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They are talking here about mining pools I suppose since the biggest 4 mining pools account for more than 50% of validated blocks.

Also the word is "disrupt" so it means some time of chaos, the mining pools never tried to disrupt Bitcoin because they have no incentive to do so.
The entire day yesterday performance with Cloudflare was extremely sluggish. Pages which relied on it, even if it's only loading a JS-file from the CDN, would hang for tens of seconds.
> actually match a fair bit of results to crap

Do you use advanced search features? Like quote things that MUST match. ext:pdf etc.

You can have this interface to help you: https://www.google.com/advanced_search
Don’t mock what you don’t own
On my tablet the slightes movement of the pen causes firefox to select stuff instead of switching the checkbox. Causes extreme slow-down.

Under normal circumstances I don't like websites to try to mess with selection, copynpaste, ... but in this case it would be both helpful and justified.
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Is there a specific reason you exclude founders as employees? In the earliest phases of a company they're remarkably similar to "employees" in even like Series B companies... (save for ownership structure)
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> Those two functions of government had never talked, and didn't even known that their regulations were mutually exclusive.

turns out that even in real life, the problem of a company writing internal, incompatible APIs exists.
And how many k8s believers ever reach significant scale? It's just like back when NoSQL was the trendy thing and people thought a couple gigabytes meant "big data". Mostly it’s simply cargo culting.
>You dont lose anything for not having Meta

As an individual, you lose the a network of people.

As a business, you lose exposure.

In your restaurant analogy, you are just going to a different one, but your friends are still inside.
Half Earth Socialism – The Game
Yes, but from a technical perspective immutability leads to some interesting problems again (formal verification, standards, audits,...).
The Netherlands has a more fun example: Baarle Nassau. Which is a weird city where parts of the city are Belgian enclaves. It even has nesting of exclaves and enclaves. And of course some houses have doors in multiple countries, which makes delivering mail and figuring out taxes interesting.
It seems kind of, but better because memory can be compressed and/or paged out using a more advanced algorithm than before which assumes fast NVME's available to inform it's decisions.
I’ve never found my enjoyment of art to be related to the mastery put into it. In fact I generally enjoy art more if I know it was made quickly and easily. I think it’s boring to become a masterful artist, compared to having less skill and “accidentally” making something engaging. I have no interest in technique or mastery, it is a turnoff for me, and it’s boring
> You sound just like David Letterman when interviewing Bill Gates

So you're comparing Web3 with the computer and the internet revolution, but are not even able to tell me what's the advantage over current technologies, that are still evolving?

> The problem is that because you have all the privileges

You mean we have found a solution to a problem?

> Try being someone living in Argentina or Venezuela

My uncle is from Argentina.

He's not looking for web3, he's looking for political stability and blames US for installing a totalitarian regime that destroyed his country that killed 30 thousand people, created 30,000 desaparecidos and imprisoned 400,000 [1]

You've never spoken to someone from poorer countries, did you?

Anyway, if someone from Argentina build a website, I can send them money directly to their bank account from my European bank account.

No intermediary necessary, except good old banks.

My instinct tells me that the only thing people in web3 "space" (it's more like a cult) are interested in is avoiding taxes and keeping their money hidden.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

EDIT: anyway, web3 is still web based.

If governments can control banks, they can also control the web.

See: China or North Korea.

You won't free North Koreans with web3 nonsense.
Half Earth Socialism – The Book
Prehistoric Planet created scientifically accurate dinosaurs
I never said I don't know where and how it would be running - I just don't feel the need to spend time dealing with that layer of things most of the time.

As for reducing complexity, what are you suggesting exactly? Most of the actual complexity I have to deal with is in our codebase to build the core application (which can run almost anywhere), which is independent of any issues with CI/CD and DevOps/cloud deployment. They're not complex, they're just frustrating.
Observing choas, one of the biggest hallmarks is its extreme stability. These systems always evade explanation and predictability at the smallest scales and build wild persistent structure at the largest. Chemical reactions are messy, but this one has been going for 4 billion years. We struggle to explain how even as high a scale as atoms can create the entire planet we see, let alone quantum fields, but understanding what it looks like just needed a few good thoughts about evolution. Life is the pinnacle of choas.
Virtual world is easy. Virtual world where you are immersed beyond having the camera on your head is pretty much impossible. We don't have an idea for what tech would be required for that. There's a large gap between moving your character with a control stick and "being" in the game like in the movie implied.

We don't have the tech to do massive enormous orders of magnitude larger than typical MMO servers.

And of course the movie was some sort of dystopian web3 nightmare without considering the evil tech CEO. It showed the characters having fun going to doom world for PVP with real money and permadeath at stake. The main characters father loses everything because he dies in the game. But it was fine because the main characters were talented so it looked fun. This isn't a requirement for a virtual world of course, but the concept of the VR economy implies the game needs to be a lot less game and a lot more business. Not a spunky playground where you, a non pro gamer, will be able to do anything noteworthy.
> the 8% rate will lead to recession

No, absolutely.

Japan for decades constantly cool hot economy by money emission, sure have extremely large inflation on some products, and no recession.
I know exactly where you're coming from. My family didn't understand or like what I did for a long time. For them, I've wasted my time on what wasn't really "work", because I didn't get a salary. I'm from Germany, you're expected to have a job here. Being an Entrepreneur seems wrong. Luckily, my wife was very supportive. But there are also limits. Let's say that everyone around me had to suffer to some degree so that I was able to pull this off.
The first step is for RIAA to adopt a centralized database/block chain. This would be similar to how HomeDepot uses IBMs prop blockchain to handle their inventory. I will use DB, for short.

The DB would allow current, and previous, copywriter holders to opt-in to the system. Ownership stake would be written into the smart contract with trenches of rights. Once you have a "movie" contract, that attributes X percent to Y people, based on rights, the contract can be easily reused for another project.

In most cases, music royalties are a fixed income business and the profits are easy to model. This was the foundation of the WB/Pershing Sq deal. Their prospectus is quite interesting.

Using the WB case for simplicity, the idea would be to take the current licenses and create trenches of rights, which would be sold/minted (not sure of right work) with all the legal/operational stuff baked in. For a real world example:

- WB owns the rights to song X

- DMX (hospitality) licenses music from WB to play on their connected devices, which service the hospitality sector, primarily (restaurants/bars)

- DMX renews their license on annual basis.

- Copy write owners would receive royalties per non-exclusive, commercial, non-reproducible trench when their song is played.

With NFTs, the initial licensing and renewal could be performed from a user interface similar to Amazon vs the current paper process.

This is applicable to chains like Starbucks too, as they license songs, burn them on CDs that have specific DRM and play on a (what I would guess) is a specialized CD player. Those CDs cannot be played outside the store, from my understanding.

TL;DR - you encode different licenses in smart contracts and once you have a framework, it’s easy to grant similar rights without the overhead. Specialized licenses can be created quicker. This would be applicable to large copywrite holders and flow down to indie, with time.

Edit: spelling and formatting.
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Our conservative approach suggests that chickens were incorporated into human societies as domestic birds by 1500 BCE in peninsular Southeast Asia, and that they then rapidly spread south into Island Southeast Asia and west across South Asia and Mesopotamia to Europe and Africa.
That argument could be made in the case of massive monied lobbying, like the NRA, the fossil fuel industry, medical insurance, etc, but neither Greenpeace nor the EFF have anything like that kind of clout.

The government (especially in the US) are perfectly happy to go against Greenpeace or the EFF. In fact, it’s a badge of honour for a subset of idiot on the right (“drill baby drill”, etc)
yeah, and if cloudflare could make their anti-bot "verification" interoperable with noscript/basic (x)html browsers, and not force those grotesquely and absurdely massive google (blink/geeko) and apple(webkit) web engines, that would be less criminal.
Aren't Goog/ Ama/ Fbook known for swallowing up smaller companies who might be potential threats/ competitors, and "kill them off" via this method? Seems like it's common practice for such entities.
> The defaults even way back when actually made quite a bit of sense. The default workflow for many project types were very workable.

That's probably where the wide-spread (and arguably correct) impression that it has become worse comes from: To begin with, people just installed and used it as-is, but by now corporate bureaucracies have had time to "implement" it -- i.e. set it up -- to mirror their organisation's bureaucratic structure and processes.

And yes, that impression is correct; it is Jira's fault: If it didn't have that customisability, they couldn't (ab)use it that way.

> If your organization chooses to instead use this very very configurable tool to lock things down you can't blame Jira.

Of course you can: If it didn't offer the possibility to set up those bureaucratic locks, they wouldn't be set up.
Show HN: Free Datasets for Spatial Engineers and Location Analysts
location data providers are often in the press with negative headlines. Those services aggregate movement data from apps and aggregate the data to derive movement patterns which might be helpful for marketers. In fact, I had two moments in my life where I evaluated a PoC with those location data brokers.

They were all shady about where the data comes from which is important to understand the Bias of the data. I never got a good answer.

The data often just represented < 0.4% of the population (at least in Europe - different game in the USA). For a big city they might have 20K unique users while in the city were more than 3M users living.

They dismiss any professional data analytics principle. The data comes in CSV (if a lot of data they give you like 10 separate files). Data was not always plausible in itself

Those experiences brought me to build certain parts of those data brokers but only with open-source data:

If it is about location data you should know OpenStreetMap. It's the biggest Database with meta info on location. It's not perfect but big companies like Mapbox, Apple, and Microsoft rely on it. Since the API is kind of messy, you can load with this repository whole cities information smoothly into a PostGres
--> https://github.com/kuwala-io/kuwala/blob/master/kuwala/pipelines/osm-poi/README.md

Googe Popular Times: Movement data can be also found on Google. When you search a location it is often shown how frequently a place was visited on an hourly-daily basis (on an index of 0-100). With this libary you can access all the Popular Times data for location and entire cities
--> https://github.com/kuwala-io/kuwala/blob/master/kuwala/pipelines/google-poi/README.md

Global Admin Boundaries: A huge problem that often people feel when working with location data is aggregating the data into different geo-based slices (country level, admin level, or even smaller into sub-districts). Here is a repo that cleaned the data out of Open Street Map for geo boundaries worldwide from very broad to a very small granularity
--> https://github.com/kuwala-io/kuwala/blob/master/kuwala/pipelines/admin-boundaries/README.md

I think with those Open Source Tools and some data science magic you can generate similar outcomes as those location data providers but totally anonymized and free. Would be awesome if anybody is interested in building a case around it :-)
Tougher to do on mobile though
I found it interesting reading the blog post, but delving into the report, some areas didn't seem as straightforward.

I expect to get some flak for saying this, and I don't mean to be cynical, but it's interesting how the table on p. 9 of the report lists Solana with a relatively high Nakamoto coefficient (19 to Bitcoin's 4), given the recent events with Solana [0].

From p. 1 of the report, emphasis my own:

> Trail of Bits also operates a center of excellence for blockchain security. Notable projects include audits of Algorand, Bitcoin SV, Chainlink, Compound, Cosmos, Ethereum 2.0, MakerDAO, Matic, Polkadot, Solana, Uniswap, Web3, and Zcash.

Some of those notable projects are fervently anti-bitcoin, so while some criticisms and concerns may appear to be valid at a first glance, I don't think it can be said to be without bias.

[0]: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/06/19/solana-defi-platfor...
I know a common complaint is search engine x fails at finding info for knowledge domain y, usually something technical that in the overall lexicon is ambiguous with something more generic/popular. I wonder if a good solution to this is to use one of the smaller open engines in a private instance and just submit the handful of sites you know have the relevant info?
Plus Chinese historians will have you believe they've been the first civilization around for 5k years. (the truth is there has been rise and fall, but each subsequent one claims to be the _real_ dynasty and so continues from the beginning) so is China new or old?

I think the truth is geographical places rise and fall multiple times. They go through cycles both internally (need, growth, comfort, decay) and externally as their characteristics are useful/useless to the greater world around them.

Eg: I doubt China would have established its current power without inexpensive labor, telecommunications, and American debt fueled consumerism. Had China been a middle power in like 1900-1950 then another country might have absorbed the USA's consumer demand
Id follow Socrates and suggest to “know yourself” and stick to your truth, your values, your goals first.

Then the more open and confident you are about them - the more genuine friends who are happy to share it with you you’ll find.

The goal “make friends” in itself is just a bad, shallow goal. It will not give you energy for real actions on a regular basis.

The attitude “i dont like my shyness” is a bad, weak attitude.

The attitude “f..k you, im shy and im okay with it” is a strong, attractive attitude (without being a jerk of course)
A triple pendulum at rest now will be at rest 1s from now.
A triple pendulum moving now will likely be moving 1s from now.

That doesn't mean that the triple pendulum isn't a chaotic system. It just shows the chaotic nature of the system doesn't manifest at the level of detail you're considering.
Heh, I'm in the opposite scenario - Uber's map's shitty routing directs delivery drivers to the block behind me, so often my food gets dropped off at the wrong house. Luckily, they are not the type to open their door to unexpected knocks, so the food is still there when I go to collect it.
Not resistance. More along the line of usability. (I will gladly admit that I am a fan of super 33+ and will pay the $5 a roll any day. My thoughts are a bit skewed.)

Things that matter in electrical tape to me is flexability when wrapping wires. And how well it lasts in the sun. I get that the later test takes awhile. He has done a of couple year long tests but I get why thats rare.

It is hard to explain the difference in cheap electrical tape but if I was to take cheap tape and super 33 (or 88 which is a bit thicker) and wrap something with it the difference in how well they conform is night and day. And the adhesive itself is also a lot better.
I love Hacker News. It is very friendly to my phone.
Same boat but a bit worse: 15 years and a "network" that consists of two people from my very first job as a developer. It is a bit rough knowing that I am so intrinsically bad at networking.
Looks up to me.
Would like to know as well. This is tricky, as all your assets are probably intellectual property and hard to put a price tag on.
Also some people have a hard time accepting that they are eligible for a smaller piece of the cake than you are.
It was completely a joke as mentioned in the article :) It's not actually a blockchain, just a very crude linear merkle tree. The point is that pets are appended into the blockchain, and if enough blocks get appended that don't mention your pet's birth hash, your pet is "dead" like tamagotchi. You can read it in the article in detail.

It was an absurd application of "blockchain" in order to have a demo app to try to run on AWS Lambda within some hours and it worked! :)
> have viable local businesses tailored to non-car shoppers

i would imagine these local small shops cannot have the economy of scale that would allow a big retailer like costco to have cheap items. Which means the cost of living is going to be higher - it may or may not offset the savings of not having to pay for a car.
More interesting is regular continental drift is a thing as well. Up to several centimeters per year depending on where you are. The Greenwich meridian is no longer running through the dotted line they have there, for example. It's about a hundred meters away from there. That's a couple of hundred years of continental drift and some other corrections.
Ok, to recap:

> Seriously? Sex trafficking & abuse especially of underage people isn't a "live and let live" thing.

Definitely not. However, they were allegations made over 25 years ago, that led nowhere. So, to revive them as if they are a thing that actually is happening now is dishonest.

> Neither are co-workers assigning hundreds of thousands of dollars in vendor contracts to themselves or their organization.

Again, not a thing that happened. The winery in question is Grant Marie, which is not owned by the cult. It is, however, run by an ex-member - the one that used to run the cult's winery.

And, as to the nepotism, the hiring is done by the same outside firm as that which hired Lloyd himself, so, again, not under the control of the cult.

> I'm at a loss to understand your point of view here.

I despise fear-mongering and FUD on principle. Much evil has been done by self-righteous, frightened people who have convinced each other that monsters hide amongst the shadows. Hopefully, your rational skepticism has been triggered. But, if you're like most people, probably not.
What does "allow p2p networks" mean exactly?
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You're probably right, but much of HN tends to take a very US (or even very silicon valley centric) view of things. In the US the narrative (and maybe the truth too, idk) has been set up of Company vs Union. I suspect it's been made polarized so that the 2 party system can take advantage of what side they're on.
Veggies are not cheap. Rice and beans aren't particularly healthy. People in poverty lack money, but they also lack time, cooking equipment, and food storage equipment. You tend to get a lot of food with high carbs and salt and sugar and nothing else. Perhaps you don't really know what your poor contacts eat, or they're just not representative. This is well studied.
I'm not sure how it detects how hard a punch is, but I suspect form (or the closest approximation it can detect) is a significant factor.

But honestly, it's not real boxing it's a boxing themed cardio exercise. At a purported 10-15 calories a minute it seems like a pretty good cardio workout as well.
Is Erlang particularly hyped? I don't usually see it suggested as a solution, I see it almost exclusively in reference to something already written in it, a fait accompli, like WhatsApp.
Calling it a clone feels misleading to me. They're both made by ByteDance. It's more akin to two instances of a product (with some customizations on each).
Ask Martin Shkreli.
What the article is missing is the incentive structure.

For example: "The number of entities sufficient to disrupt a blockchain is relatively low: four for Bitcoin".

This probably refers to the 4 largest mining pools.

Yes, they could temporarily annoy some people by not processing their transactions. But it would come at a giant cost to them. They would be out of business quickly as miners can switch to a different pool in minutes.

That is like saying the US economy is brittle because if Walmart, Apple, Amazon and ExxonMobil would just send everybody home and set their premises on fire, there would be a problem.
There are very good reasons to be fervently anti-BTC given its history since 2017.
My community launched a cryptocurrency backed by real estate income and we did token buybacks and burn using the income; we did this using our own DEX so our token serves as an alternative to a share (since obviously we cannot list shares of our business on a stock exchange; this had obvious business utility). It works (we managed to acquire 1 property and token price was stable for a long time) but unfortunately we've been struggling to raise significant funding since the beginning and there has been a lot of weird stuff happening with our community members like people pulling out for no reason and then soon after receiving awards from other mainstream (scam) projects whose founders don't like us. In some cases, we've had people spend months working for free building some apps (hoping to get some tokens), finishing it and then pull out mysteriously with weird excuses and refusing any tokens.

You'll find that these buyback-and-burn 'token as a share' projects which are backed by real economic value are suppressed even though they provide businesses with exposure to investors which represents real value for those businesses (and potentially to their investors). None of them ever end up growing to the point that they can become fully decentralized (though most of them look promising initially). Obviously many founders take 'bribes' (in the form of price pumps) to sabotage their own projects.

I've worked for such project before and watched it self-sabotage. It was very obvious but they started to hire a lot of people and adding more bureaucracy to make the business look more legitimate... But they achieved absolutely nothing in 5 years.
China’s Surveillance State Is Growing Bigger and More Invasive