skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea I implemented as an experiment at home is DNS names that contain encoded information. For example, the TLD contains a number that represents a certain trademark class of good/services. Subcategories are encoded in domain, subdomain1, subdomain2, etc. becoming more specific as one reads from right to left. Thus one can perform searches only on the domainname (and optionally the URL). This is faster and easier than searching the contents of web pages. Another portion of the domain name is a public key. For some types of content, this works well. It is like searching a directory.
NFT isn’t art, its a digital receipt vaguely related to the ownership of something in some cases.

If you buy the Mona Lisa and get a certificate of ownership with a reference to the painting, you would not say that this certificate was art.
i suggest learning it properly before jumping to conclusions. everything has pros and cons. e.g. cars pollute but would you want to go back to riding horses? judge less, learn more
There is exactly one reason for the two-party situation in the US. First past the post voting system. It causes any third party with non-trivial support to merge into one of the major parties to avoid splitting the vote with whichever one is most similar to them.

Switch to range voting, STAR voting, approval voting, and it goes away.

The incumbent parties don't have a lot of incentive to do that because tautologically the people currently in office are the people the existing system puts in office, so why would they want a different one? But even a lot of politicians are pretty jaded about the existing system. Get a couple third parties in there who are willing to turn a 51 vote majority into a 49 vote minority over this and you might get it through.
The hype cycle isn't Moore, it's Gartner -- the research firm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
Or "Republic"...
Have you heard of leverages, margin calls, derivatives, put options, etc.? DeFi is pretty much the same level of complexity but implemented on top of cryptocurrencies.
But it doesn't!

It isn't theory that led us to notice that (almost all) proteins fold naturally into the same shape every time they are denatured and annealed. It was simple experimentation.

The attempts to create a theory of how that happens have been measured by the success of those attempted theories to make successful structure predictions. They have failed (pretty dismally in most cases).

So there is no theory that allows us to make such predictions. We simply have experimental evidence that proteins can adopt their "normal" structure by themselves, essentially every time. We have no functioning theory of how they do this, and no way to use this non-existent theory to make predictions.
For a pyramid scheme that certainly holds up. Whoever joins last seems most incentivized to bring others in. Has anyone modeled pyramid scheme dynamics to Bitcoin perhaps at an academic level?

(Disclosure I own Bitcoin and Ethereum)
No it's not a logic problem, it's human behavior. The point is that while you are beating yourself up about not changing you are also not changing. Or as Yoda would put it: "do or do not, there is no try".
Maybe check out DYDX L2.
Maybe you mean that they haven’t made useful ground, where useful is specific to you.

Remember that blockchain technologies have become legal tender, have over a trillion in market cap, have become financial instruments traded by people around the globe, is taught at Universities and part of the CFA accounting exam, is in the news daily, has resulted in large investments in research, etc…

It’s impact has hardly been non-trivial. Just the impact on finance is substantial even if people seem to gloss over a new financial asset as “just finance stuff”.
Of course a blockchain doesn't magically fix anything, it's a distributed log. But a decentralized distributed log is a great building block for something that isn't owned by FAANG.
I've yet to see a "pro" for blockchain or NFTs that doesn't conform to the characterization you're trying to dispute. Care to offer one? I'm eager to learn.
It's a good thing then that we analyzed to such extreme events as completely losing everything above ground, whether due to an avalanche, a tornado, an earthquake, etc, etc. :) The inherent safety in the fuel type means that there would still be zero dose. (for more info on the tests that showed this result originally in historic research reactors in operation: http://www.thesciencecouncil.com/pdfs/PlentifulEnergy.pdf)

PS I realized that you thought the structure was glass. No wonder. It's not, it's steel panels. Modular construction. There are optional solar panels on the exterior, maybe that's what you saw.
I agree that fakes are very good for testing, with one caveat: the fakes must be owned by the same folks that own the real implementation.

When fakes are owned by anyone else, e.g. the folks writing the system under test, there's a high risk that the semantics of the fake and the real implementation will diverge, rendering the tests that use the fakes much less useful.
People are doing research and deploying cool stuff that others are actively using. You can criticize that as much as you want but it won’t do much.
I thought the edges represented the strength of relationships between teammates. As people get to know each other, people settle into roles and communication patterns, worrying less about social status, complementing each other, making decisions faster, and anticipating each other. Time together makes good a team more effective.
> Cognitive load theory is unfalsifiable and wrong about many things

Surely these two claims are mutually exclusive?
Yes. They just need a solar panel!
It was external, but correct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO#/media/File%3AFreepl...
> Nowhere in life change happens without trauma.

I found that shocking to read. It's a million miles from my experience of life. That sounds horrible. Perhaps you've found it true, but please stop saying it like it's true for everyone, a fact of life. I can't even imagine how you could believe such a thing, well, it works for you or something, I guess. Also, saying that then complaining in the same breath that someone else is defeatist! is hard to swallow. That sounds a cold, hard world that you live in. Good luck. I don't think it's the only world, by any stretch, though. Although I'm sure I misunderstand you - that's a very foreign language to me, everything about it is strange. Beatings, suffering, trauma.. :-(
OK perfect. "Inefficient" in every sense of the word. Let's say I'm wrong and skipped over that line. What else could the various senses of "inefficient" mean in the context of this article?

Probably the fact that, despite having been under development for > 10 years, we haven't seen any ground broken by any blockchain technologies for any reasons other than speculation or triviality. Which is what the other 95% of the article focuses on. The inefficiency of the development process, not necessarily the technology, although yes, the latter is a factor.
Yes, it is a dedicated “snow melt mode” deployed in December 2020: https://turtleherding.com/2020/12/starlink-update-2020-12-22...
The adage I've usually seen is that Logistics is the king of the battlefield actually.

I'm not entirely certain what you want to do or what your point is in this discussion. I thought you wanted to discuss the properties of lasers and how they could be (or could not be) useful in a fight?
"My wife recently suggested a possible one: NFTs minted by your university as proof of your diploma. Or perhaps your academic transcript. No way to forge a fake diploma again."

This is already happening: https://www.5gnewsroom.com/2022/01/12/iit-kanpur-awards-bloc...
Same question I suppose. The parent diagram featured both the hype cycle and Moore's chasm. Do they both operate on different timescales or are they usually a decade end-to-end?
Apparently high levels of debt will really limit the amount rates can be increased. This is something I have heard from crypto investors, but also from people who dislike Bitcoin.
This is always the defense: “you obviously don’t understand it”. Or, maybe there is a good reason this type of article pops to the top of HN every other day. The skeptics have good reason to doubt the viability of all the hype.
To be entirely honest I didn't think the scenario through. I was just thinking about the dystopian cyberpunk "that would be mad" of drones hanging around people trying to steal stuff from trains and didn't really envision what would really happen next.

Now I actually think about it (thanks), what would a drone be doing? Yelling really loudly? Getting footage of people's faces?

It's probably only a matter of time until drones end up equipped with taser units :/ (I honestly don't want to be around when they can actually shoot things...), but besides that I now realize they wouldn't really present a legitimate threat (yet). They'd just be very oversized mosquitoes.

I'd completely forgotten this is America though, where people can and do shoot at stuff they don't like and/or is annoying. That would be significantly more effective than a giant baseball bat (which would definitely look hilarious but be a lot less precise).
It's part of their strategy to maximise the signups and force you do the KYC when you are vulnerable(i.e you need your money to pay the rent). They are pretty evil.
Well then what's the point of this discussion? The thread is "how has it advanced? How long can you call it early days?" If you just stop reading rebuttals as soon as they're mentioned you're better off talking to a wall, and you'd waste less people's time that way too.
I mean, any particular models from ThinkPad line that you recommend?
Capital one, when confirmed my credit union account by same method, didn't fetched the money back. Data point
If there would be a legal framework in place that can tie a DAO to basically be legally binding bylaws of an actual org. and the smart contract lang. is expressive enough for this to work this would be extremely valuable. Outside of this most of web3 looks like hype.
I believe this characterization fails to engage with what money actually is and does. It sounds good in print but fails in practice.

Except for bitcoin's current "monetary" uses, like money laundering and tax evasion.
Can you show some examples?
I have pretty strong opinions on the "best way" to learn as well. My posts discusses the pros/cons of do it yourself projects.

https://www.metasnake.com/blog/learn-python-2021.html
China's official policy is that Taiwan is a secessionist sect that is truly part of China.

Its not an invasion. According to their viewpoint, Taiwan doesn't exist as a nation. Its just another part of China and always has been.
> Will you remember to always comb over your entire test suite and review all mocks to faithfully simulate actual production behavior?

This doesn’t make sense. If I write unit tests for my ‘FunctionExecutor’, and it has a dependency with a function ‘shouldExecute’, I don’t care how that function is implemented, only that it returns a boolean. If the implementation of my ‘shouldExecute’ function changes, there is no need to update any other test as long as it still returns a boolean.

I do agree that what you call fakes are better, because you get the extra guarantee of them implementing the same interface (e.g. your compiler will scream bloody murder if you don’t update both).
From my very (admittedly very inexperienced) perspective, both views here are valid: it's foolish to scour the world for nails, but it doesn't hurt to make a hammer.

Build the technology, think of how it could help, and if you can't find a niche in the world that it fits, don't force the issue. Move onto new things: perhaps re-use some old ideas, of course, but actively get a wider experience, so that you increase your surface area of finding some way for your technology to help.
I hear this a lot. Curious what languages did you program in?
Exactly, never ever connect a smart TV to internet. Instead, connect a Apple TV/FireStick/ChromeCast/Android TV/Raspberry Pi to do the "smart" things and if they break, they will be cheaper and easier to be replaced than a TV.
Honestly? I think it's similar to a lot of pop-business constructions. Post hoc, and it sounds insightful enough to inspire pattern matching, but doesn't actually have any real explanatory power.

Anecdotally, I have heard people applying different timescales for the hype cycle for different technologies. Makes the pattern that much easier to match.
I don't think people are angry about blockchain (the technology) but about promises people make that with this technology will solve almost any society or world problem and then attracting people to invest and then if it does not work make the promise larger and atrract more money.

To use your example: it is like Boston Dynamics and people around will start saying invest in our IRO (Initial Robot Offering) as we will solve with robots everything. We can fix with our robots democracy flaws, we can fix with our robots inflation ... and when asked how will this actually work world wide they will say "We will just build more robots, invest more money into this and then when everybody will have one then that is how we fix those problems".

See the problem here? The problem is not the robot but the company/organisation and business model trying to sell it as a solution for everything without actually talking about the solution itself nor explaining how a robot will help with our financial system at large scale. At every critique they will just say "The solution is to build more robots and thus having robots everywhere so people will think about robots and not about other stuff".
Not rooting, but a standard android way to disable apps exists: https://www.reddit.com/r/bravia/comments/8v2s6i/guide_how_to...
Don't know what you are talking about. Real-time continuous facial recognition at the >98% level is used for about 5.000 crowds already, and they are just ramping up their infrastructures to detect 100.000 simultaneously. A football stadium. Only budgets are the problem, not tech.

Esp. with US government "services", but also Europe and Asia.
Have you considered running for office with one of the major parties? Its not very crowded in the house. You’ll have better luck there
> not even install correctly with pip install

Big surprise. :p
Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!

only done to the world instead of trying to get your client off by confusing a jury.
Yes, a machine readable section on the diploma, like a QR code, would suffice here.

Covid vaccination certificates in the EU use this method. No blockchain required, just some good old public/private key cryptography.
> It was running 2 burners with water on our gas stove all night long that kept our house from freezing

As in, boiling the water? Wasn’t it very humid?
I see more and more of this attitude these days: "Stop spreading disinformation. Educate yourself"

A useful contribution would be to point out how exactly the GP is wrong.

I can imagine the current international banking system get upgraded with a blockchain like technology such that you don't need a central bank of central banks.

But the web3 guys simply want to compare detractors to luddites
Good, yes. But something being "organic" / "natural" is just a generic content-free talking point to use whenever it fits your agenda. Like you wouldn't be supporting this if these compounds were useful but -gasp- synthetic.
The same reason Bitcoin doesn't implement every tom dick and Harry's supposed solution to every technical problem. The big boys have to get it right the first time. Again, inertia.

Ethereum does have proof of stake, a protocol called Casper FFG. It is currently live on the Ethereum beacon chain, waiting for consensus to move the entire network to it.

There are lots of smaller projects trying different protocols they call proof of stake too, as well as different proof of whatever they came up with for whatever reason. Most of them are veiled centralization, some of them are interesting for one reason or another. I'm not here to shill networks or coins so I won't be tossing names around.
It's a way to authenticate yourself without a centralized authority. So right now it's being used to create exclusive communities, access to which theoretically has some value. In the future, there may be application ecosystems which operate solely against your wallet information, no need for registration. Maybe that has some value too - time will tell.

I don't follow the details of the web3 market closely, so not speaking in support or against here.
We need more precision in the scale and performance targets you’re seeking prior to discussing blockchain analogs.

It’s tough to respond when “serious financial application” or “revolutionary technology backing all finance” aren’t well-defined.
Do you mean 42k?
11k was only the first phase.
so if we are depending on a centralized legal framework, why would we need the blockchain (decentralized store)? Wasn't Code supposed to be Law?
If there was a legal framework, it wouldn't be decentralised! ...and hence, it's pointless, since you could recreate it at much lower expense without the blockchain and associated speculative coins.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by this ? Do you have any examples of what this could look like in practice ?
> NFTs minted by your university as proof of your diploma. Or perhaps your academic transcript. No way to forge a fake diploma again.

The problem with this an many similar examples is that there already exists a solution for this sort of authenticity problem: digital signatures. Basically, the university creates a public and secret key pair, makes the public key available on its website, and signs all diplomas with its secret key. This is a much more efficient solution than the one based on blockchain.
I’d say most of the coins today are proof of stake
A few months ago I agreed with her entirely. Tether is an unbacked fraud and NFTs are being front-run [1, 2]. The mid-level marketing Ponzi vibe is crazy. The latency of applications on the blockchain is atrocious. But more recently after learning from and interacting with people building in the space my assessment changed. There is an interesting intersection between tech, communities, and economics. There exists a transparency in the open-source code of smart contracts that will disrupt the current gatekeepers like the internet did.

Certainly, there are problems, but some things will live beyond the crash that is coming and change things in ways no one can be sure of. The internet started in the 1960s and was opened up commercially in 1989.[3] It feels like we are somewhere between 1995 and 2000. The energy feels similar with people trying to shove old paradigms into a new world, vaporware companies, and insane investments. I don’t think we’ve seen the top and it will likely make the crash of 2001 look small by comparison. I may be wrong, but if I’m not, it still is early.

[1] https://bitfinexed.medium.com/tether-is-setting-a-new-standa...
[2] https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1457749433844568066
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
I agree, no problems in the real world are solved. I guess that’s where all the meta verse nonsense comes into play.
Wow you described exactly what I'm starting to feel in my late 20s. Especially the point about neurotic feedback loops.
Ok cool, so basically just fancy ways for traders/investors to gamble and “create value” that doesn’t really benefit anyone besides themselves and others tied to the platforms. Got it.
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.

Is that really your belief about how to define when a technology became useful?
I enjoy cooking a lot and I cooked on gas stoves, electric ones (the ones that have those red hot spiral things under a glass) and top-of-the-line induction ones. In my opinion (and probably many restaurants' opinions from what I can see through their reactions on bans for gas appliances in new buildings), a gas stove is just unmatched in how much easier and better it makes cooking.

I totally get the desire to switch to electric appliances for many reasons, but I am yet to meet an electric stove of any kind that I remotely enjoyed cooking on. Is this everyone's experience? Did I just not meet the right induction stove yet? Is there some sort of new technology on the horizon that will make electric stoves infinitely better?
The US has a larger share of its population in prison than any other nation, about 6x higher than Canada, Japan and Western Europe.

Is the problem really that too few people are in prison?
When has "market cap" been a measure of a currency? This is indicative of the logical fallacy so common in these debates, conflating "store of value" with "useful mechanism for transactions."

It's a Ponzi scheme. There's no inherent underlying value, its "market cap" is strictly a function of more dumb money flowing into the system. Occam's razor, this is the most likely explanation for everything in the crypto space; the model makes sense and explains a lot more than "a new financial asset" hokum.
Yeah narrow or just on a different layer/level of abstraction.

Yup my mental model is we’re either in Arpanet days or multiple-competing-DOS days.
A platform to start your own religion.
The author's description of 2015 doesn't sound like some ancient era to me.. Have things moved on and changed so dramatically from ML hype, Microsoft Edge, Apple Watch, and ES6?

I'm not really here to argue about blockchains being good or not, I just don't feel great about how the article tosses out a body of technology for not keeping pace with Uber. It's a bit like saying it can't possibly be early days for reusable rocketry, mm-wave communications, or quantum tech, because all those things were being developed decades before some guy named Satoshi wrote a very popular blog post.
I’ll try to at least be around to help people on Discord - I may use that time to set up Emmet and build my muscle memory, too, as I have a front end project coming up and haven’t written any substantial HTML in years.

My oldest daughter is 13 and I was planning on helping her set up a side project of her own; a simple static site for her to collect and document her knowledge of horses. I sent her the link. She was just asking about how Markdown got converted to HTML, and a solid foundation in HTML itself would be super helpful.
The blog post conflates several issues together:

(1) why is the blockchain still so inefficient?

(2) why is the blockchain still so lacking in practical use cases with widespread adoption?

I think she is totally fair in complaining about (1). Either it is impossible to have decentralization and efficiency or it's just a technical problem that will be solved given more time. I don't have the answer here - only time will tell.

For problem (2), I think it's mostly an over-exaggeration of the use case(s) where web3 that beats web2. As far as I can tell there is one and only one use case: web3 can do things while having a middle finger pointed at major governments. Web2 cannot. In that bitcoin and eth can offer people of Argentina a some reliable store of value (against their own currency which depreciates at 50% per year) it has generally achieved that. You can't even buy a Tesla in Argentina so the adoption of that wonderful technology there is zero.

To claim that it's the next web2 or mobile tech is both an exaggeration and an underestimate. Web3 will not be much of a challenge to web2 or mobile. Instead it will be a huge challenge to existing political, monetary and taxation systems. It will be the tool of the rich to evade taxes, for libertarians to evade control and for those living in high inflation countries to build wealth.

Those who complain that this is hardly revolutionary are both right and wrong.