skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, except for the part about this being physical hardware rather than a cloud thing. I find it very difficult to imagine even 10% of America buying something like this; a likelier model is, imagine that your typical $50/mo wireless plan included a $5/mo virtual server, and an app to manage it that looks like an easier version of cpanel.
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I think most banks have solutions for this (ACH generally) but the UI sucks which is obviously a problem as well as the latency.

Latency is getting better and I think 2022 is the year a big change to the ACH system is getting rolled out that should decrease that wait time to less than 24 hours for most transactions.

But you'll still have all of these companies vying for the in-between so they can make money investing transitional funds. Now you see services like Cash.app moving to a more bank-like structure with a debit card and Apple Pay, so they can keep that money in their system and they can continue to do stuff with it.

I agree with your broad point though. This should be easier in the US.
I still do the Plan-Do-Check-Adjust (PDCA) cycle, also known as a Shewhart cycle or the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle, from contemporary project management. I apply it at a personal level, a team level, and a company level. The adjust phase comes in handy when improving developer experience on codebases. A powerful routine but also very tiring :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA
This only applies to “business” transactions and the labels are largely self reported.

> Also, if you sell something at a loss; for instance, you purchased a bike for $400 and sold it for $300, the amount is not subject to the new law.

This effectively guarantees self reporting obligation (even if the buyer reports it as a commercial transaction).
> how many percent Americans would have voted yes to something like this if they had been asked directly?

That seems an unfair burden. Many laws cover complex matters and the average American cannot be expected to know the pros and cons of every bill. I like clean water, for instance, but my opinion on what that means isn't well developed enough to vote on laws on exactly what should be permitted.
Pork isn't a new concept in politics.
Thank you. I'd love to get that much sleep but if I push my sleep quantity up my sleep quality goes down. And so at this point I feel I need to readjust what my sleep quantity expectations are and accept that.

I've heard about when waking up going through your bedtime routine again. I haven't given that a chance, out of concerns that it will wake me up further, but that's something to try.
It's not obvious to me that that is a problem for me, or that it makes the internet worse
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Well you can wire up to 10K without an SAR being sent to the government, so perhaps that should be the number instead?
This is highly unlikely to be true. I've got the full thing working with erigon, the idea it's 5 at most is hilarious.
If you aren't doing anything untoward (like getting paid wages under the table, using a digital payment system and not reporting it[1]), this doesn't change how you file taxes. It's simply a data-point that the IRS will cross-reference, to see if you are being honest with your filing.

[1] If you're doing that, you should, like, stop. I'm not a lawyer and this is not tax advice, but you should probably stop.
Card issuer risk model heuristics will also apply different amounts of scrutiny based on transaction size and type. You could do a two dollar transaction just with card number, I wouldn't expect a twenty thousand dollar transaction to go through without the other fields.
Sure!

So, this advert went out in I think, 1998, according to the writer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKS_yw4MqAA

It features a poster of Griff Pilchard on the wall.

Now, when I was 16 my crush loaned me a tape of Griff Pilchard which she treasured. It was totally bizarre, but I love it in its weird way. But, as far as the Internet was concerned in the 90s and into the 2000s, Griff Pilchard did not exist.

Even in 2022, very little exists about the man and his music. He is a ghost.

Anyway, when that advert aired in 1998 it was the only reference I had seen anywhere, outside the cassette, to the man's actual existence.

The man himself did finally turn up on Facebook, but he was as baffled as I was about the advert because:

a) No-one on Earth has heard of him
b) He's never had any posters
c) That isn't his face on the poster

So, to have "his" face on a poster on a major national TV advert that ran constantly for months was unexplainable.

Anyway, I recently managed to find the writer of the advert. He explained that the director had decided on the subject of the poster and had dressed up in a wig to make it. He'd mentioned Griff Pilchard to the rest of the staff, but they had no idea who he was talking about.

It was nice to get an explanation after 20 years of it bugging me. The advert would pop up from time to time in the media and each time it did I couldn't figure it out. Now I've been able to check it off. I sent the info to Griff Pilchard and he was very happy to also know what the fuck it was all about.
"With the shift to mobile, we now live firmly in a world of clients and servers – with the former completely unable to act as the latter – and those questions seem more important to me than ever. Meanwhile, ethereum actually refers to servers as “clients,” so there’s not even a word for an actual untrusted client/server interface that will have to exist somewhere, and no acknowledgement that if successful there will ultimately be billions (!) more clients than servers."

Finally someone articulates the problem with crypto. People don't want to run their own servers, and they sure as shit don't want to run their own banks. So in theory you have a decentralised trustless web or financial system, but in practice, everyone is trusting someone to run a node for them. Which is exactly how the web and finance work now.
Canada here. These US services seem amazing. We're limited to "Interac e-Transfers" with archaic send times, terribly low maximums, and even per-transaction fees.
Of course in the real world we know this doesn't work. People will instead believe everything you tell them if they want to. They might not remember all of it specifically, but they will believe it all in aggregate.

Example: Hillary Clinton, who murdered a bunch of Americans at an embassy in Libya, ran an underground child murder ring, gave away all of our state secrets via a criminal email server, is actually an animated corpse that can't even wear shoes properly, etc...

You'll probably say that most of this is nonsense, but people have gone to jail because they believed it so completely and committed crimes to try to stop her.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29847039
> We should accept the premise that people will not run their own servers by designing systems that can distribute trust without having to distribute infrastructure.

My biggest issue with that concept is that cryptography isn't timeless. Most cryptography system just work, because they delay information retrieval to a point were its value has degraded. However, if I want to store information securely for the long term, I prefer having it protected by more than just encryption (e.g. locality).

So even though I understand the argument, that most people don't want to run their own servers, I think the proposed alternative is even worse than the status quo :-/
Erigon nodes are full archival by default, and dont use much space, about 1.7TB, which is quite thrifty consider geth uses like 10TB.

So, many people run full archive nodes now. Thanks erigon team!
Cultural continuity isn't just about old texts, but also recent texts in the old style, that people learning to read today want to be able to understand.
I'm sure it could, but it was still a memory issue. Rust can have those too.
> In Mongoid (The MongoDB driver for Ruby) 7.0.8 , or() meant filter documents that contain any of the argument conditions.

> In Mongoid 7.3.3 , or() now means filter documents that contain any of the argument conditions OR any of previous method conditions

It actually sounds like they "fixed" it to work the way you'd expect... but changing an API like this one in this way is extremely dangerous.

I wouldn't call what you have a code smell, you coded it correctly according to the Mongoid API at the time.

Mongoid is at fault here. An API that changes the behavior of a function are core as "or()" in this way is pure insanity - even if they were trying to make it do what it really should have in the first place, or if it were a major version, and they documented it well.

Note to self - avoid Mongoid.
probably a combination of realistic-seeming desktop browsers (eg. headless chrome with stealth patches) and residential IP providers (eg. luminati)
You need to take therapeutics early enough to make any difference, ideally as soon as you test positive. By the time you reach inflammatory stage and are admitted to hospital it's too late. But the way we are doing right now, the testing infrastructure is completely overwhelmed. Tried buying a kit recently? Around here they are all sold out!

We need quarantine. Here's what I don't get: when AIDS came, everyone got used to condoms very quickly, and all the gay sex clubs closed down. Why can't we change our attitude today as the homosexuals did back then?
Honestly, that service looks like something I'm almost tempted to pay for myself. $1 per 1000 recaptchas is a lot cheaper than how I value my time, at the very least. It's not like google couldn't pay people to do these ML training datasets; I resent giving them free labour.
Ha, yep. As a pre-teen kid in suburbia, creeping past the neighbors' motion detector-activated outdoor flood lights became a fun game.
And also that you don't run into "real name" policies on any of the services you use.
Nice points being made here. American roulette has double zero, European roulette has a single zero. The zero(s) represent the house edge and that's what the casino makes its money from.

Even funner fact, even if there isn't a zero and you truly get 50/50 odds, you'll still hit ruin over the long run because the house has "unlimited money."
I think OP meant that the mean is a type of “average”.
In casual speech we equate “mean” to “average” but the word average actually denotes a class of central tendencies that include the mean, median etc. Yes it’s a semantic point but just wanted to provide some context.
How so? You can instead run multiple isolated instances of Firefox, at least on unixes.
No need to imagine when we have left-twitter already.
dappradar rankings indicate a lot of non-ethereum dapps that are relatively popular.
https://dappradar.com/rankings
> I'd scoff at C++ and the way in which the language has grown where orgs build up their own utility libraries rather than depend on a standard library.

This comment makes no sense at all. I mean, would it make any sense to also criticize JavaScript/NodeJS for their relatively spartan standard modules and extensive use of vended modules from the likes of npm?

And have we learned nothing from the mistake of going with the "everything and the kitchen sink" that is java which failed to actually satisfy basic needs and resulted in projects like guava and apache commons and vavr stepping in to provide alternatives? And how about C's infamous standard library with it's security vulnerability-inducing standard functions which remain in the standard?

Perhaps we should learn lessons and avoid basic mistakes such as setting libraries in stone. C++ learned that lesson, and so did C#/.NET, and up to a point Rust. Why unlearn them?
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The most widely deployed "home server", FreeNAS, is historically based on NAS/LAN protocols. Most home users want to share file storage across multiple devices, which historically has been SMB/NFS/DLNA. Over time, NAS devices have added cloud/WAN protocols, like WebDAV, S3, etc.

The most expensive aspect of server software development is data integrity/availability, e.g. ZFS or other high-integrity filesystem. Services atop the storage layer are usually built by different teams, often from different eras.
How can you demand better of your banking institiution when the banking institution can outspend your grassroots efforts in advertising ahead of the election to put in a yes man, and said yes man recieves an order of magnitude more in donations from the banking institution than what your grassroots effort could ever raise from individual voters, along with a favorable consulting position once they are out of office with said banking institution? The whole system is designed by corrupt people to make it very easy to be corrupted, and very hard to ever systematically eliminate corruption. Hard to simply demand better when you are so beholden to this broken system.
Thanks so much, fixed it! :)
How many people produce this many pages?

It seems if they kept data like this in digital format with meta data, production could be much easier.

I do similar work, but for non-gov. It is a challenge.
How about the IRS focuses on the major tax cheats instead of shaking down the proles for loose change?

The game is rigged, use every opportunity you have to break the rules to get ahead because the people who lord over us definitely are.
I will continue to use emojis then
Advice to anyone that gets in this situation.

Stop and think. Have a plan before you jump in.

You need a way to help people float and to pull them in.

Do not let a drowning person grab you they may kill you.

If I had stopped to think I would have tied our two dog leads together and thrown them in. I could have pulled them in quickly. They were only 3 or 4 meters from the shore.

Another option would have been to link arms with the strangers there and pull them out together.
What is problematic with "their history"?
Eating less meat won't save the planet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGG-A80Tl5g
To be fair most banks waive the fee.

I agree with the minimums and send time. It’s ridiculous that a transfer I make every week to my wife takes 30 mins to complete. Slower than Bitcoin.
I'll give you that. If you need to query a list of all contract transactions that have ever transferred ETH to your address, I believe you would need an archive node to do so although don't quote me on that.

> Besides, the argument that regular users shouldn't need to query such information it doesn't change the fact that the information is unqueriable in a full node, short of spending 28 days transforming it into an archival node.

If you don't need to query the data, then the data doesn't have to be unpacked and indexed for querying. Seems simple to me.
I recall someone talking, possibly here, about how they limited this a bit.

One of the expected outcomes of Agile is that the business has to acknowledge some of the realities (logistics) instead of just living in a fantasy word where how they think things works is real and if things aren't happening then it must be someone else's fault.

Anyway what they said is they had about 8 projects and 3 teams, some of which worked on the same projects, some which only worked on a subset. Rather than trying to juggle all 8 products, each sprint was about one product, and the product owners had to thumbwrestle over whether the next cycle was one (or possibly two) of theirs. Pretty much you could only count on 1-2 sprints a month, unless you were involved in some high visibility mandate.

But at the same time, old projects still existed as an ongoing concern, just with intermittent attention.
Good points. Agree that forcing interactions would never be productive. But I would say that many times intertia and the worries of the moment are a big deal. You can’t mend every relationship, but you can tend to the ones you have.

One of the regrets that I’ll always have is that for a few years, my dad and I worked in the same downtown area of our city, and we only got together for lunch a maybe a half dozen times.

We had a great time when we did, but usually my schedule made it difficult. He passed away last year, and it occurred to me that the things that seemed so important at the time are trivial and forgotten today - having that hotdog together for 20 minutes would have been a much better use of time.
As a demo .... I was expecting something more flashy than this one. The current one seems only OK-ish to me.
See I knew Python just wants to be more like lisp.
Thanks for the feedback! I feel so dumb, gonna fix first thing in the morning :)
I don't have the same experience. All my canadian banks are covering my fees and 80% of the time the transfer is instantaneous. Most of the time under 5 minutes.

Interac E-Transfer minimums are 0.01$. Money is going straight into my checking accounts.
It’s great for Indie game devs who just want quick assets and don’t want to go through the hassle of finding some artist and paying obscene money for a couple assets. My inability to get good consistent artwork is what has always demotivated me from actually finishing any kind of game.
I think the obese should pay for their externalities directly. Also, if the best treatment for something is “lose weight” then that should be tried first and no other treatments given until the weight is lost.

80% of people with Type II diabetes who are also overweight or obese would be asymptomatic if they lost weight. Why spend public money if there exists a free treatment? Save the public resources for right-weight type IIs and type Is.
Email is inherently centralized due to DNS being centralized. Furthermore there is no rule that says I have to federate with any particular entity.

They will take the loss.
Breaking charges are thing sometimes a thing... but do not change "or()"!

You may as well just have swapped the behavior of "+" and "-", this is crazy.
Please don't HN take threads on generic-indignant tangents. This one has been repeated so often, we definitely don't need it again, regardless of which side anyone's one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845594.
>Many laws cover complex matters and the average American cannot be expected to know the pros and cons of every bill

Our lawmakers aren't exactly subject matter experts either. And their SMEs are probably often just lobbyists.
Not being sarcastic here - can you roll your own?
I would like it if Metamask connected to a distributed hash table of Ethereum node providers and sent transactions to random subsets of those nodes. Then if there was some way to track the reliability of these nodes to make some kind of ranking of quality. Perhaps the client (Metamask) and a given server could mutually sign the transaction so when it eventually makes it into the mempool it is clear who put the transaction there.
To be fair, (and I am by no means a fanboy), blockchain's decade isn't that long of a time.

Look at the history of the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

The use of technologies is not always obvious or immediately successful.
> it conveys the idea without having a canonical associated word.

You could make a pretty good case that the associated word is "EXIT".
> Are you suggesting they dropped semver in between these releases?

If this is the case, I kind of hope, for maximum irony, that they dropped it as part of a minor version bump.
Because they are constrained by Congress and lobbyists. We'll never be rid of TurboTax or HR Block :(
By default I'm actually very low energy. Always have been. I recall my dad admonishing me many times in adolescence that he'd take me to the doctor and they'd prick me with needles if I didn't stop napping during the day.

Somewhat circularly, it's the system itself that gives me the energy to keep using the system. I know, because I've engineered it to work that way. (At first this wasn't intentional, but when I noticed the positive effects in an earlier version I systematically began to tease out those effects.)
Middle 2020 to middle 2021.
It is exercising that power to the extent it can. Taking them to court and applying economic penalties would be how actual federated states deal with rogue provinces, at least, at first. The EU doesn't have a federal police force, or even a military with a mandate to reimpose the rule of (European) law in Poland. So it's silly to suggest it has the powers of a federal state, and hence the culpability of one, so should somehow be considered illiberal.
I think this is the right take.

I'd add that having a globally readable ledger encourages interoperability in ways we can't yet appreciate.

I believe that ERC-731 is valuable for the same reason that GIF89a is valuable.

I don't think anyone in 1989 could have predicted meme culture and the importance of the gif, but it happened because an enabling technology (communicate with animations) arrived and people started experimenting.

NFTs will probably become part of daily life in unexpected ways, because an enabling technology (cryptographic ownership of assets) has arrived and people are starting to experiment.
<24h is still painful. When I need to send a friend cash, it’s typically because they need it now for whatever circumstance they’re in. I wouldn’t even mind paying an increased fee for it to be instant, hell I already get charged a fee if it’s Paypal.

My bank has no effective method for me to initiate a transfer to another account in any rapid fashion that is not my own account. Even to send to an account at the same bank both parties must be on the phone with the bank at the same time. I get more value out of using Cashapp as a bank by setting up my direct deposit to go to Cashapp. Most banks I use just outright suck, and I am tired of how much they tie any activity to my own physical existence. It has only ever been a barrier to my own productivity.
Yes, agree with all that :-)
Yup when i got diagnosed it required investigation into my school records (20 years prior, I got diagnosed as an adult).

Looking over my life since childhood, diagnosis is clear cut. I was lucky to have old school reports and letters from teachers.

To be honest, it isn't difficult for some. I've heard of others walking in and getting "diagnosed" within 5 minutes. I do think some people getting diagnosed with adhd as adults may instead have depression rather than adhd. Unfortunately they don't want to admit to depression.
It is... but it is also a result of a library changing the meaning of "or". This is next-level breaking change that is beyond what I'd even call a "change".
> Does anyone know of a similar article for web3 that excludes the blockchain?

Unfortunately in a lot of people minds web3 is "blockchain", just like crypto now just means blockchain, how hacker used to mean something else etc.

Not sure if the battle is completely lost, but I' wouldn't mind alternate name for such technologies.

As someone who used to spend some tile playing around with IPFS, and freenet, I find that unfortunate.
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>I've encountered this it's usually presented in a very ambiguous way, where it isn't clear if the host has any information about what's behind the doors. If the host is choosing a door randomly

Why would the host reveal the car when the contestant has a chance to switch doors?
The internet as it exists today for the vast majority of people simply isn't well-equipped for everyone to have their own servers. Imagine a small server box that you could simply plug into the wall and give your wifi credentials. You still have the solve the NAT issue. You still have to secure the publicly routable box somehow and constantly apply updates, or backdate when (not if) something breaks. In parts of the bay, PG&E goes offline every time the wind blows. Does everything in your digital life go offline with it?

There's a lot that goes into running a reasonably reliable server.
He probably thought you were just gonna go get high.