skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not ready to give in. I am happy to leave "normal" (tech illiterate and politically apathetic) people behind to reach my decentralization goals.

Which should be already possible with with the current offerings around selfhosting applications and p2p technologies.

But as the same time you need to accept that the "normal" people would probably be happy to, in turn leave you behind to reach their goal of being able to use all service available without needing to concern themself with running their own server.
I guess "Webhooks as a service" would come next and alleviate some of these issues. As discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27528202

Some of my customers also use these:

https://zapier.com/page/webhooks/

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/228383668-Intr...
This sort of thing is always a bad look for Intel, die costs are relatively fixed and "upselling" some of the transistors on the die for increased margins will always fail against a competitor who is willing to enable all the things (and AMD certainly seems to be in that camp). What it means is that AMD has an "easy" market strategy for continuing to beat Intel, just out feature them at a lower margin, turn Intel's fab capacity into an anchor rather than an asset.
Nah he’s that crazy. Ghostbusters was pretty close to a possible documentary for him.
> People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.

Not really much related to web3/crypto topics, but I think this is an indictment of servers, not people. If managing a server were easy and secure, lots of people would do it - for blogs, a minecraft server for the kids, to back up their pictures, and yes, to store their bitcoins or other digital secrets - they just don't want to manage a unix or windows server.

It used to be hard to install a webcam, now it isn't. No reason server software can't do the same thing - all we need is for some gigantic corporation to sink 100k developer-hours into it (which sounds like a joke, until you remember that there are several gigantic corporations who have very profitable side-hustles hosting servers, and who would be creating a whole new class of customer if they did this).
It's a pretty common Germanic (and Jewish) first name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_(name)

Are you really faulting a person because he has a name you don't like? BTW, how about Wolf Blitzer, is he too...?

And of course him having kids makes him some kind of a eugenicist, only those folks have kids and love to put them on their shoulders, nobody else would ever consider something like fatherhood enjoyable and worth celebrating. Sheesh.
Is Oregon next (https://www.oregon.gov/lcd/UP/Pages/Housing-Choices.aspx)?
Some Hard Truth That Needs to Be Said
> Hasn't this been the exact claim of the Clinton campaign post 2016? That the election results are illegitimate?

...no, I don't believe the Clinton campaign has ever claimed that.

They do believe that Russia put its thumb on the scale, at that the Trump administration—even as beneficiaries, yes—should have punished Russia diplomatically for their behavior.
Look, again, I’m not suggesting any legally required information should be hidden. But if you think the end result of releasing massive amount of even totally-above-board information is going to be increased public trust, then you must have sleepwalked the last 6 years.

There’s a good case to be made that releasing this is the best course. But let’s not pretend that public trust won’t be eroded because it takes an order of magnitude more work to disprove bulls### than to make it up (or twist it) in the first place. And it isn’t any particularly information I’m talking about, simply the vast quantity involved.

The vaccine becoming political is probably the worst thing to happen to humanity in the last 2-3 years. Worse probably than COVID itself.

EDIT: just thought of one possible solution or at least mitigation to the “Bull### asymmetry principle” when combined with massive data dumps:
Limit the amount of material that can be requested. Any specific dates or whatever could be requested within the stack. Or if a representative sample is desired, the entire dump is sectioned in pieces and each section is securely hashed. The one doing the request can then request, say, up to 100-1000 sections and each such section can then have its hash compared. That ensures the random selection is random to the satisfaction of the requesting party. And it limits the amount of bulls### that needs to be countered to some reasonable level. Otherwise, any attacker will be able to overwhelm the public with endless claims from a massive stash of requested documents.

This doesn’t limit the amount of work for scrubbing PII, though, since you’d have to scrub it before hashing or the hashing wouldn’t be recreatable. But at least you’d limit the amount of unique bulls### that’d need to be countered.
I only jumped around to get the gist, so I apologize if he goes over this: is the musician restricted to a measure length configured for a particular track-as-a-whole? Can you have loops of arbitrary length, quantizing or not as you see fit? I imagine this might break the automatic loop detection, but just from a polyrhythmic standpoint it's nice to have the ability for some parts not to be locked to the same time signature.
As long as I can stream stuff moving forward, I don't care what Web version we're "on."
I enjoyed reading this article. The closer you look towards cryptocurrencies and smart contract projects like nfts, the less likely without a significant (state) player supporting these experiments I doubt we'll talk let alone use these speculative industries in a quarter century.
Anyone can make an currency, only a strong arm can force you to pay.
For sure.

This has the secondary benefit of freeing up unused space.
> at the same time, adding crypto based payments to Signal...

Damn, and just when I'd been thinking how much I like Signal.

The goldrush when Keybase added crypto completely ruined what had been a pretty good tool.
Does it look like I know what an NFT is? All I want is a JPG of a gawd dang hot dog.
I'm not saying the segmentation is the reason Z8000 uptake was low, I have no idea why it didn't succeed.

But you can read about the Z8000's segmentation on WP: "The Z8000 used a segmented memory map, with a 7-bit "segment number" and a 16-bit offset. Both numbers were represented by pins on the Z8001, meaning that it could directly address a 23-bit memory, or 8 MB.[4] Instructions could only directly access a 16-bit offset." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z8000#Memory_handling

Many 16-bit systems around this time did this kind of thing. Makes it really annoying to do things like draw in a framebuffer bigger than 64k. It does look like at least the PC could hold a whole 23-bit address, so that's good.

The 68000 had a nice flat linear memory model and that made it much easier to write code for.
ralmidani is clearly referring to "tankies and privileged apologists who live in the West" not "Putin and Pals".
The example says it's a "same-size house" which I assume means the same numbet of bedrooms and bathrooms. A more modern design is a given, but I'm still perplexed by the notion a modern design might be expected to be so superior that a house squeezed onto a front lawn would be worth 15% more than a same-sized house in the same location with a front lawn, and a back lawn, and a whole double garage and driveway rather than maybe a share of it.
only one or two true Ethereum full-nodes

source?
> I don't think you should be criticizing reverse engineering here any more than you should be criticizing ...

No, sure, real reverse engineering is fine.

But when "reverse engineering" is used in the sense Theranos (and/or Holmes' defense team) apparently did -- i.e. tampering with a competitor's machines so they sometimes don't work properly, and passing off the sometimes-invalid results as super-duper hot stuff created by your new and superior WonderTech™ -- then yes, it darn well should be criticized to Hell and back.
Joules/gallon is also increasing. Your mileage may vary, though.
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>I think this is only true if you want to work on something interesting.

Ha ha, fair enough!
I saw this exact exchange of comments on Reddit yesterday.
Actually less, because you only need the additional memory chip and associated trace layouting, not any additional PCB manufacturing cost (beyond miniscule yield impact of the additional traces) and no significant added distribution cost (packaging, shipping weight, etc.).
I find these articles to be a lot like criticizing tcp/ip because Facebook exists.
This is the best article I've found to help me understand what Web3 is and how it actually works. Thanks op!
Well that is a remarkably cheap health insurance, congratulations.

Mine (blue shield from a silicon valley employer) is more than that (~$2500) every month.
Medical, the state's public option for lower income people is amazing, so I think your skepticism is misplaced
I first encountered the notion of complex/complicated in Antifragile I believe, and IIRC it's based on the [Cynefin framework](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework).

My understanding is that:
* Complex domains lend themselves to experimentation and emergent behavior.
* Complicated domains lend themselves to analysis, expertise, and rule following.

The Wikipedia article offers the domains as containing "unknown unknowns" and "known unknowns" respectively.

I'm trying to think how this maps to Python -- the language is complicated, while the problems we're solving are expected to be complex?
Or, maybe, the language lives at the boundary between complicated and complex. We push complicated procedures into the language, and let the programmers deal with complex issues?
And then people make fun of JavaScript! (Just joking, I like Python, also JS, I guess everything has its quirks, it's a good thing we have linters)
> Couldn't Rolex issue a PGP signed CSV of all valid Rolex serial numbers once a month on IPFS and you'd get the exact same security and trust profile without having to involve any "web3" feature?

A serial number can be copied and engraved onto a forged watch, so not really.

A more analogous scenario would be if Rolex embedded an NFC hardware chip with a private key inside the watch, such that anyone could wave their phone over their watch and verify that the chip’s cert was indeed signed by Rolex.
It's refreshing to read an article that admits this:

> > Even nerds do not want to run their own servers at this point.

I actually enjoy build and running servers, but only for hobby purposes. When it comes down to anything business related or critical, I have zero desire to run and maintain it on my own. And I especially don't want to have to handle security for large amounts of money that could disappear in an instant if I make one wrong misstep.
In your example, only the new lot would be taxed at the higher level. Our tax team and California precedent (you mention prop 13) advise that the existing parcel's tax burden would not change, just the new APN. So, in your example above: yes, the state and municipality would receive more income from the new unit, and yes the homeowner would earn a profit from splitting their lot, but no, their taxes would not dramatically increase.
> it's pretty clear they're talking about DES, which the NSA was pushing everyone to adopt

Nope, this was filmed in the mid-90s. Public-key encryption was the new hotness and DES was very old skool by this point. Since the 'A' in RSA was one of the technical advisors you can be fairly certain that the intended suggestion was that Janick's little black box could do linear time factorization of composite primes and recover the private key for a given public key. The story may have been in development for almost a decade but not the specific McGuffin used in the film.
The idea is definitely in the air, but I guess its hard right know to come up with practical use cases. I mean I do believe and want to control my digital trace, but at the end of the day I don't know what to do with it except maybe visualize it on virtual whiteboards like Temin - the project showcased among others several threads above.

For privacy maniacs, of course it would be awesome to add functionality and destroy your traces, but I doubt you could achieve it with current API's.

Also interesting maybe to produce high-level analysis of your personality traits based on messages-comments-articles you write (but to use how later - I am not sure)
The usability of unixy shells generally falls down a cliff when you need to deal with more than just one input one output. The awkwardness in trying to shoehorn process substitution is just one of the examples of that.
I was under the impression that crypto currency was thought of as nothing but yet another pyramid scheme.
Was it a worm light? https://www.amazon.com/Light-Illumination-Nintendo-Gameboy-C... Lot of fond memories of that thing. Come to think of it, I'd love something with the same style for a book light...
Good to know! I don't know much about the blockchain space and have only looked more closely at Ethereum so far.
> [...] NFTs instead contain a URL that points to the data. What surprised me about the standards was that there’s no hash commitment for the data located at the URL. Looking at many of the NFTs on popular marketplaces being sold for tens, hundreds, or millions of dollars, that URL often just points to some VPS running Apache somewhere. Anyone with access to that machine, anyone who buys that domain name in the future, or anyone who compromises that machine can change the image, title, description, etc for the NFT to whatever they’d like at any time (regardless of whether or not they “own” the token). There’s nothing in the NFT spec that tells you what the image “should” be, or even allows you to confirm whether something is the “correct” image.

How did we go from trapdoor functions being the foundation of everything in the space to forgetting to hash a link? Is the rational that these links should only ever be IPFS links? That's fine I guess, at least those are hashed. Why does the protocol allow for this to happen?
There’s no real reason for this to be honest. The Web3 projects I’ve worked on tends to fall for centralized services like Infura because of development needs at first and then it’s just easier to use it for production. I’ve made a decent living for the last two years setting up test infrastructure for Web3 projects due to its complex nature. This is true across all blockchains, not just Ethereum. It’s an area ripe for new DX products.
It's sadly true that many people think like this, but it's not relevant. SB9 is a law. My house is eligible and my neighbors cannot stop me if I choose to do this.
I honestly don't understand how you can't see that "being woke" is synonymous with being aware of facts that other don't see. Literally derived from "awake" and there by seeing the truth correctly.

One way or the other you might be having a difficult time seeing that they're both essentially propaganda, but its just the mirror image of the same thing.
That's a bit too late. We're talking long before the Romans existed...
30%. which is the difference between hospitals shutting down vs hospitals being able to treat patients normally during times like this.

Not sure what the original poster is talking about, but America's healthcare system is fucked. And it's not just fucked because it's expensive.
> Like this author says, most people don't want to run their own web server...

I know I certainly don't. I want to write my software and I want to be able to deploy it somewhere and manage the things I may care about for that specific software. As much as possible I don't want to have to care about hardware, or routing, or server administration, or user permissions, etc. Learning it once? Sure. Dealing with it every time I have a new project? No thanks.

So, I totally agree. decentralization and privacy on their own are difficult to market, as they aren't nearly as in demand as convenience.
what about someone whose kids are sick with covid? make sure that is included.
If you care about the environment even a little bit (like turning off lights in rooms you're not occupying) then you will reject Web3. Even the most efficient blockchains use more energy than the status quo unnecessarily.

This is also to say nothing of the fact that it's more expensive per USD/KB transferred, slower and more complicated.

I think what Web3 should be is a way to use your laptop or any commodity computer as infrastructure for your data, and there should be APIs for websites such that it uses your computer as the source as opposed to their own servers.

For example this comment could be saved on my computer, but accessible to everyone viewing even if my computer is off via caching, but ultimately I could invalidate and delete.
It's different in that a child likely won't drink enough alcohol to be poisoned whereas just one or two delicious gummies would tranquilize an elephant.
sigh, here we go again with extra loss to civil liberty
Might need an /s on that.
You are forgetting that insurance companies are a middleman eating up some of the costs, both as profits and as costs. It is a slightly unfair comparison (Medicare has more older people who have large single-issue costs, so less admin work), but Medicare costs about 2% of its costs in administrative costs. Whereas private insurance usually is more like 12%-18%.

There are a lot of details in that to sort, and no-one expects a final single-payer system to wind up quite as good as Medicare is... but there is a lot of fat to trim off the private insurance system.

And note please: we are only talking about admin fees (salaries and the like for people working there), this has nothing to do with the actual costs of care. If anything this is unfair against Medicare, since they are ruthless in negotiating their actual costs (something private insurance is not really incentivized to do at all).
Except that's not what is being proposed (they claim their tax hikes only affects the ultra rich which is patently false). Also, I am not middle class, and I plan and have goals to continue to make more income and grow my wealth for myself and my family.

Biden's plan to eliminate capital gains or increase it is bad for everybody and investment and growth. The income cap to be able to contribute to roth-ira (tax free growth) is absurd. Everybody should be able to contribute the maximum to a roth regardless of income. Ok, I'll do back door conversion or mega backdoor (Biden plan calls for elimination of back door conversions).

There is a war on wealth, and it's not just against billionaires. This is just what they want you to believe.
This article now nostalgically glorifies [this kind of housing]

Not in the slightest. The article's stance on the matter is probably bessed summed up by this line:

“It was a step above homelessness,” said a former tenant, John Stewart, 71.
Depends on the EV. Fuel cell EVs love the cold:

https://electrek.co/2022/01/03/hyundai-nexo-sets-hydrogen-en...
The headline literally compares them though. Tim Cook is paid 1400x the average worker.

Do you think someone working in an Apple store would rather be there than getting an MBA at Duke? or being COO somewhere? Tim Cook was incredibly privileged to get the education and opportunities that he did. I'm not saying he wouldn't be a better CEO than most, but most people don't get to try so we don't know that fact. He's absolutely not 1400x times better than people with similar education. Even Apple isn't doing that well. If luck had him become CEO of IBM instead of Apple we wouldn't be praising him as "extraordinary" just because of circumstance.
This is the film that inspired me to learn how to move slowly enough to defeat motion detectors.
Oh yeah absolutely feeling that. 2 weeks of vacation for years on end has done that to me. Planning on interviewing and trying to get a start date as far out as I can. (maybe 3 months or even 6 months if they are ok with that).
> The fact that their methods differed from what the manufacturer recommends would not be a problem if they could prove that the false positive/false negative rates were up to the relevant standards.

Well, better than the relevant standards. Otherwise all the "reverse engineering" -- i.e, tampering -- is fucking meaningless.
Well this is the average Apple employee. I wonder how much he makes compared to the lowest paid employee. 10,000x?

Replace the entire c-suite with no one and the division leaders below will fill the space which would probably end up with a better product. Replace them with the lowest paid (do the Chinese kids working in the factories count? If not 18 year old factory worker in Wuhan would) they will be quickly running the place with a group of friends who know what 18 year olds likes.

This would boost revenue per share because you remove all c-suites.
The Boot Sector of IBM Personal Computer DOS Version 1.10
If I load the RIPE WHOIS for this AS, I really hope there's a link to the youtube video of nyancat in the free-form text description field entered by the people running the AS...
At the risk of displaying my ignorance and lack of knowledge about this area, one part I found very familiar in this article is that the action interactions in his apps didn't actually interact with the blockchain, but essentially with two centralized services.

My very limited understanding is that for blockchains essentially the way to distribute them is that every node has a full copy. This sounds awfully expensive in the long run. My intuition would be that once running a node is expensive enough, this would not be truly decentralized. If I can't get the fundamental information out of a blockchain myself on hardware I can afford, the actual properties of the blockchain don't matter anymore as I cannot access them myself.

The moment you need to rely on third parties, you lose any unique properties a blockchain might have. I don't know how this would work if blockchains inherently are inefficient enough that you always need a way around querying them directly. I find the idea of a distributed trust-less database interesting, but if it is so inefficient that I can't actually access it myself that idea doesn't seem that interesting anymore.
This sort of behavior change in a dependency would make me blacklist the dependency.
Please mention that this is for California in the title.