skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Agreed. To be a threat to the freedom of the internet, web3 would have to do something useful enough for people to actually want to use it.

That does not change the fact that Web3's main selling point is it's ability to eliminate their user's basic freedoms.
oh wow, THAT is what threatens the free web. not that every bit of critical infrastructure is corporate owned - ISPs, registrars, PKI, payment processors. not that they're milking us with obscene profit margins. not that they have the power to shut any entity down extralegally and with no recourse. no, no, not that.

it is amazing how easy it is to rally the twitter cheguevaras to the corporate cause. big pharma, central banking, the military–industrial complex. just put the right twist on it, push it from the corporate media for a while, and they'll fight the detractors for you
Fair enough. But most of this is still unnecessary.

All that should be a requirement for visual access to scan the artifact is just being non-destructive in my opinion.

I can’t image a justifiable reason to prevent this person from scanning for any reason beyond physically protecting the museum.
So link the more thorough blog post from Twitter rather than drip it out through tweets.
> tell me then, how exactly would this work as new features are developed - do all apps have to be static in functionality indefinitely?

Can you give an example of a "new feature" that you think would be stymied by this?

> how would it work with group chats where you can add and remove people arbitrarily?

I don't quite understand what issue you're pointing to. I'm not sure if you're unsure of how e2e encryption works or something else. Can you ask your question again with more specificity?
I'm curious which is worse, social isolation, or mass consumption of video media. I bet Netflix is worse. The social isolation was bad, no question. But during the early school lockdowns I saw first hand what 12+ hours a day of modern TV does to a person's brain in a short period of time. It's nothing like what TV was like in the 80s when I was a kid. The social isolation gets a lot of air time. I'd guess it's not the worst thing the lock downs did to kids. I bet the loss of education and the overdose of TV are in the top two.
> First, define civilization.

A layer of systems built by organisms atop their natural biology, where new members of an species are inducted into those systems by “choice” and not biological requirements.

Example: Bees and termites build nests, but that’s part of their natural biology: They can’t practically survive without it.

Humans “choose” to build houses, but a human infant could survive and grow to adulthood without one, albeit with less convenience.
Okay, let's do a bit of math.

Each year, Bitcoin produces ~37 megatonnes of CO2 per year (https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/environment/as-cryptocur...), and i won't consider any other cryptocurrency.

Now, let's assume for a moment that every single youtube video is a cat video, since i found nothing about how much people watch these. So 10 megatonnes of CO2 per year (https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-digital-waste-intera...).

Obviously this is very unfair to cats. But even if that were the case, with this calculation being _really_ biased for crypto, it's still very bad.
...because getting caching right on a dynamic database-driven content management system is so easy.
Any word on whether Flutter should be the default method of writing apps for phones and tablets? For that matter: any word if Fuchsia will be coming to tablets or phone-sized devices?
>his company AGA and abroad Dalén-lights...

TIL the AGA cooker was also invented in Sweden. Somehow I have always assumed that it is a British peculiarity.
mongo db is webscale...
The entire Wintel monopoly has been built on people NOT recompiling old software. They still want it to run as fast as currently possible.
I will never buy one of their cars unless quality and service experience improves, and am grateful there are so many more options now. No need to look back.
* Used bicycle prices. Seriously people, a barely functioning bike from the 90 (vintage) is not worth $300.

* Skiing related cost (lodging, traveling, food).
A tool that lets non software developers manage data-driven tests. I've been in many work situations over the years where the product manager / business stakeholder wants to test something (it could be an API endpoint, or even sometimes just a method or algorithm). From a developer perspective, it's the same code running every time, just with different inputs, and asserting different outputs. From the business side, each test is a different use case that they need to test (and some are more critical than others).

I have just done data-driven tests (i.e. put their inputs/outputs into a data structure and have my testing framework loop through them). But I hate having to sit and copy/paste their inputs/outputs every time they think of a new use case. I'd love a UI driven tool where they can manage all the tests like in a spreadsheet, and when they make updates, my regression tests picks up their tests automatically. Would be nice if it even gave them reports based on what they want to see (e.g. organizing the tests by category, or by severity).
Yeah their marketing and aesthetic was so refreshing, then they went mental with pool related NFT's.

They seemingly made a decent amount of success with their consumer products - they started a sun cream line and moisturisers etc. all with the same fantastic aesthetic, and not-too-serious sensibilities.
I hope it doesn't happen. I just accepted an offer from VMware and considering Broadcom's history, I would be the first on the hook :(
I find Conda packages often have a maximum version that's a bit out of date, sometimes several versions behind.

I'm sure using 3.10 instead of 3.9 would be fine for most packages, but I don't know if it can be "forced"
In age-of-empires-like terms, They were not far along enough in the tech tree to develop Husbandry and Selective Breeding
Most of the JS on a blog site will be analytics, don't hate the playa ...
Jet – jq-like utility for JSON, EDN and Transit for transformation and querying
For sure.

It’s also worth noting you can do gameplay timing mechanics without locking behind animations. Many fighting games feature characters with charge archetypal control schemes where you need to hold certain inputs for a time but they don’t necessarily have any visible effect on the character while they’re held.

But on the other hand some start up lag can make a game feel very tense which can be great.

Elden ring subtly does this thing where bosses react to taking damage, so if you hit them with a light attack it will appear as though their attack patterns have no openings because they respond quickly. But in reality many of them are open for a good few seconds if you just wait and charge up a satisfying blow.

Not many good examples of start up jumping lag… maybe… SSX Tricky comes to mind?
On BSDs (and IIRC macOS) you want a SIGINFO not SIGUSR1, which can be sent by ^T.
The conclusion that vitamin D levels are an effect not a cause came from exploring the mechanisms. And yes, it may turn out that NO similarly is a marker.

It's ironic that the author didn't consider that getting sunlight may similarly be the side effect of the true cause of the stated benefits (being active?).
I don't know how it's in other countries but in Spain school is glorified children care to ensure kids below 12 are kept occupied until at least 5 and even 6 with additional after school activities.

The reason we moved to a private school. Kids under 12 should not be 9 hours at school everyday.
Mycroft?

Sounds like they were trying to make their company name sound/look extremely close to Microsoft...
A couple of months ago I stopped checking the news except for once a week, and found weekly news summaries from the Economist to be extremely helpful. I found that I was more relaxed during the week, more contemplative about the events of the world, and had stronger reactions to things that occurred because I didn’t feel bombarded by so much information.
There was once the idea, that the web could work like other objects in programming. You would download an object and then send it messages (message passing concept). I think this was imagined to be in some kind of Smalltalk image like environment. I think Alan Kay mentioned the idea in one of his talks, or I have read about it elsewhere related to Smalltalk.
> What are Russia's options?

My prediction is that they’re going to take the Russian speaking portions of the country as they originally laid out. That’s effective up to the middle of the country. If Ukraine keeps fighting they may take Odessa and leave Ukraine without a sea port.

That’s something like 60-70% of Ukraine’s GDP btw. Russians have already captured 30% of Ukrainian GDP. I don’t think that’s a loss by any measure.

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

Wars typically last years, I don’t put much stock into 90 days of conflict. Already 20% of Ukraine is taken, most of its armaments destroyed, Russia has been targeting the west’s attempts to rearm.

> all around loss (world status, material etc

Russia is making more money than ever. They’re also looking to expand BRICS with China. https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-says-it-wants-expa...

> This has got to be the dumbest war ever.

For whom? I don’t think any war is good, by definition it reduces both sides ability to produce and trade (ie hurting everyone).

That said, the Russians have their objectives and clearly thought it worth while. It’s dangerous to underestimate and not understand the motivations of an enemy.
It is funny to me how irrationally HN hates on crypto.

Yes, there are many speculative moonboys. Sure, they overhype many things, and promote get-rich-quick schemes. There are many scammers and ponzis around indeed.

But ask yourself:

* Are dead links so great that we want to preserve them?

* Are expired domains a good experience?

* Do we want to give centralized authorities the power to control the web?

* Is it good that you cannot verify the authenticity or integrity of web pages? (Yes, even with SSL, where you only verify that (a) you are talking to the correct server, and (b) you got what the server sent. That still leaves the possibility of a compromised server.)

* Do you like great websites just disappearing?

* Do you want to be forced to use the new version of a website despite it being inferior?

* Would you like indefinite storage for a fixed fee? It is also decentralized, distributed, immutable, and censorship-resistant.

Web3 offers solutions to all of these problems and more.

That does not mean it's the greatest thing ever, that it solves all problems, or that it does not have its own disadvantages. It means however, that is does have merits, and that it should be discussed in that context. Blanket statements like "web3 is a scam/ponzi" are simply wrong/dishonest.

I don't get why otherwise extremely intelligent and well-mannered people stoop this low when it comes to anything crypto.
This is a great article but... it may be just me but I'm allergic to the word "modern". I feel it's a word trying to manipulate my emotions (who wants to be out-of-date?) without actually contributing anything objective to the discussion. For example the sentence

> A modern language that is aiming for performance should take this very important aspect of language design into account.

could have been rewritten as

> A language that is aiming for performance should take this very important aspect of language design into account.

and been clearer and more objective for it.
That tells us that ENS, Handshake, etc are the only 'NFT' project(s) so far that has a use case for web3. Handshake is also part of this as well and the CEO of Namecheap is somewhat convinced on that.

Only a few useful projects will survive.
The article's author seems surprised that there's a flat-file forum. What if we told them that the Fossil SCM is a flat-file (sqlite3) forum, wiki, _and_ SCM all in the same flat file? (Commenting on the original article requires an account i'm not willing to set up.)
Catalan Atlas
I'm a 10-year web developer and I failed in trying to understand how web3 works. For instance, will there be servers? How do you host databases without servers? Who pays for hard drives for sites like youtube?

If I can't understand it, I doubt more than 1% of people can.
It'd be great to see a list of 'adages' from ancient times and compare - which ones still hold today?
I prefer to form my own thoughts, though, instead of being presented some meal cut into tiny bites to make it better digestible.
Amnesty Tech MVT to look for Pegasus Spyware is not reliable
I've only ever used one bank that supports Zelle (and I'm departing that bank), and I've never once heard of anybody using it.

Yes the US does have Zelle technically, but it's not really a solution at least in the foreseeable future.
Sex is very different to the activities he listed. His activities are all about feelings of calm focus, flow, almost meditative joy. You feel pleasantly recharged at the end of it.

Sex is usually very different and all about dopamine-like immediate intense pleasure, excitement, adrenaline. You can build dopamine tolerance and start needing more for the same 'kick'. Afterwards you can end up feeling more low than before due to a dopamine 'valley'. Then there is also the 'Coolidge effect'.

I suspect very different neurotransmitters are involved.

In other words, to exaggerate: the feeling of being in the zone you get from 'repairing stuff' is as similar to the feeling from sex, as the enjoyment of practicing calligraphy or meditation or tai chi is similar to taking heroin.
My guess is a lot of people will blame covid for their failings out of their own. This will be the harshest consequence I think; people playing victim.

[edit] I think it's already happening, but with parents. My kid is not a bad learner, it's because of covid!
or Sherlock's brother?
GNU's complexity[1] tool calculates something like what you're talking about for procedures in C programs, and calls the result a "complexity score", although I don't think it accounts for variable names, nor magic integers.

[1] - https://www.gnu.org/software/complexity/manual/complexity.ht...
Let them create their own languages, maybe they will discover better ways that eventually get adopted by other languages.
Since the article at least seems to be saying the opposite, can you give some specifics about just how it sucks?
I’m not an expert on queue theory but this little “tidbit” has always bothered me. As far as I can tell, it is true IFF your variability causes the average wpos to go up, which negates the entire premise of “requests arriving at 1000/s”

If you’re averaging 1000/s and you get 1010 req in one sec, yes this leads to an infinite queue - but your average is now above 1000/s! Then if a few seconds later you get 990 requests, the queue catches up (because your avg is back to 1000)

IOW - it assumes only positive variability and no negative variability which does not mimic real world systems in my experience.

It’s an academic exercise that’s interesting to think about, but has no practical application. Else we would see infinite queue backups every time a system received a burst of traffic beyond their maximum throughput in any given time period.

What am I missing?
16. I have an M1 Mac mini under the desk that has been doing more than fine for most of my development work on 8 GB of RAM.
People do that in some cases, but most of the Twitter audience prefers to read twitter content inside twitter.

I dunno, all this "I wish the format of twitter wasn't what it was" sometimes seems like complaining that TikToks aren't 90 minutes long with an MPAA rating. That's .. simply not what the format is? This is also why Twitter Fleets never took off and Twitter Spaces is probably doomed.

(If you start typing a long twitter thread, Twitter used to offer you a redirect to their newsletter tool https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/02/twitter-quietly-rolls-out-... , but I don't think I've ever seen anyone use that)
From the blog post:

"By specification, its default 512 block size has had to remain unchanged for decades. Today, this tiny size makes it CPU bound by default. A script that doesn’t specify a block size is very inefficient, and any script that picks the current optimal value may slowly become obsolete — or start obsolete if it’s copied from "
I know. That was the battle of Alesia in Gaul, though (52BC), not in Britain.

In Britain, Ceaser did not do quite as well. He was kicked out twice (in 55BC and 54BC).

It wasn't until about 100 years later that Claudius' legions returned to Britain.
Nobody has time, energy ir interest to vote on ebery single thing. That's why you entrust your vote to somone else for things you don't care about as much.
Seems web3 is doing everyone a favour and imploding itself right now.
"Nearly 2,500 global leaders from business, politics and civil society are expected to take part in a rare springtime version of Davos this week."

Anytime you get that many powerful people/people in positions of power together for any reason (whether it's a conference to plan the world's future or just a barbecue) you're going to attract a lot of "Hey look -- bad things are happening there!" people making their typical noises. Personally, I think it's just an expensive and exclusive drinking club.
I mean, that's exactly the point of caching.
That’s the Canadian English version of a help page. The British English version says the same thing. It just means this product has launched in the US and has localized help content.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT207886
Between the Lines: Parallels Between Professional Football and SW Development
And this highlights that you are not free to make that decision and reason for yourself- the government mandated what they thought is best.
Everyone is drafting their own startup Black Swan memo
I think the issue is improvements to Chrome since the article was published.

Regardless the takeaway that "M1, and very likely the fastest Linux machine you can get right now for single threaded work." is conjecture.

If someone can benchmark chrome on asahi linux it would give us a better comparison.
It is not possible to have all the data in time to make decisions. We didn't know how covid spread in the early days, just that it was spreading fast in China, killing a lot of people (we didn't know what a lot was), and popping up all over the world. 3 Months after the decisions needed to be made we had a lot more data.
I think it's an allusion to Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock Holmes's smarter brother.
>Btw, here in Germany the industry salary for a senior engineer is 70k max, usually around 50k to 60k

So with 50k in Romania I'm better here than moving to Germany. Although, Glassdoor shows a bit better salaries for Germany.
Sending money for example.

Haven’t kept up to date with matrix - does it even allow e2ee with group chats using a bridge?
Standard application of selection bias. People that don't "turn up just fine" don't go to college or browse HN.
Beautiful analogy.
I've actually increased the amount of inboxes (especially email). I label into category/topic (eg finance) and sometimes sub-topic (eg taxes) inboxes based on sender or subject/message content. It keeps my main inbox clean and easy to go through. Alert type emails (calendar invites, password resets etc.) stay in the main inbox.

I keep my work and tech inboxes open throughout the day. Things like news, finance/markets, etc. I check every few days. Others I check whenever they're relevant (taxes, cooking, entertainment etc.)

It took a lot of work to set up but it works well for me.

For message apps I just rely on the notifications.
It was that last sentence where he threw blame.
It would be verified by a human on Google’s side before something is taken down
It’s not - the company usually also has the keys, so you have to trust them.
I can give my actual numbers - my mortgage is around 3K/mo plus property taxes. Nanny is $3600/mo. I have another baby coming in a few weeks, so my childcare next year will be an additional $1800/mo for the older one to start preschool. My partner and I split most costs.

We recently bought a house, so we've had some home maintenance costs, which was the big issue that popped up this year - I didn't have the money to split roof-fixing costs, and a big rainstorm caused a leak which caused us to have to tear the drywall out of our bathroom wall. I look forward to having a bathroom wall again in the near future! :)

To the original comment: I agree that my salary was doable (and higher than many Unit-18 lecturers! and than many in the bay area! I am quite fortunate indeed). However, given that I am able to earn much more as someone with a CS background in other roles that I also enjoy, I made the decision to leave the lower paying role.

I did do research this year, by the way, as I managed to get a grant even as an adjunct lecturer. That was one of the things that added to the courseload. The other Unit-18 lecturers in EECS are also involved in research.

Hopefully my reflections make it easier for others to do their homework. :D
But we just establisged it's not.
1) No, but with sharding it could happen. Sharding is a scalability solution being pushed for. Wouldn’t be failure it would miss some information. An application not designed for this missing information could break irrecoverable. Its a data availability issue.

2) Most of today’s largest blockchains can handle VISA levels of transactions and the bandwidth has been used for something like NASDAQ levels of transactions (but doesn't reach that) since its mostly trading of assets on those blockchains. (The “merchant adoption” use case was always a small use case being masqueraded as a “killer app”by irrelevant people grasping for any use case, but its worked to get more relevant interest into the system, so maybe you heard that, the VISA benchmark is still useful though) When a form of sharding is implemented they get an additional 1-2 orders of magnitude more bandwidth. We’ll see how it pans out.
Just so I understand: while those countries you named try to solve poverty (and thus protect the richer) on the state level, the US leaves this responsibility to the riches themselves - which will have to stock on weaponry obviously. So basically pushing for more personal freedom brings as a collateral those street wars. Another example where applied philosophy fails (thinking about communism as well)
I think that helps prove the parent's point in a way. People are sacrificing intelligibility and context for reach. I read the twitter thread and it makes absolutely no sense but, you know, being a twitter user I'll probably add a like to the comments that seem to be the most outrageous in that thread because twitter.
I don’t agree actually. The only mechanism web3 has is “entries in a ledger”, on which you can build arbitrary data stores.

The choice to tie each ledger entry to a pyramid scheme is entirely made by the founders and investors of the projects, for obvious reasons.

IMO the real theoretical problem with a functioning web3 is the “a” in “entries in a ledger”. One ledger cannot power a high throughput application. This is a fatal flaw to a web3 project succeeding on non-financialized merits.

There’s some research into protocols for inter-ledger transfers that could enable scalability, but that’s always (so far) for the sake of wrapping and moving around pyramid coins between ecosystems.