skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought Web3 was going to change the world. Has that already happened?
Cancel culture is like vetocracy: the most censorious opinion wins. Speech norms are nuanced and subjective and ought to be subject to community debate. The same for specific alleged violations of speech norms.

We manage this alright with even very serious crimes. It is okay to take the position during a murder trial that the killing was an act of self defense or that you believe the defendant’s alibi. It is also okay to take both pro and con positions about strengthening or weakening the laws in homicide edge cases, such as the castle doctrine or vehicular negligence.

In a cancel culture, onlookers feel they must echo the condemnation, or at least not challenge it, even as they privately offer support to the accused. Ideas like “even though three people are offended, this ought to be allowed” or “actually the context makes this not transgressive” are themselves outside the Overton window.
According to Wikipedia, in 2017, Maersk was a victim of a major cyberattack, intended to look like ransomware, but actually a GRU attack intended for Ukraine, and it nearly ruined the company.

It may have been widely reported, but I didn't recall.

>If they were worried about ethics they'd be concerned about the place of global shipping in the progression of global warming.

I don't understand. Aren't ships pretty much the least carbon intensive way of moving stuff, per pound, per mile? Haven't they always been the most energy efficient means of transportation? Is it just a coincidence most cities are on coasts where they're vulnerable to sea level rise?
That is exciting. Hope it is like Hellfire.
In order for an Apple Silicon Mac Pro to make any sense whatsoever, its SOC will need have to have support for off-package memory and substantially more PCI-E lanes than the M1 Ultra. Therefore it seems all but certain to me that it will debut the M2 chip family.

Apple isn't going to give up the substantial performance benefits of on-package unified memory in order to support DIMMs. Therefore I predict that we'll see a two-tier memory architecture with the OS making automated decisions based on memory pressure, as well as new APIs to allocate memory with a preference for capacity or performance.

The chassis design is new enough that it was designed with an eventual Apple Silicon Mac Pro in mind, so I expect to see minimal change to the exterior. It might shrink and have fewer slots (particularly since most users won't need a slotted GPU) though I think that's unlikely given that its height and width was defined by 5U rack dimensions.
Defining web versions is a jerk move.

I know its 'unsocial' and 'nasty' , it has to be said, we should feeding the jerks.
Your retort is the most common one to criticism of web3 and crypto. The only reason people criticise it is because they don't own it. Surely then you'll admit the only reason people are proponents of it is because they do own it?
I finally saw it --- but only after I changed User-Agent header to a more common one. It seems like some thought was put into this to make it show only for "normal" users, and not unknown/crawler/etc. (I hit Cloudflare CAPTCHAs all the time.)

In case you're curious, many years ago when Imageshack started restricting images based on Referer and other things, I had a proxy rule created to bypass that --- appropriately named ImagesHack --- and one of the things it did was change the UA too.
I agree, i had a bigger tirade written about versioning the web, into such 'cleanly' delineated markings, but I know it'd upset the hive mind.
This is a really neat idea, to intercept the pod deletion requests using an admission hooks controller and just delay it for a bit. Thanks for sharing!
As in start Nuclear Testing in "free" Ukraine?
Russian-speaking Ukrainians are not a minority group in Ukraine.
No, but as a person who has had a need for sleep() before, you are also the type of person who could be expected to know what unix time is.

Nobody is saying that the two things need to be connected, the point is that it can be name dropped in a type definition, and you would know what it means.
Of all of the ways a joke could fall, that joke be flat.
Swift bugs are moving to GitHub Issues
> literally an article about having fun staying poor

And here it is. When the technical merits of “web3” fail to illicit genuine change (networks effects are powerful and matter [0]), its advocates fall back on the “get in or stay out” mentality, which is frankly a red flag for a supposedly technical project.

> could just as easily be steered into "how to improve the concept of Web3"

If web3 cannot sustain itself due to its technical merits and if there clearly are centralized effects at work here, then every person brought in with the threat that they better help out or “stay poor” (a truly disgusting phrase) is just another brick in the pyramid, another dollar to VCs. Just admit you are trying to coerce free labor to prop up your own bags.

Many are not impressed by the so called merits of web3 for good reason.

> Run your own node

Literally, in Satoshi’s original white paper in 2008, he pointed out that running a node is prohibitive and could result in centralization over time, which is exactly why he coined SPV (simple payment verification) (aka light clients).

> [OpenSea] is a GUI ontop of their smart contracts (public access backend code)

Blatantly false. OpenSea can and has taken down various tokens minted on their platform for reasons ranging from copyright infringement to sanctions compliance (Iran is the only country I am familiar with at the time). You can mint an NFT without OpenSea but to say that you can just use OpenSea’s “backend code” without their consent is false.

> There is an opportunity to inspire people with the tools to…

This crypto grift talk is frustrating, dishonest, and hand-wave-y coming from the cypherpunks to what we have now. Cryptocurrency and the space around it was never about “inspiration,” but about liberation and action. We don’t need to be inspired, we need to be empowered.

[^0]: Coinbase complies with sanctions. OpenSea removes artwork. MetaMask uses Infura as an RPC so any NFT removed on OpenSea will not show up in MetaMask wallets (using default RPC). Bridge hacks result in many accounts losing their money unless saved by an injection of VC funding, completely defeating the “be your own bank” mentality. Centralized platforms extreme usage relative to the rest of the network (Uniswap, OpenSea, MetaMask) result in high gas prices for everyone else. Billionaires like Justin Sun Tron can take out massive loans to influence distributed governance like he did for the Compound vote on collateral rates.
Really? China? Thailand? Singapore? I feel bad being argumentative, but I think what you're saying actually isn't true.
When did GrubHub lose it's way and start nickel and diming their way in to fraud? It was pretty great in the late 2000s and early 2010s during college for finding different places to eat and getting delivery from somewhere new.

Was it the proliferation of middleman companies and operations like Door Dash and Uber Eats? As far as I can tell there has been no value add from them versus the restaurants employing their own delivery people. Just an increased chance in getting food that doesn't deliver well, will be cold on arrival, plus fees for delivering it across the city.

Delivery used to be free and the places that offered it were profitable.
People use centralized systems because they actually like the convenience that comes with it. And with that, comes the decentralized system changing in such a way that it changes to almost NEEDING centralization. The problem is that engineers and cybersecurity people all think that everyone else thinks like they do, when in actuality the complete opposite is true.

The biggest example is the internet itself - the internet is a completely decentralized network until it wasn't, with website certs becoming required. People use popular web hosting because it's easier and just better than what they could do. Email is completely decentralized, and it's very easy to set up your own web server - as long as you want every single spam system to immediately block all of your messages.

"Decentralized" systems will all go the exact same way. And it's because people don't want to spend time setting up their own shit, they are very happy to pay in either money or data to have someone else do it for them. Yeah, it's very easy to say "well just set up your own thing" but once you get to a critical mass of everyone using Gmail instead of their own server then the system becomes unusable without centralization.

Decentralization is a fantastic idea, and it works great in theory, but it fails to actually consider any of the practical problems that come with decentralization and doesn't consider what people who aren't programmers actually want to do with their time and money.
> Their tactics include … intruding in the ongoing crisis-communication calls of their targets.

That’s certainly a bombastic way to go about things.
If the Uniswap website goes down, you don't even have to switch services. You can just pick a different frontend for the Uniswap contract. In fact, 1Inch uses the Uniswap contract to fulfill some of its trades.

The trick is that the Uniswap API/service itself, the smart contract, cannot go down unless the entire Ethereum network itself is down.
We're currently using Unity as part of an epidemic simulator.
That's very helpful. I think this chapter was what I was looking for:

https://ggplot2-book.org/internals.html
This is wild. What is the psychology behind this group? If they're not deploying ransomware, it seems like their purpose is to penetrate companies "because they can." Publicly offering to pay employees for credentials is a dynamic that I've never heard, and in a rule-less game, seems like it breaks new rules.
The Fra Mauro Map
I've always seen it written as "bad rep" as in reputation.
Kenji is the best. Food Lab is always on my kitchen counter. Highly recommend it for anyone trying to improve at cooking.
Blockchain does not help supply chains. It doesn’t guarantee that things have been tampered with. It doesn’t solve any problems.
Bitcoin has nothing to do with Web3, they are two different things (web3 is a new term, Bitcoin is a system from 2008)
> stored on disk as archived objects

This at least is still the case for iOS.

> The objects could be manipulated with InterfaceBuilder and live tested.

Is this anything like the new live previews with Canvas? I've only ever done iOS development but if this is the case that is amazing.
To be fair Schultz shut it down - many comics have continued long after the creator’s death.
The keynote is impressive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ubNuxnrK8).

They can make an AI factory that will fit many times the current internet throughput in a small room.

I'm super excited about what kinds of applications this could mean.
This is precisely correct. I am hugely sympathetic to the theoretical benefits of web3, but it clearly does not deliver on these promises. Rather than move on to something else which can deliver, its proponents are insisting the emperor is fully clothed because honestly most of them don’t care a single bit about the philosophical or political dimensions of the technology but only about the profit margins they can get by deluding others to join in.
what establishes its effect as "better"
I'm a 4h salted water soaker now - i think i saw the 4h (versus 8h/overnight) on a bean forum that may have been run as net news originally. I find 4h to be a reasonably small amount of time to work with, and I use a pressure cooker to do the cooking; I can have the idea to have beans for dinner as late as ~noon, and that's workable.
I have mixed feelings too. I am from the country next to Honduras.

On one hand our countries would definitely benefit from places with more straightforward regulations. I believe some successful cities in China are special economic zones and that's where they are copying the idea from.

Our day to day regulations in Central America make even cross border investment very complicated. They are simply not written in a way that are inviting for foreign investment.

Both El Salvador and Honduras have had this Special Economic Zones proposed.

They were opposed by the left wing in Honduras, and opposed by the right wing in El Salvador.

I'm not sure what will happen to them now that the left win won in Honduras.
Microsoft brags about "pwning" them to this day...in their own Terms of Service, in their enforcement blog posts, and other places.

per gentlemen's agreement (something the soulless, kakfa-esque fucks at M$ will never understand), I can't elaborate further...

but if you ever find a 0-day / bug, don't pursue a bug bounty.

They will put a bounty on you, and squash you like the bug.

Nintendo threatening modders legally is literal child's play compared to the literal mob tactics MS and Activision used against what they perceived as financial or PR threats.
If it was as simple as "don't do the thing you hate", nobody would ever get cold in the first place, regardless of it makes them sick.
This. The sad thing is that people like the convenience of centralized systems.

Humans are lazy. They'll go with the #1 option, even if it means building a centralized monopoly.

I should've made this point clearer.

Note: I am the article's author.
When I use $payment_processor/card_network then I need to trust a corporation again. I don’t want to do that due to bad experiences.

Yes, unfortunately mining is too profitable with the current prices, we need it to go back to a much lower price. Probably won’t happen for a long time (bubbles can exist for decades). Bitcoin can in theory transact more volume than VISA while using the same energy as it is now since the block time is always 10 minutes.
Do you mean to say that since most Ukrainians are bilingual, Russian Ukrainians are not a minority group?
Turns out that's no longer the case since banks started to adopt cancel culture too, as seen in Canada. Overbearing governments have created legitimate use cases for crypto money transfers.
Lots of good advice for day-to-day.

For week-to-week I would set aside two nights a week after work.

One night for healthy exercise that is fun, it could be as simple as getting out and walking to a worthwhile destination, or more athletic activity like biking or swimming but it must be fun for you, to do something like this definitely once a week if you are not already at least this active. If you sometimes end up doing it twice in one week well you probably wouldn't hesitate to get twice as healthy since it would be twice the fun.

Then another night for healthy socializing that is fun. This is the tough one since it has to be in person and you have to make a dedicated effort for this too, even if you just have one friend or neighbor over for a casual visit or get out and interact with interesting people in larger numbers. This has been missing for people everywhere for a while now and Covid may still not allow as healthy socializing as you need. But the outlook is beginning to seem a little better.

These could be two different things or not, and it's worth experimenting with a variety of alternatives to be happy with just a couple things like this that you would look forward to each week.

If your hours are very flexible you still probably want to do these things when it's "after work time" for other people, so you are not much different than them, just doing things after work sometimes.

It can help get your mind off unfinished business if you do have a full productive workday planned and get a respectable amount accomplished that day before it's time for you to go out and leave it all behind for a few hours.

This was quite satisfactory for a time when I didn't work similar hours or activities as other people, except for two days a week where the resemblance was intentional.
A distributed ledger is also not inherently valuable.

A trusted ledger is valuable, but a ledger does not need to be distributed to be trusted. See above.

If, for some looney toons secret agent reason you need a transaction to be in a lot of places, you can ship out usb sticks, put copies of it on different data centers.

Or, just use a regular-ass bank. They already have distributed ledger systems for redundancy and responsiveness. What, you think that out of all of Chase's data centers there's only one server that has any transaction data on it?

Blockchain adds nothing that existing database and data transfer solutions don't have, but it always comes with cost and immutability (which is not the same as correctness- the >1 billion dollars stolen out of people's crypto wallets per year since 2018 is testament to that).
> or Russia loses out and is probably forever relegated to a minor player

Forever is a long time, Russia has collapsed and risen before. It currently has hegemony over the ‘pivot’ of Eurasia and even in the event of a break-up of the Federation it is unlikely that anyone other than the Chinese will move into Siberia to fill the vacuum. I mean they haven’t in the last 2000 years that I know of. Maybe the Mongols again?
I think support for GPU compute has reasonable odds. I'd place worse odds on GPU support for back-end graphics rendering or display driving. And of course support for any Nvidia card would continue to have very poor odds.

Heck, we're talking about a company that put an A13 into a monitor. I wouldn't put it past Apple to put an M2 Ultra onto MPX modules and have that GPU/ANE compute performance automatically available through existing APIs. (Would be a great way to bin M2 Ultra chips with a failed CPU core.)
Prospera's minimum wage is higher than the Honduran national minimum wage.
1. Buy a dog.
2. Buy a dog.

It will literally make you do all of the things that people listed here including give you a reason to exercise, socialize, not sit for long periods, and establish boundaries for work hours.

If you’re a horrible person well then don’t buy a dog. Dogs deserve good people.
It's not ransomware, but just extortion. Pay up or your files will be released. https://www.wired.com/story/lapsus-hacking-group-extortion-n...
Can you please connect me with someone in the tech team at Walmart Canada who was part of this implementation? I am really curious to know exactly what it is that they store in blockchain. What kind of chain it is public or private. What is the consensus mechanism?

A public truly distributed PoW blockchain is slow and inefficient by design. It's a feature not a bug. A private, permissioned, controlled blockchain is pointless. So I really want to know what are these companies doing when they use blockchain for supposed benefits.

Blockchain in supply chain is often the most publicized use case. It somehow assumes that since blockchain is immutable (actually it isn't) whatever you add to it is authentic. Using it for supply chain assumes that a supplier won't lie about the origin or if they employed child labor. Using a blockchain doesn't automatically guarantee any of these.
Alchemy has a NFT indexer api as well. I also know of at least two other offerings that will launch very soon. Additionally, you can interact w the Opensea contracts without a UI.
Every single food delivery service has hidden service charge fees and jacked up prices. Anything I order off DoorDash or UberEats is at least 30-50% more than ordering directly from the restaurant but that’s the cost of convenience.
Costlier than the 13" M1 MBP :(
I do not see anything in this that would not be resolved by a trivial database, and if you read the article that is what they have created: It is a private "blockchain" that only allows trusted participants, so doesn't require all the negative externalities of "blockchain".

The only thing "blockchain" about what Walmart has done is riding the absurd investor hype for anything with blockchain in the title.
>Won't the new products also simply not be available?

There are shortage in low end, high NM, mature node. This is on 4nm leading node.
Apex uses the source engine, AFAIK.
It used to be the case that no lethal drugs were potent enough to be active in the tiny dosages that LSD was distributed in... so you could feel pretty safe in taking it.

Unfortunately, that has not been the case, as there are now very potent and potentially lethal drugs like Bromo-DragonFLY[1] that are active in similar dosages to LSD.

So you really need to test what you get.

[1] - https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Bromo-DragonFLY
Yeah they are selling some of the exploits (the low hash rate enable on nvidia cards) but even then they say that with what they released it up until now it would be possible to figure out the way to do it by yourself. So the "for the lulz" element is very much central to their breaches and honestly that's a bit... refreshing? Not that I side with them or anything, but this is definitely more fun than ransomware.
I feel like I'm the main audience for PowerShell (.NET is my primary tech stack) but I could never get into it. Using .NET in PowerShell always felt really awkward+slow (like, the one time I embedded some C# in my profile it made PowerShell startup way slower). Do you have any tips for using .NET from PowerShell?
There's a few more NFT market places you can sell it on? You can try selling it P2P? Opensea is reliant on the NFT marketplace/culture, not the other way around.
It's literally the mainstream view...
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

NYT would prefer:

"I slightly disapprove, err--- I mean I very very very mildly approve of what you say, and I will defend to the death your right to say it, while also acknowledging that I must be respectful to you in all that I say regarding what you said."

(Here in British Columbia, Canada, a Jewish lawyer famously defended a holocaust denier's right to free speech (pro-bono!). I remember the lawyer telling people that he planned to be the first to piss on his client's grave, but that he also intended to defend him in the courts to the very best of his abilities.)
It’s now a competitive advantage for restaurants to do their own local delivery again
You haven't looked very hard if you think it's 100% useless. Some top of mind things:

- Transferring funds overseas

- Trading/speculation on public exchanges

- Selling art online

There's a lot of sensationalist articles about how these things are all ponzis or as you say "providing liquidity to early adopters", but you don't have to buy and hodl major coins to use Web3/decentralization. Many of the above use cases are much easier on the blockchain than using traditional brokers. Not to mention there's a lot of friction in the form of providing personal info when you sign up (which may end up hacked/leaked) and chance of being subject to random discrimination.
Hammer in search of a nail.
Several European countries "beat" the US (in a bad way) when it comes to alcohol-related traffic incidents:

https://www.itf-oecd.org/alcohol-related-road-casualties-off...

A friendly reminder from a fellow European that the entire continent isn't part of Germany :)
Ask HN: What is your most used web browser
Just wanna ask the room about what is your most

used / preferred web browser and maybe spend a

little more time to share with me "why"?
What’s especially scary is the possibility that any employee whose credentials are stolen may be investigated for conspiracy.