me an even bigger story than covid's actual origins.
> And the problem is centralization, which facilitates censorship and totalitarian control.

This is a gross misunderstanding of both the current banking system (which is decentralized) and the degree to which using a slow database doesn’t prevent legal actions. Blockchains are very easy to monitor and censor: ideal for an authoritarian government to get a signed confession for every disapproved transaction you make, and a high-volume always-on network is trivially blocked should they care to.
Study: No convincing scientific evidence that hangover cures work
Also my experience.. Super unreliable. It works, as long as you don't touch your phone/laptop, and don't have any network hickups.

Still, it's the only thing that works
This is a different topic altogether...
But the internet is hacking your amygdala, and has been for years. Most of the information and stimulus you come across on the internet is designed to manipulate you, deceive you and control you in some way, and it works. This has real ramifications at scale, as the spread of disinformation and violence enabled by social media has shown us.

This isn't unironical scaremongering, it's a real thing and it is newsworthy. "Here are 10 youtube channels that go into more depth that the master program of any university" is exactly the kind of clickbait garbage people wish the media would do less of.

Also, the "old media" no longer really exists, it lost its identity and was assimilated long ago. Every media outlet that exists is deeply invested in the web, everyone is "new media" now.
Hilbert’s Hotel – An Ingenious Explanation of Infinity
Are you heating up your house with 16.6KWh per day? Seems low for an electrically heated home.

The other problem with using cars to feed the grid is that you need inverters large enough to do so in each house. That's not a cheap solution and it takes a lot of space.
> It wasn't that long ago we used to worry about whether fuel was renewable or not, and about particulate pollution, acid rain, habitat destruction and other environmental externalities in general, not just CO2.

From these points natural gas is relatively good, its main problem is CO2 emissions. I worry that focusing on CO2 would lead to going back from natural gas heating to biomass/wood heating, which could be CO2 neutral[1], but brings particulate pollution and other environmental externalities.

[1] although often is not due to extraction and processing steps
Or, better in many cases, you can write what you meant explicitly in Rust.

3u64.checked_sub(4u64).expect("Overflow");

This allows you to spell out that you don't expect this to overflow, and Rust should panic if it does, regardless of your compiler flags.
I notice you said recently. Keep in mind that we’re in a pandemic and elective procedures/many types of testing have been postponed. That’s because it’s a pandemic. I’m not so selfish to expect healthcare workers to work 24/7.
I think some grassroots web3 people will agree with you, web3 is not simply about blockchain and IPFS would certainly be included in their definition.

To answer your question, 'crypto' adds the ability to store valuable data trustlessly. This means any data for which there is profit in manipulating, user accounts, key-stores, accounting (obviously). In practice most of web3 should take place off chain - 'crypto' or blockchains are suited for the most important data. Its much like the difference between the foundation of the building and the interior - it may be easy to take for granted what you don't often see or interact with.
> With the recent introduction of zk rollups on Ethereum, it's now possible to have the best of both worlds, in my opinion (see https://aztec.network/index.html). Transactions that need to be private will be conducted on zero-knowledge rollups built for privacy. Mastercard is working on this with Consensys for Ethereum (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/12/16/consensys-colla...).

I can’t find any real technical documentation on this system but from what I understand about ethereum, this kind of use case effectively needs to be run off the main ethereum blockchain?

I just don’t understand what the purpose of the blockchain really is when most of the interesting ways to scale add features rely on processing transactions OFF the chain.
I expect most (but not all) of the batteries in a PV+battery grid would be cycled (to whatever depth) every day, giving them a ~27 year replacement cycle not too different from other power plants.

In principle I prefer antipodal transmission lines for the grid and batteries for transport — grid is cheaper and a trade opportunity — but at global scale, such a grid will take a while to build.
L7 is < 3% and L8 is < 1% about of all of the employees specifically in the engineering department. Should be much less than 1000.
SDL should probably use inotify() on linux so the kernel can let it know when /dev/input has changed rather than polling it.
Then you still have problems to handle like accidentally disconnecting/reconnecting the gamepad when somebody stumbles over the cable (for instance the game might want to automatically pause if the gamepad suddenly 'disappears' for any reason). Gamepads should be automatically detected at any time in the game as they are connected or disconnected. That's how it works on game consoles, and PC games shouldn't behave any different in that regard IMHO.
Switching the entire (Western?) car fleet to electric cars will be neither a quick nor a cheap process. It won't even be feasible on a timescale of less than some 20 years, because the necessary amount of natural resources just isn't mined in such volumes. You also have to massively upgrade the grid to handle such powerful currents.

It is doable, yes, but I cannot concur with the OPs idea that it is cheap.
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Many people care about Julian Assange.
Oh so much this. I need to look my home office to not have the lingering 'fear' of some kid or wife opening the door. It is fine yelling through the door, but not opening it ...
A comedian said this same question but answered it with “alcohol.”
How does decentralization give you availability? You need a financial incentive to make data available, that's where the tokens come in.
Also stop conflating all crypto with scams, it's a moot point and borders on arguing in bad faith. People use good old money to run scams and rob people all the time. The fact that people use the tool with malicious intents doesn't detract from the value of the tool itself.
That's a study on ACE2 binding affinity, not a study on surface viability....
I thought this was normal. Every time I wake up I'm totally exhausted despite sleeping well. I can just about manage regular life when going to work, but if I don't have work (like over xmas) I just fail at everything, my long list of interesting productive ideas goes up in smoke, and I can find myself falling asleep in the middle of the day.

I've always put it down to acute loneliness and not having any drive due to being generally comfortable financially etc.

If I could take a pill or whatever and fix it, I'd be a very happy man.
I personally think that since all the Wuhan lab info is being suppressed the theory of a lab leak could never be disproved.
Oh okay wow. And you've been here longer than me. I understand the push for engagement and the idea of preventing mass bot accounts, but I'd think after a few years they would give the ability. Wonder if they have considered this...
> Some scientists say these worries about attention are a moral panic, comparable to the anxieties in the past about comic books or rap music, and that the evidence is shaky.

I agree with them.

It's hard to pay attention to something for long unless it's entertaining. Reading a book, reading a paper, etc -- these activities take discipline that most people don't develop or don't often apply. This isn't new. The mistake is thinking that the ability to concentrate on something non-entertaining is the baseline. One reason so many people think they have ADHD is because they make that mistake.

We had the same anxieties about radio and TV. Those anxieties were right and wrong. Technologies do change how people behave but it's always the same story. There will be entertainment freely available and you'll have to choose to concentrate on things that aren't entertaining that you consider worthwhile.
The complete advice should be "Write short sentences unless you are a good writer."

Most people are not good writers (that includes me), and good writers don't need this generic low level advice, so "Write short sentences." is fine. Also, it is more what you’d call a ‘guideline’ than an actual rule.
Very true. You can achieve quite a bit in one day working with wood.
Ok thanks, so it's like saying that we can ignore anything to do with manufacturing?
> if you have a draining job and don't have energy

Never in modern times have we worked less. It is not that much the 7 or 8 hours of not-quite-daily work which make us tired, it is that on top of it come the 2 or 3 hours of not-really-interesting-but-designed-for-addiction serials watching, the 1 hour of news article browsing, the 2 hours of reading and sometimes writing hundreds of comments about what makes us rage on whichever form of forum or social media or newspaper comment section, the 1 hour on social media of keeping-connected-with-family-and-friends you wouldn't have cared about before, the 1 hour of wanking off to the hundreds of thousands of hours of free porn available in 1 click while you would never have bought a porn magazine before, the 1 hour of browsing online shops for stuff you don't really need of for which you could just have bought the first item at your supermarket without spending hours of research to get the very best one or to save 10 cents.

For most people, at least half of this time spent connected to Internet would have been free 15-20 years go. Free to cook, free to rest, free to read, free to get bored, free to do something a bit more productive or interesting than indulging into one's vices or immediately yet falsely rewarding consumption, which is what the new Internet-backed face of consumerist capitalism excels at providing.

A lot of Internet leisure now occupies many hours a day, and gets placed at the same level as work and duties, instead of being considered as one way of occupying one's free time, so now the free time seems to be only starting after all this leisure consumption has be done, thus it appears extremely reduced.
It depends on the use case. If this is an index that's commonly sorted by and enumerated, the performance impact of a string compare versus a simple 64 bit integer compare would be enormous. A single compare instruction versus a series of unicode character comparison operations with subsequent jump instructions would not only be more code, it would also be more likely to wreck the branch predictor of the CPU with all the added conditionals.

I think using 64 bit integers for their natural hardware-accelerated sortability is quite a neat trick. You just have to be sure to use actual 64 bit numbers, and you have to think ahead to check if your data type is wide enough to actually contain your data.
I just don't agree really. That analogy is pretty absurd.

It is hugely powerful to not get caught up in all this nonsense at the individual level.

I know so much more than what I knew in early January 2021 because I spend my time reading books, doing tutorials or taking MOOCS instead of wasting my time watching TikTok. I literally don't even know what the user interface to TikTok looks like and never will.

If anything the exact problem is people are giving up agency at the individual level. As if there is absolutely no choice other than to be helplessly addicted to your phone. That implies then that it is not your fault that you check your phone or txt while driving.
https://zombo.com/
It requires a stiff upper lip.
Web3 is a buzzword that makes it sound like something which it isn't, same with AI - dumb but pattern recognition is still useful. I wouldn't call trustless programmable money with defined supply irrelevant since there is no alternative in the mainstream financial system. You are talking about just one function - transfer of value - but that already works just fine. For your points:

You can have much lower transaction fees than in Visa / Mastercard (which sometimes you can't even legally charge customer with) so there's a bigger scam by your definition.

One has to find someone willing to trade to get goods -_- because dollars instantly turn into chicken soup when you're hungry.

For fractional banking you need a trusted system, this is outside of cryptocurrency scope but you can do it atop of cryptocurrecnies just fine, look at exchanges.
and most studies of surface viability conclude that there is minimal to no risk from surfaces

Its good to start out conservative in this regard where we assume viability everywhere, but evidence now points elsewhere
I'm German. My English lessons started in 1992, I think.

Our English teachers back then were highly influenced by England and the United Kingdom.

They strived for "correct" British pronunciation. They had most of their vacations (sorry, holidays) in England. Maybe Scotland.

Our school book began with "X lives in Hatfield. Hatfield is near London." One of the first words we learned was "biro". We were "pupils", not "students".

Today's English teachers have grown up with American TV series and music. I'd be surprised if that British bias still showed.

I've mostly felt that influence, as well, and I think my English is more American than British, thanks to Star Trek, Friends and the like.

Although I have once put the word "connexion" in document at work, and I'd love to use "gaol" some day before I retire. ;-)
Of course you can do that, but I would say that doing so defensively for every operation is way more verbose and unwieldy than you'd want.

Much simpler to just toggle on the relevant flag.
Syncthing is great software… but it isn’t in the same genre of “send a random one-off file to a person physically close to you with no advanced setup"
Just because the standard lib of language A is bad doesn't mean every standard lib must be bad.

A great standard lib is one of the best things that can happen to a language. The advantages are huge when it comes to maintaining a project. It's just that it's really hard to create and maintain a standard lib properly.

The Go team makes once again a remarkable good job here. Other languages might not have the resources or expertice to extend and maintain the language and standard lib as well as they do.

Some people argue that there's something inherently bad having a great standard lib, which is of course not true. These arguements seems mainly an excuse for the thin standard lib of their favorite language ...
The article describes a far broader group of culprits than just social media. However, the author only calls for forcing social media companies to change their business models and not, say, news sites that publish articles trigger-happy about declaring crises and emergencies.
Interesting. I discovered that hobbying should finish within a certain timeframe or it becomes a burden. For me stopping at 4pm keeps a sense of hobby over work.
> But the majority of people interested in crypto don’t care about the technology, they are in it to get rich.

"But the majority of people interested in TikTok don't care about the technology, they are on it to watch people dance and laugh."

The majority of people on the planet don't care about technology except what it can do for them. Having nuanced discussions about technology usually only interesting to a small subset of people. For many other technologies, HN is a place to have that discussion. But it hasn't been for crypto.

> Look at the level of discussion bitcoin had when it wasn’t realistically exchangeable for USD.

Bitcoin's first block was January 3, 2009. 10,000 bitcoin were famously exchanged for two Papa John's pizzas on May 22, 2010. The first bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, was launched July 18, 2010. So you're talking about a year and a half window since it was first conceived to have such discussion, less than 12% of the entire time bitcoin has been in existence.

And considering the name of the bitcoin paper is "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System", there was probably some talk about it eventually being exchanged for USD right from the start.

> nobody cares about the actual technology

Yeah that's not true. On HN that may be more or less true (although I care about the tech and I'm on HN), but there's plenty of people that care about the tech and are discussing it in other channels.

It's crazy, I've had much deeper discussions about the tech with people who can't even program on channels on Discord than I've had on HN, ever, about this space. I'm still desperately trying to play catchup, they keep dropping articles and talking about things and concepts I haven't heard of before. And intelligently, too, not just "I like the web3 makes me money go fast moon please." like it seems everyone on HN assumes these people think.

There are people legitimately trying to do new and interesting (to me anyway) things with the space, and donating their time and energy and cash to try to build it and make it happen.
Stop ignoring the fact that scams happen in this system that you proponents say is supposed to solve the ills of the current economic system!
How often do you, personally, use healthcare? I was fine with it too because I'm a very healthy man (let's face it, men don't use health care as much as women for obvious biological reasons) in my 30's. The fact it's so shit doesn't affect me, personally.

But it's objectively bad when compared to every country at our level of income, and bad when compared to most first-world countries. We pay more and receive less. My girlfriend is pregnant (part of the reason for all her medical appointments) and legitimately doesn't want to move back to Canada (where we met) because of the state of health care (and education, and infrastructure, and housing costs, but healthcare is a big one with a child on the way).

Edit - in a comment to another person you're saying you're OK with things being postponed in Canada because it's a pandemic. Nothing is postponed or shut down here... We've been getting appointments just fine. Literally made my point.
I believe that once we reach a post-scarcity phase of civilization, the attention of other human beings will be the last, zero-sum scarce resource. And the competition over it will be no less intense and brutal than historical conflicts over the basics of life.
2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236
Illegal app tops Apple’s App Store charts
If someone cannot contribute to discussion in a meaningful way, why they should have the right to downvote?
You know. I can guarantee that for most, it is getting more difficult to ignore this to the point that questions like this pop up every now and then.

So their 'worst nightmare' of Web 3 is becoming more real everytime it is talked about. If you believe it is a fad or a hype, just ignore it.

We all know it won't be the last time we will discuss about it (again) and the same people will come here and comment and talk about it once again.
Been here doesn't mean I was active in any meaningful way or made any significant contributions to the community. I do encourage you to be active, there are several users out there with great insights and the level of discourse is pretty high even if people have a different point of view or opinion in a subject matter.
yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236
And they never will. There is just too much money in it. That's why ultimately the responsibility lies with us.
1) paywall
2) This is not a binary. Both are problems
3) It's a near certainty that the author has a narrow definition of which human traits are moral and which are not

fortan77: why would you post a link that most HNers can't read? It's one thing to do so for sites that can be circumvented via archive.is. This is not one of those sites
If hand-written assembly becomes a fashion trend of 2022 (must say I'm tempted) - are there any good targets for optimization in popular free software packages that anybody here can think of? Filters in GIMP, effects in Audacity, etc?