skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some platforms like Ethereum are completely decentralized. You forfeit some of this decentralization bit by bit when using MetaMask, OpenSea or Alchemy, but the platform itself is still decentralized. The Web is completely decentralized, by you forfeit some of this decentralization bit by bit when using Paypal, Facebook, or AWS. The trend in technology has always been to trade control for convenience. This doesn't stop you from writing your own browser and pushing packets out of your own HTTP server.

The (now infamous) Andre Cronje had a whimsical tweet reminiscing on his days as a lawyer: "The contracts aren't for when everything is going right. They're for when everything is going wrong." Some network wide catastrophe is seemingly inevitable for any sufficiently large system. 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.
Already here. Teslas cannot be downgraded, even by a service center.
or ever a 1000 words!
Absolutely content-free article that brings no new or useful criticisms (of which there are plenty) to the table.

If anyone is looking for useful criticisms of "web3", here are a couple:

* there is no meaningful privacy on most popular chains; everybody can see your transaction history

* it's difficult for new nodes to join and check the history, making decentralization difficult, and also leading to some of the centralization issues mentioned in the article

* the popular chains have low transaction throughput and latency due to reliance on outdated consensus mechanisms (BTC, Ethereum) and/or due to the need to enable weaker computers to check history (but see previous point).

* losing your funds is easy if you lose your key

There's tons of research being done to resolve these issues, ranging from improved cryptographic proof mechanisms such as zkSNARKs and interactive fault proofs, to better consensus and sybil-resistance mechanisms, but this stuff takes time, and is literally the cutting-edge of these fields, so impact is delayed.
They might be built from the same source but they have draconian end user licenses and license changes that can unpredictably expose you to Oracle commercial licensing costs and lawyers chasing after you. See eg https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/java-licensing-is-changing-a... & https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/22/oracle_starts_to_incl...
I have referred back to the three negotiation lessons taught in this NPR Planet Money episode many times: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/12/21/167802325/epis...
Mostly decentralization I think. Instead of going to Cloudflare for CDN, AWS for file storage, everything is hosted on other people's computers for a fee.
Don't forget Apex Legends.
You are in a trap. Years can slip by without you noticing it. 5 years. 10 years. ? It happened to me. About the only way out that I know is to quit your job and move somewhere else. The life you describe is unsustainable.
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I think companies can get over it with licensing. They can use subscription model to force you to upgrade.
It's a bit of a misnomer. Web2 was supposed to be a utopian version of the open Web where all data was available via API, and the noble task was to connect all this data with programs until all information was available to the world. Web3 is really the same utopia wrapped up in the blockchain, perhaps with money replacing data and blockchains replacing APIs.

65 words, but still ...
I hope their business does not survive; it’s a terrible company with bad products. But I don’t see them going anywhere. They’ve won over IT administrators, many of whom are all in with Okta (and the no code movement). Hard to see them giving up all that investment.
That's a possibility, that there is a difference between test taking skills and true academic skills, in that case maybe have students take one class and admission would based on percentile... ie. 1000 student in top percentile will be accepted full time other passing students will get a credit but not admission.
Not too long ago I was still supporting old versions of IE because employees for large chain we built software for would not allow them to upgrade their computers
Web3 is hosting content on a blockchain.
What about environmental and first-sale issues? I have a piece of hardware tied to a company that went out business and it no longer functions. So I'm both deprived of my device and it's now e-waste.

Apple preventing repairs? John Deere preventing repairs? These have real-world impacts.
Most major corporations demand that teams assigned to their legal matters have a certain % of minorities on them. You can literally be staffed on a matter solely because you are black or hispanic. If the law firm refuses or fails to hit the quota, the client will threaten to take their legal work elsewhere.

Most law firms run extensive diversity programs. If you bother to look into at all, it's obvious that black and hispanic applicants to law firms get a massive boost. This is on top of the massive LSAT bonus they get. Getting into a top 14 law school as a white guy requires being in the top 5% of the test scorers. For blacks and hispanics, it's more like top 20-30%. Same goes for law school grades and recruiting into law firms. So by the time a black guy gets hired at a top firm, they've had multiple, stacking advantages over white people.

As an associate at one of these elite firms, you will be dragged into diversity training where older associates boast about reporting people to HR for various microaggressions.

The vast vast majority of big law firms will refuse to approve pro bono work for socially conservative right wing causes. Nor will they allow you to represent a racist in their criminal or civil disputes. These same law firms will happily represent murderers and child molesters to try to get them out of jail (as they should, but they should represent the people with unpopular opinions too).

So if you're not seeing this stuff and noticing how crazy it is, it's probably because it's aligned with your politics and you don't mind.
The problem is the pros do this all the time as well. There are plenty of top chefs that were taught something when they were young and they continue to do it and preach it despite evidence that it’s not true.
> but under what premise is it desirable that the government should mandate how companies design and sell products?

The Government already does this and with great success, the ban on lead additives in paint would be one example. By that point, it's harmful effects were already known as early as 1786 (efforts to ban lead paint began around 1921) before it's ban in 1976 (US).

Perhaps the free market just needed more time?

Without government intervention, somehow I suspect we would still see lead paint continue to be bought and sold. I cannot imagine the unthinkable number of individuals that were fucked over through no fault of their own (learning disabilities, poor health, shortened lifespan) because we chose to continue to allow lead paint to be sold on the market.

> I don’t see a coherent reason for the government to say “no, you can’t sell that”.

What about the environment? By artificially reducing the lifespan of these devices, you're sending them to an early grave only to be unnecessarily replaced by a new device because the corporate overlords demand it.

It's unnecessary churn and I'm not sure that we should demand that future generations carry the burden of our poor choices simply because we would prefer to wait until the free market fixes this mess (which may never happen). How long will that take? 10 years? More?
This seems like the angry ramblings of someone who missed the boat.

I'm not invested in cryptocurrency or other tokens, but this seems very unfair to the ecosystems that power them. Sure, there are centralized wallets, marketplaces, APIs, but that's just not the point, not the problem they're trying to solve.

If Google deletes your account, that's it. If OpenSea deletes your account, another app will happily connect to your wallet and let you continue where you left off.
I find reviews work best when you place a strong bias towards shipping workable if imperfect code. Quick reviews are also a strongly positive thing.

On the other end are fixed processes. Have as little of this as possible, automate it if you can. That means formatting, linters and shallow static analysis.

All of this is mainly in service of building trust. If you cant have some measure of success there you are truly doomed.
The Switch has a 720p touchscreen display, a reasonably powerful CPU, and 4GB of RAM. It's not fair to compare that to the specialized embedded hardware in a light bulb.
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Could tell from the headline that this was about Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka.

> We were the only international journalists left

I find this highly dubious.

Almost everything coming from AP is coming from one or both of these guys and it seems like AP (or AP syndicated) stories get hugely boosted. I have no idea how legitimate they are, but it bothers me that it always seems to be these two guys.
These are the first 56 words of the article:

> "Web3 is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web based on blockchain technology, which incorporate concepts such as decentralization and token-based economics. Some technologists and journalists have contrasted it with Web 2.0, wherein they say data and content are centralized in a small group of companies sometimes referred to as 'Big Tech'."

The first sentence is vague. The existing Web also incorporates concepts such as decentralization and token-based economics.

The second sentence is a social/political characteristic, not a technical one. There is no reason the Web must be an oligopoly.

Similarly, there's no reason "web3" must not be one.

So we're still left without a 50-word description of web3. The above is a vague statement followed by an aspirational (rather than descriptive) statement.
> which is ridiculous given the fact that the most likely etymology of the term isn't what some ignorant individuals assume.

What do you think is the most likely etymology that doesn't do back to Arabic for infidel?
> Look at email, while the protocol is technically “decentralized”, but look at how big Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 is. Sure, you can easily set up an email server on a $5 VPS, I do it with my domain, but most people just leave it to big providers. Web3 is no different.

This is an interesting argument to make but I wouldn't say having large subsets belonging to single entities equates to it being "not decentralized."
The specific purpose of the fuse doesn’t matter. The permanence doesn’t matter.

The fact that the fuse has a function, means that it isn’t “destruction of property”. They added it for DRM, and there’s no evidence to show that it’s anything other than DRM. For it to be “destruction of property”, you’d need to prove that they didn’t do it for DRM, but because they wanted to hurt users. (whether or not it does hurt users is irrelevant for determining mens rea)

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending Nintendo; I’m just saying that this is not a criminal matter.
I believe you're wrong - writers can, and do, steal styles and ideas from each other all the time. Not to mention, the editors are basically doing this:

> can modify it, along with the prose, and maintain the quality of the literate document.

for a living. As long as you're accomplished enough of a writer, you'll be able to analyze the works of others and copy them easily. It's coming up with your own style that's a problem.

To summarize: exceptionally good writers will be able to modify and expand each other's work without much effort. Or at least that's what I believe, based on some personal experiences with writing and writers. It should be quite similar with literate programming, too.
web 1 = read

web 2 = write

web 3 = own
The speakerdeck and github links are too high-level. I believe a better link to Beazley's talk is, https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2014/discovering-python-by-davi...
Set a timer to remind you to get away from work once in a while. Go outside and get some sunlight, it does more than provide vitamin D. Turn off all notifications (email, Slack, all of them) when you need to get work done and only check for messages when you want or need to. Get your coworkers used to the idea that you are not going to answer messages immediately, but you will answer a few times a day. Tune your working space so it does not harm your body (e.g., always looking down at a laptop). Get into the habit of stretching often. Think about the unfortunate patterns, how they developed, and what you should do instead; be aware of what is happening to you.
Been a fan for a long time, in fact, my dream bike is a helix with a belt drive (and possibly a mid-drive motor). I do understand a belt drive might require a tensioner, but a man can dream! My current folder has a belt and it's a joy to ride on.

Additionally, I saw there are some electric options coming up in Q3, would you spare a moment to share your thoughts about possible future developments (i.e. if you see belt/ebike options expand in the future)?
Keeping One’s Home Tidy
If you salt your water before soaking, then your beans will be seasoned internally. In Indian cooking we additionally throw whole spices in (cardamom, star anise, pepper, etc).
Buy whole turmeric from a local Indian grocery and powder it yourself? Curcumin is about 1-3% by weight in turmeric.
When a product has a lot of negative externalities, and you also notice that it doesn't deliver on the promise that's meant to counterbalance those externalities, it's entirely reasonable and appropriate to conclude that the project should be rejected, rather than joining in to try to fix it. I don't know why anyone would want to build a "Web3" with people who use "have fun staying poor" as a catchphrase, or whose understanding of existing technology allows them to refer to "BSD linux". I don't want to empower or enrich those people. We already have enough of them.
>My point is that its much less likely that people were consciously trying to hide something

The whole point of a policy is that people aren't consciously acting according to their whim. Like a document destruction policy.

But large companies often have hundreds of lawsuits going at any given time. So the policy would be introduced with the conscious intent that they would like to hide as much as they can regarding all of them.
OK then ban them from connecting to your active web services. But don't prevent their PC from booting.
Feeding myself well. Carla Lalli Music has great cooking tutorials on YouTube. WFH is ideal for becoming a great home cook https://youtube.com/c/CarlaLalliMusic123

Stretching, especially for whatever gets tight and slumped due to sitting down. I like Essentrics
https://youtu.be/U85YqRN0iy0

Weighted blanket and lights out before midnight.
Never knew this protocol existed!

And as usual, Nirsoft have a tool: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/control_my_monitor.html

On my monitor I can even adjust the dark boost settings too (0xEF on the VG279QM)
This is a pretty weak piece.

> Your wallet (MetaMask), marketplaces (OpenSea), APIs (Alchemy) are all central platforms.

The whole point of the blockchain as a decentralized database idea is that people are free (in the "you don't need permission" sense) to build on it.

Just because OpenSea is a popular interface for trading NFTs it doesn't mean you can't also trade those same NFTs elsewhere.

And your wallet isn't "centralized" at all. Just because MetaMask happens to be implememented using a server doesn't mean you can't export your seed phrase and import it into (eg) TrustWallet and use that instead or as well.

> And if Web3 is “decentralized”, then why can OpenSea take away your NFTs?

Now the Moxie piece[1] on the other hand (which was linked here) is a _great_ criticism by someone who actually bothered to understand what he was doing.

And if you actually _read_ the piece you'll notice that the NFT wasn't taken away at all: it was delisted on OpenSea, and their API stopped returning it.

Moxie's criticisms of the dependency on APIs for performance are well balanced and completely valid here.

But the original piece too away all the subtle of Moxie's piece and turned it into just another boring Web3 hit piece.

[1] https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
Salt during and before cooking. E.g., with chicken if you do a dry/wet brine then the chicken absorbs the salt and becomes internally seasoned, as opposed to being bland internally.

E.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da3AgIWFZdM
I see many comments here saying lean startup is dead.

Any recommendations for books with a more updated approach?
"a lot of organizations do X" doesn't seem like a great reason to do X. A lot of organizations use microservices.
> Run your own node.

Which platforms are doing that? Any you can name offhand?

> You don't have to use their GUI.

Who's doing that?

> don't use Alchemy or Infura as your RPC endpoints?

Who's doing that?

> It could just as easily be "This isn't decentralized! Let me fix that!"

Write the post, then. I'd read it.
> A support engineer being able to set a password on any account is unthinkable, there is zero chance this is actually the case

I have no idea what an Okta support engineer can or can't do but I know that a regular account administrator can set an arbitrary password for a given user via the Okta UI.
I'll quote Ubik at you in 100 words.

===

The door refused to open. It said, "Five cents, please."
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. "I'll pay you tomorrow," he told the door. Again it remained locked tight. "What I pay you," he informed it, "is in the nature of a gratuity; I don't have to pay you."

"I think otherwise," the door said. "Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt."

...he found the contract. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

"You discover I'm right," the door said. It sounded smug.

===
An attempt to stay relevant by piggybacking on the historical success of the web 2.0 brand, pushed by those personally invested in crypto, but who are totally not pushing this for their own profit.

Or, less sarcastically, it's a collection of technologies that attempt to link the blockchain with the "real world", supposedly bringing back decentralization to the web in the process. I'd like to elaborate but there's really nothing more to elaborate on, the entire thing is a vague collection of ideas (such as "maybe users could use blockchain-based microtransactions to pay for the sites they use instead of being served adverts") that nobody's actually figured out what to do with. Why exactly blockchain is required for these ideas, or exactly what ideas constitute "web 3.0" is still an unanswered question...
true, but reliability is undeniable
I hate to cite the Wiki, but here goes (and it notes the attachment to the Arabic insult is not well supported in the literature):

> The most likely etymology is through the Kaffirs, an ethnic group in Sri Lanka partly descended from Bantu slaves. The earliest known reference, under the alternative spelling "caffre" is in 1888 book The Cultivated Oranges, Lemons Etc. of India and Ceylon by Emanuel Bonavia, who notes, "The plantation coolies also smear it over their feet and legs, to keep off land leeches; and therefore in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] it has got also the name of Kudalu dchi, or Leech Lime. Europeans call it Caffre Lime." Similarly, H.F. MacMillan's 1910 book A Handbook of Tropical Gardening and Planting notes, "The 'Kaffir Lime' in Ceylon." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffir_lime
On Linux there are ddcui and gddccontrol (from ddccontrol), although they probably aren't as polished as the options for Windows/macOS. There is also the non-mainline ddcci driver, which lets Linux systems manage external monitor brightness just like it would internal screens on laptops.

https://github.com/rockowitz/ddcui
https://github.com/ddccontrol/ddccontrol
https://gitlab.com/ddcci-driver-linux/ddcci-driver-linux
But there's no scenario in which on location information work benefits companies. Paying premium real estate for a location, equipment, office perks like snacks, then that guy willing to come in is going to charge a premium exceeding his rate for the commute and expenses because he doesn't want to but he's willing to for more money, so they've got to balance what's good for the company... slashing of large, tangible overhead vs some studies show that people are more productive when they've got a water cooler to fuck around at. What it really comes down to is middle management types who liked the level of control they had pushing for it and city governments pressuring companies to prevent a collapse of city economies.

Some companies might try to fight it but they will fail. For information workers like programmers, data entry, accountants and call center reps, work from home is the new normal and that's just how it is now. If you've got to go somewhere for work, it's because you have to be there to do something, like dig a home or cook a steak or mop a floor. The question "why do I need to be there" is now a normal question to ask when considering a job, and a real answer better exist. And if it does, you'd better pay me for my commute.
The Game is a fantastic book, and Neil is a real stand-up guy. He's responsible for my first marriage.
Mostly, I just learned to coast.

I was an 80's "gifted child." When I was in 6th grade, I took a test that showed I could read at an 11th grade level. In 7th grade, I took the SATs as part of an experimental program. I got a score higher than the average HS senior, and even won an award!

What did I do with this? Not too much. I taught myself C, Unix (on other people's computers...), Linux (kernel 0.99 days!), and TCP/IP networking when I was in high school. I suppose that paid off, though I could've done more.
Hmmm interesting do you want me to hack this?
> LSD is unique in that the normal dosage is about the size of a quarter of a postage stamp, or a single drop of liquid.

Both these descriptions of dose are meaningless. A typical dose of LSD is anywhere between 50 and 300 micrograms. But with such a minuscule amount being so potent it is deceptive when considering what a lethal overdose of LSD is. I've heard it said you'd have to literally drown in LSD for it to kill you. I expect the actual lethal dose is an estimation, because even 500x the normal dose is apparently not lethal.
*FreeBSD, BSD Desktop is what was used in the article

Many people join in to fix it, that's exactly what Alchemy, Infura, OpenSea are and were, many people that would be interested are first exposed to offputting characters that don't know anything but who believe every sales pitch. I mostly think the lack of standardized education on this is what creates these outcomes of the latter population. Since some of them would be useful to have in that space.
Ask HN: Did your idea get funding from FTX Future Fund?
Curious whether anyone on HN got investment from FTX [1] for their project. I got the rejection letter today, it seems a mind tool powered by AI is not interesting enough :D

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30502742
I was addressing the comment from @divbzero about integrated systems. Out of network claims are a separate issue.
I think the biggest issues are slow computers and non-native apps (which intersect in a lot of places)

Slower computers can have issues running electron apps such as VSCode, which native apps (mostly) fix.

Native apps are also generally nicer to use (on mac) as they break up the flow of the way things look less.