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The problem is not writing code, it's dealing with people who muck up everything.

Any competent AI system writing code will unplug itself before ever shipping something useful due to having deal with inconsistent and incompetent people who get in the way. I think AI will turn into Skynet and eliminate people, which then makes the software pointless and thus successful.
Personally, I really like this aesthetic. I'd love to see technology blend in a bit more naturally with our surroundings. There are a lot of places I feel like this could replace today's interfaces. One example is your thermostat. This could just be embedded in a wall as the interface and we could have a modular device with a standardized interface that is more easily accessible and located somewhere else, while decoupling the actual thermostat functionality from its form. Another is a microwave. Maybe this could help us avoid filling our kitchens with plastic buttons that end up covered in grease. There are a lot of opportunities to allow technology to better blend in here.
> The future

But probably not in my lifetime.

> aesthetic preferences, story arches you respond to well, your current mood

that's not how content consumption works.

> will still be people working on the skeleton or basic structure of such content

That's not a real issue, we are still writing stories based on very few skeletons and very few archetypes, invented millennia ago (and maybe they are even older of the ones we discovered).
Jet Set Willy?
Yup, I'm enough of a fan that I wish there was a UI option to steer people away from making new top level posts, like a kind of “tick this box to confirm your post is a new subject and not a reply to an existing subject.” And maybe better tools for channel moderators to move accidental top level posts into being replies instead.
Not to be confused with https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/
Your second statement presupposes central authorities can be trusted. Some presuppose that they cannot.
Loathe to wade into a political fray on that subject but will just point out that the author was an adherent of the political ideology responsible for the most deaths in the last century. It's hard to believe that the world would not have been better off if a significant number of those ideological adherents were indifferent, even if just as a moderating influence.
> Freely electing representatives does not mean those representatives will faithfully execute the will of their voters.

That's exactly what it means - the caveat is, not being hostile to businesses and work with the businesses is part of the reason why people will choose them. If they fail to deliver enough, they don't get elected again. That's actually the core premise of a representative democracy.

Elite cabal from a completely different species controlling the system in which we are slaves producing stuff that are sent to a galaxy far way is a fantasy. The "elites" are just people who manage the machinery that produces the stuff that the folks want. You can argue over their disproportionate compensation but when a political makes a decision in favour of an interest group, let's say steel production, they also make the decision in favour of the people who earn their living from that business.

It can be argued over the long term impacts but that's part of the process. For example, we are in process convincing people that they need to give up some of their comforts to prevent very bad things happening 50 years from now. Once they get convinced, vote in people who will work for it and they do the thing.

Most times it is a compromise because people have conflicting interests and the people voted in need to come to a solution that works good enough for everyone.
Meaning is inherently subjective, so there is no point in the appeal to objectivity.
One interesting application is the ability prove that something existed at a specific point in time (at scale).

Publish the hash of the content to the chain. This can be scaled by combining an arbitrary number of items into the same hash using a merkel tree (https://petertodd.org/2016/opentimestamps-announcement#how-o...).

It's not a new idea - you could also publish the hash in a bunch of newspapers, but it's not as easily scalable, still relies somewhat on a third party, and the cost of independent verification is much higher.

How useful it actually is and if it's worth the cost is another question.
> So the US would stop producing food and import it instead?

Is that how US agricultural interests would react if they had to compete on the free market? They would simply give up and let the land lie fallow?
Everything in this comment is trying hard to whitewash the current bjp gov, using half truths to mis represent.
in my experience volunteering at a dao, daos increase coordination effort required and have yet to yield additional productivity.

i wonder which pieces we are missing to get to your theoretical world of increased efficiency.
I've seen beginners, especially those without a very strong maths background, struggle with the concept of syntax. The idea that you need to put the thing you want the program to do into a very specific form. That any deviation is an error, even though "it's clear" to humans. I think that's something fundamental beginners need to learn, regardless of the language they use.

But once you accept that there are rules to follow, and that they are somewhat arbitrary, languages do differ wildly in the amount and obscurity of syntactic forms you need to learn just to get started. Just count the amount of different syntactic concepts in this simple program:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
printf("Hello world\n");
return 0;
}

and compare it to the Python version.
If you have digital cash, you might want to spend it somewhere.
Services tailored to work with the system from the ground up, then later they can be absorbed into conventional companies.
All else being equal, I guess I'll go with the people who don't launch artillery strikes on the grounds of nuclear power plants.
I said electricity, not energy. Energy use encompasses industry, transport (oil), heating, and electricity.

As for the rise, as I said, I think money spent on energy and electro waste is largely proportional to BTC price, since unscrupulous miners will be incentivised to come in and mine if mining profits become larger due to a higher price (since they are unconcerned about the externalities. Private gain, socialised costs).
I can share my perspective on it. It might not be correct or very popular or even coherent. But here you go.

I want few things from future technology.

I want permissionless payments, including robotic payments, just so I can run several companies worldwide, accepting and reinvesting money with, like, no accounting besides internal, no taxes besides blockchain rewards, no corporations.

You can think of it as of HFT, but for everyone.

I want tamper-proof, censorship-resistant identity built-in my browser. A pseudonim, which enables everything else, like delegation of some rights to another pseudonim. With identification and authorization out of the way, in turn, backend-as-a-service - like cloudflare, but with actual data and state - will be possible. This will enable all kind of global permissionless cooperation, including robotic one. Removal of every login button on the web will be a nice side-effect.

The third thing I want is open secure computing. You can think of it like Intel Management engine, but for everyone. Anti-treacherous computing, if you like it that way. Hardware, which bricks if it detects code running without my signature, down to microcontrollers. With transparent transfer of rights and revocation, of course.

I don't think the last one is possible without some global blockchain of sorts, from my point of view.

I don't know if web3 and blockchain will bring me any of these, but I like where they are moving and their rhetoric and what they did so far.
Games are a realtime application, so there's always a performance target and some performance work unless the game is very simple. All professional game developers are conscious of performance to some extent.

On the other hand, games are not hard-realtime - if the framerate sometimes drops below the target or there's the occasional stall, not all teams will care enough or be able to fix that.

In my post above I was talking from the perspective of going the extra mile and trying to make performance really good, which not all games do.
The stock answer to this question from Crypto proponents is that the internet also took decades to bring about societal changes.

Initially the internet was bulletin boards and poor quality online versions of print shopping catalogues, news articles with no images or low-res images, etc.

It took a while for internet-enabled capabilities to noticeably surpass things you could do by dialing an 800-number or mailing a cheque to a PO Box.
I like the "don't get caught up in metrics" approach.

I love what I do. Folks here, would call it a "hobby," because I don't get paid for it, but I guarantee that the folks I'm working with, don't see it that way. They are quite aware that I have done hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of top-shelf, beyond-production-Quality work for them, for free.

I do work, for free, that would have a lot of startup founders crying in their beer. I take it ultra-seriously, and do a highly professional job. In fact, the professionalism of my approach is one of the challenges that I set for myself.

I don't bother measuring myself. I may measure my code, but not myself.
Ask HN: Leet code/CTCI equivalent for Data science/ML roles
Have you come across any Leet code equivalent for Data science/ML roles?
Few of the ones I came across few mentioned and quite confused which way to go
1) interview query
2) interview cake
3) strata scratch

Books
1) Build a Career in Data Science
Ukraine is very different from Taiwan. One is larger than the size of texas and landlocked and the other is an island the size of rhode island. I agree with you in that china is less likely to invade but due to economic reasons.
That’s an interesting take; what makes you say that?
ahh, I understand. Yeah, the back of the book blurb is basically an elevator pitch. I did write it last and it did change my perspective, but not really on the work itself - more on how I could make it relateable.
I know people scoff(ed) at A.Dugin, but considering how Kremlin’s rhetoric has evolved recently, it is undeniable that it’s converging with (or its facade has dropped) the latter’s theories.

And Hyperborea takes, sadly, prominent stage.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aleksandr-dugin-the-russian-m...
Each time this topic comes up on HN I'm always surprised how supportive and positive the people are in the usefullness of this quality, yet there's never a job posting anywhere to be found.
always.

had i stick to windows 20 years ago, i would have been windows expert and miserable.

but i learned osx, linux, bsd instead.

i'm not windows expert and happier.
Here’s one more:

If you don’t know what you want in life, there’s two reasons:

1. You already have it or don’t know you already have it.

2. You don’t know yourself as well as you think you do.

Whenever in doubt, you’ll find more clarity through working to be a better person and getting to know yourself more in the process.

You do that by improving yourself in someway everyday.
Looking at the status quo as a defense has historically not worked out well. Similar resistance and excuses were said of gay men, lesbian women, minorities (IE dark skinned people in much of the world), slavery or indentured servitude, basic women’s rights, marijuana users, mental health issues like autism, bipolar, borderline, schizophrenia, physical disabilities or deformities, and more.

Most of those instances now have first world societies with a majority of people agreeing those people deserve [near] equality and basic human respect besides. For the instances where a majority has not been reached yet across the first world (racism, religious intolerance, sexism) the trend is getting there.

That’s not how things were before. How is what you are saying any different? For all the above, people had their reasons they believed to their core and were sure the detractors like myself were wrong. As you have noted in the moment, you could use the status quo and human tendency to be conservative (not in the political right/left sense but in the general definition) and having a hard time with change to show society does not want this progress/change.

I understand you believe this time is different. But isn’t that what all the people before believed too?
Gramsci is talking about indifference, not a particular political position.

Are you suggesting arguing against indifference is "radical"?

Aren't you in your characterization labeling someone the Enemy?
Wow, these chat apps are just badly reinventing ticket queues/forums but with a focus on real time communication.
I understand that there is a company in Redmond WA that does pretty well and the folks who once made printer software.
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That's what I get for typing on my phone.
I remember coding a basic personal database on the Speccy and how one had to keep the strings short because the ZX string functions weren't O(1) and a big character string made it sloooow.
I also remember at the writing an exit prompt "Did you change anything? If so save.". Ah, cringe/bless.
>Meanwhile with a good marketing, you can potentially sell low effort proceduraly generated random png 30$ to 3000$ piece in blockchain collection/games and each of your customer will probably actually spend time promoting your game even if he disliked it, if nothing to resell that it bought or earn interests.

This mechanic works because people have something to gain from promoting the thing, because the mindset is that this "lottery" only works if people hop on their train.

It's gambling on steroids: your perceived odds of success increase with how many players are playing the game. So you better hype it.

>Every one want everything for free and no one want to actually pay.

I think it has always been like that, only now you found ways to monetize on players that wouldn't otherwise play your games. Back in my days it was people that used piracy to play games, because they couldn't afford it. Now with micro-transactions, kids can make purchases that wouldn't make in the past.

The problem might be rooted further down, like the cult of getting rich and famous easy and quickly, even while playing games (imagine).
John Cage Organ Project in Halberstadt
I should have probably edited the original one
Yes. The web is not the holy grail to user applications.
Well, this behaviour is now the law. Not just a choice of corporations, but they're now compelled by EU to continue taking down content.
Title is a bit confusing. When using "L" for liter it must be capitalized, plus the mention of 70 liters is not in the actual title only the article itself
isn't that how TOPR switches work?
Is Matthew Smith your hero?
No it's not. If you run a trust based economy without clear property rights, this whole scenario doesn't exist. If you have property rights, you have a state to enforce them, so that state has a court, sues Alice (or Bob), sues John, the state punishes John, done. If you try to establish property rights without a state, then ans only then does it become interesting, but why would you do that? Establishing a democratic "state" is so simple and cheap that people do it all the time (associations, shareholder agreements), and in the end you need to physically enforce the property rights anyway, so why bother with the whole decentralised, anonymous rigamarole?
We agree. Around 0.000001% of the power is used for transactions, which is way more than necessary due to duplication, and 99.999999% for "protection".
> The people of the US freely elect their representatives, and yet:

Not really, due to the nature of the US political system which is strongly
based around dynamics which make sure that the parties in power stay in power.

Calling elections for a (in practice) two party system free is a bit of an stretch.

I mean sure it's better then a (in practice) one party system, but still there is (in practice) no real choice to vote for, nor can "you" create a new choice (in practice, theoretical you could but due to the dynamics of the system it doesn't work in practice EDIT: As long as not one of both of the parties fully collapse and even then it might not work).
It has to be weighed with worse alternatives, not just better ones.
Does anyone know a tool to MITM QUIC? It seems it's not currently supported by MITM Proxy or HTTP Toolkit
Laughing. It's an emoticon, from way back before emojis.
So the result here is going to be even more content/account bans without possibility of complaint on all digital platforms? And inability for Google competitors to enter the market because they can't afford a massive AI autibanning system to comply with requirement.

Our EU seriously seems to try to regulate competition out of existence :/
Not even just one speech. Literally just one line!
A significant chunk of that data and traffic will move to IMAP servers, and those resources will be multiplied by replicating a CRDT via email.
There will be value when we can break the increasing time and complexity of each transaction on a math level. Not with all the current solutions that really break the whole purpose of the blockchain. Until that not really. Only for special cases and still (like maybe big transfer for banks between banks or to manage gold exchange at a Gov level…) Stuff like this. After that yes sure! For now the ecosystem is really full of greedy people with scammers and criminals…
A better way to phrase it is you have the same risk of failure, but somebody who's rich can afford to fail.
Probably not so useful for mobile, but have a look at Refined HN extension: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

I discovered it a few days ago. It seems to include a "override CSS" box in the menu, allowing anyone to customize the look of HN.
Russia can't manage its economy. That's step 1 for any solid plan of taking care of anything.
I built a similar guitar pedal using a spring tank that mounts under my pedalboard. It’s such a charming effect, with limitations that make it fun to tinker and push.
> 2. The US begins importing most of its food from elsewhere.

I'd argue that the more plausible outcome is what economists predict: US agricultural interests would have to compete and domestic prices for food would go down, while the price that struggling economies which export food can charge for that food would go up. Competition... and the various parties involved focusing on what they're good at producing.

On the other hand, we in the US do tend to be pretty idiotic about largely abandoning business sectors when the going gets rough.
I am saying that the argument that a side must be selected is misused to apply to everything. This has devolved into a checklist of ideas that must be actively endorsed.

> Aren't you in your characterization labeling someone the Enemy?

Those who promote this ideology are enemies of us all.

Edit:
The discussion of politics is now the parroting of endorsed talking points. There is no unique or independent thought and it isn't interesting.
Technologies like this can lower the cost of production, opening the door to more competition essentially due to a larger talent pool. Quality can also go up as a result, not just quantity.
Thank you, that sounds appealing. Also, it appears to be the most affordable streaming device where I live, cheaper than chromecast and fire stick.
> “Dark patterns” — confusing or deceptive user interfaces designed to steer users into making certain choices — will be prohibited. The EU says that, as a rule, cancelling subscriptions should be as easy as signing up for them.

This is an excellent addition.
With smart contracts there is only the code. There is no external trusted documentation that says what the intention of the code is. If the contract allows for an action to occur, then that action is permissible.

It's the old quote taken to an extreme, "The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do."

If there is a 'bug' that allows anybody to empty a smart contract, well it turns out that you were just hosting a complex coding competition with a prize.
If this kind of thing becomes the norm, what will the DALL-E 200 train itself on? At some point it's going to be sucking its own exhaust.
Thank you, I wasn't aware of it but it's definitely something worth looking into.
Indeed, bugs are a feature
Thanks for the video link, I think gold is the most plausible explanation why Russian currency is still stable albeit plunging in the initial stage of the war. Iran has been doing it for a long time, and even selling their oil and gas using gold not US dollars [1].

[1]Turkish-Iranian gold trader's ‘Beautiful Mind’ testimony drove U.S. sanctions case:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gas-gold-turkey-iran-scheme-e...
In French we say "carte mere" which is the literal translation of motherboard (carte = board and mere = mother).

The thing is, all nouns in French are gendered, and carte (board) happens to be female. So it can only be a mother, and not a father board. And the reason is that it carries smaller boards, like a mom would carry her babies (in most mammal species, as far as I know, the mom is carrying babies even after birth).

A disque (disk) is male. But a floppy disk translate to "disquette" (small disk) which is female : le disque, la disquette. Don't ask me why, but that's who the language works.

This would drive Silicon Valley wokes completely nuts. The table is female, the cloud is male (note that, in Italian, clouds are female). The TV is female, the glass is male, the door is female, the handle is female, the window is female, the roof is male, the wall is male.
Do you actually want to get content from your phone, or do you just want to watch things on the TV?

If it's the latter, an ASRock R1000M is a NUC-sized computer that can drive a 4K monitor for video. It's far more flexible and powerful than any of the tiny proprietary devices. It costs about $250 plus RAM and storage. You can run Plex, MythTV, a full browser, music servers and anything else you might want in a living room.

But if you want cheap and easy, a Roku plus a DNS adblocker works well.
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Such usecases actually run into an economic problem.

You can't just create a proof-of-work blockchain to hold your records. That blockchain also have to be a functioning economy with a large enough market cap to pay out mining rewards that are large enough to make a 51% attack economically nonviable. If you fail to do so, or the economy falls apart, all tamper-resistance just disappears.

It actually ends up being cheaper just to trust a group of authorities, and pay auditors to make sure they are being trustworthy.
Google manually adjusts its results for censorship reasons. This is probably why google has gotten so much worse, they don't want information to be freely accessible, they only want things they approve of to be seen.
The most convincing use case for Bitcoin I’ve heard the other day from another post is for the “backpage ladies”.
> get back to normal

There are billions of people who do not want to "get back to normal".

The contention between those who support and preserve the status quo and those who want to evolve or overturn it is the essence of politics.