skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Blockchain technology was innovative and is interesting, but still early stage.

[1]

- Cryptographer David Chaum first proposed a blockchain-like protocol in his 1982 dissertation

- Further work on a cryptographically secured chain of blocks was described in 1991 by Stuart Haber and W. Scott Stornetta

- In 1992, Haber, Stornetta, and Dave Bayer incorporated Merkle trees into the design

- The first decentralized blockchain was conceptualized by a person (or group of people) known as Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008.

Even the most charitable interpretation makes blockchain 14 years old. In computer tech terms it's old, and there are still no discernible use cases for it. Because, as the article succinctly puts it: "technologies, processes, people, regulations, laws, industry, and the entire legal and societal foundation that underlie an organisation, no matter how imperfect, aren’t 'web2', and that they can’t just be converted to 'web3', whatever that meant."

> don't understand anything about technology.

Oh, they understand it very well. THey also understand that humans are gullible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
Unfortunately this would be very interesting, but is behind a paywall
That's assuming

(1) "consuming and pumping oil" is a bad thing, and not a complex win-some/lose-some thing, which gave us huge progress and benefits in the 200 years we've used fossil fuels to pump the industrial revolution,

(2) and that we can just absurtly stop consuming and pumping it right now, and there won't be huge disastrous 2nd order effects (in economy, society, ability for people to heat themselves etc) until better replacement technologies are not just available, but have similar EROI AND (even more important) capacity to scale up production, building, and deployment fast enough to cover our needs (which we're nowhere near with any "sustainable" technology, including nuclear).
This can be a blog post, hell, may be even a book on its own.

For quick starters, look for someone who tinkered, cobbled, hacked, juggard[1] his/her way through an MVP with no-code, low-code, dump-code, Figma-ed, etc. Better yet, s/he had tried selling that idea, napkin-diagrams, to customers. Avoid anyone that smooth talks with nothing to show for (MVP/Customers/Prospects).

While talking (do this for as long as you are comfortable moving ahead), watch out if s/he can articulate and build an idea maze[2] of what his/her current thoughts are.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad

2. https://cdixon.org/2013/08/04/the-idea-maze
I was shocked to find that this wouldn't even work on my desktop! You have to go to the browser settings and turn off hardware acceleration. If you rent an HD movie from Prime Video, you get a notice saying that your screen has to be compliant with some specific standard, and part of the standard is essentially baked-in DRM that prevents taking screenshots of the content. The device belongs to me, the content was streamed to me, the device has no business preventing me from taking a screenshot or recording video. Yet here we are, apparently DRM is baked into all of our screens now.
I'm growing more frustrated every time I have to do this. So I'm really thinking about building a premium starter kit and pricing it for anyone else like me as well.
> To my knowledge, the Chrome Web Store user count represents the number of users with the extension installed who have opened Chrome in the past 7 days. So the 10M+ number for MetaMask includes everyone who installed the extension but isn't actually using it.

It's active by default on all websites. As long as it is active, a user can resolve linked ENS domains.
Indeed! I started programming in GW-BASIC when I was 13. IF and GOTO was all I needed! FOR, FUNCTION, ... why was it there?
Totally agreed. Coworkers will hate you if you start mixing in these styles into an existing code base. If you want to do FP, go switch languages (and likely jobs/teams) to something where the ergonomic are clear, concise, and idomatic—then the benefits become more obvious. It's a bit like teaching object-orientation through OCaml… just because you can, doesn't mean the community recommends it generally.
Using JS to try to prove or disprove anything is pointless. I think a much better comparison is C# / F# for the exact same problem. I think Scott Wlaschin's Railway oriented programming is a prime example of a great OOP vs functional programming content.
There isn't One True Utilitarianism anyway because you still have to specify a utility function and the aggregation of it that you want to maximize. And that's an AGI-hard problem. So in practice you can only do vastly simplified approximations of utility and then occasionally check whether the outcomes make sense in an intuitive way.

https://twitter.com/esyudkowsky/status/1497157447219232768

> Go three-quarters of the way from deontology to utilitarianism and then stop. You are now in the right place. Stay there at least until you have become a god.
"I think we should improve society somewhat"

"Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent"

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
I recently released https://stay100.app/ which allows you to find a stay faster by listing search results in a large grid of images without pagination.

Works well on large screens.
I understand your sentiment. I think it would be more appropriate to say that “the world” should react, not “the West”.

And its world’s business if some country unilaterally declares other’s country part as theirs.

Although I think the world reacted appropriately. Non-trivial sanctions were imposed, almost no other country recognised the change.

Of course, Crimea issue is just another example of conflict of “territorial integrity“ vs “right to self determination” principles. World needs more formal rules.

(В любом случае, как мне кажется, справедливый референдум включал бы вариант «независимая Крымская Автономная Республика».)
Because thanks to WSL the lingua franca of scripting languages is bash and that’s how pyenv started. Rewriting when it works fine on Windows and every dev I know uses WSL anyway is excess effort.

Hell, the fork could have used Go or whatever too but it went with a bunch of .bat scripts.
It’s a great time to be a Python developer. Python seems to be settling in to a really nice sweet spot of accessibility and power, and with the upcoming performance improvements it’s got an even brighter future.
The reality is that the vast majority of software developers do not consider a strict conformance to the 10 OSI criteria as being necessary to apply the term "open source".

Maybe they're all just wrong, but it's worth considering why.
I'm sorry you have a bad manager.

You are also likely in a company with a corporate culture where it is very difficult to let people go. Your manager may want to replace you, but it is too difficult or impossible to let you go unless you do something egregious, so he will just treat you poorly until you quit.

No job is perfect, but I would bet you could find one where you'd be happier.
A quite popular WordPress caching plugin (Super Page Cache for Cloudflare) included this library and just released an update which reverts to an older version of SweetAlert2 which does not include the protestware code.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sites-infected-after-upd...
Merriam Webster lists the following relevant meanings for "deprecated":

> to express disapproval of

> to withdraw official support for or discourage the use of (something, such as a software product) in favor of a newer or better alternative

In other words, deprecated is a strong signal that one should strive to migrate from items marked as such.
Monica is quite different though - it's primarily for personal relationships, rather than professional ones. The tagline on the linked homepage is "Monica helps you organize the social interactions with your loved ones."
I've thought about this a lot.

My 8 y.o is Autistic and when he was little, I was struggling to catch evidence to provide to Speech and Language Therapy. I wanted a way to always record and have an easy way to pull out the key points.

Now I would love to correlate background noise (level and context) with meltdowns. We know babies crying set him off, as that's obvious, but would love to analyse further to spot other trends.
0-days in browsers? From images, videos javascript or html parsing
Isn't the point here not that Zeihan has the wrong idea about Harry Potter, but that Zeihan has certain conclusions he wants to draw and will force every bit of evidence until it allows him to draw those conclusions? It's really not about Harry Potter at all: to get caught up on the Harry Potter (mis)analogy just because it has a fanbase is really not getting to the meat of the argument.
I went to school during those decades. For us, it was listening to how bad drugs were (grouping in Marijuana with Heroin and the rest) by a police officer lecturing us (they called it DARE - DARE to keep kids off drugs.) I would have preferred duck and cover personally
This is a real dilemma when doing scientific data acquisition for years rather than short shots.

NTP uses the UTC time standard but there are GPS time sources that can distribute other time standards over NTP and PTP. What breaks when you do this? Is it a worthy tradeoff?

Note that this is a concern of coordinating timestamps generated by devices that support PTP and devices that only support NTP (as many slow datarate devices do).
Just watched a video(1) about functional programming and this is the gist of it (for those like me who don't know).

Three main things of functional programming:

1. Keep your data and function independent

2. avoid changing state of variables, instead declare others

3. accept function/reference as a param

(1) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dAPL7MQGjyM&t=3s
yes, by RSS feed.

that way I can see the title/summary and if I feel its rubbish I just skip through to the next one. I get through about 400 articles a day in about 45 mins.
How would you formulate these phrases then?

For the phrases that you list, I actually did look them up in the dictionary beforehand when I wrote my comment to be sure that I express them correctly in English.

"fellow countrymen": according to https://www.dict.cc/?s=Landsleute "fellow countrymen" is the English translation of the German word "Landsleute".

If you tell me that in the phrase "In such kind of language discussions" I forgot an "a" (i.e. "In such a kind of language discussions"), you are surely right. Otherwise: according to https://www.dict.cc/?s=solcherart "such a kind" is the English translation of "solcherart".
It might be easier to explain things to oneself in terms of time though - we are not necessarily functional in thinking. e.g. I imagine trying to explain f(g(x)) versus g(f(x)) without using the word "first" or "then"
This type of collaboration happens all the time. People interact all across the fedivrse. I'd really love to see all the research you've done to come up with your thesis there that cross bubble collaboration is somehow worse in the fediverse.

>What matter is instance survival, which is absolutely horrific.

Except that's also nonsense. Popular instances run for years on end, it's also trivial to migrate from one instance to another.

You're just throwing out straw man arguments here. Meanwhile, arguing for centralization of the internet shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how the internet is supposed to work.
It doesn't, that's just a straw man you're using.
Anyone have a listing of Chesky's AirBnB? It's probably booked up for years.
As near as I can tell, the repository [1] doesn't have a requirements.txt

[1] https://github.com/WikidPad/WikidPad
> A Kindle or Kobo reader is definitely worth it. DRM is problematic but many books don't use it, and the convenience factor is a big deal.

Pocketbook has some great offering as well, DRM is problematic until you remove it ;)
"number of Twitter executives who have left who had a key role in dealing with regulators and the platform’s implementation of the EU’s new rules aimed at curbing the spread of illegal content online."

Translation: Some selected political figures lost influence at Twitter because their contacts were let go.

To be honest, as an EU citizen I feel much better without political influence here. And "illegal" content was perhaps just politically inconvinient content. There should be no contact. Twitter needs to comply with the law of course, but I don't see how that was violated.

For the protection of minors there needs to be selected and currated content. But that cannot be the normal for every user. Public figures need a PR agency, doesn't only apply to Twitter. Adults usually do not need protection from a website. Otherwise the same recommendations like they exist for any public figure has to apply.
as of late I've settled on using asdf[0] rather than nvm, pyvenv etc.

[0] https://asdf-vm.com/guide/getting-started.html
This concept of web3 makes no sense to me. It seems like these are "regular" concepts with blockchain shoehorned in.
For instance, I see some web3 messaging thing and it always fails to explain why the blockchain is there for.
Sometimes it feels they create a problem only to justify adding crypto to it, when it could be pulled out and replaced with "traditional" tech, but I guess that wouldn't make gullible investors to part with their money?

What am I missing?
See https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history
check out the documentary "bigger, faster, stronger."

this goes way beyond adderall.

and though a sample size of 1, my own circle largely consists of research academics in the social sciences, of whom at least half have openly acknowledged their use of adderall, concerta and the like for (or more fairly, sometime over) the past 10, 20 years or longer, most starting in grad school. i suspect the real number is close to 75% but not everyone is candid about it.
Not anymore, spent two years using amphetamines daily, different stims like adrafinil, modafinil etc.
Turns out it just makes you work a bit faster, make mistakes faster, get tunnel vision, miss clues, makes me an asshole towards other people.

Working in fang, Adderall speed bunnies are not that popular. The best engineers are prioritizing their clear thoughts. Taking speed is really not helping.

There is no free lunch, biggest features for optimal performance are still: sleep, exercise, good food, social contact.

It sure is fun tho, but it makes it easier to lie to yourself.
Too bad it's too much fun for me to use recreationally.
> other programming language whose maintainers don't break the "user space"

I think Go qualifies here. (but it's still much younger than Python).
Can’t we just cut through the Gordian Knot and understand that our moral obligation is somewhere between an annual donation to a local opera house, and donating all your excess money to organizations to end malaria?

It’s so tiring to see this quibbling over what the absolute best giving philosophy is when there is such ample opportunity for individuals to make a difference in the world.

It’s like watching someone in a pie eating contest lose because they spent the first 10 minutes deciding what the optimal first bite would be, then convincing themselves that optimal first bites are actually a form the Repugnant Conclusion which will ruin all their future meals.

You can do more than you are. You SHOULD do more than you are. You KNOW the malaria nets are better than the donation to the local soccer team. We don’t need perfect knowledge of a situation to start improving it, and boy oh boy do we need to start improving the world.

If you don’t want to call yourself an effective altruist, that’s fine, it doesn’t matter. But don’t let this petty quibbling over the most extreme examples of giving let you stop yourself from making a $300 monthly donation to a charity with good reviews on Charity Navigator.
You're not entirely wrong, but it's a very common radio technology, which anyone is free to use (even implement from scratch, with enough skills) with very few restrictions (which don't really affect state actors).

You may as well ban screws, lenses, explosives, radio, rubber, chocolate and internal combustion engines with this line of reasoning. What will it achieve? Russia won't stop using them.
Ask HN: What's all the fuss about product notifications?
I'm watching this segment called product notification infrastructure apis and there is a lot of activity and funding. Lot of products like Knock, novu, engagespot, courier, magicbell, supersend, fyno are in this space solving the problem and most of them are funded. Crazy thing is that the pricing is on the upper side!

Is product notification difficult for engineers? I don't really understand why someone could simply build it for a one time cost instead of "renting" it?
> Being usable out of the box?

It's interesting that you bring up this point in defense of KDE, because that's exactly my problem with it, especially when contrasted with macOS. Every issue I have with KDE boils down to: "there are too many options, and none of them make the system feel right".

> decent window snapping

In my opinion, no window manager gets it right. I've made a shot at it with my Hammerspoon config[1], it will move/resize/tile floating windows in a 2x2/3x3 grid using custom hotkeys. It's annoying though, that the code works on macOS only - I could probably refactor it to work with an X11 window manager.

[1]: https://github.com/rollcat/dotfiles/blob/master/.hammerspoon...

> put files on my Android phone over USB

I think integration within the Apple ecosystem is what really outshines all competition. I've never had to plug my iPhone over USB to a Mac, and yet I can just copy on the phone, and paste on the computer, like they are one device. Files, mail, contacts, calendar, photos, notes, todos, bookmarks, are all synced - heck I can use the phone camera as a webcam, all out of the box.

> I don't need to give my terminal permission to display my fucking documents folder

Sounds like you never had to fight SELinux or AppArmor. Personally I'm happy that desktop OS's are trying to improve end-user security (why do I have to type the root password to install a game, but I don't need one to run a cryptolocker?), but let's be honest, all attempts so far have ended up half-assed. The root of the issue is that desktop OS's must remain general-purpose tools, otherwise we could just as well call PCs glorified toasters.
Isn't setuptools deprecated now too or on the chopping block?
I’m not sure that you know how the “thought leaders” in the upper social tiers of EA are operating. I mean that honestly and not as a slight, because if you do know we can (to the extent that I have the attention span) discuss it if we disagree and productively explore the topic:

There appears to be an upper eschelon, perhaps more of a social group, who are guiding the resources of this movement along philosophical/ideological lines about which they are not being transparent. And when someone outside of that social group verges on exploring those aspects of their philosophical thinking there is an effort to silence or soften the tone of their discourse so it appears less coldly calculating, maybe (per anecdotal reports of people closely tied there) less absurdly extreme and ridiculous.
> (e.g. needing to work with a Windows corporate environment while configuring Linux test clusters).

I don't wanna imagine this. Would be too stressful for me to use Windows for development, PTSD.
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> fooled or won over that you redesigned your resume just for them

> talk about how inspired you are by this company you just found out about today

> tweak and fudge your resume to make you look like a frontend developer

Did not say fool anyone by redesigning your resume. Did not say apply to a company you just found out today. Did not say fudge your resume to a different role.

Your interpretation -- "that one should make oneself look different from who they are", is the polar opposite of what I actually implied. I literally wrote practice and develop your own skills. Fudging your resume to appease a company is the epitome of desperation -- something I strongly advocated against.

I don't know whether the expected return is better by focusing on yourself or by applying to as many companies as possible. I believe in the former, but it could go either way based on a number of factors based in reality. However, I only replied because I was surprised at the gross misinterpretation of my comment.
Everything has potential for military use if you try hard enough
Blueprints for Intelligence: visual history of neural networks from 1943 to 2020
Look for people who have revenue and traction, not just an idea. Some of the best non-technical Founders I've worked with:

- Built a business trip packing / iterinerary recommendation system, using just Google Sheets plugins

- Built a video transcription + recutting service in Bubble.

Each of these made five-six figures of revenue with the MVP. The Founders couldn't code, but they used every tool at their disposal to get enough $$$ to find someone who can code. True grit!
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This is what you say here, but let's see if this accurately reflects your reality.

Do you live in a house? Do the people who built it receive regular payments from you?

They build houses and are paid for their work. If they want to keep being paid, they need to keep building houses.

What about the roads you use, do those who built them continue to be paid for their work decades later?

What is "Weird" about your thinking is that somehow because they wrote a book 10+ years ago you feel they should still be paid for it? If they want to be paid today, they should publish another book.

How come you are OK having people pay for books they wrote 10+ years ago but you dont pay others for work they did decades ago?
I was thinking about this recently, couldn't you alter one word in message to create two copies, and then basically perform binary search until you find the person?
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>Obviously intelligence plays a role in how fast science develops

Sort of. Most science is based on tinkering and experiment, with serendipity thrown in, including most major inventions, and in many cases the actual invention history is changed to make it more like a story of rational thinking process and regular steps than it was.

>No reason to believe the absolute pinnacle of intelligence happens to sit inside a species of mostly hairless apes here on earth.

Note that "hairless apes" is a weasel term, meant to psychologically-pressure the other to feel as if we're talking about some inherently inferior thing ("sounds right, mostly hairless apes can't be the pinnacle of intelligence").

Whereas if you had put it as "the best achievable result after hundreds of millions of years of evolution" it doesn't sound so bad, does it?

> 2) Nope. Could be different hardware. The brain consumes far less power than any human-designed computer that could hope to match its computational power.

Potatoh, potato. Different hardware is still hardware - and will also have limitations of its own.

>4) Meh, this seems to me just the next concession in the line of “we can’t do that, we wouldn’t do that, we do it but it’s not that bad”

Which is an appropriate scalable multi-case response to the similarly multi-level: "AI will control the world through physical access!!!!! SINGULARITY IS COMING! WE'RE ALL DOOMED" which then in practice turns to mean "My smart fridge is connected to Amazon".

>5) Okay so it’s unrelated to this conversation except I suppose some sort of ad hominem?

It's related to the conversation about AGI, since its what one of the most visible proponent of it's dangers wrote as his feared very possible scenario.

Also, if one believes people warning about some subject are delluded, pointing to delluded things they've said about it looks pretty clearly pertinent.

>6) So we agree charisma is at best not necessary to manipulate the world

Sure, in the degree that we agree that intelligence alone is not sufficient.