skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please check out DWM flexipatch for a painless way to try out patches and get your setup right!

You can turn patches on and off at will, without having to mess with diffs. Once you get it right you can finalize your config with a separate script. It is like magic. There are also flexipatch repos for st and dmenu

https://github.com/bakkeby/dwm-flexipatch
Fakes also make integration testing easier too - if you want to focus on say, making sure your payments always make it into the database correctly, integration testing across the medley becomes (relatively) trivial, even automatable.
>>So aside from coins, where else is it that you would not trust a central database, but you can verify/trust the entries being added to that database?

I would not trust a central database for any application, even those where I have to trust the verifiers of the entries to that database.

E.g. I would prefer stablecoins over credit in a bank.

With a decentralized database, immutability and permissionlessness are the default, until the trusted third party actively intervenes to strip you of these privileges.

With a centralized database, access is by default denied, and requires active intervention from the trusted third party, in the form of a grant of permission, to acquire.
I hate the pirate party name. Also the name of the pirate bay.
"Piracy" was a term greedy corporations used PR to apply to sharing. Like sharing tapes and filesharing.
They will say they took the term and made it their own but imo its still a victory for the PR fuckers.
Eons ago there used to be a type of service on the web that allowed you to send a URL to a mail server. It would fetch the content at that URL and email the article to you.

I can't for the life of me remember what that type of service was. It was back in the era of anonymous remailers.. any ideas?
They went bankrupt with their arsenal once, so I'd argue it would be more useful to their rivals.
Kelsey Hightower said it best:
https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/14778718907230781...

"If something is too early to criticize it's also too early to evangelize."
The worked example effect is exactly that: learning by doing.
In the same time, India & China got mobile payment revolution. 4b+ transcations per month are done in India.

Well which means 3B people dont ever need crypto.
BitTorrent is wonderful for sharing information, but it's not really a platform to build on. Something like Ethereum on the other hand is literally a decentralized computer that no single entity controls. The blockchain part enables this.
This is literally how research in the Universities makes it to the world. Spin-offs like Boston Dynamics are essential to building things that may not have immediate use but payoff can potentially be huge. We need to do more of this.

Don’t throw the baby with the bathwater. I really don’t think generalizations of certain jaded experience and then seeing the entire world with the same broken lens does any good. Probably the opposite. We ought to try new tech and keep an open mind.

Before people go off on Boston Dynamics - there are thousands of spin-offs, pick some other charitable example. The point isn’t about BD.
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Water.css is a set of CSS styles to make simple websites just a little bit nicer
I LOLed

Asked "what is italian cube clan" (my obscure gaming clan certainly unindexed by hello)

The Italian Cube Clan is a mafia group based in Calabria, Italy. The group is composed of members of the Farao and Marincola families, who are alleged to have muscled into the wine, food, garbage, and funeral services trades in both countries.

https://diablo-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Mage_Clans
https://www.euronews.com/2018/01/09/german-italian-police-sm...

The reason for LOLing is that two surviving members of the clan have consistent family ties with Calabria, even if the fact most likely was not on the web anywhere (now it is).

So basically the engine connects dots very well but the index needs more care on the semantic side. Congrats anyway!
Original ShowHN post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19593866
"My system clock is wrong, what action shall I take to correct it?"
Common answers to that question are "step" or "smear". The notion that the clock could be wrong is not addressed in the design of most systems, and "smear" is widely accepted as the least harmful fix.
I was impressed by genius Pharoah Sanders, releasing the beautiful album "Promises" with Floating Points and The London Symphony Orchestra

81 years young :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn8x0QbN4f8
The article suggests that using the phrase "it's early days" is incorrect in blockchain technology because Bitcoin and Ethereum have been around for 13 and 6 years respectively.

The author goes on to give examples like smartphones, Uber, and Tesla, all of which have had serious developments in terms of impact and usability in around the same time period. Then given that Bitcoin and Ethereum have not made similar progress in that time period suggests it is not "early days".

Users continue to get scammed and lose funds. So what is it instead? Middle days? End of life? Pre-early days?

Open to ideas here. The author seems to suggest that what we're seeing in blockchains is the best we're going to get out of it. If Bitcoin were middle aged, would users put up with all the warts knowing they won't go away?

(Disclosure I own Bitcoin and Ethereum)
It's not, but blockchains don't magically fix that. And the "web3" stuff built so far is still pretty centralized and could include that same tracking if the incumbents so chose.
I am also just playing around with Svelte. I finally figured out a good way to do CSS - CSS variables in global CCS file, set '*' defaults based on these variables, change variables on parent of called component, or directly pass to component (rarely needed). That's cool, as I can avoid that ugly :global syntax.

I also figured out a working approach how to trigger state updates. Just chain store.update()'s into each other. Dunno if that is the best way, but it fucking triggers reactivity, and I do not have to think about it anymore. Now my fingers can take over.

Nice also, to have preprocessors like pug and stylus available. My folding editor doesn't support multiple types of comments in a file. With these processors, I can use '//' everywhere. And who likes to write raw HTML anyway.
You haven’t taken the time to understand what Cog does. It’s not equivalent to a tempting engine like Jinja or PHP… or f-strings.
Looks like a lot of new codecs and filters, but no breaking changes?

I'm not sure if ffmpeg follows semver at all. I thought their API was pretty stable after the big change from "next_video_frame" (or whatever it was called) to the send/receive packet/frame model.
He wouldn't need to use MANIFEST.in, just fixing setup.cfg would be enough. The simplest fix would be to set py_modules = communism and remove packages from setup.cfg altogether (and then the __init__.py file in src/ could be deleted since src/ is not a package).
This seems not grounded in reality.
> Today, you have

snip

weird things no one gives one hoot about outside of the crypto shill word. All of this is just buttering the cat.

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1476873668605186050
In my experience, "joie de vivre" isn't really everyday vocabulary, but then I've never heard the phrase "joy of living" spoken even once. Google trends seems to bear this out: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=Joie%20de%...
As a gainfully employed adult, it is hard to personally justify piracy of entertainment media. Now if this discussion was about open access to science, medical, and technical papers, many of which were funded by tax payer dollars, then you'd have my donor dollars. Otherwise you are championing an issue that is doubtfully on anyone's top 100 problems list.
Walking the DOM is a problem because if (or when) its structure changes, everything breaks.

Also, "astonishingly prevalent"? Come on!
The replaced blanket itself is waste, so I'd venture to say no?
Other than the historic messiness the other comment raised, the DOM API is just... not good. I don't think it's surprising developers don't want to bother with fun stuff such as

- The only way to remove a node is node.parentNode.removeChild(node), until you get past IE11 then you can use Element.remove() https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/rem...

- Text node normalization - because there are separate representation of the exact same HTML https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/normal...

- NodeLists are almost but not quite arrays. They could also be live or static but you can't inspect it directly to tell which is which https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NodeList. Similar almost-array nonsense with HTMLCollection.

- Historically IE and Netscape/Firefox supported two completely different set of API and it was a horrible mess. You can still see remnants of that API war in functions that does almost but not quite the same things such as textContent vs. innerText https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/textCo...,
Depends on how you define early.

When comparing the situation of crypto to the internet, I would say we are at around 1997 now. 1996 was the year when Yahoo went public and 2021 was the year when Coinbase went public.

The usability of crypto solutions also reminds me of 1997. It is still so bad that it makes them almost unusable. Reminds me of acoustic couplers where you had to manually plug your cable bound phone into some device and dial a number to connect to a bulletin box. Just that today the bad usablity looks very different. It has to do with complicated, privacy violating KYC processes, no standardized secure way to make a socially recoverable secret key, lightning network only used in very few places etc.

TCP/IP and DNS were both developed in the early 70s (1972 I think). So over 20 years before the first internet company went public.

So the adoption of the internet evolved more slowly than the adoption of crypto it seems. As the Coinbase IPO came already 13 years after the Bitcoin whitepaper.
From the article-

> How long do we need to wait before someone comes up with an actual application of blockchain technologies that isn’t a transparent attempt to retroactively justify a technology that is inefficient in every sense of the word?
>levenslust

I'm not sure of the origin, but "lust for life" is an expression that's been used in English for at least a century, it seems. It was the name of a biography of Vincent Van Gogh.

The earliest reference on this page seems to be a German film, so maybe it comes from German:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_for_Life

Hmm, maybe it goes back further - Google Books seems to have some instances from the 19th century. A few are negative, basically using the phrase to mean being worldly and not spiritual, a bad thing or even a "curse".

In that sense it wouldn't seem to be the same meaning, but maybe it changed over time.
"ignoring leap seconds" is equivalent to "using a time scale that does not conform to UTC". Time scales other than UTC have 86400 seconds in a day. UTC is the exception.
Time to start chat.energy.
Many of us believe all this stuff is incredibly harmful right now. Just standing back and ignoring it, rather than attempting to direct people away from it, will likely cause more harm.
And privileges, by the way, if we’re going the route of more complex thinking by citing the other variables involved.
I came here to post this, but searched to be sure that no one else had posted it. Ha! No idea is unique I suppose.

For anyone looking to get serious about bookmarking, Zotero is a serious alterntaive to traditional bookmarking since it snapshots webpages being stored as a reference. Then, I considered writing about using it as a bookmarking tool, but someone else has written about that too: https://copingmechanism.com/2021/using-zotero-as-a-bookmarki...
Nah. Dividing lines at nation states does have some value.

That said, supporting the fight for gay rights in other countries? Sure. There's a lot of daylight between "do nothing" and "invade with army."
IMO L1 (Ethereum, Solana, Fantom, etc.) development is closer to building out a communications or telco network.

From that “hard” technology perspective, it’s very early days. And the apps that run on top of these L1s are fully limited by L1 bandwidth, latency, and blockspace.

So, I think we’re in the pre-dial-up days for blockchains and will need a couple more orders of magnitude improvement to be (universally) on par with today’s app performance.
I’m not libertarian at all. I see cryptocurrency as a fair and transparent way out of the extreme wealth inequality we see in the world today. Decentralization gets me excited. New ways of using technology gets me excited.
High levels of social spending is indeed a hallmark of social democracy.

The creation of major new social welfare programs, like Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and TANF, since 1960, corresponds with a massive increase in the share of economic output expropriated by the state for the purpose of expending it on social programs.

Claiming Western states did not experience a transition to a more social democratic economic model, amidst the creation of major social welfare programs, and a massive increase in social welfare spending, is insane gaslighting.

>>a single figure

What an incredibly disingenuous way to characterize the share of GDP spent on government social welfare programs.

This is an all-encompassing figure that encapsulates every major type of social democratic spending.

Claiming that me using this extremely revealing macro-economic statistic, as evidence of the rise of social democracy, as:

"peddling this obvious bullshit based on a single figure stretched all the way to the moon"

is a desperate attempt to gaslight the public to hide reality from it.

>>non-free-market think-tank

Any think tank worth its salt is pro-free-market. Non-free-market think tanks are ideologically-motivated crank organizations, and usually on the payroll of the direct beneficiaries of social democracy - public sector unions.

Whether social democracy ideologues/apologists will admit that Western states experienced a massive transition to a more social democratic economic model over the last 60 years, doesn't change what the evidence, and any remotely sane analysis of it, shows.
Not really. The innovations in 90s web technologies solved more “real” problems and gained mass adoption. much different than the blockchain/crypto innovations of the past decade which are still used by a relatively small number of people.
It will always be "early days". Crypto requires a constant influx of marks who genuinely believe that they are early, as a ponzi scheme only ever benefits early entrants. No crypto enthusiast is ever going to tell that you are late.
I'm increasingly seeing "web 3.0" as basically a two headed beast:

1) a way to part greater fools from their money until the hype has died out

2) a hot topic to drive clicks and discussions for nerds and, increasingly, the tech press, from other more pressing issues that exist in terms of tech and culture and finance

In other words, its a bullshit scam, can we please move on already?
From the syntax, yes
in germany some cinemas have a cheap day for 10€/person, but for 5€ you only might get a drink. german cinemas are expensive.
The LED strips are replaceable (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003706329242.html?spm=a2...)

I had my TV (similar to yours) fixed by replacing those bars, check with a TV repair shop in your area.
Instead of pointing to the FAQ, it would be more fair to say that HN is heavily moderated or censored if you prefer.

Sometimes a story with 3 points will show up on the frontpage, sometimes a story with 20 points won't show up anywhere.

The exact mechanism is not obvious for the common users of the board.
Good stuff, so you would suggest to the author that their examples are too narrow. Perhaps that smartphones, Uber, and Facebook all represented somewhat minor "time has come" type innovations, whereas you see Bitcoin as a development more like the internet itself, and that instead we are in the Arpanet days.

(Disclosure I own Bitcoin and Ethereum)
How's this any different than the typical technology hype and adoption cycle? Perhaps we are just at the "peak of inflated expectations" right now, and are about to dive into the "trough of disillusionment".

https://setandbma.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/technology-ado...

This certainly happened with AI at least twice... remember the AI summers of 1970 and 2010 and the AI winters in between...before certain applications of machine learning became industrial tools.

I'm personally in agreement with the author that crypto is probably a waste of energy and a way to scam people, but I can look at the 30,000 foot view and admit there might be some applications in the future as we climb the "slope of enlightenment".

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.
Except that university research does not tend to produce that many charlatans and snake oil salesmen. I'll keep my skepticism until this technology gives us at least one useful mainstream thing.
people have the tendency to quickly categorise things into "good" or "bad". as scammy as the crypto world is, there are a lot of potential uses for the blockchain. think fault-resistant backends, think open and transparent data flow and storage. "the early days" is subjective but in my opinion there are still so many things that'd run better if it were run on a blockchain instead of a traditional centralised server
Calculating time deltas between events is fundamental for GPS navigation, tracking an incoming missile, coordinating the action of robotic systems, synchronization of telecommunications, ...
Communism is very different from fascism. I’m surprised and concerned at how often the two are conflated.
Except didn't those already have a built in hand-crank-powered generator?
Probably, rich westerners pay the US/etc website's premium retail price and get a novelty that subsidizes sales elsewhere.

The light is marketed for a different subsidized price on local website versions in the Global South, or through other channels.

Kinda like pharmaceuticals.
A cryptographically signed diploma could be sufficient for this use case, no specific need to commit it to a ledger. Certainly the transferability property of NFTs is not desired in this case.
Do we have proof of stake or do we have a lot of bitcoin folks avoiding criticism about the wasteful nature of most chains by claiming that proof of stake will fix all this.

How many coins are actually using proof of stake?

Why haven't the biggest including Ethereum done so?
Did Moore ever talk about the time length of such cycles? I imagine it differs from industry to industry. Is blockchain on a 10 year cycle like Uber/Facebook, or a longer cycle?

(Disclosure I own Bitcoin and Ethereum)
> And this conflicted with how they got popularity and power, which was by being largely single issue

In Czechia (where a pirate party is currently a part of the government) it was IMHO quite the reverse - the Czech Pirate Party mostly gained popularity by accenting ordinary center-liberal political themes.
It says “rather than change”. Doesn’t that preclude change? I interpreted it as accepting flaws and looking to “thrive” in other means that don’t involve fixing those flaws.
P.S., also practical to have 'watch: {clearScreen: true}' in rollup.config.js.
I have experienced exactly what you're describing. I want to find out what the minimum effective layoff time is, however, so I can do it deliberately rather than randomly, and hopefully maximize the rate at which my playing progresses.
Why don't you just buy it straight away? Problem solved!
I don’t understand your point. So if University research makes it out to the world - but the world decides to create scams from it, is it University’s fault?

I get it. People are angry about blockchain. Let’s shoot the world, not the messengers. Otherwise, we’ll be blaming the Bell Labs engineers for 4chan.
I quit a job to start my teaching and consulting venture. Teaching devs, and consulting companies on building teams.
Interesting to see that these are all wants, and that you can have them. It's a good time to be alive. Good for you.
Probably worth adding that you can already buy essentially the same thing, except powered by a hand crank, for $15-20 on Amazon.
This article resonates with me, but I don't think it would have when I was in my twenties. It's the kind of thing you come to realize after longer years as an adult and you see patterns play out in radically different life contexts, and then you start to grok who you really are in ways that aren't available when you've been an adult for less time then you were a child.

What I've learned about procrastination and escapism is that a lot of it is driven by neurotic feedback loops involving some meta-narrative I have about myself. But narratives are not reality, and while I'm busy overthinking those things I'm no use to myself or anyone else. Some of these tendencies are hard-wired in me, but by recognizing the pattern I can nudge myself back towards the present moment in which I am not perfect, but occasionally do good things.
What makes it spammy?
a "decentralized"[0] ""computer"" which is less powerful than a 9 year old rasberry pi. is this not the definition of hype?

[0]: https://thenextweb.com/news/ethereum-nodes-cloud-services-am....
Only about 500 years of common law.
“Low slippage stable coin swap” is one of the most jargony things I’ve read on here in a while. Can you please ELI5 because I have no clue what this is or how it could be useful.
> My wife recently suggested 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 once again better served by a database. Diplomas are inherently centralized and issued by a trusted authority.

Guess we gotta keep brainstorming for use cases -- that's how technology development works, right?
So this is Yet Another Liquidity Pool? $14B is not the kind of scale I mean. That is frankly trivial especially when transactions are large (or initial funding is high).

What I mean is, if blockchain is going to be a revolutionary technology backing all finance, where is the evidence it can handle the kind of transaction volume that, say, major credit card networks generate?
There are plenty of people on any part of the political spectrum for whom the current money system is horribly broken.
I think this really varies by subject. If you are reading a math textbook with exercises, you can just read the chapter however you want, and do the exercises. Anything you don't understand, you'll be forced to understand by solving the problems.

Similarly, if you're reading a computer science textbook, you really need to be writing code that puts your learning into practice, or solving algorithmic problems that use the subject matter.

This advice is better when you're just trying to remember stuff that you read in a textbook, rather than gaining a deeper understanding.