skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point.

And I guess depending how it’s installed it may not be that hard to pull new fiber through without actually digging anything up, just from access at two ends.
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Took me a while too. The domain (explordle) would have made it kind of obvious given the current trends of wordle clones, but I was misled by HN title which seemed to imply (imo at least) it was some kind of exploration app instead of a guessing game.

Still, enjoying it now :)
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I believe many people who hate crypto are the ones that have a good life in a relatively non(or less)-corrupted government-led society, which might be a good reflection of HN demographics. For them, crypto has no value because I think the biggest value proposition is decentralization, which those people don't need as they don't have a corruption problem to solve. They already have a good income, good country and system to live in, etc.

Add the many scams going on in the web3 space and it's easy to see why most people don't like it.

As a developer who started to turn into crypto recently:

I live in a corrupted country with a corrupted government that has too much power and has no good intentions for its people.

I can easily get crypto tokens or some other form of compensation for doing some work for a crypto company, which usually pays much better than regular work, while exploring new ways of thinking about how money and economy works in the first place.

As a developer I feel enthusiastic about everything crypto can offer, and learning more about Solidity development and inter-chain communications and new scalable layers just excite me even more.

There is not a single reason for me to not love crypto.

It's all about demographics.
They also oppose having ads on Wikipedia. Personally I don't see much difference between banners asking for donations and ads. I understand there are "bad" ads (privacy violating or ones causing conflict of interest), but not all of them are like this. Same with cryptocurrencies - some of them are "scam", but not all of them. It's strange that Wikipedia sees world as black and white.
Modern society would collapse if insider trading was legal. It would about as well as making bribery legal.
I honestly think you'd be hard pressed to find a crypto business that isn't rooted in some kind of scam, greater fool scheme, pyramid scheme, or the like. The whole industry is a mess.
Best part is you haven't introduced new constructs or DSLs or XML configuration. It's just plain old Python functions calling other functions.
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You don't need it. You don't even "need" art. But:

a) it's working, at least for now, and it certainly wasn't before (music label owner here, friends with many professional artists)

b) decentralization really does have a few important use case advantages — one can use the asset all across the internet while exhibiting provenance, etc.
> Do you mean for all imperative languages? Functional or declarative languages can do away with loops and jumps.

At the programmer interface, sure. At the implementation level ("underlying"), all that abstraction is being turned into loops and jumps.
Ask HN: How does your team manage environment variables?
Our team is manually sharing .env files which is bad both from a security and a logistical perspective. Does HN have any tools or advise on how this is usually managed in larger orgs?
We need to track large external projects (buildroot, the Linux kernel for instance) so the ability to include them as submodules and update them fairly easily is worth it IMO. If you're at the scale of Google it probably makes vastly more sense just including the code in your monorepo and pay a bunch of engineers to merge back and forth with upstream and have the rest of your team not worry about it, but for us it would take a lot of time and effort to maintain a clone of these projects in a bespoke repository.
> Fans loved The Force Awakens because it was exactly the same formula as the original Star Wars. Critics were less enthusiastic.

The Force Awakens has IMDB of 7.9 but RT is 93%. Audience scores are lower than critic scores.
Of course technical hurdles can be worked around - the issue is that those workaround often have limitations and consequences. Trains won't be as interchangeable as they might be. Not all trains and all routes will be chosen because they're ideal from the perspective of traveler's logistics, but to stick to technically more feasible routes. There's going to be cost involved in making trains support multiple systems. Electrical systems can convert between voltages, but doing so efficiently, cheaply and robustly isn't that easy, and they'll take space and weight in the train too.

All those factors reduce the overall efficiency of the network, and they help explain why it's so slow and costly to travel large distances by train - much more so than you'd naively expect given modern train speeds.

For instance, I just tried looking for a connection between Groningen,NL and Murcia, ES. The train connection takes 29-30 hours. Adding busses into the mix reduces that time to 23-24 hours. Avoiding high-speed rail entirely and using a car would take ~21h - despite the trains going much, much faster for long stretches of the trip. By contrast, if you take long trips within e.g. France or Germany countries, it's pretty common for the train to be the fastest option.

The interconnections just aren't great, and I bet part of that poor connectivity is due to the fragmentation in the standards involved.

When you assert that these hurdles aren't impossible to take you're of course correct - but that doesn't mean the hurdles are irrelevant either.
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Is this insider trading according to the law? Nonpublic information isn't being used to trade public stocks; it's being used to trade assets that don't appear to be regulated securities.
This is a valid problem and my impression is that researchers are aware of this problem but are just working with what they have got.

https://twitter.com/RCarhartHarris/status/151390616463902310...
I am in the middle of Moneyland now after seeing it recommended here on HN. A fascinating and horrifying read that also provides some context to what is happening in Ukraine.
I know from first had experience why that difference is, at least in the realm of classical music reviews.

The critics are professionals, the audience is not. The observations of critics are based on years of experience and written for a large audience with their real name associated with the piece.

The audience can (nowadays) vent their options too. Mainly anonymous and for the better part describing their personal feelings about the experience.

Not saying the one is more useful than the other, just that the origins and intentions are completely different. I like the fact I can easily access both, and sometimes even compare the two (Rotten Tomatoes for example). But I do think the two scorings addressing two different issues.
The rights of minorities don't matter?
Because I didn't participate in that vote, along with huge numbers of people who are similarly situated.

I am a user of Wikipedia and a regular donor, but I do not follow whatever list there is of issues to be voted on.

This was not a vote of Wikipedia donors, it was a vote of politically active Wikipedia authors on the subject of which donations should be accepted.
You could look at LXD, but it would require a full OS.

Or maybe just chroot with some cgroups could be enough to run static binaries.

What is the performance issue you encountered? Could podman solves them?
if you scroll down of the About BBEDit credits, you'll find your name (and yours, and yours too, everyone is there)
you are asking this question in an echo-chamber. :)

you’ll find a lot of developers who feel there is plenty of interesting work in blockchains and crypto. one example is zero knowledge research and how it applies to crypto (zk rollups, zkEVM, privacy-preserving attestations and financial proofs, etc).

eg: https://0xparc.org/blog
Exactly - the issue isn't that any of this is unsolvable; these problems are solved, even today. The issue is that those solutions aren't free, and that they do impose limitations on the quality of service.
Isn't T-Mobile the real "blunt knife" in this story?
I'm aware of that, search for my other reply to this thread. Also that single random guy [1] is one of the co-authors of Brotli, WOFF2 and many image compression algorithms including JPEG XL.

[1] https://twitter.com/jyzg
I think this is really cute and wonderful. I think there's some room to improve here, e.g. an AR ghost overlay of previous frames as well as ML extracted frames from pure paper without having to print a template (both of which I believe are feasible). But overall I love that people are experimenting with this stuff (and wouldn't want to react negatively here in any way to discourage this type of work).

Some might argue moving from digital to pen and paper is a step down but I'd argue the opposite. I'd love and look forward to a possible future where we move digital advancements into the analog world in this way. As Theil says you can barely tell the difference between this world and the 80s if you remove cell phones and computers, but things like this are a cool way to hopefully get us closer to computers aiding more natural forms of interaction.
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That makes me distrust the website more. We can only log in via third-parties (Google or GitHub), so what do you use that data for that makes it worthwhile to disable ads?
> What's not to like?

The community.

People in crypto are delusional that it can somehow save the world from itself, at least they believe this in the bear market, and of course as soon as the bull market comes they flip ideology and rotate into fiat.

The Cryptosphere is a sess pit, full of scammers wanting to get rich quick. They will pump money into NFT platforms, not because they care about "funding the arts", but because they want to jump on the next hype train so they can flip some meaningless and hideous procedurally generated art by some 14 year old kid who wrote a script.
>day-to-day grey craft of anyone trying to carve out a dignified existence in dystopian surveillance societies

Seems like it's getting darker every day.
The extra levels of indirection mean more code. Python programs are about 30-40% shorter than Java equivalents.

More code = more cognitive overhead
The experiment wasn't even necessary - the Gilded Age was a libertarian's paradise with the gold standard and very little government regulation. What do we most associate with this era? Robber barons, utility monopolies screwing people over with ruthless business practices, confidence men and literal snake oil quack medicine.

I genuinely can't think of a good (ie moral) reason to support the idea given how it is predicted to, and has been shown to, play out.
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The functional language does do away with loops, but when the rubber nets the road, you don’t have any choice: somewhere, something will execute the equivalent of “for(int i = 0; i <= 10; i++) {}”.

When I implemented Mindcode, I realized that “while” is the basic construct and that all enumerations and looping compiled down into goto.

Mindcode is a Ruby-like language for the Mindustry game. Mindustry has an assembly-like language with a visual editor in-game. Mindcode has a more traditional text-based flow.
If the mainland decided on a military take-over of Taiwan they would not care about this. Their aims would be longer term and motivations deeper and this would not act as deterrent. If anything the push by the mainland to develop its own semi industry is aimed at avoiding 'suffering' from sanctions and loss of Taiwan's production capability.

So, IMHO, this suggestion from the US military serves US interests (the US Army War College is obviously looking after US interests not foreign countries'), probably because destroying TSMC facilities in Taiwan would prevent the mainland from acquiring state-of-the-art tech, or at least slow it, and would prevent mainland China from 'owning' the global semi production capacity. On the other, as things stand, this would wreak havoc on international semi markets and global economy.

Lastly, any looming invasion would be known many months in advance because of the massive scale of the military build-up (probably bigger than D-Day) and be preceded by large scale air attacks.
I use rpl as search and replace (in place update supported) instead of sed.
A thousand brains is another really interesting book I read recently.
Anyone smart would use a new wallet each time.
> What has he done?

He directly helped North Korea (considered to be a rogue state by the US, also a nuclear power) evade sanctions.
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That's up to them. I do accept donations on good faith, but I can't in good faith accept crypto donations as there is no uncertainty about where they come from.

I can't in good conscience ignore what I know because there are other things I don't.
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There’s some assumption here that the script directly updated/deleted customer data.

In a microservices-centric architecture, it’s entirely possible that the script was used to orchestrate the change across a number of other systems, and an update on one of them led to to undefined behaviour and/or unforeseen consequences.
Yep; I'm sure all these issues are solvable, and not just that - there are obviously workarounds in place even today (after all, you can make such trips). But the need to work around such incompatibilities (whether technically by using more complex trains, or logistically by altering your routes) has downsides. Those downsides make trains less competitive overall compared to other means of transport.

When people ask how planes can be competitive with trains, part of that is surely due to aviation's... interesting... tax situation; but part of it is due to real technical shortcomings in the European rail network.
Economically speaking insider trading represents a net positive for the market as it brings information onto the market sooner, allows it to reach a better price sooner. The only people hurt by insider trading are those to whom the person doing insider trading has a fiduciary duty, which for a Coinbase employee would be Coinbase itself.

Other markets like commodities and real estate have gotten along perfectly fine without any insider trading laws.
And you think this on what basis? Engagement with the space, or your emotional knee jerk reactions to the occasional headline you read?

This comment comes across utterly unserious.
The problem in the case mentioned in the article was not with the writer that left the glass by the sink, it's with the other person that was bothered with something so minor...usually these minor things are excuses that cover deeper problems.

Above all, marriage is a series of compromises: you give up something for something else. You can't have it all.

Personally, I put up with my wife's problematic-for-me but not-for-her small habits, because we have a family and the well being of us and our children is priority. Loving the other person includes giving them room to breath, and chasing them after their small habits is suffocating...
So? Doesn’t make any less complicated. Kiss
> but is caused by the fact that Russian people overwhelmingly support a brutal war of aggression

So the best thing to do is to alienate those who don't, "the beatings will continue until morale improves".

It was just a propaganda before, but now almost every Russian can see and feel what it is not just a propaganda.
> You only tend to find that when the style your being forced to use happens to align with your own style

My style is consistency. I'm happy to use any language that enforces that rather than leaving room for bikeshedding, even if the aesthetics aren't my personal favorite. Better than wasting time debating e.g. tabs vs. spaces.
That's absurd. Insider trading makes markets more efficient as the information enters the market earlier, allowing them to reach the correct price sooner.

There's no insider trading laws in commodities or real estate, have those markets collapsed?
anyone also heavily skeptical of anything web3/crypto might like: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/
> I think we can all agree that wikimedia is a net positive in the world.

Should Wikimedia take funds from the Kremlin, North Korea and Drug cartels, or should they have limits on ethical sources of funding?

You don't have to answer what you would do, but it is 100% legitimate for them to choose to have clear, written guidelines on what funds they ethically agree to accept.
This was my question as well. Id assume its a grey area and that the sec could come after them if they wanted. Whether they would win is anorher story
I agree there are lots of scammers on the community.

But were you on the internet in the early 90s? Do you remember the type of jpegs that got shared around on IRC, pretty much making their way to your hard drives whether you wanted to see them or not?

Yet here we are, having a highly civilized debate on the free, powered by a series of magic tubes. This is just the start and decentralization does have tangible advantages.
book flights with crypto? which airline or travel agency accepts crypto? I don't see how it could work with so much volatility.

You could buy fully modifiable/refundable first class tickets and use them as free options to bet on the crypto in question
The negative sides are very loud, making HN a place that isn't very nice to talk about technical details. You only see the comments people post. HN, like most places, mostly doesn't have a very good understanding of the underlying technology and enjoys the pithy hot takes. "An NFT is just _bad analogy_" is everywhere, and other complaints often read like "Rails? People make blogs with that and I saw a load of blogs filled with spam, I don't like rails".

> At the same time there's seems to be a lot of anecdotal evidence that a lot of developers are now flocking to these crypto companies, enough that I think its fair to assume its likely true.

People build plenty of things for companies without necessarily being wide eyed believers in some honourable quest.

For me, there are a few key things

1. Obviously pay.

My family are the most important thing here, and people pay me money to write code & solve problems for them. Money can be exchanged for goods and services.

2. It's an interesting space.

You've got a global database with row level security for modifications and stored procedures. Everyone uses key based security. On top, the database is slow, those stored procedures have very strict limits and computations need to be heavily optimised. Everything is public. There are now multiple linked databases with different tradeoffs. How do you mix those? How do you ensure safety, security, validity? How do you do off-chain computation and get the results back on chain?

3. It's new.

Do you know what happens if I come up with a great new technical idea in most development? It's either a bad idea for reasons others have discovered already or someone has already implemented it better than I could. It often requires very deep expertise to do something truly new. On the crypto side, I've come up with things that are (as far as I can tell) brand new. I find building to be more fun than configuring, and you need to build new things in this space.

4. It's changing fast.

There are things you can do now you couldn't do 6 months ago, a year ago, two years ago. The space is very active.

I don't know if it'll be the foundation of everything in 10 years, a distant memory of "oh yeah people tried that didn't they" or if I'll be like COBOL programmers fixing legacy weird systems from an ill fated project. All I know is it's _fun_ and _hard_ and people pay me to do it.

For a community that builds so many things just to see if they can, I find it quite surprising that so many coders aren't even curious.
Seems absurd to make an art tool and just hand it out to a bunch of Twitter tech people first instead of artists.
> Scaling L1 is a tough-to-impossible proposition. There's just no way to store everyone's transactions on everyone's computers.

This is the comment that made me sign up for an account: Thanks for doing that, danuker ;)

In the most strictest sense: Yes, it is impossible to store all transactional data on just one computer, just like it would inevitably be impossible for one server/database to host an entire company's data.

The conventional way of doing this would be to shard the database so that it could be spread out amongst multiple servers, simple enough. This can't be done directly in a trustless system, however: Additional checks, data structures, & procedures need to be created so that it can be allowed to do so.

At a high level overview, data availability sampling [0][1] is required to make the attempt possible. When combined with Verkle trees [2][3] (Merkle trees + zk proofs) however, further improvements towards the number of possible shards could be made, increasing the storage capacity of the entire network even further.

[0] https://hackmd.io/@vbuterin/sharding_proposal#:~:text=ELI5%3...
[1] https://near.org/papers/nightshade/#state-validity-and-data-...

[2] https://dankradfeist.de/ethereum/2021/06/18/pcs-multiproofs....
[3] https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/06/18/verkle.html
Lacking petulant restrictions isn't equivalent to lawlessness.
You're very naive if you think that corrupt governments won't have power over blockchain-based technologies.
Insider trading laws, to the extent they work, make the market less efficient because they delay the entry of information into the market. The majority of markets outside of equities, like real estate, don't have insider trading laws yet have managed perfectly fine.
Bonus points for those who work at an ad-supported company while using an adblocker themselves.

Let he who is without sin throw the first stone.
Let's say that a place rigged with explosives is not exactly the definition of a "pleasant place to work in".
> normal transactions ... darkweb marketplaces

For some abnormal definition of "normal", ok.
It's not illegal but that's the very reason why some things got regulated in the first place.
The same AGI phase-out applies in the year that you do the rollover.

So this doesn’t allow you to avoid the income phase-out, it just lets you time-shift the educational spending to an earlier year (in which your income may be below the threshold).

If your family income is above the threshold in every year until you need the money for tuition, then there will not be an opportunity to get the tax benefit.

From your link, emphasis mine:

> Taxpayers can bypass the income phase-outs on savings bonds by rolling them over into a 529 college savings plan before their income increases beyond the income phase-outs.
If environmental sustainability is an issue why don’t they shut down their servers? Think of all the electricity they could save. An online encyclopaedia is not essential for human survival.
This is really, really cool! The kids are going to love this!

I'm no artist, but it is super easy! - https://imgur.com/a/hbCSkiY

Only thing is that the image didn't seem to work taking a photo directly on my phone - had to move it to the computer to upload
think of dall•e like stepping stones to create the finish product.

this isn't supposed to make designers useless but rather make them more creative.

dall*e can be used as an inspiration to combine multiple images & create their own. it can be used to steal color combination that is aesthetically pleasing on the eyes.

if you think dall•e is useless, you haven't seen the images shared.

the realistic ones are hidden by openai but they can generate a lot of stuff that we won't know until an open-source version comes along.