skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nine times out of ten, when something new seems too complex to understand, it's not. It's just been obfuscated to make it seem complicated to sell you something.

Most genuinely new things haven't had time to get too complicated for one person to get a functional understanding of the whole situation. You could talk to web servers in telnet and make the most complex web page anyone had ever made in Notepad long before starting a new web thing from a guide required a half gigabyte download.

Cryptocurrency is a small step forward with some potential to make online transactions easier. That's it. That's cryptocurrencies. Anyone making it more complicated is trying to fleece you. The most complicated thing is smart contracts, and what they are and what they do is right there in the name.
The Difference Between Achievement and Appreciation
Virtually all electricity has externalized environmental cost. Even electricity used to power a hospital. I agree this externality is immoral, not the hospital or PoW itself.
If you call all the measures against covid miraculously, sure.

And why would the flu deaths suddenly be up so much compared to earlier years? And how would it do that while we're looking for it and don't find it?
You definitely can choose not to have an appendix operation in many cases: https://www.facs.org/media/press-releases/2021/coda-study-10...
I don't want to paint with too broad a brush, but in Poland, physicians are genuinely a separate, well-organized labor class. As such, and I have not followed it as closely for a while, during last 'reform' what I heard was lip-service about patient care followed by implementation so bad that people actually opt for a private insurance ( if they can afford it ). If they are scapegoated, it is because they are part of the equation. Luckily for them ( and pharma for that matter ), they are the only part that is actually necessary.
This is what small claims court is for.

In most places, no lawyers are allowed, and no discovery. Filing is cheap typically.

Discovery is vital to keep nonsense costs down.

If anyone is thinking of going into consulting:

- simple, plainly worded contracts with pay schedules are important

- check your local small claims court, focus on if lawyers are allowed, if discovery is allowed

- find out what your local demand letter laws are like. A demand letter may be required prior to small claims court.
This is where everything started :
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31564493/
> Have a look at the modern nutrition research

I was claiming that the article is poorly written, not whether red meat is healthy or not.

But even if I was, the article that you link to says nothing about red meat being bad for sleep (the author's claim).
You call me a shill and then say you’d switch to IRC over teams. IRC has no features compared to teams - screen sharing, voice/video, threaded discussion, calendars, a mobile client with all these features, etc..

This implies you don’t really care about capability at all. You have some beef with Microsoft where you’d rather have nothing than something to avoid using a product you have a irrational bias against.
> Kid is probably irrevocable fucked up now.

My wife is a teacher, and we know a bunch of other teachers, and I'd like to say please do not give up on this kid — they're more resilient than adults often think, and family support is really important, even if it might not seem like it's doing anything now. The problems you described sound like they're more due to other pandemic-related disruption rather than wearing a mask and whatever you can do to be there for him is going to make a difference.

> The fact that kids have to do more than I do as an adult is baffling to me. I legitimately feel bad for them.

I completely agree. Our national policy has basically been to write off children to keep high-risk businesses open for adults and I would in a heartbeat take a blanket vaccination mandate and other risk mitigation measures for high-risk businesses explicitly based on the goal of keeping normal schooling open (e.g. link high-risk activities like indoor dining or drinking being open to community spread rates).
Computers can only become faster within the limits of what humans are able to build and what physics allows.

You're not gonna break SHA256 with faster computers.
> you'd think that coil whine wouldn't be an issue, and that TrackPoint drift would be fixed after all these years.

To be fair, trackpoint drift (atleast as I understand it) is a byproduct of the technology, ie the trackpoint driver constantly recalibrating itself.

I agree with you that the quality has gone down drastically though - I miss my X220t still after upgrading to a T480 last year. I've had my keyboard replaced twice under warranty and the third one is exhibiting the same issues now that the other two did (backspace key keeps popping out).
> Our reliance on fossil fuels is harming marine ecosystems—but the platforms we use to extract oil are giving marine life new homes.

Rotting bodies are also a paradise for insects. This does not mean that we shall kill more people.
I am definitely not worried about the consequences of climate change. I am ready to deal with it.
What I am worried about are politicians forcing us to do things justified by climate change.
Scott Manley mentioned it in his latest video, though with no source.
Yes, but the point of blockchain tech is to enable such social contracts to be formed, and over time, strengthened. Isn't that the point of decentralized anything? You can decentralized tech all you want, but without a social contract to use it...
You can compare both, and find out that they're radically different. seti@home, folding@home, etc. are just about the complete opposite of POW coin mining. People supply their computational power while expecting no reward, that's why there are also no seti@home data centers sucking up terawatts of energy.
I shed a tear at the end.
I don't mind 100 dependencies maintained by a single large community/project. I hate 100 dependencies each maintained (or not maintained) by single amateur devs (not negative to be clear, I just mean they are not paid for this).
The rules in our house are, the only bad words, are words used to hurt other people.

Having said that, cussing is a rite of passage in our house. We all cuss like sailors.
Neatpad https://www.catch22.net/tuts/neatpad

This is a series that I used to follow as I too wanted to implement my own text editor to learn the underlying architecture.
See this article. Theres an updated one with even more striking statistics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/health/drug-overdoses-fen...
Ask HN: Has your company ever hired an outside software factory? Was it good?
Hey HN friends!

With a friend of mine from college we're starting a software factory and want to learn from the experiences that you may have.
What things can a software factory do to provide a great customer experience?
> Seems contradictory. They do nothing...except this thing that they do.

Any and every blockchain supports that thing. The objection seems to be that what NFTs "add" are an unenforced and unenforceable agreement. There's no new technical (or legal!) feature.

This makes them seem more like a (poor) proof of concept than anything else.
Ethereum founder talks disguising purchases to make them look like a legit ICO
Something must first be invented, then used, then abused, before laws are enacted.
Isn't there still a lot of uncertainty about how the virus will look in wildlife?

If deer get it and get good immunity when they recover, they won't necessarily be a long term reservoir, and so on.
Great news! The crypto craze is the most embarrassing waste of energy in the history of our species. The sooner we stop the better.
This is not true. Modern cryptography is not breakable via brute force any more, nor will it ever be. You can prove that the amount of energy required assuming a thermodynamically ideal computer is more than will ever be available in our galaxy, with classical computing.

Breaks of symmetric crypto or hashes that are practical require an actual cryptographic weakness, whose existence is not a given.

Then there's quantum computing, but that also doesn't break symmetric crypto outright, it just makes it weaker. I'm not sure if anyone has run the math, but we'd probably still be talking galaxy sized quantum computers to get anywhere.
I mean sure, but this is based on Jace Harr's guide, as per the about page:

>The content is adapted from the incredibly helpful and popular twine You feel like shit: an Interactive Self Care Guide developed by Jace Harr

Now I'm just going to point out to some other advice by Jace Harr, from https://jaceharr.com/2018/07/15/living-a-charmed-life-witchc....

>Use Tarot for insights on current and past situations rather than for gossip about the future.

>Use your Book of Shadows or journal to record your progress.

Then we have an entire article titled "Why We Need Self-Diagnosis": https://jaceharr.com/2016/07/31/why-we-need-self-diagnosis/

But above all, the worst crime, the absolute peak of failure: The site doesn't work on Firefox. Goddamnit.
Ah, today I learned something. Thank you for pointing that out, I corrected it. Seems like the title fits the post ;).
In my book, it’s a big red flag when a market is intermediated by anyone. The whole point of markets is to crowd source decision making, so if you remove the crowd, then what is it that you actually have left?
> The quality of care for Americans who can afford care is excellent.

As a Canadian who knows many Americans, works for a US company and has extended US family, this is not quite true.

Most Americans "who can afford care", maximum 70%, have access to medical care that is on par with Canadian health care, but is fraught with peril; "booby traps" such as out of network costs, high co-pay fees that can bankrupt, surprise billing (though 2022 is starting to deal with that). Care may be excellent, but losing your house if you get cancer seems unnecessary.

A few percent of Americans (the rich and the very well insured; FANNG/MAMAA, investment bank employees, etc.) have access to the possibly best health care in the world.

20% of Americans are uninsured or under-insured and have access to the worst healthcare in the G20.

I think it's strange to want to only include the first two categories in the outcome calculation. Strange may not be the right word here ...
You're doing everyone, including us who are against NFTs in general, a huge disservice by explaining it that way, as that's not what NFTs are...

Edit: I should have added my own explanation as it's not as obvious to everyone else what an NFT is. If we continue the analogy with paper, then a NFT is a piece of paper with a unique identifier that cannot be copied. If you have that piece of paper you know that A) No one can have the same piece of paper without having that actual paper and B) no one can fool someone else they have that same paper (based on the ID). NFTs have nothing to do with URLs (although some NFTs do have URLs inside of them), the main point is to have something with a unique ID that is unique within that specific blockchain.
Sometimes I say it, then I "git blame" it, and it was me.
I upgraded my 2008 HP with an SSD and max amount of memory. That thing was ahead of its time - a Macbook-style touch strip where you can control volume and other things (albeit much less fancy), and fingerprint login.

It's a beautiful machine, but unfortunately your biggest bottleneck is the CPU. The modern Internet is ridiculously inefficient, and the laptop struggles to do even casual browsing. And video service streaming also maxes the poor guy out.

Overall, it was a satisfying experience to resurrect it. I call it Lazarus.
There's nothing unlikely with such scenario.
See MD5, SHA1 and so on.

See current research on SHA256

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-2#Cryptanalysis_and_valida...

https://dusted.codes/sha-256-is-not-a-secure-password-hashin...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/34256/sha256-se...
> Apart from the dieting advice

> The questionable diet advice is likely the only thing they can sympathize (or "antipathize"?) and pick up upon Hacker-news style
I think this might be the kind of content you seek:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11244103

It’s about data structures for editable text. Surprisingly complex!
It's a power move.

A lie you want me to believe is an admission of weakness. You're effectively saying you're ashamed of telling me the truth. Claiming zero deaths is a lie you don't want me to believe. You want me to know you're lying. It's half "none of your fucking business", half "what are you going to do about it?"
How do you deal with the noticeable latency? It's pretty annoying even on LAN with RDP. I imagine it'll be worse on the cloud.
thanks, that's interesting, I didn't know this !
Posts about permanently ending war are basically spam
> Especially when it comes to socializing, learning facial cues, and being able to express emotions.

Maybe if we raise a generation that doesn't rely on facial cues to recognize emotions as much we'll end up with a society that's more open and understanding to people who struggle with interpreting facial and other non-verbal cues for other reasons, such as autism?
What you're asking for is Configuration Management, which is even worse than buggy postinstall scripts.
> Excess deaths are not just due to COVID.

Can you clarify what you mean by this?

What kinds of things might excess deaths be attributable to, and to what rate / ratio would you expect?
An NFT is permission to record your name in a public ledger in exchange for money, with the only utility being the pleasure of conspicuous consumption.

They are strong evidence of a huge surplus of wealth in certain pockets of society.
I've come to terms that people are gonna people and trade in anything that can be traded. Especially if there's some scarcity involved.

The Million Dollar Homepage is still up. Coincidentally, I just clicked on one of the banners there, and it opened to some website advertising some crypto token.

So, in a way, NFTs are just the latest instance of the same phenomenon.
Yes, pay a commercial license for the software you plan to use. Or accept the fact that using it has strings attached. You can't have it both ways.
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I loved those moments, the work was done, you moved on, and they came with all the ammunition they collected to wiggle out of payments.

The trick is to give them easily defuseable bad ammunition when they "sneak" around to collect. If you disassemble all their arguments and have emails were they were informed, you can trash them thoroughly.

Unpayed though. Cause even good arguments cant help broke little shops.
No testing, no deaths attributed. Could not be easier.
> The "everything is a market" ideology had a good run of almost half a century

But that never actually happened. Externalities were never part of the market.
As I understand, only children of father's brothers can be prefixed with 堂, because they have the same last name and are traditionally considered to be in the same house. All others, including children of father's sisters, are all prefixed with 表.
I swear there was a pertinent article link that goes through how it's physically impossible to construct a computing device fast enough to break SHA-256, even at the most fundamental scale.
Thanks, but the problem is that either it has the original cells inside and those will have the same issues as my current ones or it has new (possibly unmatched?) cells of unknown provenance.
I'd be interested in knowing the reasoning behind that conclusion.
Britain happens to be quite special on that subject and has a positive approach to things like detectorism. But I doubt it has anything to do with how « ancient » it is (it's not anymore ancient than anywhere in Eurasia), rather it's a property of a quirky legal system. Try to pull anything like that out of the ground in my country (France), and you're both unequivocally a thief and a vandal.
RPCS3 Playstation 3 emulation on the PC is seriously impressive – MVG
Right! Yeah, I didn't want to get into a debate about the actual product and product space ...
You're making a lot of money... if it's Uruguay, it's unfortunate but yeah, most coverage excludes oncological drugs and public healthcare is also very backed up.

Not sure if you'd have a better outcome in the US, if anything you'd be WAY poorer.

A friend whose wife had cancer ended up going to a Sao Paulo clinic.
I heard a saying once: "all developers should be embarrassed about code they wrote more than a year ago" as a (cheeky) measure of ongoing growth and development. :-)
> People disregard that social contract as if it wasn't here, but it IS there.

I thought the social contract is what people do. :) Is it there if it's disregarded?

Or rather what is the social contract supposed to be around NFTs?
I agree wholeheartedly with you that these issues around web3 (immutability, decentralisation etc) will be solved in the future. Do I know how they’ll be solved? No! I could guess but doubt my guesses would be any good - but pretty much every single piece of technology or large tech company has started off with something that seemed a bit fragile or silly etc. It’s interesting that there’s so much scepticism around the future of web3 on HN (could it be mix of disappointment that marketing is running amok with the term “web 3”, that it’s currently over-hyped and under-delivering, that there’s so many scams and easy money-grabs going on?)
I've been in software for >25 years, and independent for ... 15+.

"when you're on the other side of the planet." Don't take that work. It may sound easier said than done, and I remember days when I had no specific projects lined up and no sizeable network to reach out to for referrals/leads. It's not a great feeling, but if you can press through you can get to a point where you're not taking projects from around the planet.

Even understanding that might be hyperbole - I took a project in a different state, and the guy ended up not paying. $8k. This was, to me at the time, a fortune, and needed. I tried to sue, and it took a long time, extra $, and... owing to some problems, was not resolved in my favor, even with facts on my side. I understand the headaches.

I've had one other time where someone in my own town - who came through a personal referral - had a payment bounce, didn't pay on time, and I found out was underpaying others on the project. I was uneasy a week in, but pressed on to not upset the mutual friend we had. Lost out multiple thousands in the end, taking on some other subcontractors with the assurance of payment which didn't happen.

These are hard lessons to learn, but you generally only need to learn them once (or twice...). If you spot a problem ahead of time, walk away, don't engage, or require some up front deposit. Again, easier said than done, but it weeds out a lot of projects ahead of time that. Projects can often be hard enough to be successful with - avoiding some known red flags up front saves a lot of headache.

And... with FTE, you have all your eggs in one basket, and your choice of working relationships is limited. Your earlier comment about 'one word replies'... you get that often with colleagues in FTE situations. At least, I've seen it enough to know it's a potential problem. You have more choice about who you work with in freelance/contract situations than you do in FTE situations (you're moved to team X without any say so, assigned to new projects, etc).
As far as I know, some of these terminal text editors use the ncurses library to handle their "frontend", the way in which they properly display text in your terminal. As mentioned in another comment it is utmost necessary that you feel comfortable reading code in C (with a decent knowledge of syscalls) in order for you to understand the programs' source code. But when you have already achieved that level, you can start learning about ncurses with this basic tutorial [0].

[0] https://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/
Stopped reading at: "The idea that this is "your" monkey jpeg pretty much just relies on social consensus, since you have no tools to enforce ownership." Yes. Social consensus is how we confer all forms of "ownership." NFTs make it easier to reach consensus, as ownership is cryptographically verifiable.

This person is thinking far too small. NFTs are not only about art, apes. etc. Any non fungible asset or piece of data can be represented as an NFT (not exclusively for trading / speculation).
Services only being available for the middle class car owners is hardly something that has been dealt with in the US. But you would never recognize it if you drive your own car and never had to deal with taking public transit to live your daily life.
It works on my Firefox (95.0.2 on MacOS).
Patents are enforced by the government. NFTs are like patents without the government. Which brings us back to OP.
I'm pretty sure that if they want to ban Bitcoin mining they will just say it is illegal.

They're actively shooting protestors in the streets, I think at some point you stop worrying about the technical details and just put the datacenter admin in prison if they don't do well enough.

Especially if it is a scapegoat, really, because then they really just want people in prison to blame for things. Due process needs to exist before legal arguments mean much.
> You can see this in broad daylight where Pfizer wanted to make their data public only after 75 years (1). Surely good science doesn’t need secrecy?

Indeed it doesn't, and it seems that was upheld by the courts which made sure that there wasn't such secrecy. To me this is evidence that while they are powerful forces with ulterior motives, there are also powerful forces fighting for the common good. And that a good proportion of the time they are successful.
You know, you're also living through a global pandemic - that's a lot of mental weight to deal with whether you're conscious of it or not. The virus is an invisible, borderless threat to your existence. That's a lot of "24/7 background" stress to exist in with no relief, which makes it difficult to handle other stresses that life throws up.

I wonder if perhaps it's the global situation of the last 2 years that's causing issues rather than the vaccine

It's been a real struggle for lots of people, mental health wise, and given the US health system, I expect it's difficult to get support.

Anyway, I hope things improve whether it's a "vaccine injury" or something else
Success != sustainability.

If a thing has an expiry date that is >10 years, then you're not going to see any problems for 10 years. That doesn't mean the expiry date doesn't exist, or that the thing won't hit it. It can be wildly successful for all those years and then hit the expiry date and stop immediately.
> On the dimension of reliability and censor resistance, crypto might be as good as gold or fiat (while on all other axes it remains much worse).

I completely agree. My only point was its bizarre that people choose the DAO incident to bash crypto people. They have plenty of evidence that the community learned from the incident.
"And then everyone clapped." This is not what an NFT is.
The way the comment you are responding to was written and explicitly quoted, and yet said the commenter was still trying to get their parents to go despite the multiple objections, made it to me sound like they were not claiming the things you are defending against but merely restarting them as something the parents said.
If your argument is full "code is law!" then you need to take the flipside:

When someone inevitably hacks the shitty solidity code and steals your stuff you don't get to cry to twitter or the police