skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Blockchains are not implicitly related to "coins" ...

That was definitely an oversimplification, and a slightly wrong one at that. In bitcoin, there isn't actually a concept of "coins". Just transactions which spend numbered UTXOs.

If I'm remembering correctly, the term "block chain" came from a conversation between Hal Finney and Satoshi Nakamoto about Bitcoin. If so, one could argue that it IS implicitly related to cryptocurrency.

That being said, the underlying "block chain" data structure is just an alteration of a previously existing data structure called a Merkle Tree which has data blocks that can be used for things that are not transaction data.

Blocks in a blockchain have a payload section reserved for transaction data. Theoretically you could put anything in the payload section but if you're calling the data structure a blockchain, people are probably going to expect transactions in it.

> I assume you could build a mastodon like that distributes and "authenticates" posts via a blockchain - perhaps with terrible performance though.

This has already been done many times actually and it's quite impressive. Basically, a cryptocurrency full node is modified to serve as a social client and an appropriate user interface is built on top. The mechanism by which cryptocurrency transactions are shared with other validating nodes is the very thing that keeps user's "streams" updated and in sync.

It has some major drawbacks but performance doesn't have to be one of them. With UTXO based blockchains like bitcoin, the "mempool" portion of the client code receives transactions containing social data embedded within. This means they are able to show the social media content immediately upon it being sent, even if the transactions containing that data have yet to be included in a block. One problem though, is that like transaction data, the social data doesn't get "finalized" until it's included then mined in a block. So you'd be able to see the messages in your feed but the content might change ten minutes later after it's finalized.

In my opinion, the Achilles heel of blockchain based social media is the Achilles heel of so many otherwise brilliant technologies: "What is someone uses it for child porn?"

Otherwise, most of the other drawbacks can be dealt with.
> You're probably flying more than your parents did, and your children have probably flown more now than you had at their age.

Amusingly, while this is likely true for many people with the same wealth, it is not true for me. My mother was a pilot and I have no children.
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Ask HN: Do academics still use printers?
And if so, why?
It does produce quite nice-sounding fragments from random mouse moves. It highlights how much of the actual music composition process is just plain math, which is done by the algorithm in this case.
They of course did have accounting and they were audited:

https://thedeepdive.ca/ftxs-auditors-apparently-could-see-no...

They also had every license they could get:

https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360056976411-Jurisdic...

But given their complex corporate structure that involved a number of offshore entities, it was possible for the CEO to play a shell game. Also audits are merely snapshots in time.
Earlier this year I got a chess board for my 6-year-old. He took to chess with enthusiasm and plays many games a week with me and any other adult whom he can convince to play. Definitely one of the best things I’ve bought for him.
the kingdom of southern great britain?
It's not pointless at all.
I think I misunderstand. You seem to say you're using cordon+drain to prevent a cluster from scaling down, and it saves money?
How that, it seems counterintuitive to me?
Checkout these post:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30557068, https://medium.com/@bladley/my-battle-with-post-finasteride-...

I also have OCD, ADHD and a PD mom, so I know the pain of being unwell. I take Fluoxetine and Ritalin. While I have not used Finasteride use them with caution, because I do not won't any one to go through any more pain due to meds.
How do you feel afterwards? Let's say after a hard working session with music on. Because I just like you, use music for concentration and I can pull some long hours, but afterwards I have difficulties calming down. Maybe it's because I am tired, but I have some suspicion that the dopamine hit from music might be the culprit.
I used to because it is easier to proofread on paper than on a screen. Or maybe it's just the switch up that's useful. Seeing a document presented differently somehow just makes it easier to look at it with fresh eyes and spot mistakes.
Being more cynical...

They knew it, and their plan was to hope the public signs on in a big way. They did not.
Sorry to be picky, but the Isle of Man and Channels Islands aren't part of the UK either.

Politically, IoW is part of England and so GB, albeit geographically a separate island.
In 2018 I've started building my home, end of 2019 I've finished it. Total cost: $150k, two story with 3 bedrooms, 2 bath, 2 space garage and large basement. If I started now, it would cost over $300k and I couldn't afford it anymore. Prices now are just insane.
Does it? As a welsh person it hurts me to say that Wales was never a kingdom in the United Kingdom as its was under English rule for a long time before that came about. You could I guess still use the name, but its weird.

I would love to see England get a devolved government, with all governments getting equal power and the UK government overseeing defense, etc. Sort of like a Federal government.
F105W (which is like F91W + illumination)

Light, reliable, cheap. A true spartan watch
I meant Leatherman of course
They're pretty nice watches, congrats. The nice thing is, mine is powered by an ETA based caliber, and the retailer told me that I don't need to bring it in unless it's constantly behind or something is wrong with it.
How does it handle spam?
Please see my comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33691229
> What would you have us do? Revoke their voting rights?

This is easy to say as a non-South African, but the results of your elections seem to be highly regional[1], especially around Cape Town v.s. the rest of the country. If you then compare that to South African power stations[2] you can see that they're clustered around high population regions.

Then you have the SAPP[3] where nations in Southern Africa have interconnected grids. E.g. Namibia[4] is impacted by South Africa's blackouts, but not to the point of their own supply shortages mirroring Eskom's outages, and they're planning to become independent.

So if a country of 2.5 million to your north can run their own semi-connected grid, can't parts of South Africa form their own local experiments in grid management using their own tax base?

I've got no idea how hard that would be to pull off politically, but presumably easier than "convince the entire country not to vote for the ANC", or "full independence for the Cape" etc. We're only talking about energy infrastructure.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_South_African_general_ele...

2. https://osm4wiki.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki-osm.pl?proj...

3. https://www.sapp.co.zw/

4. https://www.observer24.com.na/load-shedding-in-sa-lowers-nam...
> Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools.

They do pay for tools, but not enough to make it a full time. I've got a few "side" projects that bring in a few K/month each.
Literally read any of his other blog posts to know that it is not true. He has done some significant work in advancing ZKPs
Points 1 and 6 seem to contradict.
Seems implausible.

~ Fatso

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~ Yachtsman

~ Scotsmen

~ Batsman

There don't seem to be many, admittedly.
Developers know much more than other professions about how much SaaS products cost to run in terms of infra (i.e. very little for most products), so are much more likely to anchor on infra costs when considering whether a price is reasonable during purchasing decision than basically any other group.

Most SaaS are priced completely independently of infra costs (or any other costs really), but we are much less likely to accept products priced with high margins on top of obviously low infra costs, even though that doesn't represent nearly the full cost of running a SaaS (which consists mostly of payroll due to how high our salaries typically are haha...).

We also like to justify this line of thinking by the argument that "well, I can build this myself in an afternoon" (significantly underestimating the real ongoing time investment required to build and maintain a SaaS product, even seemingly trivial ones) or "I can write some bash scripts and put this on the VPS that I'm already running anyways" (undervaluing our own time).
It's the other way around. GLES Versions become a subset of later OpenGL Versions.
bigegst single feature that makes this realy attractive:
You can create quick adhock private communicator betweenynlimited # of people without anytrace:

Node on VM with VPN server let cliens conenct communicate then kill it and there would be no trace of anyhting, and it all takes literally no time.
Another Swede here. I have never heard any of this before. Who told you this? I mean.. health insurance? You mean if you have supplemental private insurance? Mortgage? I have a mortgage and they have no access to any kind of health information and I would be very surprised if any bank would request it from me.
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I think the word is "decentralised" rather than distributed: no single authority that controls membership of a distributed system, in a P2P style
What's your impression on the build quality? Which models do you have? I'm constantly playing with their online builder. Their headless stuff has me intrigued.
I see it in the hands of mostly girls :D
The Bitcoin blockchain is a layer 1, it acts as a settlement layer, or put simply, a notarization layer, or a store of value layer. It's not intended to be used as a full scale transaction layer as it couldn't scale and would bloat the blockchain.

Large amounts of transactions should be made off-chain through payment channels, with only the final balance between the parties written to the blockchain. This what layers 2, sitting above the blockchain, are about.

Common layers 2 are Lightning and Liquid, the former being the most widely used.

https://www.bitcoin.com/get-started/what-is-lightning-networ...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lightning-network.asp

It might interest you to note than clightning is written by Rusty Russel, mostly know for its work with the Linux kernel, and also author of iptables.

We're also seing some layer 3 like RGB for smart contracts, but I digress. Suffice to say, Bitcoin is more than its layer 1 and store of value.
Controversy hardly ever seems to influence the British government.

Even the linked document is more of "Huh, what's this in the draw? Anyone using it?"
My understanding is that FTX lent customer deposits to Alameda, who lost them, not that FTX owes money to Alameda. In that scenario, FTX wouldn't have been able to prove they held customer deposits.
Some people want to generate their own power at home using solar PV (the electric rather than hot water kind). However this is a big financial investment and there is low confidence of a positive return. An example of why there is low confidence is how the Cape Town Municipality (run by the opposition party btw; mentioned to make this post more politically neutral) is forcing people to register their home solar installations primarily for safety reasons. They promise not to charge a solar tax:

https://www.capetownetc.com/news/how-to-register-your-solar-...

However this requirement is suspicious because there are already laws in place requiring people to use qualified electricians for doing high voltage work. The promise is not legally binging and there is a fear that the municipality will seek to recoup losses from lower electricity revenue (due to lower supply) by charging people for the electricity they generate themselves. This is not unheard of and an EU country like Spain charges this solar tax:

https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/storage/spain-approves-...

If a country doesn’t have enough resources to incentivise solar then fine, but don’t threaten to make money from people who will effectively only lower the burden on the grid that can’t meet demand. They just won’t invest in it then.
“Human composting” is a hot new burial alternative
Maybe this is one of those things like cold reading.

IMO, the text may be seen as a piece of advertising for a fictional "de-programming" (like they call it) treatment from a cult. However, it's written for an abstract general kind of cult, described only in terms of what is common about several cults. It's not specific about anything. Just like well done cold reading: it's right, but unspecific.

I believe the idea is that you identify some of the things you're doing in your life as a cult (guided by the general features given in the text) and pay more attention to them. The text, however, is vague enough to classify a lot of things as cults, even though you/I/we may believe these aren't.
"As further described in the section titled, “Information about TMTG,” President Trump is generally obligated to make any social media post on TruthSocial and may not make the same post on another social media site for 6 hours. Thereafter, he is free to post on any site to which he has access. Thus, TMTG has limited time to benefit from his posts and followers may not find it compelling to use TruthSocial to read his posts that quickly. In addition, he may make a post from a personal account related to political messaging, political fundraising or get-out-the-vote efforts on any social media site at any time."
I've been diagnosed 3 years ago and I used to use the exact same coping mechanism as you do. I'd watch a show I've seen before while working on things. Music also worked for me to a lesser degrees but only if there's no vocals.

Getting diagnosed was one of the best thing I could have done. Knowing for sure, being able to use medication (although I limit very strictly how much I use) has been super helpful. I got tested privately, without involving health insurance. I didn't want it to be on any public records.
> and the exchange repaid it with customers' deposited cash

Then in this scheme depositors would be able to see that straight away, and force bankruptcy and asset recovery on the exchange while those assets still existed. This would (presumably!) stop the exchange repaying debts with customer deposits, because those customers would know straight away and could seek legal recourse against the bank and the exchange.
I think this is what Ethereum's gossip network uses.
Yes, I cannot deny that his writings have had a real influence in the way I live my life.
NI is no more a colony than the US or Australia are today.

Personally I'm all about self-determination. If the people of NI want to return the land to Eire, then nobody should stand in their way. But that doesn't seem to be the case right now, even though support for reunification has been increasing in recent years.
Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction
> Zoom/MS Teams/Slack
I recently stumbled upon this one, could be a whole genre:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcqFKzzYc44
The information I got was from a company called Modigo but it was already discussed with my private psychologist; So Modigo just clarified what I had been told and had understood in writing.

Regarding the mortgage thing, I had the same feeling as you, but how it works is that mortgages are cheaper if you buy them with private insurance (income protection, life insurance).

For example: Nordea (a bank) and “If” (an insurance company) have a close partnership offering discounts for each others services when buying an apartment or house. Based on the information If gives backs to Nordea there can be greater discounts on mortgages; this worked in my favour previously and I got a 1.34% mortgage when the list price for 3y fixed was 2.1%.

It could be expanded further to say that if “If” considers me too high risk from various factors regarding my health that they would not even offer me health insurance at all, then the bank could use as justification itself that I am high risk and not extend a loan offer.
Are you by any chance from the former eastern block? When you complained that a policeman beat you at a demo, the authority replied "Hmmm and they beat the black people in the US of A".

Same here -- all countries have problems, but this is about Qatar and no one else.
Thanks, that's just the kind of stuff that keeps me away. Life is too short for such shenanigans.
You're welcome!

Re #2: Perhaps that's true, but on the other hand, the load will be distributed across all seeders with IPFS whereas your web server will be the only one shouldering it.
>Again, this still doesn't feel like the Shinkansen needs to time departures to the second any more than other busy railway lines do. Apart from that their reputation is that they do?

I'm sure reputation and culture plays a huge part in this, but as I said I don't know the specifics of their operation so I can only speculate. When you have multiple lines with many trains serving the same station, the number of platforms you have available at a given time becomes a problem. Also, a train being a few seconds early might cause another train to wait at a switch.

There is also the problem with transfers. In Europe, when taking international trains, they take no responsibility if you miss your train because of a delay, unlike airlines. This makes it a huge pain to go to another non-neighboring country by train. I'm aware that this is not an issue of "seconds" but rather minutes or sometimes hours, but imagine missing an appointment by just a few seconds. If your transit is punctual, all the responsibility is yours.
Are there similar iOS Apps?
British police and military were killing Irish people in the north around 30 years ago. The north is still under British occupation. When that ends and the island is re-unified, we can start saying that colonisation is being addressed.
Hmmmm, I wonder how well this would run on a local AI chip like Coral or Gyrfalcon. Model sounds like it may be too big but it would be nice to have something like Google Nest devices that _don't_ suck hard.

It should be all local until it needs information from the internet...
this is amazing, thank you so much.

I have been using a 90-minute Brown Noise loop on Spotify, but even though it is downloaded on my phone, I have to connect to the internet to start using it, which can lead to distractions when messages start pouring in.
Well I got my response:

> the position is no longer available, so we cancel pending interviews
> a meme aimed against a specific, easily disliked subgroup is unavoidably an attack on the entire group by association.

So that comment, by attacking a specific, easily disliked subgroup of memes is undeniably an attack on all of the memes by association. Or am I applying this wrong?
My personal conspiracy theory is that "Isis" is a result of the US "convincing" media organizations to use that name for the Islamic State after realising that intercepting communications using the term "is" was an impossible task. Even further, they then tried to impose "Daesh" but it didn't catch up.
macOS Ventura has this feature as well. Under Accessibility -> Audio -> Background noise
I don't feel lonely. I used to, but when I dug deep into those feelings I realised it was mostly because of the social construct that are being imposed upon us and peer pressure. People say "how come you don't have friends? What's wrong with you?" which can make one anxious and wanting to belong and which can be misconstrued as feeling lonely.
People also used to need friends, so that they could share their experiences and gain knowledge how to deal with life situations. For instance, if you found yourself in debt or having trouble at work, you would ask a friend for advice what to do or look for reassurances that you are doing the right thing.
Usually though your "friend" would know about this just as much as you do, resulting in poor advice or they would use that private information in the future against you or to get some advantage.
Now, thanks to internet, you can get expert advice for cheap and the risk of your personal information being used against you is much much lower.
I think friendships were an evolutionary stop for information exchange and now that we have something much better, it will eventually fade away.
> Most wars are between neighboring countries and are started by leaders that have other reasons than not having visited the other country for doing so.

My reasoning on travel being good for peace has little to do with leaders.
That's not even a problem.

It's just a statement.

What does "money not controlled by a central entity" do? What problem does it solve? Why do I need it?

Keep in mind that in my day to day life, I rely on a central entity, a government.

And in places where people can't, life is NOT BETTER. It's awful. We call those places failed (fragile if you want to be nice) states.

And government should be able to control money. Money is tied to the economy, it's tied to politics, it's tied to the society.

The idea that by decentralizing things money will be fully democratic is just silly. Plus, full blown democracy doesn't even work. It leads to tyranny of the masses, that's why every modern country has a constitution that basically say: "you can't do that, no matter how much you want, since you can't abuse others you don't like[1]".

[1] In practice, "can't do that" means something really hard to do, usually stuff like "persuade at least 67% of your countrymen to let you do it", to rein in the insanity.
>The number of single and never married men compared to then number of single and never married women only gets worse as you age

This is an interesting and possibly misleading statistic. Do you know where you heard it?
As a Pole:

>Even before February 24th, Ukrainians have lost their country to western interests.

No, they gained their own country from hands of pro-russian traitors.

>using Ukrainians and Poles to fight Russians - but always for western interests

Poland has never been better as under those "western interests". Turns out democracy and regulated free market brings the best of people.

>As the Serbs are the biggest group in former Yugoslavia the West has used todays Croats (Roman-Catholics) and Boshniaks (Muslims) as their peons to fight us.

Oh yes, Serbs are still butthurt that NATO did not let them commit genocide as UN did, as Serbia acted as mini-Russia today. NATO intervention there was the best use of force that saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Very happy that Poland participates in KFOR.

>Keep in mind: Slavs are the biggest ethnic group in Europe (over 300 million). Our languages are very similar, our worldview as well as our mentality. If we'd be together in some kind of confederation, the West would have a very strong competition. And an obstacle on the way to cheap resources (humans, commodities).

Keep in mind: this kind of bullshit has been used by russia for last two centuries to occupy and exploit us.

>ADDEDENDUM: I forgot this, highly relevant for the previously said, quote regarding the NATO (you wrote "strong military alliance like NATO"). NATO's first Secretary General has said that the NATO was created to "keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in, and the Germans down." [1]

Great goal for the 50s.
Termux on Android 5 or 6
Depends on how many DoThing’s you have in your code and on how many other DoThing’s they depend.
> So what things would we look for in a hypothetical software mind to determine whether or not it's conscious?

Would it laugh? Cry? Ask about the meaning of life? Ask about how it can create another conscious software ?
Note that .cat is for the Catalan language, which is spoken in other places besides Catalonia, inside and outside of Spain. There is also .gal and .eus for the Galician and Basque (Euskara) languages as well.