skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was referring to the amount of useless companies that were created during the original dotcom.

No, you weren't. You literally said this: "At one point the internet was also a problem looking for a solution too"

At no point was the internet a problem looking for a solution.

> >2. Crypto peddlers keep equating cryptocurrencies to the internet. And never ever equating it to Juicero or Enron even if all signs point to that.

> Not sure what this has to do with my comment.

It has everything to do with your comment. Under an article criticising web3 you immediate response was to draw comparisons with the internet. All cryptopeddlers always draw comparisons between crypto and the internet. Or crypto and cars. Or crypto and some other world-changing invention.

And never ever do they draw comparisons between crypto and Juicero, crypto and Enron etc.

> My comment was specifically there is a decentralized solution to do commerce that is powered by crypto.

There is no such solution.

> at the very least there was a platform that transacted billions of dollars on top of Bitcoin (Silk Road).

1. I very highly doubt there were billions of dollars traded on SilkRoad

2. SilkRoad relied on a very centralised reputation system even as merchants there accepted bitcoin

3. All bitcoin "solved" was moving money for illegal activities, but not "commerce". Because actual commerce requires institutions of trust (even SilkRoad had a reputation system). And for legal activities it also needs reversebility of transactions and enforcement of rules.
It’s pretty sad to read all the handwaving about how we shouldn’t be so quick and blame this on lockdowns. When a leaf turns and it can be used as an argument for lockdowns, it’s immediately justified and if it later turns out false, how could we have known?

But if a lot children kill themselves it shouldn’t be used as an argument against lockdowns.

Lockdowns have become a very dangerous religion.
> languages do not “ requires an above-average level of competence” it might just have a longer learning curve.

Isn't that literally the same thing ?
Not as that book. In fact it is after nearly 1 decade after I finished that book and finally do this REPL and live code editing in lisp via

https://susam.net/blog/lisp-in-vim.html

It would be better if it was ihtroduced then.
No.

Copyright notices are neither necessary nor sufficient to establish copyright. Your example also does not qualify for copyright because, frankly, it isn’t very creative.

If you manage to change the actual functioning of the organism, you can potentially get it protected with a patent. See Monsanto for examples. Human life, however, is considered somewhat sacrosanct by Catholics, liberals, and everyone in between. I believe there’s some UN treaty banning patents on human life.
On Blocking, and the Coinsplaining Cryptobros
"A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working."

>I think linguistically the term can be hard to parse.

Yeah, "solitary" might make more sense ... or "non-redundant". Or "point of single failure".
Partly it's about friction and grip - ploughs are dragged through the ground at depths up to 30cm, turning the soil through 180°. The power required to do that is considerable but most critically the grip the power unit (wheeled or tracked tractor, animals) has controls speed, which depends on the conditions. In addition, as speeds increase the soil will not move smoothly over the mould-board and thus not leave a consistent result ready for the next operation.
It might just be different for different people. Like, my lifestyle and mental health got better and people like me can offset people like you (and I do have relative that had issues too).
> A once is a lifetime catastrophic event

This is one point of view.

A different point of view is this is comparable to bad flu year, and all hysteria is caused by msm.

> It has affected our lives in so many ways

It has. But not the pandemic, but government and media overreaction to it.
> Juicero was something nobody wanted

People wanted it strongly enough to invest $120 million into it.

> Enron was a deliberate fraud where things were faked – certainly true of many (most?) crypto projects

Indeed. You're this close to getting the comparison

> "the stock market allowed Enron make money off their fraud, therefore we should get rid of the stock market".

Yes. Yes, we should. Stock market is pure speculation with little to no connection to the real world.
I thought something was really wrong

Yeah, the fear of death as they call it. I really didn't understand this phrase before, thinking it was something abstract. It's unlike any other feeling I've had, just off the charts. And I'm (was) not particularly the guy who is scared to watch a horror movie alone in the night.
While personally i think the original satoshi paper was interesting, and some of the proof of stake stuff. If i'm being generous, some zero knowledge proof stuff. Its not really cryptocurrency,but cryptocurrency has caused attention to be drawn to it.

Beyond that its all minor fixes and applications that are mildly interesting at best. So yeah, very little innovation, but please enlighten me if i missed something.
You don't even need a true signature. An ad-hoc one (which can be linker-generated) and has no cryptographic key attached is considered as valid.
> 1. Handshake

This is what Namecoin[1] tried to do using the Bitcoin blockchain ten years ago without success. This gets reinvented about every year on top of every new blockchain, and none of these implementations have proven useful yet.

The main problem is that speculators become domain squatters, and buy all the popular domain names with the hope that they go up in price.

[1] https://www.namecoin.org/dot-bit/
>> The US, as far as I understand, has huge lockdowns and that may be the factor

The US never really locked down after maybe the first two or three week period. The “lockdowns” we had were mostly performative and not really enforced. This is in huge contrast to some cities in Australia for example, where lockdowns were both prolonged (lasting months) and those violating them were smacked down consistently.
I take no credit for it.
And unix is one of the most adopted desktop and mobile os in the works via macos.
> The claim site is now open: claim.ens.domains.

> The ENS token contract is token.ensdao.eth: 0xC18360217D8F7Ab5e7c516566761Ea12Ce7F9D72

> Double check the website URL and contract address to avoid scams.

> Users have until May 4th, 2022 to claim their tokens, after which any remaining tokens will be sent to the DAO treasury.

Yeah of course.

> https://3m44zon3blpnpjs3neglffbhqaibvuaeofkln2rd645dvky7cblq...

Is it me or this links to some JSON?
I looked into Bookstack three years ago when searching a replacement with a better WYSIWYG editor for my DokuWiki instance so my wife could participate in the Wiki.

I can't exactly remember, why I did not chose Bookstack, but I was positively impressed with the demo. Nice to see its continuously evolving.

I myself chose wiki.js back then.
In our world, we often assume old people have wrong opinions. The core, though, is that they were betrayed more often than us, so they are less prone to fall into the next rhetoric trap.
Your answers feel like you are engaging in cognitive dissonance.

On the one hand, you recognize in your article that "non-core" work is not rewarded in academia. In particular, however, the situation is dire for current PhD students. Getting into a PhD program is easy compared to getting an academic job (even - or especially - in the EU) with at least some job security. Further, you probably know that most PhDs lack the knowledge, experience and ability to accurately judge their chances on the future job market with any accuracy.

On the other hand, your replies indicate that you are following the "traditional" European research hierarchy, where the PhD student does years of "non-core" work for the Professor, ultimately ends up with less publications. This leads to issues competing internationally, a chain of short term contracts, post-docs or adjunct positions and finally, many leaving academia (or at least the EU). Which, by the way, is a real problem.

In European academia, we are all aware of these traditional hierarchical sentiments. At each university, there are stories about the Professor who said something like: "Your first research ideas belong to me", or Professors who actively resist the establishment of a stipend-based PhD program with the argument that "Someone (the PhDs) has to do the work at the institute!".

Now, there are probably countries that do better than others.
Your state might mandate that PhD students get a salary and benefits, but all that is worth little if they end up in a bad condition after 3-6 years of doing their PhD.

And here, your reply here worries me. No, you do not hire PhDs to *work* for you.
You hire them to train them to be researchers and to collaborate on that.
Next to publishing and teaching, as a Professor, you are responsible for enabling these PhD students to have a successful career. More than in any other career, it is YOU, the advisor, who ends up making or breaking the future of a human being.

The thought that PhDs are merely hired workers who have to work through "menial, non core" work before they are allowed to get to their research, is one of the main reasons why academic research in the EU is doing so badly compared to other regions in the world.

In the interest of your future PhD students, I implore you to consider how much impact you really have on their lives!
You should really attempt to understand what you are reading before you comment
The real solution here is for the writer of the memo must write tests to determine that the correct facts were digested by the reader. Monitor the time to read memo, and then have a test to ensure the memo was understood by the reader.
The problem is that these same systems are used in office buildings where the threat model is very different.
It is trivial for modern hardware to work at 24bit. 16bit hardware is probably old, overly value engineered, or deliberatly operating below its capacity. These are all more plausable reasons for it to sound bad.
May not. But the key to Facebook, … mainland is data. Tik tok is not going to …
Easier JSON wrangling with jq, JSONPath and JSONPointer
Thank you :D
I just love to build things. And deep dive into my projects.

I always wanted to start a blog but never found the time, but I try to tweet everyday about my progress and the things I build!

The images in my emails are made with Figma the rest is your basic email template builder. I think you can archive something similar with Canva :)
SaaS just seemed relevant to the audience here, but there are a lot of applications which want to limit one account per natural person, not just SaaS. For example, social networks want to prevent astroturfing, and video games want to prevent cheaters from ban-evasion. Anyway, a lot of people don't want to provide their credit card info for a service they are not sure if they want to use yet (purpose of a trial), and a lot of services want to allow credit card-free trials without opening themselves up to abuse.

I think the vast majority of reflexive dismissals of crypto tech have two themes in common: "if the technology doesn't satisfy this use case, or the UX is not perfect yet, then surely there is no way to fix that and we should discard the whole idea;" and "why use this decentralized solution when we can use this centralized one which, in many cases, doesn't work as well?"

I've reached my weekly budget on the amount of time I want to spend explaining this tech online, but maybe consider if problems you see are truly insurmountable, or if you are simply uncomfortable with the idea of an economic layer that is actually open to build on.
Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (2017)
If only they also reinvented ICANN UDRP too...

almost as if the existing structures, as flawed as they are, were created for a reason.
in german we call stuff like pluton "politik der kleinen schritte" or "salamitaktik". which basically means that little step for little step, things change.

it is not CURRENTLY a threat, but it builds up to be a threat in the future if we do not stop and/or constrain it.
Okay, explain me where is the technologic difference? Same cryptography, other controlling instance. One controlled from Moxie, one from Facebook. But both are forcing me to update the client sometimes. Why should I trust Moxie more than Facebook?
> 2. Unlock

> This is membership protocol powered by nft. […]

How is this preferable to just having the client generate a local private key and authenticating using public key cryptography?
> you’re actually just ceding the power to decide what these technologies will look like in our world

I ceded the power to decide what AMP would look like, as did a lot of others. Thankfully enough others joined me, and AMP is more or less irrelevant now, and I'm happy for it.
I am so sorry this happened to you. The LAPD almost killed me and I got put in a similar situation being drugged against my will in a mental ward. I had an allergic reaction and had to splash a water cooler over my head and go into a cold shower while clothed because the staff had no processes in place for adverse reactions. Every moment felt like death and I had to keep moving. I'd say the only silver lining we can take from these experiences is knowing that the American ideal of freedom is a lie, and that we should help liberate animals from testing. What we felt is only a sliver of what lab animals feel.
What skills are you talking about? Git commit and unit testing? Not saying they’re insignificant skills but a competent PhD should be able to learn them quite fast (in a month) in a competent environment. I and many others did. The issue is that there are a large number of phds who are actually much dimmer than your average programmer, and you’re not differentiating them in the interviews.
I’m glad we got this good news. I would have been truly depressed if it had failed.
This is not true, has not been true for years, and probably was never true at least since the public release of their app store.
Just tried out both of these for a large endpoint.

- FX "expand/collapse" functionality seems way better for exploring APIs whose shape you don't know

- jid is maybe marginally better for APIs where you have instant recall of the exact shape and need to rapidly query it

Overall, I like FX better because it provides feedback on your query faster.

I am grateful to the author(s) for creating it and I'll be using it instead of JQ whenever I need to wrangle APIs from the CLI.
It was discussed on HN 4 days ago although it seems to have been flagged off the front page or something after a very short time:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29813079
From what I know about climate on Earth, it has literally never been in equilibrium — see periodic ice ages with glaciers up to 3—4 km thick, or periods of warmer climates when plants grew in huge amounts at latitudes where we have now vast oil reserves in Siberia.
> we're all starting to question their previous value.

And that is when management put the zoom wine and cheese evening into your calendar for 19:00 on a thursday evening.
> The main problem is that speculators become domain squatters, and buy all the popular domain names with the hope that they go up in price.

This is the worst part about any web3 project.

Though, there are some differences between namecoin, ens, and handshake.

Handshake lets you register the TLD while ens, namecoin, etc are limited to domain on a single TLD. The potential number of combination of domain + tld is enormous comparatively.

Secondly, handshake doesn't release all TLD at once. They are released slowly to stop speculators from gobbling up the initial supply.

I do agree speculation is a huge problem which happens in normal ICANN world as well. So nothing to miss except I can own the TLD for which I don't need to pay over 200k USD with chance of getting rejected from ICANN and ongoing cost.
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Actually producing output is not the only way employees add value, though. The much-derided “water cooler” talk for example can be a way for cross-team pollination and build cohesion across thehahhahaha just kidding!
I just to a quick look it seams pretty centralized in practice no?
https://docs.ens.domains/permanent-registrar-faq
I agree. Thank you for the suggestion
> This is membership protocol powered by nft. People can buy a nft and then for authorization, service provider can check whether the wallet has the nft and is valid. This way, nobody controls your membership and you can move them around the web as you like.

Who is the boogey-man trying to control your site memberships? The site operator? I highly doubt this system is robust against site operators trying to "moderate" you, but supppse it was, why would they sign up for it?

For an ecosystem originally built on keen insights on how to mix tech with incentive structures, web3 seems to have thrown that all out the window and replaced it with wishful thinking.
> Can anyone share similar observations, or am I just a coincidence?

it has been excruciating for me living alone during 2020. Getting out of bed was a battle nearly every day. The pandemic came just in time when I thought I finally learned how to manage a severe depression that got triggered by a burnout, which was lasting over a decade, and included 2 suicide attempts, drug abuse, and losing most people in my life at that time due to my own behavior.

When the pandemic hit I realized that how I felt all these years has become suddenly a very common way people feel all over the world. Depressed, isolated and on the verge of succumbing to darkness.

What I learned for myself (long before the pandemic) is that I need: a strong routine which includes time-boxing not just work but also play. avoid any chemistry that changes the way I feel naturally (sugar, coffee, cigarettes, alcohol, and especially the self-prescribed weed). after reducing anything artificial mentioned, I started facing my emotions. that means stopping everything when a certain feeling hits me, and analyse that feeling telling myself it will eventually pass, but not taking any other action. e.g. I would not continue anything (including eating or drinking) and remain in my chair until I learned that this feeling has no power over me and that just because I feel it, isn't going to change my routine or send me back into my old rut. treating such dark emotions like a "monster" that can only be killed by staring at it until it leaves me alone, prevented sending me back to the dark place.

Another thing that has hugely contributed to recovery was changing the country. I moved to a new place 3x since 2020 and that has me thinking on my feet (new language, new things to discover, different culture, warm people). I have no time to wallow because I'm flooded with new experiences, and am making new memories every day. Even allowed myself to fall in love twice since the pandemic hit. But I'm not ready to bring in other people into "my new world".

The pandemic shook me awake. I realized there is a danger out there that is at least as scary as the darkness that lives in myself or anything I could do to myself. It made me realize that I need to screw my 5 or 10 year plans and do whatever I want right now or perhaps never will get a chance. It's not that I am in an easier situation than a family with toddlers, because my kids are grown up, my ex wife is god knows where, and so I can just go and do as I please. But the story I tell myself today is very different than 5 or 10 years ago. To paraphrase Don Draper in Mad Men: "If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation." (and this especially applies to the dialogue in my head)
The bike everywhere thing requires housing density and infrastructure. And society that won't call CPS on 9-10 years old without supervision.

There are wast suburban areas without public parks and libraries. They are meant for living only, so if you live there, you really need car
> 3. Arweave

> Permanent storage using incentives and built on the idea of storage getting cheaper. […]

How does this compare to existing implementations of the same idea such as STORJ?
Vehement systemd defence also overwhelmingly comes from hobbyists who have no real use for an init system anyway. In fact, this whole argument is crap, most hatred of sysvinit comes from people who have never used it, is that a reason to discard all criticism of it? Of course not.

I have had enormous issues with systemd, not when using it for desktop purposes, but precisely when using it for server applications.

As an example, systemd can't handle a service which depends on a specific network interface (or specific bind address) before being brought up and the systemd developers blame the software for not listening to rtnetlink events or not relying on linux specific socket options[0]. This is unacceptable, it makes it incredibly difficult to run systemd on hosts connected to multiple segregated networks without lots of dirty tricks involving firewalls.

[0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/NetworkTar...
Your phone? Double redundant networking, UPS protected power supply, and plenty of compute resources.
Writing this from an android with 16G of RAM.
Of course anything could be done in exploitative an unethical way but, I don't see such intent here.

There are good points already mentioned. I can add if you hire one person to write unit tests, another for graphics, another for models... then you suffer the overhead of coordinating them. Also, pure research work is often repetitive and drudgery, so being able to come up with cool logo or working on "uninteresting and unexceptional" tools that can be shared with other researchers can maintain the motivation.
> Who is the boogey-man trying to control your site memberships? The site operator? I highly doubt this system is robust against site operators trying to "moderate" you, but supppse it was, why would they sign up for it.

People use centralized platforms like patreon for memberships. They can kick you off and you will lose all your subscribers. Your patrons will lose access as well. That is what unlock tries to solve.

The membership data is stored on the blockchain publicly which everyone has equal access to. You can prove you own a particular nft stored on the blockchain by signing using your private key. So even if all data is public, authorization is secure and reliable.
See my reply to dredmorbius (sibling comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=29861689

(I think there is some automation to prevent duplicate content so I link to it instead.)
Didn't know about Syncthing but it reminds me about Infinit, it had the exact same features 7 years ago (P2P sync with simple ID for registration). It was bought by Docker [1] and pretty much disappear I think.

I just checked Syncthing, seems pretty old also (8 year for 0.1) !

[1] https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-acquires-infinit/
Memory Access Patterns and New Year’s Resolutions
NortonLifeLock (the name of what used to be Symantec's consumer security divison) acquired Avira in December 2020.[1]

NortonLifeLock merged with Avast PLC in August 2021, with the combined company retaining the NortonLifeLock name.[2]

The Verge tried out Norton Crypto and found its 15% fee to be much higher than the 1-2% fee typically taken by mining pool operators. The tester broke even after (off-peak) electricity expenses, with NortonLifeLock capturing all of the profits.[3]

[1] https://investor.nortonlifelock.com/About/Investors/press-re...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/nortonlifelock-and-avast-plc-t...

[3] https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/7/22869528/norton-crypto-min...