skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I have proof that I paid you cash for a service, and then proof you didn't provide that service, I absolutely expect to be able to reverse that transaction, via the legal system.

That's very different from what's meant by "reversible transactions" in the context of other payment systems. If the legal system can dictate the reversal of a cash transaction, then it can do so for a crypto transaction - without either needing to have some explicit protocol to do so.

> That level of resilience is completely unnecessary

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

> And who will hold these NFTs?

The owners of the properties they represent.

> And where will the data the NFTs sign be stored?

NFTs can store arbitrary data.

> If they want to distribute the NFTs to the current owners of the houses, than they now need to establish an Ethereum/Cardano/[...] wallet for each person who owns a house in their district

Which is many orders of magnitude easier than the current system.

Besides, it doesn't have to be all or nothing; a gradual opt-in transition would be perfectly doable.

> If they want to make them part of the NFTs and store them on-chain, then minting the NFTs will be exorbitant

On just about anything noteworthy that's not Ethereum, the cost is on the scale of cents. Wow, such unaffordable, many expensive.

And no, you don't need physical scans of the original documents. A transcription will do fine.
There's also https://github.com/VerbalExpressions for various programming languages.
That reminds me of that nice article about how to do that kind of thing in python

[0] The unreasonable effectiveness of f-strings and re.verbose https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31457188
The proper URI should be "http://ai." (with the ending dot)
The real interesting part is the Swiss model, or instead of having a big army a small one with heavy weapons and a popular conscription one month (paid) per year 18-28 years range, for the rest.

That's interesting because:

- it's not good to go to war OUTSIDE country borders

- power are balanced: the State can count (perhaps) on army, but if it goes against the people they are trained and armed, with less heavy weapons, but much bigger numbers

The last missing parts is ERASING military-industrial complex or having weapons ONLY built by the State in State-owned factories out of State-only research, with conscription for manufacturing industries IF we need to scale for a war, but ONLY in this case and ONLY in emergency mode.

These are the basic tools to maintain a Democracy avoid dangerous shifts.
Yeah but which thousand ...
I really like the look of GTK2 applications.
While impressive, I'm not sure in what scenario anyone would choose to use this.
Not sure why it took me so long but I finally understood how land ownership is a peculiar thing (and at its core, almost always backed by someone who removed the previous inhabitants by force) when I considered "my dad bought his house in California from so and so, who bought it from so and so, who bought the land from so and so, who got it from.... oh."
I can imagine it's used for car suspension?
That's how you end up with Google, Apple, and Facebook, Twitter, etc. They may start out as providing a service that works, but over time as they get bigger the incentive structure pushes them towards monetizing your data, locking you in, building boundaries around who can access what (e.g.Twitter APIs), and sharing data with parties you don't want to share it with.

One way to avoid this lock-in is to change the underlying incentive structure. That's what the blockchain does. The fundamental difference is not about centralized vs. decentralized, it's about the incentives that are a result of centralization vs decentralization.
I had colleague that could be described in such way. Working with him was difficult and He was handed bs tasks just so others could focus on their own work.
I'd say that trying to be extremely productive in some large companies won't lead to promotion or appreciation.
I did a lot of woodworking and lutherie during my PhD in High Energy Theoretical Physics.

When you work all week in 20 dimensional non-Riemannian manifolds with torsion, it's really nice to come back to Euclidean 3D space and make wood chips the weekend!
Sure, but that's a network cost, not a phone cost, same as maintaining a membership to a golf club.

For many people the cost of remaining in an iPhone-exclusive network may be worth the extra money, for others they don't have any opportunity cost to leaving the iPhone-exclusive network.

Anecdotally, I also thought that my iMessage contacts were worth the extra money, until I found out all the people in the network used whatsapp far more frequently.

Turned out, the important conversations weren't happening on iMessage anyway, which was a surprise to me at the time.
I have an ipad 2 and even the ebook reading is dog slow now, I wish I could downgrade it back to factory iOS version instead of the last supported version which barely works.
Many social media sites evolved from time sorted posts to algorithm sorted posts. The algorithms are data driven and designed to maximize engagement, as it improves revenue. This creates an incentive to push highly controversial topics over more casual content.

- China is already regulating this: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/07/china-to-regulate-tech-giant...

> Users must be able to opt out of having recommendation services via algorithms.

That one would be great, even better, it should be the default option. People should be able to opt-in if they feel like it, but it should not be the default.
Oh, I like that one! Very easy to read.

Have you ever worked with it and what was you experience?

I can see myself using that or even implement it for other languages.
What makes you think twitter shareholders would sell for less? If you made a 1B dollar investment in twitter ten years ago, what return would you look for? If you didn’t get it from the present offer what would you do? Would you lobby 5 other massive shareholders that twitter will be worth more in 6 years and there is no need to sell or would you sit on your hands and hope for the best?
It was a reply to a tweet. Please use context.
Only really asymmetric crypto.

Symmetric crypto you can increase the key size. e.g. AES128 would be insecure (as it would drop to 64bits of security), but AES256 wouldn't (it would still provide 128 bits of security).

I believe there is also quantum resistant asymmetric crypto schemes too (lattice based schemes) ?
Ask HN: What PDF viewer do you use?
I am a mathematician currently doing my PhD. I am working on a mac and have become a bit frustrated with preview as a PDF viewer. What good (and preferably free) viewer do you recommend?
Indeed they don't, but even running two database servers (let alone more for e.g. geographic redundancy) is already more resource intensive than running a full node for a proof-of-stake blockchain. You might as well just run that node and get that resiliency basically for free.

Not every usecase requires that sort of resiliency, of course, nor does every use case prioritize it above latency and throughput; nobody except the truly deranged are asserting that a blockchain could or should replace every SQL database out there. For those who do need that sort of resiliency, though, a public blockchain is much more cost-effective.
I thought it was just me
Dude, parallelization is exactly how non-trivial neural networks are trained since the beginning.

Parallel processing as in SIMD architecture is what makes Deep Learning possible now.

Parallel computing as in stacking graphics card is how literally everything is done everywhere- from big tech companies to not-so-well-funded data science departments in unknown unis.

You are so so off.
You have just written three negative sentences. You have a somewhat negative nick (nowherebeen). Your previous three comments on HN were negative.

Perhaps coinbase doesn’t target employees like you. Maybe they like happy clappy medicinally-well-adjusted type employees?
> You decide the truth value of something and based on that you further decide that a topic is off limits

I would normally agree with this viewpoint, but there are things which have an objective quality of being immoral. Supporting the persecution of a group of people because of their ethnicity (or whichever other criteria) is such a thing. Please tell me how I'm wrong about that.
This stuff is fun. Surprised I haven't seen direct mention of state space representation yet:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-space_representation

I recall going through this at university and it being a bit of a struggle. Looking back at it now, this stuff makes a lot more sense. A decade+ of practical experience probably helps.
I think this theory is proven in practice. If you look at the major tech companies, they are all run by people who programmed at some point. Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page, ... .

However, Steve Jobs seems to be an exception here (In Dutch, we have the expression "The exception proves the rule" ;), which basically means that all theories have exceptions)

I think it's very hard for non-builders to really understand the underlying processes that result in success.
I viewed your page on the iphone 12 mini
I've found Okular to be the best, even on Windows. You don't need the whole KDE-on-Windows, they offer standalone installers on their web site.
I did not see any real pro crypto argument in this text.
Nothing is really proven in practice and everything is in ideas.
Meanwhile scammers are taking money from enthusiasts and existing blockchains are burning up a huge amount of energy.
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The GDPR type laws seem to imply that information can't ever really be sold, since consent is always revokable, and can't be required as a condition of using the service.

I have a bit of an issue with that, since one generally expects that they can license any data they own, and it makes things like model releases confusing.

And the laws seem to define new private spaces that formerly didn't have expectation of privacy for most people.

But perhaps it's necessary anyway to prevent even bigger issues.

I can definitely see the problem with a cell company being able to sell data to someone's abusive stalker, even though in general I don't like censorship of observation, for the same reason I don't like ag-gag.
Just now I was checking the trending repos in github.com (JavaScript/Today)
and I got atom on no.5 and more than 50K stars
Not that theoretical. Scottish independence is a template for how you'd approach it without military conflict. The issue there being that despite voting for an independence party for decades they don't actually seem to want it and their referendum to secede failed, partly because the independence movement turned into a generic left wing political party that wasn't very interested in working out the complicated details.
>Got to admire someone who is going to invest time to invent a whole new language just to avoid mastering an existing one.

Yes, because any existing language is the global optimum, and we should always strive to reuse it, never invent any new one...

I mean, what's the problem with stone cavemen-era cart-wheels? Why reinvent the wheel?

Not to mention the implying that the only reason one would try to invent a new language is to "not invest time mastering an existing one". I.e. "It's not that this guy tries to improve regular expression languages - it's that he's dumb/lazy to master the standard regex expressions".

Never mind that this new language also transpiles into regular regex, so clearly the person who created it has also "mastered the existing one".
Crypto isn't for the knowledgeable investor.
I would argue that software engineers like woodworking and other manual activities because of their differences with software engineering rather than their similarities.

I like to take photos because when I press the button a photo is taken, it's not going to output an error that will need a debugger to solve. I like to draw because when I move the pencil on the paper, a line appears, instead of the paper having an error message that requires me to contact their support to solve. I also don't need to update my paper to be compatible with my pencil.

I like those things because of the certainty that a specific action will lead to a specific result.
Brave new world is small enough that you can read it in a day or two at the beach, I've read it twice almost unintentionally simply because of how short it is.
There are lots of great technical interviews with him on Yt that show the opposite is true.
> It's funny that this threads main objection to nuclear is waste/mining/etc

Is it?

I got the impression the discussion has moved to recognising that nuclear is too expensive, not flexible, and looking at the slow-motion-train-wreck that is the EPR project, new reactor projects are likely going to be very late[0][1][2] and hugely over budget.

[0] https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fresh-delay-to-F...
[1] https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/finlands-olkiluoto-...
[2] https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/CGN-takes-Taisha...
Best practices of using JWT on front end clients
And https://www.debuggex.com/ for visualizing regex as railroad diagrams.

I'd agree that we get used to regex with usage, but need to be extra careful to test all the corner cases (since by design, a pattern matches multiple things).
Touché but I'm not wrong am I?
>internal research showed that the app exacerbated mental health issues for teen girls in particular.

This is twisting the truth.

Specifically FB had found that for teenage girls with body image issues the ones they surveyed on average thought Instagram on average made it worse. 31% said worse, 22% said better, and 45.5% said it had no impact. For the other 11 other mental health issues they said Instagram made it better on average. For teen boys for 12 out of 12 mental health issues they said Instagram made it better.

https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Instagram-Te...
The Billionaires Behind a Push to Reinvigorate U.S. Chip-Making
> If VC were like crypto, they’d only be funding startups whose objective would be to raise more money from other VCs

And this is not often the case? I mean for crypto it's basically only that, but there are quite a bunch of VC funded companies that just live on raise followed by raise. They won't say that out loud, but nor will crypto many crypto companies.
So in summary, “Why would I buy $500 of wood planks when I can build them myself for $2000 of tools and logs?”, got it.
Was that before or after he hired a PI to investigate said person to see if he could find any dirt to defame him further, after continuing to double down on the pedophile accusations, further calling him a child rapist, and marrying a 12 year old.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-hired...

Doesn't sound like a one off lightly lobbed, 1 in 50000 fluke to me.
> I would rather have a stray neutered rather than killed in a kill shelter or worse, stoned on the streets to death

This is a false dichotomy. The kind of people that stone a dog to death, will do gladly the same with a neutered dog. Is just a releasing frustration mechanism. Finding somebody lower in the social scale to pick on him/her, is psychologically comforting in a twisted sense. The ugly truth is that it makes us feel better. The concepts of "good" and "bad people" play a main role and are deeply engraved in human cultures. We do horrible things to "bad people", "nazis" etc, all the time.

But I digress. Is really useful to neuter stray dogs?.

Most probably not. Would be the same as proposing to neuter coyotes. Top predators self regulate its numbers being strongly territorial. Only the alpha pair in a pack is allowed to reproduce, and the space is filled to its capacity, so neutering the rest would not made any difference (just make vets richer). Is just animal cruelty by part of a pool of people unable to deal with basic concepts of being alive, as pain and death, and that secretly yearn for control over other's lives to hide the lack of control over their own lives.
I dont think he covers how to switch creativity on and off on demand, & most entities are reactionary to events, some of them are beyond their control, even Govt's.
The USA is definitely behind in OSMand coverage. Central Western Europe has a lot more detail and street addresses are easy to search for. It's not as useful to search by address in US and Canada but it has been steadily getting better.
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Seemed a decent if over-long article to explain something I needed to know about feedback theory. Summary: to do x you may have to do, or briefly get, anti-x which you need to be aware of and account for. Key sentence where the importance clicked for me was:

"Let’s say our airplane is running in auto-pilot. We’ve sent a request to gain altitude, so the flight controller tilts the elevators to initiate a climb. But suddenly the airplane is losing altitude, moving farther away from our target? Do we pull up even harder?"

It's ok.
Tumblr, for me and a couple friends atleast, is an app that we can use without feeling like garbage afterwards.
I'm not an expert but I think this is what the original letter authors objected to. If you build these mechanisms on top of a blockchain which is inherently baked in stone, then there is no point in having the blockchain be so strict.

In other words, if you allow an organisation to change things like refund you, then they might as well just manage their own leger like they do at the minute.
Can just go to Netflix.com and login
That makes a lot of sense. Work and life should have a clear boundary, but it’s sometimes not easy to see. Especially when you are young.
> Interesting username for such an opinion.

Perhaps just a coincidental namespace collision: Process ID, not Proportional-Integral-Derivative.
I think I’ll forward this article to the Amazon recruiter next time they bother me. What an astoundingly unethical company!
And what's ignored about the so-called paradox is the commonly omitted second half of Popper's quote:

"In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant."

This already fits well within the realm of free speech, free association, and the retributive justice system. The intolerant and the tolerant (both of which are in their common parlance subjective terms) are not required to associate with each other. Either party has the right to speak its mind. Only when force is involved would intolerance be justified. And even then, such intolerance should exist only in an objectively assessed proportion to the prior intolerant acts carried out and no more.

https://giggsboson.medium.com/stop-misusing-poppers-paradox-...
Can you answer why the SQL Database in Bank of America or any other bank in the US is not able to transfer money to Edward Snowden's bank account? Or to the millions of people in Russia/elsewhere who were just a collateral damage to Putin's war?

That's just one example - sometimes you need technology which is out of hands of authorities. Cash or Gold bars have similar properties but you literally have to physically take it with you if you want to send it somewhere.

Leaving payments aside - ENS domains, exchanges, insurance, lending borrowing and bunch of other products which are equally accessible to a farmer in Nigeria as it is to a Wall Street suit. You don't see a value in that?
Obviously you haven't read my comment properly.

The main point is:
* I do want to use React components for composability.
* I don't want to deal with global state management.

Remix seems to address those issues for me so I'm planning to give it a try.
Oh man this would be great. Perhaps even just a browser extension that you can add filter terms to.

-elon
-crypto
-nft
-tesla
What makes you think the average American SWE job can't be replaced by five Eastern European or Indian SWEs for the same price?
I wouldn't expect to see a link, unless the article was occasioned by the publication of a new edition. This author probably is in the habit of referring to the original Greek, and may have found older, public-domain translations of it to be somehow unsatisfactory.
Exceptions come with program flow. Didn't need/ want that flow? Too bad, you get it anyway and must re-structure your program accordingly.

Suppose there are two consumers of my function F, which usually returns a Digit but sometimes instead has a problem. Should F throw ProblemException or should its return type be a Sum Type with both Digit and Problem ?

Alice uses F in some hot code that doesn't immediately care about the problem or the digits, while Bob is only using F in an edge case and needs the result immediately.

For Alice, needing to try F and handle the exceptions (which Alice doesn't ever care about immediately) is annoying. For Bob it works fine. But, Bob can also write code to handle the Problem next to his code for handling the Digit, we were forcing Alice to handle ProblemException, but Bob can choose where to do something with Problem as it suits him.
Non-concurrent indexing locks the table until it's done creating the index. If it's a large table, it locks it for a long time. This makes things trying to use that table time out.

This is a non-issue on things that don't have real traffic going to them, or on small enough tables that the indexing time is trivial.
To American parents which makes him American by jus sanguinis... What's your point?
you may be resigned to trial and error being an essential part of regex development, but the reliance on trial and error should be (1) a signal that something can be improved with how programmers write regexs, and (2) a symptom of a programming ethos that essential things should be difficult.

I'm glad that this project (and others like that others have highlighted here) allow us to improve on (1), and I am always encouraging my profession peers in computing to reconsider (2).
Powers are not balanced in Switzerland. The reason most modern countries stopped conscription is because infantrymen are far less useful than they used to be in combats - they remain useful if you want to control the place you have invaded but are not that useful to do the actual invading. Advanced weaponry is just too efficient: artillery, helicopters, planes, drones, missiles.

Switzerland is not even really trying to defend itself. The chief reason it’s safe is because it’s surrounded by countries with an actual army. They rely on France for part of their air defence.
Yes but if they don’t disclose problems they are on the hook for it no matter if they sell it as-is.
A previous posting of this got flagged, but as a co-author, I want to stress the sincerity of the proposal. Outclowning Trump seems to be the only way forward.
...or it could be a recipe for civil war if those trained and armed people split into different factions. I don't see that happening in Switzerland, but that's probably one of the reasons why this model hasn't caught on a lot.
Yeah I think this is the difference in view between EU and US in general :)
Making backups of a centralized database is not reinventing a blockchain, it is much cheaper than the wasteful process of crypto mining.
The footnote is nonsense. Needs revision, author is currently arguing that poles are indistinguishable from zeros.