skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk managed to sell "battery swap won't work" and I regret we fell for it. Battery swap works fine. He just didn't benefit from the economics of it. He does better driving a unique proposition like batteries in the structural frame.

All kinds of odd fears stem from believing you HAVE to own the battery. If you paid for use of the battery, lemon batteries would be driven out. Gresham's law hoarding of good batteries wouldn't work.

We'll probably get battery swap in trucks. It makes more sense. We should get it in taxi. Uber eats drivers on electric mopeds (like in Asia)
This is pretty interesting but I don't think the evidence is very strong. Being the leader of the Canadian Green Party is not "elite". Green parties around the world are going through these upheavals only because they allowed and encouraged this wokeism, that's what they want and that's what they get.

Whereas look at the actual positions of political power. Biden/Harris -- they're both horrific in many wokeness metrics. Rich old privileged straight white, war monger, sexual assault allegations, top cop whose record on imprisoning black people is problematic, descendant of slave owner, and of course staunch supporters of Israel just to name a few (I'm not saying these are fair or valid criticisms but it's all prime woke ammunition).

Yet somehow it doesn't affect them. For all the dueling and competition among the elites (or at least their political representatives) you're imagining, very little wokeism was used against them as far as I could see. They also required very little verbal intelligence, compassion, or tolerance.

What they had is an elite and their corporations who consolidated around them and protect them, don't ask the wrong questions and don't bring out the woke attack dogs. The opposite of dueling and infighting.

And in your last paragraph you're acting like the systems are set up by (or at least is able to be changed by) and for the benefit of people who are not the rich elites. The evidence points to the opposite. It is clearly a tool to divide the underclass and insulate the ruling class.
My understanding is that it's because the entire blockchain would need to be stored on the device which from even a data perspective is too much for a phone. The processing of data on the chain will also be too computationally difficult/expensive for the phone. You would either run out of battery immediately or the phone would crash.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.

With GNU cp on Linux, the commands

cp <( ( echo foo; sleep 1; echo bar) | sponge ) foobar
cp =( ( echo foo; sleep 1; echo bar) | sponge ) foobar

both have the same result: the file "foobar" containing the string "foo\nbar\n".
After 150 years, is the time finally right for deep-ocean mining?
No, they are paying huge sums for a digital certificate of ownership of the content on some else’s server; the link is just the description of what they are certified to own, like the address on a deed.

(There's all kinds of problems with it, sure, but they aren't paying for the link.)
Why would the implementation of it require that? Wireless terminals are long since a thing.
That's not really the point. There's a gulf of difference between "we patched a CVE and now spacebar-heating is broken" and "we knowingly and deliberately changed the semantics of a query operator in a minor/patch release in a 7.x library in wide production with 3,900 stars on gitub."

Semver doesn't mean "guarantee no breaking changes in minor" - that's impossible - and people love to point this out for whatever reason. It totally misses the point. I think most engineers have a decent intuition most of the time about whether a change is breaking or not.
I feel like the "after a shamefully massive delay" is a distinguishing factor for executive dysfunction caused by ADHD.

With other conditions, people seem to be at least capable of giving up on tasks that they have put aside for years. Not so with ADHD.

It took me 11 years to mail a package[1] one time, and I wish I was saying this figuratively.

The distinguishing thing here is that I did mail that gift to my friend after planning to get to it Real Soon Now™ year after year.

The mind-blowing part was sharing this experience in an ADHD group, and having dozens of people share the same exact story of taking years to mail a personal gift, feeling more shameful about it as time goes by.

A friend of mine asked me if it's still OK to mail a gift intended for a 2-year old 3 years after the birthday the gift was made for.

That was last year. She didn't mail it, and of course she still has it. That's quite ADHD.

[1] https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Eleven%20Years%20To%20Mail%20A%...
> there's not a single crazy imaginary hacking visualization!

The graphics for thermonuclear war simulations were pretty out there in 1984.
The FreeBSD man page for `paste` claims it first appeared in Unix 32V (1979; derived from v7 Unix, and ancestral to both 4BSD and SysV).
He's creating confusion by treating front ends or clients like (Metamask, Opensea, and Infura) as servers when they are actually clients.

So dapp -> infura -> blockchain is really client -> client -> blockchain.

When multichain interoperability becomes widely available (See polkadot, cosmos, etc) blockchains will also become clients as well. Clients at any level won't be bounded like they currently exist in centralized networks.
That’s why you tax soft drinks instead of taxing weight directly. It may be difficult to lose weight but it isn’t particularly difficult to cut out the most extremely unhealthy foods.
What sort of internet do we want? One where every captcha is only useful to US companies, regardless of who has to pass it?

Identify all the taxis: http://www.cookiesound.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/riksch...
Yeah, but the public proxy is exactly the thing I’m trying to avoid. If we’re talking about hosting a static site like your personal portfolio, then once you put a proxy in front of it, you might as well just host the site where you’re hosting the proxy. My complaint is that there’s no way to host a website from home without either paying for a cloud VM to proxy traffic or paying a company who uses a cloud VM to proxy traffic.
The store I usually go to does $300.
Consider also "what's the point of an uncensorable block chain if the API servers can become untrustworthy and refuse to the serve the data?"

If OpeanSea can blackhole / cancel / hide a NFT on a whim, what does that say about the viability of hosting other services that access the blockchain through similar gateways?

Additionally, if such services can preform those actions, what does that suggest about the viability of financial instruments and company governance accessed through those or similar services?

Yes, this is FUD. I believe it is quite reasonable FUD.
What's the point of CMYK? Your image is going to be displayed on a panel that has some form of red, green, and blue LEDs. For something like printing a picture you can always just have the printer do the conversion from RGB to CMYK.
My FORTRAN 77 experience in college also included the control lines in the file to have the operating system of the CDC Cyber 172/6600 (a hybrid of two Control Data Corporation super computer/mainframe). The first lines of the file outlined the account submitting the file, where the input & output would be, and some other items to just make the compile/run happen.
Why would we ever move toward decentralization? It is almost always easier to have at least some central point of control in any distributed system, even the Internet (IANA, RIRs, etc.). It is also very difficult to remove a centralized control point after a system is already deployed, especially if the system supports heterogenous clients (as it is likely that some clients will be slow to switch to the new design, and many will make bad assumptions about the system architecture).
Distribution of T-shirt sizes at the Linux Symposium (2008)
I took the liberty of changing the title. The original was the slightly clickbaity "Are Linux Programmers Getting Too Fat?".
CGNAT does provide value in our current v4 situation, but it's far from ideal. Not having NATs allows for more decentralization (p2p connections, self-hosting), and saves the resources - unnecessary energy and compute - that NAT consumes
I had a hard time parsing what this actually means in terms of which words are actually connected. I speak Hungarian, which is a Uralic language supposed to have split from Finnish roughly 3000 years ago. I've seen a few instances in a dictionary where the common roots between the two are connected, though it rarely seems connected from casual observation. People often think there are some shared roots between Hungarian and Turkish, due to more recent occupation of Hungary by the Turks, which led to many Turkish loan words, but the connection is mostly superficial.

Hungarian also has a few loan words from Latin mostly from the last couple Hundred years, but I'd be fascinated to learn about any connections between Hungarian and Latin via some shared ancestral roots.
This sounds like great revenge and I enjoyed reading your comment :D

However, something took me by surprise,

> I knew his Windows password

This is...strange?
I laugh when I see people say “country X is doing well now”.

South Korea was having record infections months ago. You know, it comes in waves. No use comparing one country who is on the tail end of a wave with another country in the middle of a wave.
I fell in love with the story when I first encountered it. I didn't realize who the author was for a long time (but it stands on its own).
New Zealand seems to be doing just fine.
Introducing changes to the semantics of query operators in minor releases sounds like a great way to introduce security issues.

How many CVEs over the years are because of someone screwing up their operator precedence in permissions checks?
I have to disagree like others are doing. There was nothing wrong with that comment. I've avoided this entire post so far because after reading the entire article, I was left with a distinct "huh, this looks like a pyramid scheme run by idiots and that may even include somebody I previously respected", which is pretty much what NFTs and most of digital cryptocurrency are.
I completely agree with his take. What I always found interesting with greener BFT consensus protocols that a lot of modern cryptocurrencies implement is that you can actually fix the problem of untrusted services: you can provide a cryptographic proof to the light clients (the real clients) when they query the blockchain, which allows them to verify the response without synchronizing to the blockchain. This is what Celo is doing, I think Zcash had a proposal to do the same? But essentially any BFT consensus protocol should be able to do this.

You don't get the same insurance that you get by verifying all of the blockchain of course, but recursive zero-knowledge proofs that attest to the state transitions might solve this (cf Mina).

Another issue is key rotations, which increase the size of the proof (as you need to give proofs to all the key rotations before you can give a proof to the latest state of the chain), but I believe that zero-knowledge proofs can fix that as well.

Bottom line: it's actually not that grim, solutions are there, but users have to care for people to implement them, apply them, and for the solutions to receive adoption.
Playing gas pump simulator on your computer is a sign of class solidarity? Only finding that a "little" fun reveals me as the bougie scum? I'm okay with this.
What you didn't know about ropeways
Couldn't agree more. Supply chain verification is inherently authority-based... if only at some point in the creation of the internet we had invented a system for verifying authoritative claims on things ;) Not to mention that with certificates... Rolex can totally disappear into the wind, yet you can still verify the certificate provided you know Rolex's root. And all this for <$300M year in mining fees!
Are you referring to procedurally generated content?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_generation

.kkrieger got a lot of attention for using this method and only being 96KB.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBG-sKFaB0
Watch This Goldfish Drive an Aquarium on Wheels
Is it easy to remember?
> What about proof of stake chains, do you reject those too?

Proof of stake still use more electricity per KB transferred than the status quo.

> What about cows did you reject them?

Not sure how this is relevant to internet? Can cows run websites?
I like the gist/outline of this idea. Not sure about the details. I would have to look at those numbers(numbers are relative anyways).

Homestead should probably pivot to this..they would still be profitable and it would be meaningful. It should be a rural focused program.

This is how we bake a bigger pie instead of sawing a small pie into thinner slivers.

I strongly urge them to pivot. Splitting urban lots is a terrible idea. California and esp Southern California is a sprawl. And cities in demand are already stretched. And it’s likely that will be profitable only in zip codes that are already overburdened.
Just add a physical seal on the product like other dumb electronics do.
Yes, exactly. The origin should be those who create the data to begin with, ideally.
>Venmo describes a “goods and services” payment as when senders tag a purchase as such, whether it’s for a product you sell or a service you provide.

I think this is the most relevant line. Goods and services is a specific opt-in tag. All the other quotes left it unclear if the completely fanciful descriptions that get put into Venmo payments were actually going to become tax-reporting criteria.
But some of these packages look exactly like candy, often mimicking the packaging of popular brands.
Your comparison is meaningless because you're not comparing apples to apples.
Yeah, hard agree - procrastination is about avoiding emotional pain. The saddest part is that we usually create the emotional pain for ourselves by pushing ourselves slavishly or not acting with kindness towards ourselves, and this leads to some kind of inner rebellion. Like TFA says they procrastinate when things are overdue and they guilt and pressure themselves over it. That's totally unnecessary, we don't need to be cruel to ourselves for making very human mistakes.

I'm in the middle of a big declutter at the moment (actually not only decluttering but moving rooms around) so I can totally relate. Remembering things you once wanted to do but ended up on a shelf, can really suck, especially if the conclusion is "actually I'm never going to do it, so might as well donate it".
That is asinine. Why not change it in 5.x->6.0 if they knew it was a problem. Why even use version numbers at that point? Just use DateVer or 0ver at that point.
> However, you're really not supposed to run Windows games on Linux. Just like you're not supposed to run PlayStation games on Windows. Windows games and Windows applications are meant to be run on Windows, not on Linux.

I couldn't disagree with this more! Operating systems are designed to run programs and an OS designed to run more programs is better than one that runs less.

Windows 11 can run Linux, Android, and Windows apps and is better for it. The ultimate OS, in my mind, should be able to run everything.
decentralization in the blockchain world is really to provide security and interoperability by emulating centralized services. So essentially it looks like a centralized service, but it's more secure than a centralized service.
Really liked this post - brings up some great points, and I consider Moxie a friend.

Here are a few notes that came to mind though...

1. For NFTs, some keep their data in IPFS (decentralized file storage) or in the smart contract itself for procedurally generated images. We (as a community) should probably move more to solutions like this over time, since it is indeed more decentralized to build them that way.

2. I agree with the overall point that clients don't behave like full nodes. However, there has been quite a bit of discussion about "light clients" in the crypto community even going back to the early days of Bitcoin/Ethereum, so i wouldn't say it hasn't been an area of focus.

3. I agree there is an overall move toward using platforms. But there is a big difference between using a platform that also owns all the data also (web2) and a platform that is merely a proxy to decentralized data (web3). In the latter, if a platform ever turns evil, people will switch. Not owning the data counts for a lot.

4. There are more options than Infura and Alchemy. Access to simple blockchain data will be relatively commoditized. Which is good for decentralization.

As Moxie points out, it's still difficult to build things in a decentralized way (nascent tools), so you are seeing various apps/companies revert to using more centralized web2 techniques when they run into a hairy technical problem. As a result, there are a lot of "hybrid" web2/web3 apps during this phase of web3 development. That doesn't mean the overall trend is bad though. I think it's great that more and more web3/decentralized technologies are being developed.

I do agree that all networks tend toward centralization over time. Great book on this https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empire...

I don't think crypto is anywhere near this end stage though. We are still seeing a lot of new technology and players enter the space. It's not "already centralized" as much as it is "still using some web2 components".

These points aside, the post is great and I basically agree with the overall premise.
Nope. Still worse than status quo + planting trees via partners, which is exactly what alogrand does...
Control of distribution is a problem, but control of data makes it much harder for users to switch away from them and use a different distributor.

>>For example: Spotify doesn't own any music copyrights

It has licensing agreements with numerous record labels.
I operate similarly to thread OP, and manage multiple : work, personal, social, etc projects ongoing. I'm naturally high energy..... I can't sit down for long.
Minor quibble: You omit units from the output.
They Playtronics HQ is actually in SoCal: 2900 North Madera Road in Simi Valley, California.
My parents, both 90, use Linux Mint as their only OS (aside from occasionally using an iPad), and have for more than 5 years. They only surf the web and send email, and it (almost always) works perfectly for them.

I visit every month or two and keep their system updated. The only issue came when they needed to use a Wi-fi dongle, and after trying four different dongles I ended up having to downgrade to an older version because none of the newer kernels seem to work with these dongles.
I agree that Ubuntu and co. feel far less stable than they used to. I recently installed Ubuntu on a work laptop and had a ton of problems: interface locking up under heavy CPU load when compiling, insane amounts of RAM utilization, unexpected problems with software updates. My wife installed Ubuntu on a laptop a few months prior, and had a similar experience.

Recently I switched to NixOS and she to Arch, and it’s stunning how much better everything runs. All of my issues disappeared, and everything is super smooth now. Definitely neither NixOS nor Arch is for the non-tech-savvy, but it seems we may be in a time now where you’ve got to search out the more minimal distributions if you want an actually pleasant, stable Linux install. I have heard good things about Manjaro in that regard.
Honest question: at this point why don't we skip the NFT part and just keep the URL and the content in the Internet Archive?
I’ve always found that windows is free as in beer, but Linux is just some jerk handing you bunch of grain and hops and a vague diagram of what to do next. It’s free, and it’ll make beer, but it might also make weird oatmeal instead.
This is an article full of interesting data, but the opening statement made me laugh:

> At Rebel Fund, our job is to invest in the top 3–4% startups in each new Y Combinator (YC) batch
I believe that's also a US-specific problem.

In Australia, a regular person with knowledge of my bank code (BSB) and my account ID isn't able to withdraw money from my account, but they can send me money. It's very low risk.

For the last few years I've been able to associate a phone number or email address to my bank using PayID[1] which eliminates even that.

The BSB + Account ID can be used to set up direct debits, it's intended for ongoing/regular payments like utilities/rent/etc.
Because it requires a fair bit of paperwork/infrastructure to get registered in that system, I don't think anyone would be able to get away with scamming using it for long.

[1] https://payid.com.au/
Beware that PATH being unset or empty is a special case and does not necessarily mean that no directories are searched. Different shells handle it differently, and other utilities spawned by the shells handle it themselves in a way that may or may not match the shell. Whether setting PATH to $dir if it was previously unset or empty is the right thing to do is therefore a matter of opinion. Personally, I would stay out of that mess and either issue an error or leave PATH unmodified.
Then why post data that you yourself know is not suitable for analysis?

Seems like the definition of bad faith.
That’s exactly what I said. Most traders currently sit on cash to meet the margin requirements for short selling crypto assets.
That covers exporting one user’s data at one point in time, sure. But you can’t read all public events without significant work on a scraper, and you certainly can’t contribute without going through Facebook’s servers. Of course you’re not forced to use Facebook, but in order to use Facebook you must go through their computer systems on their terms.
HN works nicely without JS. With JS enabled it doesn't need to reload the page when you vote, so it's not necessary but still useful.

The problem are most other sites that often don't even load or show any content without JS support, or break in many creative ways. Although for weirdness you only need to disable custom fonts in the browser, and suddenly Reddit's notification button shows the Paypal logo and many websites have random chinese symbols scattered around the UI. And Google Translate looks like you need a translator to use it.
But why would it do that though? I’d like to hear a falsifiable theory of how that would happen, because as of right now it’s not happening, and no one seems able to explain what big thing is going to change. If the biggest part of the change (using the blockchain) isn’t causing the dynamic to shift, what future change will?
> But all that being said, why has nothing real world value oriented materialized yet?

Because Ethereum was founded by early Bitcoiners to raise bitcoin for themselves, and the technology always came second to the pursuit of self-enrichment. Software projects can never lose their soul. If the soul was rotten from the very beginning, as the saying goes: “garbage in, garbage out”.

I sincerely doubt if any of the inventors of the marketing phrase “web 3” ever thought it would come to this: where their investors are so desperate for yield that they begin taking the term seriously. Not that it matters to the founders of Ethereum, many of whom have long since become secretive Bitcoin billionaires.

The Ethereum project is best described as a series of cynical courtship displays designed purely to bootstrap the “network effect” for their newly created confidence game called ETH, which in 2014 they sold to — to borrow their own legal terminology — “philanthropists” in exchange for “donations”. A process they swore up and down bore no similarity at all to a securities offering.

People not privy to the way cryptocurrency works are shocked to find the various buzzwords hatched by the Ethereum people for their own self-enrichment in the described legacy era of ICOs turn out to be a whole lot of nothing. They shouldn’t be shocked, they should be embarassed for lowering themselves to investing in such a system, or angry if they did so in ignorance.