skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That attitude has always existed in an economy to some degree, but you still retain the option to move to something else and get away from it.

A digital centrally controlled currency means you never get to escape it.

Even if you switch landlords for example, it would be inescapable, you have the masters of the universe doing it to you, not just one person you can move away from.
You definitely see fads with things that aren't terribly utilitarian for getting from point A to point B. Inline skating/Rollerblading was very popular at one point and now it's rare to see anyone doing it.

ADDED: Though apparently it's made something of a comeback the past couple of years. https://www.wsj.com/articles/rollerblading-for-grown-ups-is-... (Of course, like many pandemic hobbies who is to say that it will last.)
> do you really think that the position held by mainsteam politians wouldn't loose by a landslide

If the referendum are not held on hackernews or reddit and the mainstream politicians are given a time to defend their positions, I think the results won't be much different than what people voted so far.

The pirate party(~parties all over the EU) are bunch of idealists who so far failed to gain any significant traction.

People love the idea that the pure and freedom loving societies are held hostage by fascist elites but that's probably the case only if a very few countries, definitely not EU, US or even Russia or Turkey. People love whatever their position is, ban this mandate that is all they want(it's just that different people want different things to banned or mandated). Notice how people tirelessly are wedging cultural wars over who should f*ck who, be called what, get dressed what, eat what.

We have whatever we have because that's whatever the people want. It slowly changes over time as new people are born and the older ones die off.
You are grouping people and hope for a "reckoning", instead of trying to talk about arguments and actually replying to the comments. That's why nobody is taking you seriously.
This already happened to Canadians and Russians earlier this year with traditional banks & payment systems. How would this be achieved in the world of Bitcoin and Lightning Network?
No mention of margins for homebuilders being higher for bigger homes than the smaller ones. Maybe it will change now that SFH prices have skyrocketed and pushing more people into smaller townhomes.
I believe audits and transparency are amongst the tools that can and do improve 'government' / 'democracy'. I can see ways that crypto (in it's old generic sense) can help but I don't particularly see any way that blockchain tech can help though?
It's pretty silly IMO. Extreme Concept™ isn't difficult to do, and it's even less difficult to imagine.

It's trivial to make extremely long time-based pieces on the web. You load the page, it works out the time/date, and it plays whatever the algorithm says is right for the time date. With the right algo you can make pieces that last for millions of years.

And so on.

There is a sense in which it's an interesting idea, but it's also a cultural dead end. You can only make it bigger and more extreme, and that's more about spectacle than music.
> The greater the size, the greater the responsibilities of online platforms

> as a rule, cancelling subscriptions should be as easy as signing up for them

Overall I like these principles, but we'll see in a few years how they're enforced in practice. It's been 4-5 years since we've had GDPR and I still see sites that require tens of clicks to disable all advertising cookies (and the most I've seen was 300+ clicks). Even Google only this week announced they'll add "reject all" button to their cookie banners.

I expect it'll be similar in this case, companies will do bare minimum to try to stay compliant with the regulation, and it will take a few years to see real differences, but I hope it's at least a step in the right direction.
That’s the marketing pitch.

The nihilist position that e everything is broken, except for a highly volatile system of digital signatures that require massive “fiat” capital investments to function.
> HN itself is host on some of the most basic and boring tech

It's written in a homemade lisp. That's not boring, that's fun.
One of the insights here is using the “tangent point energy” as part of the repulsion loss function. If anyone’s used, or knows of, a python implementation of this TPE function then please lmk!
Watch it with subtitles instead then—most non-English content has English subtitles in my experience. Many of many favorite shows of recent years have been non-English Netflix shows that I watch with subtitles: Fauda, Dogs of Berlin, A Very Secret Service, Lupin, etc.
> The law applies to platforms with more than 45 million users. By the time you have that many, you're not a "lesser platform that's hurting".

There are only some parts on regulation that affects those with more than 45 million active users. https://ec.europa.eu/info/digital-services-act-ensuring-safe...

[edit] Reading the actual regulation text a bit closer, it looks like there are additional categories than those presented in EC's overview page. Some of the elements do not apply certain small companies defined "a small enterprise is defined as an enterprise which employs fewer than 50 persons and whose annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 10 million" (+some additional restrictions on things like ownership. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...)
> From an engineering point of view, with a scarce resource, dropping only the biggest user (Netflix) looks reasonable.

The decision of who is the biggest user needs to be made in realtime at the point of congestion, not identified on a quarterly basis by the accounting department and pushed out as policy across the whole network.
The video has some really interesting / creative examples. Using this for path planning by treating paths as curves through space-time was particularly impressive.
That's literally it? Thought might be more to it, hmm still interesting, thanks!
He resigned, following pressure from the Eurogroup on the greek government.

It's interesting he had to resign after effectively 'winning' a referedum. ( "Should greece accept the bailout? yes/no" )

He was a prominent "No" to that question. And apparently the Eurogroup preferred continuing the conversation without him in the picture and effected pressure in that direction.

IIRC the guy after him also resigned, leaving the position vacant.
I think it speaks to the level of agency that this position or minister of finance in 2008 Greece had to begin with. Either be a Europe yes-man, or git.
I'm pretty sure it would be considered fair use, even if it was quite heavily influenced (and in some parts, taken) from a work. It isn't like anyone is going to listen to the two pieces and get them confused nor is any copyright holder going to lose money because someone plays their song so slowly that most folks just hear a single tone, even if they stay for days.
Interesting to see that this and even Stripe's announcement of crypto payouts did not get enough attention here [0] but only the same old one sided [1][2] typical outrage that jumps to the top of this site, and attracts the typical boring 'crypto is scam' comments.

This post 'Why blockchains are useful, in a nutshell' and 'Crypto, the Left and Technofeudalism' were posted in the same timeframe and the latter somehow got the most attention; alongside this Ask HN [2] post, confirming the unfortunate bias and lack of curiosity in the uses of the technology.

They seem to even admit to not bothering to reading the articles I linked in [3]. I asked a simple question about why Stripe announced Crypto payouts and look where that went [3].

I can only conclude that regulations are going to separate which cryptocurrency projects are going to survive or not. The fact that Stripe waited for regulatory clarity to get back in tells us that not only they see some value in it but it is also not going away anytime soon.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31121177

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31133393

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31132610

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31132996
Never monetize your hobby. You'll end up hating it, whereas it's supposed to charge you up.
I've only been here 3 years, most of which has been a COVID pandemic. I also don't tend to ever seek out tech scenes anywhere, so I'm probably not the right person to ask. As a self-employed aging developer with my own FLOSS project that generates a good income, it's a fine place to live. If I was a younger developer eager to learn and expand, much harder to say if it would be a good choice (it might be, but it might not).
> Old people rock!

Not all of us. I do understand some of the animosity, but it is very self-destructive; especially when I see some of these Jurassic-scale crash-and-burn disasters that were entirely avoidable, if only one single person in authority had been out of school for more than ten years.

I also have participated in a Service organization (nonprofit) for most of my life, and a lot of the work that I do is based around the community it Serves.

But I was just talking to a friend of mine, whose father suffered a stroke, and we'll probably work on an iOS app that will be designed to help with some of his rehab.

I like to help people that help people.
With me working remote these past two years my wife and I have found that we don’t necessarily need to be a two car household. I bought a reasonably nice ($1200) scooter last year and have been doing all my errands on our city’s great bike trails. I have maybe 3-500 miles on it now and while it’s not as nice or as fast as driving it is a wonderful experience every time I take it out.
There's nothing limiting Lineage OS if you have requisite apps installed. Chromecast would be the best though.
You are correct, he resigned, following pressure on Tsipras government to get rid of him.
Some details are provided in the link in the comment you are responding to.
I'm not really sure how to silently lose messages in XMPP these days, if you use stream management (which everyone does[*]).

The last gap I'm aware of was that if you sent a message to someone on a remote server, and the remote server couldn't be connected to, your server would generate a delivery error (i.e. not silent). But* if you went offline before this delivery error reached you, you would never see it. These days such errors are stored in the user's message archive, and available to all your clients for synchronization purposes (so all of them can see that the message failed to deliver).

So with that said, I'm very interested in hearing any details you can provide about how to silently lose messages in modern XMPP. Clients involved, steps to reproduce, etc. Then we can produce actionable bug reports.

[*]: I believe Pidgin is still a notable exception here. Notable mainly because a lot of people still use it, even though its protocol plugin development has stalled somewhat for many years (the project is still being developed, but their focus has been on core/foundation improvements rather than keeping up with changes to modern internet messaging).
Reddit was built on Rails and used to shit itself constantly. I'm pretty sure the primary reason why it's more stable now is a lot of work, improvements in how Ruby runs, and that they throw a billion servers at it. I can't remember where I got this idea, but I think HN just runs on one or two machines.
When my mom was learning to program, she was annoyed that the computer did not recognize that "O" means zero, and "l" means one. Her old manual typewriter didn't have 0 and 1 keys. So her typing habit resulted in a lot of errors.

Later she taught programming. The first thing she told students was: "Computers are dumb. They will only do exactly what you tell them."
Caution. This is a gateway drug.
Nature abhors a vacuum: if you kill the most popular PoW scheme, the little ones will dutifully step up and use just as much power. I don’t think there’s any world we can live in where PoW schemes will have “negligible impact,” which only heartens the justification for banning all of them, now.
> There is no external trusted documentation that says what the intention of the code is.

No, if someone fraudulently updated a canonical record of ownership, then the legal system can provide remedies. If it were me, I'd write the smart contract to enable corrections in case of a legal decision but that's at the choice of whomever sets up the smart contract that provides the canonical record of ownership.

Same situation for if someone loses their keys. All these problems can be solved with appropriately written smart contacts.
I don’t understand what “caretaker of Eurasia” is supposed to mean.
I’ve seen the difference between what YouTube presents to me when I’m logged in v.s. when I’m on a clean computer it can’t associate with me, and I do value the personalisation — when not logged in it shows me a hundred duds for every one thing I care about, and logged in it’s about 50:50.

How much of this improvement is a mysterious machine learning algorithm and how much is it just looking for new things from my subscription list, I’m not sure, and that’s important: being trapped in a torrent of self-reinforcing falsehoods is something I fell for in my teenage-goth-New-Age phase, which Carl Sagen condemned in The Demon-Haunted World, and which people in general have been falling for with every sychophant and propagandist from soothsayers to tabloids telling them what they want to be so.
City of London is fascinating. They are a corporation that acts like a government within a government and in the elections the residents and businesses have voting rights.
I reckon you're right, but I doubt that it's manual or under Google's control. Google is too important a tool of control to be left in the hands of Silly Valley idealists.

I've always wondered why Sergey Brin and Larry Page retired when they did, it coincides almost exactly with the beginning of the SERP quality decline. Wonder what sort of conversation they had with intelligence to quietly walk to the door, cash out, and say nothing about the company since.
This is all concept, of course. But walking around the dishevelled old church, listening to the constant humm in the background is an experience that grows from knowing that this tone will last for years until it will change as prescribed. A tone change is a small event that draws some attention from wider circles. There are people who have cared for the project for more than 20 years and it's not only folks who initiated it. It will be fascinating to see how long there will be interest and resources to keep it up.
Literally zero cross platform visibility, mostly just Twitter, IG, Reddit, HN & YouTube.
I'm genuinely not sure what you're trying to say by that, since that's not at all the vibe I get from Yanis. Or are you saying that since Yanis is deeply skeptical of crypto, this implies he thinks everybody in the space is "an idiot", and hence you think he's actually the idiot here?
https://www.privacyaffairs.com/gdpr-fines/
I think of it as a programmers aide much like regex101.com or crontab.guru
I stopped working on black hole information loss
The minimum performance target is usually 30fps (more common) or 60fps (less common) as that's all that a consoles budget usually allows. All you need is one thread that comes in just under 32ms on a PS4, but maybe doesn't scale all that well. For example, it's a task that's heavily memory bandwidth or latency bound, which isn't really all that much better on modern top-end desktops. Bam, now you have both a "badly optimized" game and one in which all performance targets are achieved.

Which is not really all that unlikely of a scenario. Just look at the absurd gains that the 5800X3D achieves in some engines over the 5800X, despite the X3D running at lower clock speeds. GTA 5 is a good example here ( https://youtu.be/hBFNoKUHjcg?t=885 ) - the 5800X3D achieves the highest fps on that at 171, a staggering 40 fps higher than the 5800X (by comparison the 12900K is 154fps). Something about that engine just slams into a memory bandwidth/latency wall, at which point it just stops scaling.
My cool hipster roommate told me about this 10 years ago when I first moved out for school, and I’m now the age she was back then (and the piece is 10 years older)
I dont think its much of a selling point in favor of government that the considered so far "anarchistic alternatives" are worse. That is by no means a recommendation
Great! I did not know that replacements are available for ZX Spectrum. Mine is ZX spectrum+, hopefully would be able to find for that too.
Fructose is converted into glycogen in the liver, which is then converted into glucose or fat, the body uses fructose just fine.

Regularly consuming 5000 calories of anything sugary or starchy is going to be a problem for most people.
That's a beautiful analogy. At some point Alpha Go learnt all it could from the narratives of humans, and eventually it had to become the creator of its own narratives.

Applied generally enough, we see the narrative value of humans, at least in the eyes of the machine, to go down down down, as the value of its own richer and more unknown narratives go up up up.

In this way it becomes the dominant spectacle on the Earth, leaving humanity with a questionable fate.
I’m pretty sure sugar cravings in my family are simply garden variety hunger. For us “sweet tooth” mostly correlates with missed meals. The brain runs on glucose, so when the body is low on food and blood sugar dips, sugar is the “quick fix” for the brain.
Probably much the same way you can see that crypto in its old generic sense could do these things, with the additional security of the applications running on a blockchain, and the assurances about transaction integrity, censorship resistance, availability etc.

You can have a cryptographically secure platform for whatever governance platform you like, but if it's running on a traditional centralised server infrastructure within a political jurisdiction, it's completely vulnerable to tampering of government agencies within that political jurisdiction. This is a well acknowledged issue referred to as "data sovereignty" with the limitation that the way to ensure it's handled is to pick a reliable jurisdiction.

If we acknowledge that no jurisdiction is reliable, however, blockchains are the only choice.
Yanis is Syriza, the radical left(their description) democratic socialists.
Completely aside, but those specific events is when I personally started to see Europe as problematic. ( I'm a European citizen, pay taxes there.
Also : I'm the 'right' kind of European, because clearly and unfortunately: there is two kind, we started to see that in 2008 )
I use both apps, they’re pretty amazing. I typically use Seek first and if it can’t identify the image it lets you upload it to iNaturalist seamlessly for manual identification. I believe then those identifications are then used to further train the model.
The issue is that Europe buys their energy from Russia.
If you pay taxes to a western government you are complicit in killing innocents all over the world. We just do with drones from an office park in Nevada.
>It would be just as easy to write a post like this about JSON,

JSON has no namespaces, even without taking that into account it's already less verbose, it maps nicely into lists and dicts, I don't know a single JSON parser that can leak the user's IP even as an option, let alone by default (not saying there aren't any at all, just no popular ones), doing a binary version of XMPP based on JSON would take as much as switching over to bencode instead of whatever the unsupported hell EXI is. So no, you can't really write a post like this about JSON. Even if you do, it's not gonna be XML that will be proposed as a better solution.

One thing where XML beats JSON is markup. But with XMPP's unholy approach to markup, it's actually JSON that beats XML.
Turning your hobby into your business is a very different move from getting a job in the field that your hobby suggests
Call that technototalinarism then. An east Asian country is pioneering that.
Only if you’re at some no name bank or credit union. Even Charles Schwab supports Zelle.

https://www.zellepay.com/get-started
I wish Cage had kept the acronym ASAP
I agree with regulation, but some of this is very concerning. By the Polish government's actions, pointing out the very real Polish pogroms and Polish informants who turned in Jews could be considered misinformation. This will be abused by some the increasingly illiberal and nationalist states in the EU.
> Is technology entrepreneurship and science better served by having a politics-free zone, like the Olympics? Or is society worse served by having a class of people and an industry operate as if politics is orthogonal to it, as if the whole nature of the enterprise isn't built upon a particular political ethos and system that sustains its current incarnation, possibly at the expense of other classes of people or society as a whole?

While politics often appeals to morality, I'd argue these are moral and social discussions.
One way to do it have the hobby be something that’s entirely yours (you carve intricate models of Vietnamese railway cays say) and someone else sells them, almost without any communication as to “what is selling etc”.

Never take orders.
You seem to be using QoS to refer exclusively to stuff like DiffServ. That's wrong, even if it was widely accepted back in whatever decade you were working in networking. The DiffServ/DSCP mindset for how to achieve QoS is obsolete and inferior, and encourages non-neutral network management to the detriment of everybody except the ISPs that get to charge third parties extra for fast lanes and the few content providers who can afford to pay for the fast lane.

If your mental model of QoS treats packet scheduling as a zero-sum game and views latency and bandwidth as inversely related (implied by one of your other comments in this thread), then you're more than a decade out of date. Business models based on such wrong ideas do not deserve any protection from public policy.
Those days I'm using libcurl with the bindings that are supplied with Lazarus/FPC... works perfectly fine (tested on Windows and Linux, I suppose MacOS will work too... on Windows you need to install the DLL, e.g. libcurl-x64.dll). No need to install anything on Lazarus/FPC. Below a basic (incomplete) example of a GET request with a custom header, but as this is just a binding to libcurl, it basically allows you to do anything, including other protocols (libcurl can even have SMTP support, depending how it is compiled).

uses libcurl;

function curl_callback(data: pointer; size: size_t; nmemb: size_t; str: PStream): size_t; cdecl;
begin
// do something with incoming data
end;

var http: pCurl;
hdr: Pcurl_slist;
begin
http := curl_easy_init();
// [...]
hdr := curl_slist_append(NIL, pchar('Authorization: Bearer ' + EncodeStringBase64(AUTH_TOKEN)));
curl_easy_setopt(http, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [hdr]);
curl_easy_setopt(http, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, [@curl_callback]);
curl_easy_setopt(http, CURLOPT_URL, [pchar(API_URL)]);
// [...]
if (curl_easy_perform(http) <> CURLE_OK) then begin
// [...]
end;
end.