skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I never even agreed that US government is legitimate.

Please, use this line if you ever end up defending yourself in court! I will bring the popcorn.

Sorry, but you don't get to opt out of democracy because you don't like the tenet that binds everyone to the laws made by our representatives. If you want to change the system, vote for someone who is aligned with your selfish views; but don't expect most civilized, equity-minded people to agree with you. Or if you really don't like it, there are probably other countries that would welcome you.

(To be clear, I also don't agree with many of our Government's policies and actions. There's probably not a single person in our country who agrees with everything our Government does, but disagreement combined with tolerance of imperfection is the price we pay for a system that's proved to be better than all the alternatives we've tried so far. But there's a big difference between trying to influence what we do within our Constitution, and complaining that modern society interferes with my rights to live at maximum individual efficiency -- everyone else be damned -- and that we should all just look out for ourselves.)
I wouldn't claim to have saved a life. I think that guy could have gotten free on his own. I'm glad I helped him but wouldn't want to overstate my contribution.
Wow... okay, I'm pretty sure you don't actually understand the Monty Hall problem.
Analysis of blockchain transactions is also consolidating around middlemen too! If you're trying to read data off of the blockchain for professional analysis purposes, you'll find a lot of working analysts are using sites like Dune.xyz, which stick a SQL interface in front of data slurped from the blockchain and charge a pretty penny to access it.

(Wouldn't be surprised if they're slurping from middlemen services themselves)
Netflix sets up a very obvious dollars-to-value relationship. "Subscribe" and watch "things you already want to watch" - easily.

Most types of online monetization fail that test: subscribe and then you'll use this website for 15 minutes, then the promise is it will do something later that will be worth $10 a month to you. They're the gym-membership of digital services.

They want you to pay to join, but you don't actually know what you're getting and you don't know if you're going to find it usable at even a minimal level. Netflix deals with this too: they sell you access to a movie catalogue, not a specific movie - built into the model is a hedge against local risk for a product which already has very broad appeal.
Many answers are low quality. Some participants will just Google and post their answers, something you've likely done before asking.

Now r/WhatIsThisThing, that actually feels like crowdsourcing.
It's a biblical number. No deeper meaning.
I think a lot of changes in the state finances resulted from prop 13. There’s a great podcast interview series with Jerry Brown where he talks about the passage, and the chaos that ensued, worth a listen.
The odroid seems to be at best only the h/w side of the sort of thing I was suggesting/imagining. It's a funky little box, and that's great, but what about the software? "Mom, nginx is gunked up again, do you want me to restart it or just reboot the server?" "Sam, did you put my new portfolio pictures on the site yet? Sorry Jan, ran into some size and format problems and am still working on it". Etc. etc.
After looking at your comment history I don't think money would better your life. Travel would.
> but, from what I know about Korea and Japan, literacy was a priviledge granted to a small minority.

I have heard that a contemporary objection to Hangul was that it would allow anyone to learn to read. I don't know all that much about it either -- in particular, I don't know how much force that objection ended up having compared to other objections -- but it certainly supports your view.

There are two conflicting principles here, which we can observe within the Western European tradition:

- The elites are interested in keeping the masses under control.

- The elites are interested in ensuring that the masses' idea of virtue matches that of the elites.

Education promotes that second goal while arguably undermining the first one. So e.g. we see some Christian traditions that perform religious services in Latin and some that perform them in the local vernacular; we see some traditions that perform services in the vernacular but discourage reading the Bible; and so forth. There is a tension that different traditions resolve in different ways.

But writing systems are mostly about conservatism. To change the writing system, you need an explicit reform effort to succeed. Otherwise it will just keep going the way it is for no other reason than that that's how you write.

> Chinese ideograms

As a side note, Japanese kanji are much closer to being ideograms than Chinese characters are. The first and most important thing you can know about a Chinese character is its pronunciation. The semantics are present to a much greater degree than in most other languages, but they are not dominant. In Japanese, a character doesn't really have a pronunciation by itself, only readings that are specific to particular words.
I've never had an employer unwilling to wait 3 months for me to start.

> And you can be fired for all sorts of reasons after 2 years, including poor performance, but there has to be a reason and you have to be given notice and a chance or three to fix the problem.

If you're working a tech role you have the money to get legal advice and help avoid illegal firing. They can't just make up poor performance.
No you can't chug a 5th like candy, you could accidently eat a 1000mg+ of THC gummies.
Letter of Authorization
Weather and climate disasters are declining globally
This is the best place for deep, technical discussions free of shilling: https://ethresear.ch/
Amen. I don't even get why most companies have Dev-ops. For the price of one Dev-ops you can get the most expensive plan on many providers. Running the most expensive Heroku plan (with a concierge service) is cheeper than an employee, and office space, and medical insurance, and ....
And that's just the one provider I know.

I want to type git push master, and that's the end of my involvement in standing things up.
messaggistica istantanea dalle origini ad oggi nel 2022
They are all impressive entities and I have high levels of trust for all of them in comparison to all the other institutions of the world and my own lone abilities.
Since leaving the US, the idea that these services exist now boggles my mind.

Here (Iceland) it's free to transfer money between individuals via your bank. You simply give them your ID number and bank account and it's done instantly. US Banks are leagues more advanced than the ones here, and the only reason services like this exist is so that banks can directly or indirectly make money from them. People in the US need to demand better from their banking institutions.
You need an archival node to see a list of all transaction that transfer eth into an address.

A full node can only give you the current balance, and a list of all transactions that directly transfer eth to that address. Any transaction that transfers eth as the side effect of a smart contract is invisible.

I personally see it as a flaw in the design of eth. You shouldn't need the complete history of states just to find all relevant transactions, but you do.

Besides, the argument that regular users shouldn't need to query such information it doesn't change the fact that the information is unqueriable in a full node, short of spending 28 days transforming it into an archival node.
I think this is an excellent point.

People will run all sorts of things they don't directly interface with if the setup and functionality is low friction. People run routers for example. If you had to SSH into your router and troubleshoot it just to figure out why you're not getting connectivity people wouldn't do it. Unplug it for 5 seconds and plug it back in? Still frustrating, but the UX has low friction.

If you can buy a little square box that you plug into the wall and it Just Works™ people would do it. People used to leave their home PCs running all day to allow them to perform server type functions.

When I build a home server, I generally shoot for low maintenance, but I do the setup myself. If I can do it once, I can do it once for a million people. Sane defaults, low friction UX, just the needed functionality, everything starts on boot and resets on reboot to a working state is all it really takes.
> 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.

I would miss mine terribly. I couldn't afford colo and hosted on VPS for a while but just didn't cut it. The Cloud is the same. Kind of like having two monitors and downgrading to only one.

In all honesty how often does that requirement come about? Did you not have fail over? 2u is mandatory if you want to fully exercise colo, 4u is ideal.

> If there's a hardware failure, it's not my problem. It's such a relief!

Not for me, if AWS or Azure fall over I'm at the mercy of the engineers to fix which could take hours just due to the processes standing up the cloud. And when those occurrences happen its normally fatal. If the same happens in colo their are only three reasons.

Datacentre,
Server or DDoS

Granted you can either live on the edge and having no spare hardware and hope they don't die. Or have kit ready to ship and rack. My colo servers are eight hours from me and always happy to jump down to my rack to fix whatever.

But I do respect your opinion because I don't know the variables you live in. Colo forever with me.
No.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
You seem to be all over the place, I picked $500 cash because YOU used that as an example. Do you remember? Scroll up a bit.

>The rest of your argument unravels, because you've based it on this fundamentally flawed assumption.

No, it's not flawed, it's not my argument, it's logic and economic theory that anyone without some weird learning disability can follow.

If there are two groups of people and you give them both newly created money, but one group more money, the group that got less is worse off. Just because number go up doesn't mean they're better off.
As dangerous as Qanon is, watching Hellbound made me realise that cults/conspiracy movements can grow far more violent than that. It's fiction, but in times when literal (neo-)Nazis and xenophobic populist platforms are starting to get heard in Europe and the US, the fourth wall seems far thinner than it used to be ~10 years ago.
I assumed the first because OP mentions

> He looks at the code and criticizes design decisions
A Forth interpreter, written as bash script
> Usually, you still have the “server is selectively lying” problem; unless the users are talking to each other, how do the consensus rules help with this?

If you're submitting txs to a node that doesn't communicate to the mainnet (they're isolated from it) then any txs that go to it would be void. You could just use that Eth on the proper mainnet as it wouldn't be on the chain. If the node decided to then come onto the mainnet it's chain would be vetoed by the other nodes states and would fork back onto the main chain. Ethereal has Byzantine-Fault Tolerance up to 50% and you don't gain anything by running an isolated node to try trick people.
Depending on the context, yes. But sometimes you are not allowed the last comma.

ETA: Let me expand on why it's important to put the comma first. Which list is more clear to you:

a
, dog
, weather
, banana
, b
, car

or

a,
dog,
weather,
banana,
b,
car

With the leading commas, they all line up, and you can see them in a neat little row. I really prefer it especially in contexts where the trailing comma is not permitted, such as a SQL query:

SELECT
name
, date
, operation
FROM
stuff
> The change was made when the American Rescue Plan was passed in March 2021.

This is why people fucking hate congress.
For me, it would just be more work without any benefit. For me, a pencil and paper is necessary. I can't think typing equations out. Part of it is probably just habit, but a good part of it is that pencil and paper support non-linear workflows effortlessly (e.g., drawing a box around a side calculation). In the end, I would end up writing the problem set up on paper, then transcribing it into TeXmacs or whatever for no real benefit. This isn't just theoretical. All through gradschool, I worked out research on paper before writing it up in latex for a paper or thesis section.
21.6% of global emissions come from cars, compared to 0.1% from cryptocurrency.

Cars are actively harmful to society [1] while cryptocurrency provides free exchange of value unhindered by authoritarian governments.

The hypocrisy of those suggesting we ban cryptocurrency while they use cars is staggering.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSSNlM3Au1A
It makes sense he'd say so since the author's salary depends on it (GCP loves multicloud), but multicloud makes no sense for the vast vast majority of customers. I really wanna see a situation where multi AZ multi region redundancy isn't enough (not to even mention the added complexity of multiple clouds). It makes the second rate players look really second rate when they keep pushing multi cloud.

As far as skills, that's all fluff, the services are basically analogous everywhere.
Universal vaccination, with mandates as necessary.

Distribution (and enforcement) of N95 masks.

Rebuilding schools with sufficient ventilation.

WFH as the default.

Hospitality moves outside.

Restrictions as necessary to keep R below one until suppression/elimination has been achieved.
Does every article have to be relevant to literally every possible reader?
> Then productivity skyrises, and it just proves that higher wages is actually the #1 thing you can do to raise productivity, and that company culture/morale play a big role in success.

Or payroll ends up being too expensive when they have a down quarter and they have to deal with layoffs.

Suddenly this show seems like a horrible idea.
How long would it take a random person off the street to be good enough to work as a developer at Apple?

If they had rich parents and didn't have to work at Apple to just survive, probably not long at all. They'd easily do it. The only reason they aren't successful is because of poverty.

It's been hashed out between Paul Graham and the cloudflare ceo (iirc) that not anybody can build a company because true success requires having rich parents or supports you can fall back on while you're building prototypes and side businesses...

>Oh Paul, you know better. I had to borrow money from my mom to pay my taxes when we were starting Cloudflare. But I certainly came from a relatively privileged background, and so did the AirBnB founders. It’s hard to take risks if you don’t have a safety net.
source: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1129929178382446592

Again given everybody starts at the same beginning starting line, then sure we can begin valuing people based on credentials, etc... but since we don't have a society like that....hours are the only equal output a person CAN give, and maybe a better measurement of their work ethic and value to society.

society would kinda suck if I couldn't order a pizza because nobody wants to work shit wages....I value them, but I can't afford to personally pay them more than the cost of goods and maybe a tip... it's on the company and society to form unions and supports to ensure that they can lead happy lives without having to (because some don't want to) go through further schooling and education.

When you're working 2 jobs and 80s per week and still can't own your own car, it becomes a big endeavor just to not decide to end it all after 10 or 20 years of that... it's grueling and miserable.

Personally I think the only solution is re-building the strong unions of the 30s and 40s... but that's gonna take a long time to get right.
So, this has a really easy fix. The NFT points to a content hash, and the content is uploaded to the Internet Archive (and they're compensated for the storage) as part of the NFT minting process.

Your ownership is now on a distributed ledger, with a cryptographic hash of the content, paired with long term storage of said digital artwork. The Internet Archive's costs are ~$2/GB to store content in perpetuity, which seems insanely cheap to carve off as part of a transaction (Eth gas fees aside).
Yes, this is the sort of thing I'm talking about, but I think it also demonstrates that there's a ways to go yet. I suspect that one part of the solution will be abandoning linux and windows. They were built for performance and versatility, which just aren't that important in a server I use to host my blog and email, and come with a lot of baggage that isn't needed in a virtual-only OS.
Look up Nassim Taleb on Fat Tony about flipping coins.

If 50 consecutive reds come up on a roulette wheel and you bet on black each time, then you might be a sucker. Someone was lying to you about that wheel being honest.
Since you typed it twice, I don't think it's a typo. It's parentheses not parantheses.
Holy smoke, that's a long article. I'm not even sure what the point is. I mean, the author starts off by saying that once you've seen "good design" you're ruined for life every time you see bad design, and I guess the author does actually end up back at that point, sort of, by writing that You Should Learn Rust, It Will Make You A Better Person.

I guess the good design was the friends we made along the way.
Ethereum light clients will make it trivial to verify the state of the blockchain and interact with it without also having to store the entire blockchain.

The nice thing is that you can depend on Infura for now, but if they ever attempt to be dishonest, you can easily switch to hosting your own node or light client. The cost of moving away from these centralized services is pretty low.
>A protocol

Running email protocols over TLS isn’t an improvement to the protocol, it’s tunneling. PGP isn’t an improvement to the protocol, it’s encapsulating data in another protocol/format.

Your comment proves he point; email has evolved so slow we’re running it through tunnels and embedding PGP encryption to overcome the weaknesses that the protocol has not been able to fix.
There is no possible way to usefully answer that question as given; every shell has its own advantages and disadvantages. Plain bourne is universal but bare-bones, bash is mostly ubiquitous on Linux, zsh is powerful but just different enough to occasionally bite you, fish is very user friendly but doesn't even try to be compatible with anything else, ksh is a nice option and is built-in on BSDs, dash sucks for interactive work but is great for running scripts...
For those who have more money than time, Synology NAS devices include mobile apps for common use cases, e.g. photo sharing. There's apparently an open-source clone called XPenology. For simple photo backup, Photosync works on all major desktop/mobile operating systems and can sync to a wide range of local or cloud storage.

After 2 decades and billions of investment in web services, it's not realistic to expect a generic "home server" to serve all possible use cases. Those that work best are usually based on an open protocol (e.g. WebDAV, SSH/SCP, SMB).

> did you put my new portfolio pictures on the site yet?

As an example, the UX for client-side workflow for blog publishing (WordPress, Jekyll, Hugo) is likely independent of the infrastructure for blog hosting (VPS, self-hosted, WordPress.com, GitHub Pages, etc.
>But that is not what I have said, especially not the "at all" part, why are trying to misqoute me?

> but thugs who use firearms against police [up-thread]

contradicts

>"So please don't act like these people are defending or fighting the government.

I quote, "So please don't act like these people are defending or fighting the government." Are police part of government or not? Adding "at all" is merely semantic, it's just the way my part of the US talks. i.e. "Would you like a bag at all with your groceries?" Saying "fighting government" and "fighting government at all" would both mean you are fighting government to some extent, but the latter _could_ be interpreted as slightly weaker if anything.

>Has the definition of word "civillian" changed while I was not looking

Ok so what you meant was once you fight, you're a belligerent and not a civilian. Your intent was just to help us understand definition of civilian? Yes yes I agree, I thought you were implying something different like they weren't real citizens with genuine honest intent or something. But you've now made clear you were using the standard definition. Although I'm confused why you didn't just say that in the first place.
I don't mean these sorts of simple host-a-node services but something where you can run custom chains for your dev and testing. For example, this week I had to build a separate Polkadot chain for a client that had reduced governance term durations so they only took 5 minutes instead of 120 day and with a smaller council size so tests are easier to manage. This needs to run in CI so has to be in a position to spin up and tear down on command and the genesis block has to fund the appropriate accounts for testing. This could be pretty easily abstracted to a Web App for people to build this without needing to know how the underlying nodes operate, what to change, etc...
Alcohol kills fewer innocent people than cars.
How is such legislation anything other than merchantilism, which is a discredited, top-down economic model?
Buy $10 of crypto, use play-to-earn to turn it into $100, then you can afford to use Web3. /sarcasm
It's no secret to homeowners you get money upzoning your parcel in California. They don't care. The whole purpose why somewhere like Ranchos Palos Verdes or wherever else in LA county that fights development and remains a suburban, SFH enclave is because the locals want it that way. They bought in specifically because it was this way. And they will elect officials that fight on their part to preserve it in this way. They don't want to approve split lots in the palos verdes peninsula, that would generate traffic in the peninsula that they don't currently have. They already limit public access to public beachheads as much as possible to nonresidents, over fears of traffic.
Why would you submit math homework that is handwritten? How would that save you time? How would that make it easier to grade?
This. Higher property taxes might encourage more density and productive use of land, too.
One of the more bizarre aspects of this whole ordeal, to me at least, is that at this point in the pandemic the government in the US is still only talking about vaccines, masking, and social distancing. Why? Are there not therapeutics out there (there are) that limit severity and reduce duration? Half of my friends have gone from a feeling of relief once they got their booster to a feeling of abject terror when they realized you can still get Omicron despite being boosted. Trying to pretend that we're going to vaccinate our way out of this is nuts, it's just whak-a-mole. Why are treatments for once you get it - and we're all going to get it - not a thing?

I don't really want a national strategy written by "the experts" for life with Covid. Everyone remember when all of the restrictions that we endured because of 9/11 were "temporary" while we addressed the "emergency" of Islamic terrorism? 20 years later and I still have to take my shoes off at the airport, and get occasionally gently caressed by a low level federal employee to get on an airplane.

With that in mind ...

>How about quarantine infrastructure?

Yeah no thanks, man.
Some NFT platforms operate with IPFS whose URLs are hashes of content. This solves that problem.
CGNAT provides positive value to humans. Do you have a point to make?