skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not call the author that, and the basis for what I did state, is not flimsy, and it's not the basis that you claim - I had no idea about the financed part when I read the piece.

I see that the bad faith attacks that I anticipated have finally arrived. if honkdaddy is still reading, this bad faith counterattack is why it's carefully stated.
It's honestly sad. Back in the 60s, "America is different" meant "We can put astronauts on the Moon, never mind no other country has done it, for this is America!"

Nowadays it means "We can't have a single-payer system, never mind all other first-world countries have it, because this is America!"
For most people, that involves relying on another service ("look to see what words have a red squiggly line under them").

It is not a good way to measure "typing speed".
> I will grant you this is not exactly the same as claiming the results of the election were not legitimate. But it does seem to directly blame foreign interference for her loss.

But I think that's a very important distinction! If a foreign power attempts to influence our elections through underhanded means, the US should retaliate diplomatically, regardless of who won. Note, that doesn't mean the winner should be called into question.

> To me the question of foreign interference is way less important than the question of why this election was even close, or indeed why Trump even made it as far as the nomination.

I think they're both important. I also think that foreign interference is one part (key word) of the answer.
Hmm, you're quite right. Poor word choice. Perhaps 'skewers' would be more appropriate.
I’m not sure I agree with that. People wanna pay as little as possible but they gladly pay for Netflix or whatever. People spend a lot of money on Amazon because they make it really easy to pay. One of the original promises of cryptocurrency is it would make micro transactions easy and painless (with something to do about trust, but… that goes in the opposite direction than consumers would like as it’s the provider that doesn’t have to trust the consumer instead of the other way around like with credit cards which allow you to back charge stuff).

The key is still making stuff easy to pay for. Low transaction fees. Low risk to the consumer. Low friction overall. Ideally we would want to enable that without enabling monopolies like Amazon. Because the low friction is Amazon’s real moat.
Have you read it? Or did you take the word of other people on HN who told you your link was a study about China and not Cuba?
> “I know that the fact that the roulette wheel has come up red 10 times in a row tells me NOTHING about spin #11. On the other hand, I know that over time, there will be just as many black spins as red spins, so at least intuitively, a black spin seems at least a little more likely to come up next in order to push that ratio back towards 50/50. Are these two principles actually in tension with each other? If not, how do we resolve the apparent tension? If yes, isn’t it the case that there must be “some” validity to the gambler’s ‘fallacy’?”

To this my answer would be: if you are doing millions and millions of spins then you should see roughly 50/50 but that just means over a few million spins it will balance out -- and even then it's not usable for predictions because it's not exact. Also, in a similar long sequence you would expect that in 2046 spins you see 10 of a single color in a row. That's not such an outrageously big number...
> (This is meaningful because, if you split ownership of a company among more people, their personal wealth may be lower, but the company still acts as a unit on the market.)

That's the point of the example.

Zuckerberg owns a given percentage of Facebook. That isn't what increases over time. If he ever wants to spend any of the money, that only ever goes down. The reason he's a multi-billionaire is that a given percentage of Facebook causes him to be when Facebook is a single 900 billion dollar company when it wouldn't if there were a hundred Facebooks each of 1% the size and he only owned the original percentage of one of them.

> And lack of labor organization to serve as a counterweight.

Labor organization is just a different kind of consolidation. It's only useful against a monopoly -- otherwise the business has thin margins and there is nothing for a labor monopoly to extract -- but the correct response to a business monopoly is to smash it to pieces.
Rereading Is Time Travel
Put that way it seems so fair. Why not offer that to the average Apple employee?
> These client APIs are not using anything to verify blockchain state or the authenticity of responses. The results aren’t even signed. An app like Autonomous Art says “hey what’s the output of this view function on this smart contract,” Alchemy or Infura responds with a JSON blob that says “this is the output,” and the app renders it.

Is there a technical debt story behind these practices?

Have there been attacks which took advantage of this gap?
The ideal line length and line height in web design
Well no, someone has to pay for social services.
This movie is incredible.

> Fellas, Janus' little black box is on his desk, between the pencil jar and the lamp.
I mean my government got out a novel vaccine in a year and distributed 3 to four doses to those who have wanted it. I'm impressed. Ask any other entity in the world to accomplish that...
> We are not talking about a request for POTUS tax returns.

You're right, we're talking about random private citizens medical information, which falls under 6. That's what the majority of the pages requested are, and why it'll take so long to redact them: they're mostly clinical notes about people like you and me. The relevant information that won't be redacted is already publicly accessible.
Not directly a comment on the article, but the author’s app Lunar looks very impressive:

https://lunar.fyi/

I love the ability to add an external light sensor to provide adaptive brightness to external displays!

The name is a bit unfortunate. I assume it’s no relation to “Luna Display” but has some scope for confusion there…
To be fair, the your second link points to the documentation of an ancient version; the new docs don't seem to mention semver (I still don't think what they are doing is reasonable, but ...)
What about proof of stake chains, do you reject those too? How many companies with huge carbon footprint do you reject? What about cows did you reject them?
it's pretty heavy, as boost has quite some inter-dependencies, pulling one of its component can bring in a few others.
If people want a blockchain based decentralized web couldn't we cut out the middleman and just make hosting data the proof of work?

Edit: After all of ~10 minutes of uninformed thought I'm leaning towards an unholy marriage of torrents, IPFS and banking with each server acting as IPFS node, torrent tracker/seed and bank, issuing letter of credits to seeds of the data.
> Hours are hours time is time.

That's not true. How long would it take a random person off the street to be good enough to work as a developer at Apple? How long for a retail store worker?

The difference is years. The difference limits supply for good developers, and since the demand is also high, their labor is more expensive to buy than retail store workers.

Limiting CEO pay to some multiplier is fine, but we don't have to pretend that everyone's labor should be similarly valued.
From a discussion about TMS a few days (weeks?) ago it sounded like blinding of things like TMS is itself an area of active research.

Having undergone TMS I can tell you that you definitely know when the device fires. There’s a thwack (similar I guess to a light rubber band hit maybe?) and muscle twitches.
The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2021
Okay, let's talk about stealing:

Nationally it is estimated that workers are not paid at least $19 billion every year in overtime[12] and that in the US $40 billion to $60 billion in total are lost annually due to all forms of wage theft.[13] This compares to national annual losses of $340 million due to robbery, $4.1 billion due to burglary, $5.3 billion due to larceny, and $3.8 billion due to auto theft in 2012.[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
I had to look up what eBPF was:

https://ebpf.io/what-is-ebpf

And OCI is this:

https://opencontainers.org/
The ability for add-ons to customize the GUI/Chrome!
A fun trick is using the `paste` command with process substitution to combine lines of output from different commands.

./cmd1

outputs:

a
b
c

./cmd2

outputs:

1
2
3

paste <(./cmd1) <(./cmd2)

outputs:

a 1
b 2
c 3

You can then use xargs to use each line as arguments for another command:

paste <(./cmd1) <(./cmd2) | xargs -L1 ./cmd3

calls:

./cmd3 a 1
./cmd3 b 2
./cmd3 c 3
For sure. I ran my own servers for many years. And I still enjoy playing with hardware at home. But a couple years back I shut down my last colocated physical server and I do not miss it. The background stress of knowing that at any point I might have to wake up, haul my ass down to a colo, and swap a motherboard just got to me.

Now all my must-stay-up stuff is built via Terraform in a a public cloud. If there's a hardware failure, it's not my problem. It's such a relief!
>If it's never obtained by the heir in the first place because it's taxed before the property comes into the heir's possession, is that still unfair?

Yes, that's back to one kid stealing from the other kid. Only the kid stealing is the government.

>Does that same logic also apply to income taxes that must be paid post-earnings? How about sales taxes?

Yes

>And if taxes are unfair, how do we ensure all the public things we want as a society get funded, if we assume everyone is equally as selfish as you?

If you want something, you trade for it, obtain it through consensual pact (like insurance or farm co-op), beg, do it yourself, or seek charity. Something that involves not stealing. You don't steal from others.

>The more you pull on this thread, the more you begin to realize that we can't live in a functioning society without us all sacrificing.

Exactly, you sacrifice by performing labor and engaging in trade and you get what you want. It's unfair to say I want a pony or a free CT scan and I'm going to rob that rich guy to get it. Do you go robbing guys in suits to feed starving African children?
Industry seems to explain some of that effect. Population density doesn't explain it completely, either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#/media...

Other parts of West Germany also sport lower population density (Lower Saxony in the North, Bavaria in the South).

It is absolutely astonishing how strongly human behavior (industry and metropolitan areas) influences local environmental conditions. I guess most cities may (be forced to) change radically.
No, most people do now know this.
Michael Moore's Sicko movie did good criticism of the current dysfunctional US HC and it is even worse than that. Government is not doing the job to "govern" to fight monopolies, greed and outright corruption and Medical Industrial Complex has Washington swamp in their pocket (together with other monopolies mafias). So, US is increasingly dysfunctional and there will be consequences from that up to possibly fall of the whole "western civilization" (US+Eu+UK) and 1st chaos, then multipolar opportunistic world.

People vote for "short term sales pitch" instead of what is optimal and right for long term and their kids and grandkids. Key factors are missing:
- Political manipulation is dominant.
- Fact, logic rational based dialogue is vanishing. (i.e. indirectly and directly stimulated by interests, so left does not talk to right and any rational thought is attacked/labeled/censored and anyone who provides criticism of any or both sides in different ways is painted/pushed "polarized" often each side paints such people both ways whatever suits them, so echo chamber effect gets amplified until the system blows up).
- People, through generations, are conditioned to be driven by emotions vs face logic/facts/rational. This starts from the early age kids conditioning them into 'ideal consumers' (some call this "idiots" and I understand it but it will be hard to wake them up by reason only, as past tells the only unfortunate way to wake up is catastrophe/calamity/hinger/war)

I can tell a lot of information to anyone that can be add on to Michael's Moore documentary and can paint the complex truth. It is not black and white at all and from my long life experience, best would be to fix the current US HC by breaking monopolies and unfair practices (such as price gauging, etc,...) and this could get US to way better HC than any socialized system can be. But my predictions is that "populism hustling" in the atmosphere of forbidden rational dialogue and political hustlers will go worse direction. I guess it is that 4th degenerative phase of the empire, where "soul&spirit" of the people's mind falls (obvious all around us). I just hope US does not go the way of Balkan.
Pretty sad that a post like mine actually requires the /s around here. These people drinking too much Ayn Rand koolaid.
Amusing Japanese Amphibian Discovered for First Time in 89 Years
> guy who wants to find his own path is literally Hitler

Not an accurate summary.
Being easy to use is not usually thought of as a feature. Just look at the reaction of telephone hardware vendors to the original iPhone: There's nothing new about this, there have been tons of devices with touchscreens, we already know the customer does not want those, yada yada. They did not even consider the possibility that the selling point was not a list item on the spec sheet, but the user experience.
Elon Musk on Twitter: “Tesla FSD price rising to $12k on Jan 17”
This post taught me more about the current state of ethereum than nearly all other ethereum content online combined. Incredibly well researched and thought out.
As a web3 skeptic, Marlinspike has still been quick to outfit Signal with a privileged 'house cryptocurrency', MobileCoin, whose value-appreciation-with-usage will accrue to favored projects. That's web3, too!

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-mobilecoin-cryptocurrency...
Yes - a bit over-simplifying I admit. And Moxie said that it's "early days". However it turns out, it'll be fun to watch.
The Navy Is Betting Big on High-Power Microwave Weapons
What do we mean by this?

I feel like it's a matter of OS improvement that will enable people to manage the software side of their own servers in as little (or less) effort than managing cloud platforms or even VPCs. Ideally in a standard way. Why is learning Dropbox any easier than learning to copy a file to some other FTP serving software? The clouds are just making $$ to support you, though that often turns on it's head when they try to protect their interests. This conflict is why everything is shit right now IMO.

If we are talking about the hardware... That might be a harder sell. But at the same time, I don't see why a company like Apple couldn't market a product like the HomePod as a personal server. It falls into the privacy narative and would be a way to make more device sales by supporting faster local services.

Personally, I want my ISPs to give me a static IP more easily so I can more in this direction without worrying about weird dynamic DNS issues. IPv6 should have enabled this years ago, but it remains an issue.
Murders in U.S. Cities Near Record Highs in 2021
It's fine that it 'suits you' but that's not what it's about.

If there is no treaty validating ECJ Supremacy, then that's it. Even a 'statement' or 'interpretation' by an Judge or Expert will be called into question.

Also - you may despair in the short run for the authoritative nature of 'Hungary' but there is a much bigger issue and that is the consolidation of power at the EU level.

Hungary has elections for it's leaders.

The EU does not.

You did not vote for Ursula Von Der Leyen. She was not a candidate, and was totally unknown outside Germany before the election. She was not vetted. She had little public history. Voters did not select her.

She was chosen in a backroom deal: "Here is your new President. We selected her for you. You will find about her platform, later, we hope you like it because obviously you didn't vote for it". Ursula von der Layen layed out her vision for EU long after voters even knew who she was.

The EU Treaties only in 2007 even require the selection of the Pres. to even barely take into consideration the 'recommendation' of MEPs, even then, they have no power. MEPs cannot introduce legislation or sanction leaders.

The EU is the least democratic 'layer' of European governance, combined with the fact that it is at the 'top' and sometimes has the most authority, is a pretty scary thing in terms of the balance of power.

So the EU is 'good for dealing with PiS' yes, probably. But there are other, broader issue.
Except that as you say, it's too expensive for every node to have a full copy, so there will only be a few dominant players. If that's the case, web3 will be like what we have now, where instead of the dominant players being Google, Meta, and Amazon they will be the two or three dominant web3 companies, with a few smaller people trying to keep up.

So I would agree with your last sentence.
I love zsh’s take on process substitution:

cat =(echo foo)

It’s almost identical to <(echo foo), but crucially it drains the output before performing the substitution. It’s like <(... | sponge), but somehow much more reliable.

I’ve used it in a few situations where process substation failed, though being old and feeble I can’t remember why it failed. But for example you can copy the file safely, knowing that it will contain the full output of the shell pipeline, unlike process substitution.

I don’t even know the name of =(...). Hmm. Sponge substitution?
You're correct about ease-of-use being key, I think.

It was easier for "us" (the industry) to build hosted web servers, and so that's the paradigm that has won out. It's a direct evolution from client-server computing in the mainframe-and-terminal era.

But the user doesn't need to care what a server is, or what running one involves; it's a bit of a red herring.

A winning platform wouldn't communicate to people that they're running a server at all; they'd upload their messages/profile/etc, and the application user experience would be akin to that of any other application, with the difference that -- at an implementation level -- their data would be encrypted, replicated and hosted across multiple devices. The platform provider then goes on to win-in-competition because their hosting and bandwidth costs reduce to near-zero.

That of course conflicts with the second point: evolving the protocols for that is hard. I'd wager that a winning platform will get 98%+ of the protocol design and implementation correct up-front, because it would have to be based on simple, iterable, secure and near-correct fundamentals that stand the test of time.
Lobbyist legislation targeting banks that divest from fossil fuel companies
The paranoid motivation: prices are in tenths of a penny. Buying exact multiples of 10L is optimal in the sense that rounding is easily verifiable. Though, in Canada today, going $.02 past an exact dollar amount and paying cash beats out whatever games the station might be playing with tenths of pennies.

The gamer's motivation: most pumps I see have 3 digits past the decimal. Exact dollar amounts are easy-mode, exact volumes are hard-mode.
I remember seeing some academic work on extending shell sematics to more complicated pipe networks, but nothing particularly promising. In industry, I think that is generally the point where people pick up "real" programming language instead of trying to work in shell; on top of my head I imagine golang with its channels and goroutines to be particularly well suited for these sort of problems. I can't say if there is something in golang that shells could adapt somehow.
Does this not prove his point though? Because decentralization is harder to get right on a technical level, centralized alternatives will always outcompete more decentralized ones.
Yup, abandoning "zero covid" is abandoning the one thing the government should do - protect us from external threats to our life.

If some country were threatening to invade, the government would use every means at its disposal - including temporarily suppressing the civil liberties of certain people by drafting them into the military - to protect us. When a couple thousand people died twenty years ago, the US jumped headfirst into a twenty-year war against a country loosely linked to the people behind it and an uninvolved neighboring country that we didn't like, too, just in case.

But now that we have a hundred-fold more deaths in this country and no signs of it stopping, just because we can't see the enemy, we're surrendering? It's nonsense.

And besides the actual cost, it's going to make a lot of people feel like the only government that can fulfill the legitimate limited role of government competently is a giant authoritarian one. A whole lot of people are saying things like "I wish the government would tell me what to do to keep safe. I find it exhausting to figure this out for myself." They aren't going to be particularly open to pro-civil-liberties arguments after this experience.
It's not gate-kept by two centralized entities at all, there are a lot of alternatives many completely decentralized. This author is clearly new to the space and hasn't really done much research, outside 5 minutes of google.
Open Strings
Well to me, its less getting someone to see you as worthwhile and more getting someone to see you for who you are and letting them decide if they like what they see.

I spent some time in my life doing the dating thing, attraction first, and they weren't bad times, but they weren't things I wanted til I die. For me, the only long term relationship that matters is the last one. Doing things the way I've always done them wasn't going to work, and honestly I wasn't particularly looking, I just stumbled into someone that I thought was amazing and decided to do it right. There's sex before marriage, but it didn't start off as a sexual attraction. I didn't want to mess around and see where it goes, I knew where I wanted it to go, and I was upfront about it.

Being deliberate about what you want, and clear and open about wanting more from the start, it is a risk, it is easy to put the wrong message out there, and it is work from the get go. Putting the effort in to show that you really care, that this is really what you want, and that you're not some clingy weirdo trying to wife up the first girl that looks at you is not easy in today's environment.
That's the size now. If web3 manages to take off, the requirement will grow exponentially.
> People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.

This is sad to hear. People do run their own servers in their homes though, they are called routers, except they only serve one thing. Pity we don't have a lightweight self-updating system that sits in a router and does the basic job of keeping the user's data.
Full nodes contain the same data as archival nodes do, they just don't have it unpacked out to disk.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29846272
False-Positive Results in Rapid Antigen Tests for SARS-CoV-2
Agreed. There are significant audiences where cognitive load is a much bigger barrier than spending actual money. But people do want privacy, independence, and control, so I think non-centralized services could still work.

I think "virtual server" is the wrong abstraction here. It's like "radio with pictures" or "horseless carriage" in that it's telling us we haven't found the right new way to think about it.
You mean the guy who pushed Steve Jobs out or Steve Jobs himself?

Getting rid of the founder has huge issues but getting rid of the other CEO happened too late.
https://archive.is/qyhPU
A circuit-level redesign of the Game Boy Color
Here's the one for books:

https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthatbook/
Looks at thermometer - hmm. 4ºF

Looks out window at a new 6 inches of snow.

Hmm. Naw. I'll stick with ICE.