skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Morals and ethics are great but insufficient. In a system with an absence of consequences for unethical and immoral behavior - in fact, with the presence of incentives for those behaviors - even if 99% of the participants are sufficiently morally motivated to reject the siren song of wealth and power (which is a stretch) there will always be a few narcissistic, greedy, power-hungry sociopaths with an excess of inherited wealth that will trample all over your utopia.

It's useful to suggest that everyone behave morally, if more did so the world would be a better place. But it's unwise to build a system where that suggestion is the only check on bad behavior.
Setting aside the debate over whether it's the right thing to do or not, is it feasible to enforce a ban on mining? Genuinely just curious, as I don't know that much about crypto. I'm sure energy use is one big clue as to who may be running a mining operation, but are there other ways authorities might detect them? Network activity?
This is close but not quite how I expect they'll come to be used. I think they'll become a lot more important if companies like Meta are successful in creating virtual connected spaces based on open standards. In that scenario, with public buy in, ownership of a digital work shifts meaning slightly to one where NFTs suddenly make more sense.
GTA developers need to know how Zynga fucked up their golden eggs goose to avoid the same fate for GTA itself. My guess is that Zynga does not know what happened, as anybody that knew what was going on got frustrated and left a long ago.
I also had that moment; ask “Who wrote that shit?”, run ‘git blame’ and find yourself. This happened 1 year into my second job.
I assume you are implying that wealth inequality is a motivator that makes people work harder and aim higher.

As with everything else in the universe, it works for some, it doesn't work for others and there are plenty who have almost literally no opportunities for whatever reason.

In western nations we think that most people have basically the same opportunities but if you are from a low-income family, you are likely to have more issues with your family, potentially more emotional and financial dependents. If you have been knocked back too many times, you can lose confidence and not have anyone to encourage you.

I guess in moderation, wage differences can motivate but at the point someone drops too low, they easily get caught in a cycle and then it becomes societies problem.
Input lag has nothing to do with network ping.

Input lag is the time between you perform the action and the computer shows that on screen. It depends on your frame rate, refresh rate, and peripheral polling rate, as well as how good the game schedules things (which is what LatencyFleX tries to optimize).

Network ping on the other hand is often hidden away. Whether you are on 2ms ping or 100ms ping, the bullet always goes where you aim at: this is done through rollback netcode [1], which rewinds the server state to the time the action has been performed. I'm not saying that having low ping is pointless, it has an effect on things like peeker's advantage, but the effect of network ping is drastically different from the effect of input lag.

[1]: https://ki.infil.net/w02-netcode.html
Perhaps, but the tx fee is part of the crypto transaction, and happens entirely on-network. If standard crypto rules apply, the only people that need to KYC are the ones cashing in/cashing out USD.
Signal operators can also inject messages to people. So this is a strange comparison.

What holds true in both systems is that if someone does this, it's detectable thanks to E2EE. Which is the entire point of E2EE.
Thoughts on the Solana Blockchain
The SNESticle Liberation Project
Electron is MIT licensed. Not LGPL.

https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/LICENSE

So everyone can use it without the need to expose his IP.
if there was a lottery defined 99% of your life outcomes at birth would that be a bad thing?

if it was possible for an accumulation of wealth within one group to essentially divide humanity in different groups that could never be changed despite skill level compitance or morals of the individuals in each group would that be bad? so someone whose great great granddaddy did something now has power for no reason. and their line of decendands wont be able to spend money as fast as they accumulate it - without even understanding how or why.

wealth accumulation and private serveices (like education and healthcare) kind of make this an inevitability imho.

AFAIK its not one person being paid more than another thats the issue.. its those that are paid because they were born with money and add nothing to society that i think bothers people.

EDIT: a good book -The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists- for considering capitlism and the accumulation of wealth (also shock how relevant it is still 120 years later): https://freeclassicebooks.com/Robert%20Tressell/The%20Ragged...
US Healthcare is not the 'worst performing', that's a perennial clickbait theme.

Health issues are bad in the US, and people use that as 'evidence' for quality of the Healthcare system, but that's not fair.

People shooting each other, not eating well or exercising, isn't so much a function of the US Healthcare system.

The US system is probably the most economically inefficient, but that's also expected at the highest end of quality.

The US has most of the best quality systems in the world, it's just expensive and messed up financially, but the quality itself is something to behold.

While I share your reservations about 'privately backed things' - for example, advertising arcane drugs in the US is ridiculous, this whole 'Ask Your Doctor' is an excuse for pushy patients to 'prescribe themselves' over the will of tired Doctors caving in ...

... that said, Theranos is the opposite example. If it had worked, it would have been because of VC backing and it would have been very beneficial to people. And there are many things like that.

Like anything, it's complicated, and we need nuanced thinking about it.

We probably should welcome a lot more VC spend, think of ways to empower doctors with the deluge of information, to empower individuals but at the same time get them to understand that they are not medical professionals and shouldn't be self-diagnosing, etc..
The worst programmer I know is myself, six months ago. The most arrogant programmer I know is myself, in six months.
The broad concept of "lobbying" is really just people bringing their concerns to elected representatives. I don't really see how you would ban it entirely.
Oh, man. There's some bad code out there with my name on it. It took me years to move beyond the stage where my opinions meant more to me than those of my teammates. I am sad that I was such a boor for as long as I was.
> vandals on their platform.

Since it is his code; can you vandalize your own property?

> go back to the last good change and lock the developer out.

That's one reason for not using GitLab as source management tool. It gives them way too much power.
We do think "model export" is important, but we're still getting our heads around how to do it in the most non-ML-expert friendly way. We don't think the persona we're building for wants a weights file dropped in their lap. What output / format would be ideal from your perspective?
How could any production servers be knocked offline by this. Certainly no one would be so careless as to deploy completely untested third-party code?
It's an exhausting cycle of writing code, hiring new people who say it's shit, who write their own code that next year the new batch of hires says it's shit again and needs to be rewritten. Of course all of these developers are too good to write a comment because their code is so easy to read that it's 'self documenting'
A common argument is that relative levels of wealth don't matter too much.
Does it really matter if there is some Billionaire's if the average person is doing well for themselves ?

It's the average persons absolute amount of wealth going up that matters.

I think the real question is: Is an uneven distribution necessary to drive absolute levels of wealth up more quickly ? What level of wealth inequality produces the most growth ?
> the protocol itself is not the Ponzi

Isn't that what my original comment was?

Aside from that, Bitcoin is still a flawed model stemming from an incorrect understanding of money _whether you agree or not_

That it's _only_ used to run ponzi schemes is a problem on top of that.
Well, certainly not on Robin Hood's servers.
You need to recheck your numbers. [1] says the number is about 7% for the US. [2] is > 10% for Bitcoin before I stopped adding.
Generally speaking this is called “cryptographic agility” and the security community has decided that it’s an antipattern. The alternative is to have a specified suite of security mechanisms pinned to each version. You can still have backwards compatibility, but it helps avoid downgrade attacks.
You claimed it doesn’t happen in Australia and I proved it does.

Why are you moving goal posts?
Gold I think is a good benchmark. But really any forex asset is just as good or better for a comparison.

Gold has some portion of its value derived from decorative uses and numismatic purposes. People don't put 100 dollar bills on necklaces or wear quarter pendants.

If you hold Euros as an investment as an American (or vice versa with dollars) then this as an investment class is extremely similar to Bitcoin. Sovereign debt has similar characteristics but is subject to interest-rate based fluctuations to a greater dgree.

The main difference is that the markets for foreign exchange are tightly regulated and trade with huge amounts of liquidity -- it is difficult to inconceivable for any entity to affect the price in any way useful for market manipulation (with some exceptions, like Soros's little game with the Pound).
Quantel Paintbox Demo
"I still can't think of a better language for scripting."

Python I find equally if not more simple. Would you agree?
Unsafe Doctor waiting rooms and dubious testing kits in Germany are some big claims that need some serious sources to be taken as truth.

Particularly if said by a person that says “Arab Familienclans”.
What happens when someone dies in space?
Object oriented programming and design patterns in particular get a bad rap these days, however, the original Design Patterns book [1] has a case study chapter about designing a WYSIWYG document editor. Also, one of the authors, Erich Gamma, joined Microsoft in 2011, and works on the Monaco suite of components that VS Code is built on top of. So, while I am sure there's a fair bit of difference in the years since they wrote that book, as well as the needs of implementation in JS, I'd say it's a fairly good deep dive into some of the topics from one of the actual architects behind it.

Fair warning though, it's a fairly hard book to read. For a lighter, more fun intro to design patterns in particular, I always recommend Game Programming Patterns [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obj...

[2] https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html
In Plato's ideal republic the lawmakers, or protectors, were instead removed from society living in a parallel society dedicated to service. Therefore they would be incorruptable, or difficult to corrupt.
Even more concerning, who's to say a simpler mind / smaller brain would experience less sorrow? Maybe our large brains actually put a cap on the sorrow we are capable of, due to interference, and a simpler brain is capable of experiencing pure sorrow so much more deeply?
Definitely consider Python with FastAPI too. I got a simple API up and running in a few hours with OAuth2. Auth comes batteries included and wasn't nearly as complex as I feared.
Eventually they will also ban gaming. Who are you to think that your entertainment is more important than the fate of the planet?
Do you have some specific group in mind? Someone needs to be either extremely stupid or demoralized to do such things.
It's been a hot minute since the controversial announcement. How many of you decided to move from CentOS 7/8 to Stream? How's it going?

I've done some digging, and I think I personally find Stream to be a better approach than the previous offerings. The biggest drawbacks I can see are: shorter support window, no seamless upgrade from one version to the next.

I expect the latter will be a real nuisance every five years.
Does the Pseudocode example work for complicated functions too? Or is it limited to really basic stuff?

Cool ideas
How my logic has been evolving, extrapolating to, is Epic with Unreal Engine - and Fortnite as prime example - creating all game mechanics that can interact with eachother, so if you develop your game with Unreal you have access to "all" game mechanics in your game, with the option to allow users to freely import all their Fortnite skins or perhaps for a reasonable/acceptable fee per skin (if the skin copyright holder allows it; so likely not free, but then that will create the category of buy/license options of "For Fortnite only", "For up to 3 games", "Unlimited use").

A while ago Ninja (top earning game streamer) mentioned he sees Fortnite becoming the Ready Player One universe, something I'd seen myself as they're by far the best positioned to do so.
The incentives of capitalism lead to this, even if Adam Smith didn't discuss it.
> Bitcoin _fundamentally_ is difficult to mine because it consumes available resources at a rate that takes time. If it becomes easier to mine, they'll just make the problem harder. It will _always_ find some resource limitation that slows mining.

Mining competition is related to price; btc being worth more draws more competition to generate hashes. At some point scale effects occur and there is no longer rapid price growth because volume is large enough (there are no new adopters to bitcoin). Mining ceases to grow at this point, and may actually decrease as block rewards halve.

> If energy is no longer an issue, then one can imagine physical hardware will become the next resource limitation. It just pushes the carbon problem from electric generation to manufacturing.

I don't know much about SHA2 hashing chipsets but I know there must be some flattening curve where the improvements in efficiency start to flatten and become less worthwhile. I don't see mining chip manufacturing being an existential threat to society.

> Even if electricity generation costs nothing, you still need to implement infrastructure to move it around. In reality this means massive power stations, large cabling that travels long distances, etc.

You don't, thanks to satellite internet and solar panels. An independent mining operation can sit in the dessert or remote geothermal glacials, entirely self sufficient, beaming up bits to the sky and using its own energy supply.
Maybe - and that was an interesting move by Valve. In the short run keeping control of their system - in the long run TBD.

The funny thing about NFTs and gaming that I find is that if you listen to VCs and other people talk about the future of gaming. They say things like people won't play games unless their getting paid (i.e. NFT like reward system).

Personally I find that disturbing that the only reason people would play video games is for work/make money (dystopian). The original concept behind video games was for sheer enjoyment .. Not trying to make this a rant but the twitch monetization of gaming really changes the incentive structure and NFTs would further cement that poorly aligned structure in that video games are considered "work".
It reminds me of a variation of the bridges of konigsberg problem where in this diagram as presented, it has an even number of vertices and edges, and an implied even number of faces, but the vertices have an odd number of edges, which breaks the need for the number of edges per vertex to be even to do a hamiltonian path. (not a mathematician, can't remember this rule specifically)

I'd wonder if there is some topology theorem that generalizes hamiltonian paths into higher dimensions, where the difference between a graph and a solid is whether it has a hamiltonian path. e.g. this shape is "impossible" as represented because of the lack of a hamiltonian path.
And how would one stop that, or would you really want to?

I consider campaigning to one's representatives a cornerstone of democracy and political activism. To get rid if that because groups we don't like also use it is anti-democratic.
I think Minecraft is an interesting game to bring up since multiplayer in this game exists in a very decentralized way. Anybody can host a server and your possessions (etc) on that sever are completely unrelated to other servers.

One could imagine some sort of opt-in system that servers could enable that would allow for cosmetic items to travel with a player from server to server using NFTs as proof of ownership of the cosmetics.

There isn't a real reason for this to be done with NFTs vs some centralized database, but it does make more sense than the vast majority of games with are hosted on centralized systems already.
I'd argue that Nintendo kind of does this already with Amiibo. You own a figurine you purchased and by scanning it you verify the ownership, which yields a reward exclusive to owners, the tech behind it is different but the concept is very similar, including the fact that you can resell figurines and that some can get to be very expensive because of supply and demand.

I'd also argue that this feature is lackluster and I don't think it would have had any success at all if it wasn't for the fact that you also get a figurine.
Biggest issue with some 'use your item as an avatar in any game' is that doing cross-engine models is hard, and pretty much impossible if you want the model itself to be immutable, lest it break with some engine update rendering it useless. The only in game item thing that really works is when the game code has a texture algorithm (like CS:GO skin variants/wear levels) and uses the immutable nft data to calculate their unique item texture.
What Is Web3?
Heh:

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/product-profunctors-0.11...

> cl_map :: Default Zipper a b => (b -> r) -> a -> [r]

> A challenge from a Clojurist on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23939350)

The referenced comment:

> I think the general feeling is that there are some code patterns that are safe and easy to do with dynamic typing, but impossible with simple type systems or more complex with more advanced type system.

> An example would be Common Lisp's `map` function [0] (it takes a number of sequences and a function that has as many parameters as there are sequences). It would be hard to come up with a type for this in Java, and it would be a pretty complicated type in Haskell.
Transcribing Vercel's React Components
Ask HN: Does your company document internal APIs?
I'm a frontend engineer with about ~5 years of experience now, including at a small startup, a FAANG and now at a recently IPOd "unicorn".

No company I have worked at has actually documented internal APIs. When asking what an API returns, I've been told to either read the code for the endpoint, or to manually test the endpoint to see what it returns. If documentation does exist, it is generally a wiki doc or a hand written swagger file that was written when the endpoint was created and is now out of date or incomplete (typically the happy path 200 cases are documented but there is no documentation around edge cases or failure cases). When requesting better documentation I'm usually told something like "Yeah we'd all love to have better documentation, but it's been deprioritized because of XYZ new product work."

Is this typical? I used to think the companies I worked for were outliers, but at this point I've seen it enough times to think this might actually be relatively common.
And newer laptops are all so damned huge, and they have terrible keyboards and trackpads with no buttons that are offset to one side.

My favorite laptop currently is an HP EliteBook 2760p that I got for free from a friend who works at a company that was throwing it away. Aside from the battery being dead, it's the best laptop I've ever used.
A quick Haiku

Bundle hung again?
Ah, its just Nokogiri.
With native extensions.
Always useful to keep in mind the concept of Chesterton's fence: https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/ If something looks stupid or weird, you may not have all the relevant information to judge.
I was waiting for the punchline: I wrote this.
Judge rules FDA can’t keep vaccine docs secret ‘until 2096’
> Plus you can add a secret to the paper that allows unlocking the content at the URL, which normal users would not have. That secret can only be decrypted by the owner of the paper.

You cannot do this with an NFT unless the server that the NFT is hosted on supports it (and has awareness of the blockchain). Then it becomes centralized to that server. You couldn't do it with IPFS.
I'm fairly anti-car myself, But factor in cycling is not practical transportation for most people. It targets a certain demographic, people who have the physical ability to actually cycle. What about those who cannot, what about disabled people? Even if you are fit, anything more that 10 miles a day is difficult.

I'm a massive fan of public transit, however, as an American this means I can only live in a handful of cities, but it's worth it .

When I lived in LA I was miserable, driving to work every single day, driving in a city is not enjoyable. So I moved, but it's impractical for someone like me to ride the bike to work. My office doesn't offer gyms, and I can't bike in sweating.

As for safety, riding the Metro can't be beat. The worst of both worlds is our current system where bikes compete with cars for a limited set of roads.

If I could build my own city from scratch, I would ban all cars completely. Design something like a 5 mile circle, and build upward.
24/7 slow metro lines allow for commutes within the city. Then have side walks and bike paths covering other commutes. Have every pathway so well lit, 3am is as safe as 3pm.

Then have garages on the city outskirts if you need to own a car to commute out of town.

I can imagine this already existing in Europe. Amsterdam felt very close.
Lobbying is just communicating your desires to your elected representative.

If we stopped it, we stop democracy?
Leave a Good Legacy
bitcoin bad! and football good!

/s
claps!!!
On the other hand there are countless examples of similar strong-arming tactics that never see daylight. For example, negotiations with supermarket chains to get a spot on the shelf (and which spot), what the chain's cut will be, or which tools a car repair shop is allowed to use to be "licensed" to work on some brand (hint: it's the brand's own overpriced line of tools).

"Lets provide the better product/service at a lower price" is, by far, not the most common business tactic.
I don't know about miserable, but definitely easier to get side tracked deciding what libs to use. Rails tends to push users down a path that works for most things. This makes it much easier for new users. JS leaves it up to the developer to pick and choose what libs which is not new user friendly.
i like visa being able to reverse fraudulent transactions
Does this support distributed nodes within the DAG or does it assume everything runs on a single node?
Whether title to a house, or entry ticket to a concert, those give you a practical, real world ability to do something. You can live in the house (or allow someone else to and charge them rent), and the government will defend this right for you. You can do neither things if you don't own the house. (well maybe you can live in it if you pay rent to someone who does) You can attend the concert if you have a ticket.

If you own an NFT, you get no practical real world benefits.