skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if it has physical consequences. There was a case in 2014 that narrowed software patents significantly, called "Alice vs CLS Bank." No more patents on computerized shopping carts, but encryption or compression can still be patented.
Something that only received a passing mention in this is that cryptocurrency and related web3 items are sold like a technical panacea to a whole host of other problems with the financial system, governments, corporations, and so on, some of which are real, some are definitely in the realm of fantasy.

From my perspective it's just changing one set of monetary system problems for another set of technical and resource use problems, which IMO is not a step forward.
> I think this is mostly about Twitter's refusal to censor on behalf of the Indian government; see eg https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3bmn/twitter-censorship-in...

Vice is part of the same Leftist Media cabal.

> The OP is a very strong BJP supporter (see comment history), but even so it's a weird take.

LMFAO no. It is mostly about Twitter censoring accounts that are pro-Hindu: https://twitter.com/aranganathan72/status/132892246447524659...

And the ban was done after Opposition Party supporting Bureaucrat (from the IPS cadre) threatened to get the account banned. Basically Twitter acted on behalf of the Opposition not the Ruling Party. You can read the full story here [1].

If Twitter is truly unbiased, it wouldn't be siding so openly with Opposition Parties in India.

Quoting the user (TrueIndology) who was banned:

`She asked me for my personal details. I refused to divulge those details. She then said "Your time is up". And boom. My account was suspended within 5 minutes. Twitter sent no mail. Gave no reason. Simply suspended my account`.

The Government of India has authority to regulate Law and pass Executive Orders to entities operating within the Country. The Opposition of India has no such powers. Yet Twitter defied the Government's Executive Orders but did not defy the Opposition Party Bureaucrat's diktat. That should tell you how openly biased Twitter is.

Anyways, being a "strong BJP supporter" is not a crime on HN I presume. Where propaganda thrives it is better to be a strong, vocal supporter. Even if all alone and in minority.

[1]: https://www.opindia.com/2020/11/twitter-suspends-trueindolog...
Where are the middlemen? I buy most tickets directly from the airline website.
This is increasingly important because I've observed the "pull back" in hype has allowed a new breed of charlatans to pretend there is ever more legitimacy to this whole scam. Notably, Big 4 consulting firms have been embracing various Web3 stuff obviously without understanding it, but smelling that there is money to be made. So now legitimate businesses somehow get caught up on this scam based on some business translator misunderstanding of what it is, and have to double down on pretending it's legit. The whole thing needs a big bucket of cold water thrown on it
I don't XMPP was meant to be "distributed," at least not in the way that the BitTorrent network is (and blockchains nominally are). XMPP assumes a relatively normal client-server architecture, but with no authoritative index server. That makes it decentralized in the way that IRC and SMTP are, but doesn't imply anything about consensus or peer coordination.

(More stridently: even as "failures," both XMPP and BitTorrent have probably been significantly better for the world, on net, than blockchain projects have been.)
>You’re literally always in the Earth’s magnetic field

Even if an object is in earths magnetic field, grounding itself still discharges electricity...

when you ground yourself (one way is going bare foot on the ground)...

> The ground on which you walk has a negative electrical charge. Therefore, it’s able to neutralize positively charged electricity

https://monroeengineering.com/blog/how-does-electrical-groun....

> Electrical systems are inherently powered by electricity. As electricity flows through them, however, it may build up to dangerous levels. This is why most electrical systems are grounded. Grounding ensures that any excess electricity will be discharged.

A biological system that is grounded has less excess charge inside it.
I just added a keyword search in firefox* for inspiration when I'm searching for a replacement word.

* Assign a keyword (e.g. care) to a regular bookmark but place %s in the url (https://carefulwords.com/%s). It gets substituted for whatever is typed after the keyword.

So my keyword is care and I can type "care joy" into the url bar which opens https://carefulwords.com/joy.
Oooooh, Hunt and Peck indicates that it's possible to make a Shortcat for Windows!

I would probably need to pay someone to build that particular version though cause the last time I built anything for Windows was like 15+ years ago
Having worked for a couple of big companies with IT, you should know they are effectively all breaking the law already in this regard (except for maybe hardware companies) because it’s basically impossible to enforce and no one cares.

The best way to make sure your code isn’t copied is not to publish it.
US auto regulations are extremely conservative on the lights/signals front, have been for a long time. Some European car designs in the late 20th century were compromised when brought to the US because the headlights had to be made worse (in an aesthetic sense) even though there was no safety reason to do so — Citroen DS was one of these.

And maybe they should be conservative, but I don’t see how anyone can argue that it should take a decade to get something like this approved (or formally rejected).
> It’s just a verbal tick (ha, I did it again) and means nothing. Eliminate that word and the sentence meaning is unchanged as far as my intent is concerned.

So it may seem...but can you know for certain that it doesn't reflect underlying cognition, at least to some degree?

For example, let's reconsider your statement:

"Remember that "paying close attention" should not mean focusing on the interesting coincidences. A million things happen to you every day; most of it is noise unless you assign meaning to it. This sheer quantity of events means that coincidences are pretty much guaranteed to happen on a regular basis — paying close attention just means you notice more of them."

We now know that "paying close attention means you notice more of them [only coincidences, which has also been ruled out]" is not necessarily a comprehensive set of the consequences/benefits of paying very close attention - so then: what might some other plausible benefits be, for various degrees of the exercise of "paying close attention"?

(And as an aside: have you ever noticed how programmers and scientists, and their fans, regularly extol the superiority of the virtues of strict logic and epistemology, but when they are asked to practice it they often claim that it is ~stupid/dumb/meaningless/a waste of time?)

> If we’re living in a simulation, it would be strange indeed that they’ve made it appear to be completely deterministic but with an extra sprinkling of coincidence pixie dust as experienced by Darwinistic entities which experience a self-bootstrapped illusion of free will.

This makes several assumptions - for example, if we are in a simulation, you seem to be assuming a particular kind of simulation (one that people or an entity of some kind made) - what about the Plato's Allegory of the Cave style of simulation, that has substantial scientific support?

For example: "they’ve made it appear to be completely deterministic" is your experience, but not mine - materialists (not making an accusation, just saying "in general") tend to only "see" the physical realm of reality, but others also see the metaphysical realm (although ~everyone complains about the metaphysical realm, despite thinking it doesn't exist).
I think Microsoft, their ISVs, and everyone would benefit a lot if Windows were "open source" in the narrow sense - viewable source code, with a license to compile and use only to the extent that you already own the requisite Windows license(s).

Pirating Windows is already utterly trivial with KMS activation, so it's not like they'd lose anything there.
Free speech is not absolute. Every (almost every?) country have laws against child porn. Does that mean every country is violating humans rights by banning it?
4 years ago is 4 years better
Working on that right now :)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fRAAf83QzR0

And this is just a single clip. The huge advantage Tesla has is their massive amount of training data. If it happens in the real world, they probably have a clip of it and can train on it.
And I assume Greenland and Canada will start over paying interest payments.
If inflation is 10%, then most places you put your money won't hold value over time.
I'm working on a version that allows sending arrow keys with modifiers to the targeted application, so soon!
> while at the same time, they take power away from individuals.

Stable Diffusion and DALL-E give a ton of power to individuals, hence why they are popular.

It feels like you're doing a cost analysis instead of a cost-benefit analysis, i.e. you're only looking at the negatives. It's a bit like saying cars are bad because they give more power to the big companies who sell them + put horse and buggy operators out of a job.
Meta Said Damaging Internal Email Is ‘Fake’, Here's Evidence They're Wrong
Ask HN: Anyone else unable to access photos and street view on Google Maps?
I cannot seem to get Google Maps street view or photos of places loading on any of my devices right now. I've tried multiple connections, with and without ad blockers, incognito, browser and Android app. A friend in another state says she's having the same issue.

Curious if anyone else is seeing the same issue?
Well no.

Code is only protected to the degree it is creative and not functionally driven anyway.

So the reduced band of possible expression often directly reduces the protectability-through-copyright.
The biggest reform is to dissolve the security council and make it truly democratic.
What middleman do you deal with when buying an airline ticket? I buy mine directly from the airline; when I search, the search engines I use directly link me to the airline for the sale.

Airline ticketing itself is suboptimal for historic reasons (complicated fare class coding), but middlemen are no longer a major factor in that. Travel agents no longer dominate booking.
Do they still use torrents though? I was under the impression that virtually all companies using torrents had discontinued it as disruption to users internet quality and possibly data usage caps meant it was easier to just pay the cost of distribution.
Sometimes the journey is better the destination. When i was 10ish I’d build stage zero gentoo installations with dialup downloads. It’d take weeks and when i was done i didn’t really have anything to do with the computer.
I find this comment surprising because I don’t know what I’d do without BitTorrent - what are the alternatives? Edonkey, gnutella, etc are all dead. Just yesterday I downloaded an entire series in a matter of minutes thanks to BitTorrent. That would’ve taken ages over emule.
It won't be open source, but I will be adding an API so it can be integrated with other apps and scripted
Ah. I see How much housing should be built before you decide to go homeless instead of paying what colluding landlords decide they can extract from you?

The issue here is the collusion in place of competition.
If the code is ostensibly available under permissive licenses, a well-intentioned human will also make the same mistake.
For one thing FizzBuzz is like... 5-6 statements? This function has 13. FizzBuzz has a whopping 1 variable to keep track of. This function has so many I'm not even going to try to count. I'm not going to keep arguing about this, but if you want to believe they're equally simple then you'll just have a hard time convincing other people. That's all I have left to say on this.
Huh, very recent Model 3’s might indeed have the necessary technology. Too bad Tesla’s support sucks so bad you can’t email them to ask — maybe try Musk on Twitter?

https://rechargd.com/which-tesla-has-matrix-led-headlights/
99% of Web3 is crap.
1% pure gold.

Same thing with the first .com bubble.
AI have been through this too and is now having a revival.

Blockchain and Web 3 is not going anywhere it will just not be championed by the current generation. The coming will use this as it was the most normal in the world.
for the same reason people copy random snippets from stackoverflow without understanding how they work. There's a large amount of people who care more about getting a job done than really understanding how the tools work they're using.

There is absolutely zero doubt in my mind that copilot et al will lead to the absolute proliferation of half baked code even more than all the other mundane ways to copy&paste do.
No worries! Glad you love Shortcat :D
An example of this is Azure jumping on board the Distributed Identity (DID) bandwagon.

The only reason DID exists is to push crypto. Nobody wants their identity to be put on a public ledger. That's has identity theft built-in as a "feature"!
It’s nice when there are both.

Text and video are good at different things, telling the same story twice in different formats is rewarding to both you and your audience and there’s lots of overlap.
Loupe – See how the call stack, task queue and event loop interact in JavaScript
Because the entire concept is basically designed to just make the rich even richer and puts way more risk on the individual.

Instead of say, social security being significantly higher by people paying more into taxes.. we have convinced people to put money into a 401k.. which is first entirely dependent on "the market", something which is well out of peoples control. The design is that people are 'forced' to contribute this way, which will drive market prices up so the people who actually have substantial money make way more on the market going up than the little guy.

Then on the flip side, when the market does tank it hurts the little guy way more because it's basically ALL of their assets at risk on something they can't control. While the rich are able to have money in a much more diversified set (real estate, business etc).

People also get f'd if they happen to want to retire close to a big market crash and all that. Again, things completely out of their control.

Before anyone starts arguing "I would rather have control on my 401k than the government!!", if the US government couldn't pay social security you would be way more fucked in the market in that situation. We have a stable government- that stable government should be providing security for people in old age.

"Retirement" being linked to the market is so beyond dumb. It's one giant scam to pump up the market and shift risk to individuals.
> Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

Then you proceed to require exact wording in agreement :-)

you're of course free to rationalize any way you want, but if it's so simple, why not bring it up with a manager?

> Maybe pay better?

Awesome. How much guarantees no issues? This much is fine? :-) https://mashable.com/article/google-waymo-bonuses

> if the task was actually engaging (or the money was worth it), they would find a way to not "half-ass" it.

Funny. Last time I had to deal with it, entire ten people team had zero issues with engagement. Only one guy had. All had comparable compensation. Care to explain this phenomenon? To make it even more funny his team brought up the issue first, as they got tired of this. Not every employer is shitty. Some of them being doesn't justify lying to all.

> I know of exactly zero programmers who spend every hour of every shift engaged.

Yup slack time is important. Every reasonable company knows that. You need to wind down sometimes. That's why you have table soccer, xboxes etc. You argue that, instead companies should assign second project to everyone, to help them relax?

>If your colleagues working second jobs are unproductive, I can basically guarantee you they'd still be unproductive with just one job.

Where can I exercise this guarantee? World is small - it's often easy to find common colleagues and find out about pre-remote performance of your teammates. It happened to me to be in such position and weirdly results were completely opposite from what you said.
I'm not sure if an app like Shortcat can be released on the App Store given it uses the Accessibility APIs (sandboxing etc), also the 15-30% cut they take is a bit ooooof, but I do have plans to support company/teams licensing!
> Left: “Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Johannes Vermeer” by Stable Diffusion Right: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer

Even that if done by a person as far as I understand it would not constitute a copyright infringement. It's a separate work mimicking Vermeer's original. The closest real world equivalent I can think of is probably the Obama Hope case by AP vs Shepard Fairy but that settled out of court so we don't really know what the status of that kind of reproduction is legally. On top of that though the SD image isn't just a recoloring with some additions like Fairy's was so it's not quite as close to the original as that case is.
Bitcoin advocates are angry about the fact that central banks create and destroy money regularly to control the market.

And usually that there is some big doomsday financial event coming up that only “hard money” like bitcoin can avoid.
No, it was a successor to the League. The League had been an obvious catastrophe; not something you'd want to copy or merely revise.

A very big alliance beats a nothing burger - and remember that the United Nations did exclude Germany and Japan in the beginning, for obvious reasons. It was originally the instantiation of an alliance.
Your comment. Umm. Well done. :-)
> Steve had an interesting relationship with Pixar.

I think your summary of his relationship with them sounds a lot like many of his working relationships.
This is also why Tesla switch to using 'drivable area' rather than strict road boundaries.
The author is correct in almost all his criticism. However, there is an emerging core of blockchain media that is providing real entertainment value to users. Bitcoin itself can be viewed as entertainment media rather than financial disruption. Bitcoin has an entertaining albeit misleading story generating a fan club that generates plenty of drama. Web3 takes the ability for blockchain media producers to service consumers further.
Hmm I’ll check it out. FWIW, I mostly don’t have trouble understanding what it does, only remembering the obscure ASCII mappings is frustrating.
Smoking at least had only downsides, we don’t know if obesity and sources of obesity has positive performance impacts, like X kg of weight correlating to Y dollars more per hour, of course after normalized by roles.
One thing cryptography solves in web3 that I haven't seen any recent alternatives for is decentralised identity.

You don't need blockchains and other such cruft for a simple signature system, but there's nothing on the web that actually makes use of such a system except for some government systems or intranets. Currently, every website asks for an email address and a username, but for most people that email address can easily be taken from them. This is especially bad for services that work with "magic links".

WebAuthn and now FIDO2 may soon fix this problem, tieing your base identity to a cryptographic key, either in hardware or software, with email as a mere recovery option if the worst were to happen.

As for an answer to your question: use the core protocol to generate speculative value through hype and pyramid schemes and cash out big time in a bigger-sucker scheme before you're found out.
> Die Featuritis ist meist umgekehrt proportional zum Inhalt, und wer Inhalt hat, legt in der Regel Wert darauf, auch gelesen werden zu koennen.
(Featurism is usually inverse proportional to content, and those who have content generally value being readable)

Too long for a tattoo but damn do I believe in this!
> Same thing with the first .com bubble.

The .com bubble ratio was more like 33% crap, 33% meh, and 33% gold. The "crash" was that people realised that the 33% crap was crap.

The equivalent crash for Web3 would wipe it out completely, taking the 1% with it.

Also, I don't agree that there is a 1% to begin with. I've never heard of any compelling use-case for Web3.
So, in a period where the market is down like 30% and inflation is up 10%.. your argument is putting it in the market is the way to combat inflation?

I mean, I get what you mean.. but we have a -40% differential here to prove you utterly wrong at the moment.
I prefer the old animation with a grey curve from the button, and I dont really see why it needed to change
For a con, blockchain has served me extremely well.

Its allowed me to pay when paypal/credit cards/my bank have decided they're going to not allow payment to a service.

It's allowed me to get paid cash in hand without having to involve entities who its none of their business why that money has been paid to me.

It's allowed me to bypass currency exchange issues and fleecing.
Compare and contrast Russian warcrimes with US conduct, however construed. I don't think you can make a close comparison. The Brits, when they led the world, were very considerably more nasty than the U.S..
So, transport-wise they're the same.

For files at rest on the remote, I guess I assumed files would be encryted on the remote with a local key since GP said "one can develop on untrusted remote machine" and "VSCode remote always assumes that the remote part is trusted".

On an actually untrusted remote, removing group read permissions doesn't do much to secure my code.

The only scenario where it's helpful is a system with multiple non-admin users, perhaps like a university lab computer but who's doing sensitive work on those anyway?
I’m not pulling the lack of role models thing out of thin air. Your take goes against decades of research so I will posit that you are plain wrong.

My comment is now surrounded by bordering misogynistic comments. It makes me feel uncomfortable. Sorry to everyone for what I inadvertently unleashed.
In fact, I'd open with a pitch along those lines. "I'm looking for feedback on a work in progress... gathering requirements, tweaking the workflow, that sort of thing. It's not something that you'd find useful right now, but if I could get some input based on your specific business needs/business model, I think we'd both find it valuable."

Without some kind of MP to show, whether it's V or not, all you're offering is hot air and wasted time. If they speak to you at all, the decisionmaker will want to know what makes you think you're qualified to develop the product. If you don't have an awesome answer for that, you're done.

Much better to have something that serves as a conversation piece, even if it's just a mockup.
If the entire universe is one system, nonlocality seems inherent. Why physicists are happy to embrace weird interpretations and not nonlocality is beyond me. It seems like an arbitrary choice to me, or even a poor choice.
Some of the middlemen disappeared. Remember hipmunk? Remember how searching for flights would show airlines that shared data but not all (e.g. Southwest)?
I'm dubious of that in cases where the training set isn't distributed. If we call the training copyright infringement is downloading an image infringement? is caching?
Would you be willing to write a "steel man"[1] argument for any of the technology that underpins web3?

This could be just one of any of the tech or services written using it.

I would be interested to read. Thanks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Steelmanning