skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the article by moxie on NFTs. It is so poorly designed that a jr JavaScript developer with 6 months experience would be ashamed of it. Don't "Go-and-lean" us. We are technology people here not your non-tech crowd that'll get scared and silenced by "go and learn"
cryptocurrencies are not going to solve extreme inequality. they are a transparent way to transfer wealth from new investors to early investors (aka ponzi scheme)
I tell this to my wife and she finds it hard to believe.
Maybe you should start to count how many actual inventors own their patents...and compare that to the number of trivial patents, design patents, and patents that have never been invented and just have been reserved for future use by mega corporations.

Then take a look at companies like Oracle that did not invent anything for the last 20 years, but are still sueing the whole software industry for things that are common practices even taught in University classes. An API shall be patentable? Seriously?

While I am still pro patents I also have to say that patent offices are the wrong judges (speaking of them as part of the judicative branch) on what is patentable and what is not.

Why did Microsoft got most of their financial income from Google's Android over the last decades? (before Azure took off) ...it was the licensing income stream for the mp3 codec that wasn't actually invented by them; it was invented by the Fraunhofer Institute in the 80s.

It's ridiculous that the patent system is so messed up that they always favor not the actual inventors.
Netflix UX is still miles ahead of competition
The idea is you can lock capital in a pool, and as people trade between two usd stablecoins, USDC and DAI, you earn a fraction of the trade fees. The low slippage is due to the pool being large enough that you will get $1->$1.
Every time a nascent technology bubble crashes (dot com, AI winter, crypto...) speculation gets reset, scams and projects with no future get wiped out, and the space gets healthier.
This thread (https://twitter.com/curious_founder/status/14820133110341427...) is from a different author on the same subject, but basically, the range hood had no effect on NO2 levels. It helped a lot with PM2.5 levels, but not at all with NO2.

From the linked study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4909253/):

> Ventilation hood installation did not significantly reduce indoor NO2 concentrations in our study, and there was a trend toward higher NO2 concentrations in follow-up visits, although not statistically significant. The reason for the lack of efficacy of ventilation hoods is uncertain.

The research explains that the lack of effectiveness of hoods could be due to many factors (improper installation, lack of use), but at least at first glance it seems that a hood doesn't help with NO2.

As someone who has always preferred a gas stove over electric, this doesn't really align with what I want to believe =). But I also realize there are many times I preheat the oven and cook a frozen lasagna for 50 mins or boil water on the stove without turning on my range hood, so I definitely understand at least one reason that a gas stove with a range hood may not help in terms of reducing NO2 levels in my house. I tend to use the range hood if I'm cooking something really smelly or messy (ie frying), but don't think of it if I'm just baking something in the gas oven for a long period of time.

I know for my part I'm going to be buying an induction cook top for things like boiling water or frying foods where I really don't need gas. I have kids and don't really wanna add to risk of air pollutant exposure.
I also want a writeup covering some examples of Bitcoin or Ethereum use that are relatable.

This recent NYTimes piece takes that approach, though none of the examples are that impressive: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/style/what-can-you-actual...

(Disclosure I own Bitcoin and Ethereum)
Oof I somehow butchered that. Swift.
Great pointer, thanks.

This is a protocol that rolls up ETH transactions and executes them in batch, in an attempt to alleviate scalability concerns. I can't really speak to the side/unintended effects of transaction rollups on a blockchain, but I'm interested in learning.

This excerpt from the FAQ

> It is worth noting that anyone can become a relayer so long as they have staked the required bond in the smart contract. This incentivises the relayer not to tamper with or withhold a rollup.

kind of bothers me. It does not seem like such a small step to go from 'decentralized' to 'cartel of relayers' to 'central bank and subordinate branches'. And the fact that this protocol is unavailable to US persons is interesting, though perhaps standard for the space right now.
The primary difference is that basic research is conducted with everyone's money -- mostly via grants, and a lot of it in the US underwritten by the federal government -- for everyone's benefit. Even the venture capital industry is largely averse to basic research; they want more Ubers, or companies that can bring University tech to market.

Blockchain? The money flowing in is substantially from retail investors. And that's the problem. This is why we have regulations.
In 1996 America’s top 6 companies included: IBM, Ford, GM and Exxon.

But sure, “not technology”. No “tech” in silly things like automobiles, energy and computer hardware.
In old news: Judge Approves $4M Deal Over Closed PayPal Accounts

https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-approves-4m-deal-closed...

http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Pay...

Some chunk of the doc:

> Judge Fogel ruled that: (1) the PayPal User Agreement affords PayPal “sole discretion” to place holds on its users’ accounts, irrespective of whether the user has engaged in restricted activities;

> and (2) PayPal has no contractual obligation to provide users with an explanation as to why their accounts may have been frozen.

> [...]

> Finally, he dismissed the unjust enrichment claim on the ground that the parties’ relationship was governed by an express contract.

> etc etc bla bla bla
For the reasons I mentioned above, adoption of vala by projects in 2010 is exactly like adoption of Rust.

That Rust is much more capable doesn't matter.
I have wondered for awhile why the crypto mega-whales in my vicinity are trading USDT at par or better over the last year or two.

My conspiracy theory is that when insiders trade a distressed asset at par or better it’s often a bailout expectation that’s really being traded.

Who has unimaginable access to financing, a “stablecoin” going so/so, and a primary line of business critically dependent on Tether, like, I don’t know, a massive exchange with the highest volume pairs all sharing USDT as quote?
This is so cool!
It finally helps explain all those weird piano keys when playing music notes;
Like diminished.
Melody on right hand,
But left hand - shows c7dim
Or something.
If you are not a music major, this helps, so much!
It will help Canadians not to feel hunger pains, once the food trucks are turned back.
No, I was (of course?) being sarcastic. But the confused replies leave me more than a little worried that people genuinely agree with the sentiment!
I was able to get the most even heating with a high quality (but not insanely expensive) induction stove. Boiling water in about a minute, insane. And because the heating element is necessarily closed loop you don't have the regulation problems you do with an ohmic heater.

A gas stove is a lot more powerful (10-60kW vs 1-3kW) but a lot of that heat simply escapes upwards.
> see my earlier post listing seven points

They are all based on the assumption that the vaccine is effective against transmission and they only make sense if that protection is over a reasonable threshold. Citation for that effectiveness against the dominant strain please.
NO2 is also produced by diesel and gasoline combustion and is a significant pollutant in most cities; its value changes during the day (Windy.com has this info if you are curious). I don't see that the author is controlling for the outside value. Some of the variance could be regional air quality (e.g. the low values around Christmas).
> zero consequences

California's incarceration rate is already double or triple that of Canada, Japan or Western Europe.
Ah. No that's not what I meant. Option #1 is risk the money. Option #2 is sit on cash. You forgot about option #3: invest it somewhere that is both not risky and safe from inflation. Institutional investors have hedging strategies that achieve this. For us little people, there used to be crappy govt bonds that would safely give you the inflation rate more or less. Now they give you negative returns while inflation climbs. And of course the traditional hedges like real estate and precious metals are sky-high and dominated by speculators.
I found the post on page 27 amidst the 5 day old posts with 2-3 points

:D
Are there any other examples of recent + long cycle developments? Solar? Electric vehicles?

Part of me has come to expect such fast development (Facebook, Uber, Yelp!), but other modern industries must have longer cycles I just am not paying attention.
Depends if you view them as stocks or currencies, no? If it’s stocks then market cap is normal. Anyhow, if it was a giant Ponzi scheme then what about the projects ran by JP Morgan/Visa/Deloitte/etc? I have no doubt some projects are scams, but there are also non-ponzi projects and I don’t agree with painting them all with the same brush.
so we do not have to go through legal process to resolve anything
I find the comparison really odd as someone in the opposite position - I had formal classical piano training from 8 years old until I gave it up during college, and later learned how to code entirely through copying other people's code and Stackoverflow in my mid 20s. Piano to me feels much more like a sport, in that there's a very visceral, physical aspect to playing, and in turn a ton of effort goes into optimizing everything from where your fingers should be placed to how hard or soft one is striking a key. Practicing is effectively comparable to training for some sort of non-team sport much more than anything else. I don't have perfect pitch, but learning how to read music is a very small part of the whole experience, and I would think that as an adult someone learning piano will find the physical aspect, particularly the finer motor elements, to be the primary hinderance to being really great. Writing code is entirely different in that it feels much more like learning a subject matter, and there's neither something akin to the apotheosis of the particular thing you're working on that you aim to emulate, nor hard boundaries as to determine your proficiency through performance. It's cool if your code doesn't work when you test it, you can fix that. It just feels like apples and oranges in the experience.

If you're picking up basketball at age 30, I hope you know that you're never going to be anywhere nearly as good as Curry, or Lebron. But you can definitely pick up a subject matter and become an expert later in life. Heinrich Schliemann essentially began his archeological career at age 36 and yes, basically excavated Troy in the worst way possible, but managed to actually excavate Troy. That's the difference between an adult piano learner and an adult code learner, I think.
Boston Dynamics is and always has been on a trajectory to build useful products based on technology that is promising. Whether they're going to be successful or not is dependent on financing and time and luck of technology.

Blockchain was awesome technology in 2008, and Ethereum brought very interesting developments. But in the end there's only one thing it can do, and that's be an irrefutable ledger, and for most purposes that are of interest to the common person that is an insignificant improvement on centrally governed ledgers.
For the jobs I mentioned above, it would be very easily possible: Actors, sportsmen and pilots
Your link to check if there is a party in your state does not work, cuts off at new hampshire.

Also, I agree with not being left/right wing but inability or unwillingness to commit to some belief or guiding principles that tells people how your policies might affect issues important to them is very bad. If I have an illegal immigrant family member, will you be hunting them down for deportation, after all they broke the law. Will you allow sharia law as an extension of people's right to practice their faith? will you reform immigration? If so, how? Will you end the visa lottery or amp it up? How about H1B and other skilled worker visas? I have colleagues that will have their entire lives impacted by that. Will you reform police and the military and if so how? Just funding? Will you, as a pirate actually restrict gun ownership, enact balanced reforms or leave things as is?

I am not saying take a position on every issue now but I can't tell it apart from satire when you are not even hinting at what your principles are. Change for the sake if change is something juvenile people whose only goal is to self-aggrandize and give their own lives meaning at any cost. To me, you are actually a bit dangerous because you want to scoop up support fully knowing screaming change like Obama will help a lot. Do you have a sinister motive? No idea, all I know is people like this, college/young kids start small and actually revolt in many other countries, but in the end, either the military or some other power takes control.

I like "piracy" and identify with what you are saying but idealism without principles and leadership is at best folly and at worst dangerous.
Sorry, thought my last paragraph covered that. Can any blockchain-backed tech handle the number of transactions per second that current major credit card/payment networks do?

One benchmark is 1,700 tps for VISA. https://phemex.com/blogs/what-is-transactions-per-second-tps

If not, why not? Especially after 10+ years of development and intense VC funding (as is the parent article's point).
The central problem in this entire debate is two groups talking past each other. The skeptics say "what is it for?" expecting a detailed answer, and the response from crypto enthusiasts is vague and high level; most of what I hear is heavy on words like "revolutionize" and "decentralize" but very, very short on specifics. Or I get argument by analogy to other technologies.

If I heard a single use case where blockchain technology actually created real value in the world, and was better than other alternatives, I'd listen. But it has to create real value, based on the real world and not some fantastical notion of what money is or governments are for.

I think we skeptics want a grounded narrative, and we're stuck hearing a thesis statement and nothing to back it up.
> It's a way to authenticate yourself without a centralized authority

PGP did that 31 years ago though, faster and more efficient and without all the downsides?
> No browser is required, except to interface with the user.

That seems like it's always required then. I think maybe I'm not understanding what you mean. Can you describe the flow in a bit more detail? I would be very interesting in doing OAuth2 without a web browser.
I personally prefer a money that isn't explicitly designed to encourage hyper consumption and short term thinking.

Better for the planet.

But what do I know? I'm just a dumb ape.
The censorability of rollup relayers bothers me too. As you mentioned, the fact that US persons are blocked from the protocol shows this is a real problem.

I think this is a problem with technological solutions (perhaps anonymous and redundant relayers, or private rollup transactions so that the relayer does not know the content of transactions in a block but can produce a valid output state) that will be worked on in the next couple years now that the base technology (rollups) exists.
Its not about power or speed for me. Whenever i visit my parents i hate cooking anything because the electric stoves release heat in bursts then turn off for a bit then a huge burst. It’s impossible to cook anything the way you want . Normally i just go for overcooking everything. But in general i find cooking relaxing and that stove turns it into something that makes me mad every morning.

Maybe this is specific to the stove they have though. I have and will continue to use gas because of this.
a very narrow example you are nonprofit in charge of .org TLD
the DAO managing bylaws of that org have no provision for you to be able to sell
.org TLD to a third party. You don't have to constantly worry that some ahole will take over the org and do this, because there is no way to do it.
> Back in 2017 during the first hype cycle, blockchain companies raised hundreds of millions with ICOs.

Yes. Those scams have been put an end to by regulations by the SEC, as unregistered ICOs are now illegal since 2017. [0]

> there is not a single product aside from trading/finance that got traction.

So what is wrong with using blockchain domain names like ENS for identity, or sign in use cases? Are we going to look back at this in 10 years time and we will see this sort of adoption? [1]

[0] https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/general-reso...

[1] https://www.skiff.org/updates/skiff-ens
Imagine all your friends were really into MLM schemes and even quitting their job to join Amway and Herbalife. Sure you can just ignore it, but you can understand it’s tempting to ask them what the hell.
You may have some concerns due to past events throughout history. But don't worry. That wasn't real Python.
Julia matrices are laid out as column-major (like Fortan, unlike C). So, it is better to get into the habit of thinking of a matrix more as a vector of columns than a vector of rows.
would dropout be considered forgetting or learning to use as little information needed to get the right answer?
govt bonds aren't generally expected to decay over time either. But I suppose they are these days.
This has 0 to do with coins. Going through court systems can cost 10s of millions of dollars and someone actually has to actually bring the action to court.
You changed the title, apparently as some kind of "tongue in cheek protest". Don't do that. Please read the submission guidelines. Please stop doing all these fretful meta-posts, here, and on the initial post, they come across as pretty unhinged, like you're a walking conspiracy theory. Write to Dan the HN mod (not 100 times though!) if you have questions - we the people can only guess what happened. And write a blog post and submit that, if you want your views, or things you think important, discussed on here.

p.s. I looked in your comment history.."People think you're spouting conspiracy theories" - I see you've had that problem already. Well, maybe stop doing posts like this that are nothing but conspiracy theory.
Maybe totalitarianism would be more accurate? That seems to encompass them both based on their similarities.
That's not what I meant. When you are employed in tech and pay say 25% taxes, saving 1200 for a bad day (when you are unemployed and have to pay insurance yourself) is not so bad compared to when you pay 40 taxes.
Vanguard's trademark total bond ETF BND, which is a part of the classic 3-fund portfolio [1], a cornerstone of passive investing, has 2.2% commercial and 20% government-backed mortgage backed securities [2]. So a lot of everyday folks across America, especially those retired looking for a stable cashflow for retirement, are helping fund your mortgage. It's a bit of win-win situation (albeit a loss for them during high inflation as you point out): you need money now, and they need a mostly guaranteed return on their money in 10-20 years time that pays out better than Treasuries, and gives them diversification compared to bonds (either Treasury or commercial).

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio

[2] https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/portfolio...
DNS records aren't meant to be secret.

Zone transfers are an intentional feature.
I must say that I really enjoyed creating web sites back in the 90s. I was using UNIX terminals that didn0't have graphic capabilities. I was browsing web using lynx, I've create pages in vi, nano or joe. It was all about the content and quality of the content. There were no dark patterns, scams, no spam... Just the desire to get the information out there and to find other who felt the same.
Maybe in theory, but in practice it looks very much the same if you are a jew starving to death, a kulak starving to death or a Chinese peasant starving to death.
Synonyms are rarely exact matches, and even more rarely exact matches without additional context.

Long and extended are synonyms when talking about length, but not family for example.
Solana’s on the same order of magnitude as Visa. Some people dispute the exact figure, but it’s basically there: https://www.benzinga.com/amp/content/25031541

Next long term target is speed and energy efficiency of a Google search.

Edit: Avalanche says they’re around 4.5k tps: https://support.avax.network/en/articles/5325146-what-is-tra...
>You can't really tell your friend you love them

You might say in English to a friend "I love you" meaning "I'm bemused by your quirks, but I'm fond of you anyway".

I wonder how that translates.
Linux Process Snapper: A low-tech way to see what your processes are doing
List of all phones (smart and not) emissions by Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)
We've had "auth without centralized authority" for decades, and 99% of people don't care and won't deal with the hassle involved. see PGP, encrypted email, OpenID, etc etc..

The exclusive communities you mention only have value because of the hype and FOMO and high dollar amounts that people see being made on sales of "exclusive" NFTs or some such. Same as many of the many crypto pumps, same as the dotcom bubble, same as tulips. Same as it ever was.
> Guess we gotta keep brainstorming for use cases -- that's how technology development works, right?

Unironically, yes.
Levels.fyi End of Year Pay Report 2021
I believe Wyoming actually passed some laws along these lines, to where a DAO can be a legal entity.
I got WebOS TV solely because it's the only TV OS which you can use even if you don't accept TOS/EULA.
Grammarly has a separate plagiarism checker https://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker which was in my report
I actually built in the 90s a site that was kinda like reddit but just for BBC news articles (they only started comments a few years ago) and a comedy/satire news site ala the onion.

in retrospect teenage me should prob have told other people about my websites
Reminds me of the silliness you'd see in "C Plus Equality"

https://github.com/TheFeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equa...
Enthusiasm is perhaps the easiest thing to fake in an interview, and something many of us fake automatically, as smiling and seeming engaged is something a lot of us learn to do when meeting new people.

I doubt it correlates with productivity outside of something like a sales role. Most of the world's work seems to get done by people who don't appear particularly enthused.
Crypto was good for blackmarket transactions.
No data leaves the computer over GPS and the computer controls how it processes the data. It's no worse than a keyboard.
Right... and based on the second half of my comment, I don't believe anyone has actually successfully done the second half of your comment.
I'm curious why the pivot? What were the challenges with gravity?
> There exists a transparency in the open-source code of smart contracts that will disrupt the current gatekeepers like the internet did.

Could you elaborate which gatekeepers it will disrupt?
Blockchain Climate Risk Crop Insurance: https://www.climatefinancelab.org/project/climate-risk-crop-...
At least use an image of a panel, not glass, geodesic dome then and don't try to sell it as a community meeting point. That's a more acceptable current day view on how a nuclear reactor should look. Also cut the bitcoin BS. It's like trying to associate your project with Bernie Madoff. The hardest thing is to change people's perception and radical approaches don't cut it in this case.