skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, but the word "blockchain" has two meanings. You're talking about the technology known as blockchain. The blogpost is not about the technology known as blockchain, it's about the grift known as blockchain. Here's how you tell the difference:

When a project has a problem that needs solving, and they look for a solution to that problem, and the right solution happens to be a blockchain-like system, then we're talking about the technology known as blockchain.

If the problem these projects are trying to solve isn't how to scam people, the project will usually intentionally avoid using the word "blockchain", like Scuttlebutt and Jami do, and instead refer to their solution with terms such as "cryptographically-verified append-only ledger"

They do this because, when other people hear "blockchain", they usually either hear "this will be used to scam me" or "I can use this to scam others". Because they're thinking about the grift known as blockchain, not about the (relatively obscure by comparison) technology known as blockchain.

When a project says they're looking into how a combination of blockchain and their project could be useful, they're not trying to solve any problem. They've decided they want to transform their existing project into a scam, using the grift known as blockchain.

If they are interested in solving a problem, they'll talk about the problem, and how they solve it using something similar to the technology known as blockchain. If they're interested in scamming you, they'll talk about the grift known as blockchain, and ask you to use your imagination to envision for them how the technology known as blockchain will help the project, while they stick their hands in your pockets.
Anything? :D What does your stack look like? Do you use ROS or something more in-house?
The recent award winning Belgian film "Close" is in part about the awkwardness of (young) male friendship in western cultures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqPaPT6E_1k
The OP is about talking with Ether and I rather associate crypto with that than blockchain.
Using something like Git is highly recommended even if you're solo, just because it is so useful to have a log over changes. It doesn't really have any downside and can even easily replace FTP as the deployment method. Using FTP can be a bad idea as the replacement of files might not be atomic and can result in an invalid state.
What is your rationale for thinking that?
Ahh, i've seen my friends busy debugging and manual testing their code throughout the day.
This is great advice - it is true to me as well. I would ask You to also consider mention rolling across the upper back unless You don't endorse it and then I would like to hear [read] that too - i.e., one backside shoulder across to the other with your #2. It has saved me many times.
Bingo. Adverse selection in action... they've created a "market for lemons".

All the offshoring and outsourcing (and cultural disdain for technical people) means they can no longer tell the difference between charlatans and good tech leaders. But the good people know how to avoid them.
SpaceX Employees Say They Were Fired for Speaking Up About Elon Musk
> as if the vague 2 sentence requirement from their spreadsheet that I have to turn in reality doesn't require any creativity to implement

Do you really need creativity, though? Unless you’re working in uncharted territory and you’re just building some CRUD app like 90%+ of software in the world, you don’t. Software engineering patterns exist, and even so much of the innovation that supposedly came out in the last 5 years are mere iterations of the same patterns.

And the purpose of being creative with a solution is not creativity for creativity’s sake. Clarity, maintainability, scalability, should strictly be the primary goal of every line of code that you are writing. I wouldn’t debate that a code that is so clear and intuitive and easy to scale for so many people has achieved some degree of art, but that should be a side-effect, not the goal in itself.
For the first time in my life i've not had my own brain screaming at me, 24/7, deafening my inner voice with chaotic noise.

I can think. I can maintain a single strand of thought, then act on it. I can think, feel appropriate impulse, then "do" based on that impulse without it being out competed by the noise of random impulsive dopamine sparks.

I'm the same, my emotions are the same, but there's more control. My brain isn't "hunting" for stimulation.

I've been in therapy for 10 years too.
They are talking about crypto, though. What do you think the Ethereum foundation does? Wax poetry about Merkle trees?
Oh no, don't tell my electric car that's 10 years old
The 2-minute brute-force explanation of Fourier transforms in a recent Veritasium video was my "aha!" moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmgFG7PUHfo&t=464s
I suspect the precision wouldn't be high enough, resulting in a lot of dead produce?
The bizarre thing is that they asked for donations as Amazon gift cards! Surely Amazon could have blocked them?
Some of my kids 7yo classmates already walk to school ~1km in Prague by themselves in pairs, I guess alone it would be boring, personally I don't mind having at least morning walk to/from school since for the rest of the day I may sit next to desk, asked my kids if he wants to go by himself, he said no, but I guess when I will walk my younger daughter they can go back home together. Only thing I am really affraid is them crossing the road, I am certainly not affraid about anyone kidnapping them or other nonsense.

Recently when going by tram with kids somewhere I saw ~8-9yo girl travelling by herself seeing her confused started to cry, so I approached her, she said she is going wrong direction, told her to get off with us and then just directed her to right tram in different direction and went with my kids own way. Told her it's not big deal, she just lost few minutes and it can happen anyone to confuse tram numbers. Before COVID I used to approach tourists going in direction to my home since many of them went wrong direction, but surprisingly often I am met with German tourists who like riding trams whole line back and forth, I've had this hobby with Beijing subway lines when I lived there.

Actually my father (from small 40K town) came to visit just yesterday and he also took tram in wrong direction, realized it after 3 stops, but had problem to get back since there was no stop in opposite direction nearby, which happens with some stops, usually you just need to cross the road/tracks.
It's 25kmh for pedelecs. Most countries also limit E-Scooters to 25kph, but (for example) Germany limits them to 20kph.
My work started in 2013 coming up with an instantly verifiable memory hard proof of work after realizing how another proposal failed to achieve that [1].

Much later I helped architect a blockchain that aims for maximum simplicity and a pure linear emission. The use case is decentralized currency without the unnecessary complexity, bloat, grifting and speculation.

[1] https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo
I have a game that was distributed via an USB stick, and on the rare occasion that I had to reinstall that game, I've always needed to restore a backup copy back onto the USB stick, because the files on the stick themselves were damaged (the USB stick itself is required as some sort of copy protection dongle for the installer).
The randomize button is very difficult to find. It's in plain sight (at the top left) but I didn't realize that the icon means a new random example. Perhaps you can add a text to the button.
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Solving the riddle can reduce electric car battery consumption and make life tougher for currency speculators in the future. The discovery has just won the award for best research article and was honored at the field’s most prestigious conference in the United States.

... "We discovered an algorithm that solves the problem in virtually linear time, the fastest way possible. It is a fundamental algorithmic problem that has been studied since the 1950s and is taught around the world. This was one of the reasons that prompted us to solve it," explains Associate Professor Christian Wulff-Nilsen...
The only revolutionary thing blockchains enable is decentralized electronic cash and financial assets, which are fundamentally bad ideas, and the reaction is justified.

Any other "blockchain" related innovation is just a solution in search of a problem with the real purpose of pumping some virtual asset and selling it off in volume to other speculators. Anything you claim can be done with blockchains (other than decentralized finance) can be more easily done with databases, PKI, hashtrees, ZKPs and other technologies that exist for decades, and that includes smart contracts and anonymous & decentralized communication.
She may need access to medical care? Rural healthcare is really bad.
Do EU citizens have something to gain from an Estonian e-residence at all?
FYI: https://weather.bom.gov.au/ supports HTTPS and is pretty much a "modern" drop-in for the top-level.
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That's heartbreaking.

20 mph on a mixed-use trail is dangerously reckless, unless you get a long empty stretch out in the countryside.

There are always groups of 4+ pedestrians who will suddenly spread out and block both lanes completely, with almost zero warning. If you can't react to that without an accident, you're going way too fast.

It would be nice if pedestrians would stay in the correct lane, but it's never going to happen. Even if you're only going 5 mph, you've rung a loud bell, and you've clearly said, "Passing on your left" (if that's the local trail's convention), then half the group will immediately spread into the left lane. And the other half will block the right. This is the most basic fact of mixed-use trail safety.
I've heard that they no longer accept documents in English meaning you have to pay for translation of business documents/reports/etc.

Is this accurate?

The guy who talked about it was an angel investor and is not really impressed with Estonian e-residency anymore.
Where does it go into the management details?

I've skim read through it, and it reads vastly too weak.

They used a blockchain haskell implementation on a fringe blockchain technology, and wrote nearly all their business logic in it.

If I were them, I'd immediately sue whoever built it. This level of gross incompetence reads to me like they were scammed, used as patsies to integrate blockchain into a client.
Haha my girlfriend and I still sing the Sampo song. That movie is so disjointed that I didn’t even recognize this was that.

And I still don’t know what the Sampo is!
The issue isn't NTFS as far as I understand (based on what the WSL team themselves have explained). The problem is that the NT kernel is simply slow at opening files. Windows has transactional NTFS but it's deprecated and hardly used. The slowness can't be fixed because the open codepath goes via a lot of different filter drivers that can hook the open sequence, combined with the fact that there's no equivalent of a UNIX dentry cache because file path parsing is done by the FS driver and not the upper layers of the kernel. Even if the default filters were fixed to be made as fast as possible - which is hard because they're things like virus scanners - third party filter drivers are common and would tank performance again.

It's a pity because Windows would benefit from faster file IO in general but it seems like they gave up on improving things as being too hard.
I'm mainly referring to the technical leadership.
As a Finn it's both delightful and also bit sad to read the translation. First of all it's great that this is available for international friends but it's sad how much is lost in translation and how it's impossible to translate the beauty of ancient Finnish. It's quite far from the language we speak also and might be bit hard for us to understand but once you get into the flow (preferably by singing the poems in their original tones) there's nothing quite like them (judge yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRdCsEVFd4I)

Here's the first verses as an example. Hope someone can enjoy the rhymes and rhythm without understanding the language.

"Mieleni minun tekevi, aivoni ajattelevi
lähteäni laulamahan, saa'ani sanelemahan,
sukuvirttä suoltamahan, lajivirttä laulamahan.
Sanat suussani sulavat, puhe'et putoelevat,
kielelleni kerkiävät, hampahilleni hajoovat."

"MASTERED by desire impulsive,
By a mighty inward urging,
I am ready now for singing,
Ready to begin the chanting
Of our nation's ancient folk-song
Handed down from by-gone ages.
In my mouth the words are melting,
From my lips the tones are gliding,"
Saying somebody is creative because of their ADHD is like saying a person is charming because of their glasses. These things do not need to be related, they are charming and they happen to wear glasses. They are creative and happen to have ADHD.

Do not ascribe talents people have to their disabilities.

Besides, it's just a stereotype and doesn't hold for everyone with ADHD.
Per the Wikipedia article:

> User content in SSB is organized as an append-only sequence of immutable messages, where messages cryptographically sign adjacent messages for the purpose of guaranteeing unforgeabilitity of the sequences as they are replicated to other peers.

That's pretty much a blockchain. Of course, they don't call it a blockchain themselves, because the Scuttlebutt people are not running a grift, they're creating a communication protocol that happens to use cryptographic primitives similarly to how blockchains use them.
India to shift to USB C as common charging port for all smart devices
From the article: > India will shift to a USB type C charging port for all smart devices after stakeholders reached a consensus at a meeting of an inter-ministerial task force set up by the Union government, consumer affairs secretary Rohit Kumar Singh said Wednesday.
I tend to agree. Would be interested to hear what her family thinks.
You never interacted with hackers right? Here in Germany most of the CCC members are quite the realists there isn't much bluesky thinking done without any merit.
Transferring money from suckers to LO.
The CIA?
>Naming no names

Cowards. So far in US it was authorized Apple service center posting nudes from client phone, same for Verizon.
Maybe working at Twitter has been a complete doss these past few years and people realise they'd have to work twice as hard regardless of whether they stay or move elsewhere?

Let's be honest, it isn't as if Twitter is introducing new functionality on a regular basis. I log in once every few months and cannot think of the last time I saw a new feature.
You can find out what Ethereum Foundation does e.g. here

https://esp.ethereum.foundation/about

“ ESP focuses on strengthening Ethereum's foundations and enabling future builders: improving infrastructure, expanding the range of tools available to those building on Ethereum, deepening our understanding of cryptographic primitives, and growing the builder ecosystem through education and community development. The work we support is open source, non-commercial and built for positive sum outcomes.”
That's why async communication is the foundation of a productive team.
Z-library was popular amongst everyone, hackernews is a really niche website. But I believe with that website going down people will start looking for alternatives.

If everything fails, we can always go back to download books through IRC.
With eresidency you can file the monthly vat reports in estonia online which basically means you don’t need to pay vat in eu after getting this residency. Vat is over 20% in most countries. I.e once you are eresident gas in gas station and electricity are 20% cheaper. For example you can export software development services to a USA customer which is vat free. That’s how you get money into your company account. Then you can spend that money on gas Or hotels.
We're the lucky country mate.

Someone came along and gave me that site. Bugger if I know how to change it. Once it's gone it's gone!

On the one hand, https on BOM might not be a big deal / low priority in the grand scheme of things, but in the other hand it could be done in like half a day by anyone there who knows computers.

It's probably safe to say they don't know how to computer
Income tax for non-traditional employment is basically unheard of, so this would be effectively tax free for me.
Funny how these honest mistakes always tend to happen in a way that benefits the ones making them.
I've never entirely been sure what the benefit of this is. If I'm a resident of Spain (citizen of the USA) is there a benefit for me to get an E-residency through Estonia instead of starting my business here in Spain instead (or in the USA)?
Reducing pesticide use is a big deal. But that is a small issue compared to the bigger problem, which as you point out is nutrition.

Crop densities have been increasing dramatically over the last few decades, well beyond what natural soil systems can handle. Consequently, fertilizer use has increased dramatically. Our soils are just nearly dead as the factory monoculture farming has sucked everything out that it can (and killed a lot of important things it needed).

This current advancement (TFA) is just a bandaid, or paving a crack in the road. Perhaps a better analogy is that this is paving a crack in the road when we should be designing a whole new transportation system to meet our current and future needs.

Most of this agriculture is owned by a few huge companies. They are not interested in large systemic changes as those cost capital. They would much rather optimize what they have, even if the cliff is visible in the distance. Beyond one earnings quarter or perhaps a CEO's tenure, they don't care. As long as they are not standing on the cliff today, you cannot expect real (beneficial) changes.

As for replacing nutrition, this needs more research. But there are aquaponic systems which seem promising and enable a much more closed loop with vastly less waste.

Oh speaking of waste, I didn't even mention water yet. Current farming systems use water like it will never go away (and is free), but we know it's a problem now and presents its own absolute cliff in the near future.
Well, we saw ‘Covid Raves’ and ‘Covid Riots’, but they’re quite different things to ‘Covid Hysteria’.
> I don't care about stigma, but comparing a drug to a wheel chair is just ridiculous.

Why? Just because it comes in a pill form, instead of being conspicuous, doesn't make it any less of a help for a medical condition.

> I don't want to get addicted to another thing in my life,

The point of this comparison is that "being addicted to" ADHD meds is not in the category of "being addicted to heroine" - it's in the category of "being addicted to a wheelchair" when you could technically just use your hands to crawl around and grab things, instead of aiding yourself with technology.

> the idea of being on speed every single day seems pretty bad

Stimulant medication aren't speed, they're like "1/100 speed". It turns out that with medicine (not just psychiatric), the effects don't scale linearly or continuously with dose size. That's why those meds are helpful and safe to take in therapeutic doses, despite being technically dangerous, addictive drugs in much larger drug abuser doses.

> I seriously doubt most positive effect would persist after a year of using and rising tolerance.

Countless of people who have been treating their ADHD with stimulant medication continuously, for years or decades, will beg to disagree.

Nobody says you have to take meds for ADHD treatment, or that you have to take stimulants (there are other options available, although typically less effective). Hell, on some people with ADHD, stimulants don't work at all, or side effects are not worth the cost. But comparing them to speed is just wrong and irresponsible, as it makes people afraid of trying what could be effective treatment.
Your writing reminds me a lot of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

'The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to be "in here" are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from Quality together.'
Hacker News has historically been very open to blockchain ideas. I'd wager that without HN's contribution, it would not have been well known enough to get picked up by silk road which is really when it went from toy project to normal people caring. Even after that, I think many of the early blockchain for X startups got good press here and there is a decent chunk of HNers employed in the blockchain.

So I don't think negative reactions to blockchain articles on HN started as some sort of kneejerk conservatism, rather HN has seen the entire lifecycle of blockchain so far and what we've seen has exhausted the opening goodwill towards the concept for many users
Why would they shoot themselves in a foot like that?

Estimated pricing is 26k - 34k USD [0] with range of BEVs for 80k+ USD and convenience of filling up (charging) in few minutes instead of 1 hour and more. It might be more complex but it brings to a user price and convenience of ICE. And before you will pull out that people can charge at home, 50% of people in EU are living in apartments and thus can't charge at home.

[0] https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/hybrids-evs/2023-toyota...
I'm in Ireland, but have recently been diagnosed by a UK doctor as having ADHD. If you go privately, it's not a terrible process, and my local GP is willing to prescribe as my UK ADHD expert advises. Granted, medication has had no positive impact on me so far, but getting the diagnosis was pretty straightforward.
You can get a TransferWise bank account. Real bank account is impossible for eresidents
And how would Amazon know which gift cards were donated to them? You can buy them with cash everywhere, re-sell the product you bought in cash and use that to fund the site.
I fully agree. It also seems like these chatbots are not even as good as the latest large language models. Either that or the language model conversations are very handpicked.

I think we have a long long way to go.
I am not talking about something else. SSB is powered by a blockchain.
The 'common court' is being disputed by academics, as the jurisprudence of the CJEU on what is a 'common court' does not fly with removing national courts from interpreting EU law (art 4.3TFEU, art19.1TFEU and art267TFEU):

https://ffii.org/unified-patent-court-wont-survive-a-legal-c...

Countries basically misread the opinion 1/09 of the CJEU, with a similar design (national courts being removed) that was rejected in 2011.

Now the question is how to get this question to the CJEU ASAP.

The German Const Court did not want to escalate the question, this was seen as a political decision by the complainant Dr Stjerna.

Guess which country will profit the most from the reform, and which country controls the new Court?
What is the privacy like ?
Can other governments query your status in Estonia and about your Estonian company ?