skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
years ago I used a website that no longer exists, can't remember the name. you told them the car you wanted and the trim and they came up with a proposal. I also cross checked that with true car to figure out what a fair price would be for the car, based on my zip code. I think the website was called carwoo... I got in touch with an ecommerce dept of a dealership (that is a thing!). I then told the guy I was paying cash and got financing through the bank. I negotiated the price via email. they asked me to come in which I refused. they asked for a SSN which I refused and gave them my DMV license instead. I told them to deliver the car at a FAANG parking lot and gave them a bank certified check and signed the papers then and there. never went to the dealership. this all happened after countless fruitless visits to dealerships where we were harassed with no end in sight.

one trick I read about but never tried, is to tell them you need financing, and focus on bringing the price of the car down. then, after you brought it down (and they think they will make it up on the financing) you tell them you pay cash and don't want the financing. YMMV.
Let’s hack this!
I read it as vowels, although with a typo. Whether or not the typo is intentional, I guess that shows that we can also error-correct although not with 100% accuracy.
This isn't really an article about DMT. It's about a sociopath.
Laying many of these things at the feet of economics is laughably dishonest. You're throwing crap at the wall and hoping something sticks.

The only legitimate point you've made here is about globalization, which has actually been part of prevalent theory. The rest is an irrelevant, sanctimonious rant that I don't care about.
> When these occur it will be the decentralized blockchains like Ethereum with failsafes in place to survive, and it's the centralized blockchains like Binance that will implode.

Didn't Ethereum recently disclose a major settlement vulnerability discovered by a researcher that could've forced a hard fork had this person chosen to exploit it? He got a multi-million dollar bounty for it I believe.

This kind of certain optimism that nothing will go wrong with a piece of software reminds me of all the people back in 2007 that said the housing market could never collapse because it never had before. Folks buy into the idea so much that they forget at the end of the day, it's computers running code and shit happens all the time.

EDIT: I believe this was the story I was referring to, he received $2M[0]. There have been multiple major vulnerabilities discovered in the last couple of years.

[0] https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/02/255731...
Or you can just run security-critical code on your own hardware on your own premises, as has been and will always be the answer for strong security. If a legal contract with a datacenter is not enough of a security guarantee, then neither is a wink from a hardware manufacturer. The societal downsides from abuse of remote attestation - eg computational disenfranchisement of end users - far outweigh any claimed benefits.
> If OpenSea deletes your account, another app will happily connect to your wallet and let you continue where you left off.

Or not, because they all use the OpenSea API instead of bothering with the blockchain.
Measuring information – Journey into information theory
CPC are a major supplier and accept backorders - https://cpc.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/rpi4-modbp-4gb/raspberr...
I apologize if I made it sound rosy. It's horrible. I've been in pre-trial detention continuously now for almost nine years waiting for a trial.
You’re falling into the same trap as tech enthusiasts in web1.

Sure, you could scan blockchains and extract NFT data yourself, and sure you could run your own node for every blockchain that interests you (paying god only know how much for storage and bandwidth). Just like how in web1 you could run your own email server to handle email and have your own blog server to publish info and your own git server to host your code and your own domain name to put it all under…

But it turns out that exceptionally few users actually care about putting in the time/effort/money to do that. Hence the rise in web2 and platforms. The people who run their own infra now are all doing it more as a hobby than anything else.

Like it or not, recentralization is the future of web3 for the average consumer. You can be a crypto decentralization purist, but I hope you realize that you’ll be the minority in that, if crypto/web3 actually is to gain widespread adoption.

For the average consumer, convenience is the real feature, and true decentralization is inconvenient.
False.Incorrect.Wrong.

Are all easy ways to tell if someone is about to speak like Dwight Schrute from the Office.
You said what I would have. Stack size of 100k is plenty for lightweight threads. 100MB for 1000 threads isn’t much for a modern system.
Here in Australia I saw it on the first go.
That law is modelled on laws in the EU, Australia and other countries. I know if my employer is one of the affected companies they are in breach of our notification laws.
Continue where you left off, except without access to OpenSea (or whatever other vendor), in an economy where the value of the contents of your wallet is increasingly dependent on the availability and visibility of your "digital assets" on vendor services.

But you're right. Decentralization is not the problem that the crypto community is trying to solve, because they don't actually care about a decentralized "Web3". They care about the parts of the system that make them rich. The "decentralization" cant is just social-good camouflage, no different from Facebook's claims about making lives better through the "metaverse".
I just logged in to check mine sub and it does say Visual Studio Enterprise :(
Hey there, just wanted to chime in as someone who has both used psychedelics (have used all of those being discussed here) to facilitate long lasting change in my life and who also strongly agrees with the idea that there is no real enlightenment to be found by using drugs.

There was a good quote from Alan Watts regarding this that I’ve carried with me for years: “When you get the answer, hang up the phone.” - which for me is to say that if you think your work is going to be magically over after using psychedelics, it’s not, that’s just the beginning, take what you’ve learned on move on to something more instead of chasing your tail for years attempting to achieve some elusive plateau of being by phoning it in.
what's the point of this? they had hyper realistic humans back in Myst back in 1993
Giving this a favorite, so I remember to come back to it later. I don't know if I need (or want) yet another shell, but this looks cool enough to at least merit a try.
Agree 100%. Web3 is useless. The whole web3 thing is an extension to get more people and more real money to get into the crypto ecosystem and provide liquidity to the early adopters and insiders.

I haven't found one legitimate use case for blockchain. The only thing it is useful for it speculative gambling.

I wrote about it some time ago and and shared here on HN https://yash.info/blog/what-is-web3/
> Kaffirs, an ethnic group in Sri Lanka partly descended from Bantu slaves.

Which is again derived from the same Arabic root. Sure, it's not considered offensive in Sri Lanka but it's very offensive pretty much everywhere else.
I'm not quite sure how to interpret what you've said exactly.

Some of what I said is a performance piece. If I insist that I am human and thus make mistakes, then it makes space both for others to make mistakes and for us to have a frank conversation of how, in our more lucid moments, we can do things that fight/counteract our basic nature.

It's morally equivalent to putting a plastic cover over the Big Red Button so that pushing it becomes a conscious and considered act. Deciding to push the button is step 1, moving the cover is step 2, and step 1.5 or 2.5 is realizing this is in fact not what you want to do after all, instead of a momentary bit of inattention, bad judgement, or the Imp of the Perverse.. It's not that I won't make mistakes, but that (hopefully) I a make them less often. But making them less often, I'm entrusted with bigger potential for mistakes, and so my mistakes tend to cause more harm. In a Precautionary Principle sense, we end up roughly within the same order of magnitude. When I make 5x fewer mistakes I'm allowed to be responsible for problems that are twice as risky.

If you want candor about mistakes you have to start by giving people permission to make them (or at least, to make new ones).
No, we have address space randomization and hash table randomization since those happen at runtime. /dev/random works as you'd expect.

The immutability is just at build time. So chrome and firefox aren't able to seed a unique ID in the binaries like you might be accustomed to. Funny story, we had a python dependency that would try to update itself when you imported it. I noticed because it would raise an exception when it was on a read only mount.
Yes, but that's the point. The should have released it as an App that we can interact with, pan around, move the chess pieces. It might as well just be a video.

Actually they should have plugged in stockfish and let us play against their character.
How have they "missed the boat" on Web3? Isn't it going to bring its benefits to us all? Do you mean there's no reason to participate anymore?
1. Sure, it would be nice. But I don't think it's a big omission.
2. You can connect it, the author of the article updated it with the following information:

"If you just want to use the display and don’t care about the speakers, microphone, or USB-C ports, then by far the simplest solution is to just plug a high-bandwidth DisplayPort cable with a USB-C connector or adapter from your GPU to the Studio Display’s Thunderbolt port. No Thunderbolt cable is actually needed, as the display will happily handshake DisplayPort 1.4 alt mode when connected with a high-bandwidth cable."

So, number two is solveD?

3. I think this is a kind of cool idea, but totally unnecessary. It's a 'studio display', I like that it's focused on being one specific thing.

4.I'm 99% sure that 120hz is not possible. Another commenter posted this math:

"Does it use Display Stream Compression or something? Raw 5120x1440 x 240 fps x 8 bits x 3 colors = 39.55 Gbits/sec. DP1.4 has a maximum data rate of 25.92 Gbits/sec. DP2.0 on the other hand does 77.37 Gbits/sec.”

Also, the only other widely available 27" 5k monitor is the LG ultrafine, which is just a few hundred dollars cheaper. With the studio display, you get much better product design, a newer panel, really good speakers, a really good webcam, and better connectivity.

In CAD, the studio display is $1999, the ultrafine 5k is 1749$. If you don't think this is a 'serious' response to people who have been asking for a '5k imac without the imac' display, I don't know what to tell you.
Here are 2 important ones:

-Get out of your home at least once a day. But I recommend Lunch and after your workday is over. Create a routine outside your home.

-Set and keep a daily start, lunch and end of day times plus 2 breaks.

Do not fall into bad routines. They will be next to impossible to break and contribute to bad health both mental and physical.
I had no idea what 4pt is but this video helped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDmdo6Px8Hk
Things like otterscan that are a locally run instance of an etherscan like site are a step in the right direction, but there is still a lot to do in this regard for sure.

https://github.com/wmitsuda/otterscan
Programming with Escher
I agree, Apple products tend to have much better reliability and durability.

Samsung in particular has terrible reliability. From TVs to kitchen appliances—everything I have ever owned Samsung has something go wrong with it within 2 years. Monitors from LG and Asus typically last a decade or more if take care of, though their build quality and quality control are certainly not up to the Apple standard.

With all that said, MKHD is a pretty good reviewer of tech and usually is very favorable towards Apple. He has some fair criticisms here. The Apple Studio Monitor is not a great “value” at $1,600, but he doesn’t say it is a bad product, just a hard product to justify buying. I know I would have a hard time justifying it despite loving the build quality and design.
The parameter being optimized for in crypto is cash inflow, not actual functionality/efficiency/decentralization.
Web1 was read only (ex. blog)

Web2 is Read+Write (all interactive apps - email travel booking, stock trading etc. However, the content of these are owned by mega or small corp)

Web3 is Read+Write &'Own' your data. By virtue of blockchain tech you can take your data/content and use some other service. You have your NFTs, you have your Bitcoins, you can use any service to manage those.
I read this as imagemagick at first, and got very confused.
The comedy of this is that one would expect an authentication and identity platform to be in the top percent of good actors in security incident response.

Might be time to reinstall Active Directory in your basement.
> Yep. It is a GUI ontop of their smart contracts (public access backend code). You don't have to use their GUI.

So what happens if someone just copies the JPG and puts on their web host? Isn't that essentially what OpenSea is...a hosted service for the JPG.
There is nothing that can be said or done to fix this pain.

Today I did a funeral for a friend of 20+ years who died far too young. After the funeral I sat with another family as they made the decision to turn off life support for the matriarch of the family.

I can not sleep. The grief of death can make living insurmountable.

Even in this suffering your life can have meaning.

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

It is ok to hurt.

My best advice is to find community that will love you and your wife and hold space as you find meaning. A faith community and/or a grief support group is a great place to look.

You are not alone. I hope you find comfort from the many caring responses in this thread.

Victor Frankl’s book “Man’s Search For Meaning” has helped me.

Look me up if you want to talk. Same twitter username.
Web1: run a server, people (clients) post content, and you save it on your server.

Web2: pay someone else to run a server "in the cloud". They save the content.

Web3: run a server with all your own content. Other people run clients that index and let you search other peoples' content.

Concisely: Web3 is the same as Web1, but with client-server the other way around.
For context Imageshack at one point hosted a large majority of the images on SomethingAwful.
Malaysia Should Adopt Crypto as Legal Tender, Ministry Says
I think you're overthinking it. The concepts of ownership and control are pretty well separated. It happens all the time. In leasing, for example, or silent partnership agreements.

There's nothing illusory about it, the definitions about what you can do with Facebook voting and non-voting shares would be quite rigorously defined.
Okta: Sorry we got caught.
Line Goes Up – The Problem with NFTs (and “Web 3”)
Maybe OpenSea is a bad example (NFTs are something I really don't understand) ;)

A better example might be a DEX like Uniswap. Uniswap goes-down/bans-you/whatever? Use PancakeSwap or 1Inch or Futureswap or some other equally-ridiculously-named service. They all connect to the wallet that you own and cant be taken away from you.
It's kinda funny and also very very sad that with javascript disabled, the website loads for a split second and then is covered by a fullscreen "Looks like you have Javascript turned off! Please enable it to improve your browsing experience." javascript blocker blocker, but if you delete the element, the page appears to work perfectly fine. It really is the ultimate in "fuck your browsing experience, our marketing spam scripts are the most important thing".
How is provividing updates reducing the lifespan ofa device? Usually not having long term support of a device including security patches is seen as reducing the lifespan.
Please don't cross into personal attack. We ban accounts that do that and you can make your substantive points without swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We use python. If we were writing in a compiled language, we'd use the same compiler toolchain as everyone else, but with the versions of all of our dependencies exactly the same from nix. We have some c extensions and compile Typescript and deploy those build artifacts. In the case of javascript, our node modules is built by nix, and our own code is built by webpack --watch in development.
This makes me feel a lot better about the future of Python for sure.
Citizen Bike (https://www.citizenbike.com/catalog.asp?product_category_id=...) has 20 inch wheels. Not ultra-compact, but the one I have is pretty good.
If you are not too picky about the exact model of replacement component, you can get most components at bicycle shops on the other side of the world. They are quite standardized.
But I don't care about that the impractical enthusiast stuff, I care about the bloggers that make these flippant dismissals instead of talking about the impractical things that are possible. I simultaneously observe that the impractical things can be made more practical.

For example, Metamask with a non-default RPC node is great compared to using crypto before Metamask. Phantom wallet on Solana is even further improved than Metamask in what a browser-extension wallet can do! Just keep pushing in that direction and wean people off of the default nodes!

Node software mostly sucks! There is great room for improvement there and it will keep happening. For example, for Ethereum Mainnet, a Go-Ethereum (Geth) archive node takes like 10 Terabytes and most people just accepted that absurdity, while someone else said "hm that data structure is not optimal" and made Erigon which can do the same in 1/3rd the time and around 1.8 Terabytes.

Node software still sucks! It can be improved! The people that like FreeBSD would like tinkering with that kind of stuff too (the author admits that, but chooses to adopt a different perspective unrelated to how they would actually be contributing to the space)
Isn't that the point? Web technology is decentralized, but as an economic and cultural force it's dominated by a small number of corporations. Web3 has the exact same problems with economic centralization, and "rolling your own" requires all of the same investments and sacrifices as doing so on the existing web, plus more.
Someone created a JS library to interact with the Ethereum blockchain and named it web3. Making it appear like it was future of the web. In reality it was just one more attempt to make blockchain look authentic and useful.

Blockchain has only one real use - storing tokens. Someone needs to pay real money for the tokens for the token creators to cash out. So they keep cooking up new ways to attract unsuspecting common people into the cryptoverse. Web3 is that.
AFAIK this only works on certain models.
I exclusively work on open source projects without pay or for donations. Granted, I don't work that much, but when I do it is not for money.

I wrote code for money before. I loved the work, hated the environment, didn't believe in the product. I would do it again, only if I had to. I'd rather work at a gas station.

My motivation is to use what skills I have to enact changes on the world I'd like to see happen, no matter how small. It's not much, you won't catch me maintaining a logging library or something like that, usually it's little tools for people to use.
> Sure, I work at Microsoft 365, because I had to. It was join Microsoft, or be dependent on my dad for money.

That's a false dichotomy if I've ever seen one! And out of the blue.. the author seems ashamed but trying to justify why they shouldn't be.

> But hey, working at Redmond beats taking Miami and Houston underwater just to make a few white crypto bros happy.

yikes.. ok.
> Run your own node. This is lazy reporting

It isn't practical for the majority of people to run their own node. Even Vitalik Buterin acknowledges[1] this isn't realistic for the current state of things.

Last year I was interested in running a sidechain node and I was shocked when I looked at minimum system requirements. I can't just run it in the background and I have a 5600X Ryzen. Plus my NVMe drive needed to be much bigger. It also can eat through SSDs, and HDDs are considered too slow.

Worse to me: It looks like another time consuming hobby. I spent a lot of time even just getting up to speed on the current ecosystem, the jargon, best practices, etc. It often seems like crypto is trying to take something less complicated and make it complicated.

It just seems like people are simply pushing a technology that isn't ready yet for what people in the scene think is currently possible.

My interest for running a node was for prediction market trading to attempt to counter frontrunning aka sandwich attacks. Another ridiculous problem that many people in the scene act like isn't a big deal.

1. https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/05/23/scaling.html
Anything that allows a manufacturer to deliberately render a device that you paid for inoperable is not a compromise at all.
Except that "smart contracts" etc. are very much paying someone else to run a server in the cloud.
Drones, for sure. Only a few years ago, a decent digital camera cost $400. Now I can buy one just as good, for the same price, that fucking flies.

Anyone who doesn't experience a genuine "Holy shit, I'm actually living in the future" moment when they first encounter a Mavic Mini or similar modern consumer drone is probably in need of pharmaceutical help or talk therapy.
>To me, it’s not about “should this specific thing be cloaked behind privilege?” but rather “to make the attorney-client relationship productive and to make representation effective, they should be privileged”.

If Bob Jones emails Joe Schmoe and cc's Dewey Cheatham & Howe, maybe the communication to the lawyers is privileged, but why would the communication to Joe be privileged? It's neither to a lawyer nor asking for legal advice.
I haven't switched to it as my daily driver (yet) because of some downsides. Several are addressed in this release, but there are still a few features that aren't there yet including:

- no support for background tasks, or resummoning stopped processes

- while completion was added in 0.60, it doesn't look quite as featureful as zsh completion, and of course it doesn't have as many completions written as older shells

- less common need, but I don't think there is a way to do something like `exec {myvar}>file`

- I don't think there is an equivalent of `<(command)` to pass the output of a command to another command as a file. Although that could probably be implemented as a plugin pretty easily.
I know exactly one legitimate use case for blockchain: a public ledger like bitcoin.

The thing is that you don’t need more than this one online currency though, right? It’s also the safest in terms of PoW [1]. I don’t see any reason for all other altcoins to exist other than charting and trading on exchanges (which is certainly fun, but does not provide value).

[1] https://howmanyconfs.com/
Well there are very few such people, and even KKK members can be befriended by a black person.

> It sounds like the jokes people are making at your expense are because of a single action that they are mocking, possibly as a callback to a trait you have.

Are traits ok to make fun of? And if I take an action and someone makes fun of it, is it not hurtful? I’m not trying to draw comparisons here, but I’m not sure you can generally invalidate the experiences of others either.

Comedy, and making fun of these things and each other is progress. When we let words make us fragile we give them power that they shouldn’t have. People all over the world are or can be mean because of ignorance. Why give them more power and leverage over you?