skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've looked at things like this or federated learning as well. Definitely will keep our eye on it as we continue.
That is a rather loaded question, but in short; yes, yes they have. Abandoned is actually a rather accurate descriptor, because it captures the neglect and negligence that has allowed the creeping metastasis of the EU (just to limit the scope for the purpose of this discussion). All one has to do is look around to notice that EU regulations and policies by unelected councils and bureaucrats has very much subverted and undermined not only national sovereignty, representative government, and the will and concerns of the people.

Ironically, the EU is essentially the mechanism of the emergence of the US empire after the Republic was destroyed in the US Civil War, albeit using a few different methods and methods, however resulting in the same constituent outcome ... centralization of power among a ruling class, which citizens have been deprived of.

In other words that may be more relatable to folks here, it's like being diluted out of company ownership. You are promised a certain percentage in exchange for your fundamental critical engineering work that gets the whole effort off the ground in the first place, and then when the moneyed interests come in they dilute you out of any kind of meaningful ownership, let alone value of the thing you created and built, which now others will abscond with and get wealthy from.

The EU has always been deeply corrupt scheme to essentially deconstruct the consequences of the revolutionary era following the US revolution, the same way that the US Civil War essentially reverted the US revolution and nullified the US Constitution.

My prediction if that we will likely in our lifetime see a kind of Oceana, consisting of all of Western Europe and the whole of the Americas, which "always has been at war with Eurasia".

The trajectory and the fingerprints of the plan is all there. US power consolidation, EU power consolidation and centralization, US deracination, EU power centralization, EU deracination, ... transatlantic integration ruled by a hereditary ruling class that will drone any resister "extremists" to cheers during hate weeks decrying disobedient subordination to the faceless machine with a theoretical ruling class that may as well be AI as it may be some hereditary demigods you will never lay eyes on. Are you adequately worshiping your holographic leaders? (in case anyone missed it, that was a reference to the UK Queen being projected as hologram in her carriage and people waving at a hologram)
Having CF handle your CDN proxying is still much better than just using some all in one platform. At least you own your data and can migrate it if need be.
Your vernacular and view on the world is cringe at best, I mean “gigachad,” this guy? Lol
Prehistoric Swiss Army knife indicates early humans communicated
There is always someone making shit ton of money but that doesn't make things "not unusual". In a typical mature big tech, I would say less than 5% of employees ever cross 7-digit mark. Often that requires massive hustling for years, personal health+family sacrifices and extraordinary amount of politics and betrayals to many colleagues. Some people are just wired for this and crossing 7-digit barrier is the most important thing in their life to be achieved at any cost. In my experience, there are many better joys to have in life than this hustle.
If by mgmt you mean ceo adjacent, sure
Waste management is by far the smallest of all the problems with nukes.

Overwhelmingly the biggest problem is wholly legal corruption, as cost and schedule are allowed to balloon without limit. For everyone involved, the gravy train stops when a plant is delivered, which no one actually involved wants ever to happen. (If it must end anyway, there is some incentive to actually deliver, as happened at Olkiluoto, but not at Vogtle.) No one has offered any plausible suggestion for how to contain corruption costs for nuke construction, at least in the US, never mind who should apply such containment.

No such dynamic is apparent in solar and wind projects, where expected cost is easy to estimate as a multiple of generating units -- panels and turbines.

We may expect that SMRs will not find traction specifically because they do not seem to offer the conduit for graft that bespoke nuke construction guarantees.

After corruption costs, we have numerous operating costs, some noted above, plus steam turbine maintenance, which each individually exceed the sum of operating costs of renewables. So capex is radically more and opex is radically more than for current cost of renewables, with no reasonable prospect for any reductions, never mind matching exponential decline of renewables costs.

There is also decommissioning cost, always omitted from reported capex. And, disaster insurance, always 100% subsidized by taxpayers, so omitted from reported opex.

As renewable generating capacity approaches and exceeds fossil generation, we will need to begin building out storage to provide base load. Cost for storage, in numerous forms, is falling even faster than for renewable generation. By the time we need any -- after we have enough renewable capacity to charge it -- storage will be very cheap indeed. Only a tiny fraction of it will be batteries, mostly for load smoothing (as now), as batteries will remain more expensive than alternatives.

Cheap storage will cost per W added or extracted, not per Wh stored, like batteries. Synthetic fuel -- ammonia and hydrogen, while costlier than others, have the advantage that surplus may be exported for direct revenue.
Which doesn't matter on objects or programs because that chance already exists as a baseline. I'm not building a math here.
Then you have no idea what it's like to realize that a well-known Usenet crank is a real person, lives in the same town that you do, is pissed off at you, and is honestly crazy.

This happened to me with Archimedes Plutonium back when he was Ludwig Von Plutonium. You can find him discussed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_personality. (Luckily for me, his brand of crazy didn't trend towards violence. Though I still regret later having introduced him to the p-adic numbers.)

There is probably more aggregate pain over time from something like a group of 4chan users coming up with Rickrolling then successfully making it a meme. But the pain that a high effort troll can cause is rather...special.
The TX mod was designed to use XCI files, which required a signing key to run right? Their firmware had no way to launch software without keys.
There is a very real cost to society to provide patent and copyright. We have to have additional law enforcement, court, and prison capacity. It’s not clear at all to me that society is getting its money worth in defending essentially rent seeking behavior from big business. It’s also not clear that either patent or copyright in their current form actually “promote progress in the useful arts”.

I hate the terms “intellectual property” and “piracy” because patent and copyright are not much like property at all, and because actual piracy is a crime of violence and nothing like infringement. And it’s not clear to me that the punishments inflicted are reasonable given the impact of the “crime”.

Given that, I believe that we would be better off without patent or copyright, or with only a very modest time period of a couple years.
I mean, that's great, and I feel the same way. Yet every time—since the introduction of leetcode questions, anyway—as the interviewee I've been asked not to ask questions about the algorithm or the solution, just clarification of the problem space. FWIW I have been employed at several of the FAANGs or whatever they're called now and have also been on the hiring side, where I certainly did not discourage asking questions of any sort.
Dumb question: Why is it "limited"?
From 2006 to 2014 I owned my own platform. Several actually. But I turned them down after it became a lot of work to maintain. At the time, it wasn't so obvious the web was dying, but in hindsight I probably helped kill it.

In the beginning the web was so new, and growing so fast, with new things, amazing sites, and more people getting online. Like all things in life, competition arises, and better sites started getting much more of the market share. People's expectations for what a website could offer rose tremendously, and would abandon a site if it wasn't up to snuff. Sites needed to have ever improving visuals, better content, better people, better interactivity, better everything.

And I couldn't keep up with it. Users went from being happy to try out something new to dismissive and bitter. More and more it felt like work to try to make them happy, to keep building more and better things. And that's exactly what happened. The Internet became work. It's why we all have to be paid to come to work and build the Internet. No one does it for free, because it's a thankless grueling job. The only websites that survived were the ones that made money, and could afford to use that money to hire people. Google, Facebook, Myspace, Stumbleupon, 9gag, and even Something Awful became money oriented rather than community oriented. They had to, or else.

The advice to "Always Own Your Own Platform" is a euphemistic way of saying make a whole company out of your site and underpay the only employee (you) for ever. The reason we don't own our own platform anymore is because it's soooo annoying to do so. It wasn't an accident.
> and real utility is commonplace

I'm not trolling, but I really don't know what this real utility is. I've been extremely active in crypto for two years (as a user, not a trader) and I still don't know if there is any real utility, outside of gated access to communities and/or voting on DAO proposals. Whatever utility there is either very minor or refers to something in the future.

In two years, everything in crypto has largely been the same. Transactions on Metamask run the same way. Mobile experience is uniformly awful. Buying shitcoins is still using the same old crummy Uniswap interface. The only difference is that there are a bunch of new chains VCs can pump and dump on.

Most projects in crypto are deeply involved in navel gazing. All these bridge projects are a good example - they all hail it as "revolutionary" if you can transfer funds from Sol to ETH. Outside of crypto, people ask "but why?"
As others have pointed out, there's currently no solution that allows common people to self host.

There's a minimum level of linux/sysadmin/devops expertise requried to setup and maintain a self hosted website.

I've written a somewhat long essay about this problem:

https://hasen.substack.com/simple-self-hosting

A solution is possible but no one is working on it yet as far as I can tell.

Instead, everyone wants to make money by taking offline/local applications and turning them into online/cloud applications (even if no specific capability is gained by being on the cloud) just because it's easier to make more money that way.
Lol. The same money funds uber and proper businesses. They expect to get rich returns on nonsense. When they don’t, they don’t much feel like playing so they take their ball and go home.
I think users appreciate having a feed that combines everyone’s posts and algorithmically recommends the best ones, like youtube or twitter do. That can be solved with RSS now, but RSS doesn’t get you likes and replies etc.

And they appreciate having usernames so they can say “check me out at @username”. You can solve that by making everyone buy a domain name, but we have zero infrastructure right now for letting people use their domain name as their username.

The cryptocurrency community does seem at least halfway interested in solving these problems fwiw, but they do still have some major scaling problems to overcome.
Doesn't Ford call their version Co-pilot360 or something? What are your thoughts on that?
Interesting, I've seen the same discussion but applied to OCaml and with an option type vs an exception. For example, the module List has both List.nth that raises Failure if the list is too short, and List.nth_opt that returns None of the list is too short. One aspect that I've seen mentioned about OCaml and not with this article is performance. An option will trigger an allocation, and will generay be slower than an exception. One the other hand, the option approach is safer. I'm not sure if that's true with Python too though.
It seems like his actions of secretly sending money triggered money laundering suspicions from the SEC.

But yea, this is fraud/embezzlement/wire fraud.
They patched out the signature checks from the firmware.

Nintendo's private keys are stored in HSMs, theres very little chance of them getting stolen.
Ever wondered how you can take advantage of a licensing partner?
I wish I could believe that, but, like worrying about “personal carbon footprint” is useless for solving the climate crisis, I think trying to get people en masse to care, personally, about this issue will never achieve anything.
When the wind is not blowing, the cost of wind per kwh is infinite.
I think something similar as you.

Don't get married to a position. That includes things you purchased to sell at a higher price, as well as things you created to sell at a higher price. So it doesn't matter to me that I printed shares on a sheet of paper, I don't treat it differently. If the position doesn't work, move on.

As far as the actual operation goes, I treat it like a precision drone strike. or perhaps an expedition. I don't need to be passionate about it, I just need to recognize the alpha and value extractable. We're going to sail to the New World, get the gold, and distribute the gold when we get back. The end! Pre-plan what is involved and do that thing, don't pursue things more complicated than that, just rule them out and wait for the next idea. Too many people covet an idea because they view it as their one opportunity ever. Its too bad if that's actually true for them.
Geometric Transformations
That's not even what i said. I said the other direction.

Ponzis are unethical, and wrong, and it always should be regardless of who is doing it and whether someone is benefiting from it.

I find crypto useful and innovative. I find making money through ponzis disguised as innovation wrong, they happen to be using crypto. That's what Luna was.
Thanks to Mr. Bowser, Nintendo was forced to release a new Nintendo Switch? Do they really mean chip or firmware modifications?
Nobody cares.

People don't care that TikTok looks different than Instagram looks different than Gmail looks different than NYTimes.com looks different than a flight reservation site.
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You do not recall correctly, not even close.

See https://www.livinginternet.com/u/ui_alt.htm

(and I knew Brian Reid and John Gilmore in those days).
The problem is mostly tax being across all vendors.

Sure, you can do it, but then it's $5/seat for thing A, $3/seat for thing B, $4/seat for thing C, and you can end up paying $50/seat for all the random software associated.

Yeah, for high value employees that's nothing. But for a warehouse worker to login and checkoff a compliance form once a month? It's not worth it, give them a shared login.

And then once shared logins happen, it'll just become habit for a bunch of small stuff that snowballs.

So that's why the first thing I look at for software is that if it has a per-seat cost, I'm going elsewhere because I want all my staff, not just the high-value staff, to be able to access and get what they need done.
> TerraLabs were able to execute on something that many people tried and failed to do.

Weren’t able.
The final nail in Usenet's coffin was the removal of the discussion filter from Google searches in 2014. Before that, people could use that filter to easily find others talking about something, but apparently that didn't please advertisers who wanted users to find only companies selling that something, so Google removed that filter and problem solved.

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-discussion-search-dead-1...

https://browsermedia.agency/blog/google-kills-discussion-sea...
Yessss... I'm a big advocate of using error objects rather than throwing exceptions. I think the industry over-uses throwing exceptions and it's basically turned into the new GOTO statement.

I wrote an article about this as well but for TypeScript [0] and I've got a relatively popular npm package that does what I mention in the article [1]

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[0] - https://gdelgado.ca/type-safe-error-handling-in-typescript.h...

[1] - https://www.npmjs.com/package/neverthrow
The lawyer who defended them in Universal City Studios v. Nintendo was John Kirby.

Although that one's not a coincidence because they named the character after him

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kirby_(attorney)
Oh the delicious irony...
'Howiesons Poort backed artifacts provide evidence for social connectivity across southern Africa during the Final Pleistocene'

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12677-5
How would you fund things like the discovery of new drugs, or the creation of big-budget movies, without parents and copyright respectively?
So, the eternal "You can host your stuff in your basement" vs. "No, not everyone can host their stuff, it's hard".

Here's (hopefully) some food for thought on how a decentralized web could work in an ideal world in the future.

The problem is, even if you sell amazing shiny turn-key server boxes to every household, where they would be able to seamlessly host everything they currently keep elsewhere (iCloud, Facebook, etc.); even if messaging and other communication becomes absolute P2P in the whole world and therefore there's no need for centralized messaging services —

— there would still be the problem of centralized search. The beauty of Internet is not in its content as much as in the ability to discover it. Search implies there has to be a central place where you start it. This is why everyone - techies or not - tend to push their creations to places that provide exposure and discoverability: Medium, SoundCloud, YouTube, Facebook, etc. Then all that is additionally indexed by a meta-engine that is Google today. Centralization upon centralization.

I think there might be a solution to this which would be a mix of P2P and locally centralized services. Imagine a gigantic balanced tree of indexing engines that belong, say, to communities. Whenever someone performs a search anywhere in the world, the query is propagated through the tree and is processed in a parallel manner by a great many nodes at once. I'm not sure about the exact algorithm right now, but something suggests Google probably works this way anyway. Except in this ideal world, the search engine doesn't belong to a single authority, but is rather split into myriads of local services maintained by (and paid for) by the communities or some small local companies.

If you think it would be wasteful and traffic-heavy, think of the resources and bandwidth that might be freed if Google, Facebook and other giants were replaced by this highly decentralized system, which, again, would work pretty much like the incumbents do, except data would belong to and be hosted by individuals who created it, and search would be one giant brain with potentially millions of cells that perform queries in parallel.

How far fetched is this? Very :) But at least I hope the idea is thought provoking.
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> People who are unable to discern scam from not scam get scammed.

So it’s just these people that have ever lost money in crypto?

Honestly, every crypto-successful person I know has ALSO invested in shitcoins and scams.
> Here's an idea: offer one of these micro/modular reactors for free to a developer of a new residential division...

One word: Epcot

It's something Disney and Florida could probably agree on, would be a wholesome PR story about investing in Walt's futurism dreams, and would be easier to negotiate than with a less-planned development.

And finally, what better showcase than "If it's safe enough for Disney"?

Our Friend the Atom, indeed https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QRzl1wHc43I
It isn't 1900 anymore. With things with additive manufacturing and other innovations you can go from prototype to product faster than ever. A few year head start should be sufficient reward for most innovations. Perhaps you could handle the special cases (ie. somebody spends a billion dollars to invent a engine that runs on water) as one offs.

Same with movies, television shows and music. They just don't have the impact they used to. You can do special effects for a few grand that cost a million dollars a few decades ago. As it is faster and easier than ever to make a movie, we don't need to offer such a long period of time for exclusivity.
Bada55
Suboptimal naming conventions
Exactly, That's the brutal truth behind all the reactions and outrage in this thread.

Since the SEC is going after Do Kwon, it tells us that they are not letting him get away with his exit scam. That is the point. After this, I will expect more regulations [0] to come forward and will especially impact Tether. That would be interesting.

Not only that, this will wipe out the useless token projects with no use or utility but the compliant cryptocurrencies like the ones in ISO 20020 with continue to survive.

These cryptocurrencies are not all going to be as the critics keep saying; 'totally destoryed' 100% banned entirely and instead they will continue to co-exist with the current system rather than 'overthrow' it. It's here to stay I'm afraid.

[0] https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2022/push-to-regulate-...
I think the EU will soon help them with that...

"EU Planning to Force Apple to Give Developers Access to All Hardware and Software Features" : https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/20/eu-plans-to-force-apple...
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Hi everyone. I use the ec2 pricing pages pretty often and they're getting pretty old and buggy. Thought it was time for a faster, better, free ec2 pricing page. Would love some feedback!
You can send your feedback directly to me: bardia@usage.ai
>That said anyone who's participated in a real estate closing, funding round, etc knows you receive bank confirmation of the wire in minutes-hours and it's a done deal. In funding companies, for example, I've personally experienced this with wires in the tens of millions of dollars.

You are correct...but again this is something the average Joe doesn't have access to. With crypto/blockchain everyone has the same access (more or less) at their fingertips.

It's not a perfect system yet for sure...there is a long way to go, but it is a huge leap forward in leveling the playing field for financial usage for everyone (I mean just looking at western union in 2021 they had $5B in revenue...that's about 5% of the transaction amount with an average transaction size of $300).
Yes, if that is all they had done, then it would not be defensible. However, what you simplify is not what they patented (and subsequently dropped).
Britain has gone two months without burning coal to generate power (2020)
Quantum chip takes microseconds to do task that takes a supercomputer 9k years
Including Internet subscription? So do the streaming numbers include that too? I can believe the assertion, but the numbers seem fuzzy.
Modern Windows is fairly robust and self-repairing, it's hard to brick it doing typical user stuff.

Unlike Linux. A few wrong clicks and there goes the GUI.