skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cryptocurrencies will obviously be forgotten, especially in their current iteration.

But the climate and energy impact is not that easy to set aside. The article itself mentions one of the many consequences could be flooding the termination points for underwater sea fiber. So while web3 isn't a threat to the web itself by superseeding it, it's a threat to its existence (and a whole lot of other existences).
Any Ethereum L2 that commits transaction bundles to the mainnet, plus anything on Binance's EVM chain, Cardano, Solana, Polkadot, Avalanche... They're all proof-of-stake or not based on PoW.

And, Ethereum will transition to PoS by this year, ideally in August. All of the popular nine Ethereum execution/consensus clients should be ready for the merge, and mainnet has already been test-merged five times successfully.

The first existing PoW testnet will be merged on the first week of June. After that, there's two testnets remaining that will be upgraded (Ropsten -> Goerli -> Sepolia), and then it's time for mainnet.
Not an expert, but as far as I know IOTA and NANO as two examples.
Larry Ellison was on call with Hannity, Graham to talk overtun election result
His rejection didn't stop him:

After its earlier request to make a 3-D scan outside of visiting hours was declined, the IDA entered the British Museum during visiting hours to make a partial scan using a hand-held camera last month.

Right...

Apparently the British Museum allowed scanning twice already; though to more reputable institutes.

In a statement released to Artnet News, the British Museum said it received regular requests to scan objects in its collection. “We facilitated the scanning of the Parthenon Sculptures by our colleagues from the Acropolis Museum in Athens on two occasions in 2013 and 2017,” the statement read. “We work hard to accommodate scanning and study requests where possible. It’s important to us that any request is properly supported so that we can ensure the highest levels of quality and accuracy and this is always balanced against our other commitments and work as an institution.”
If you like constrained sudoku variants, check this channel as well: https://youtube.com/c/CrackingTheCryptic/videos

Upd: pretty easy one in the subj
Ah, history is mostly repeating itself (minus the need for government intervention ~20 years ago).

We had similar issues in the late 90s / early 2000s with ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM, Yahoo Chat, etc..

Apps like https://www.pidgin.im/ existed to let you check everything within 1 app because all of these apps spoke the same protocol or close enough that things mostly worked.
I must have been completely distracted by all these Climate Change challenges. Fortunately we have HSBC (!!) and its head of responsible investing, from all people, to bring us back to Earth...Who would have though... \s

"Climate Change ‘Biggest Threat Modern Humans Have Ever Faced’"

https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/sc14445.doc.htm
I would like to be able to vote on search results and add certain sites to my default blocklist. I don't understand Google doesn't do that; crowdsourcing is exactly their thing, and this would be something that provides tons of valuable info to them yet would also be loved by their users.
Web3 Engineer Reveals “Don’t Invest into Crypto”
Can you point to the "Climatologists tend to respond to this by actually editing the historical record" ?

Do you mean this is not factual:

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-mo...

EDIT: this paper and twitter thread is even better
https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1202271427807678464
I am full time professor at a community college in the Midwest and I don't make 60k.
Just wait until you see the "How to set up a terminal for DevOps with oh-my-zsh" article!
Depending on the jurisdiction this can be a rather problematic undertaking. There may be restrictions on who can invest in unregistered securities and burdensome reporting requirements when you cross certain thresholds in number of investors. Check out the concept of accredited investors and SEC reporting requirements.

That said I think a number of startups (possibly Reddit as well) that have tried/are trying this via web3 tokens. The regulations with that are a bit grey and you can expect more policy to be formed. Additionally the foundation of decentralized governance is still being built with lots of bugs still to work out.
Now I'm just mad that I'm not getting paid $250k/yr for knowing how to code FizzBuzz.
How is it technically possible for Delta to limit WhatsApp to "text and emojis"? Is media not end-to-end encrypted?
What is the point you are making? Assuming by land you mean some sort of currency on said compute system.
The web isn't free. It is bought and paid for mostly by advertisers. I have seen web3 as a way to democratize the operation of services/apps people use and depend on.

Literally, if there was some decentralized advertising network, that paid for web3, it would be literally no different than it is today except maybe the people making money in the middle would be taken out.
> There are better solutions

That's a good euphemism for "this solution is a spectacularly bad one". Storing electricity in lithium batteries is the last thing you want to do when balancing the grid. You want to start with demand response, then continue with overgeneration, then continue with pumped hydro. In the future (when we will have replaced natural gas by synthetic hydrogen as part of the demand response) then possibly continue with expending stored synthetic gas in a CCGT plant (this would be especially suitable for the "dunkelflaute" events).

Grid storage lithium batteries for large-scale storage (not things like frequency regulation) are somewhere at the end of the cost scale and it's not something you really want to do since you need those batteries primarily for mobile applications. Even if you wanted lots of stationary batteries, there might be better candidates -- I still want to see some company to cut their teeth on advanced NiFe batteries, for example.

One thing you could do as part of the demand response step, however, is modulating the charging rate of BEVs. But personally I consider this to be more a part of the transportation sector than energy generation as such.
Zero-Emission Vehicles Progress Dashboard [pdf]
Why do I need a currency, which is used for trading, for this?

The federated web already exists. (Matrix, Jabber, Mastodon, Torrents etc)
> Obviously, the primary reason would be if everyone you know is using not-PayPal.

Where Venmo wins with Zelle and PayPal is the privacy: you don’t have to hand out your email address or phone number — you’re payee only knows your handle.
Indeed fair. But even if I preferred the decorator style, I'd be cautious about dropping a stdlib or any other mature solution.

When I create my own solutions, I tend to underestimate how hard it will be to get it working bug-free and to maintain it.
What does the adoption look like and what are its perspectives for future adoption? It seems to me that it's as popular as Handshake right now, which is not popular at all.
you can perfectly make websites that dont have ads, or use websites that dont have ads... and what data you share with a web server is still up to you.

not only that, you can also host websites for free, using your home computer as a server.

The current web is good. If you dont want to pay with your data, dont use their websites.
How did they make money in this ?

Most banks wouldn't work in this manner due to high risk.
> the second is a way to waste our electricity

I wonder how much electricity has been wasted on cat videos...

There are all sorts of wastes - the process of waste in attempting to find (R&D) a good crypto, should lead to a net gain in the long run. Cat videos, not so much..
Sunsetting React Native (2018)
Do you have a source for that claim? Outsourcing doesn't seem to have to led to less pollution. Most heavy industry that has been outsourced has been outsourced to companies with looser environmental regulations and labor protections and most reporting conveniently ignores a lot of the offshore pollution (which is often hidden behind several layers of indirection to avoid accountability) when measuring the pollution caused by domestic companies.

I also wouldn't call the shredding and landfilling of consumer goods efficient and those practices seem to have largely arisen from the ability to mass produce goods cheaply making discounting them further less profitable than simply destroying them.

This also ignores the inefficiencies promoted by global manufacturing that involves shipping half-finished products around the world many times over because shipping is effectively free compared to paying for all the manufacturing to happen in one place (and handling the finishing touches domestically allows marketing the product as domestically made).

There doesn't seem to be a one-to-one correlation between efficiency (which literally just measures cost reduction, as externalities don't factor into it unless they have a price tag) and less pollution (unless you handwave carbon capture and offsetting as magic and ignore the real world effects to only focus on numbers on paper).
Salome Platform – The open-source platform for numerical simulation
People sometimes ask "What's the advantage of IPv6?". Well, not having to futz around with STUN/NAT due to NAT is one improvement. See "How NAT traversal works":

* https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30707711 (2022)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24241105 (2020)

And no, just because a device has a publicly IPv6 address does not mean it is actually / necessarily accessible from the public Internet. Firewalls do not stop working with IPv6.

My iMac lives behind my Asus RT-AC68U; I can ping my iMac's IPv6 address:

* https://www.subnetonline.com/pages/ipv6-network-tools/online...

But I cannot connect to SSH from the Internet (but from my laptop SSH works), or port 80 (if I launch 'nc -6 -l 80'):

* https://www.subnetonline.com/pages/ipv6-network-tools/online...

You can have something with a 2000/3 unicast, non-link-local IPv6 address, and decide via policy whether to allow connections to it, either with an on-host firewall, or with an upstream network device:

* https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1013638/

To repeat: Firewalls do not stop working with IPv6.

And yes, there is still some layer of software that is needed for allowing network connections if the default firewall policy is default deny all (except for replies to 'internally' originated connections):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Control_Protocol

* http://upnp.org/specs/arch/UPnP-arch-AnnexAIPv6-v1.pdf

But not having to deal with address weirdness is one less complication.
DuckDuckScrape
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. So far there is no evidence of that.
I want to see a mountable file system contained in an SQLite file. It creates possibilities.
[1] is Java (yikes) and has been inactive six years.
[2] is in Rust and has been inactive three years but does not seem to be available in cargo.
[3] is in Go, lacks a LICENSE file, has been inactive four months, the README is in Russian, but well the demo code works. pkg.go.dev will not display its API.

[1] https://github.com/andyhebear/sqlitefs
[2] https://github.com/narumatt/sqlitefs
[3] https://github.com/jilio/sqlitefs,
https://github-com.translate.goog/jilio/sqlitefs?_x_tr_sl=ru...
Attention is finite.
I simply refuse to use a lot of those channels. Email is 90% of my communcation, almost everyone has it. People learn that I am responsive only by email.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It's easy enough to do it yourself(Barb fittings are probably fine since this is slight negative pressure), but everyone would probably prefer not to risk the more-than-i-make-in-three-years server to a non-specialist.

I was thinking to not even use separate inlets and outlets at all. The connectors would be 3-port in/out/vacuum air, with the vacuum port meant to be very slightly leaky.

You'd wrap the whole entire connector in a silicone sleeve, so that any small leaks in the connector(If the negative pressure on the water itself failed) would be contained and sucked back through the vacuum hose and trigger shutdown.

For a prototype you'd just 3D print some connectors and wrap them with tape, and let a mechanical engineer figure it out if your ever get to production, since poor quality, leaky parts are a good thing in a prototype, where the goal is to prove that the server stays dry even when things fail.
> This isn't the Dot Com crash or the Great Recession. It's not even close.

yet

s&p pe ratio was as bad as both 2000 an 2008:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/sp500-price-earnings-shiller-...

buffett indicator was as bad as it has ever been by a wide margin:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/market-cap-to-gdp-the-buffett...

home price to income is worse than in 2008:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...

the last time real interest rates were this low the fed had to wreck the economy to get inflation under control:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-interest-rate/

so, yeah, not as bad as the precursor to 2000 or 2008, but rather as bad as both combined, but with interest rates already rock bottom...
I saw the stories about Bionic Reading a few days ago and ended up going down the rabbit hole for a bit. What interested me was that it wasn't the weight of the letters that helped me read quicker but the shorter lines.

The examples with and without Bionic Reading formatting were just as easy for me to read but where it fell apart was when I read something with more words per line. Put 12+ words on a line and the Bionic Reading formatting didn't help.

Having an average of 5 words per line is so much easier for me to read it kinda blows my mind.

My (totally pulled out of my ass) guess as to why this is the case (for me anyway) is that less horizontal eye movement reduces cognitive load and allows for easier processing of what the brain is seeing.

Has anyone else found this?
At least in the US they're able to quantify the issue somewhat. In Norway they just canceled exams for multiple years in a row, and those students passed whether they were prepared or not.
I've actually done this, because most immediately important stories bubble up to the top, even though this isn't a site strictly for world news or politics.
iBAN takes days. And they also need a bank account...
Tips for building a reliable webhook integration
Grubhub’s Disastrous ‘Free Lunch’ Promotion Shows Why the Gig Economy Is Broken
I am a professor at a community college in the Midwest and I make less than 60k a year. So they pay isn't nearly as high everywhere in the USA.
But my 3 bedroom house was also less than 130k when I bought it 4 years ago and that wouldn't get you a shack in California.
The fourth picture (with the numbers is enlightening).

So by that time, already, the top execs were looking the world through the lens of numbers.

The operational costs dwarf all other, but they're represented as one line out of 4...
You know what the core charge on a bald tire is? It's negative. If you wanna give them back to the shop that changed your tires you pay them, not the other way around. And they sit in a pile out back until someone gets paid to take them all away. Some of them get recycled properly but there's no shortage of people who are happy being paid money to take a truck load of used tires from a tire shop and dump them on their property as fill.

Core charges as you're describing them don't work for items the manufacturers can't economically recondition and therefore don't want back.
Majority of U.S. Power Grid at Risk of Failure This Summer, Report Warns
> The truth is that Twitter is public, free

I don’t think that’s completely true.

> easy for everyone to look at

No, it’s not if you want to stay anonymous. If you’re not logged in you can’t scroll all the way down (in most cases). If you try to, it’ll stop you and ask you to log in. As you probably already know, Twitter do require you to give them your mobile number to have an account. If you try to sign up without one, they’ll instantly lock you out of your new account and force you to give them your number.

> easy for anyone to respond to

No, because you cannot reply anonymously and you need an account which is in one way or another linked to your identity. Circumventing this is very difficult for the average person.

> The power of centralization, network effects, easy UI, and low expectations for well structured posts is hard to defeat.

And it can be done while giving the users the ability to stay anonymous, but Twitter doesn’t do that. Twitter wont even let you use RSS, likely because that would prevent them from gathering as much data about you. Twitter may not be as bad as Facebook, but it’s still bad. The fact that people feel like they have to use it to gain an audience is unfortunate. I hope it starts dying out like FB and gets replaced by something that’s more open and less hostile to anonymous users.

Edit: Clarified that scrolling is broken in most cases for unauthenticated users.
The alternative to blindly living a normal peaceful life is having and exercising meaningful agency, which the modern state really doesn't want you to do.
Scientists just broke the record for the highest efficiency solar cell
Prince of Persia is what I can think of that has (sometimes huge) wind up animations for jumping. And it feels ok once you get used to it, but really feels very different than any other platformer. But there is more than just a big animation there, I think the jumps are also quantized to a grid in some way, such that a range of button press timings will all result in the same on screen behavior.
Life is full of bad news. That's just the reality of it.

It shouldn't paralyze but keep us real and grounded. Just ignoring it to feel 'happier' isn't a solution. It's news, not entertainment.
Some countries only use IBANs, without some other local account identifier.
America’s Complicated Relationship with Nuclear Power
> The biggest issue is interference (jamming) by malicious actors.

And not necessarily malicious. Before I ditched Strava (insert separate rant about tech "ecosystems"), one of my bike rides took me near a nuclear power plant. The resulting GPS track had a sudden hundreds-of-feet "climb" near the power plant that didn't exist in the real world, as if I had literally climbed a wall on my bike.
Auto-Editor: automatically edit video/audio using methods like audio loudness
Monbiot on the fraud of organic, pasture-fed beef
Interesting. Never thought that Eth will actually transition it’s consensus method. So that means there’s hope for Bitcoin to do the same some day.
If US we use Zelle, it's a for profit company owned by the large US banks. If your bank supports Zelle, you can send money instantly.
I find paying for high-quality journalism goes a long way in how you feel about what you just read. Great journalism will leave you feeling contemplative and informed. Most of the "journalism" on "free" sites leave you feeling confused, anxious, or outright manipulated. It's like junk food... yeah it did the job, but at what cost?
HN is a very specific demographic...

- people who think solutions imply most often technical ideas

- people who are educated enough to understand HN

- people who talk english

So you don't see much of the rest of the world here... For example, there's not much on political strategies...
Why would that be useful? (I'm genuinely curious)
This guy has definitely a type, falling for cult of personality , BS sellers.

Jobs, Holmes, Madoff, Musk, Trump, Obama, Newsom
"Web 3" to me is that when I "get a like" on Twitter, it is not an entry in their database. But a signed message "I like post <hash> /signed <someone>". Where <hash> is the hash of one of my tweets.

So I can keep this "like" and not be seperated from it by Twitter kicking me off their plattform or mingling with the like in any other way.

I don't see anything bad about it.
> it seems like for the smaller to mid scale software projects, I18n is just not worth it

If you don't mind reading from right to left and praying towards Mecca, then sure you can disregard all the diversity of human accomplishment. But unless you are willing to have another language and culture imposed on you, suggesting that you imposing your language and culture on others is "worth it" as opposed to wrapping all user-facing strings with some gettext-compatibility layer is disingenuous.

I write i18n compatible software, that supports not only multiple languages but also interface directionality and culture-specific features. Not because I have to, but because I respect my users.
If you're overwhelmed with bad feelings when confronted with negative information then you're probably better suited to not trying to stay informed. It's normal to feel negatively about things that suck. That isn't lost on the people deciding what to publish. The world will keep on turning whether you're tuned in to the latest stress event or not. If it's any consolation, you can't affect anything happening anyway so torturing yourself is pointless.
I think the one argument you can make is that cutting down on outsourcing will tank the post-colonial economies that are dependent on having their resources extracted and using their cheap labor to create margins for foreign markets. But that's really more telling of how exploitative supposed economic development aid has been for them by failing to restore any level of self-sustainability they had prior to colonialism.

Child labor in arsenic mines (to use a graphic but not entirely hyperbolic example) may be contributing to GDP but that doesn't mean it's desirable or that the countries doing it are better off than they would be if it weren't.
It's interesting we haven't been able to create better financing models for the web than ads.

Sure, some sites have other models. But ideally you would like something as simple as putting a small ads banner on your website, without the inefficiency of wasting (website display) space, and integrity violations.

Edit:
I'd be happy to transparently pay a small sum to each website I visit. If it was easy and and cheap.

An interesting feature of ads financing is that it is "progressive". The more money you have to spend, the more you are likely to spend on the advertised products. This effectively becomes a kind of price discrimination. But that's difficult to achieve with a "per view" price on a website.
The web is not free. It never was, it never will be.

But it can be made open, transparent and accountable. It seems that this is the thing that most of the corporations behind the current web fear so much.
Peak-cloud - full saturation with no Market left to penetrate

Of course sizeable companies of all sectors are using hybrid. Always been the case. Both things can be and are true: owned is growing. Cloud is growing
a couple hundred thousand people use it
Here is also an example of a medical device in which a Game Boy was (ab)used for the user interface:

https://twitter.com/_Jana_Marie/status/910754596422868992

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/21/16339122/e...
Regen is not an energy source. An unplugged PHEV takes all of its energy from gasoline, so it's just an ICE car with implementation details.

Regen improves overall efficiency by 3%-10%. It has a relatively small effect even in BEVs. Majority of the energy is lost to rolling resistance and drag (otherwise you could just turn your engine off and coast to your destination…), so there isn't that much to capture. I'm not sure if it even cancels out the extra weight and inefficiency of PHEVs having two power trains. It makes less of a difference than variability between ICE models, so you could be better off driving a smaller pure ICE car.
US FedNow instant payments go live next year.