skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a person who is allergic to trends like this, can someone bring me up to speed on the details of the blockchain? Particularly:

1) Is it resilient to catastrophic failure? Does there exist an N < 100 such that if there is an EMP, a computer virus, or some other anomaly that wipes the data from more than N% of the nodes, the block chain enters an irrecoverable failure state?

2) How scalable is it? Sure, it might work for a very small % of the world's transactions, but could it ever handle the sort of load that is taken on by say, Visa credit cards worldwide, while still allowing transactions to complete in a "reasonable" amount of time (that the average person would tolerate)? If not, what is the upper limit of requests per second while maintaining some sufficient upper bound for transaction time?

Feel free to be completely hand wavy. This is just a thought exercise for now.
It’s not emotionality, it’s rationalism. web3 is a naked pyramid grift, and most people promoting it are hoping to get rich from the “greater sucker” or have been subsumed into a cult-type mindset.

HackerNews is a high-quality rational discussion medium. The problem is not with this community, it is with the propaganda bubble of web3.
From what I understand it’s still very expensive to store anything more than a few kb on the Blockhain as it’s distrbuted. So you still need a platform that will store the actual content and reference the transaction. In the end, it’s like web2 to me, if you kill the host / platform, you still have the blockchain but you lost the content.
“Serial entrepreneurship” was accomplished. It’s like an achievement level in gaming.

Happens when one launches more than one venture one after another. Longevity of venture is not typically a concern to unlock this moniker.
> What do these things even mean anymore?

Dude makes a startup, gets some VC money, gets paid and leaves in a couple of years when their contract is up. Repeat.
Avoiding sites that exist mostly for the purpose of ad-based monetization is a great start.

(why in the world Wired needs to load total of 33 ads/trackers?)
The irony of it is that if Google's algorithm made sense at all (Why is a recipe being downranked for being older than one year?), people wouldn't have to do all of this stuff.

It's a vicious circle and I don't know if it's possible to escape at this point by any means other than inventing a better search algorithm and convincing a large number of people to use it.
I don't think it's quite what you're describing (sorry if it is) - but 'we [deliberately] have rules, we just don't enforce them' would probably be a pretty effective & pleasant one.

I suppose essentially that's just living in a society, i.e. as anywhere without a 'HOA', but codified.
Long form journalism mainly like the New Yorker, Economist. Apart from that just the headlines on the Reuters or something like that. Avoid most American news channels and websites especially ones like Cnn , Fox, NYT.Avoid anything that is user-engagement and ad based .
The developed world needs domestic population growth to continue. If you have fewer children you're handing the future off to other countries (either via immigration or competition via trade or military conquest) which do not share your views on sustainability or the environment. Some of your ideas here make sense but not having children does not.

You certainly save a great deal of energy in the short term for both you and the state. Long term this is extremely destructive. If you want to see how it ends look at former/current communist countries like Russia and China.
how do you feel about the href attribute?
Just looked at my local electronics store's website, they have multiple 32GB RAM 14" Pro and 16" Pro models available for pick up.
The Adverse Effect of “Mandatory” Flood Insurance on Access to Credit
I'd argue that it's easier to increase energy consumption and not to worry about pollution at all, but it's not about what's easier unless you're holding the consequences constant.

> It's also more ethical solution than forcing people to live in tiny apartments and preventing them from traveling.

What does this have to do with ethics? Is "more ethical" when you bother people less?
I am all fine for anyone to disagree with cryptocurrency projects and the idea of putting everything on-chain or a social network fully on-chain is also a bad idea which I also think that makes no sense. But the extreme idea of banning all of them or thinking all these projects will survive or using a false generalization towards all cryptocurrencies if one of them has an inefficiency in its consensus mechanism, then this is where I disagree with that.

It's interesting to see on a site that calls itself 'Hacker News' where the whole point is being curious about upcoming startup projects or technologies.

Theranos turned out to be a scam with many investors losing their money, does that mean all startups are scams? No. So given that many companies like Stripe, MoneyGram, Namecheap, etc have re-entered into cryptocurrencies, perhaps they are also aware that some of the ones they have chosen to use have a use case?
I largely agree with Aaron Swartz on this matter[1]: news is a waste of time. Well, maybe except when it's about your industry, in which case it's only 95% a waste of time. I mostly "stay informed" as a way to slack off.

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

Some quotes:

> But if that’s true on a scale of minutes, why longer? Instead of watching hourly updates, why not read a daily paper? Instead of reading the back and forth of a daily, why not read a weekly review? Instead of a weekly review, why not read a monthly magazine? Instead of a monthly magazine, why not read an annual book?

> With the time people waste reading a newspaper every day, they could have read an entire book about most subjects covered and thereby learned about it with far more detail and far more impact than the daily doses they get dribbled out by the paper. But people, of course, wouldn’t read a book about most subjects covered in the paper, because most of them are simply irrelevant.
Anything related to race and most news that could be construed as political gets flagged off the front page no matter how important it is or how many up votes it gets. You need to be constantly browsing or hope dang is browsing and decides to actually save an article against people using the flag button against the rules of the site to ever see any such news if this is your main news source.
How is it working? Who will host the terabytes of content is this really take off? Who will pay for it? Sure it’s easy to host a blockchain on a number of computers when it’s small, but if it really become THE source of truth, then you need actual $$$$$ to keep it alive.
"For comparison, if I were to take a software engineering job right now, I would earn a minimum of 160K (like at a startup with high equity) but more like 220K+. Plus sign-on bonus ($20-120K), stock options, annual performance bonus (10-40%), etc."

So this might add up to 300K. Which is a number that is unprecedented in history. Throughout most of history and to this day in pretty much every place in the world, such a salary would be reserved for the executive branch. It's an insanely high compensation largely made possible by a local tech boom, excessive venture capital, very high local living expenses, and the nature of startups, where maximum spending is considered good: 300K can be afforded because of the potential exit.

That's not how 99.99999% of the jobs work, so the comparison is odd. Not at a personal level, but definitely at a societal level.
You can Appple Pay with the Apple Cash in your Apple Wallet. You can also pay off your Apple Card balance with the Apple Cash, and also using the Apple Card earns you Apple Cash back. It's not a card in the wallet, but because the wallet UI only shows card UI components it's not surprising that you thought of it that way.
Whow, the first ransomware victim which could restore from a backup?.
Maybe others can learn from that, and not the exchanged vulgarities.
You will also be disappointed by basic math given that a decade has 520 weeks.
Honestly, quite a bit, as it's very "microservice-y". However, a great deal of the components utilize the .NET stack.
This is how you end up a refugee, rather than an ex-pat.
Not all journalism is created equal. If you reject all journalism equally disinformative, you're left with nothing to believe but conspiracy theories. You really should understand how the different news outlets function, what their business models and sources of funding are, and their biases. You should be realistic about news media, but not so cynical that you think everything is make believe and nothing matters.
Please clarify. I thought each Internet subscriber pays for the Internet with their monthly recurring charge to their ISP. The "web" is the network of world wide web (www) sites using http/https protocol on the Internet, many of whom use no advertising (news.ycombinator.com that we are all on for one). Yes there are extensive advertiser-funded services on the www, but many use paid models for premium services to remove advertising (e.g. YouTube Premium). I agree with your idea that "web3 as a way to democratize ... services/apps". There are no advertisers on my Bitcoin full node, for which I pay the Internet access fee every month.
Most modern royal families are still closely tied to their militaries.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8266060/

> Early evidence indicated that schools were low risk and children were unlikely to be very infectious, but it is becoming clear that children and youth can acquire and transmit COVID-19 in school settings and that transmission clusters and outbreaks can be large.
Yup, `dd` helps in a lot of situations when you need portability, not just this one.

Commands like `cp --sparse=always` aren't worth such a blanket disrecommendation though; if you are working directly at a console as opposed to scripting you typically don't need portability.
Are you able to list any reasons why HackerNews dislikes web3, beyond “they have sour grapes because they missed the market.”?

There are many many reasons, and if you are unable to think of any then perhaps you are in a propaganda bubble?
This is very true. I added a warning when switching pages within the app itself when the editor is open, but it would definitely be worth the extra bytes to add a warning when closing the tab!
This is a blind guess here, but if you need to inspect the inner data of your function after writing it, it might mean the scope is too broad and your function could be split?

This is where standard SWE guidelines could be of help (function interfaces, contracts definition, etc)
This isn’t an Apple thing, it’s a “laws of physics” thing. The parent is suggesting that you do your intensive computing on a computer that isn’t battery powered so as to prolong your laptop’s battery between charges. “Apple life” in this case is having two days between charges rather than a few hours.
Unlike in "serial killer", the word "entrepreneur" doesn't indicate whether the person succeeded in those attempts or not...
Mycroft recently claimed to have won that case, with the USPTO invalidating all claims that had been asserted against them.
tell me then, how exactly would this work as new features are developed - do all apps have to be static in functionality indefinitely? how would it work with group chats where you can add and remove people arbitrarily?
> We can make a better, free, decentralized internet without it.

So why haven't you? In 20 years since the platforms have colonized the web all attempts at decentralization were completely marginal and achieved nothing or less. I'm a fan of all incentiatives for a better web, but this article is either lies or willed stupidity.
There is and was an economic incentive to recycle plastic.

The people who sold the inputs to make fresh plastic didn't want you to believe that, because it would affect their sales.

The people making stuff with the plastic didnt want to pay for it if their competitors didn't, so they waited on a law.

Group number 1 stopped such a law in any country where people who sell the input for plastics have a lot of political power.

Unless the people who produce lithium become powerful enough to force people to give them money for no good reason, it'll get recycled.
The article might educate, but that doesn't appear to be its primary purpose.

The problem with this article and the useless-cat article is that 1) they create a false right vs wrong dichotomy and 2) it gets amplified and used as a tool by the small minded as a citation for "the correct way".

A post on learning your tools is fine. But calling something useless and needlessly adding branches to one's decision tree doesn't empower anyone except jerks.

Stay useless.

Were any of the cited examples harming anything? No they weren't.
Which metrics would suggest people might forget bitcoin? (much less, make it obvious they will forget about it).
This is one of the companies I was thinking about, a very popular UK climbing company, based in Wales

https://dmmwales.com/about-dmm

Also Pyranha Kayaks for instance

https://www.pyranha.com/about.php
You also rarely need it among groups primarily using Monzo - which among my UK friend group is universal. Just pick from contacts, just like Apple Cash.
You son of a b, I'm in.
Cardano, Solana, Polkadot, Avalanche, Ropsten, Goerli, Sepolia, Iota, Algorand, Iota...? You're all making fun of me by making up funny words now, don't you?

No, just kidding. To be fair, I wasn't aware that there is SO MUCH going on in the crypto space that I have never heard of. But these (as far as I can see) are different blockchains, not actual sites that a user can use do do useful stuff or access useful information.

That's why I was asking for services - to my understanding, just creating a new coin does not make it "web3".
Artifact scanning happens, but largely it's seen as out of the scope of the curatorial responsibilities of most museums.

Museums have different purposes, and few are close to as large or wealthy as the V&A or Natural History. Mostly, staff are tied up preparing for exhibits, handling outreach and marketing, working events, performing curatorial duties, and managing operations, often not exclusively.

A 3D scanner of some quality starts around $6000, a laptop that can scan and process things quickly about as much, storage and hosting is anywhere from $20-40k on a 3-5 year lifecycle, and a DAM capable of managing 3D digital assets could be a few thousand a year.

Now assuming you are given funding, you've got to take a person who is qualified to handle the artifacts, understands the scanning process, can assess the quality of and correct their scans, has the time and access to label the digital objects so they can be integrated by the people who manage the collections, find someone who understands how to manage the "3D parts", and suddenly you have an idea of the burden the scale of this task would place on a museum with maybe half a dozen to a dozen full time staff and several hundred or thousand artifacts.

This doesn't even touch rights of artists or owners, since few museums own everything they exhibit. Even more challenging, try convincing those people that allowing a third party to own digital simulacra of their works won't somehow backfire on them.
I stand corrected, turns out I'm the weird one and other Brits do say fres-nel :)

I wonder if it's a context thing. Thinking about it, other than science lessons, the theatre is the only place I've heard the word on a regular basis. Perhaps it's that.
> Crates.io requires a github account to register. Cargo is tightly coupled to github.

It isn't. Even though crates.io is the default package registry, Crates support both third-party package repositories and even git repos.

As explained in another post, the issue is actually a developer from Russia complaining that Russia was subjected to sanctions.
I think that's more or less what I mean. Not my normal vocab, but I think we're saying the same thing or something similar at least. It helps you take a second and reassess assumptions that you otherwise wouldn't have thought to question.

There's so many different iterations and styles of Tarot developed by so many people over the last century, couple centuries, or millenia depending on what history you assign to them. It's hard to tell what the intentions were of the groups that originally popularized them. Rider-Waite was obviously the start of what I'd consider our modern Tarot ideas, but everything to do with Tarot has been piled over with so much esoterism and mysticism and general shrouding of the actual history that I don't even care to try to separate fact from narrative. They're useful to me and my deck is pretty and that's about as far as I care to go.
Teak wood, also known as Shegun, is one of the best wood available in Asian countries, perhaps in the world. In present-day Teak is widely planted in Bangladesh as a high-quality timber tree fo more https://thediyinfo.com/carpentry-vs-woodworking/
Libaws: A simpler way to declare AWS infrastructure
So you claim that increasing taxes increases civil unrest? What do you base this claim on? The countries with high taxes do not tend to be the countries that have a lot of civil unrest, low tax countries on the other hand... While that does not imply causation, it is food for thought I would say.
Yeah, there's a lot to be said about the daisy chain but the real news for me here was that 4 CPU lanes are added from last generation. I personally would rather they be used for a m.2 slot than a thunderbolt controller and hopefully they will in some boards. (I don't see the point of thunderbolt on a desktop)

While the daisy chain is interesting, it doesn't sound like it gets you much at the end of the day and will double power usage (which was a real sore spot with x570 vs the asmedia chipsets) The dual chipset sort of seems like it's just a luxury item without a purpose in most cases. Maybe we'll see some interesting designs with server oriented boards but doubling the power usage doesn't seem worth what it will get you to me.
We have that here for Zelle, which is built-in to some banking apps, making it really easy for most people to achieve this. You can alternatively give them a name or email as well. Zelle is not perfect but I have used it often just because it is built-in to my banking. I just wish I could have multiple bank accounts hooked up to it properly, not sure how to sort that out.
We are bitter and old, but that doesn't make us wrong ;)
I took a look at skiff and it seems to be a regular email client that has support for the Ethereum Naming Service. If you take away the electricity wasting ethereum network you're left with an email client - which is honestly great - but decidedly not web3.
I find it hilarious that at this Apple Canada help page:

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT207886

it says among other requirements for Apple Cash:

What you need

- Be at least 18 years old and live in the United States.
Yep. Executables are section 1 simply because they came first in the binders.

There's nothing necessarily preventing man from allowing string codes as a replacement, but man interprets (fully) non-numeric arguments as pages to go. So `man cat dd` (on Ubuntu) will first open cat(1), and when you exit (with 'q'), will prompt if you want to continue. If you say yes, it'll open dd(1).

That has the side effect than `man exe dd` would be interpreted as opening exe(#) (printing "No manual entry for exe") followed by dd(1).
Ah, but then you have to make a phone call. I'd rather die than resort to such drastic measures.
no one is talking about being hungry. I'm talking about reducing food waste and eating less in light of the massive obesity endemic. eating plant based can be a part of that, sure, but isn't directly related to my point.
The number of people with genuine belief in web3 is SWAMPED by people hoping to make a quick buck from the “greater fool”’

Unfortunately it’s a “curate’s egg” situation, and anyone genuinely promoting web3 is indistinguishable from the grifters.
> like having the audacity to fly a [doesn't matter] flag.

I don't live in the US, and at best the concept is very rare here, and I don't like the idea of it, but that sort of thing is exactly what I would like.

Flying a flag (why?!) has much more impact (probably negative) on your neighbours than it does (presumably positive) you.
To kill A Mockingbird. Been about 30 years since I read it, but there was the guy who they concluded just liked to stay home. Or something like that, as I said been years. Many other books written in the 1800s have something similar.
Exactly like cryptocurrency, but without the planet-incinerating part that selects the longest chain. If you treat "like" as idempotent, then you don't need double-spend protection, so you don't need to select the longest chain.

In trendy terms, like IPFS where you pin your own signed like messages.

Note that identity verification, forgery prevention, and distribution of messages are done using "web2" technologies, even in blockchain systems. The hard part in blockchains is literally only the double-spend protection, so if your problem is not about spending money, they do nothing.
The Google Search/Assistant app seems to be one of the worst that I have installed. No matter how many categories I mute I seem to get a new spam notification every couple of weeks. Unfortunately there are 2-3 useful notification categories so I haven't completely shut it down now. Google Maps also used to be pretty bad for this but I don't seem to recall any new categories for many months now.
True anonymous non-tracked replies will fill with spam.

The only way out of this is would be a solution that preseved anonymity while retaining the ability to do "ban this poster from further interactions, in such a way that they can't trivially circumvent without e.g. buying another SIM".
Try "surfing" the web 1.0 with Navigator 4.6 like it's 1999. That's as dead as a doornail.
One thing I don't think I've ever seen in my life and never expect to see is a statement along the following lines: "Yeah, those cranks and 'conspiracy theorists' were right again." And this will stay true no matter how many times they are right.

The credit will always go to some academic who discovers the obvious after the damage is done.
It's inspired by TiddlyWiki, but it's not nearly as feature-packed by design. Literally the only reason I even started this project was because I noticed how big an empty TiddlyWiki 5 file was and thought I could make one that was smaller. :)

I'm actively working on a way to extend individual wikis, which will hopefully pave the way for more features through hacking it.
Indeed - a filesystem is a form of DBMS and provides data sharing capabilities. These capabilities are very poor though - especially its data model (or rather lack of one) makes data sharing difficult as applications cannot rely on it and implement their own proprietary data model instead.
Since you mentioned Zcash and Namecoin, do you have an opinion on ENS, Aztec Protocol, and zkSync? They are trying to solve the similar problems that projects you mentioned do, and somewhat fall into Web3 umbrella.
This is a worrisome line of reasoning -- that you can't act to protect children until you have 'all the data' about this or that narrow threat vector.
But isn't that ingroup/outgroup-dynamic still happening? Very few westerners would consider the followers of Bagwhan 'religious', they'd rather use something like 'cultists'. Aum/Aleph is a 'cult', even though it represents itself as a syncretism between Buddhism and Christianity. Radical forms of Islam are sometimes called a cult, and sometimes a religion, depending on the speaker.

All that shift in meaning seems to do is that it determines which belief systems are considered appropriate by a speaker, and which aren't...
If you read German I highly recommend "Die Bienen und das Unsichtbare" by Clemens Setz.