skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two point of views:

Server offering person Alice: If I want to use the service, I want to use the service, not get cryptocoin shares. And I usually want stuff on the internet for free.

Server or service using person Bob:
If I want to make money by hosting, I need someone to pay for my hosting-mined coins.

I don't understand as to who in this overview is willing to pay for a place on the blockchain with fiat currency? Someone needs to pay Alice for the efforts she has put into hosting, but who transfers something worth real money to here?

Even the author stated that he wants to use a blockchain for user identification, not monetary incentive. But perhaps he means identification is what is granted to you, no money involved.
But that can't be it either: So you can host a server, to gain the right to use the server? No, that is the status quo.

Lets take a look what happens if you do not run your own server:
So you host a more or less public server for others as the scenario proposed here. A client connects, and sends that that shall be stored in a blockchain (i.e. append only, publicly distributed database) to upload [1] and later confirm their identity. When not running the server, who says that the server is not malicious and uses a different identity for the federated network than it displays to the client that connected to it?

[1] Something like the the Web of Trust exists between existing servers, or the server will have to spend a resource like having coins or a history of already signed up users to gain the right to add user identities to the blockchain?
The Proof of Stake/Work paragraph above probably now again applies for true "trustless" systems, that require full client (i.e. technically server node) equals user identity.
I haven't heard about blogtrottr before, but landed on a similar idea and built RSS-to-email service for myself and opened it for others (https://briefcake.com). Mainly, I did it to battle my pointless social network and doom scrolling addictions -- and it worked amazingly. I spend less of my time on internet, more of my time with kid.

I'm slowly extending support for other social networks, to my surprise, they are not that "social" and it's quite a pain to scrape anything from them.
The idea is you can be invited to a team in another tenant from your own account.
“ The three authors of the new paper, who had been collaborating on related projects over the past two years, came together to prove that one of the new codes had all the properties needed to make a quantum system of the sort that Freedman and Hastings had hypothesized. In so doing, they proved the NLTS conjecture.
Their result demonstrates that entanglement is not necessarily as fragile and sensitive to temperature as physicists thought. And it supports the quantum PCP conjecture, suggesting that even away from the ground energy, a quantum system’s energy can remain virtually impossible to calculate.
“It tells us that the thing that seemed unlikely to be true is true,” said Isaac Kim of the University of California, Davis. “Albeit in some very weird system.””
I suspect that is because home based businesses are explicitly protected in many localities in the US. AKA, the HOA couldn't actually tell you that you couldn't do it if they wanted to.
HP started in a garage. So did Apple.

And some dude built a nuke in his. Have fun.
People with a bag of weed in their pocket in middle america probably feel the same way
it was made clear to me through many different venues/sources during my younger years (especially 20s) that society and people would only be interested in me in direct relation to whatever resources I had

wow, which culture is that? i have lived in europe, the united states, new zealand, and a few countries in asia, and i have never even noticed a hint of any such attitude.
Growth is clearly unsustainable until we can decouple happiness from exhaustion of finite material resources.
> Even if resource use (in terms of conservation of mass and energy) is fixed, you can still have economic improvements within that steady-state system, can't you?

Sure, technical innovations and efficiency improvements to get more for less is also economic growth. And therefore by definition not steady-state.
poor.

edit: AWS somewhat famously burns through engineers and ties personal compensation and career development to making things happen even if it requires insane workloads.
My next house is going to be so far from my neighbors that if they were complaining about noise from my basement they would be admitting to trespassing.
I live in Argentina where the government took over pensioner funds and gave away millions of pensions to people who have never worked in a formal job, and therefore never put a penny into a pension fund. The result is that almost every pensioner earns peanuts regardless of how much they worked or how much they gave to the pension fund, and almost every pensioner earns half the poverty line basket.

Guaranteeing financial security to anyone is impossible.
Eh, I was thinking more like, "Build us a web portal for viewing the status of <random thing> and requesting more <random thing>." than, "Run guns for us cheaply."
Has privatizing public infrastructure EVER gone well?

Is there any indication this will be different from all the many, many, many failed privatizations?

What were they thinking (really, what was the discourse over there? Doesn't Iceland usually tend to do reasonable things?)?
isn’t that a 401k?

I wish they raised the limits.. it’s woefully inadequate after years of inflation.
You need a "Home Occupation Permit". The details will vary by municipality, but here are the requirements for Sacramento CA, just to pick a random example: https://www.cityofsacramento.org/-/media/Corporate/Files/EDD...

"The following occupations are eligible for a Home Occupation Permit subject to restrictions discussed in the next section. If the occupation is followed by an asterisk, the use is also subject to special conditions also discussed below. Eligible home occupations are:

1. General office uses, such as accountant, administrative assistant, answering service,
appraiser, architect, attorney, bookkeeper, broker or agent (real estate, insurance, etc.), counselor, consultant, drafting service, engineer, interior decorator, secretarial service, word processing service, and other office uses whose characteristics are substantially similar to those listed.

2. Commission merchant, direct sale product distribution, internet, or mail order business.

3. Dressmaker, tailor, fashion designer.

4. Mobile vehicle glass installation and mobile vehicle detailing.*

5. Pet services, such as pet sitting, pet grooming, pet training, and veterinarian care.*

6. Office for contractor, handyperson, janitorial service, landscape contractor, gardening
service.*

7. Artist.

8. Tutoring.*

9. Small equipment, appliance, and computer assembly, repair, or reconstruction.*

10. Healing arts professional, including physician, surgeon, chiropractor, physical therapist, acupuncturist, and somatic practitioner.*

11. Hair stylist, barber, and manicurist.

12. Swimming instructor.*

13. Cottage food operation as defined in section 113758 of the California Health and
Safety Code."

=================

I saw somebody get dinged for this once for running a Twitch stream out of their garage and accepting donations, one of the only times I've seen the modern "contractor" trend work out in anyone's favor:

- https://nitter.net/happyf333tz/status/1036846647945261056

- https://nitter.net/happyf333tz/status/1040074413599678465
I expected to find that solution in article. Or if someone doesn’t like triggers, you can just insert row in associated table, if failed with duplication error, then do nothing, otherwise increase counter.
New framing:

the problem is "convince partner that I need a sweet shop in the garage", solution is "become entrepreneur requiring sweet shop in garage" ;)
the externalities of resource use are arguably reaching catastrophic tipping points that will hit before depletion is an immediate concern
Joining a group that believes in magical sky dwelling beings that grant eternal life in utopia provided you worship them enough isn’t the only path to community and purpose.
This is horrible for me and a few small communities I run. We’ll have to stop using slack (discord I guess) as we don’t have much traffic. We never got near the 10k limit and would use search quite a bit to find old items.

I guess Slack doesn’t mind losing these users. Of course we are free communities, but had also bought some seats for other projects.

But this means I won’t be able to use them any more.
>REST is an application programming interface for RESTful systems, interpreted by RESTful clients (browsers).

No, the interpretation is done by the human using the browser, which is what makes it not programmable against, violating the P in the acronym.
I'm walking away from this article unable to find a really good reason to implement HATEOAS in an API meant to be consumed by a program (as Application Programming Interfaces typically are).

The best I can come up with (and this is me trying to like it) is that I guess the API is somewhat self documenting?

I see benefits to resource orientation and statelessness, but why do people get so upset about these APIs not following HATEOAS? Is it just a form of pedantry, that it's not really a REST API, it's a sparkling JSON-RPC?
because you only need a few people not wanting that (ie people with a mindset somewhat similar to: I'd rather see people suffer than cooperate and compromise resulting in having less share of resources) for the rest to not matter.

that 'stable' state is unstable (in the control theory sense of the word).
Yeah. When the rare visitor leaves a comment or somebody emails me because they read my writings it definitely feels worth it.
It’s ok, this kind of thinking will have you locked in your house by climate catastrophe not government.
What about the lockdowns, mandates, eviction moratoriums, handouts, and mass vaccination campaigns?
For an expat like myself, the community aspect is the most difficult part. How can you create a community if you are hopping countries every 4-6 years?
Took a while to figure out, I kept getting "millenials ruined by avocado toast" articles while searching.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160814085512/http://www.goavoc...
You can look up the Niche Zero.
recent graeber/wengrow research shows your understanding of human progress is way out of date
Alcohol? Really? I thought we'd gotten rid of that urban myth...
You seem resigned to the fact that any artist that happens to sell above a certain threshold via NFTs will be treated as a criminal, and there is nothing to do but shrug and say that is the way the law is and forever will be in the EU.
If you want to create an economically viable business, focus first on how you're going to profitably locate, attract and sell to a growing pool of new customers. The vast majority of businesses which fail, do so due to a lack of Customers not a lack of Product.
I have a heretical thought: the integrated circuit revolution has made capitalism and the economy in general look much better than it actually is.
80 hour work weeks and an average 18 month before employees quit or get fired.
To answer your question you only need to investigate under which conditions coercion succeeds in changing behaviour.

I believe that we can dismantle the current world order by providing a more persuasive alternative. Legitimacy is not absolute, but rather relative, and currently the things built on coercion are more legitimate, that is not a law of physics (thankfully it seems to be the other way around actually).
We need to demand more options on technology platforms! We cannot impose effective consumer pressure when we are forced to choose between two locked down App Stores which make it impossible to categorically prevent these kinds of malicious actions.

How long do you think it would take for a "Little Snitch"-like application to pop up that firewalls location API access if the platforms were more open?
I can't believe anyone would say that Teams is better than Slack.

Almost everything about Slack is better. It's easier to manage conversations/channels. It's easier to read. It's easier to write. It's easier to customize.

The only thing I've heard is that Slack is unstable for some people. I haven't experienced any stability issues in 3+ years using the MacOS app. I've heard that the Slack web interface may be the cause of stability issues.

We have Slack in my organization, but corporate has started using Teams for the past year. I think the writing is on the wall, and I'm dreading it.
A 401k is like a state funded pension? No, not at all?
Okay, now do the Voynich Manuscript.
If it’s something you only do once a year, honestly, it’s more important to script it.
idk. they made me get a commercial account. and their stock for my local shop leans heavily towards grade-8 construction fasteners and not the smaller machine screws that I generally use.
I agree with this. With Nix I can finally stop using nightmarish tools like nvm and rvm. I have my development tools where I need them: my projects. There's no reason for me to have, say, node or eslint available anywhere else.
"Found" a ton of heavy duty, industrial conveyor belts.

On my way to the rust belt with a hackszall right now.
> Maybe you're talking about medical authority?

Maybe. It has much less rhetorical flourish though ;) I still think it's a valid ideal and even if realistically unobtainable in the absolute, it still incredibly worthwhile north star.
I’ve had this sickness of growth in my early twenties. Rushed into a startup, burnt through 7 figures of VC money. Then took an other shot at it, but slower growth and no VC money. Bootstrapped that company and got acquired. Then started an agency [1] where we get to design B2B software products for a variety of startups. We are keeping it small on purpose and growth is never discussed. The focus is to do work we love with amazing teams of engineers and entrepreneurs. Accidentally we’re generating more money than in my previous ventures, even with a clear cap on growth. It just adds to our runway and makes working every day more fun and fulfilling.

[1] https://fairpixels.pro
Must be nice to live in such an alternative universe.

In companies where I've worked, a few Fortune 500 ones included, there is this thing called "budgeting". More formally called AOP, Annual Operating Plan.

Your team, IT department, whichever...gets a budget. For the year. And you're going to tell the owners/accountants what they get for that. And it isn't just going to be "we'll add dark mode", it's going to be tied to bottom-line business metrics like revenue, cost of non-quality, compliance, etc.

Further, this budgeting exercise also reveals cross department dependencies, critical path issues, etc.

Of course, this still doesn't mean that the plan will fully work out, but this idea "let's just not do it or wing it" doesn't really work. At least not in the companies described above, but things are likely much different in well-funded startups.
It's fairly safe if you operate in a well ventilated environment, have fail-safes in your still in case there is a pressure build up, and use electric elements instead of gas.

Plenty of people use gas, but I don't see why given the increased risk and cost.

For gin you need to make or buy neutral spirit first. Buying it is ideal as larger providers can make it cheaper and cleaner than you, but needs a license so you won't do this while you're developing a product.

Then you will likely use a pot still to make your final product. You can use the same equipment to do both processes if you have a modular design.

None of the above is set in stone - gin is a bit like jazz and breaking the rules is common.
> Thanks for taking the time to try help me understand this.

No worries!

> I feel like analogizing here might confuse rather than clarify

Agreed--finding accurate analogies is hard for most things, IMHO.

> What is the underlying social reason for the agency-responsibility regarding pregnancy? I'm genuinely asking with the understanding that there may be multiple reasons, but I don't have an internal sense of agency-responsibility toward pregnancy that apparently others do. Under what principles is such a responsibility formulated?

Protection of life. Indeed, as a society we purport to value life (especially vulnerable life) even above commerce.

We also don't let parents neglect children even though this restricts parents' liberties. When you elect into parenthood (e.g., via consensual sex or adoption), you have a legal/moral responsibility to provide vital necessities to your children while they're in your care. Of course, once a child has been born, parents can elect to transfer that responsibility (to the state or other parent/s), but for obvious reasons we can't transfer care of an unborn baby.

Of course, this is predicated on the axiom that an unborn baby constitutes human life.
1. In either situation, the child is unwanted. The only difference is money, not time. I find it hard to believe the lack of both money and time is better than the lack of time. It just doesn't make logical sense to me. Now, if it was the difference between no child and a wanted child, that makes sense. But that's not what we're talking about - we're talking about the difference between a child where the father pays child support and a child where the father does not pay child support and instead the child is supported by state social services.

2. Yes I did. Why do you ask?
In some way "90 days" is a more humanly understandable limit than 10k messages or 5GB - as long as everyone knows it's an ephemeral channel they can work with it.
Embrace, extend, extinguish.

I truly hate Microsoft.
I just left Salesforce, and on the way out I talked to some folks who saw Slack as the last decent corner of the company to work in (while that lasts).

As someone who worked at a company Salesforce acquired, I can say from experience that tinkering with pricing and packages is how it starts. Next will be tight integration with Salesforce's nightmare monolith, and then a mountain of compliance bureaucracy burden as salespeople try to convince government agencies that they need something they don't and that making compliance burdens more and more insane is good for them (when in reality it's just a transparent attempt at giving Salesforce more of a "most" around their business to keep out any upstart competitors who might otherwise enter the market with the same or better product for cheaper).

If the current pattern holds, this will culminate in mass exodus from engineering and a promotion for some execs for "strengthening Salesforce's position in the marketplace" while "cutting costs" in the form of reducing the number of salaries they pay out)
Bottom line: REST+HATEOAS is great for distributed hypermedia consumed and navigated by humans.

It is just not a practical architecture for API’s.
It may be time to re-visit this approach now that HTML5 is fully matured.

HTML5 was only just released in 2014, and took many years to be fully supported by major browsers.

At the time of JSON vs HTML, HTML was not yet in a standard place yet (XML API implementations were extremely inconsistent).

Fast forward to 2022, fetching <div> and <a> is an elegant pattern, and probably the way to go for self documenting API in the future!
Is this the beginning of USA compromising with Russia? Damn.
Designer of what?
A large portion of the market for anonymous phones are for illegal purposes. For any company doing this at scale, they are inevitably confronted with this fact and can get in a lot of trouble if they are proven to be knowingly supporting crime groups/individuals.
No, that wasn't any tax thing. It's called forestry. The "tree farm" is a business and it's where wood comes from.
It's important everyone becomes educated about the fact that virtually every mobile app sells some part of your data that leads to some private company possessing the ability to draw a circle around your house on map and then detect all patterns of life without any PII.

I don't think it's fair to pit this as a US gov't surveillance problem. It's true though - the Government missions involved, where this type of data is relevant, face rather compelling offerings especially in complex times; e.g. immigrant/refugee surges where understanding the flow of people up to the border is important for stability.

All of this data comes from Big/Small/all tech; usually branded as "ad tech" or "mobility data". And the supply chain is rather murky, masked, and rebranded/repackaged numerous times between a network of data providers & downstream businesses.

Working close to Government... I've never seen any mission specifically seeking large-scale citizen-based tracking capabilities. US government in recent timeframes have seemed adamant about not purchasing any US-based location data & are cautious even for non-US based monitoring; especially as they learn more about the origins & scale of mobility data.
Suppose you have two adult conjoined twins, Liz and Cat. A procedure exists that would remove Cat from Liz's body but would result in the death of Cat. Not performing the procedure results in a significantly lower quality of life for Liz.

Is it okay for Liz to knock Cat out, take herself to a hospital, and have the surgeon remove Cat from her body? Or should society force Liz to share her body with Cat?

The opposing perspective would map this closer to the abortion debate than the blood transfusion scenario. I wonder myself which is more relevant and why I have such different responses to the two scenarios.
Those also don't usually allow "package" delivery (think UPS) but maybe something can be worked out. Some small post offices will accept a UPS delivery to "unit PO BOX number" but I don't think they're supposed to.
Minecraft is not a hard game to clone and even make better.
Oh wow! Just updated. Thank you for pointing this out
I have a workshop/gym in my 2-car garage and his space doesn't look much bigger than mine. (It is, however, infinitely cooler than mine)

He's got the tall ceiling, yeah, but he wasn't using it in any way that I can see.

Power hookups likely wouldn't be an obstacle if one was recreating this in a residential garage. Would just need 220V for some of the machines I bet. Key here is that for Grant's line he surely you running all of the power-hungry machines at once as he was (to the best of my knowledge) working on bespoke one-off projects.
All this Co2 is doing wonders for us!
Of course, digital has its benefits, but even today some professional studio photographers will use medium format film:

https://www.adorama.com/alc/faq-what-is-a-medium-format-came...
> If the client knows nothing about the meaning of the responses, it cannot do anything with them but show them to a human for interpretation.

This is the best counterpoint in this discussion and it deserves a lot of reflection.

But that reflection should include the realization that this is what the browser does all the time. Browsers don't have any particular semantic model in their head of what any particular form action or hyperlink "means" in terms of domain logic... but they do have some semantics for broad classes of verbs and other interactions associated with markup-represented potential actions, and so they serve as an agent presenting these to the user who does whatever wetware does in processing domain semantics and logic and makes a choice.

This has worked so well over the last 30 years it's been the biggest platform ever.

We're now in territory where we're creating software that's almost alarmingly good at doing some semantic processing out of no particular structure. The idea that we're facing a dead end in terms of potential for clients to automatically get anything out of a hypertext API seems pretty tenuous to me.