skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually would prefer riding horses if it were feasible and safe in my community, thank you very much =).

I've learned enough at this point to know a scam when I see one, and I definitely don't need to go thru my history w/ software and tech bubbles and cryptocurrencies to explain why web 3.0 is full-on bullshit.
Well I am def not a legal expert to know if it is sufficient for the above purpose and if we can ever create a lang for smart contracts that is expressive enough, but it's cool to see things are happening.
Ahhh, I see. So rotation is still speeding up, but that speeding-up is itself slowing, and your belief is that, before too long, it'll go back to the normal slowing-down state?
I have no idea what blockchain does or not. But just because its applications have turned out to be scammy, is it possible that it still has good uses in the future?

May be and may be not. OP is saying more generally that we should stop looking at tech that has no uses. I am disagreeing with that stance and it is just silly to be so wound up about Blockchain zeitgeist to not see through the fog.
Very precise criticisms. I wish she would have mention her thoughts on proof-of-stake blockchains.
I'll grant you that sometimes there's just such a cool tech that you gotta hammer your head against the wall until you find something worth using it for. And sometimes maybe that creates something awesome (though I can't conjure anything at the moment.) I think that's usually a money-loser, and someone else building something like 140 character messaging ends up making the money.

In general though, I believe solving real-world problems with whatever tech is available creates the most value. (And I mean real value, not some numbers on a ledger that don't mean anything at all.) That doesn't mean tech for tech's sake isn't interesting.
1G was delivered late 1970s, 5G… 2018ish? https://www.techadvisor.com/feature/small-business/timeline-...

JWST was conceived in 1996: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_James_Webb_S...
Not related to blockchain but just an interesting difference in perspective. Using 2010 to refer to "ages ago" is almost comical. The internet was created in the 60s and I'd say 2000-2010 was still early days for the internet. So saying something is old because it was created 10 years ago is just ridiculous.
> NYC is one prominent example that uses ranked choice.

Only implemented recently iirc.
Watching the YouTube video in the article, I have to ask, does she hold the record for oldest video of a living person? That movie was taken 92 years ago...
You're exactly right here, and I'd say this is well put in several areas.

I'll add that supercritical CO2 sounds like science fiction to people, but it's actually been pretty well demonstrated at the small sizes. The scaling up is what needs to happen if it's used at sizes beyond a few MWe. We've worked with vendors who have these available at the <5 MWe scale.

And I'll second what you're saying about subsidy. The incredible subsidies out there, if I didn't care about fission, would make me agree with those that are effectively anti-nuclear. If those hundreds millions and billions to single companies are necessary to * ever * get a single nuclear plant built, it just doesn't add up that it will be successful without all that propping it up. I agree it isn't necessary to subsidize, and that's how we believed it was important to run our company to date.

In this case, I'll name names, and I hope this isn't taken in a malicious sense because it isn't meant that way. But I've always wondered why Bill Gates, one of the wealthiest humans on the planet, would go to Capitol Hill for money for his nuclear company. I think I've learned that it's for reasons along the lines of what you said there. Creating a self-sustaining government program goes a long way to guaranteeing that the government cares about your company, and anyone else along the trail of $. I'm not blaming that, of course it is smart, it is just intriguing what paths occur.

PS also agree on "carbfix" - that while I'm all for all solutions to climate issues, it is wild to me too how much press that carbfix gets too in comparison to at least my perception of its reality of potential. But i suspect it goes back also to a great govt relations piece...
First, you didn’t actually learned those things, you trusted them.
Second, im not speaking about trivial common knowledge. There’s obviously always something useful to learn from theory in any area.

But its subtle things that make all the difference between average and really good in something, these ones you can’t really learn without gettyhands dirty and making own mistakes. Even though often it seems different looking backwards, but it’s nothing more than a curse if knowledge.
True, and that is what is great about StackOverflow etc.

My typical problem when confronted with an entirely new class of tasks or an entirely new programming language is "where the hell do I even start".
Why Linux Has This Syscall? (Hint: MMAP)
Indeed, unfortunately they get to play with sharp knives.
Grammatically, "rather than" opposes "change" to "thrive", but entirely within the context of "look at what we need." It doesn't preclude change itself--just the focus on change.
In Dubai, buying real estate with bitcoin is a real thing, and by the looks of it also a big thing.

If nothing else, it shows that crypto has succeed in one of its goals: moving money between countries, without being detected/hindered by governments.

I mean, I don't know who buys real estate with crypto, but I am assuming that people who live in dubai and have large crypto values are bullish on crypto, and won't waste it for a low roi investment like realestate. So that leaves rich foreigners who wants realestate away from their own government and I can see them purchasing bitcoins as a way to siphon money out of their country.

Other than that, I am also out of ideas for useful uses of crypto currencies
aka the Queen’s Duck: https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/
Very cool - I think a nice addition would be to add some common chord progressions, e.g. https://takelessons.com/blog/piano-chord-progressions-z06 as an option at in each scale section. Would help people learning to do transpositions if you persist that option - also an option to invert the chords.
While we are discussing vent hoods, one thing people doing kitchen remodels (or new houses, etc.) may want to look into is putting the vent fan inline in the duct (e.g. in the attic) instead of in the hood itself. With a silencer (cuts about 20 decibels) between the hood and the fan, kitchen ventilation hoods can be made dramatically quieter than the typical extremely noisy version. The fan noise more or less goes away and the remaining noise comes from the air flowing through the grease filter / into the duct.

Adding the make-up air system increases the cost by 50% or something (needs a similarly powerful fan and similarly sized duct for air coming in vs. going out), but any powerful vent hood should probably include one (and building codes demand them in many places, though I think this is often overlooked in practice).
Comparing Bitcoin with companies and software products is not a good comparison.

Replacing software or products is not the same as exchanging government-issued fiat money to a new decentralized non-governmental form of money. The transition between different forms of money depends on trust which takes time[1]. E-mail and internet (web) took of faster but these inventions did not require people to exchange their money into an alternative system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_money
I'll be honest, I find the "blockchain is for crime" argument to be worn out in 2022. It feels a lot like "think of the children".

Of course blockchains can be used for crime, almost anything can. In fact, if you want the preferred currency of criminals the world over, look no further than the US Dollar.

Most organizations, governments, businesses, etc. start with plenty of trust to go around. There's no reason to inherently distrust them, so their governance, currencies, securities, etc. work just fine. Distrust breeds over time, which is why establishing governance, currencies, securities, etc. in a way that can be cryptographically verified by anyone is a useful property to have to ensure the system remains generally trustworthy long into the future.

For example, there are many reasons to distrust stock brokers, the Depository Trust Company, the spineless SEC, and other entities who run our securities exchange. If securities were traded on a blockchain instead of an opaque database that can't be audited except by a corrupt few, everyone could strongly trust in the freedom and fairness of the securities exchange markets.

If I could own all my stocks on the blockchain, I would do it in heartbeat.
Centralize it and implement something like M-Pesa, or build it on top of the existing mobile networks. The solution is selling standardized contracts to small hold farmers that pay out automatically; the problem has nothing to do with decentralization or trustless transactions.

The blockchain adds nothing here, and creates a layer of complexity that makes it more brittle.
'Public voting' is not a technological problem but political one. There's a lot of opposition to making voting more accessible to everyone. Voting should be easy, and you don't need blockchain for that but maybe it could help. The question is who wants "voting rights".
Still probably is!
Very cool project !

I created my own classless CSS framework[1] in the same vein. It adapts to your system’s dark/light mode and is under 1kb minzipped.

I would recommend to check out the drop-in minimal CSS page if you want do discover new projects like these.

1. https://concrete.style/

2. https://dohliam.github.io/dropin-minimal-css/
I’ve spent the last few years working on test infrastructure for blockchain projects so this question is regularly on my mind, and I’ve found the best solution is to just include the dependencies. Compute and storage is cheap enough that you can spin up these external tools and the extra level of assurance makes me sleep easier, and while flakey tests are theoretically an issue I rarely find them (and they tend to be programmatically fixable).

If a unit test requires an external dependency then just use an integration test (or check it’s covered by system tests) and leave it at that.
Its easy to move to a different state if you disagree with the policies of your current state. If you disagree with a federal law, you're pretty much screwed.
Wow, that's a lot of power for a device running 24/7.
My AEG induction stove has short enough pulse cycles it's not noticeable - a low setting just means low heat. In fact, it's the best stove I've ever used by far - it can go from gently melting chocolate to way too much heat in about 2s. Apart from boiling water I never use the most powerful settings because they'll burn stuff. The only thing it can't do better than gas is wok cooking - the curved sides don't get hot.

My parents have a different brand induction which does seem to have longer pulse cycles - maybe one every 5s or so. That is probably the effect you're describing - it'll go from essentially off to too hot and back. It's obviously a manufacture specific thing.
Enabling UPnP on your router enables a malicious app to permanently forward ports from the outside to the inside. The malicious app could also forward ports to other devices on your network. For example, installing a bit of malware on your laptop could set up a port forwarding rule from the internet to your NAS's web interface.

UDP hole punching via STUN requires continuous work on the part of a malicious app to keep that port open. Work that could be noticed much easier than a rogue UPnP-using bit of malware. And it can't open ports to other devices on your network.
Buying real estate with bit-coin, isn't that close to money laundering?
Now that we have the hammer, the biggest advance is.... wait for it.... NFT's.

On the other hand, if you're a criminal looking to launder money, crypto is the biggest advance in years.
Donations for dev's OSS didn't work.
Nifty. The mouseup for the buttons should be placed on the body at the time the mousedown is triggered, because right now if you drag outside the button to highlight a set of keys and release the mouse on the background, the keys stay lit and only light/unlight when other buttons are clicked. (Alternative would be, at least, clear all the key highlights when any button is clicked).
This https://youtu.be/8CAafjodkyE?t=104 is a recent thing I found mind blowing; 2020 iPhone can do on-device image processing and object recognition and speak a description of what the camera sees. Just quietly a builtin feature.

2010 iPhone, I was mind-blown by the Word Lens app which could do OCR on text in the camera feed, translate the words into another language, and overlay the results on the image in near-realtime. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/12/20/word.lens.ipho...

These are tasks I had never seen any computer do in any circumstances, things which would be unthinkable on a Java MIDP Blackberry from 2005, or a Pentium II desktop from 1997. Compare this to the wearable augmented reality devices Professor Steve Mann was building through the 80s and 90s[1] and this "describing the image" is so so far ahead in so many ways - processing power, imaging quality, battery life, storage space, size, weight, convenience, reliability, it's just mindblowingly better, neural networks and fast chips and solid state storage is a step change in a way that "faster" isn't enough to really convey.

Google tells me "Derivatives have a long history in the United States, dating back to the founding of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1848.", you're telling me people are doing that but with blockchain, why is that interesting at all, why mind blowing?

[1] http://cyborganthropology.com/Steve_Mann
Or go one expensive step further and buy a battery backup like the Jackery (I own one for camping and power blackouts).
You are still misunderstanding me. I am not saying we have a theory of how proteins fold. We have theories on force interactions between atoms. Those theories are pretty complete and do not say that predictions of protein shapes are impossible. We are not blocked from trying, like, for example, in predicting decaying atoms. So trying stuff like AlphaFold is not going against current understanding.

My point is much more basic, if you will. So I meant "allow" as in there is no theory saying that we cannot do it. Not that we have a theory how to do it.
Like NFT's? Money laundering services? What?
I don't think "things are very different now" is a refutation of the study without providing more specifics. It's also been repeated more recently, with updated data. The 30-year results, I believe, still hold, but as I note, if your retirement horizon is much longer than 30 years, you'll have to be more conservative with your withdrawal rate.
I've always been a melodic instrument player and have never had formal theory training - I'm trying to play the piano and I can't figure out how to harmonize (is this the right term?) a melody, this is, how to find or decide which chords go naturally with a specific melodic line. I know there are many alternatives and that the music sheets usually have the matching chords.

I want to write my own and I struggle to find proper chords to melodic lines. Can anyone recommend resources to learn this (and tell me if harmonization is the proper term)?
SQLMap: Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool
AEG make stoves and hoods that have some sort of wireless communication so they come on automatically. Expensive though.
> It's mostly a symptom of reckless monetary and fiscal policies.

... as a result of the pandemic...

The US public will not tolerate sustained high inflation. Congresspeople and presidents who push monetary and fiscal policies that increase inflation (and nominate Fed leadership that do the same) will get voted out over time.
Hi, though we are centered on a few topics, within our discord we have a platform committee which is hammering this out over time, though as we are a coalition of diverse individuals, this has not been fast or easy, as we prefer a sizable majority in our party before passing a platform proposal, feel free to join to get a better idea of our ideas outside the core!
Wow, her father was a genuine psychopath.
Being "on the fence" about getting vaccinated is incoherent and irrational. Vaccine mandates are long overdue and deeply appreciated.
Literally just came across this thread after playing piano for the last couple hours, and I wouldn't have noticed it if it weren't pointed out. I think when you play you're just used to seeing all kinds of shorthand. I remember portable synthesizers from the 80s that actually did have this kind of relative size on black keys.
Right. Maybe the big problem is not the lack of solutions, but the fact that we don't really understand the problems?
I'm genuinely not sure whether this statement is pro-crypto or anti-crypto... I assume it's anti- based on the reference to it being better for the planet?

Or is the "designed for hyper consumption" a reference to inflation in fiat currencies? Sorry, perhaps I've confused myself.
Other ancient musicians?

Suggesting that a contemporary is ancient is a bit too far stretched and disrespectful in my opinion. Ruth Slenczynska is publishing a new album in March, which suggests that she has something to say to us all.
A non-inflationary currency promotes hoarding. The biggest whales in crypto own a huge chunk of the total supply, even more so than in our current fiat system. How you think such a system does anything but worsen wealth inequality is a mystery to me.
This happens virtually everywhere. I hate it. This is such a common experience with any sort of providers as well. I called up my ISP because the internet speed was worse than what I was paying for. They "fixed" it. So far so good, but there were times when they did not want to do this, they tried to "rationalize" it away using bullshit pseudo-technical sentences thinking that they are talking to someone who knows nothing about computers and networking. Anyways, I told them that I am going to switch to another ISP, and after that they fixed it. I finally got what I am paying them for. Imagine how many people are not... without knowing about it!

Plus what you said specifically happened to my mother. Her employer knows that my mother is one of the best she has as an employee. My mother asked her employer for a higher salary, she refused, but after my mother said that she will be looking for other jobs because the work is too much for too little, she immediately was willing to negotiate a higher price.
Tipping site owners, BAT token.

Incentivizing IPFS content pinning, Filecoin.

Allowing censorship-resistant / chargeback free donations, most coins.

Enabling private transactions, Monero.

Most "dapps" empower decentralization, distributed exchanges, trading, DNS, ownership contracts (DOAs), etc.

NFT's for art as silly as it is, more importantly for Handshake domain names and other cases where ownership proof comes into play.

Please feel free to go and attack all of those ideas and projects, but don't think for a second you can really gaslight people into believing they aren't worth of pursuit.
>1996 was the year when Yahoo went public and 2021 was the year when Coinbase went public.

>TCP/IP and DNS were both developed in the early 70s (1972 I think). That is more than 40 years before the first internet company went public.

1996 - 1972 = 24.
What you've described is metastasized moral risk. We could argue that maybe some risk should be rewarded. But not all risk, such as spending billions in beanie babies as a corporate strategy.
The tech-first approach also distracts from real problems that remain unsolved while cash circles the blockdrain.
I have experimented with memory systems some and used SRSs extensively to learn foreign languages. I also use SRSs for more obscure programming stuff. The hardest thing is knowing what you need to remember. I have not had any success with memory palace techniques with programming as they are for memorizing lists in order and programming requires understanding concepts more at random.
Red, Blue and Yellow are not the primary colors
1,700 tps for VISA is a good benchmark. I recall VISA's technical capability is 10x or 100x that number,

Ethereum 1.0 can handle 30 transactions per second.

Part of the development dubbed "Ethereum 2.0" is focused on scaling the number of transactions via sharding. Each shard will be able to handle 2,400 tps. As more shards are deployed up to 64, Ethereum 2.0 will reach 160,000 tps.
It seems you are looking for a product blockchain enables you, but there are activities the blockchain enables which are not products, and are very difficult up to impossible without.

One example is sustainable (financially) open-source project is one I use now. Before that it was always impossible. You get a bunch of people all over the world, many of them are identified only by Internet handles. There's no investment to handle all the legalities of establishing a business, and anyway there's no legal framework for international businesses with psuedo-anonymous people.

But with blockchain we've been using DAOs and online voting tools etc. since 3-4 years now, and it works great. It handles the governance and the finance in a way the traditional system cannot offer.
I don't think having a monopoly should be a requirement to take legal action against nasty practices in general. If somebody is beating his wife, should that be ignored because, you know, she can move out?
I remember little from French class in junior high, but I do remember

"Q: Comment ça va?
A: Ça va."

It struck me many years later, that people at work were saying almost a literal translation in English:

"How goes it?"
"It goes."

To my knowledge, they weren't Francophones and I never heard any French there.
Maybe, but it is something we all feel is important, and should have at least one group talking about it. For too long have these laws avoided any scrutiny in the public eye through obscurity, intentional or not.
Maybe overkill but odoo is free, open source, and set up in minutes with Docker
These kind of messages are really nice to read :)

One of the things developers often get when changing jobs is a pay rise that they wouldn't get otherwise.

If you don't mind me asking: How does the pay rise process work in your company?

Sorry for a money-focused question.
I recently realized that changing projects, and if it’s not possible within a company, then companies is a very healthy thing. And it’s healthy exactly because you get to drop all that baggage you were carrying and start fresh.
I don’t know why but when I visited Japan, every stove has this sensor which cuts off the gas almost completely when the pan gets to hot, I guess it’s to prevent oil fires. If you want to hate cooking, go to Japan and use one of those things.
There is Gresham's law in action there. People would hoard more valuable coins (with higher precious metal content) and use less valuable coins in daily circulation.

Given that metal does not age that much, 200 year old coins in hoards aren't that surprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
Not if you have a heavy investment and depend upon other investors (or greater fools) to buy your shares.