skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a PhD, I am at a loss of how to interpret any if this. I hear from so many er docs that's unvaxxed people are having kinds of complications whereas varied individuals they rarely worry about... they get better and then discharge them. This report seems to ignore death rates but yet the author is so sure vaccines are hurtful. I simple don't get it.
I think you are over-simplifying the conclusions of the article. The article presents a much more nuanced view, and while it points to certain limitations and deficiencies of Web 3.0 (and that only on the Eth part of it; we are in a multi-blockchain world now), it also points to several strengths of the growing ecosystems, and mostly comes across as humble; not knowing how its all going to turn out.
That sounds like a major, incredibly dangerous update to the DB driver. Their 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 versions seem to all have breaking changes [1].

Yet they are in obvious violation of SemVer expectations, which they declare to follow [2]:

> Mongoid follows versioning guidelines as outlined by the Semantic Versioning Specification, so you can expect only backwards incompatible changes in major versions [sic]

[1] https://docs.mongodb.com/mongoid/current/tutorials/mongoid-u...

[2] https://mongoid.github.io/old/en/mongoid/docs/upgrading.html
Okay. Why doesn’t everyone do that, then? Why use Infura?

As is hopefully obvious, I am totally naive here; my questions are genuine. Thanks!
What is the benefit to the average user of running their own server? Most people (maybe even on HN) just want things to work. We buy connectivity services for our phones and our homes. I certainly don't want to run my own Wireless ISP to connect up my neighbourhood even if it was marginally cheaper (until I account for my time).

We buy storage services (for lots of reasons) from Amazon, Google, <your favorite backup provider>, etc. I don't want to run a large NAS and keep it running and backed up.

We buy messaging services (voice, SMS, email, IM etc). I don't want to run my own Asterisk VOIP PBX, my own OpenBTS node, my own postfix instance, my own IRC server.

I buy power services (electricity and oil). I don't want to run my own oil well, refinery, nuclear power plant etc. I do actually run some solar panels, but the amount of cognitive load that they cost me is very small. It is probably under 3 hours per year of having to fiddle with them.

In short, the cost in terms of time and energy from me makes it far cheaper to outsource all of these services to someone else. This doesn't prevent you from running any/all of these services, but I would suggest that you are in a very small minority.

Having said all of that, if I lived on an island with no services, I might be tempted to run some of them myself.
Will the proceeds for the home owner be taxed as capital gains?
The Java `Iterator` interface has a `remove` method, that in my experience is rarely used. Apparently rarely enough that it wasn't even a concern when hiding the `Iterator` instance in its foreach loop implementation.

Otherwise, this seems like a case of operator overloading. Sure, as long as `continue` and `break` do something like they're supposed to, it works. But how often is that true, when it's also NOT true that simply implementing something like an `Iterator` interface with a fixed implementation of those operators? If the only advantage is in providing the ability to break expectations, that's probably just a bad idea.
why should retail store workers make less than developers? Hours are hours time is time. People should be valued by willingness to work, maybe a small multiplier for a degree, but CEO's definitely need a pay cap, if the max he could earn is say 500x average salary, well guess what if the average salary increases by x percent he could end up making the SAME as he does now, except everybody else makes out like bandits too... or maybe he only makes the equivalent of 1000x now, but still 500x but the average wage is the equivalent where 1000x before is 500x now..etc...
What if it wasn't yesterday, but it was today?

Your statement only makes sense if time was invariant.
The personal server space is littered with failed startups.

Not because it's difficult to make turnkey personal servers. Embedded Linux hardware is unbelievably cheap.

They fail because they don't bring any benefit against real-world threats, but they come with significant downside risks.

If your house floods or your home server is burgled, your data is just gone. So your home server ends up backed up to the cloud anyway, and now you're maintaining a home server and a cloud server when you could have just used the cloud service for everything without the headache.
Pretty sure they mean annual recurring revenue (ARR)
Do you think that argument could delay an IRS audit for 55 years?
do you know alternatives to that? I assume PowerShell but don't know if there's anything beyond that.
That's not true. If the money is wasted, why tax at all? It seems punitive. Many that wish to see money lit on fire, rather than put to productive use.
> the funds a contributor pays to mint are distributed to all previous artists (visualizing this financial structure would resemble something similar to a pyramid shape)
No. Andrew Fresh is well-known perl hacker on OpenBSD. Not a hacked site. And he doesn't even use Comic Sans
This is one of the few usecases of crypto that kinda make sense. If those certs were on a blockchain, Rolex could fold and people in the future might still be able to check for authenticity.

There's more steps involved that I'm not sure could be solved, like, who controls the authenticity Oracle? Is it an API that gets pinged? Do you have to pay a gas or network fee to check authenticity? Could a smart contract be made to automate the work? Maybe it could work like credit card chips, which give out a one-time code to the retailer, who then gets it checked by an online service... except somehow replace the web API with a smart contract.

For larger scale operations, tagging individual items with NFC chips might be cost prohibitive.
I’m not blaming them: I’m saying that if I was in this position, I’d ban the Mongo library used.
So his big insight that makes him worth 1400x the average employee was "We make more of these phones than we sell and less of those other phones than we could sell, let's do something about that"?
I found this article[0] which quotes her saying:

> If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president

In reference to WikiLeaks making her private emails available.

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.

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.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-blam...
was that before or after they rose from the iphone/ipad era?

Apple of 2020 and even 2010 is much different from Apple of 2000 or 1995.
I believe the dependency OP is referring to is mongoid. I think serpapi did all the right things here.
> middle aged woman who still calls every video game system "a Nintendo".

Using a middle aged woman as a stand-in for technologically unsophisticated user is a pretty negative stereotype both of older people and women: https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/So_simple,_your_mother_...
> consider the difficulty of deciding that the people behind a fork of Chrome or Signal are trustworthy.

Yet web users did decide that the people behind Chrome were trustworthy, even when there were still sites claiming to "work best in Internet Explorer". You're arguing that something is unrealistic, and yet you give an example of that thing actually happening.

> The average person doesn't have the knowledge to do due diligence

The average person knows that Facebook is bad for society, and yet they are tied to the platform because of a lack of interoperability. A minority of users have accepted the switching cost and moved to Fediverse instances, but I think it's not controversial to suggest that more people would switch to Facebook competitors if they could stay in contact with their Facebook friends.
Richard Feynman was considered excellent at this. Look Up the Feynman Technique. He’s a fascinating person so I greatly enjoy his anecdotes. There are 2-3 books full of them
> The people at the end of the line who are flipping NFTs do not fundamentally care about distributed trust models or payment mechanics, but they care about where the money is. So the money draws people into OpenSea, they improve the experience by building a platform that iterates on the underlying web3 protocols in web2 space, they eventually offer the ability to “mint” NFTs through OpenSea itself instead of through your own smart contract, and eventually this all opens the door for Coinbase to offer access to the validated NFT market with their own platform via your debit card.

This raises an interesting question - can a new technology ride the hype-train sufficiently long enough to become mainstream and benefit from network effects and ecosystem dynamics kicking in, even if in its best case scenario - it's only a replacement of status quo and not necessarily an improvement? Historically, any widely adopted technological innovation has had the burden to offer and prove incremental value to society to justify paying the transition costs. But here, the incremental value is being pitched as literal "money" to be made by getting in early - which can be hard to resist for your average joe - notwithstanding their passion or stance on the underlying technology. Believe this will be an interesting race condition between dying out of the hype on one side, and technology reaching critical mass to be self sustaining on the other side. In either case however, don't see anything fundamentally changing or improving for society, except perhaps some new players displacing (or getting bought out by) old ones.
Thanks for the tips, it is very exhausting to fight these.

> Also remember: You can pay out of pocket, but you'll be at the whims of that pharmacy. They'll generally help you work through coupons.

I did ask, but it was nearly $1K/week so can't afford that.
There are plenty of use cases for NFTs with updating data. Many exist already. Most high quality NFT art project do use IPFS, yes. But that is not the only use case for NFTs
Ah, that famous Kazakh tyrany, with all the free trade, open borders, egalitarian education, evilly opressing their citizens by not extending gas subsidies.

Look, I get that you don't take this seriously (why would you, this is just another fun "good folk fighting back against tyrants" narrative for you), but lionising every random psycho shooter, who decided that he is now sovereign and can direct his wrath to fellow human beings, who happen to be in a uniform, is just something really out there. Bet Breivik is your hero.
> People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will

If only 0.01% of the population ever run a node / mine, isn't that still infinitely better than what we have now? Especially so when money is involved.

The current alternative is 100% centralized. In other words, it's 1 DB vs ~700,000 or 1 company vs 700k individuals etc.
Red Dawn and Top Gun.

I guess some people don't realize that stuff like the Transformers movies were all done with help from the US Military as well.

Probably the same people who don't make the connection with the military displays associated with sporting events (and the national anthem and its military theme before domestic sporting events). Stuff like the Blue Angles. It is all very Roman Empire the way we display our weapons of war, but lots of people can't even see it.
Even simpler!
Yes I was using anthropomorphic phrasing to describe what are surely statistical arguments only.

That distinction is at the heart of my question in fact. Gene's don't care about the host survivability per se; they are only concerned with the gene's own survival. Thus the question: can courtship displays be considered as important for species selection? Or are they just parasitic gene expression for the statistical advantage of that gene?
Sketch, unfortunately, no longer offers this model to new customers. Legacy customers can still buy a new year of updates, but anyone new to Sketch can only rent the software.
I think now is a really hard time to ask "what have my tax dollars gotten me?"

- We all got free vaccines, produced in record time.

- A lot of people are getting the child tax credit.

- A lot of people got extended or expanded unemployment benefits.

- Some jobs were sustained by PPP funding.

- A lot of people were able to stay in their homes both because of eviction moratoriums and rent repayment programs.

- Literal military personnel were setting up and staffing hospitals.

Sure, you might say, but all these things are temporary responses to a short-term-ish crisis. And that's true; and that's also partly what the state is for, right?

But in normal times, I was raised middle class and:

- I went to 3 public schools and a state university

- Growing up my parents regularly took me to the public library. I later became a volunteer there.

- When I commuted daily, it was on public transit.

- I backpack in USFS wilderness zones. I maintain a plot at a community garden managed by my city's parks department. When it's sunny I run through a park with a literal polo field.

- When I am choking on wildfire smoke, I know that state and federal firefighters are trying to control it.

- I haven't had the time yet, but I want to take free Spanish classes at my city's community college.

- I drink clean municipal tap water and flush into a municipal sewer.

- And basically every item I've bought has traveled over public roads, bridges, etc, which I navigate with GPS.

I'm not saying we get a good deal. Public spending is often laughably inefficient or downright corrupt. But to pretend one doesn't benefit at all seems like it's failing to notice a lot of the fabric of our world, or appreciate how much worse it could be.
With the greatest respect, I disagree with this reading of the parent’s comment. It doesn’t seem particularly inflammatory to me? Or at least enough to warrant this call out…

It’s expressing a strong view yes, not necessarily one I disagree or agree with
(I don’t know enough on the topic yet to take a view), but this doesn’t seem to blatantly break the guidelines.

If it wasn’t for the superb track record for what I view as quite impartial moderation on HN, I’d worry that the mention of “VC” here was a trigger for moderation…!
There are many gateways that allow viewing IPFS content over HTTP (e.g. ipfs.io), but the "true" IPFS experience is not over HTTP, it's done via P2P and addressed using content hashes. For example, one of my NFTs has content hash of

QmTqkpmbKmciQgqhUWpML7dsJ59MBEjgQd7wH853n4ASZM

I keep a copy of it on my computer (+ backups). If for some reason it were to be unhosted by every IPFS participant, I could become one, and re-establish my NFT. Image content -> content hash, so everyone would agree about content re-establishing.

Not sure if I fully answered your question.
Operational efficiency. I’d compare it to Amazon vs usps. I pay for Prime which is like paying for Kaiser insurance, Amazon’s fleet is an just extension of Prime membership to improve my experience as a shopper and completely under their control (I can get 3 deliveries in a day on Sunday). USPS is less innovative because they less incentives to “wow” me.
Where even are teachers, construction workers, and firefighters going to live if nobody ever builds any homes? This list of common, basic public services that you keep listing out like they are some impossible tasks, somehow other cities can grow their population rapidly and still maintain them. If Californian cities with flat populations have trouble with them, maybe it's because nobody who does those things can afford to live there.
So when would you actually want to use this software?

The only thing I can think of is for adding stakes to a stream / youtube video.
The big danger is positive feedback loops. We don't know what they are until they hit and then things could tip quicker than we ever thought possible. Without any data to guide us other than the historical record, which has no precedent of the kind of change we have been able to achieve it is next to impossible to make a model that will accurately predict our near future.
This is kind of the nature of the market.

On the one hand, it's effectively a commodity, so there is a lot of competition.

On the other hand, the entire point is to protect the privacy of the customer. So if you're doing it right and any of your customers are actually in need of that privacy protection, you're going to be taking flack from angry jerks who don't like that you're providing it. The same thing happens to people hosting adult websites, so it's the same kind of people who are willing to put up with that in exchange for money.
Ye it is impressive how good those type of forums work. Pointing out a movie from details.

I wrote in a similair local forum about a movie I was not allowed to watch as a kid, where people at a plane disappeared and their fake teeth was still there (only thing I remember) and someone could immediately point me to the correct kinda crappy Stephen King movie ...
This may seem slightly pessimistic, but I'd guess that C-suite folks have enough connection with the goals, vision and details of the business to feel like they are connected to day-to-day events -- including an ability to speak about them confidently -- and perhaps even get involved with daily activities from time to time, although their (operational) value-add is completely and perhaps necessarily completely disconnected from the transactional business fundamentals.

What we have going on here, I think, is a set of businesses which typically have (at minimum) two tiers - the "network tier" where your value is your personal connections, education, wealth and power: highly leveragable into success of a single or multiple businesses that you sit with, and the "production tier" - people who actually do the f'ing work of turning the network tier's demands into something that resembles it in reality.

Businesses that don't have both aren't likely to thrive.

Resulting questions: what are the true directional dependencies between those two groups, and how do they each sustain them? Could that be made healthier for all participants?

I have no doubt that this has probably already been explored by economic philosophers in other, more precise terms: this is just my naive attempt to put the patterns into my own words.
I advise them, for example I tell them most important dos and don'ts.
So you're saying Russia didn't act because the people that want to (and actually did) kill Russians were who they actually wanted in influence? Why would Azov Battalion be a deciding factor on Russia's desire to influence Ukraine? I would think Russia would not want Azov influence in Ukraine.

>Not even sure why you call them and their ideology "pathetic"

I called their ideology pathetic, not their fighting force. Their fighting force is commendable.
That fails when you have an else. :)
You're more than welcome to join us on Discord if you have any questions: https://appwrite.io/discord
I've run quite a bit of analytics on ethereum and have downloaded the entire chain multiple times for processing and it's freely available from multiple providers. All the major API providers (infura, etherscan, etc) have the all the raw blocks available readily.
Content on IPFS is keyed by hash values. The data is immutable at least to the extent that it's impractical to find a hash collision with sha256 (today). The content will also only remain up so long as someone (either the initial submitter or others) has it pinned. Otherwise, the content will, eventually, disappear.
I'm hardly "upset" - I just think the doctor is not a reliable source of medical information and not operating in good faith.

Are you upset because I hold that view based on observable evidence? Like, genuinely, I'm confused why you're so invested in arguing against me. What's the thing I said that you disagree with? Are you saying that the doctor is a reliable source of medical information despite his entirely unsubstantiated pronouncement that there was no possible way Joe Rogan's friend could have gotten covid twice, and one of those cases must have been influenza or something?

Attack facts and claims, not people.
Corporations like Apple have inherent economies of scale though - all the engineering cost of developing the latest iPhone is spread across all the devices sold, and the cost of developing something like Apple Silicon is spread across every device they make and sell. Saying that corporations that big shouldn't exist is effectively equivalent to saying modern technology shouldn't exist. Like, I know the whole argument that people who complain about this but own an iPhone gets a lot of flak, but in this case the thing being complained about and the existence of devices like iPhones is fundamentally intertwined; one enables the other.
if a union of worker co-ops were to pool money, buy enough shares in a public company like apple (say 50 billion dollars worth), could they vote on Tim Cook's salary to never exceed 1 million?
this has to be a major mistake on the part of the library developers

it is completely unacceptable to change semantics like this in a post 1.0 minor version
One thing that really holds back the US is that we have no major left-wing parties. The Democratic Party is to the right of the Tories on health care, and about where Germany’s CDU is on the environment. The middle isn’t even in our Overton window.
> 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.

Wait, really?! Indeed, that seems insane to me — links change or die all the time!

I had thought the whole point was to prove a kind of ownership of some specific piece of art/data and just assumed that a hash of that data would be involved in a significant way.
Aside from the specific details, I feel like papers of this nature would be on much firmer ground if they included controls. In this case for example, that would mean showing that are greater word-correspondences in these eurasian language families than with other language families.
> 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.

I don't think we have to "leave "normal" [...] people behind". I don't like devices like Alexa, but FFS, look at what millions of people have installed and running 24/7 in their homes. Is someone seriously telling me that a dedicated engineering and marketing effort couldn't build a similar consumer-centric device that functioned as a server (purposes to include but not necessarily limited to http and smtp).
https://stacoolvest.com/

These are vests like you describe. You take ice packs from the freezer and fit them into pockets of the vest. Not very high tech but they work.
You won't have to, they'll be fine and you'll be gone.
None of the regular people I'm familiar care about their data at all. If you use any of the popular social media apps (Twitter, TikTok, FB/Instagram, Snapchat), then you can't really claim that you care about your data, and most of the people I know use those apps on a weekly if not daily basis.
Have you guys ever considered frontend app for users to actually built am organism in the browser? I have no idea if its something that anybody needs in the world but this could be fun! I would be interested building that