skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article feels like it's just riding the crypto bandwagon for clicks.

The "early days" of something is relative to the lifespan of the thing. If crypto lasts for the next 1000 years then yes we are very much in the early days.

Moreover, a label like "early days" is entirely irrelevant, because really the question that needs to be asked is "Is it still changing, evolving, growing?" Based on what I've seen (I'm not a crypto enthusiast) the answer seems to be yes.
Kind of. They have a donate page https://deciwatt.global/donate
When you said ancient I thought you refered to musicians in ancient Greece or Rome. Ageism is rampant and we ought to stop this nonsense. Anyhow, great example, it is all inspiring to when we get older...life really keeps on going regardless of age
Pushing into the danger zone leaves you open to getting hurt. Enough doing that, and eventually you will. Avoiding pain and avoiding risk is avoiding life.
Law is not like code. It requires interpretation. You're nuts if you don't think most of these "smart contacts" wouldn't just end up in court anyways.
Yes, I'm wondering when/how "smearing" became widely accepted, since the Wikipedia page on leap seconds only says that there is a proprietary method that Google uses, and another that Amazon uses.

"UTC-SLS was proposed as a version of UTC with linear leap smearing, but it never became standard"
It can be abused, but it allows the creator or developer to align incentives in different ways.

eg if the royalty goes toward a DAO, maybe that DAO’s charter is to grow awareness for the NFT project. Or the rewards could accrue toward a staked project token that all community members hold, or fees could go back to the creator to fund development for next gen.

I don’t know the best use, but my point is because someone programmed royalties, there’s now another dimension of configuration for NFT projects.
To me, the most promising use cases for a blockchain would be activities that are today carried out by government agencies, states or lawyers. Anyone who has ever bought a property in central Europe knows how much money has to be spent on trustees and notaries. If such transactions can be carried out in a secure way between buyer and seller without an intermediary, that would be a huge win. However, the lobby of lawyers and notaries is big, the connections to politicians are tight and they will not give up this business easily. Additionally the public sector is not known for its fast technology adoption.
> blockchains that handle incentivized file storage, alternate name lookup systems

It would be a shame if IPFS and Filecoin end up in the dustbin of history if the web3 music stops. They're the only reasonable non-financial applications of blockchain tech that I've been able to wrap my head around to date.
The difference is that from then perspective of the critics, cryptos burn the energy needs of multiple small country for Ponzi schemes.

Purely to represent the opinion of the critics now, aluminum smelting might be and, but at least aluminum out of it, so they don't criticize the base activity, just the energy type. From the perspective of the critics, we don't need to struggle and transition crypto to RE, we can just stop doing it.

I personally agree, but people with your perspective (presumably) don't and place Crypto in "expensive but inherently valuable activity" or at least in "entertainment" both of which also use a lot of coal power but aren't negotiable, hence people focus on the energy sources not so much the activity.

Hence talking past each other
It's the pain that is inevitable, the suffering is your reaction which you can control.
This post I already posted elsewhere in the thread debunks McCoy's article:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...
Helium network is an example of a successful blockchain project/application in my opinion. They created the biggest decentralized lorawan network in the world that is used by more internet of things companies everyday. Also they are trying the same thing for creating a decentralized 5G network. It’s still early days for them because I think they started in the end of 2020 or the start of 2021, but they have grown to 490000 lorawan hotspots already. The network usage could be better, but is increasing (saw increased sensor data activity for my hotspot in 2021).
Why is it that in 2021 if I accidentally transfer btc to an eth wallet I lose it all (into the actual ether)?
i am trying to do the opposite, which in my case is get my first tech position. it is interesting to see the different reasons why people want to switch jobs.
Is there any cool stuff that doesn't involve speculative trading in some "coin" or "token"?

I recently read about a steel maker in India executing a cross border order on blockchain. On further reading it turns out their bank used a third party company for digitizing letter of credit and that company claims to be using an enterprise blockchain R3 Corda. R3 itself is owned by a consortium of banks and on their website they don't use the word blockchain to describe Corda. They call it DLT.

My understanding is that a blockchain is supposed to be distributed, trustless, permissionless, immutable and open. At least that is what the core ideology behind it and is touted as the cornerstone features of blockchain. An enterprise blockchain is private, trustful, permissoned and everything that is a blockchain is not supposed to be. At that stage is it even a blockchain or just another propitiatory data store?
> "Remotely send money" is a super hard thing to do.

Technologically it is not.

Which is why anyone in the EU can instantly send money to anywhere else in the EU, for free, despite being a collection of 27 countries with dozens of different languages and legacy banking systems.

The hurdles are legal and regulatory, not technical.

Blockchain and new technology does not solve the underlying problem at all.
And then came the humans and wiped the rest of it. It is much better now. You can walk safely at night without being scared of animals.
By focusing on the templating aspect i think you completely missed what cog does and what makes it valuable: cog is an in-place repeatable generator.

You don’t output to a separate location, the output is embedded right after the generator itself, and if the inputs have not changed re-running cog is a no-op.

Cog’s “templating” is a mean, not an end, and in the interest of providing maximal flexibility it’s no templating at all but straight python code procedurally generating an output.
They literally have a product for sale now. You make it sound like they're somehow worse at making locomotors than other companies are. Do you have any competitors in mind that achieved more with less practice?
Scoped Storage in React Native: New Android 10 API for File System Access
I think particulates in smoke can cause air quality monitors to go off as well, I notice this with my electric stove.
And how does a distributed Ledger solve these problems?

Monopolies like Google and Facebook exist, in no small part, because the amount of computation and data they handle is vast, and they have the data centers to deal with that.

How much data gets has to be stored on the servers of such services? Per second? I'd assume its in the range of several GiB...again per second.

Okay, so how does the blockchain compare to that? Ethereum can store data, each byte requires about 600 of its "gas" computational equivalent. A block represents 30,000,000 gas, 1 block is generated every 15sec, so we can store a grand total of about 1MiB every 300 seconds...that is, if none of the gas is used for anything other than storing data, which means, no other computations running.

So how is "blockchain technology" going to solve the problems that come from such highly centralized services exactly?
Agreed. There are are far too many stories nowadays which say we are living in times where the courage of men fails and we should break our bonds of fellowship.
levels.fyi's report for 2021 - https://www.levels.fyi/2021/

It's reflective of what's possible, not of what's normal.
Also error conditions - telling a fake to give you a specific error before you run the test is no different from telling a mock to do it.
It is a good idea that people should get more active in politics but think about this statement from their web-site:

"What is your goal?
Our primary goal is to get elected into office. We believe in political change from the inside."

The goal of these "pirates" is stated very clearly: To get power. Not to chance the society in a particular way or direction, but to get power to themselves (who else?). To get elected. Then what? Oh we'll think about that later but our current goal is to get elected.
Story from a previous life when I was an HVAC tech in college… got a call out to a new restaurant where the owner was complaining that the place was not cooling.

After doing the routine checks, the AC was fine. Upon further investigation, there was no make up air. The owner decided to delete the MUA out of the design to save money (didn’t listen to his MEP designer). Not only was the kitchen vent hood exhausting kitchen air but conditioned restaurant air as well. It was permitted city construction, I have no clue how the place passed inspection.
Texthon seems like a bog-standard templating langage, nothing to do with cog but in the barest most remote commonalities of executing code to output text.
Except NFT storage is actually highly centralized?

What happens if OpenSea shuts down?
The problem is it requires you to write your code in a way which now _only_ will work with tokio.

Which isn't an option for a lot of libraries.

While the rest of the rust eco-system is increasingly moving to have increasingly more parts runtime independent...

Furthermore I think `maybe_yield` wouldn't be quite the right solution. The problem is that tokios magic works based on the assumption that a single task (future scheduled by the runtime) represents a single logical strang of exexution. (Which isn't guaranteed in rust.)

So I think a better tokio specific solution would be to teach tokio about the multiplexing effect in some way.

For example you could have some way which snapshots the budged when reaching the multiplexer, and reset the budget to the snapshot before every multiplexed feature is called. With this each logical strange of execution would have it's "own" budget (more or less).
I transfer all my financial actions to my accountant who's reporting it while instructing me what I need to do further.

Compliance and reporting really differ from one country to another, and I'm not familiar with the US system (which I heard is one of the most strict). But as far as I checked (I'm not a lawyer, not an accountant and not an expert), where I live in the EU, compliance is something for legal entities (like, organizations, companies) and not for individuals like me.

[E: I take the last sentence back, it's a too general statement and I don't have the knowledge to make it. Thanks @hnhg for the comment]
Consult your little red book. It explains the situation very clearly.
did the previous chauffeur form a startup?
There's no big problem, science and technology are progressing at a great pace. The whole marketing of snake oil solutions is just a nuisance, they're not really affecting anything of value significantly.

People are annoyed by Blockchain the same way people were annoyed by Justin Bieber, it's a whole lot to do about a person who is just a kid, a cool kid maybe, and he did make some good songs when he got older, but he didn't change the world, and he probably isn't going to either.
> Having a good mental model of a language seems like one of the fastest ways to be more productive in that language.

True, but teaching s programming language is different than teaching programming.

Diving into a new language is something you do if you already understand how computers work and how to turn requirements into code. But to first acquire that understanding as a beginner, it's not enough to be introduced to the specifics of any particular language, which is what the article is talking about; you need to clarify what is the role of a programmer in understanding a problem and finding ways to model it as a group of data structures and functions that live in the computer.
> Use cases like storing the history of a car on-chain, transparent supply chains, public voting... this all sounds interesting but never made it to product-market fit.

Anything that does not exist natively on the blockchain doesn't need a blockchain at all.

If a token on the blockchain would represent you as the owner of a car and one day someone steals your private key which represents your car ownership, that person is now the owner of your car. Still, the car keys are located in your house, the license plate is registered on your name and address, the insurance is on your name.

I guess I don't need to explain further how ridiculous that idea is that a token would officially represent you as the car owner.
I wonder if this will be one of the “Show HN: Dropbox” type threads in a few years…
I just ran the update for my TV this morning, and this worked for me.
I checked it. OMG. Absolutely stunning piece of work.
Pictures and videos here

https://twitter.com/MichaelFieldNZ/status/148221531738882458...

https://twitter.com/sakakimoana/status/1482218193619865600

https://twitter.com/_TheSeaning/status/1482230175806992391
Because when the genius Satoshi Nakamoto thought up about digital funny money in the aftermath of 2008 financial crisis, he didn't think hard enough about all the possible scenarios.
If you think of a CI configuration as a shell script, then this is normal and not surprising.

A CI config is just a big job that invokes a bunch of tools like "go build" or "npm test", which is exactly what a shell script is too. I would get rid of the YAML and use shell for the whole thing :)

Shell does have some problems, like needing to be more parallel, incremental, and reproducible, but the YAML-based CI systems all have those problems too.

Related: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/04/build-ci-comments.html#... (and the entire post)
I don't think this is the case anymore. Unless you classify foolish speculation as crime.
Apple to allow 3rd-party payment methods for certain apps
Why not find a co-founder with complimentary skills such as marketing?
So… no different from any other political party, then.
We clearly have different perspectives but please don't patronize me.

> Well, maybe stop doing posts like this that are nothing but conspiracy theory.

These passive sensing applications are spelled out in papers presented at 5G industry conferences and published in peer reviewed journals. I'm not "doing posts that are nothing but conspiracy theory" because none of this is a conspiracy, it's all completely out in the open. All the papers I linked to are peer reviewed and directly spell out sensing applications of the infrastructure being built.

Just look at some of these. Read the abstracts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29943504

Do you have any idea how frustrating it feels to be sincerely concerned about this stuff and get gas lit, shut down and diminished time and time again?
I am not a fan of any of our political parties because they are all crooks.

Having said that, I don't consider The Wire to be a dispassionate source when it involves he who you don't want to name.

I'm not interested in who wins the election because I can count on any government to negatively impact my life by eroding my ability to support myself and my family through taxation, corruption and government ineptitude. Our currency will be devalued with each passing year, and most of our savings will not keep up.

Having further clarified this, I fully expect the current ruling party to engage in technology fuelled surveillance and other privacy related invasions because the megalomania is clear and apparent from their rhetoric and overall positioning.

I also know that they are probably amongst the most popular leaders in the world, enjoying above 75% popularity in the general population. I have zero respect for the competence of the opposition because they lack pragmatism, skill or political instincts to change this. What we have instead is an embarrassing coalition of clowns.

Government will only continue to disappoint, and partisans are part of the problem. I only take seriously issues that are framed in the manner of citizen vs government.

Having qualified all of this - this story is unsurprising and entirely believable.
We're speaking about static websites, there is no password to steal and MITM attacks again such content is very highly unlikely.
Whoa that second link.. that guy is so lucky this didn't turn into a full blown tsunami.

I don't think I'd like to live right at the coast if I were in the Pacific.

But luckily it seems to be more of a slow eruption
Argo and the Life of Ernest Hemingway
So then the problem is why do more people deserve to be in prison in the US in particular?

Whichever way you cut it, it's bad for society for it to be such a large percentage.
Someone once told me that people don't leave companies. They leave managers. I have found this to be true so far.
> It's a way to authenticate yourself without a centralized authority.

I do that without any involvement of a blorkchain on a daily basis. Everytime I use my ssh key to connect to a server that knows my public key.
General mathematics and computer science don't require burning energy on the scale of nations just to function
the stoves here have two rings with the inner ring being small enough that i can leave a dry pan on it for hours without it getting noticeable hotter than at the start. when cooking something i can leave it unattended for several minutes or longer.
Hard to tell, they are waiting for supreme leader to inaugurate metro before Pune municipality elections.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/pune-news/inauguration...
Also in this thread:

https://twitter.com/IntelDoge/status/1482222778380177408
> Yeah, but this actually works.

Exchanging public keys worked for decades before blorkchains were even a word.
It also enables people to finance themselves despite tyrannical restrictions imposed by bad governments. Using bitcoin I can send money to someone in Chi no a who's social rating was degraded by the CCP and who is forbidden from using banks.

This alone trumps any arguments against bitcoin. Crime will exist forever and criminals will find ways to finance themselves anyway, so the use of cryptocurrencies for their operations is not really a factor.
I can sympathize with the desire to have gas but what I can't accept is people who want massive BTU stoves with inadequate ventilation or worse none. Honestly, I'm surprised that a lot of building codes are so lax.

My preferred setup would be 4 induction burners with one or two gas burners. I understand if you have a house without gas, it does't feel worthwhile to just have one or two burners. Induction would be the daily drivers, i.e. boiling water. The gas would for occasions where I want tighter heat control or want to use a pot/pan that doesn't work with induction.
My gas stove has an XLO mode, it actually will cycle on and off automatically. Makes a little clicking noise, but it's very effective for the lowest of simmers.
Liveblog: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/459618/live...
Microsoft 365 Family calendar that’s shared. We have about 30 people who update the calendar across family and fiends. Private, secure, cheap at $45 (costco) a year.
Couldn’t you say the same thing about the deed for a house?
NZ Met service https://mobile.twitter.com/MetService/status/148225203503067...
Thank you, yep. Also, I've had many awful things happen to me in life, don't get me wrong! (e.g. years of bullying at home and school, years of schizophrenia, homelessness/losing everything etc) My point was just that a lot of the changes I've made, in myself, my beliefs, self-beliefs, my actions etc happened absolutely "without trauma". In my 20s mostly I read a lot of self-help, psychology, spirituality etc books and put a lot of it into practice, which was work, but it wasn't traumatic at all. It was wonderful. I just know that "Nowhere in life change happens without trauma" is very far from true. (But possibly I totally misunderstand what they meant by that)
Do "spear dive" fishing, instead of "rod and lure" fishing.

Find paying customers, who are willing to give you cash for you to solve them their problems.

This will require lots of listening and problem analysis, before proposing a software solution.

Unfortunately for _you_, many real world problems are rooted not in lack of software, but in the internal disorganization of your customer and therefore their dirty data.
Yeah it's difficult to see how this facilitates money laundering. Say you're a drug kingpin who has a billion in literal paper cash that you need to make appear legitimate.

Somehow, you've got to do a billion dollars in cash to bitcoin transactions, but what's the point of buying middle eastern real estate with the bitcoin after that? Why not just rinse the bitcoin through a tumbler and sell it on an exchange and tell the taxation ministry that you simply made a great investment? Then you have a billion dollars minus tax in your bank account that you can do anything with. Dubai real estate is completely irrelevant to the process.

I think "money laundering" is like "ponzi scheme". The more likely someone on the internet is to use it, the less likely it is that they actually understand the term.
Yeah it's about half my baseline house power draw. And I'm a nerd with several 24/7 servers so it would be higher than someone who doesn't.

By baseline I mean nobody home, lights and appliances off but internet, WiFi, IoT stuff etc all running.
Its actually the main thing holding me back. The power consumption alone is as expensive as the cheapest fiber connection I can get.
I agree with you, but noting that the comment is a direct quote from the article, which includes a bit of controversy at the end to keep the article sufficiently polarizing ;)
> one day someone steals your private key which represents your car ownership, that person is now the owner of your car.

Why take such a naive blockchain as example? You could very well have a proof of authority blockchain so that 3 notary have to sign a car transaction.

You could also very well have revocation lists published on the blockchain by a further authority if keys are stolen.

There are hundreds of ways to make this work.

At the very least, that would allow me to know that I'm not buying a stolen car.
This problem exists with cash. We teach people to not keep too much cash on them, but to keep it in a bank where it is safer.

You could get a credit card, and then it’s not even your money that you are spending! or your money that you lost to fraud.

I can see both of these existing in the crypto world in some form, the same way they exist in the fiat world

as for the banks and institutions and companies losing all of their money? that’s a new blockchain problem for sure
NZ civil defence tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/NZcivildefence/status/14822498459...
> To comply with the ACM’s order, we’re introducing two optional new entitlements exclusively applicable to dating apps on the Netherlands App Store that provide additional payment processing options for users.

> apps that are granted an entitlement to link out or use a third-party in-app payment provider will pay Apple a commission on transactions. More information on all aspects of the entitlements will be available shortly.
Physically possessing the deed to a house doesn't make you its owner either.
> inefficiency here can actually be useful

Except for the tons of CO2 that get pumped into the atmosphere in the process, or the blackouts its causes, or the fact that there are tons of more useful applications for that energy, like heating homes, running air conditioning, charging electric vehicles ...