skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not clear how (b) is relevant to the conversation.

Regarding (a) I would have the exact same reply. Unless the word “equivalent” is playing a critical role for you, because it will be impossible to prove or disprove equivalence. My experience of guilt may not even be equivalent to yours strictly speaking, and we belong to the same species, I assume ;-).
“Why do we make such big deal about the 'unsolvability' of the quintic?”
I guess my initial phrase is a bit superficial, from my European-centric point of view the US government seems less interested/involved in the health of their healthcare system compared to what I'm seeing in europe.

The point I was trying to make is that government involvement is needed to make sure that the right incentives are in place at all times for all involved actors (public or private). And if the system becomes dysfunctional or is abused it's the government's job to fix it.

Most of the countries that have universal healthcare in Europe have their own take on how it should be done:
- France has state funded insurance and (mostly) state funded services
- Switzerland private insurance and private/public services

Two totally different takes with arguably very similar (good) results.

The goal of government involvement should be to make sure everyone has access to basic healthcare and avoid double standards and abuse.
I find it a refreshing experience to look at your own code from 10 years ago, or even 5 and think "Who wrote this shit?". If I ever look at some of my old code and feel good about it, that means I have failed to improve.
Okay, well my experience is different, sorry :) maybe it had more to do with the people working on the FE teams vs the BE teams than with ecosystem, but FE always ended up downloading half of npm, while BE was much more reasonable.

I'm sure not everyone use React&co, so you are probably right, I should not have generalized too quickly.
I think that's actually a great rule of thumb.
> enforced by a social contract

At the end of the day every thing that is truly "enforced" is ultimately enforced by violence.

I can promise that if patents where enforced only by social contract they would be meaningless. Larger corporations do not care about their social relations, but do care if you can have the legal authority to punish them for infringement.

You can write your contract on a napkin and if someone is willing to hurt someone else (materially, physically or otherwise) for violating that, that contract will be enforced.

This is just one of the many cases where the block chain, while interesting technology, has very few uses because there are very few cases were we have a problem with the media the contract is written in rather than the overall enforcement of the contract.
Well, I for once, appreciate your contribution :)
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Agreed entirely. I was actually expecting to be massively downvoted for this post.
Then you don't understand NFTs
Deaths from hospitals differing treatment are also a great assessment of COVID impact on society. If COVID hardly hit a region, then they didn't need to delay surgeries. If COVID ravaged through the country, likely the hospitals were impacted and had to delay surgeries. All excess death is relevant.
Many other languages do. I think all Chinese languages do, but you don't need to go that far. Even German/Dutch/Frisian/Swiss do have it, although nowadays few use them and many people don't even know. (Father's siblings are Onkel/Tante cognate to uncle/auntie, but Mother's siblings are Oheim/Ohm/Öhi if male and Muhme/Muoike if female.)
Not even. It just needs to be a profit objective that isn't a DIRECTLY from mining revenue.

A well funded actor could 51% attack BTC, and short at several times leverage and make their money there.

Or double-spend and make money there.

Or both!
It's a little ironic to complain about a bad explanation without giving an explanation as to why it is one.

(To be fair, a better analogy would involve OP setting fire to a rainforest somewhere as part of the process.)
Nearly everything you said is incorrect:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234

In 2020, suicides down, cancer deaths down (because covid tends to kill cancer pages much earlier than they would've died, if at all). Some deaths are up, but no where near the numbers to outweigh covid deaths.
Exactly always prefer search over feeds

Edit: To add more to this, feeds train our brain to consume content which we don't even need. Search on other hand is inherently required when we are working on something cool.
What is more, there is probably some overlap of "intelligence" among humans and other species. E.g., I'm pretty sure that there are Chimps that are more intelligent and self-aware than some humans. Most certainly funnier, if we would understand their humor :-)
They post every country data as facts, but they don't do any fact checking themselves. It's not like I believe the western data that much either.
I recognise aspects of religious practices was a way to keep followers healthy in the absence of what we would call modern medicine and some of the practices are environmentally driven to some degree.
Circumcision is one, dusty desert like locations had limited water, making it harder to wash regularly but in hot desert like area's one's libido will increase, so its the result of trying to reduce the spread of disease. The irony is that the Langerhan cells are removed which plays a part in the immune system response, but it might be considered an attack vector for at least the HIV virus to enter the body according to other reports. What these reports show is even the medical profession are split on whose theory is correct.

I've always been informed the main reason in the past has been because blokes are lazy and didnt wash enough and some religions were so anti-sex it was a way of reducing other problems with the foreskin that can arise.
Macro isn't your entire product. Loop macro is a thing since 1990's, yet it hasn't changed and everyone is fine with that. Macro can be extensible BTW, look at iterate macro in Common Lisp as an example.

You don't have to accept the code if you are worry about maintainability. But rejecting macro altogether is stupid.

>since we are not using Lisp

I know since you just invent imaginary problem and farm those internet points.
Around ten years ago I would have agreed, MSDN was fairly nice, pretty comprehensive even if a bit full of seemingly autogenerated descriptions like "FrobnicateBar: Frobnicates the bar and return result" at the edges. Nowadays? Not so much.
Buying an NFT does not grant you any ownership unless you have a separate agreement or contract along with it that does. How is a court in Germany supposed to know what it means that you paid some amount of cryptocurrency in exchange for an NFT? This has no meaning outside the blockchain.
Which is an anti-pattern. Healthcare is not a product with supply and demand dynamics of, say, cars. Capitalism does not help with its delivery. Biotech, equipment manufacturing, yes, but not delivery.

"I am just not going to get sick" is not a strategy. No one can control the inherent risk of life. Slipped, swiped by a car, and since we are talking about the United States, let's just go there - caught in a crossfire.
The Wikipedia link is very reassuring regarding the security of SHA256. All attacks are very far away from going anywhere close to attacking full SHA256 and no major progress has been made lately.

The password hashing remark is correct, but irrelevant. SHA256 is not a good password hash, because it's not made to be a password hash. Don't use it for passwords.

The weaknesses that broke MD5/SHA1 were known since 1994. No similar weakness is known for SHA256.
You don't need decentralized tech to do that though as the dirt bike sharing example amply demonstrates...

We can also see that many blockchain projects actually rely on more mundane social contracts like our legal system and governments with actual terms and conditions, registered companies and the like.

If you think NFTs are going to radically alter social contracts around ownership on a wider scale I've got a lovely plot on the moon to sell you.
I agree with you. I think NFTs are being used in a trash way now, but ultimately they will be matured and we will find them useful in some way.
I honestly don't know if I would prefer CNLabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter or CNLabelContactRelationBiǎoMèi (is unicode even allowed?). And I probably butchered that romanization and upset half the internet in the process.
I agree, but the number of people I know who could maintain a popular OSS lib for years is tiny. I certainly couldn't do it, nor would I want to; I don't have the right kind of personality for that job.

I'm happy to contribute code, or documentation, but that's not the same thing.
Gary Bernhardt of destroyallsoftware did a screencast episode about that: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/text-...

Note that it’s behind a paywall (his catalog is likely worth it for a curious hacker such as yourself).

Watch his “compiler from scratch” for free to get a sense of what his casts are like: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/a-com...
I still think Christmas lights are worse.
Congratulations?

I looked at your twitter and git but don't really understand what is there, but it seems you are doing the things needed to grow in such spaces.

Good luck! You have huge potential and I hope you achieve greatness in life!
Ancient as in thousands of years of laws, layers that you have to wade through to figure out who owns what underground.
> they really need to do that

What you describe in terms of being forced to stay without food would definitely suck. The fact that you follow this up with "my children absolutely need sports" puts a frankly fairly tone-deaf slant on the rest of it.

Yes, you are right that what you describe China doing is not nice. No, you are not right that not letting children go to sports practice as a measure to keep people from literally dying is "damned harsh". It's a measure that you can get used to - and I would say not letting others (including perhaps these children) get used to it by being so against it vocally is not helping anyone.

Instead we should look for constructive ways to vent our excess energy, which everyone has and children especially do need to do, that don't involve antisocial reasoning.
This is an interesting series of videos:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0intLFzLaudFG-xAvUEO-A

Clearly, they mainly focus on cycling being the solution, but still, the overall analysis seems quite good.
Exactly. If you are going to part with the very large node ecosystem, I'm not sure why you would keep JS :)
Don't forget that they're the last gen compatible with the classic keyboard.
careful there cowboy -- the law of your land is not the law of your neighbor's land. James Bond provides one view of the world, and the stars and stripes seem to have some blinding power in Hollywood, but in reality, tax and tax enforcement is not perfectly molded or enforced. The Tax Sheriff and his men drive very new models of auto, ever noticed that?
Sounds like an opportunity for someone to create an extension that replaces these words with somethingm that would be good for kids.
XMPP is routinely used on HF radio and SATCOM networks field-deployed by militaries. It's deployed with channel compression (so the links themselves are compressed), but it routinely operates down to way way below mobile. In general, the really bad links are used for federation (s2s) rather than client connections which demand lower latency for user interaction. I've personally watched it operate on HF radio modems down to single-figure bits per second - those are simplex links with a 30 second turnaround. It's slow of course, but it does work - and this is on the base standard. Any server can do this, there's three I know of in use.

WhatsApp decided, at some point in the past, that XML was too verbose and compressed it using a technique borrowed from WAP - essentially a fixed-dictionary compression. Newer WhatsApp systems don't ever bother decompressing to XML, and it's likely it can't be anymore, but it's fundamentally the same traffic patterns even now. Your WhatsApp account still has a jid (with a very short, fake domain) and so do your groupchats (also a very short fake domain). The WAP compression choice was unfortunate, as it only really had an effect back in GPRS/EDGE days, only on certain networks, and only on certain traffic patterns, because it's the number of packets that matter in most cases, not the number of bytes. There'd still be some rare benefit on 3G, but by 4G the benefit had all gone.

Meanwhile, clients like Siskin and Conversations work just fine on modern mobiles. Conversations (an Android client) does work better when given permissions to keep the sessions live rather than rely on push notifications, but testing has consistently shown that battery life in unaffected. There's a number of extensions that are widely deployed that help efficiency, for sure, and I'd not want to run without for preference - though it is possible, and not as bad as you'd think.

So I'd say that XMPP has no performance problems at all on "long thin" networks way beyond mobile.

To get the same performance out of anything based on HTTP, you need to recode to use the parallel protocols of CoAP and friends. Matrix have done this, but it means specialist clients and servers are needed, and as far as I'm aware there's only a single implementation.
Sure, but I feel like when I encounter a new word, my brain assumes a homophone is less likely than two words having different pronunciations.
It's easy to bash emerging technologies using prevalent public opinion and ignorance as a vehicle. The article just uses negative public image as a fuel and doesn't try to be fair. NFT platforms are not OpenSea on ETH. There is a fraction of non-ETH based NFT platforms that are actually what they say they are. objkt.com, hic.af, www.fxhash.xyz
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Encryption should be mandatory for privacy-focused apps like this. If messages are not verifiably end-to-end encrypted, then we only have your word that you're not storing or logging messages on the backend [0]. There's no way to prove you're running only the code in the repos, and not something else.

Looking at the site and backend/iOS repos, I didn't see any mention of encryption.

[0]: https://github.com/PozitivnaMirta/phantomchat-backend
You're thinking of regulations. In basically every manifestation the primary function of the state is the enforcement of basic property law. If you don't have that you have warlords/oligarchs fighting with each other constantly over who owns what (since they each individually must act as enforcer).

As far as enforcement of property right, the "distributed" model is well understood and typically leads to a much worse situations than the centralized version.
But is it fair to compare the Spanish Flu to Covid-19?
Could have meant that you've reached the approximate upper bound of excellence in that particular piece of code.

There are objective good code that are timeless, implementations that does not need another look or left few/no space to improve.

Granted, it's a lot harder to do at larger scale.
Isn't there a minimum age requirement to be on HN? I mean I don't see anything obvious.

That said, we're all adults here, mostly liberal leaning, and we all grew up with the internet; a bit of potty mouth won't hurt anyone. I mean you can take the moral high ground and consider anyone using swear words as immature and move on, I guess.
They help fight seasonal depression, very very useful.
I'm a crypto sceptic, but this is a missed opportunity. Why not apply a mining and transaction tax? Use it to fund carbon mitigation and the de-carbonisation of our grid. Maybe even use it to cut taxes for the poor. Instead, these countries opt to burn pubic funds enforcing a prohibition.
Also, this idea that Elon Musk is going to wait in line to get a checkup is ridiculous. Those who can afford it will always be able to buy premium care. But we have millions of people who are waiting to be financially ruined by an act of God.
I would still beg to differ, but I can see that you’re infinitely more positive than I am.

Going to court to release such important data, should be a last resort. The elites and rulers should be happy to enforce this upfront. This only shows that there’s something to hide, and as we’ve seen before - they could easily fake/hide/destroy the evidence by the time they end up releasing it. Do note that it hasn’t been released yet.
I can see the potential utility of an immutable public pointer to immutable public data, I guess -- but not the utility of "ownership" of that pointer.
Don't think it works in this case. In general why there are so many overloads in C# with parameters like arg0, arg1, arg2 and so on is because of the poor performance of the params solution for value types.
All chains can do this though. We have to remember crypto is inter-subjective. A chain only has value when other people agree it has value. Eth Classic still exists, it even has some value for whatever reason. Block chains are about crowd consensus, and any block chain community can decide to hard fork. I don't think its possible to prevent that on a block chain.
From what little I know of NFTs, that piece of paper is most definitely an NFT. Curious as to why you think it's not. Could you explain?
Jackpot watch (How the kleptocracy operates in Great Britain)
FGM is mainly an anti-sex thing, before modern contraceptives, this conformist behaviour was used to keep population levels down by making sex painful, but now we have chemicals that can do it, so its not really required now.
It's still early but here's an example of what it's looking like:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v...

> Our results show that the Omicron VOC is generally 2.7-3.7 times more infectious than the Delta VOC among vaccinated individuals (Table 3). This observation is in line with data from (18), which estimated that 19% of Omicron VOC primary cases in households in the UK resulted in at least one other infection within the household, compared to only 8.3% of those associated with the Delta VOC. Furthermore, we show that fully vaccinated and booster-vaccinated individuals are generally less susceptible to infection compared to unvaccinated individuals (Table 2). We also show that booster-vaccinated individuals generally had a reduced transmissibility (OR: 0.72, CI: 0.56-0.92), and that unvaccinated individuals had a higher transmissibility (OR: 1.41, CI: 1.27-1.57), compared to fully vaccinated individuals.

> Surprisingly, we observed no significant difference between the SAR of Omicron versus Delta among unvaccinated individuals (Table 3). This indicates that the increased trans-missibility of the Omicron VOC primarily can be ascribed to immune evasion rather than an inherent increase in the basic transmissibility.

That last part is why the boosters matter: neutralizing antibodies (which your body stops producing over time after the infection) can prevent someone from getting sick at all, whereas the longer-lasting T cell response helps your immune system fight it off more effectively. If the entire population is boosted, that would have been plenty to fight off Delta but with Omicron we still need a combination of other measures (masks, air filtering/exchange, etc.) and eventually updated boosters to put an end ot it. That doesn't mean that being vaccinated isn't worthwhile, of course: you're still far more likely to have a better outcome if you get it and the window where you're contagious is smaller.
If you've got the social contract, why do you need an NFT, rather than just a centralised record?
To add to this, the absurdity of the 'healthcare' system in the US is made even more apparent as a non-US citizen buying health insurance for (long-term) international travel.

Firstly (loosely regulated) insurance is an absolutely stupid way to provide healthcare. Pre-existing conditions? Maybe you just don't deserve to live, either way we're witholding life-saving care from you because our tables say so. Need to claim near the start of your cover? You must be lying about pre-existing conditions. Need to fix something that wasn't acute enough to seek care about previously? Nope, no cover for you. And on and on and on. Anyone who thinks an insurance market is a solution for healthcare is just an idiot, there's no way around that. (I realise some universal systems run on a private insurance basis but they're a lot more regulated)

But then, even in that entirely messed up system, designed to cut you off from urgently needed medical care, all policies are divided into 'regions'. There's not much cost difference between regions until you get to any region "including the US". It's even named, the only country in the world they do that for. That's how badly those guys have messed up their healthcare system. And if you select that? It's at least double the cost, for no extra cover in terms of policy limits.

That for me clarified that, no, I wasn't missing anything. Anyone who supports the current US system is so far removed from the commonly inhabited reality that none of their opinions are worth listening to.
Fair point, but Procreation + divorce / kids in multiple marriages will typically exponentially whittle it down (not crazy to think that a trust could go from 3 to 40+ beneficiaries over 60 years)

+ trust fees / poor management
Let’s not skim the surface.

The Framework seems to be a modern Thinkpad with a similar USP of how they were built in 2012 before manufacturers tried to introduce and convince consumers of disposable laptops for the past 10 years.

The reason I suggested handling one is the build quality for a first gen device is hard to believe until you hold one and use it for a few days or weeks. The framework is well beyond the quality of first gen devices and feels like the smart people at Apple, Lenovo, etc got together to build a laptop and delivered.

Let’s look at it from where you’re presenting it:

Customers exist in multiple segments: Pioneers, Early Adopters, Early Conservatives, Late Conservatives and Laggards.. distributed on a bell curve.

It’s true startups largely fail because most fail to find a product people want, or deliver on finding a market and distribution for it. They seem to have resonated.

Successful startups often need to appeal to a large enough Pioneer and Early Adopter market to sustain crossing that little chasm to sustainability. Seems like a premium priced product is selling out in batches and getting decent reviews.

Laptops are not a small market. Likely enough pioneers and early adopters exist, unlike the conservatives and laggards that delay adopting technology until validated by others. Someone can run Windows or Linux.

Maybe you’re not an early adopter or pioneer.. but many entrepreneurs and creators could be. Innovators usually exist in a mindset of possibility leveraged with unfair advantages and Framework seems to have a few.

While I don’t work for Framework, I’ve sadly owned 10-15 laptops. With each new laptop I also buy the death of that device. The framework has as many if not more replaceable components from third parties.

On being reasonable, I think it’s fair to say that not everything is for everyone. You or I are not everyone or everyone’s needs.

All it has to do is last 2-3 years without much ado, which it probably will, while being produced in small batches that are hopefully profitable.

I bought and returned my framework and outlined why in another comment, mostly I learned I didn’t have the time to tinker, but I don’t think there’s an option like it on the market.

My guess? Framework will be around, and might even build up like Razer, System76, etc and be acquired by a large manufacturer.

Edit: Forgot to add the initial link between a 2012 Thinkpad and Framework.