skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If blockchain proponents want to replace the existing system that does protect against human-factor scams and frauds (ie. the current financial system that lets governments and institutions control it to enforce the law) then it's going to be part of the discussion whether they like it or not.
Hard limit is 500MB.
> How that is put to use in practicality maybe debatable. But I think arguments like this tend to just throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Maybe is that why companies like Stripe are still using it then for crypto payouts? [0]

What is nonsense is totally thinking that it is going to go away 100% due to the scam projects, fraud, etc like what the author has said AND totally thinking ever project is going to survive or go for mass adoption.

This is where you get complete nonsense [0] from HN users who reply back and have admitted they have not read the article and scream 'CrYPtO IS SCaM' and either cannot answer basic questions or reply back with another question without given a concrete answer to the first.

Perhaps there is a reason why in particular Stripe ignored everyone and looked at a select few cryptocurrencies / blockchain technologies again despite all the other scams going on.

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/expanding-global-payouts-with-crypto

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31132996
> To fix your monthly payment for the next 30 years.

Sure, but .. nothing else is fixed for those 30 years? Not your salary, the price of fuel, your place of work, life circumstances? And you're paying a premium at the start for this.

It's more apparent in the UK where you can choose how long you want the fix for and see the interest rate you're offered go up.

> you can benefit from interest rate volatility since you can always buy back the debt at par.

Obviously the bank knows this and charges you a small premium over the spot rate so they don't lose money.

> If the rate doubles (to 2x%) you can refinance and you now only owe half ($n/2)

I don't understand this: the amount outstanding - the redemption value - of a fixed rate mortgage is known in advance at every month throughout its term, regardless of what the market interest rate is?
Yes, these unscientific MBAs that will just ignore data if it doesn't fit their opinions.

FWIW the only person charged with criminal offenses in the 737 max is the chief test pilot, Mark Forkner[0]. Guess how many business degrees the guy has?

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/14/business/boeing-737-pilot...
Using pg_dump for migration of large DB is very difficult due to the downtime it might involve.
Next time please write hacker news is dangerous it promotes nonsense articles.
Yep, I think it's because the HN archetype is a person who held the moral high ground on early crypto being a "scam" for normies, despite understanding it fundamentally, and those same folks are now feeling upset they didn't "get in" in time.
Show HN: Bonjourr · Minimalist browser homepage inspired by iOS
Hey all! We've been working on this browser extension with a friend for the last three years and we've made a few updates recently, so I figured I'd post it here :)

We're building it as an open source and more modern alternative to things like Momentum. There's still a ton more we'd like to do and we're looking for constructive criticism or advice, both to improve it and make more people know about it.

We're really proud of it and hope you like it. Cheers!
it amazes me how this type of garbage gets upvoted on HN just because it signals "Blockchain Bad!!"
The author doesn't understand the value of distributed censorship resistant consensus that's secured by energy.

Also the author fails to consider the situation of 80% of humanity who live in countries that experience hyperinflation frequently. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/check-your-financial-pri...
And why would it anyway? Having problem X around is now provably profitable.
I keep a diary for some projects that I work on. It's basically one large, never ending text file that I keep versioned in git. I like the simplicity of the scheme. It's rare that I need to go back and look at something that I've written earlier. But when I do need to do it, it's there, and easily available. I think I'm going to continue using this scheme for all projects through the rest of my career.

As for logging of structured data, I've sometimes thought of coming up with some kind of annotation scheme, so that, if I need, in my writing, to log a measurable quantity of some kind, I could just annotate it in a special way. And then, later on, if the need should arise, I could just extract the annotated data from the text document. I've not taken it any further, but I think it could be useful. A sort of a "hybrid approach" that would let me focus on the writing and the flow of thoughts, while also letting me log tidbits of structured data in between.
There's been a ton of cool QS stuff over the years. The main two things noticed by big companies are fitness trackers which are a nice development for the space and I'd like to see them create more devices like that, and some insurance companies using voluntary QS tracking (like steps) to give you rewards to motivate you which is arguably good.

So I definitely welcome them to get inspired to do more.
No, Date did not "miss the point". He properly identified that all of Meijer's arguments he used to make his point were in fact complete bunk. And he clearly and factually answered why that was so, on a blow-by-blow basis. You call that a "nitpick at what he saw as mischaracterizations", I call that "identifying the blatantly ignorant elephant in the room".

The only perspective should be "how can we get information from users (or any other form of information-capturing device in fact), make records of that information and keep those records as long as the information may be needed [and as long as it pays off to keep them], so that we can later get that information back to same [or other] users". Let's call that perspective "HG" for "Holy Grail".

Codd's intent has always been to achieve HG. Date's intent has always been to achieve HG. Both properly identified the core asset we work with : data. It's always ultimately about the data. Both consequentially properly identified the first step needed to make achieving HG possible : a model of data built on foundations of mathematics. (To quote Codd : "database design is not going to be possible if the only concepts available are bits and bytes".) The model of data they came up with is the relational one. And achieving HG is not going to be done by ditching the model of data. On the contrary. It might be achievable by replacing it with some other model of data, but that is going to require exhaustive demonstration of how and why the replacing model of data is better than the relational one, and delivering such exhaustive demonstration is going to require understanding the relational one in the first place. Of the entire mob that is into what you call the "programmer perspective", there is not a single individual that does.

And Date's point in his reply was : neither does Meijer. Backed by evidence, so it was neither "shooting the messenger" nor "a nitpick" but unfortunately it might require understanding the RM to understand the evidence.

To close, I have some hints for you : (1) there ARE NO "existing relational databases" (2) "BigQuery" is not a "database" but a "DBMS" (there's a Dijkstra quote somewhere about how mastery of mathematics and mastery of language fortuitously tend to always come hand in hand - and there's a corollary to that) and (3) yes, the entire industry has indeed been "wrong for decades" because the RM has never been properly understood. See the McGoveran quote on www.dbdebunk.com. Ironically, this grave mistake might be due exactly to "too much programmer perspective" at the time those pseudo-relational systems were built.
> Normally, cases of fraud or mistakes could be rectified or reverted by the bank or similar institutions after a review of the situation by humans.

This "could" happen, but in practice it rarely happens because the money has moved on as soon as it hits the account. Additionally, for many types of fraud, there has to be an actual court order to get a bank to take action. So the argument is predicated on a false assumption.
I think everyone who upvoted this post didnt even read the article
I mean this is just a dumb argument. Who hosts the database? How do you trust them? It's as if people are being wilfully ignorant when they use this as a line of attack. Go learn about Byzantine fault tolerance and think a bit about what problems it attempts to solve
Unfortunately, giving most visibly homeless people cash does not actually help them.
You're making the fallacy of conflating two unrelated concepts and drawing conclusions from that.
True but at this point it's not just a Japanese problem but a world wide one, if they dump it in the ocean, it could affect all the life that live there and consequently human life that feeds of it. It reminds me of the WW2 boats that are still in the Oceans leaking toxic products and nobody wants to pay to take them out.
>But I’ve also seen the space-cadet architectures that come out of overuse thereof.

What concrete problems caused by the use of generics have you encountered? Do you see those problems coming to Go, as it now has generics, too?

Go seems to me a very verbose language and the addition of generics might improve things a bit in this direction.
- "When a provider receives a counter notice, they must forward it to the original complainant, and restore the challenged material after 10-14 business days. At this point, if the complainant wishes to keep the material down, they must file a lawsuit against the alleged infringer."

In practice, the complainant probably finds it more cost-efficient to (0) ignore your counter-notice, and (1) refile their original complaint, unaltered, restarting the DMCA process from zero. If GitHub reinstated your work, they'll simply take it right back down again, like a yo-yo.

Much cheaper than lawyers.

https://github.com/github/dmca/search?q=TheRayTracer

This is what the process looks like when you're not HN-front-page support tier.

(I'm not affiliated with these parties; I stumbled on this set of DMCA interactions while reading the previous HN story last week).
What technical solution do you have for multiple parties needing to transact where they do not trust each other and cannot depend on a third party or the court system for dispute resolution? I'll wait.
But hasn't that always been the case, where 80% of the jobs were unsatisfactory in some way or another. Be it pay, conditions, co-workers, management/boss, hours, commute time, etc... Not just America, but most industrialized countries.
Strange that the article doesn't mention the dangerous nonsense regarding the impact on energy consumption (and impact on climate), and impact on parts availability (or lack thereof, eg. graphic cards), with absolutely zero benefit.

Blockchains should be banned and be considered pyramid-scheme fraud. Trading or paying with blockchain-based currency should be forbidden.
It's a tough issue, because it's also the Japanese gov and TEPCO who brought this all mess, their trade-offs on how much to secure that plant didn't pay off, to say the least.

We're relying on mostly the same people, minus the pragmatic ones who went to bluer skies, to now make trade-offs related to how much Japan's willing to pollute the surrounding seas relative to the economic and politic situation.
We could dig dip and move people, it's not like they are millions. Better moving them than ruining Ocean life that feeds us.
So much this.
I am not one to be proud of the place i happened to be born but this effort gave me some hope for the gov software sector.
> Going in debt for 30-40 years has zero appeal for me

Going into debt at the lowest interest rate you'll ever be offered to buy a leveraged asset that's likely to increase in price and reduce the overhead you pay on your largest expense, housing, and hedge against the risk of rent increases and security against the whims of landlords?

> Germany

Oh, Germany. Somehow Germany has escaped the constantly increasing house price effect, as has Japan.

If you owned a house in London its annual value increases would almost certainly out-earn your salary. And you don't have to pay tax on that.
static electricity, switches, carbon brushes in ventilation fan motors
If you want to be pedantic, git isn't a block-chain so much as a tree.

But more importantly, git isn't what people usually think about when they hear block-chain. The irony is that it's probably a good example of how such systems can contribute value to society through decentralisation.

Normally, when people hear "block-chain", they think of the bitcoin-flavoured public append-only ledger where forking and merging aren't a thing, conflicts get resolved via proof of work with some built-in cryptocurrency. Those are, almost exclusively, "dangerous nonsense"
Sure.

> Why do you refinance if rates go up? Surely the point is that if rates go up you've locked in a better rate

You don't have to, but you can choose to either (a) keep the same rate and owe the same amount, or (b) get the new (higher) rate and owe less.

> How does half your debt disappear if rates go up?

It doesn't exactly. However, the market value of your mortgage loan halves if the rate doubles (roughly). This means you can:

1. Take out a loan for half the original amount, at double the interest rate

2. Buy back your original loan

3. Destroy the original loan (which is fine since you are both creditor and debtor for that loan)

This leaves you with the loan taken in step 1.

To understand why it works this way it's instructive to think of a loan as an exchange of wealth for income. One party has some savings (wealth) and would like to exchange it for an income (e.g. to pay recurring expenses). Another party has an income and would like to trade it for wealth (e.g. to buy a house). Viewing a loan in this way, the interest rate is nothing more than the current price of a certain income stream (measured in percent per year).

For example, let's assume that the current market price for an income of $2 per year is $100. This is equivalent to an interest rate of 2% per year. I have $100 that I'm willing to part with for an income of $2 per year, and you have an income of at least $2 per year that you're willing to sell for $100. We make the deal. Now, the day after we shake hands to make the deal, the current market price for an income of $2 per year falls to $50. This is equivalent to a doubling of the interest rate (from 2% per year to 4% per year). I still have the income of $2 per year that I paid $100 for yesterday, but if I want to sell this to someone else I can only get $50 for it. And if you were to ask me to buy back the loan for $50 I would have nothing against that, since I could go out immediately after and buy the same $2/year income for those $50.
> bill obscene amounts and profit massively

Profit how? Your 2 examples of UCHealth and Mayo Clinic are both non-profits.
Good to see at least one government in the world understanding the value of federated social media for them!
about 2 months writing on the side for each book.
Why would it not be spam? If many accounts are sending that link to their contacts, doesn't that exactly mimic bot-spam?
The problem is, hateful, outrageous content attracts clicks. It's a bug in human nature. Social media discovered it early by A/B testing, machine learning, whatever, and now is exploiting this bug for profit. At this point I think it's clear the algorithms of most big social media networks are biased towards this kind of content, spreading it and radicalizing people.
> A recent example for this insanity from here in Germany is the development of the digital vaccination certificate in early 2021. In the beginning it was planned to use blockchain technology. In this specific case they wanted to use not only one, but five. Why? Nobody knew exactly and after massive criticism from the public the plan was dropped and replaced by a simpler architecture without blockchains, that’s still in use now.

Just because some people are using the wrong tool for the job does not make a blockchain "nonsense" for all jobs.

Bitcoin does provide a lot of value for me as a currency. A credit card payment processor once chose to disable the company's account I worked for [1]. Bitcoin enabled us to not having to immediately let go members of our team.
I'm actually glad that there are so many people out there in the tech community who are happy to pay with Bitcoin.

I don't see any value in all the alt coins though. Most of the crypto purchases at the SaaS were made with Bitcoin. All those alt coins with their own blockchain are just made for junkies for love trading by charts. Just pure speculation and the side with more liquidity wins. Furthermore, the only application of blockchains which I have seen as a value creation tool is the application as the public ledger in Bitcoin.

Also, let me quote Hal Finney why alt coins don't work:
"Any successful replacement of the Bitcoin block chain will forever undermine the credibility of any successor. How is an investor to know that it won't happen again?

Rebooting now may benefit a few thousand early adopters. What happens when hundreds of millions use Bitcoin 2? They'll be just as jealous and envious of you as you are of others. Given the precedent you want to set, how will you argue against yet another reboot?" [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30632086

[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=10666.msg152988#msg1...
So far for April:
From Amazon $2,064.81
From Gumroad $384.96

There's also Smashwords & Ingramspark as well but I won't share those for now.
It seems a bit off to assert that "people feel it is a price worth paying" when almost all purchases online are made with credit cards which have some protections against fraud, and almost none are made with blockchains in comparison. It seems like so far, most people don't think it's a price worth paying?
The same trend can be seen in media trust:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/267047/americans-trust-mass-med...

Basically, "science" here means the social institutions of science like universities not the abstract notion of it, like how "the media" means the actual concrete media institutions and not the general concept of the press. And US Democrats trust institutions dramatically more when they realize that those institutions have become full-blown ideological allies rather than neutral. Post-2016 US media stopped pretending it was politically neutral and became full time water carriers for the Democrats. Trust on the left surged as a result. COVID made it clear to everyone that the same is true of public health - it's just blatantly ideologically compromised by leftists to an extent that people hadn't realized before, and thus leftists now trust it a whole lot more than they used to.

For science it really means academia. The professoriate has become much more partisan over time. If you go back to the 1960s or so, the balance between right and left wing professors was far better. Then the left went on their famous Long March, which is basically code for finding reasons to harass or exclude non-left wing people, and universities became ever more dominated by ideology.

Along the way, science became "science". Modern science is totally debased. The sort of people who most loudly beat the drum for Believe The Science™ tend not to have actually read the science they're promoting. Certainly, journalists never do. They just take it as axiomatic that because universities are filled with lefties they're all honest, intelligent and pure. Then they present some papers pushing blatantly ideological propaganda as "science", and when others read it reject it, label them anti-science.

A good example of this is the papers pouring out of university social science departments on the theme of: why are conservatives so stupid and misinformed? The entire research theme is itself ideological, but then you discover their experiments are done on random recruits from TaskRabbit type sites (i.e. they have no idea who they are experimenting on).
There are not enough of them to be a big problem. Numbers matter.

They are importing fuel now, and may continue. In the future the fuel they import will be cheaper if synthetic. Or they may rely more on transmission lines, and stockpile synthetic fuel for backup in case of outages.

People everywhere will do what works best for them where they are. As synthetic fuel cost drops below extracted and refined hydrocarbons, people will simply stop buying the latter. Forward-looking sunny tropical countries will do well exporting synthetic fuel to places where the wind or sun flags.
If I want a transaction to be guaranteed by a third party, I still can with blockchain. I can send the funds to them and let them manage. If I don’t want, I send them directly to the addressee. At least I have a choice. On the contrary, today any transaction has to pass through a government controlled currency, and any significant amount via a bank.

Saying that X is made of code that may have errors so it's not useful, is a ridiculous argument. The person saying this is gaining attention posting things on a platform that is made of code that has a chance of errors.

They should write down their anger on calf skin parchment delivered by hand by a hundred centuries old post system, to be coherent.

The future is elsewhere, that past is already gone.
Chronic condition but it has its ups and downs
I found a use for it: Doxxing.
> "Tritium is already present in the ocean naturally"

Exactly. And if the quantities Japan are talking about are correct (860 TBq / trillion becquerels), this is a huge fuss about nothing. France's La Hague nuclear reprocessing facility discharges many times more tritium than that into the English Channel every single year as part of it's normal operations!
Im sorry but your claims make very large assumptions, I have to ask that you provide something other than ethos. Where would new homeless people come from? Are all drug addicts homeless? Are all homeless people drug addicts?

Yes they may act in a way that you percieve them as being on drugs but often they are mentally ill.
There have been a lot of headlines about this, and in the handful of markets I’m sure this has a price effect, but in the us market as a whole, they are $10b-$100b? of a ~25T market, it just doesn’t move the needle
Actually reversals frequently happen. For example, a multi day delay is built into ACH, partly for this exact reason. Also, with credit cards and some flavors of bank transactions you as the end user are protected against fraud, even if (yes)the money has already moved on, you are made whole. The loss is absorbed by the bank. By absorbed, of course I mean you've paid for that service with various fees which amount to a kind of insurance. (Nothing really comes "for free".)

But yes, there are plenty of other types of transactions, like gift card scams, that you would not be made whole for.
Explorer – A library to bring dataframes to Elixir
What a pointless and unnecessarily personal attack. A rotting tuna is safe and fine in an ocean and I wouldn't want it in my own swimming pool.
By definition cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Monero, Ether etc, are not a pyramid-scheme.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2022/04/27/ukraines-ar...

Everything I've read so far makes me believe that they mostly or only have ex-Soviet artillery. I don't doubt that they had help training though.
In the sense that it is useless for society, by extracting the collective's wealth while providing no net benefits.
How does this even get upvoted..
What Is Callbacks, Promises and Async-Await?
For what it’s worth I used them to refi my house before the rates rose. The banker I got was amazing. She handled everything beautifully. The only thing they weren’t set up to handle was notarizing my loan while I was overseas. But we figured that out.
I was able to post it recently on FB, from the UK.