skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So? You don't think crowdfunding campaigns can be managed by third parties? You think how the artists gets the funds is intrinsically tied to what parts of the work they can or cannot outsource?

> Also, lots of people, including many artists, like the stability of a steady pay check

I'm sure many plumbers would like recurring royalties from their work too. That doesn't mean that that is a good way for society to function. Any discussion of copyright that just looks at the needs of the creators without considering the effects on everyone else is fundamentally flawed.
I don't get your point here, there's not a legally required minimum fee being skipped.
Lots of things get hijacked by speculators all the time. That doesn't mean the rest of us need to care; none of that has much bearing on the fact that anyone anywhere in the world of any socioeconomic standing can send money to or receive money from anyone else anywhere in the world of any socioeconomic standing.
Ted cruz was born in Canada, but that didn't stop him from running.
And as commented by another redditor, it also works to bypass paywalls on news sites!
To me, #CA551A wins it. Looks a lot like cassia tree bark, aka cinnamon.
> OP states there is nothing unique or special about blockchains, then notes a unique and special fundamental aspect that enables (some) blockchains.

PoW precedes bitcoin by quite some time so the idea that it is a unique and special thing about (some) blockchains is false.
Having been to a French hospital and having been shocked by what I saw there, I wouldn't assume that more spending automatically equals more services.
Got to admire someone who is going to invest time to invent a whole new language just to avoid mastering an existing one. Regex is fine. Been using it nearly daily for the last decade. You get used to it. These days, there are tools that make it incredibly easy to write, test, version and document regex, like https://regex101.com/.
Python library searching metadata in your data with fast multi-regex in Rust
Refine the React based rapid framework raises $1m seed
The 3x culture is the culprit, everything needs to be fast, there's so many things to do, so many dramas to binge, so many trends to chase, so many methods to get things done.

In the end, small wins become a curse, win big or go home and watch YouTube videos about productivity, on 3x.
The title is editorialized which breaks HN guidelines.

But I hope you get away with it, because I'd like to see a discussion around this :)
> Growing up in Texas we had a saying- 'Them's fightin' words.'
ie if someone said something out of bounds, they were headed for a scrap, or at least that wad a very real possibility.

From a legal viewpoint, even if said speech meets the Chaplinsky definition of "fighting words", that does not exonerate or justify one man's violence against another. I have a hard time seeing that most would accept hitting a person as an acceptable response to what is perceived to be distasteful speech. Millions of people lambasted Will Smith not so long ago for doing just that.
How is this even hard now?

A million+ dollar wire transfer works like just about any other; it’ll usually clear within 24 hours.
How much of the development in PV tech is linked to developments in other technologies, and how much is due to dedicated R&D on PV's? My personal understanding is that basic science is the main long-term driver, while directed R&D into a specific field is important for short-term gains in efficiency, but will tend to reach diminishing returns if it goes beyond what is enabled by basic science.

Economies of scale is more of a fixed saving on top. This may have helped take the cost per kwh of solar from $10 to $3, but the scientific development was what made it possible to go to $0.1.

In any case, PV prices are already very low. We are reaching a point where installation and maintaince are becoming limiting factors, and where storage is becoming the primary bottleneck.

Development in storage (batteries and hydrogen) already has so much momentum that building out some nuclear power would not threaten it.
I'm not particularly worried, but it's good to know.

If I'm ever in such a horrible police state that I would want to turn bluetooth off, I would be more worried about the mandatory ankle bracelet all citizens would probably be wearing.
You gotta find logs (which you can get at firewood places or haul off people’s downed trees) for very cheap/free and then saw your own slabs. The dimensional lumber at stores is incredibly expensive. You have to have a jointer and a planer for this to work though.
I live in the UK (scotland specifically, where the process is different here). The house buying process here _is_ essentially decentralized but it's not trusting potential adversories by default. I don't think that many of your suggestions of crypto like improvements will help though.

> as a cash bidder you need to provide proof of funds to the estate agent,

Here, you don't provide them to the seller, you provide them to the solicitor acting on your behalf. Even if we removed that person from the chain, they are required to perform KYC on these transactions, so for regulatory reasons I still need to provide proof of those funds.

> blind bidding process is usually opaque and broken,

As much as I hate this, that's a (design) feature not a bug. Blind bidding doesn't exist in a vacuum, a seller is perfectly able to accept a bid from a party. Blind bidding is what a seller would use in a competitive market to extract the highest possible bid. If they wanted to accept a lower bid they could, by e.g. accepting their favourite bid at the second highest offered price.

> settlement times are extremely long in the order of months, not seconds.

This isn't because of transactions though, this is because mortgages take _weeks_ to come through, solicitors and agents take time to communicate/juggle multiple accounts/offers, and frankly they're still working with paper documents and off of the "who shouts the loudest gets service" system.

> - escrow and exchange of funds in some cases could in theory happen with smart contracts where both parties sign a message to perform the exchange,

The problem with using trustless currency for physical goods is that you need to trust the other party. If they just walk away without providing the keys or clearing the house out, it doesn't matter what it says digitally, you have a problem.

> which would reduce the significant commissions and fees.

On my past property purchase, I paid ~6% of the value in a transaction tax to the government, and ~£1000 in other "legal" fees. Meanwhile the actual transfer of funds cost me £0, (thanks faster payments - free almost immediate transactions up to £250k), and if I was a cash buyer, a bank transfer would have cost me £35. The fees are negligible even today.

I've been banging this drum for years now, the problems you're outlining are not technical, they're policy and regulatory. You can solve all of the above problems with regulation, like we've done in the UK. That said:

> - the process feels archaic compared to buying most other types of property.

Couldn't agree more. It feels like being dragged back to the stone age.
Working with a company that writes hundreds of regexes per day, I can say with confidence: regex syntax is _not_ fine. People with lots of experience make obvious mistakes and lose them in the line noise all the time.
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I think my main point is that engineers operate in a field that is always going to be subject to pressure, both commercial, political, prestige and so on and that even though the engineering profession in general can be relied upon to do their level best to produce high quality and reliable solutions the various pressures have the ability to push that which is commercially still viable into the realm of danger. The shuttle debacle is an excellent example of how even though everybody worked with the best of intentions this can eventually lead to a disastrous outcome and it is exactly the use of out-of-spec parts for critical applications that you find as the root cause. Once you start doing that the pressure is on to keep doing it right up to the moment that mother nature gives you the kind of wake up call that you really don't want to have. The big trick is simply not to make that first move down the slope.

Nuclear engineers, while possible made of different stuff than your average bridge-and-road engineers are not exempt from such pressures, and examples that prove this abound.
No psychiatrist would diagnose someone based on public performances, and non-psychiatrists using pop-psychology to do so is very unpleasant.

This is a wider cultural trend too. The prevalence of Dunning-Kruger pop-psychology YouTube videos (again made by people with zero medical degree) nowadays "teaching" people to recognize "Narcissism", "Psychopathy", "Mania", "Manipulation" etc. is absolutely vile. Just teach people assertiveness and leave it at that.
Just do it. YouTube is more than enough.
Oooh, it has grown. Nice!
Your understanding of the deal is incorrect. The $1b is only an out in a few very restricted scenarios. Wanting out is not one of them.
> also seem to be against the consequences of that speech, such as being "cancelled"

Getting shot for saying the wrong thing is also just another consequence. Is that also acceptable to you? I'm sure it's not, but that would also mean your whole point is BS.

There's a line when it comes to social consequences of speech and people like you are conveniently ignoring that fact to avoid having to explain why it should be drawn so cancelling falls on the acceptable side.

But the thing is, if you advocate for any personal consequences against the person expressing their opinion, then you're arguing directly against a human right.
If there is the option to do skip level or 1:1 with PO's manager and your company provides a safe environment to do so, let this be know in a polite and respectful way highlighting the PO's good attributes following that up with the endless loop habit which is a time sink for all. PO's manager will then take care of it in his 1:1 with the PO. Otherwise, if you are remote and not required to be on video, browse HN during his loops ;-).
Fewer options to jump ship? Bitch, remote work is already here. I'm in New Zealand, working for a NY company. You're already competing globally for employees. You can't move your company away from the competition. You can only choose to compete poorly.
Guessing you were downvoted because of the "ancient" part that has nothing to do with it. Also, many people don't agree with the "regex is fine" part.
> The answer varies according to domain, but is largely a function of team size.

I agree. If both team size and code base are small, the scalability is not needed and the domain logic isn't too complicated, microservices add an overhead with very limited benefits.

If you have different teams for each service - great. If you the same person is working on multiple services - probably a premature move to a more complicated architecture.
Private Access Tokens: Eliminating CAPTCHAs on iPhones and Macs with Standards
Honestly "user-friendly" sound a bit bold to my eyes for a reason: we are in 2022... We have search-based things as much as possible, for emails I cite notmuch and mu, mostly used in-Emacs but being independent binaries usable with any UI and actually we have some non-Emacs from Neomutt with notmuch or Astroid with notmuch again.

A modern and user-friendly MUA for me is:

- something with option to eat or sync remote mailboxes over IMAPs

- something with a decent contact management support from vcard to ldap

- something with a big search bar for full-text search + extras (date, attachments, booleans etc)

- something able to tag messages regardless of the maildir structure, still integrated with it (i.e. a tag a directory + extras the user made)

- a usable html crap renderer (sigh)

- selection of easy to add metada fields

- proper format f-f support

Sylpheed/Claws looks like '90s-style MUA witch never be user friendly except for users trained on Window 9.x systems who want something familiar...
> Is personal responsibility not a thing people care about anymore?

You could say the same thing about illegal substances.
Can confirm they do. I worked at a company that was producing control systems for electric engines. Great environment and fun job but the code was beyond redemption. 15k line files with 2k+ lines #ifdef statements that ran different code for different customers, some variable names were just curses against pushy clients, not a single abstraction in sight.

Not only they exist, they power massive machines that could crush a person in the blink of an eye.
It's hard to distribute content from your own platform. Most successful content creators are relying on many platforms, it's virtually impossible to fight them.

But it's always to have a small resort of yours on the internet. It doesn't have to be big and great, and it can be as simple as a business card that points to your footprints on every other platform.

For example, many Russian content creators are losing their audience immediately after they're sanctioned. It's always a good thing when people search your name, your own site appears on the first page.
> if he approached you with an offer to buy your business how seriously would you want to take him

Not seriously, HOWEVER, I would now worry about him a lot more as a competitor or enemy as he's shown he's happy to blow what is -- to me -- an unthinkable amount of cash on whimsy and for the lulz.
Er, incompatible highway systems aren't really a thing even across borders. At most there are border checkpoints but it's not like the roads themselves can't be joined together. The lone exception is islands like the UK where people drive on the other side, and water marks the demarcation point.
Woodworking is rooted in reality. Angles are not perfect, measures are not perfect. In coding, everything is perfect. That I don't like the first and like the second.
Ask HN: Is this a regular cat tactic?
I've never owned a cat so I don't know anything about their behavior. Is this something that they do regularly? Send one out, and then the rest of them comes.
How much a Second is Worth ?
Time in my world has become a universal currency, transferred directly between people or stored in “time capsules” ( wallets ).
It is traded by the second and used in the Time ecosystem of Dapps ranging from hiring workforce for their Time , playing games fueled by Time or Literally owning a historical date in the past as a Time NFT …

Time as new asset class is backed by the real time as we know it (24 hours a day).
We already have a worldwide consensus on time, our clocks are synchronized to tell us the total supply of Time.
We believe that Time transacting should be as easy as looking at your clock (in the future that would be your wallet), and transfering Time as easy as shacking hands.

PS: very inspired by the movie in time :)

the UI is ugly but working on it : http://ticktack.money
Toxic productivity, including its negative effects, is idolized by society, at least in many western countries.
This design claims MyBrandSpankingNewException was:

* So different we just couldn't represent it as MyExistingException and yet

* So similar that it's fine to just treat it as MyBaseException everywhere

In my experience everywhere I see this pattern all we're doing with MyBaseException is giving it to a human, via logging, stderr, or whatever, which means this is a lot of complexity to just move some text.

Although this strategy didn't formally "break client code" in practice if it matters the code will need to be rewritten to actually handle MyBrandSpankingNewException.
Stay away from social media for a while helps too.
I think whether it's cheaper is begging the question. And I couldn't tell you what's safer.

But there's definite risk in outsourcing the majority of your power production, risk that doesn't exist if you're outsourcing long-term storage. If something goes wrong with the storage ecosystem, you can keep it on-site for a few extra months.
Why do you say that anything but toy and demo NEED concurrent indexes? So far I have built toys and demos and never needed concurrent indexes, are they a must to dramatically speed up production workloads or am I missing something?
I just don't think it applies to free speech. And I don't interpret free speech as I can say whatever I want whenever I want, but I am free to express my opinion. This does not include freedom to attack other people's freedom.
That's why I feel it's good to learn a bit about Laplace transform for anybody doing anything technical. It has so many applications you can hardly get away from it.
None of your examples are good ideas though. DNS requires proof of identity and a mechanism for settling disputes (e.g. so you can't buy google.com if you're not named Google; and also can't buy g0ogle.com, gooogle.com, gOogle.com etc) to be a useful system. Minting NFTs simply can't give you that, and once you involve a party that can settle disputes, all advantages of NFTs disappear.

Not to mention, most NFTs as used in reality are 100% vapourware. As the owner of an NFT, you sometimes don't even have the right to reproduce the thing the NFT signs yourself (as in the case of the NBA moments NFTs).

Even when you do, you typically have no official ownership of the thing - for example, if you buy a Bored Ape NFT from someone else (not Yuga Labs directly), you'll likely have no legal standing to sue Yuga Labs if they later decide to delete the Ape you bought the NFT for (sinec you have no commercial relationship with them, and the NFT itself is just an NFT, it's not a contract).
> if build anything that isn’t a toy or demo on Postgres you NEED to build indexes concurrently.

except when you can't, because you have so many writes the reindex doesn't ever finish and the DB grinds down to a halt with 300 load. don't ask me how I know.
Or to dumb down your analogy even more, isn’t it just like observing a random particle system and then saying well a supercomputer couldn’t compute that?
> today March 14 (represented as 3/14 in many parts of the world), we’re excited to announce that we successfully computed π to 31.4 trillion decimal places.
> We ran 25 nodes for 111.8 days, or 2,795 machine-days (7.6 machine-years)

This was before.

> and Google just added another 37.2 trillion digits.
> Total elapsed time: 157 days, 23 hours, 31 minutes and 7.651 seconds

This was now.

> Since then, the bandwidth available on Google's cloud infrastructure has increased by 600%,

This does not look like a 600% increase.
Go fossil hunting some time.

It's a rewarding experience to ask "what's in that rock?" to discover it's invertebrates from millions of years ago!
If supported, you can use verbose flag and subexpression calls for such cases.

From a cursory glance, I found only the numeric `range` support the standout feature I'd want in existing regex support.
Report reveals 15-inch MacBook Air release window, M2 Max core count
If I remove "www" as per title, ie. if I type ".ai" or "https://.ai" it doesn't work. What am I missing?
thank you for writing this.
Control theory assumes the system is linear. As soon as you get saturation the system stops being linear.

So in trad undergrad control theory instability implies "And then the system blows up" - numerically, literally, or sometimes both.

But depending on the system you can end up in regions of recursive instability which are better modelled by logistic/chaos theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period-doubling_bifurcation
There's more to this story
My point above is still relevant to your response as well - the Internet in the 1990s was in a similar state. No one was buying things online and it was too slow to replace TV shows.

> No one uses crypto outside of speculation.

Same old argument while closing your eyes to actual use cases. You have this technology where - leaving aside free cross-border trustless payments to anyone, you can have an immutable record of data to store, unhackable, solves spam and you actually still think this is all about speculation? You're on Hacker News, really recommend putting on your hacker hat and re-evaluating it.

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On a slightly different note, Opensea is not a true dApp and it's a little centralized in places. But yes of course NFTs right now are extremely speculative. Look elsewhere, ENS domains usage is at an all time high and rapidly growing (even after the recent price correction), Uniswap recently crossed a trillion $ in total transaction volume in its lifetime.

Blockchain tech is an extremely powerful tool, it's a shame most hackers on HN are hostile to it which makes them miss real use-cases happening under the surface.
It's not a snarky question, it's a genuine concern. Telling people to not worry about the details like "what happens in case of fraud" is handwaving away the problem.

> (i.e. the market value of the house + some percentage).

Where does the market value come from? "Market value" for properties varies wildly, and the number a property does not necessarily track to a fair market value - I might be willing to accept 10% under market value to someone who is a cash buyer because I need a quick sale, or I might be in a ripping hot property market where properties are selling for 20+% over their market valuations

> time delayed exchanges

That's all well and good if everyone involved is digitally contactable for the entire duration of the process, but if I'm ill for a period of time, or otherwise vulnerable, it doesn't matter whether the delay is 2 days or 2 months. The advantage the current system has is that there is inherently a central organisation that says "yes you own this" and they handle disputes. If you have an actual problem of suspected fraud (say your car catches fire with all of your ID in it), you can go to a government office, sign some legal documents, and get new ID and continue. Similarly, if someone impersonates you there are legal protections that can and are enforced.
Very good question.

Looks like lots of commenters here don't realise this, believe anything and hastefully jump in without questioning this as it could be made by a random user. Always be skeptical around the source of this.

> It seems completely anonymous.

That's the case here since the Ethereum address has absolutely 0 iterations, making it more harder to trace.