skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was about 3-4 years ago, I was checkout out meetups at my local city and came across this launch of some new tokens/NFT. At the time, I was on a financial constraint and wanted to get a job, so I attended a lot of these to meet potential investors, employers, etc.

This dude rented out a massive mansion in the middle of the city and the tickets were like some $15 only. There were a lot of people like me, but there were a lot of old people too in the crowd. They didn't look like the rich types to me. This guy literally promised 10x ROI for every dollar invested in some crypto under his own name.

He got a lot of "pre-bookings". I was curious, read more about this dude and crypto itself and realized it wasn't as useful as people hype it to be. I tried to build some applications on top of it. It always felt I had to go out of my way to make a use case for it. Eventually, that's when I realized most people who talk about crypto are marketers or scammers like this dude.

The rest of us - we are just tired of hearing it everywhere around us when it makes no sense even in certain applications.
> However, crypto is literally solving the extreme problem of infinitely printable FIAT money

It might be an extreme problem to you, not to everyone else.

> very slow and expensive cross-border transfers

This has been solved again and again by different companies, be it wise.com or others.

> On top of that, crypto adds transparency, accountability, decreases fraud on nearly every consumer product.

Except for the fact that nobody can get their money back after they have been scamed. There is no authority to complain to or reverse a transaction. Wich makes it useless for the masses.

> which might be the most impfactful invention of the last 2 decades.

This is why people are tired of crypto, it has been over 10 years and it has't really changed anything. Crypto enthusiast think that, but it didn't and it won't.
I took a Blockchain course at university (Masters CS level). I really liked how honest the teaching chair was: They just taught us the raw material along with this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2267/

Don't get me wrong, I actually like the Blockchain Technology but I kind of have to agree with the notion that most of the "advanced" Crypto stuff is still looking for an actual problem to solve, except for Bitcoin and some of the other OG coins, the purpose of which I kind of sympathize with.
> Apart from being free, the app is open source and available here, so we would like to continue being the best with community input and support.

This is great. As a non-deaf person (as of today), I will be checking this out because such apps and features could be helpful for ordinary people too. How do you plan to keep this free though? Is it going to become freemium in the future?

Apple has done a lot for accessibility in its operating systems, but improvements are always welcome. Some of the features in this app may be Sherlocked [1] by Apple in the near future.

Edit: I found a typo in the info screen that’s shown when the app is launched (or when the info page is visited from the menu). I don’t have a GitHub account, hence mentioning it here. There’s a “you” (“into you your live phone calls”) that shouldn’t be there in this section:

> “Text - BeAware is the only app that can read text loud into you your live phone calls, assisted by customizable preset phrases”

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)#Sherlock...
Okular also pulls in a sizeable part of KDE as dependencies:

Depends: kinit, kio, libc6 (>= 2.33), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), libkf5activities5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5archive5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5bookmarks5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5codecs5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5completion5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5configcore5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5configgui5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5configwidgets5 (>= 5.83.0), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5crash5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5i18n5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5itemviews5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5jobwidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5kexiv2-15.0.0 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5kiocore5 (>= 5.69.0), libkf5kiowidgets5 (>= 5.69.0), libkf5parts5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5pty5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5purpose-bin, libkf5purpose5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5service-bin, libkf5service5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5textwidgets5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5wallet-bin, libkf5wallet5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5widgetsaddons5 (>= 5.77.0), libkf5windowsystem5 (>= 5.68.0~), libkf5xmlgui5 (>= 5.80.0), libokular5core9 (= 4:21.12.3-2), libphonon4qt5-4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libpoppler-qt5-1 (>= 21.11.0), libqmobipocket2 (>= 4:17.08~), libqt5core5a (>= 5.15.1), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.14.1), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.14.1) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.14.1), libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.13.0~), libqt5texttospeech5 (>= 5.12.0~), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.15.1), libqt5xml5 (>= 5.13.0~), libspectre1 (>= 0.2.3), libstdc++6 (>= 11), phonon4qt5, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)

Compare this to mupdf:

Depends: freeglut3 (>= 2.8.1), libc6 (>= 2.33), libfreetype6 (>= 2.6), libgl1, libgumbo1 (>= 0.9.2), libharfbuzz0b (>= 0.9.11), libjbig2dec0 (>= 0.19), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), libmujs1 (>= 1.0.7), libopenjp2-7 (>= 2.0.0), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libx11-6, libxext6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0)

If you're already using KDE Okular is a natural choice. If you're not there are better alternatives, e.g. Atril for Mate-users, Evince for Gnome users and, yes, mupdf for those who do not use any "desktop environment". Those who use older hardware (like me) appreciate the nimbleness of tools like mupdf. It also fits in perfectly when using a tiling window manager (Xmonad etc) as it does not have any UI elements getting in the way, only showing what you're actually interested in. It supports (according to the man page) PDF, XPS, EPUB, XHTML, CBZ, and various image formats such as PNG, JPEG, GIF, and TIFF.

This is akin to vi vs VS-Code, to each his own I'd say.
I don't know much, but I'd try 10 different things as rapidly as possible and see what sticks.

You're in Berlin. Why not have some tutoring business specifically to Berliners? Then after you've done some tutoring, anticipate whatever next-level skill they need and upsell those online courses.

Just brainstorming
Why not just install a newer version of bash? It’s trivial to do so with homebrew. I’m sure your team has other dependencies that must be installed in order to run your software.
And there is overlap, like the TPz Fuchs[1]: It's a Transportpanzer (=> TPz), because it can transport troops, but also a Radpanzer, because it has wheels.

On the other hand, the MTW M113[2] was not called Schützenpanzer (APAC) in the german army, but Mannschaftstransportwagen (=> MTW), lit. squad transport vehicle. No hint in there that it's a armoured, tracked vehicle. However, the swiss called them Schützenpanzer.

German in the military is quite complicated :D

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPz_Fuchs
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M113_armored_personnel_carrier
Good for him.

The more that stand up for this, the more businesses will consider its importance.
This reminds me of the famous quote from Yogi Berra: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

Now seriously, there is indeed such thing as being a victim of one's own success.
Wouldn't want to let the t*mporary contr*ctors into our beautiful head office.
I think there is potential with many of the ideas behind it, but so far it's been inundated with scammers and gamblers. People need to build actual useful things with it which are adopted into the mainstream. The problem is that the current non-crypto way of doing things is much easier and more efficient than the crypto way. If the tooling around crypto improves significantly, it may have a chance. Otherwise, it's just not worth the time or the risk.
I love Obsidian. I know note apps like this are extremely personal, but Obsidian clicked for me and I adore it.
> However, crypto is literally solving the extreme problem of infinitely printable FIAT money

Except crypto does nothing to prevent that; and the printability of fiat money is controlled by a number of systems from historians pointing at what happens if you don’t to international treaty to democratic accountability; and the multitude of different cryptocurrencies means it has an echo of the same problem overall only with no accountability, and even within single currencies it has one-dollar-one-vote rather than one-person-one-vote accountability of a democracy.

> and very slow and expensive cross-border transfers, which might be the most impfactful invention of the last 2 decades.

My banks do this at zero cost. Literally zero. Slowest time it a few minutes to show up as a notification on the other bank, normally it’s about as fast as the time it takes iOS to show a notification banner.

> On top of that, crypto adds transparency, accountability, decreases fraud on nearly every consumer product.

Bank can’t refund you if you get ripped off when there’s no bank.
You've skipped over an important group of people here: in any healthy workplace, new starters, graduates and other junior developers benefit massively from being in the same office as their more senior colleagues. The amount they learn from accumulated small interactions that would not happen in remote working cannot be overstated.
Deutsche Bank already made it very clear that according to their analysts there will be a significant recession in the US this or next year
Imagine we are in the 60s again. When TCP/IP was just invented.

Your statement is like saying the internet is cables between machines so they can morse code each other.

Another way to look at the internet is to see all the applications that will sit on top of "machines morse coding each other". And how it will change the economy and society. That is the hard part.
> It is the epitome of a solution looking for a problem.

I can't entirely agree with this. Originally Bitcoin seemed it could be a solution to a problem (i.e. decentralized digital currency), and it turned out it became something a bit different: a kind of digital investment that is highly volatile but has some advantages over, say, traditional stock (and plenty of disadvantages, too). So for a few people, Bitcoin did solve some problems - and created many problems for others on the way.

Blockchain in general has proved to work for what it's been intended, that is not being able to forge transactions. Even though we don't have any really useful applications for it, it's good that it exists, because in 10, 50, or 100 years it will turn out it's a perfect missing puzzle piece for some invention we still don't have any idea about.
ICE/Black Knight: US exchange bets on mortgage market rebound
I think the tech is really clever, but don't understand a potential use case.

* Relying on trusted parties will always be significantly more efficient than a trustless system

* Most people don't want to manage their own money and if most people are going to really in third parties to manage their coins, how is that substantially different than the current situation?

* Being able to reverse transactions in a system is actually good when theft is common

* Crypto has a strong polarizing function: most people interested in crypto are also financially invested which makes it hard to get accurate takes from knowledgeable people
Most of the crypto community are non-technical people, so that's a turn off for something that should be all about tech. There is also little utility, and with stricter privacy laws it is a bad technology, since everything is public on the blockchain.

It also cost a lot more money than setting up your own server. The argument against non-crypto is that you have to trust a middle man. But most solutions to the problems crypto have is to create middle actors. Like NFT marketplaces, crypto exchanges that hold you wallet, and off-chain payment transaction systems which makes transactions faster.

Maybe a lot of the things I mention is not entirely correct, but that the other issue. It is hard for someone technical to learn about these things because most of the content online about crypto is written for non-techincal people.
I said many, not all.

> I also am part of a telegram group with ~10 old college buddies who live all over the country where we chat everyday and hop on voice to play video games or a monthly poker. I haven't lost touch with any of them or felt less connected/meaningful because we are now remote only.

If you all lived next door to each other, would you still do it over telegram voice? If not, why not if you can connect the same over voice chat?

My view is that something is lost on voice chat compared to being in the same room. I am part of a 10-year WhatsApp group with my university buddies too - but we were bonded with real-life interactions and experiences while being together at university. If those in-person, real-life interactions were replaced by a slack group with other people on my course, we wouldn't have built the same relationship.
I agree with this, whatever keeps your motivation highest.

One tip if you're anything like me: make sure you have some people to learn with and form a group. Hell, even try to win their approval with how "smart" you are by completing projects, and be delighted with whatever they produced. Learning on my own is too soul-crushing, somewhat learning together and helping other people implement something specific that you understand is delightful.
I simply didn't see that one (and only got around to reading the OP now). I like your write-up better, though
> Not much room for improvement.

Only for gasoline engines. And the efficiency limit isn't the limit of possible sources of energy for work. Future engines could be electric, and the power source could be fusion.
True. But when the journalists (who laypeople mostly learn about such things from) are very biased toward using the most grandiose terms and interpretations of things that they can get away with - it's no surprise that laypeople have no understanding of even the basic vocabulary.
> very slow and expensive cross-border transfers

The EU did more to solve that issue than crypto ever did.

15'000€ in under 10 seconds, for free, across the entire SEPA zone.

Converting fiat into crypto, transferring it, converting it back still takes far longer. And keeping money as crypto isn't a working solution, because the currencies are so volatile.

Not every crypto solution adds transparency and accountability, look at monero or mixers in other chains.

And then there's the issue with deflation. Inflation is something valuable, because it means doing something today is valued more than what you've done in the past. It encourages people to spend money, to do something with it, instead of saving it forever.
The jury is still out on whether or not blockchain’s originally intended purpose, currency, has value, and if it will see anything resembling widespread adoption in the future. I’m personally skeptical.

But almost all of the problems you list apply to blockchain uses other than cryptocurrency. The failures and scamminess of Web3, DAOs, oracles, and Proof-of-Stake are not arguments against the original Bitcoin whitepaper.

The “tech people” have definitely figured out something. The question is whether or not enough people really want to use whatever that something is.
Like with video games, and even personal computers, often things that start off looking like toys become the next big thing in technology[1]. The properties that make them intriguing to young technologists are not appealing to older technologists, who sometimes miss the fact that these nascent tools take time to mature.

[1]: https://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-...
You can read the comments on Slashdot from 10 years ago, and you'll find the same scepticism. So it's not an accident. HN's audience is probably better educated than average, and the better educated a demographic group is, the harder it is to fool.
FB is eons ahead of Microsoft in this regard. Their homogenous development experience eliminates tonnes of learning curve and busywork that you get with thousands of unique repos, build pipelines and and environments.
You should probably widen the pool of what you read. You're not wrong (well, corporate greed tends to be a bit of a bogeyman), but it's certainly reductive.
> Therefore, they conclude, that almost all crypto projects are scam, and it disgusts them.

This is very true. I remember when I was fascinated by the Red programming language and at some point they started to promote some new cryptocurrency. It was the last day I even looked at it.
Hi! I recently graduated with a Master's in Robotics and Control with a focus on machine learning applications. I'm looknig for an entry level position as a machine learning engineer in the EU.

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Maybe repost on Monday (US timezone) in the hope that some Google employee on this board sees it.
Buying land in Japan isn't a great idea (except to live on it). You have to pay a hefty annual tax on it. Land even with property on it is so often abandoned they have a word for it and many marketplaces where you can buy abandoned land from the tax office.
Is Jira still a thing in modern SW development?
I've seen the other day people talking about Heimdall in a thread about self-hosted things.

I do run a (distributed!) homelab, but it's not clear to me what problem these dashboards solve.

I can split the things I run on my homelab in two categories: either "infrastructure", things like VPNs, routing, DB, etc, or "actual apps", like a wiki and whatnot.

For the first category, I basically don't "do" anything to them once they're set up.

For the second, I type directly the URL as I do with any other website.

For my monitoring needs I have a bunch of Grafana dashboards connected to Prometheus. I check them from time to time because I like looking at the pretty colored graphs for some reason, but that's about it.
Cryptocurrencies do solve several issues, but some of them have become less important and others are, well, not so transparent for ordinary people. Do you remember when bank transfers using ebanking still took several days when you did them on a friday afternoon? For many banks this is actually still a thing. Yes there's Paypal and Venmo and god knows what these days, but good luck trying to send large amounts of money that way or sending anything abroad (especially to a country where the service is not available). Which brings us to point nr 2: There are many people with lots of money who would prefer to send it not just faster and easily verifiable, but also away from the prying eyes of governments and banks with strict oversight. Bitcoin only works if you manage to get it anonymously (e.g by giving some dude cash and hoping he's not monitored by the NSA), but other Cryptos give you privacy for all transfers and still keep verifiability. Every drug dealer, money launderer or tax evader can easily sneak millions of dollars across continents in an instant. This used to be damn difficult when using hard currency or art or any other tangible asset (and when you did it electronically you would set off even the most trivial alarm systems). So yeah, there certainly are big problems that were solved - the question is: Did we really want them to be solved.
Question for the PowerShell afficionados: Do you consider PowerShell to be "something we can count on to exist on Windows systems, in the absence of Bourne-like shells" - or is it "a superior alternative to Bourne shells which only got traction on Windows because Bourne is too deeply embedded in the Unix world"?
This take is too radical for HN, thinking for themselves. Here the people talk in absolutes and value their own opinions way above others. A simple echo chamber where "crypto bad because I said so," drowns everything else.
A ‘factory reset’ for the brain cures anxiety, drinking behavior
> You're implying that this is a bad thing and I don't get why it should be.

The quote points at “social dynamics” and “competition” in offices, not personal relationships or even friendships. Meaning that the mere fact of being surrounded by people with relatively the same professional goals, is good enough for some craving for social interaction. There isn’t necessarily any more depth to it, and it doesn’t really solve any other pending socialising issues.

How is that not a bad thing?
From memory it’s because it’s not evaluated in one go.

By using functions you can evaluate parts of the dom, which crucially means you can reevaluate parts of the dom.

Those functions also enable changing their output based on inputs, enabling data reactivity.

If you had to evaluate the whole tree each time, you’re doing a lot of unnecessary compute.
When someone has just barely crossed the "hello world" stage, I don't think they should be thinking about asynchronous XHR requests, or be pulling up user experience research to find the optimal shade of red for making input validation errors appear less aggressive to middle aged women with a bachelor degree in communications who are part-time employed in marketing.

Let's start with getting data from the form to your back-end, and once we've got those must-have basics down, then we can start introducing the nice-to-have bits.
During the trucker protest in Canada, the government froze the bank accounts of participants. That the government can do this, shut down movements it doesn't like with the click of a button, is a dangerous centralization of power. Crypto (at its best) safeguards democracy by serving as a check on such power. This still leaves the option of shutting down dangerous protests using the police which requires the cooperation of a lot of people - thus less dangerous, striking a better balance between freedom and safety.
I was following this comment chain in the hopes that I would learn more about the bad points you had mentioned before, but it seems you lost as I was disappointed by your ad hominem attack and lack thereafter of any actual arguments about the topic at hand.
Looks like the first few lessons use Javascript to give an introduction to programming and not to web development in general. I don't see any agenda. Just teach programming on the language a web developer will happen to use later.
Feedback: I read the entire website and I still had to separately google what an Anki card is
So... I am not at all trying to advocate for crypto here, but the putative value is in having an anarchic currency that is easily exchangeable. That is, if you had money and wanted to convey it digitally outside of traditional regulated institutions, how would you do it? There's gold, art, etc but that's not easily movable.

Now, there's lots of issues here, like how you translate the crypto into other traditional regulated assets if need be, or traceability, or energy use, or security, but that's the putative value: easily moving value outside traditional governmental boundaries.

To be fair, if you've ever looked into buying something grey or black market online, I think the value of some sort of cryptocurrency in theory is apparent?

I'm not sure any crypto at the moment checks all the boxes, though, and some of the assumptions about use seem a little naive or disingenuous, but I can see the idealized use case value. I could in the abstract imagine some kind of decentralized accounting system taking on the role of currency, probably de facto, but I'm not sure current cryptocurrencies are that.
Another lesson: Keep your own copy of all files. Use takeout.google.com.
From Wikipedia:

“In a 2022 paper, it was suggested that the plant has some sort of vision using ocelli. This hypothesis was presented on the basis of experiments in which the vine appeared to mimic plastic vines and artificial plants. However, the only control used was the lower leaves on the same plants, with an opaque shelf over them which could have influenced light exposure. The lack of control plants climbing anything apart from the same model of artificial host plant makes it plausible that the observed differences were due to age and light exposure.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boquila