skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You realize everyone from Intel to Samsung have R&D centers in Moscow right ?
Context: the HN post title was originally "On earth I became an entrepreneur".
Quite possible that's the case, but I think it's unlikely that it outweighs the "intangible benefits" you'd get from other, more standard investments, like public transit or libraries.
Isn't IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) considered web3? can't you use IFPS without cryptocurrencies?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
Thank you! Do you have any suggestions on this project?
Uber and Lyft add fuel surcharges to rides as gas prices surge nationwide
Most non-packaged apps are just `./configure && make install` sometimes `cmake . && make install` It's hardly one step much less 10. If you know so little about some random software you found that you can't compile it I'm not sure installing it is a good idea.
Too bad when I want to install newer fancy tools on Linux, it's easier to unify the environment with Homebrew instead of using Homebrew only on Linux (which has a very weird quirk that it wants to install in /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew (or else it'll start compiling so many packages instead rolling binary packages) instead of /opt/homebrew like any sane decision would've been.)

I also don't understand Nix when it wants to make 30 users for build process and a few unintuitive decisions. Otherwise it's good that it works same on macOS and Linux.
A Baker's Dozen: 13 Key Ideas (about flash photography) (2019)
"We'll just reuse the password as a token! Hashing, what's that?"
I think if we've learned anything so far from this decade long experiment it's financialization incentivises spam and low quality content like nothing before! The best creative communities I've been involved in make a point to avoid financialization which in turn keeps away a certain group of people who only engage for money
Thanks, this sounds awesome and interesting topic for learning in the future.
I get Noah's perspective, but it is indeed deeply rooted in the USA context and history.

And both perspective may both be valid.

It's also a symptom of the divide between two takes on determinism: do you project yourself as mostly determined by your ancestry, your context, or by your choices?

French Revolution was a bit of that too, that one ought not be determined, in one's fate, neither by ancestry, neither by tradition, neither by religion; but by one's attachment to the nation, the constitution and one's will, work and accomplishment.

Also reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_rights
Gcobol: A new COBOL front end for GCC
If you want to share control of that data with me—and say that the data represents something valuable (or is itself valuable somehow) and we don’t really trust each other not to tamper with it—then the classic “single server hosting data on the internet” doesn’t really do the trick.

If the number of people needing to collaborate is arbitrarily large, and includes people who don’t know each other and don’t trust each other, then the only option for storing and updating shared state in a tamperproof and durable way is to use a consensus-replicated blockchain.
Because the Internet brought us things that can be patched OTA so enterprises went from good when purchased to the user is the beta-tester.
That is why you configure your security groups properly.
I warn about using any kind of snake oil.

Often sold under the marking terms "antivirus" or "personal firewall" or "cloud cyber security". Known side effects of this treatment are high CPU load, high RAM consumption, drain of battery power. Sometimes they also consume your money or looking at your data. So far I would consider other counter measures, like applying user rights, proper package management and re-consider your decision using this random stuff from the internet? If you're forced to use Windows the one with the least known side effects is Microsoft Security Essentials but even this has several drawbacks.
If you're already using Linux or some kind of BSD you probably applied already these measures accordingly.

PS: This doesn't mean you shouldn't make sane use of software looking expectantly for malware. If your are a server admin and hosting a mail server which faces random stuff from the internet it makes sense to filter out bad stuff. And it won't spin up the fan of your laptop or drain its battery.
I should've picked different cities. Well, Tokyo's probably fine, I don't think Japan's baseball league has the foreign popularity that Europe's football leagues do.

My point was supposed to be less about major world cities having famous teams and more about the impact of those teams on said cities. Okay, Tokyo doesn't have world-recognized sports teams the way London does. Does that seem to hurt it?
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (1945)
The argument isn't about a specific company having the competency but that someone would and they would rise above.

Also, more specifically - as a Samsung user for my preferences they offer as good or better products than Apple while operating on a smaller budget.
There you go. Cryptocurrencies are here to stay no matter how much they hate it or continue to waste time on repeating the same old arguments even though there are far better cryptocurrencies out there that already exist.

The fact that they are unable to ignore them and continue to spread the same debunked nonsense tells you that it is not going away and it is getting boring.

Just look at the first few sentences:

> a slow distributed, append only spreadsheet technology which is destroying the planet we live on.

So Solana, Stellar and Algorand are destroying the planet?

> Blockchain isn't new. It has been around for as long as the iPhone. Look how much the iPhone has changed the world. Blockchains one claim to fame in this period is the creation of $5.2B/year ransomware industry, societal damage in the form of gambling and the loss of irreplaceable photos.

The internet isn't new. Its 'killer app' (The world wide web) came decades afterwards and it took decades more for adoption. I don't know why one would try to use ransomware on transparent and traceable blockchains these days, where everyone can see where it is going, unless you are using 'privacy coins' which those are getting banned due to regulations.

All of that did not stop Stripe to continue supporting cryptocurrencies for payments [0], did it? It's really getting boring repeating the same old arguments from critics like Stephen Diehl [1] who is unable to ignore the whole thing after his failed blockchain startup venture Adjoint. [2] That's why he is grieving and wasting his energy towards cryptocurrencies.

[0] https://stripe.com/gb/use-cases/crypto

[1] https://twitter.com/smdiehl

[2] https://twitter.com/dystopiabreaker/status/14701269278180679...
Are they allowed to restore the account from backup if the user asks for the reopening of the account?
In the future, doing queries and edits within Emacs would be awesome!

Overpass Turbo for queries: https://overpass-turbo.eu/

Level0 for text-based edits: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Level0
Can we pay and invest with a wink?
Smart AR Lenses are coming. Screens in your eyes. Invisible devices. Third-party developer startups building Smart AR apps are soon to come.

How about FinTech? We understand that finance is in every faucet of the economical gear. How do we imagine a near future day to day product that involves transactions through eye winking?
Just switch to an open source OS like Linux already
Pilots are only allowed to stay in hotels with 100% blackout curtains
Saratoga Group Simplifies Its Document Generation Process with PandaDoc API
Do we not have modern alternatives for make?
You can paint it negatively but hiring them when others don't also improves their salaries - if everyone else followed their lead there'll be no inefficiency and they won't be underpaid.
Yet another Postgres migration: updating primary key type to bigint
Behind the Code: Paulo Gaspar, Director of Engineering, PandaDoc
This is such a false analogy. I heard hundreds of dissenting voices on the streets and in the media all over the world (and in the US) during the Iraqi war, the attack on Serbia, the attack on Libya.
I think you've identified one of the author's many not-so-subtle (but still somehow obscure) themes.

Next I want to write, "For me, I enjoyed it," but I hesitated initially, because I'm surprised that I'm not more annoyed.
hi everyone :)
I am a happy jumping frog :)
Thanks, I was wrong. The report is good reading.
How does one discover these alternative UIs?

How can average user trust that the data on these alternative UIs isn't being manipulated?

How long you think it will take until big sites would routinely do small tweaks to their databases/structures to systemically break these alternative UIs?

More so why would any of these for profit websites, like Youtube, even have a presence on web3?
90% of 140 millions of inhabitants is certainly a big number. Your example is quite extreme and might reflect that the country is completely out of context.
Web3 is dead on arrival. As it does not solve any of the problems Web 2.0 has (corporate/government censorship, abuse of user data, geolocking etc)

The what would hold some value would be a combination of self sovereign financial services & Tim's "Social Linked Data"/SOLID.

The current Web3 wave just seems like a legal marketing scam (scam as in legal but zero ethics). It's just about pumping price's and intellectual masterbation (talking about things they never do)

It is however true that you cannot separate economic incentives from a platform where we want to see economic activity.
Well kinda. It's complicated.

> can't you use IFPS without cryptocurrencies?

You can. And you should.

Cryptocurrency is a solution in search of a problem. Problem it purports to solve isn't something you can solve via software.
Most of the commenters clearly haven't heard of induction headsets!

In that case the implanted "device" would be a small magnet just inserted into the ear canal, while the bluetooth device is just an induction loop.

https://www.ec21.com/product-details/China-Topro-GSM-Inducti...
"If you're forced to use Windows the one with the least known side effects is Microsoft Security Essentials but even this has several drawbacks."

But permanently disabling it is very, very hard.
So about a year ago, Whole Foods introduced some bicycles that carry some little trailers. A delivery person can probably deliver 3 times as much as before. That means two thirds of them could be redeployed to not work for Whole Foods (Amazon?) anymore.

500 years ago, some guy invented the printing press. With it, one person could produce more books in a month than 100 scribes. Which soon found themselves redeployed to not working anymore.
It's definitely reasonable at this point to just skip using AV. It won't protect users from bad security habits and it tends to make your system performance worse even if it doesn't have vulnerabilities.

I have Windows Defender enabled on my machines since it comes with the OS (and work policy requires it), but I definitely had to exclude most of my work folders to be able to get work done.

It would be nice to have software that specifically blocks ransomware by trying to detect it heuristically, but that would probably not be very effective and the right solution is just to have backups.
It's very common to have apparent paradoxes when you have multiple definitions, one more intuitive and one more rigorous or specific.

Popular science journals use group velocity, wave velocity vs. signal velocity confusion to write a "faster than light" article every year.
Why the hell do I need to "own" something online? Whatever I publish, people can do whatever the hell they want with it. I don't want DRM incorporated into the internet. Blockchain is a scam and anybody parroting its supposed advantages is either invested or naive.
Debian Stable user here. I used to use Win 7, which I was happy with. I never used Win 10, except at a library.

The chances are minimal that I will install wither Win 10 or 11 on my machine. Why should I pay beaucoup dollars for an OS that thinks it's their machine, when I can get a free, no-hassle one that does what I want it to do?

I've noticed that there's been a certain amount of historical revisionism, too. People are saying how great Win 10 was. Win 10 great?? Are you mad? I've read complaint after complaint as to how bad Win 10 is. Microsoft has done a real number on peoples' expectations about what constitutes good and bad. Meanwhile, on Debian, the OS just stays out of my way.

Mozilla has been giving off a "feudal overlord" vibe for some time now, too.

I do use VSCode on Linux on occasion, though. It's actually quite a nippy piece of software. I dread anything involving Java like Eclipse. Of course, real programmers use vim anyway.
My "hate" is for the executives, not Mozilla. Firing a ton of engineers "because covid" from promising projects while taking huge, ever increasing bonuses as the browser's market share falls, is inexcusable. I'd criticize any executive for the same thing.

They're (the execs) utter failures.
As a 25 year Mac user, I concur.

I'm just glad that Microsoft eventually decided to bring antivirus in-house, and I don't ever again have to mess with 3rd-party security products for my Windows box
Can you expand on this, perhaps with a link to documentation about this?
Techical debt is primarily about managing complexity, the bane of software engineering. Do not underestimate the value of having a coherent _theory_ about the problem being solved. Something everyone on the team understands and that can be taught to new hires. If you give a programmer a keyboard and a paycheck they will press on keys all day long.
My sense is that a large fraction of the population has a deep emotional need for "manly men" sports teams which they can easily identify with (whether local professional teams, teams at the college they attended, or maybe teams local to where they grew up). Greedy team owners know this, and also that a few phrases like "economic benefits" and "or we'll move to $new_city" serve both to sway the gullible (who buy the economic arguments) and to push the insecurity / fear buttons in the people with emotional needs for a local team.

If ~nobody is mentioning, let alone discussing, the actual priorities of a large fraction of the voters, then rational public policy outcomes may prove rather rare.
This is what burned me out on the best project I've ever worked, dev wise.

I still get triggered when I hear the Nokia ringtone.

First, we were all offered good rates for on-call support so we had plenty of people who wanted in so I wouldn't do any support and leave it to the guys who wanted the money.

Then some of the guys left the team and got replaced, they offered a different deal to the new guys, less lucrative, therefore, they didn't want to do it.

As a senior I had to start doing support, I thought the extra money would maybe make me feel ok, then we had less and less people on rota so I was doing support most weekends which started affecting my marriage.

I escalated the issue (again), nothing was done, one month later I gave my notice on the highest paying and best dev job I had.

I was on-call for full month straight during my notice, that's how bad it got.
And I steer clear from dev with support roles now.
What propaganda? I'm sure there's bias in reporting, no question. But bias, say in support of Ukraine, is very different from saying that there's no conflict at all.
I'm reading this as I am giving a class on Stuxnet this morning.

We're doing worms and multi-stage malware. But inevitably the
conversation turns to national boundaries, cyberwar, collateral damage
(to individuals, hospitals, power plants, companies..). My students
want to understand the relations between companies like Microsoft and
the NSA, what happened to Siemens from the economic fallout, why the
Iranians would be running Windows? Who paid to clean up the tens of
millions of infected machines out there? I keep getting questions that
begin "Bit surely....?"

We've been through an unprecedented period of human history in which
the internet brought us together. That time is over.

The fact that a Russian company could trade freely in the world such
that American companies, only within a decade of the Cold War, would
use Kaspersky (which I believe is an a good product) is absolutely
remarkable.

It's what Richard Buckland called "A miracle of interoperability" that
allowed a movie made in Hollywood to be recorded on a DVD manufactured
in China to run on a player assembled in India, according to standards
designed in Nederlands and Japan, playing in a home in Australia.

That level of trust and cooperation has to run both ways. It's at
least as remarkable as Russians, Chinese and Iranians running
Microsoft Windows. The internet delivered on much of its promise to
unite the world. But what I've seen in the past 5-10 years is so much
effort by everyone to _undo_ that trust. Greed and surveillance
capitalism has played as much a part as gobernment intelligence
over-reach and economic warmongering. All parties have abused trust
and now we are withdrawing into silos again.

From a business perspective, maybe we'll need to reckon with a future
more centred around domestic sales and use. Perhaps the "splinternet"
is just the beginning of a global divergence at the protocol level.

How can we (proponents of a true INTER-net) avoid this?
Shouldn't it be part of the guide lines then?
Jacdac Plug-and-Play for Microcontrollers
People hate blockchains because they're tired of the spam from cryptobros who have done nothing to create anything actually useful.

Bitcoin is destroying the environment while providing no real decentralization since most people don't run their own clients. Other shitcoins are either outright scams or vulnerable to client forks like when Vitaly stole 150 million dollars.

After not actually solving currency, cryptobros moved to selling random pixels and now want to make the web an even worse place.

Not everyone wants that.

> What's the author trying to get out of making something like this?

You'd be surprised, but not everyone is trying to run a get-rich-quick scheme.
Sports and sporting events are a net harm to me. I don't attend, the traffic costs me, and I'm taxed for it. So team owners can get bent and start buying their own stadiums.
brand themselves and stay in the national or international news.

But to what end? Thanks to sport I know of lots of US cities like Green Bay, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Kansas City etc. that I might not otherwise ever have given any thought. But what is the next step after that? I'm certainly not going to holiday there because they have a pretty good (or used to be good) team I've heard of.
The filesystems example given by OP is an interesting counterpoint - Linux filesystems are the opposite of regulated, regionally varied, and expensive.
As someone who presents lectures using org-tree-slides [0] instead of Powerpoint, I can totally imagine this being useful for me.

I'm flabbergasted at how snappy and intuitive it is!

[0] https://github.com/takaxp/org-tree-slide
I haven't bought into crypto/web3, so take this with a pinch of salt.

I currently think of the role of crypto in "web3" as a bit like dark matter in the universe, something that causes the web (universe) as a whole to resist centralisation -- by means of financial incentives. It doesn't have to be everywhere, but it has to be in enough places to resist the pull towards building megaservices like Facebook.

I'm very skeptical as to whether it's actually going to play out that way though.
The client is open source, so should be quite safe and the company is not based in russia. But I think some servers are?

In either case, it is not a medium for secure communication anyway.

I use it more as a open forum software.
There's some impressive projecting going on here.
A subsidy is a subsidy.
So once again a Kreml-driven propaganda mission.
I liked the videos https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCJ27qSJeFixTauJEMJ76vsw
Brave woman. No doubt.
You could own something digitally before crypto. I've got some pretty sweet digital 7th Edition Magic cards I've had for about 2 decades. I traded away some of them and sold others.
> Safari remains the "new IE", the problem browser for which developers must find workarounds.

More like the non-Chrome browser for which Chrome developers must find workarounds. I can't remember encountering a Safari specific problem in the tens of websites I have developed in the last years. Now sure I understand the pain if you are developing web apps instead, but in that case maybe it's time to assume Chrome is an app platform (OS ?) and not just a browser, and simply only target that platform and don't try to shoehorn the web into it?
Without "likely", I'm fairly sure it's n.1 in the Baltic region as a whole. It used to be n.1 in Yugoslavia too but I think football has since claimed that spot.
Don't Let Mistakes Cascade
I love studies like this. I know, I know. "It's just a study." But it means that people are having new thoughts about how the body responds to its environment and enters into chronic disease states.

Some of our "new ideas" about diseases are actually maybe not all that crazy [1].

Every time I see one of these potential connections, my brain jumps to generate new hypotheses for everything around it. I sometimes wish I was a PI looking into these things.

For instance, this article made me think that perhaps children being exposed to night lights upsets their metabolic behavior in early development enough to lead to long term neurotransmitter dysfunction and desensitization. ADHD. Just a hypothesis. Totally unsupported. Probably not a contributor. But I'd love to have access to journals and data and test these things.

In a different life...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29882347
Job Interview Stories
basically i would call this planning ahead of execution. But totally cool, if this helps the author
Check the deltas, the derivative. There exist long lists from personal experiences of things that worked very well and now are of comparatively terrible quality.

The issue is then not just with the item, but with societies that are increasingly accepting low quality: this is a horrible trend, and one side of decadence. You get both, flanked: low quality here for the occasion and decadence around for the trend.

The idea you say of some "distracted" ones "not realizing the failure potential" has a legitimate justification, beyond the simple inattentive, in those (inexperienced) that assume, for a number of reasons (especially including an internal healthy "mindset" of good standards), things are done properly. There is a line in a script for Scorsese that goes like: «I'm the guy doing my job, you must be the other one».
Pointing out the flaws of a failed cheating method (he was caught) by a cheater who likely have tried other failed cheating methods ("It was the student’s final attempt on Monday to clear the exam after repeatedly failing it since getting admission into the college 11 years ago.") doesn't prove the cheating didn't happen.

He just appears to be both an incompetent medical student and an incompetent cheater.