skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the choice (for a set period of energy supply) is to pay either 100 billion euros for natural gas, or 20 billion euroes for uranium

Except that's NOT the choice that Germany is faced with. In the short term, the cheapest way for Germany to cover for any decrease in nuclear generation is to increase her lignite mining, not to buy more gas, which has grown even more expensive. And also notice that this decreases the money Russia would get from 100 billion in your hypothetical example not to 20 billion but rather to 0 billion, all while being even cheaper for Germany.

> As for Russia's enrichment capacity, that is something any advanced country could set up

It would take many years to replace the 46% [1] Russian share of the global enrichment capacity. Maybe more than a few years -- a decade perhaps. After all, this is all highly controlled, specialized equipment. You can't just go and buy it in a supermarket.

> I don't know which take longer, between LNG from other sources or uranium from other sources.

It would absolutely take longer for the world to replace Russian uranium fuel production. They've built is up as a Cold War Project-Manhattan-level strategic project over more than a decade.

> Finally, with nuclear there is always the option of setting up strategic fuel reserves.

As I already responded to someone else, you can't set up a fuel reserve if your expected value of fuel consumption is higher than your expected value of of fuel production (or, acquisition in this case, really).

[1] https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/commentary/re...
> My feeling is that redundant stuff like type hints make programmers create more bugs because they don't see the forest for the trees anymore.

Not ones that ship to production. Some developers have a terrible time trying to get through the mypy errors. But from my observations, I haven't seen any typing related errors in a very long time.
it's possible to have a "stablecoin" in the sense it's non-deflationary and is algorithmically trying to maintain the same price.
Why won't we invent a new major conlang given all the advancements in the linguistics, neuroscience and related areas? Perhaps now we could base it on some objectively optimal solutions rather than just the creator's judgement.
Can't wait for real people's personal accounts to get flagged or banned. Google Maps has companies lying about their info and people correcting those will get their accounts shadowbanned with no recourse.
That reads like fairytales and wishful thinking which entirely ignores the substantial corruption and manipulation of the 'crypto economy' that exists now.

Everything mentioned int it can be done right now without crypto, it's called FOSS, and people have worked out how to monetise their ideas while keeping them open and reusable.
In the subset of competitive video games known as fighting games, like Street Fighter, there is a slang term for a very similar tactic, called an “option select”[0]. Put simply: you’re maximising the expected value of your decision, by expanding the possibility space of what can occur after your decision, instead of eagerly (and maybe mistakenly!) committing to any particular possibility and locking yourself into some subset of that possibility space.

Go figure that I’ve overheard and used “option select” in the context of technical decisions at work, among coworkers who play fighting games.

[0]: https://youtu.be/rBLpz369i7Q
My point is that Dalle can do things like the Cornell box pretty much perfectly, so if you want to make a test where it's impossible to decide who made it you should sample those type of prompts.
Web3 as it is is impotent and useless. Yeah, that makes it harmless, but the idea behind it isn't.

The idea behind web3 is that everything lives "on chain" (the same way the idea of the Internet to some was that everything is "online"). This is not just a whimsical dream but a vital necessity for most of its promises to even function. Listen to crypto enthusiasts and you'll hear many scenarios which only work if this is already the case.

"Smart contracts" are useless for anything "off chain" because they can only interact within the chain. You can set up a smart contract to grant royalties off the trade of an NFT, sure, but if you mint an NFT of your book to do that you can literally still sell copies of that book "off chain" without triggering the contract (so you still need the entire legal apparatus of the centralized state dealing in fiat currency, which NFTs and crypto and smart contracts were supposed to replace).

You can see this play out in the (poor and thus cheap to invest in) African countries crypto enthusiasts have been trying to use as lab rats: universities issue their degrees "on chain", land ownership is tracked "on chain", and so on. If all legal documents and claims are replaced by tokens and smart contracts, you can circumvent laws because what's the point of having a legal claim if you can't enforce it because everything runs on the chain and the chain disagrees with your claim?

Even the enthusiasts of course forget to talk about how this makes every person incredibly transparent (no need to "dox" strangers, you can just track their transaction history and literally inspect their wallet to find out everything there is to know about them) and how it turns identity theft from an annoyance to something irreversible (because to the chain, every owner is the rightful owner) that can happen to you as easily as accidentally leaking your Facebook password. Yes, I know about tumblers but if you have to resort to money laundering tools to recreate any semblence of privacy I hope I don't need to spell out how this seems to be more about money laundering than privacy.

And this doesn't even go into how all the fabulous claims about NFTs in games are little more than microtransactions, lootboxes and DLC, how "play to earn" just replaces game mechanics with grind (or at best encourages literal ponzi schemes of renting out your account to allow other people to fight over scraps until the currency becomes worthless) and how none of the technologies involved are "new" or offer any interesting solutions to problems that actually exist outside crypto itself.

Oh, and of course on top of that every single crypto project is either a ponzi scheme (or pyramid scheme, or any of the dozens of variants of scams that are legally neither of those because of technical details but still function the exact same way) or a "rugpull" waiting to happen.
It was gone for a while but came back as CS 10 and it’s fantastic. See my earlier comment but I believe CS 10 should be made mandatory as a CS 101 course for all incoming CS/EECS majors.
I agree with you, and:

> computers are incomparibly more efficient

Yet to be clear the total world energy consumption for computers has increased, which is sad because we could certainly cope with 1/2 of the current total speed capacity but way more efficiency. Trying to get very high TDP chips and/or density is likely going in the other direction (but I could be wrong for the datacenter).
Feather 64kb

Tiddlywiki classic 400kb

Tiddlywiki 2250kb

My personal Tiddlywiki instance is 5300kb so nearly half of it is content now. This is why I don’t care much about its size. At least saving 300kb for Feather would not be worth any effort.
What makes you think that you got the same top result as the original commenter?
Vulnerability that made us 30 000$ richer
XSS in Swagger-UI - many people waited for this writeup so here you are. Your company is probably vulnerable too. We found it in so many places - in big corpo, government websites, it is everywhere.
No idea why you were getting downvoted this month, what you said was largely fact. I have a son that went through 6th grade virtually, and 7th grade in-person but masked. We were able to stay on top of him, so he's doing well enough academically (honor roll for 3 terms so far this year, although the work has been easier). Socially and developmentally has been a big issue, and he suffered a lot, in a first world way. He'll be fine, but this has scarred his generation and the results will be felt on society in the coming decades - I don't know how, but it will.

But he tells me of all the kids that are just simply failing, and have barely learning anything this year, let along last when many were sitting home by themselves all day.

We did our kids dirty last year :(
The point was that Lagarde is a complete idiot for saying that Bitcoin has no (future) value? But, a fairly sound argument can be made that this is a plausible prediction, in part on the basis that Bitcoin is likely fail as 'money', which makes its long-term position as a 'store of value' precarious. So, I don't think the point is fair.
> Time to build a good bookmark collection, I guess.

There are uBlock filter lists that help filter out generated content from search results, such as https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
Are you bad at math or history?
I don't understand exactly what you're complaining about. Has anyone ignored the cost of closing schools? My impression has always been that everyone has known about the high cost, but, well, millions more dead isn't exactly a small cost either.

I mean you may disagree with the choices which were made, but surely you have to recognize that it's a bit more complicated than what you're suggesting?
Cloudflare is still present in Russia and nobody seems to have an issue with it.

"Cloudflare Walks a Tight Line with Its Decision to Remain in Russia ": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31398875
Cat videos are not purposefully distributed uncompressed, in ultra high definition resolution, with extremely high frame rates, including enormous amounts of extra redundant padding, with 24 hour and longer durations, so they take as much time as technologically possible to download.
Crates.io requires a github account to register. Cargo is tightly coupled to github. You can of course use your own libs, but cannot contribute to cargo crates.io without github.

Rust is sort of less awesome without cargo.
Its a valid point, but also github is sufficiently ubiquitous and rust community is busy building, 99.9% of the projects would use github anyway.
I suspect such a system would be quickly gamed by spammers. With the bot-nets and other resources they have at their disposal, they would be able to flag and drown out legitimate sites or competitor sites in order to boost their own. Then the problem changes to being able to differentiate legitimate/regular users from spammers/black-hat SEO practitioners.
Total out of the loop on this one...
Yeah, I'm generally of this conviction as well. Particularly looking at the Tildeverse (basically multi-user shell environments that usually loosely network with each other), there are definitely sysadmins in that environment but there are a couple things they do better than, say, Facebook:

1. They personally vet the people they let in to maintain the style of community they're going for.

2. If someone's a problem, it falls to the sysadmin or the people they chose as moderators to kick the person.

3. Anyone can start a tilde and network with the others, but this is done at a human level, meaning people need to actually -want- to network with you.

4. The size of the communities are kept human-scale. It happens that a tilde "fills up" and that people who want in just need to start their own, which is how the whole "tildeverse" arose: from tilde.club reaching capacity and enough other people liking the idea they decided to copy it.

I'm a big believer in this sort of federation approach to the internet in general. The clue is in the name: the "internet" is a network of networks, and IMO we shouldn't expose everything to the rest of the world, but only carefully curated gateways behind which the trusted network with admins who the curated community believes in can operate with less fear of bad actors (at some level we all know this already because this is how Instagram users behave, just at a social level instead of a technical level).
The only hint of a real product here is using crypto to bypass exchange fees and border controls of international money movements. Those fees exist for a reason (volatility risk), and there is no reason to believe the crypto version would be different. Those controls exist for a reason, and there is no reason to believe governments would allow "legit" regulated companies like MoneyGram to bypass them.
Why do people act like by introducing Web3 the "Web2" will cease to exist. You'll always be able to use it without any financial knowledge whatsoever "like in the old times".

Web3 as a concept exists solely to decentralize internet and take power from technological giants. If something you use is free, then you're the product.

Hosting the massive data we consume is costly and difficult, that's why only a few companies do it. These companies proveably apply their political bias into internet and threaten our society as a concept.

IMHO Everyone who really cares about the original message of the internet should stand behind web3.
I am not very familiar with chrome's PDF API (or lack thereof) but I doubt that it is possible.
you dont need a currency, its just another product of byzantine fault tolerant systems. Decentralisation has many products, currency is one of them.
Several years ago stores in my area deployed the wheeled baskets but I seldom saw people use them. They have almost completely disappeared and been replaced with double tiered small basket shopping carts. If available this is my preferred cart of choice. I shop for 1 1/2 people so these small carts are able to hold a week's worth of my groceries.
I've served millions of visitors using WordPress without any issues - as long as you set up caching properly
Perceptions of shifts in public opinion are wildly off base
For me, the biggest suck to web experience since I first started using it back when MSN came out (90s) is every page prompting GDPR.
Writing 'state' is arguably inaccurate if you read it as 'nation state', but taxation in gold by city states goes way back to early city states and more generally gold has a very long history of being accepted as payment by governments. I'm not sure about salt. I'm not convinced Rai stones are a meaningful counterpoint -- reading about them they only appear to act as money in a fairly weak and impractical sense.

Secondly, I did not say that Bitcoin has to be money to be valuable. Rather that Bitcoin is not likely to be 'money' in any serious way, and this makes the 'store of value' proposition precarious. But I don't think it's inconceivable that bitcoin might still be worth a lot 100 years from now.
The vast range of content being banned (largely by subject and tone) created a chilling effect throughout the entire site. Also, a lot of good posters were also bad posters, so after they left because they couldn't talk about how much they hated fat people, they also stopped posting detailed reviews about e.g. laser printers.
It's pointless to argue with someone who doesn't even understand your argument.
Yeah, that statement means you have to make yourself known before contributing, via the procedure I described earlier.

It doesn't mean they don't accept contributions at all, just that they are strict about who can contribute.
It's fun seeing how the Game Boy was attempted to be used like a smartphone.

Today a lot of appliance use smartphone for user interaction in the same way this sewing machine used the Game Boy.

It makes me think the smartphone revolution was inevitable...
> an unhealthy obsession with hating crypto

Why is this unhealthy obsession so common on HN? Expressing some concern or doubt about crypto is perfectly reasonable, but it seems odd to me that a forward looking site that's tech-focused has such intense emotionality against crypto.
If there was any other obvious way to influence google it would instantly be gamed. Both my companies tried to increase their relevance in certain keywords and by competitors reporting their websites.
Yeah the author of that app is actively looking for help on plugins and core here: https://codeberg.org/Alamantus/FeatherWiki
Inspired by spiders, one Japanese startup is inventing new textiles
Yeah that's true, in the Pidgin case you were still signing up for each service independently. Pidgin let you communicate through its app instead of the service provider's app. None of the service providers had data about the others.

I'm not sure how they plan to make things fully interoperable. Wouldn't that mean every chat app would need a complete chat history for every user multiplied by every chat app out there? Or instead they introduce a shared parent company / govt. entity where all chat messages are sent through, stored and pushed to users. Time to bust out the tin foil hats!
"Reinventing the wheel" means inventing the same thing without looking at it, not improving it.
I don't care about open ports, I care more about exposing my IP to internet strangers. I'm having flashbacks to Skype days where other gamers would get your IP and use malicious tools to basically nuke your internet. Skype was really dumb about leaking your IP to total internet strangers. I would basically just login to a less known account when this would happen because somebody got mad I did this or that in a video game. I hear Discord direct calls will also leak your IP so I never accept calls from anyone I don't personally know.
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Storing (whistled?) information (that some people might want to suppress) in a blockchain based 'web' seems like a good idea. It sounds like it wants to make removal of published information next to impossible. Is that a bad idea? Is that a thread? Can it be used for large file sharing? :-P

Or did I completely misunderstand the concept?
I think it’s fascinating that so many Internet users really think “activists” are the true threat to freedom, when in reality activists have had relatively little influence outside of the Internets. What would actually happen is that someone would use this to enshrine their own political power, targeting the political opposition. They would pass laws to target vulnerable racial minority groups and gay people, perhaps even prohibiting teachers from teaching children about them, most likely using threats to “children and family” and “grooming and pedophilia” as their boogie man. This is what’s happened in Russia and several increasingly authoritarian nations, absolutely zero of which are run by irate Twitterati who care about “problematic speech” in the sense that I suspect HN readers understand the term. The surveillance aspects are also happening in western nations, and it’s rarely activists pushing these narratives.

I bring this up because somehow people act like oppressive government is some kind of science-fiction future that (conveniently) will be brought about by people they disagree with, despite the fact that those people don’t have much of a track record of achieving it. Meanwhile oppressive governments exist today and almost always follow a well-trodden path that we can study and avoid, if we stopped fantasizing about imaginary threats.
That is not so portable, so I recommend sticking with dd.
Would love to see the data you have showing that private schools that stayed open, or public schools that fought to stay open, contributed significantly to additional deaths, such that “millions more dead” would even be a fair comparison to the impact of schools choosing to go virtual instead.
I always thought the point of "staying informed" wasn't to have the news inform our everyday decisions but just to have something to talk about.

Imo "good news" is the kind that tells us stuff we hadn't known prior in a way that isn't overtly sensationalist. It's dry and informative, at the cost of being entertaining. There aren't many outlets that actually do this.

It's also kind of ironic (and telling) seeing this type of article come out of Wired. You wouldn't see this kind of article in an outlet like the Economist
> If they happen anywhere, it’ll only be rich kids.

This is a very sad truth.

We are very fortunate and were able to afford private tuition for our son along with more free time to put into home schooling during the lockdowns to ensure he didn't fall behind.

Unfortunately a lot cannot afford private tutors nor have free time they can commit to consistent home schooling so it will further separate those on lower incomes. Something we will not truly see for maybe a decade or more when younger kids (my sons age) enter higher education. This is something I feel strongly about and have written to our local education governmental body about but all I have had back is generic soundbites :(

Part of me is wondering if I should just take this into my own hands and try to organise something with the local schools and social centres directly for weekend and summer programmes.
"crypto" and blockchains are inseparable. If you don't need the double spend protection, then it becomes just a plain old cryptography. You can imagine the next web as whatever you like, but "web3" has been advertised in the specific context of Ethereum and its wannabees.

We've already had DHT, Bittorrent, SSH keys (== log in with a "wallet"), Certificate Transparency, self-hosting, federation, Dat, OpenID, GPG and web of trust, and many other primitives for decentralized identity and distributed storage that weren't "crypto".
I've never used Venmo since I thought that it made your transactions public by default. Maybe this isn't even true, but I think it is and that just seemed so insane I didn't want to go anywhere near it.
Wasn't the web way more balkanized in the past? Reddit replaced (ten?)thousands of individual (english-speaking) forums alone (many still exist, but are a dead shell without many users). YouTube killed almost all competitors. Facebook killed the smaller social networks and many websites of small companies. Most survivors of these "consolidations" were only protected by some kind of cultural or language barrier, like VKontakte or NicoNico.

Or do you mean balkanization by apps, replacing the web?

I wholeheartedly agree with the rest, though.
Current crypto and blockchain technologies are not enough to solve decentralization and privacy problems which web3 is targeting. To make internet truly decentralized, we need to make network of optical cables P2P in real sense. DNS too. Privacy is a very hard problem to solve without requiring some form of centralization.
Science fiction and fantasy
How about we rebrand web 1.0 web4?
How else would you create a decentralized, distributed, immutable ledger of likes (or other events) in a trustless, permissionless, uncensorable, fault-tolerant, and consistent way?
Was interesting to see the variance between US states and countries with the various lockdowns and even quite a big variance between schools in the same region. In the UK aside from a couple of terms my kids were generally in school full time. Fortunately both kids were in early stages of primary school. My son has been hitting some good milestones with his maths and english, especially reading although perhaps understandably the teachers are reluctant to compare their abilities based on previous years.

Conversely my friends in Asia and California saw their kids out of school for very extended periods.
Yes, people have stated that 'the kids will be fine' quite consistently. Also, all costs other than deaths have been underplayed by people in favour of lockdowns. Memory-holing this is literally insane (where insane = disconnected from reality).

That's not to say that what was done wasn't the best of a suite of bad options. But I saw nothing but fairly extreme downplaying of the consequences of lockdowns from people who wanted long (the only effective) ones.
It sounds like a version of the strategy pattern to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_pattern
And here I am, raging over hardcoded stuff that should have been overrideable but now I'll need to fork or hunt down original developer of the library.

Well things changed. Now what?