skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It solves the urgent problem of the terrible scarcity of venues for financial speculation in an era of low interest rates and almost 0% real interest rates.

The economist Paul Krugman said that the cryptocurrencies had some of the same ballistics as gold, and gold does well when real interest rates are low, as people lack profitable investment opportunities and so they must seek increasingly aggressive and risky investments.

The cryptocurrencies have the advantage over gold that they can claim to not be gold, nor any known thing, they can claim to be something completely new, with unknown dynamics. This allows for a certain amount of hype that simply wouldn't be possible for gold.

And of course, in terms of ease of moving it around the planet, cryptocurrencies have some real advantages over gold, and therefore are probably stealing a lot of the risk taking that might have otherwise gone to gold.
Because ETH is still the king, and those coins haven't proven themselves yet. Next year ETH will be PoS and there will be no other major PoW coins outside of Bitcoin in the top 10. At which point, other PoS coins will lose their competitive advantage. So from a user and developer perspective, there's no reason to jump ship.
That's centralization, just replicated for redundancy.
I'd do it in principle, but the Nevada climate near Yucca Mountain's a bit dry for my liking.

Also, that whole state has a gambling problem and that kind of culture is much more of a turn-off than a little nuclear waste.
Living near a nuclear plant is safer than near a coal plant.
Web2 = We make money more easily

Web3 = We print money more easily
Batteries are coming but the cost of batteries can't just be ignored in the calculation of cost efficiency of solar and then waved away with "batteries are coming". Battery cost is the single largest cost of any solar or wind installation in order to compare it to reliable power. Solar and wind could be free, and still they wouldn't be cost effective with nuclear because of battery costs.

Ignoring that is a recipe for sky high prices and rolling blackouts, as well as the widespread abandonment of the entire enterprise. Those costs need to be factored in and then nuclear starts looking much, much better. It's not just solar not working at night -- even a cloudy day can result in 80% losses for solar. And wind is very intermittent.

The costs of keeping nuclear waste safe for 50 years is trivial compared to the costs of going through hundreds of billions of batteries and then recycling them over the same period of time, not to mention what to do with trillions of solar panels after they end their useful life, which is much shorter than 50 years. Solar and wind have a much bigger and more expensive waste problem, especially when you realize you need to recycle the batteries too.
Omicron is a mild flu. Live your life and have fun. Don't be a victim to fear mongering.
I'm never getting vaccinated, I haven't been sick since this thing started.
I'm South African, our vaccination rates are well below the rest of the world and we're relaxing restrictions. You wanna tell me us Africans have more common sense than the West? Don't let the media and politicians imprison you and turn you against the people around you.
peer to peer cryptocurrency networks are a weird corner case in open source software. they're open source and they're peer to peer... but they also form gigantic singletons that have applied cryptography level protocol strictness requirements.

i think the argument that many are trying to make is that perhaps you could see more openness built upon these singletons. whether or not that is true remains to be seen.
Does IPFS and blockchain domains mitigate BGP risk?
[This is not necessarily about web3]

I've said it before, and it needs repeating: we >need< hardware solutions for creating decentralized networks: mesh-networks, fog networks, etc. So far the solutions realistically are null: there has to be a way for the average person to buy the hardware, create the network or join one, and then use it.Software-wise there are some promising protocols but obviously you >can't< be sure how good they are until they're put to the test.And we don't even need protocols that work 100%, given that nowadays one can theoretically use software that adapts to whatever the conditions of the hardware are.I refrain myself to use buzzwords here, but the software is more accessible and you don't even need 100% compatibility between all the protocols out there, as long as you get that respective data correctly between A and B.

But there will not be any progress to any decentralized internet unless we get solutions to the average joe, the consumer, to do this.Obviously this is not in the interest of corporations, governments, and other entities that have control, but in the case of a disaster or collapse of a society, a change of regime towards a totalitarian state, what other viable solutions are besides hoping those in power will "bide by their principles"[assuming they exist]?

That's why frankly any decentralization software-wise is good but quite useless at the same time, including web 3.0, including anything running on IP protocol or through an ISP that is governed by a state.You literally have to cut <=5 "internet cables" worldwide and you got rid of the internet to the vast majority of the planet.Yes Starlink exists but how many people use it and how resilient is it?
It's because the EU is almost entirely controlled by France and Germany.

If this were up to the people of the EU (or their representatives in the EU parliament), it wouldn't stand a chance. They'd never declare gas green. But this decision was taken by the European Commission, a group that's not elected. And who leads the commission: von der Leyen, a German.

It's like when they forced truckers to continuously return to their home countries. [1] Romania has basically no competitive advantage in the EU, except a cheaper workforce. When eastern European truckers started dominating transport in western Europe, Macron forced the EU to change regulations and mandate that drivers must go home every 4 weeks, wasting fuel, and thus being less competitive.

[1]: https://www.transportnews.co.uk/2020/08/14/new-international...
Lol, it's pathetic how transparent the anti-Chinese propaganda is these days.
I see her more as tragically naive.

But then, it's sometimes hard to tell where one leaves off and the other begins.
Not that the optimisation isn't interesting but if the query is column-based, wouldn't it make more sense to use a binary column-oriented format like Apache Parquet [0]? Or perhaps a binary format like Protobuf, Webpack, Cap'n'proto etc.?

Are there other concerns that cause JSON to make sense?

[0]: https://parquet.apache.org/documentation/latest/
Ask HN: Start online community in a village/small city
Recently i moved back to home town because of WFH after working as a SDE for 3 years in a Tier-1 city.

Now, i have few ideas which can solve various problem around a small village/city. I'm trying to take tech first approach because most of the people here use mobile/internet already.

What do you suggest i should do to create a small community online ? I mean i can develop an app/webiste but how do i approach people to tell them about my ideas ?
I am reminded that Alphabet's Google's Charleston Road Registry acquired .foo with the promise of sharing it with the community, only to pull a 180 post-grant and keep it to themselves. FeelsBadMan
The underpinnings of the web are effectively decentralized; I can host a blog for a nominal monthly fee and have a bunch of hosts competing for my business. It’s only become centralized because we’ve allowed our attention to become centralized, and given it all to twitter/facebook/etc.

We’re already seeing the same thing happen in web3. OpenSea can (and does) remove NFTs from its marketplace if it wants to. Like the web, there are other markets you can use, and you could even permissionlessly start your own, but you’d be giving up the attention that comes from using an established platform.
I mean, yeah. There is a privilege associated with that. The US is a great starting point, but you can outgrow it, especially when it comes to financial services if you aren't interested in the incumbents.

People with money in stable economies aren't clamoring for US citizenship, some are interested in it but its just an option. The whole continent is populated by people that lost consensus wherever they came from. Like 99% of the population has a heritage that was either deemed an extremist in their "motherland" or were simply just outside of the cool kids club and had to fight for scraps, or avoiding the impending reality of both. The other 1% are basically the 1% financially and just here for play while retaining their options to do the same anywhere.
NFD is fine when you dont have much time and can afford the space. NFC is about 3x slower and smaller. Forcing clients never works.
Be tolerant what you accept and strict what you write. In the case of C++23 enforcing NFC my mind is twisted. It would allow heavy tokenizer optimizations, but this is an offline compiler, where you don't really need that.

The problem are the compatible variants, NFKC and NFKD. But then you have usecases where you need them, and more to actually find strings. Levenshtein should not be the default when searching for strings.
D is chock-full of very good ideas but original-D has a GC so it's not really a competition for C++.
DasBetterC has no GC but it's quite new so it must compete for mindshare with Rust, Zig, V, Odin..
Yeah, that one. He went for a salsa dancing festival in Georgia, and it totally didn't go as planned.
>I think that we have a responsibility to speak out on matters we believe in and ignore negative pushback.

I would prefer to read you thoughts in areas you have experience in rather your random believes, as a non political example I don't care about your option on Linux init systems if you are not a system administrator, distro maintainer or somehow that is more then a random Linux distro user, same with programming languages opinion, I don't care about your anti-X pro-Y opinion if you have zero experience on X and Y but your opinion is just because your hero blogger/developer/youtuber hates X and likes Y.

For sure there are topics where you have experience with and you can share that and there are topics where everyone has same level of experience and we can all give our opinion.
This is soo strange! Why do _you_ have to insist for anything? Why is this thing even legal?
Thats just silly reply :) its about not being materialist and consumpionist. Not about living in the woods and hunting with spears. Its about balance and having things in life more important than new watch (another one), new suit (how many do you need?). You know... Love, friends, familly. Real time with your kids, reading them more books instead of putting them in front of tv and tablet.
I wouldn't say that Docker is doing something similar. What I want to do is give a one-page overview of the web framework landscape.

Since I envision the scripts to be very small, I expect that updating them will not take long. The history of the updates will indeed be very interesting. In 10 years we can look at it and see how often each framework had breaking changes.
He should care. The effort to learn git would have saved him time. Time he could have used to improve DF or to sleep, whatever. But instead he's still moving folders around.

I believe it's a balance. You don't want to spend your life just adjusting your IDE settings to the point that you never work on your actual project. But you shouldn't completely neglect anything that could improve your life with little effort.

I confess I'm guilty of "procrastination by configuration". I probably spent a year of my total career life just messing with my settings or getting the perfect git or vim configfiles.
Love Languages
Yep, they were crapping on the vaccines and now they're forcing people to take the same ones. People too easily forget what politicians spew. Critical thinking is lost on many.
I think we developers don't automate 90% of what we could. What can we expect from laypeople?
"we don't need error handling because we output the thing"

i'm wondering why the hell its not a faster format? json is awful for storing ... anything, but a good compromise given that "everyone knows what it is"
One of the advantages of growing instead of hunting is that you can harvest the first flush, stuff it in a bag in the fridge and then come back a couple days later to check that the full sized mushrooms look right. King stropharia is pretty distinct when it’s old, but you eat before the gills fully open.
A lot of the R&D also applies to fusion reactors with more mundane fuels.
Clearly not all that empathic if you're on here bragging about how great it is that you can simply opt to not lose your civil rights.
What you are describing is level 4. And if tesla were anywhere near that that would be freaking brilliant.

Tesla FSD has many deaths and countless serious accidents under it's belt. Which doesn't necessarily have to be that bad, but as expected a computer doesn't make the same kind of mistakes that a human does and the kind of mistakes that tesla does doesn't inspire confidence (but rather nightmare fuel that you just can't wake up from).

They should be banned until they have level 4 and take responsibility for their cars actions. Blaming it on a human driver and calling it a day is ludicrous.
And with litestrean/rqlite/dqlite you could have multiple read replicas as well.
Again you ignore critical points and dismiss the nebulous nature of the data that you believe to be “categorically” true. Time to move on.
Makes sense. I mean docker as in dockerfiles which are essentially scripts that create the docker image as a full environment.
Is this fact or FUD?
I recommend looking into BSV, as you can store data on-chain for cents, but it looks like any comment mentioning it will get automatically moderated for some reason.
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304070... and... Its just one of many options. Thank you :) you did compare with 50 years, what abkut 150? 300? 500? 1000? Or we dont think about shit thats beyond our lifetime? You dont want to leave nice clean planet for your kids? Or for kids of other people/in your familly? We need to think beyond our lifetime. Keeping up and fixing nuclear plants is extremely huge cost and needs to be done constantly. And the waste needs to be paid for for 100,000 years. Not for 50.

As for night time harvesting energy, we've already solved the issue (and one i link is not the only one) :
https://www.saurenergy.com/solar-energy-news/arriving-soon-s...

No one mentioned hydrogen which was being hold by OPEC, but now its getting traction.
> I guess technically it could have been labelled ‘purple’ and a new rule made that all allowances made for ‘green’ also apply to ‘purple’ but honestly that sounds to me more likely to be abused in the future.

How would this be abused?

The problem is that the EU talks a big game but can’t actually deliver. Calling gas green is moving the goalposts.

If gas is necessary that’s fine, just don’t pretend we are on track to be carbon neutral (or negative) in time for it to matter.

These gas plants are taking funds that could be used on actual green energy. If people don’t peek behind the curtain the numbers will say “all our energy is green”. That makes the problem look smaller than it is.
Play the cards you're dealt. I don't have influence on the courts and neither do the people protesting on its doorstep.
Good try
That is counter productive to keeping the earth habitable. This "considered middle ground" ideology is more dangerous than denial. Like MLK said about "white moderates".
> Now, kids feel like they've accomplished very little

Are you observing kids feeling like this frequently? Where/how are they developing? I think there's a lot of enthusiasm in for example Roblox.
Any idea how carcinogenic Lysol wipes are from exposing them to your hands everyday from sanitizing surfaces?

The chemical is really unique sounding.
Which AWS API Endpoints Support IPv6?
morpheos137 did a bit too well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25608034
Ask HN: Is there any Open Science in corporate sustainability reports?
During the last year, I have intensively researched the topic of greenwashing and the possibilities of making ecological sustainability verifiable with the help of Open Science. My goal is to start a company in this field.

Unfortunately, during my research I did not find a single company that publishes its ESG / sustainability reports on the basis of Open Science, so that the data, models and software used can be reproduced transparently.

Why do companies not dare to be transparent with their calculations in this area? Why has not a single company gone this way, although Open Science is very widespread in areas such as Climate Science today?

I see massive potential for sustainable companies to differentiate themselves from greenwashing competitors.
Great interview/podcast/discussion with Alina Chan re: the origins from the Stated Clearly/Evolution Podcast:

https://youtu.be/IEfpWvQjD0Q
Are you a bot? this reply makes no sense.

I know plenty about the differences, and even if I didn't what would that have to do with our technological abilities?

Here's what's patently true:

1. We are actively funding many "gain of function" research grants.

2. We have gene editing technology, CRISPR has been around for over a decade now.

3. We have literally synthesized DNA, RNA, bacteria, and viruses in the lab. The covid vaccines alone are enough to validate this, but here's further evidence we've been doing this for at least 2 decades. [0]

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12114528/

(2002) Chemical synthesis of poliovirus cDNA: generation of infectious virus in the absence of natural template

So, yeah. We clearly possess the technology.
Seems like every company has some inconveniently imposed time frame, computer controlled and automated, that seemingly no one in existence has the keys to or power to override. When I was their age, we built the damn things and told them what to do. Hello Skynet
Super-short term, or longer term?

Moon has a similar crust to earth, has never been mined before in all of human history, and doesn't have an ecology to ruin.

But the kicker is that the Delta-V requirements for moon->earth transport are quite modest; even to begin with. [1]

Delta-V requirements scale exponentially with gravity. With the inverse, at 1/6 of earth's gravity and effectively no atmosphere, all kinds of exotic transport and launch solutions that would be ludicrous on earth would be rather pedestrian on the moon. So the theoretical lowest possible price for shipping moon->earth would be very low indeed.

Assume there's mining/manufacturing on the moon already. Then at some point as people build out infrastructure, there's going to be a threshold point. First one factory might start to be able to build things and ship them to some of the more remote places on earth for cheaper than a similar factory on earth can do. At that point demand would increase and the price would keep dropping as volume increased.

Said factory just needs to be very careful to set things up so that at no point in time (past commissioning at least) they need to ship so much as a paper-clip from Earth, because that would immediately crater their budget. [2]

So long term moon-earth ROI is pretty good I'd say. Just getting to that particular threshold would be hideously expensive, since it requires a lot of earth launches. Possibly some intermediate steps might be needed.

[1] To slightly misrepresent the situation but give an intuition: The Saturn V rocket was needed to get to the moon; but the tiny spaceship-stack at the top of the rocket [LM ascent stage + CM/CSM] was sufficient to get back.

[2] Which is not to say that you can't sometimes ship things from Earth. While shipping from Earth is (comparatively) insanely expensive, one-off costs can always be amortized. But you can't practically include earth-launch as an integral part of your on-moon production or shipping processes and still expect to make a profit. This is part of the challenge.
I remember getting out all these C64/BASIC programming books from the library when I was a kid. They were filled with cartoon robots and such if I remember correctly.

I remember typing a "lot" (I was somewhere in the 5-7 range at that point) of code from those (and other) books into our C64. I don't recall understanding most/any of what I wrote, but I think it got me sufficiently interested to keep me going until I got to an age that I actually understood what I was doing.

[update: I think I found them, they were by usborne and inexplicably are now free :D : https://usborne.com/us/books/computer-and-coding-books]
I like to login web-apps using my wallet.
I like to see things that I own in my wallet.
I think we should give a chance to web3.
Web3 feels like the next grift after we caught on to ICO's.

From the article:

> The problem here is the profit motive: people who are working on web3 generally want to get paid for it, but it's fundamentally harder to extract rent from truly decentralized systems than it is from centralized ones. Because of that, people end up building systems that are centralized at their core, with some aesthetics of decentralization smeared on top, and call it web3.

I remain curious that there are practical applications for blockchain outside digital gold style securities. But web3 feels like a land grab for the mindshare of the future. Trading off the philosophies that got us here, while subverting them with the very things the web fought against (centralisation, pay-to-play and so on).

A big red flag is the level of complexity of web3 compared to say HTTP. I rarely see practitioners of web3 talking with clarity, instead hand waving and double-speak is far more common.

Yes, sometimes the most exciting things are emergent, but it's been over a decade of the blockchain field of dreams and we're still talking in hypotheticals are what it will be good for.

Gall's law seems more prescient than ever:

> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

At the network layer tcp/ip/http are relatively simple compared to blockchain.
At the application layer a web server/cloud is still simpler than a dApp.
At the user layer a credit/debit card is still simpler than paying with crypto.

To say nothing of the ecological impacts. You may think web3 is the future, but we cannot ignore the fact that http is greener. Yes, I know proof of stake will make crypto green but I'm not convinced it's possible [0].

[0] https://yanmaani.github.io/proof-of-stake-is-a-scam-and-the-...
> This global warming-driven definition of "green" ignores all of that.

No, it just shows that one needs to read more than the headline. It does take all that into account as well, hence all the "if"s and the "transitional" label.