skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you not talking about https://github.com/ethereumproject/web3.js? That’s built on Ethereum to encourage use of their microtransaction-based service.

> BUT to solely focus on them is to ignore a real core of interesting computer science advances.

Examples? Specifically, which advances are you referring to which solve a problem other than “now you can do something you could do before but by paying me instead”?
Stables just need a fixed income vehicle similar to bonds. Luna and UST is this and is taking off.
A board game can choose to engage in a multitude of different ways. A well-crafted simple game can offer as deep a problem space as a more complex one, but strategy is only one form of engagement.

A lot of rules-heavy games like Twilight Imperium, Arkham Horror or Dune use rules to simulate a setting as much as to create a strategic problem space. If you removed rules from these games, you can make them easier to play and possibly keep the same raw depth, but you would lose the setting they were trying to build. I remember explaining to someone recently that almost every rule in the Dune board game was a reference to something in the books.
I think the steelman arg I've found for crypto as a general social media replacement is based on three pillars.

1. Ownership by default. NFTs are kinda a silly example, but since your wallet ("You") own your the token that represent your assets being able to transfer them around with you whenever you go somewhere new is cool.

2. Authentication with your wallet makes things much better. SSO for the whole web.

3. Alignment of incentives for users + service providers. (DAOs, traditional corps, etc.).

So with a concrete example.

In Web2 social network, the social graph is closed off along with all your account info. If you want to move to a different social media website, you have to reenter all your info and re-friend everyone etc. The corporation chose to ban people, and the only way you can in theory get a vote is through owning a share.

In (the ideal) Web3 social network, the social graph is open b/c all your friends are attached to your wallet. If you want to move websites you can take them with you, or even have you be on multiple front ends. Even better you might get tokens to vote for certain proposals in the DAO, for example such as banning people off the site etc.

Decentralization is valuable b/c it allows the above to happen, not because it's valuable in it of itself. Without a decentralized network there wouldn't be enough trust in the network for anyone to use it (long term).

After all blockchains are basically one giant shared database, if someone thought you can modify it, it loses all value (Similar to fiat money in a way ;) )
Speaking of chess, this whole thing feels like some game that Putin is playing to satisfy the oligarchs and hurt Biden (long game to another Trump presidency), while giving himself a bit more leverage for future negotiations.
Same with crypto. We have 10 years of data so far.
You'd get a language that is wildly incompatible with C and hence you may as well use a different language.
I'm an AI professor but since the article doesn't say and we all wanted to know I had to do some digging...

So those of you interested can read instead:

Georgiadis, Kringelbach & Pfaus (2012)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrurol.2012.151
(Nature Reviews Urology volume 9, 486–498)

Diamond 1997
http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/5510/1/146.pd...
(This seems to be an online version of an old book, not sure why it's hosted in Ethiopia?)
>A brand could be a personal portfolio that can be used outside the company for entrepreneurial endeavors.

So there might be issues with this. For your portfolio to be effective, you probably need some screen shots. This is "eye candy," that gets people interested if and when they give it a 5 second glance. Most companies don't care, but if it's an internal application, they might.

Having said that, you are always promoting (or demoting) your brand. People you work with notice your ability and work ethic always. When those people go to other companies and their new boss asks, "Do you know anyone who is good and will fit this role?" You want them to mention your name. You do this by always giving good effort. People definitely notice. I've gotten tons of jobs that way.
You are supposed to periodically seal it.
The analogy works as there is overhead to virtual memory management as well as all the LSMs that have been implemented over time to protect developers from themselves.

That said, you are right about having some reservations about automatically suspending applications. However, it would be nice to have the option. I would like to opt-in to something like this on a case-by-case basis.
Or the reverse... price drops make people more open to "crypto is bullshit" arguments.
There is no shortage of snake-oil and perverse incentives in the space; but the most charitable reading is that Web3 is a diverse family of technologies attempting to fill in two gaps from Web1: (a) self-sovereign identity, and (b) distributed value exchange. Their absence fueled the rise of the quasi-feudal [0] Web 2.0: outsourcing these functions to centralized firms (Google ID, PayPal).

The proposed identity models sometimes involve blockchains and smart contracts, but can also use simple private keys, or trustful P2P models like holochains. The solutions for value exchange are where crypto-tokens enter the picture (setting aside the perverse incentives of Supply attempting to create its own Demand); but one could certainly envision the same technology working with state-backed digital currencies, while still disintermediating finance middlemen (credit card fees, eBay fees, brokerage fees, etc).

[0] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2012/11/when_it_com...
> We have vaccines. Take the damn win.

Unfortunately it's still not that simple. If you look at the death rates in very high vaccination rate states/countries you see the same pattern. For example, VT has the highest vaccination rate in the country, at >90% with at least one dose, and is experiencing this as it's worst wave [0].

There's no doubt that vaccination helps and reduces overall severity, but it is by no means an "easy W"

Additionally we are starting to see diminishing returns in Israel's 4th round of shots [1]. It is increasingly looking like, even if we're will to do a life time of booster shots, this strategy may not be effective.

0. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/vermont/

1. https://healthpolicy-watch.news/israel-fourth-covid-booster-...
"...The level of ignorance and incompetence shown in this single email is mind-boggling...no code I’ve ever been involved with or have my copyright use log4j and any rookie or better engineer could easily verify that..."

Yeah, well, I've been quite shocked how rookie some F500 devs can be and how dysfunctional large corporations can also be. Probably what happened here is someone wrote a script that compiled the dependencies of all projects they have and they sent this same email to all of them (!) regardless of any actual or potential use of log4j.
There are three well known talking animals from YouTube and tiktok - Stella and Bunny (dogs) and Billi (cat) - that regularly exhibit evidence of reflection and recursive thought. Bunny has made poop jokes, talks about dreams (night talk,) and understands time abstractions like morning, afternoon, night, before, later, tomorrow, today, and yesterday. Billi schedules pets and toys, and complains if her humans don't wait, and so on.

My own dog has 30 buttons, and picks up new words and abstractions without explicit training. I've used 3 to 5 word sentences with him for 2 years, with great results. He's started using "outside water" in recent weeks to indicate he wants to pee outside, or "potty" for number two, where potty was all it was before. I give complex instructions, 2 to 4 deep, using 20ish named toys, like "take zebra to box, bring shark to me, then sit."

One thing I'm noticing is that while all the cognitive tools humans use seem to be present, they're shallow. There's not as many layers to the experiences they're communicating, and sophisticated abstractions might be impossible for them.

It looks like the animal internal narrative is a kind of "living in the moment" type of existence, whereas even 2 year old humans have a multi-layer internal narrative, including deception and fantasy, which is the biggest divergence I've seen so far between animal and human.

Any particular facet of cognition seems to be there, it just looks like humans process more deeply and broadly.

I think if you give an elephant, horse, dog, cat, or parrot a neuralink implant and a 1000+ word vocabulary, by the time the animal is 4 or 5 it'll communicate with a mature understanding of its vocabulary. Elephants and dolphins might be able to tell stories.

At some point the buttons will have to become cheaper, or a better animal interface will be needed for talking pets to become more common. I hope I live to see talking pet "classes" and animal education become mainstream. I think there will be a cultural shift toward more empathy and better treatment of pets.

https://youtube.com/c/BilliSpeaks

https://youtube.com/channel/UCEa46rlHqEP6ClWitFd2QOQ

https://youtube.com/c/hungerforwords

And: https://fluent.pet/products/they-can-talk
If you want buttons for yourself.
It's not. When OP first launched his search engine a few months ago, it was pointed out to him multiple times that DDG doesn't seem to communicate with third-parties, but You does even when in private mode. OP avoided that question - and a few others - then and, it appears he's still avoiding it now (he hasn't responded to you in 2 days).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29161545#29194124
Does that actually work?

It seems that the degree of minimal polynomial having as root the sum of N square roots might be up to 2^N, and if you then apply the bound at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrical_properties_of_poly... (where n = 2^N) you get a bound on the order of at least 2^N digits (more precisely 2^N (N + D)).

So it doesn't seem to lead to a proof of a subexponential number of equal digits, unless the degree of the minimal polynomial is actually subexponential.
A lot of the comments here are about difficulty cloud tech navigation/adoption. I create a framework built on top of AWS to try to alleviate a great deal of the infra management aspects of running web applications. It sets you up with all the basics out of the box in about 10 minutes (db, api, ui, users, groups, roles).

https://awayto.dev

https://github.com/keybittech/awayto

Along the same vein as other posts in this thread, startups and contractors need instantaneous test bed environments that support a lot out of the gate, and which can be the basis to scale from. I've been a contractor off and on for a few years and have seen this need first hand. So my tool is meant to fill in the foundations of great ideas, so those ideas can grow faster. I think that's an essential trait of cloud services that you will be hard-pressed to find elsewhere.
I mean, it depends on your pay I guess. But 4 hours commute, just no, why do people do that? I most probably is worth 10%

But I am of the opinion that if google thinks the job is worth what they are currently paying, then that's what it's worth, but the arguments used here are terrible?

I don't think any company pays commute time, and not doing 4hours commute doesn't mean google should get an extra 4 hours work a day out of the employee
Most states don't report deaths on the weekend, which is why you should look at the 7-day average. It was 3,866 deaths on Friday.
Immutable websites aren't an interesting idea?
The universe will eventually die either-way so why bother

We're two centuries in the industrial revolution and everything points to the fact that we're destroying our home planet, which means two things:

- 0.6 billion years is plenty of time

- if we fucked up so bad on this perfect planet how likely it is that we have anywhere close to a comfortable life on a dead planet that we haven't evolved to live on ? We had the best conditions possible to start with and we destroyed a good part of it for petty things in an extremely small amount of time
Addicts are going to die in the steet if it's regulated and legal too. I'm not sure you understand what heroin addiction does to people.
this. the incentives are bound by the underlying tech.
Qtile – A hackable tiling window manager written in Python | Qtile.org
I'm curious if you could get an algorithm using some sort of factoring.

(sqrt(a_1) + sqrt(a_2) + ...)*(sqrt(b_1) + sqrt(b_2) + ...) = (sqrt(a_1*b_1) + sqrt(a_1*b_2) + ... + sqrt(a_2*b_1) + sqrt(a_2*b_2) + ...).

So you have a convolution operation on lists of integers which satisfies the following:

sumOfSqrts(xs) * sumOfSqrts(ys) = sumOfSqrts(convolution(xs, ys))

You could try something where you factor the two lists you are comparing into their "prime lists", remove the duplicates, and then you've reduced it to comparing some countable set of lists, that might have some properties that make them easier to compare? Of course all of that assumes you can uniquely factor lists under this convolution. I don't think you can't if you assume negative numbers can be in the list. But if you restricted your attention to lists with only positive entries, and factored into only lists with all positive entries, it's possible you have a unique factorization method. I don't have the math skills offhand to tell for sure.

NB: the article describes PSPACE as being definitely larger than P or NP. But, just like how we don't know (but strongly suspect) NP is bigger than P, we don't know if PSPACE is bigger than P! Complexity theory is hard, so much so that even these relatively simple questions haven't yet been proven.
Crypto allow new middle men to come into existence which allows them to make money the "old fashioned way".
A personal task organizer on top of Markdown with Vim-bindings
I found this project last week and I've been using it for a few days. In the past, I've used Trello to manage my tasks but I've always hated having to use a web browser and rely on the Cloud for this stuff. Instead, I tended to use pen-and-paper but that's not easy to organize or search.

In my digging, I realized that I just want a stupid simple Markdown file. The self-hosted tools I found were all too "web-scale" with Postgres databases and Docker-Compose. Plus, I couldn't use it on my phone unless I setup a box in the Cloud for it...

That's why, when I found this simple tool, I got excited. It's a simple Markdown file so that it works with Dropbox on my phone. I can easily edit it by hand on mobile and have it sync with my computer. And if I need to share my TODO list with somebody non-technical, it's easily understandable.

Press `?` in the app to view the list of commands. This has been working really well for me so far! Cheers
Yes. See this map with Putin's plans to restore the USSR. Romania does not want a direct border with Russia and being reverted back to a Russian puppet state. Ukraine and Moldova do not want dissasembly. Most Black Sea states, including Turkey do not want the Black Sea transformed into a Russian lake. So yes, there is credible threat.

https://www.geopolitica.ru/sites/default/files/novor.png
It's very rare where doing that is a good idea. A constructor is about the only time when you get much of a benefit.
Evidence is a hard word in paleontology. The article does discuss fossils which provide clues, which is as good as it gets for most of the field.
No, nor was it prolonged.
Well... maybe. If your pipe is carrying waste heat to a radiator of some sort (cooling tower or whatever), insulation doesn't matter, because the heat is going to escape to the environment anyway.
I like crypto, at least it's interesting. But what still annoys me is that I have to pay so much for sending money. It's hilarious, SEPA and other methods are cheaper. I bet Western Union is cheaper, and they have airport prices...
People here willingly use Zoom over Jitsi Meet? How come?
Crypto winter is coming.
Indirectly. You are processing their transactions.
Risk mitigation whilst hospitals are at capacity? Nah, gotta live my life! Otherwise they might perceive me as weak-willed, and more important than my continued existence is to ensure I am not perceived as a weakling! Anything else is others being hysterical! Fuck doctors, am I right!
These are two separate things, and it's perilous to conflate them.

The OSS developer is providing software that anyone can use under whatever license terms for free. How they monetize this is entirely their responsibility. Choosing a permissive license makes them generally indistinguishable from the developers who don't want to monetize their work at all. Solving the "how do we ensure they get paid?" problem is nontrivial, but certainly out of scope for this discussion.

The verification service is provided by a company to protect their customers from malicious changes to said OSS software. (Yes, even if they were deliberate changes by the original developer!)

In some sense, you could try to frame the verification services as somehow predatory, but that's like saying that safety inspectors are predatory to independent carpenters.

(I'm not happy with that last analogy, but it's the best I could come up with on the spot. Real-world analogies to software problems are always messy, so feel free to suggest a better one if you think of any.)
Is it possible to have a decentralized country?

Take the united states... people are basically free to sneak in, without becoming residents, without "downloading the American OS into their brains" aka citizenship.

Now, what if all countries allowed this? Or, what if a "decrentralized country" offered citizenship with no actual geographic location?

Does American citizenship offer people benefits overseas? For example hostage situations? What if there was a better, decentralized country, that would come to your aid?
Nope! They put it in once, and they can tip all creators with an account with Tippy.
That's probably the more realistic expectation. Especially when the west is doing very, very little to help curb infections elsewhere in the world. Until they become interested in that there will always be a fresh supply of variants arriving.
Yes, the takeaway is definitely not to try to fix wealth inequality. /s
Yeah 100% this. I've worked on various blockchain projects since 2018 and have never written nor seen it written in any internal slack/discord.
Not yet, but that is definitely on the way!
Have you tried Cloudflare pages + functions? Curious what you see as the big pieces that are missing from your ideal world?

Disclaimer: I work at Cloudflare.
DC Circuit Water Analogy (1998)
I turned my stagnant side project into a sports car
Downvoters hate sarcasm.

Don't they realize you've suffered enough watching Season 8 six times?
I agree that the stated reasons don't sound very compelling. Maybe in aggregate, but not individually.

But they left out one of the bigger reasons, IMHO. FreeBSD doesn't tend to churn user (admin) facing interfaces. This saves you time, because you still use ifconfig to configure interfaces, and you still use netstat to look at network statistics, etc; so you don't have to learn a new tool to do the same thing but differently every couple of years. Sure, there's three firewalls, but they're the same three firewalls since forever.
> If you’re a startup you want to focus on your product, and all this cloud tech is just a distraction. AWS is for big companies with a lot of turnover that can’t run their own machines.

Can't emphasize how wrong this is, and how for our company the exact opposite was true.

I don't manage any servers, our infrastructure runs on a mix of serverless technologies. Yes, at some point we may move things around because of cost, but that was planned up front and will be straightforward (our instances are just Docker containers running on Cloud Run and/or App Engine Flexible).

The reason this is such bad advice is because there is a ton of shit you need to do on your own (or, more likely, doesn't get done at all in some cases) if you run your own infrastructure:

1. You need to setup all of your own logging aggregation and monitoring systems. That's really a few clicks in a cloud.

2. You need to constantly update your images for security reasons. In a cloud, that is done for me.

3. All the systems I use are autoscaling. If I have a spike in traffic for some reason, probably the time when I most want my servers to be up, I don't have to scramble.

If you're a a startup and want to just focus on your product, you should build in the cloud. If you want to focus on your infrastructure, by all means build it yourself.
There's an in place upgrade process, as long as you haven't put a bunch of third party repositories/packages on the system they tend to go generally well

Some of the more drastic changes aren't adopted this way, eg: filesystem defaults
thing is - you don't want to have a single server for your application, even the most simple one. Even having some simple redundancy in place means having 2 webservers, 2 database servers (separated from the webservers). And even for storage, S3 is not evaluated under the only metrics of storage size, but availability and durability too.
Yes, there is system.replaceRuntimeDependencies [1] that does what you ask: It replaces dependencies recursively in derivation outputs through binary patching, creating _new_ store paths (so immutability is preserved). It does so by replacing all occurrences of the store paths of the original dependency (e.g., libc) with the new ones [2].

[1] https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=21.11&show=system.r...

[2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/fad04722fc3d692e3511e5...
Everyone!
Roads, water, sewage are enormous expensive, but nobody cringe about subsiding them with taxes.
Yes, tell me about not needing the cloud (aka a managed provisioning and scaling service) when your poorly configured database breaks, or when you need a 3 hours downtime on prod because you need to reboot and reconfigure your services, or your release breaks production because you're using a diff tool to run deployments, or you simply have no option to scale horizontally past your single vps once traffic comes in.

Very clickbait article, please don't blindly follow recommendations by someone which obviously doesn't get services even like Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda and Identity management (:shrugh:).

Sure, a VPS is fine for a low risk pet project like your portfolio, a blog, some marketing websites, the project I built over the weekend and a few other things. For anything else, there's literally not a single reason for not wanting to use a cloud service / a managed provider.
A correction isn’t a prolonged bear market. Regardless, the period of 2010 to date has effectively been a prolonged bull run.
There's more and more being built outside of Ethereum and the dominance has been shrinking. As to how I explain the dominance - shrinking first mover advantage.
SUSE Liberty Linux
A fair point, but even then 150 is probably on the high end. I commute 60 miles a day and made it through the first ~2 months using only a level 1 home charger (standard wall outlet). My total charge trended down through the week, and then made up for it on the weekend.

~10 hours of level 1 charging gives me about 50-60 miles. Slightly limiting for my commute, but all in all, not impossible to work around.