skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is why I think having transparency as a non-negotiable feature of the protocol is bad and calling it "privacy" is very misleading.

I edited my comment above to suggest a configurable level of disclosure which the sender & recipient can enforce, so that way the same protocol can support both traceable and anonymous payments depending on the desired use-case and local laws.
This is something I realized after trying to quit League of Legends, a game I played for over a decade, years ago.

I could only truly stop playing it when I completely internalized the fact that the game didn't bring me anything except misery after every match, win or lose, and the short term satisfaction of the ding you hear when you kill a creep or make a fancy play were not worth it.

Sometimes when I remember it exists I still feel a pull towards it, but now I know that if I play it, in 45 minutes I'll wish I did something else instead. This is more than enough to stop me, fortunately.
> Our institutions, like health care and education, have been running so close to the edge

Do you have some hard numbers about this? Here in Buenos Aires we had a big wave in July 2021, and we had a daily report of the ICU occupation rate and at the peak it was like 95%. We delayed some medical procedures to keep the number under 100% and there was a huge discussion about increasing the lockdown. Lucky, we keep the number under 100%. Now we have a new big omicron wave, but the ICU occupation rate is still low, finger crossed.

> Before the pandemic, nurses would work marathon shifts

We have the same problem here. I don't understand how it's consider to be sane.
I’m thinking the comment referred to ip owners with large existing catalogues
I am building a list of B2B products to serve them to businesses who search for solutions.
If you want to get indexed on it, please add your B2B product to that form.

Once you product is live on the index, I'll email you.
> Privacy does strongly imply the potential to effectively evade taxation

Except gas fees, of course.
BitTorrent also guarantees that your content would always be available – if you're hosting it.
That’s a naive take. The intel ME is also there „by design“ and is equally capable to lock you out of your machine. And as long as only a small number of users are affected, they would also get away with it. The average customer usually doesn’t care about other customers problem as long as they’re not affected.
This sounds like some kind of incarceration or at best day care program, rather than actual learning. Unclear if that is the baseline for schools vs something specific to a Covid surge. I don’t have children but if I were to do so I don’t think I would put them in a schoool like this for 12+ years.
Larry Niven has a few e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_World_Out_of_Time but I agree that realistic interstellar travel is more often found in older fiction, as we did not yet know how hard it was. What would be realistic now?
To put a bunch of students in a crowded auditorium and fears of a spreading virus as the student described... seems unnecessarily dangerous. Just purely from a crowd control perspective.

To allow students to spread the virus and infect staff without intervention is negligent.

This isn't even accounting for unknown long term effects and recent studies suggesting kids with covid are more likely to be type 1/2 diabetic.

So something has to be done and what is being done is suboptimal. Students need support. They are, as you mention, unlikely to die but still not possible to allow known spread.
Not funny when you lose your music and software worth several hundred euros.
Can we stop calling it Web3 and just call it NFTs...

Just call it what it is. If we are talking about NFTs say NFT, if we are talking about the general applicability of blockchains, say Blockchain. Every time someone attempts to describe Web3 they just end up trying to describe NFTs without actually talking about what NFTs tangibly do and are, which is why it sounds so ridiculously nebulous.

This response and the original article are both 99% literally discussing NFTs.
The link doesn't mention deaths at all, it talks about disruption to education and an inability to teach despite the move away from remote learning.
You can use it just fine, you just can't access icloud, and app store. But it's possible OP had his account tied to icloud and possibly his macbook encrypted to that, so that he couldn't log in or something.
I would appreciate a trigger warning before people use the word "Addiction" to encompass everything from methamphetamine use to playing video games to frequently. As you indicate they are not comparable and require very different approaches to escaping. Adding to the challenge is that hardcore, true addictions tend to be layered on top of each other and quitting one is almost impossible while still having the others, yet quitting them all at the same time is also impossible.
It's such an aptly named database. They probably thought they were being funny when they came up with the name MongoDB but it's just sad when people have constant issues with missing data, breaking changes, security misconfigurations because of stupid defaults etc., the list is endless with MongoDB.
> I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn analytic number theory

For those who fall into that category but their calculus is rusty (or nonexistent), don't worry. From the book's preface:

> Actually, a great deal of the book requires no calculus at all and could profitably be
studied by sophisticated high school students.

That said, it kicked my ass when I tried to read it during my first year in college. I don't know if that is because I was not as good as a sophisticated high school student, or because my actual classes didn't leave enough time or energy for reading a book like that recreationally.
I think it's nearly impossible to learn the facts because the issue is so heavily politized. Too much money and too much votes.

If we can go on with renewables then it's great although I hope the tech is maintained somehow like for example space exploration.
> Let me sincerely ask, when you wrote this what did you assume someone in regulatory affairs at FDA did?

I assume it’s like most government jobs. 70% waste.
> (...) beyond BTC as a highly unstable store of value and claims of some great future state.

Bitcoin is not a store of value, and never was. A highly volatile asset, specially one whose market price halves overnight without much surprise, does not serve the purpose of a store of value.

I mean, this week alone Bitcoin dropped around 10%, and around 25% during the past month. This is not value being stored. If an asset manager lost 25% of it's wallet in a month they'd be out of a job.
I too have a Canon POS inkjet printer/scanner. Recently had to change change out the black ink cartridges, because those are the only ones that really deplete. Picture my frustration when all of the cartridges needed to be replaced at the same time (even those full of ink), lest the printer not register the new cartridges.

I will never buy another Canon printer again and think twice about any of their other products. At least they're giving HP a run for seeing which firm can burn their brand the fastest.
Surprising to see librewolf there; Last time i tried any firefox forks they were all frankly terrible;My go-to privacy browser for work-related stuff or anything serious is ungoogled chromium for years now, any other chromium-based forks like Brave seem private only as a facade.Vivaldi has the best gesture system of any browser hands-down, but my issue in the past with it was performance(especially HW accell).

Also ff-based forks have the problem of availability of packages & ease of installation.
It’s a good thing I guess that all kids are orphans and don’t know and never interact with someone who might be old or immunocompromised.
Everyone in the north, take vitamin D and vitamin C.

It help fight every respiratory infection

Source: medcram, Dr in pulmonary diseases
Major discussion 10 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261314 (346 points/111 comments)

Also:

5 months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28301172 (47 points/9 comments)

4 years ago – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15274110 (479 points/149 comments)

6 years ago – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11840453 (276 points/192 comments)
Firefox with these settings from Librewolf looks very much equivalent: https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings/-/blob/maste...
Same almost everywhere not-us. WA, Line, Telegram, etc. are easily accessible to everyone. I wish the whole green bubble idea was seen more widely as just elitist BS.
Nice one! I heard/read a similar story where in some math exams the teachers provided “faulty” calculators to all students in order to see which students relied to the result of the calculator screen and which of them used their logic and common knowledge to understand when a result is wrong. The calculators didn’t produce errors obvious like 1+1=3 but more like 22/7=3. Nice tactic and highly educational lesson :-)
Because its a deeply personal piece of information for many people.

Personally, Id rather have my medical history available to the public than my personal wealth or income (and Im loath to give that up!). No one except my wife knows how much I make. In the case of my parents, my mom has never known how much money my dad makes.

They may seem strange to you, it may seem barbaric or backwards. That’s irrelevant - I’m firmly entrenched in this position and wont help you release this data (through my vote, and legal lawsuits, clearly).

You can’t dismiss me as an eccentric American behind the more enlightened Europeans - Im not American, I am and grew up in Europe, I just live in the US.

Nor am I or did I grow up rich. Growing up, my dad whenever my dad was doing the bills he joked he was feeding a blackhole (debt). We never knew how big this hole was, but we knew where it came from - even a hard working engineer has a steep financial hill when you’re from a poor country.

You really must understand ours is a deep seated difference in points of view. My mom has never asked how much my dad made, my dad has yet to tell her. My mom had a vague idea how much she could spend (her guesstimate was very good) my dad never enquired what she spent money on. He himself never spent any money except on us. The result is they never fought over money, the most common marital problem (I guarantee you this. Both my parents would rather be paupers than put money between their relationship - they are both very stoic and devoted to each other). I doubt this would have been the case had my mom ever displayed any interest in money.

So what does making my tax returns or my salary (probably the lowest among my colleagues) publicly available mean to us? It means inviting strangers into our intimate space, more intimate than the fact that I have a rare auto immune disease Ill share with a random person on the internet (anonymized, of course :P ).

You see, there are people who view this information not merely as a means to a more just society (whatever that means anymore) but as a very intimate part of their family life. Just because some cannot see that doesn’t mean it isn't real.
Or you could get an Amex card and link it with your Venmo account.
> unreliable

Few appreciate the “brick wall” facing variability in green energy: if the battery depletes, power flow stops.

Batteries cost the same to cover whatever multiple of standard deviation prepared for. “Hundred year calm/clouds” need be prepared for - there’s no discount on installing that battery backup, very costly for a rare event (still often enough to need coverage).

When the batteries deplete, system halts until nature decides to provide enough again. FF reserves can tide over, nuclear will glow on; green varies by hour where outages can last weeks.

I run my office on solar every summer. Battery depletion is a very real, common, and costly issue.
Ok but currently they are using IPFS so does it matter if they once used the cloud? Go here[1] and scroll down to tokenURI and input 1 and you will get an IPFS hash back.

[1] https://etherscan.io/address/0xbc4ca0eda7647a8ab7c2061c2e118...
It not so much a lack of consensus; school officials burnt every scrap of goodwill they had by forcing parents to scramble and do multiple things at once, and they don't yet realize they're overplaying their hand. You're right that it reveals divisions, but one of those is that anybody who can opt out by homeschooling or using private/religious schools that aren't closing their doors is doing that.
"naïve systems" doesn't make sense.

Nobody is assuming simply adding a UUID transforms a system into a distributed one.

The parent comment is about exposing UUIDs probably in order to not expose the sort order of the database.
Ah, yes because spreading to parents and family who might well die is irrelevant if the students are likely to not die...
Thanks for the tip on imapsync. Never heard of it, might come in handy, and the website looks trustworthy.
What? Really? Naïve in this context means a general purpose solution that doesn't "know" about your use case. Have people never heard of a naïve algorithm or solution?

Distributed relational databases aren't naïve in this context. MySQL is.
TIL you can pipe into files in awk. I've never come across this feature somehow. Is it commonly used?
The history of it is very interesting. They were unknown to the world until the United Fruit company marketed them globally. Of course they also ruled very harshly in central america, hence term banana republic.
Wood pellets are counted as renewable. Creating something of loophole. Not sure what difference non-EU would make other than making tracking of regrowing trees more difficult.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/europ...
Thank you, that makes sense indeed. What I'm liking about 'modern' C++ for example, is the ability to populate nested data structures like (std::map containing std::vector containing ojb instances) using literal initializers, in a sort declarative-style programming. Useful especially for testing & prototyping. Rust, OTOH, seems rather intimidating to me.
Yes, because of the absurd hyperbole and hysterics associated with Covid. It’s pandemonium precisely because of the hysterics, overreacting, and absurd rules and procedures.

We’re seriously treating this like it’s the measles.
You can install apps fine on a Mac without an Apple ID; just not from Apple’s own App Store.
It's a new machine, and it doesn't work. What do you do when you buy something and it breaks? Return it and ask for another one.
Stories Are Coming to Signal
> you've never actually listened to a real live one of these "anti-vaxxers"

don't think you know me but:

I lost my mother due to covid. she was an anti-vaxxer right until the last minute when she died just before Christmas. She was a vulnerable nutcase for years and easily gamed into any kind of MLM scheme.

I was forced to cut off one of my 2 best friends (of 40 years) because they could no longer be reasoned with. we ignored his alternative life-style and individualism because why wouldn't we. but it also put him into a risk-group of suckers that get brainwashed. the same guy now cut off relations to his mother who is battling cancer on the grounds that "she chose to be vaccinated".

These people are crazy, and it's their right to be crazy, but the cost of being crazy can not be exploited by media and politicians. That's why I am 100% for reducing their freedom and have them undergo a "forced medical procedure" (as they call it).
I bought the latest version and he seems to have addressed the problems brought up there.

All books are gonna have errors especially in their first version. Doesn't mean it's better to just never read anything about any subject.
seeding a torrent for 90mins does next to nothing for its overall availability
That sounds like a solid basis for adding asymmetric coroutines as well, is that something you're thinking about adding?

I like the philosophy and gumption shown by this project but coroutines aren't a feature I'd lightly give up.

Digging what I see so far!
You might enjoy: http://www.humansnotinvited.com
Show HN: A store builder for indie makers
I am trying to validate an idea I had for a while

> The Issue:
A few friends wanted to start their own thing since the pandemic started. A business to sell clothes or digital products like ebooks etc.

But they were also intimidated or actually hesitated to pay a monthly fee just to get started. After all, you never know how long it will take to get your first customer.

> The solution:
Pay as you grow.
Slowly and steady with no risk involved.
Only pay when you make money.

But ideas are nothing without execution.
So I prepared an MVP to show how it would look like.

> Current MVP:
The demo store actually works and has a few different examples for merch, or a service, or a digital product. Some are in stock, others are not available or coming soon.

You can check the landing page here: https://tinyStore.page
And the demo store here: https://gobies.tinystore.page

Would love to hear your thoughts!
The full list of VMWare products affected is huge [0]. And it's a bit disturbing how many of those are still "Patch Pending".

[0] https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2021-0028.ht...
> There was no period in which it had super strong lockdowns or super excessive restrictions.

"America" is 300 million people and 50 separate states in a federal system. The reflexive urge to treat it as a single entity is central to the problem I'm discussing. On the more functional side, the lack of border controls between states in a federal system made tamping cases down to minimal levels a big challenge.

The entire world settled into an equilibrium of calibrating restrictions (both via policy and individual behavior) based on case numbers. In the US, national numbers drove much of this conversation, treating a continent-spanning nation as if it was epidemiologically equivalent to Belgium.

> There was no period in which it had super strong lockdowns or super excessive restrictions.

just a couple of examples that I'm personally familiar with:

- California was under a statewide stay-at-home order from March 2020 to January 2021 (by contrast, France lifted their lockdown from May to October)

- San Francisco public schools were closed for over a year, and much of the US has been extreme about school closures. UK schools have never entirely shut down, and across Europe schools have been dramatically more open than across the US.

You're not wrong that American restrictions have generally been lighter, but this elides the many individual pockets with unnecessary NPIs based on case rates in irrelevant parts of the country. Schools are the most dramatic example of this, but things like spring 2020 lockdowns based on a pandemic that was limited to the Northeast at the time set us up for the heavy resistance to restrictions we saw in many states when they were actually hit in the summer (helped along by El Presidente's abuse of the bully pulpit).
I used it a couple of times, it comes really handy when migrating mails between hosts - and it does a wonderful job with that
On the one hand I am happy to read a, at first sight, well balanced and well thought out critique of "web3"...

On the other hand: I can not escape the idea that he picked specific examples to make specific point:

- People don't want to run a server... Do they not? Or are most APPs simply not build with server capabilities? In the early days of Spotify they had a limited server capacity and everyone who streamed a song simply downloaded it from a server and peers mix, and in the background uploaded it to others peers. People were feeling just fine about 'running a server', just because they didn't even knew they did. The app hid (or abstracted) away the whole client/server question. [1]

- decentralisation doesn't work because "the blockchain" is hard to query and you need centralised APIs to do it for you. Again, a very weird and false dichotomy. Why take Ethereum as an example for "the blockchain". If I wanted to write a pro-blockain piece I would pick the Bitcoin blockchain as an example of how this CAN work. At this moment I run several apps on my iPhone which all query this blockchain for their functionality and it words just fine (and decentralised). To clarify I don't have the whole chain on my phone, it connects to random nodes (or my own if I so choose) and queries the chain via Bloom-filters [2].

- OpenSea as a example of a decentralised market place that doesn't seem to work. Again, why this example? Why not BISQ, a marketplace that is truly decentralised and has been running flawless for years? [3]

So, one could write an article that is saying the exacte opposite only by picking different examples.

[1] https://siliconangle.com/2014/04/22/spotify-abandoning-p2p-i...

[2] https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/transaction-bloom-filtering...

[3] https://bisq.network
At first I thought you were saying they underpay tech and agreed, but then I read "for free".

I have never even seen or heard of an unpaid software engineering internship. Why are you assuming they're unpaid? Where are these unpaid SWE internships?
Here take my “Most Off Topic Comments Of the Year” Award!
I prefer the idea of using empty webhooks. The message body contains the id of what changed, and a status like "NAME_CHANGED", but not the data that changed. Then paired with the API to retrieve the real data.

Webhooks shouldn't be assumed to be reliable, and that should be clear in the API docs. You can perform your own lookup to these data APIs to confirm the source of truth in your own data
Open source was never supposed to be corporate. That was the beauty of it.

Now it's no different than developing Windows, just kore complicated and distributed
slowly but surely things improve, and then people find something else to complain about
Wall Street Is Using Tech Firms Like Zillow to Eat Up Starter Homes
archive: https://archive.ph/n97MS#selection-3065.0-3065.67
I think you're right when it comes to many addictions. When we add in bad, unhealthy and suboptimal habits this is probably less universal, which unfortunately get labelled as "addicitions" in a lot of cases.
I would look at how they basically maintain minimal tables of payments which can be used to pay for service. Taler is more complex to handle being a 3rd party doing this, but Mullvad seems to do a similar idea of separating payment from the account itself to allow for anonymous payment.
I feel like someone should take the phrase “This is true at the moment, but there is work being done on…” and set it to a catchy melody, since it’s clearly the national anthem of the crypto community.

For the verses of the song I would suggest lines such as:

“The proposed solutions solve this”

“But this is not always true, you can”

“We are actively building alternatives!”
Here we go. Move the goalpost.

The parents and family should go get vaccinated, no?
It's not "acceptable" because average families can't deal with their kids being home. This pandemic has revealed that for a large swath of kids home is a toxic environment actively destroying their potential. Add to this the terrible online learning implementations that are basically "beg to show up for attendance and then hope they participate" ...
what? I did factory resets on multiple android phones and EVERYTHING gets wiped even Google accounts, does not ask for anything just setup like new.
> The energy transition is about to thrust us into a world where for long periods of time, we have massive energy abundance of zero-marginal cost energy generation. It won't be free to transmit that energy [...]

It won't be free to transmit that energy, but that transmission will also be zero-marginal cost. The cost to operate power lines and transformers doesn't depend on how much power it's going through them.
This is a great explanation! I wonder many times why we had to play with obscure xargs instead of being able to pipe a command output to an argument.