skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I jotted down some thoughts I want to post before this very well written and interesting article by Moxie drops off the front page. I'm sure I got things wrong, but in the spirit of blue sky thinking:

The Physical layer is centralized on the telcos, fiber providers and satellite providers. This doesn't change

The internet is decentralized at the Application layer. Is it peer to peer. BitTorrent, IPFS

The network become centralized at the services layer in Web 2.0.

A decentralized search engine or global commerce store is impractical

Centralized services like search and social are a solved problem and efficient. People expect to get them for free in their monthly internet bill

Just like no one wants to run their own server, no one wants to run their own social network

web3 says it will change decentralization at the services layer, but it probably won't

"I don’t think it’s on a trajectory to deliver us from centralized platforms" - Moxie

People want to spend money on it without really caring much about the technical details. They just want it to work.

People (mostly young) use their interest and involvement in it as a social signifier

web3, crypto and decentralization are buzz words like "the special properties of copper" or "energy balancing tea"

When everything is free, nothing has value. NFT's create a value that can be bought, sold, traded and collected

The buying and selling of digital objects has momentum and will continue.

"I think these market forces will likely continue... If the money flowing through NFTs ends up channeled back into crypto space, it could continue to accelerate forever... I think enough money has been made at this point that there are enough faucets to keep it going"

Web3 is here to stay but it won't be what the techies want it to be, it will be what the market wants

"I also understand why nerds like me are excited to build for it. It is, at the very least, something new on the nerd level – and that creates a space for creativity/exploration that is somewhat reminiscent of early internet days." - Moxie

The market has spoken and people want this. Consumers don't understand it but think it's cool and are told it's the future, so they can flex at being in the know and forward thinking by getting involved. Web3 is here to stay, without the implementation details even mattering to anyone but a small set of highly technical people. It's a fun project to get involved in, it's not boring, and gives people something to get excited about. The best thing someone like me can do is try to steer it in a direction away from harming the environment by coming up with alternative to proof of work.
interesting take that coincides with some of my own observations
Not really. It's a market. This is true if employees don't care. But if you avoid these places like the plague then it won't make business sense. Unless you're ok with never getting anyone to work for you.

Now if the company's business is failing it obviously can't keep holding on to its employees. Again there is a market question here. Just don't go work for a company that goes through cycles of bad business, layoffs, maybe it's ok, bad business, layoffs.

So it's really up to you if you want to play that game.

The company I work for, throughout its existence, has never been able to hire as many people as it wants to. Its business is doing great. It has had amazing growth with more growth in front of it. It's maybe not as glamorous as some.

I am sure there are plenty of places where there is a good business and you will be treated well. Let's not make it the norm to not treat us well, it's up to all of us. If none of us give this any consideration, ofcourse the market will evolve to fit what we do (I'm sure there'll still be people/companies that do the right thing anyways, but less).
Named pipes and tee (or gnu parallel, depending on the problem) make this semantically much clearer. It's so much better than bracket-and-sed-hell spread out over different lines.
A URL pointing to nothing with no way to view the art that supposedly lives there anymore? I don't think that "deed" is gonna be worth much for long.

Sounds like it has the same value as saying "I used to own this one famous painting before it burned down in a fire."

A hash corresponding to the bits in your file? Sure, that works, you can say "yep, this is the image, I own it." A URL plus a hash + the bits. Sure, that makes sense, even if the URL goes away, you can prove that those particular bits belong to you. A URL that's now dead and nothing else? Nah.
Venmo is that limited. Either rules changed or Cash App allows much higher limits. I know their overall daily, weekly, monthly limits are factors higher than Venmo.

Yes Zelle is so bad when it messes up. I hate it so much.
Can you explain more about what your wife means by scalpers on these services?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9_recurrence_theor...

The logic follows, and we do in fact even know of a mechanism since quantum mechanics as currently observed provides for unexpected events spontaneously occurring with a very low probability.

But that's where time probability gets weird: once you're dead time is meaningless. You can be dead for a 10^100 years, and its the same as being dead for 5 minutes.

So if the universe (or multiverse) has some mechanism which generates new configurations of matter, then eventually it'll iterate a lot of perceptually indistinguishable versions of reality that from your subjective position will look the same.

It gets even weirder because if you think about it, our universe has rules, so maybe not all configurations are allowed but this one we are currently experiencing definitely is, so it's recurrence is guaranteed provided there's no global limiting function we're unaware of.
> It's the worst form of government, except all the others that have ever been tried.

I disagree. There are places where direct democracy works quite well and has for a very long time.

The US certainly isn't one of them.
"Privacy View uses your PC’s camera to track your gaze, leaving the part of the screen you’re looking at crystal clear but blurring out the other parts, so prying eyes on public transportation and in coffee shops won’t be able to peep ..."

That's pretty cool and futuristic
I agree. The problem is only one: can we make ourselves able to see things differently beforehand? I found it near impossible so far and I am past 40 already.
I am an industry analyst and pay a lot of attention to head count. I use similar metrics to the author to estimate revenue for each of 2,000 companies I track. I usually have a friendly CEO in a sub-segment that will share their revenue numbers so I use their revenue per employee to estimate all the other's revenue.

But even more valuable is tracking change in headcount Q/Q. And yes, growth and success is reflected in head count. Of course there is always a bump up after they get the big A round or B round, but now they have investors looking over their shoulder to make sure they keep an eye on cash flow.
I note that the author of the comment you're responding to and the author of these commits is one and the same, fwiw.
A very interesting site full of downloadable papers on various subjects including antennas. https://www.jpier.org/PIER/pier.php

This one for example may turn useful if one needs to build a WiFi multiband planar internal antenna. https://www.jpier.org/PIERL/pier.php?paper=11073004

...yes, that stuff is black magic/voodoo
You may find reasons to favor yourself, of course. But if you’re just diddling around not making use of your slots, and someone else can be, the greater good is served by opening up the spot for someone else.
(I deleted my previous comment, because I don't think I said what I meant. So let's try again.)

Distributed, peer to peer, is worse. Everything that uses it, as a suite of technologies ranging from torrents to Freenet to bitcoin, only does so because a simpler, cheaper, central alternative is somehow seen as bad. In general, because it would be raided by The Man.

Blockchain, is worse. You could do everything it does, cheaper and better, without it. Except the bit about lawlessness, but the whole NFT gold rush has no need for that.

For any use that doesn't actually need to evade The Man, you can always make your system work better by pulling more and more of it into centralisation and out of the blockchain. Therefore, the final "victory" of the blockchain will look exactly like its obsolescence.

Unless you want to buy contraband, of course.
> Please do look into vim's regular expressions

So here's an editing task. Given the following in your editing buffer,

signed char foo;
/* ... 10 more lines ... */
unsigned short bar;
/* ... 10 more lines ... */
const char *const s = "Dennis Ritchie little-loved 'const'.";

What is the fastest sequence of vim commands to

1. delete 'signed' from signed char foo
2. delete 'short' from unsigned short bar
3. delete the two occurrences of 'const' from 'const char * const s'

With VSCodium

1. Alt-click just past the end of each of the 4 strings to be deleted.
2. Ctrl-Backspace.
3. Done.

This involves

1. Three keyboard keys total (Ctrl, Alt, Backspace), each pressed and released once.

2. Four mouse clicks total, plus four target aiming tasks for these clicks.

This sequence requires zero thought or planning prior to execution.

I want to see the keyboard keystroke count for your best vim sequence, which will require a pause to plan out prior to execution, whatever you come up with.

> This might be because I don't work from a desktop and use a trackpoint, or maybe because when I do use a desktop I use a trackball.

Multiple peer-reviewed human-computer interaction studies have shown that for a broad range of pointing and editing tasks the mouse is faster than touchpads, trackpoint nipples, trackballs, and pens. (I do use a pen occasionally and if not for the pressure/tilt sensitivity it would be mostly pointless.) There's no need to dig into the literature because you can just try it yourself: next time you have both a mouse and your trackpoint/trackball handy try benchmarking your performance at,

https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/aim

There is no way you are hitting the curve peak around 400ms with a trackpoint/trackball/touchpad. There is a reason essentially all pro gamers who compete for millions in sponsorship bucks use mice instead of touchpads/trackpoints/trackballs: mice are faster. (There might be like 1 out of 1000 pros who use a trackball for Starcraft-like games, but none of them are top-ranked.)

Also try

https://aimtrainer.io/

I agree VSCodium is not as cool as Acme, but it is nevertheless very efficient or I wouldn't use it over Vim, Emacs, or Acme.

If you do not personally like mice or mouse driven multiple-cursors that's cool, enjoying the journey is often more important than getting to the destination as fast as possible.

But I do claim that if and when text editing competitions for prize money are held, those who use mouse-driven multiple selection will be at a decisive competitive advantage over those who don't. This is just a claim which I cannot prove until such competitions are held. And, again, if a mouse makes you less happy than something slower, then the tortoise beats the hare, so to speak.
Same :P I'm actually responsible for one of these (https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/70607), but it's a typo in a list of tests to skip.
Cases in South Korea have risen and fallen many times. They have never reached "zero covid", and their current measures obviously can't be sustained forever.

South Korea also has highly secure international borders. That situation will never exist in the USA.

Everything Dr. Vinay Prasad stated in the linked article seems scientifically accurate. Do you have a substantiative criticism, or are you going to stick with ad hominem attacks?
alias awk1="awk {print $1;}"

Counting to 9, inclusive, is left as an exercise for the reader.
Sure, and it was terribly designed if the sole purpose was to save seniors on fixed incomes from losing their homes. And anyway, that’s beside the point of it messing up the state’s finances, isn’t it?
I was regarding comments on Reddit regarding this. One person from California gave an anecdote from a few years ago saying he would pay rent from his account and his roommate would give him their half in cash. He ended up getting flagged by the IRS for having $8K in deposits. He tried to dispute with the IRS, showing rent receipts and deposits, but he still ended up having to pay taxes on the $8K in addition to penalties.

I'd imagine some similar situations will crop up with this change. (Let's face it, the IRS will probably be looking at all transactions and not just those marked as business transactions.)
[name redacted] sexually assaulted me and emotionally abused me.

[name redacted] stalked me for weeks at my home while having me blocked which prompted me to reach out again.
He clearly did not want me to move on and sent several messages stating he was in love with me but needed me to “change.”

That change was accepting verbal, emotional abuse, infidelity, and sexual assault as well as giving up all my hobbies and friendships.

The abuse was so brutal, I could not believe someone that said they loved me so profoundly would do those things to me.

Perhaps he’s found someone that’s willing to accept abuse, but that’s not what the law says.
Everyone everywhere is involved in the global trade network. It's no less true of the ancient past than it is today.
> If google wanted there to be a paid search api, I'm pretty sure they would just provide one.

They do[0]. It's not as complete though.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/introduction
I posted the article and I certainly haven't first hand validated it's content as objective fact, and I know that Reason has a bias (although I think they are at least usually pretty consistent). By the same token, the "climate denialist" website you linked to is not exactly an unbiased source either, and even if it was, it's still more of a personal criticism of the guy than a counterargument to his article.

I suspect this article has cherry picked some data to support a narrative, but I expect the same from articles that talk about the rise of extreme weather.

What did you find misleading about the bar chart?
I mean, I suppose I agree with you that the government and our elites' management of it and the pandemic has been gawd awful, and particularly awful over the last ~6-9 months. What I don't understand about your point is that you're on the one hand saying "they can't even mass produce tests via the Defense Production Act and put them in the mail" and then on the other saying "government managed quarantine is a good idea".
I kinda wish I never listened to this.
When writing code for a blockchain today, even on an Ethereum L2, you're in a very resource-constrained environment where you end up using bitpacking tricks and the like. That's how it was for early computers, too, of course — they may serve as a better analogy. Programmable computers have taken decades to develop, beginning in ~1950, and I expect that decentralized computation will follow a similar path.

There simply are numerous hard problems to solve to make this all work at greater scale. In a healthy ecosystem like Ethereum's, there are frequent research discoveries (discovery of the concept of data availability, the application of BLS signature aggregation, proposer-builder separation, zkevm, data availability sampling, ...). The software engineering effort required to implement such research is colossal as well. Eventually we'll even see e.g. specialized hardware for efficiently producing or verifying zero-knowledge proofs.

It would be easy to look at the very early computers, which were perhaps not all that useful, and shrug — but that take wouldn't have extended well into the future as the technology scaled.
It is bullshit, as many commenters already noted, but it is also my experience back then, in the light of an article's meaning. The experience was bullshit, let that sink in. Perl, google, CPAN documentation on the first two (big) modules gave no clear reason to not s/// and go deeper. I chose s///. Was(am) I smart? Probably not so much. Was all of that inviting me to s///? Yes. And it worked, I had to parse these stupid enormous xmls into my computer parts warehouse where I worked at, and had no time to read all the manuals while clients crowded at the door.

Look at the doc again, where is your snippet there? Down 2 levels of links probably. You didn't write this right the first time you opened it in your browser. Where is ->findnodes() reference? I skimmed ::DOM, ::Document, ::Element to no avail. Even now my patience is over, while e.g. jQuery made it obvious "$(sel).attr(…)" even though I never really used it nor read its docs.
What's flawed in his reasoning?
This is probably untrue. Why would someone pay the same price for half a house? I think the market prices would readjust very quickly.
You bring it up to them?

My main issue is when I type on the phone the text area is so small it scrolls out of view and the autocorrect puts the wrong stuff all the time. So I actually use voice to text a lot which gives you crazy phonetic sentences that end up being like weird poetry or GPT3 sometimes.

Some people said it was hard to read. So I now set the expectation that hey I'm out for a hike, so I'm not going to type. We can either do a phone call, we can do this later, or you can deal with the phonetic oddities. Usually people opt for the oddities.

That being said I notice my own mistakes much less when I'm in a slack type back and forth convo, I'm optimizing for speed not correctness. Whereas here I'm on a desktop on a 4k monitor with a text box the size of a google doc and taking my time.
Just looked it up, this looks like a tool to let you and your friends create a “private internet” using a VPN. Which is cool (I could see a bunch of uses for this, like SSHing into my home computer while I’m on the go), but I’m talking about the ability to expose a device on your home network to the public internet.
Imagine trying to roll out one giant healthcare system across the EU. The challenges of rolling out single-payer healthcare across the U.S. would be more similar to this than to one individual European nation, both in terms of scale (~330m vs ~450m population) and in complexity: it would require a ton of political coordination between different entities, as the individual states have a great deal of power.
> Why would one trust a distributed ledger over a centralized archive

Isn't that the polar opposite of the promise of web3...?
Your intuition is wrong and it doesn't matter what the host knows before showing you the door that doesn't have the prize.

Here's some explanation: https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-monty...
All dependency changes are changes. And changes should be tested before being deployed.

If you update your dependencies and ship it based on version numbers alone, you can’t blame the maintainers
Not wanting to help juniors so they're left to struggle the way you did seems incredibly devoid of empathy. I could describe my career the same way you have, but mentoring juniors is now my favorite part of the job. When you were a junior, would you have been satisfied regurgitating a senior's answer without understanding it, or would you have wanted to learn? If you were into learning, why assume nobody else will be?

When pairing with juniors, I avoid directly solving problems for them as much as possible–lessons tend to stick better when you ask leading questions and let them discover solutions for themselves. Perhaps this technique would also work to filter out "lazy" questions.

Working with a mix of super competent developers at all levels has really driven home for me that everyone is better at something, and worse at something, than you are. I've learned lots of new things from developers with less experience than me. I've also worked with many devs with senior titles who were worse off than most juniors.

Ultimately it's okay to find mentoring unenjoyable, but if this describes you, please stick to teams with most/all seniors and don't agree to mentor even if pressured. Attitudes like this can really exacerbate imposter syndrome for juniors, and I've seen it damage several careers.
People using loopholes because they have enough money to pay shit tons of money just to lower their tax liability to the point they pay less taxes than someone reading this post is total bullshit as well.
Their chances of success are much higher next time. An “unrest detector” won’t be deployed to preserve democracies.
Is it related in spirit to the Fruity Loops of y'ore? Or only in name?
Or how about fast food and soda? Consumption of those items kill enough every year. Then we can safely move to eliminate, smoking, ladders, and rock climbing.
Looks maybe good for art and graphics, but I imagine your hands would feel terribly cramped when coding
I actually have owned it since December 15, 2012. But I only made it about half way through.
You will receive the forms beginning next year for this year’s transactions. The form will be used to fill out your 2022 income taxes that are due in April 2023.

It does not apply if a person is using the service to send someone a gift or pay someone back for buying a dinner. According to some payment providers, they will be asking for more information about transactions to see which category the transactions fall into.

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 is the part I don't get. If I sell old used phones or laptops, never at a profit, how does ebay know I'm not profiting? They just report anyway.
A "truck" on a railway car is apparently a "bogie" in the UK.

A bogie in India seems to be a railway car in the US.

Then there are intermodal containers, smaller than boxcars, I think they are hauled by truck (lorry) after being unloaded from a flatcar.
I was worried about the legality of using real cars in your game. Then I noticed what it generated from the picture of a G-wagon.
Inadvertently, yes, because of a bug. We put it in the second-chance pool* when it was 3 days old, which was pushing the limit of how old a story can be and still get ranked on HN's front pages. Most likely it got taken out of that list when I restarted the server last night. Sorry! This is a technical limitation which hopefully we'll be able to relax before too long.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
The case is not that strong: for example, nobody writes "It's hard to find out how to <exit icon> vim." The icon represents the concept of "a door used for emergency exit", not the word "exit".
It's kind of misleading to claim the archival is packed. It's not compressed into some archival format. Instead, the full node contains all the inputs to regenerate the data.

To transform into an archival node, a full node has to rewind to the very first block, and replay every single transaction.

Since the EVM is Turing complete, this is roughly equilvent to stimulating a computer with years of recorded keyboard and mouse inputs, taking care to record how each input effects state of the computer.

You can't jump to the middle, you have to replay the whole thing.
Effectively, yes.

Omicron puts us in the endgame--Covid is an endemic disease now. It's not the endgame we wanted, but it's the endgame.

Omicron is apparently as contagious as chicken pox, and chicken pox effectively infected every person (generally in waves when enough new children hadn't had it). Due to Omicron, in 30-60 days, everyone will have been infected, vaccinated, or both.

Even if you could get all the human infections to zero, the animal reservoirs would simply start it up again.

Welcome to the new world. Perhaps people will take a pandemic slightly more seriously next time. But I doubt it.