skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The internet != web.

The internet is OSI model [1] layers 1-4. Layer 3 is literally called the Internet Protocol. Layer 4 is TCP, UDP, etc.

Web is five (some would say six) and up and was released to the public in 1993. This is well documented.

Blockchain is five (some would say six) and up and was released to the public in 2009. This is well documented.

The OSI network model gives us a way to disambiguate "the internet" by it's component parts and dependencies. The web depended on the physical and network infrastructure that is the internet, as did blockchain.

The web was accessible to at best 15 million people worldwide that had internet access when it was released in 1993. Within 13 years 15 million internet users became 1 billion internet+web users. As others have pointed out for the majority of this time period there were many challenges to adoption yet the web was so clearly and obviously compelling people overcame those challenges to access the tremendous value and utility provided by the web.

Blockchains have been accessible to billions of existing internet, web, social media, and mobile users since release and yet maybe 10% of these users are using blockchain for anything at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
AMD FTPM Causes Random Stuttering Issue
I think one of the biggest differences that they completely skip over is the ubiquity of indoor lighting. If they turned off your lights and screens after sunset I'm sure most people would sleep better. I always go to sleep quicker when I'm camping and would guess the lack of electric lighting is the main reason for this.
The Dropbox thread is a good reminder that the hive mind isn't always right.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I am under the impression that even _safe_ Rust is really hard to learn. Several years ago I started with GoLang and it was so easy to start programming even advanced things almost instantly..Rust drives me crazy. The syntax seems overcomplicated, the compiler errors are cryptic, the IDE is not helpful.
Newer contracts, if built well, have rescue mechanisms built in.
sounds they they should have had a better investment strategy when they were working. some people.
In the Southern US the religious and the Republicans actively attempt to erase wars. Most recently in TN where they ban books about it.

It would help if the US would actually teach history instead of pretend like it did not happen.
>Obviously your experience doesn't agree with mine, and I clearly can't say why. All I can say is that vim simply "clicked" for me when I first learnt it. I have coached enough coworkers that I can say the same thing applies to most people who take the time to learn the "vim way". And of course vim would not be as popular as it is, if that wasn't generally the case.

From my very first comment about the matter.

>>I spent about 4 months on it daily unable to get up to speed how I was originally.

>>This may just speak to my own inabilities of muscle memory, and granted, If I used Vim a little younger, I think the outcome would be different.

You keep talking about configuration, when the bigger elephant in the room is learning the keybindings.

It took me almost 2 months to be comfortable without looking at the vim cheatsheet

It then took another 2 months to get to a speed at which I felt like I could be productive.

And at that point, my typescript projects were so incredibly slow, I had to quit vim.

>But it's objectively complete nonsense to claim that vscode does not require a substantial time-investment if you really want to super-power it.

I still disagree as GUIs makes configurations a lot simpler, and as plugins are just a click away.

Again, if you include learning the keybindings, which for some reason you refuse to, you'd find it within yourself that you would disagree with your initial statement.
That is ridiculous. I have not had such blatant negligence / corruption happen to me yet.
Ignoring the fact that the underlying semantics of that data description are still fundamentally misguided and broken...

What you've outlined is the common misconception by the Semantic Web community about what constitutes a living and workable software ecosystem.
It's the classical architecture-astronauts fallacy of ignoring this age old truth: The medium is the message.

The "but RDF only specifies the semantics of abstract graph data, all the serialisation formats are just implementation defined incidentals" argument is at the root of why there are thousands pages of specifications and 0 high quality semantic web libraries or tools.
It's like saying "no, no, no, you misunderstand JSON/XML/YAML/ASN.1 it is not a (flawed?) serialisation format, it is a data model for trees, which works on any text processing capable system", true, but a straw-man.

Developers and Ontologists flocking to Protege, OWL API and Jena, is akin to dehydrated animals flocking to the last muddy and barely drinkable water-hole. They have no choice and it's mostly sh*t.

Everybody is still editing XML files by hand, there is no maintained, complete, production ready library for any language, and most of the stuff that does exist is either the cadaverous remain of a publicly funded science grant or an obscure project developed by a lone consultant who made peddling the semantic web his livelyhood without any real community.

People have to be able to use a system, and then actually use it in order to be meaningful, theoretical what ifs are irrelevant.
In countries with public healthcare it’s still based on ability to pay. You pay out of pocket and cut the queue, have decent time allotment with the doctor, get best medication available without money-saving algorithms etc.
I wrote postgresql-replicant [0] in order to do this. It’s not a novel idea. It lets you read the logical replication stream.

On top of this library you can do all sorts of things: replicate data to Kafka or SQS, write a web socket server to publish changes to clients, etc.

[0] https://github.com/agentultra/postgresql-replicant
Even on Wikipedia they write it is a "legacy service" so it is more like movie gimmick than something useful.
Do young people know how to use domain names?
Actual thieves: "Cool. We're going to kidnap you and beat you until your other signatory coughs up access."
If I tried to buy "Applr" instead of "Apple", then either:

a) There is a company called "Applr", so I at least have something (a different stock)

b) There is no comany called "Applr", so the trade is cancelled.

This is like saying "You tried to be Applr, that doesn't exist, so you money just got blackholed".
Don't keep your backup fully available at your house for this reason. Figure out we way to split it up and distribute it, but with redundancy.
If Spotify bought exclusive rights to Joe’s podcasts, would he be allowed to go back to youtube if Spotify decided to stop publishing him?
It seems to me that the poster views this belief favorably. For that, I will ponder how well the poor lived under the "nobles". At least, during the feudal times the offer of protection from the feuding lords and sharing of the chateau's cellars during lean times meant something.

This quotation from the article

> In ethical discussion, the term is sometimes[citation needed] used to summarize a moral economy wherein privilege must be balanced by duty towards those who lack such privilege or who cannot perform such duty. Recently, it has been used to refer to public responsibilities of the rich, famous and powerful, notably to provide good examples of behaviour or exceed minimal standards of decency.

lays bare the naivete of people who in these days think it is better to solicit the sympathies of our betters.

At it's core, "one must share one's bounty with the rest of the group" or "the group provides implicit insurance to other members of the group" only "work" among small groups of relative equals who can monitor each other.

Delegation of monitoring, distance between the helper and recipient, and the ability to get by without effort in complicated social insurance schemes destroy everything about small group members' ability to mutually insure each other with a foundation of trust.

Is it because the phenomenon of such complicated social insurance schemes leading to shrinking total resources and formation of a permanent group of recipients has become visible that people who think redistribution is the solution to all problems are now trying to cast it as something the very few very rich ought to follow in the footsteps of feudal lords?

Or is it a way to formalize the relationship whereby a bazillionaire can ensure loyal support so long as the lifestyles of journalists and activists are well supported?
To your last point I wonder what the effect of not allowing a provider to charge a different price for the same service/product would be.
Your comments prove my point exactly. The public-facing blog network (which has no login wall and does not require an account) uses a templated theme system. The blog author can make it look however they want! Some blogs choose themes which omit these things, or use a custom theme and choose to omit these things. That makes the user interface worse!

Meanwhile the Tumblr dashboard (logged in user experience / social network side) has a uniform user interface which does provide these things.

But there is no way for Tumblr to prevent this problem on the blog side while still allowing users to have full control over their blog's public appearance. If they forced themes to contain specific template tags or design elements, it would no longer be usable as a freeform CMS.

Same reason Tumblr doesn't/can't have a login wall. But as a result of this, casual readers get a mistaken impression of the product and its capabilities.
And to make matters worse, all this bureaucratic nonsense for coding, billing, authorization costs a stupidly large amount of money that gets baked back into the bills somewhere.
I don't know the technical details of font implementations. But I do know on my low ppi monitor, Ubuntu fonts look far better than both Windows and MacOS.
"Dumb procedures" is more descriptive IMO.
> maybe you could embarrass them about their lack of network engineering knowledge

I’m fairly certain it’s possible to do much worse to a laywer, especially a technically clueless one.

Defending oneself from a frivolous lawsuit (e.g. judge has already said ‘you can’t do that’) in a sensible country like Germany might not cost you anything.

Much, much more likely however, is that they wouldn’t go to court at all (because, you know, they would lose, and even if both sides pay their own cost they’d lose more money than they could potentially make).
Luckily I’m not smart enough to lose that much money so quickly.
I can see the headlines from 40 years in the future: Geofracking Responsible for Devastation of the State of Tennessee as Record Breaking Earthquake Shakes the Eastern Seaboard”

Also how exactly is extracting heat from underground renewable? What exactly renews the constantly cooling core of our planet?
How productive do you think it would be to open a bug report with Microsoft telling them that Segoe UI/Arial/etc. are hideous? Do you think they will change them for me and/or license some good looking fonts to bundle with Windows?

Complaining and not using them is the only real option.
Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire
History: Last year I had to replace the tire on my bike, and I was surprised how difficult it was to find a suitable new tire. There were a lot of numbers written on the casing, so I googled what they meant. In the end I was successful, but I didn't want to do the same work again for the next bike after I've forgotten the details. So I wrote this website.

Technically, the web page is kept very simple, no frameworks, no templates, no website builder. It uses HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, and it privides a responsive layout for mobile usage.

I'm happy to receive feedback. If you have tried the label of your bike tire, and it doesn't work, please post it as well. Thanks!
The Geysers – Geothermal Plants Powering Northern California
Well, but why stop there?

> were known to throw makibishi — usually made of metal — while fleeing an enemy on horseback. Horses would step on the spikes, slowing them down and allowing the ninjas to escape.

"the first-dynasty sarcophagus was found alongside a variety of Mario Kart weapon precursors..."
I don't know anything about crypto. Why can't he contact someone on the receiving end of the transaction and say "I really messed up, please transfer this money back to me?". I know crypto transactions can't be undone, but a new transaction of equal value in the reverse direction could be done, right? And if not, why the hell not?
It can also just be a matter of convenience. When I was first put on testosterone I was prescribed AndroGel, which is a gel you out on once daily. It costs $400 a month. Insurance gave a bit of hassle but with my test numbers they acquiesced.

They shouldn’t have, though. Injections (what I’m on now) work better. They’re easier to maintain the correct dose, you don’t have to worry about getting it on your partner/kids, you only take it once every week or two…and it’s maybe $20 a month.

That’s not just a few dollars saved. There are probably hundreds of thousands of men out there that take it. I see there’s a generic gel now but it still costs anywhere from $60-$150 a month.
Agreed - but Kubernetes won't result in you losing half a million of your assets in an instant.

I mean unless you decide to use Amazon EKS for a side project of course...
Thank you for that link, I see it was posted to hn, but gained little traction.

It certainly puts words to my feelings around current "crypto" trends as someone (probably like moxie) that still remember the first wave of cypherpunks[1] and dreams of digital currencies.

It feels strange when a lot of smart people insists on something that's obviously false in a practical, real-world sense - and it's nice to see someone else shine a light on that, and explain in simple, correct terms what's actually going on.

I wonder if there are any emerging systems that are more likely to realise the idea (ideals) of digital currencies and smart contracts?

I had hopes for etherum, but now I'm thinking that if we'll ever get there, it'd be in the next generation (call it third generation, bitcoin being first, etherum second - and earlier things generation zero).

I'm thinking it would be proof-of-stake, and somehow viable as real peer to peer, or split in a more sane way between infrastructure and "wallets".

[1] See eg this for a summary and some pointers https://nakamoto.com/the-cypherpunks/
- it is about ethics, not moral. Young has one, Spotify doesn't.

- a platform can't be everything. If Spotify wants to be the platform for disinformation, they are on the right path. Young simply gave voice to those who don't and kept his promise to not be on the same platform with someone he believes has no ethics.

- OR Spotify could accept to be an editor and take responsibility for the bullshit that Rogan irradiates from their servers. Guess why they don't want to be recognized as such?
Yes, it is difficult to pin down an exact definition of insurance in cases where the cost is all but guaranteed.

I can see their point now, but at the time I was thinking relative to other taxpayer funded healthcare systems.
The loss of Jobs is terrible. I don't know of other platforms where you can easily filter for showsSalary && isRemote, has such detailed tech stack per job posting, such little friction to make a CV and apply - and most importantly, so many real postings from worldwide companies.

I can't fathom how they could not make a profit out of this, on freaking SO.
> most likely they get nothing from Spotify in the first place. It's basically the bad old record industry all over again

What makes you think the "old record industry" is gone? Spotify doesn't pay artists directly. All money goes to the "old record industry" which then pays the artists.

No one asks where the money disappears when it reaches the "old record industry" because criticizing those companies likely means commercial death for many artists.

However, it's easy to criticize Spotify because... they can't say anything either: they depend on those companies.
Except this appears to be a mistake! (Read on, it isn't)

If we follow the Sanskrt we get the cognate jaagarti: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/जागर्ति#Sanskrit

Which lists the root as *h₁ger- (“to be awake, to awaken”).

But that root is missing from Wiktionary, which isn't a good sign, but compare:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

Although tracing this forward I see the obvious derivatives (vajra, vaaja) and it would be peculiar, but not unheard of, for the word to take two mutations.

I'm basically on a random walk at this point, but here's that missing root again https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ἐγείρω#Ancient_Greek and I am once again left wondering...

Exitare! Ok. Nope completely different roots. Someone should really write up *h₁ger- it's pretty important...
Somewhat similar to the way we currently produce geothermal power in Northern California.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geysers
> Neil and those who're following his lead are doing the right thing

Which specific doctors and scientists do you think shouldn’t have appeared on Rogan’s podcast?
> So you agree that it's not a binary trait:

Ha, here's the question: Is the lack of a trait one of its expressions? Is 'none' a reproductive strategy or is it the absence of one? I guess ones view on the "binary" nature of sex very much depends on that.

> [..] we're excluding people who can't have children due to reproductive system defects as not having a sex despite having a gender, which further puts the two concepts apart from each other.

I think that is a very interesting question and debate. I broadly agree that this would be the implication, although I can see why many people would be uncomfortable with that. I think it would be good for the discussion of topics like the one in the original post if people had a clearer understanding that sex and gender - albeit related - are distinct concepts.
>How to avoid layout shifts caused by ads.

Not sure this one counts as a bug, but a deliberate WONTFIX. I never intentionally click on ads, but I have been known to press one when an ad "happened" to appear in the position of some other content.
That sounds pretty standard for how boycotts work.

Spotify choosing to end their contract with Joe Rogan over this wouldn't infringe on his free speech. Having the right to say whatever you want doesn't mean any given company needs to let you broadcast it on their platform.
radioactive decay.
Systems and prices vary between countries. No idea if there's a book but my experience in Indonesia, India and Vietnam was stellar. Working with a medical facility was as simple as doing something in a mall.

If you are going from America, you can't go wrong in any major Asian country. India has the benefit of having English speaking doctors.
The people who create a lot of tech debt (and other problems) are often highly visible and appear to Get Things Done. In fact, they may actually get things done, but in a poor fashion (in this context).

Repenning & Sterman, Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened [PDF] https://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning=Sterman_CMR_su01_.... (pretty sure this is the one I want)

Being proactive and doing the right thing (maybe, potential higher costs earlier than they can be supported for instance) is a low-visibility activity. Even if it's your job to do the cleanup work, the one who wrote it first is the one most likely to get the credit no matter the quality. Because they got something out there for customers, not you.
Beautiful Technical Debt (2022)
Perhaps they wouldn't have stopped Neil Young at all. Being pro-free speech doesn't mean censoring those who are anti-free speech, which is the main difference between being pro- and anti-free speech in the first place.
WETH is short for “wrapped Ether”. It’s a token issued on the Ethereum blockchain. This token conforms to the so-called ERC-20 standard, which is — essentially — the API of the token. Ether itself does not conform to the ERC-20 standard, which is why wrapping it is necessary to e.g. exchange it for other ERC-20 tokens via a smart contract designed for this purpose (confusingly called a “swap”).
Really hoping that's sarcasm
sure there is much more to it than just knowing c, but learning it should be encouraged as an important stepping stone if someone wants to learn cpython internals ... or even internals of many (most?) popular python libraries
Yeah, I always use beer as well. Works great.

0.2l Milk, 2 eggs, 80g flour, 15g butter, 30g sugar, 85g beer. Mix milk, eggs, and everything else except the butter and beer. Melt the butter and mix it in too. Add beer, drink the rest. Then make pancakes.
As I was looking up current AndroGel prices I discovered there’s now a twice daily pill. That’s even more convenient than a gel!

Too bad it’s $1,000 a month. We’re all paying that so people can avoid sticking themselves with a needle.
Telekom is v6-only (464XLAT), Vodafone and o2 are dualstacking (with CGNAT for v4). You might need need to manually update your APN settings if your phone was set up before they enabled it though.
The point of learning C as a python developer isn't to learn C nearly as much as it is to better understand what's going on in the levels of abstraction below.

Many years ago, as a student, a friend let me borrow their copy of "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation". At the time I thought I was going to be learning about security. What I learned instead was what a program was, what a computer was, at a surprising level of detail.

Especially the early chapters, a true picture of what computers are doing is given to the reader. And once you understand that, you could apply the knowledge to security, no doubt. But you could also apply it to understanding many higher level languages- Python included.

You can find older editions online as PDF files. Really recommend it.
Rogan says you shouldn’t get medical or scientific advice from himself. He also has world leading doctors and scientists on his program. How is he “irradiating bullshit”?
The Cypherpunks (2019)
> Apple, clearly, does not host Steve Bannon’s podcast. Apple’s podcast directory is akin to a search engine; they index the feeds of open podcasts. They do have lines for content they won’t index (porno, of course, and hate speech)

If you look at Apple's content guidelines[0] section 2.2 they do explicitly forbid "Encouragement of criminal activity or illegal acts" Given that treason, sedition, and advocating the overthrow of the government are illegal under 18 U.S.C[1] there's a good argument that Bannon's podcast should not be allowed.

I'm not sure what Apple's mechanism is for enforcing their guidelines but it seems the argument could be made for delisting Bannon as well.

0. https://podcasters.apple.com/support/891-content-and-subscri...
1. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/part-I/chapter-11...
A couple renovating a 115-year-old building discovered two 60-foot-long hidden
> Do any of them have software that is better than OpenWRT or Tomato?

What about Cisco and Mikrotik?
I don’t think anyone is suggesting to force anyone to do anything.

It’s just an observation that someone clearly doesn’t support free speech if they give an ultimatum like that.