skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> fundamentally, having an open fabric for finance, in which anyone can build any kind of application they wish, seems like a pretty cool thing to me.

Where money is concerned, no.

Having gatekeepers, boundaries, approvals, registers, participants and authorities is onerous, but it keeps things more honest and it makes them much more traceable in cases of negligence or fraud. We have ... well pretty much all of recorded history to show us how very many people will use any and every means available to remove money from others and disappear.

So no, this idea of an open fabric, in which anyone can build anything is a recipe for disaster by its very nature.
> They claim that their presence at Twitter HQ is not a PR stunt or a prank

Unwritten: "...they said in an interview with this newspaper"
The Commodordion (which also made the HN rounds recently): https://linusakesson.net/commodordion/index.php
Smokeless tobacco does cause cancer:

[1]https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

[2]https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/t...

[3]https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/smok...
Tbf, some of them deserve it.
Why would you expect a character in a comedy show to be a good role model? All of the characters have pretty obvious flaws and the show is better for it.
Hyundai imagines a grim future where metaverse ‘artists’ live in their cars
http://archive.today/ZpFMc
This frustrated me the most. In the particle walking about League of Legends and Warzone as two examples. It has nothing to do with the fact that it's free to play, its to do with how addictive they are to play, they're fun games afterall.

People used to walk about World of Warcraft being incredible addictive and that's not free.
> Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools.

Does it mean employees don't pay for the tools? Or that single-person ("individual") independent developers don't?

Why wouldn't a developer pay $100 for a tool that saves a day of work for them?
True, it was Iger who spearheaded acquisition initiatives. In an age of increasing media production, consumers are more confused to pick what to consume. Iger consolidated many strong franchises (e.g. Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars) under Disney, and box-office charts are full of Disney-owned studios.

For reference, link to echelon's comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33688663
That doesn’t make sense. If something only hovers at air speed zero along with ground speed zero, then as soon as any wind whatsoever picks up, then that something is no longer hovering by your definition, even if it maintains the same place in the air. Hovering means to stay in the same place in the air. It doesn’t say anything about air speed, which is the delta between wind speed and ground speed.
> Blockchains are great for one-thing... guarantee that data is being appended and never modified.

in a distributed, trustless fashion

If it's not distributed or trustless, you can do the same without the blockchain.
This post shows how to get AWS credentials(temporary) for IAM User, Role and SSO with scripts.
Chances are the public key is stored on the same flash, preventing sideloading of an OTA update, rather than physical access.
I dunno, time slider seems pretty great. (Although it sadly doesn't seem to be ported to common OSs)
> Computer! Earl Grey. Hot.

I can't think of many words that rhyme with computer so would get picked up.
"you should google that!"

" I don't understand your query. "
I appreciate you saying this. I love dogs but am quite allergic and dog hair sets me off pretty badly.

It would suck if public transport became a no-go or much less pleasant option for me and many others because our comfort is prioritised as less important than a dogs.
"When each round of League of Legends or Warzone finishes, I’m just left wondering what the hell the point in all that was and feeling very unsatisfied in a similar way one feels after eating fast food."

I don't think free to play has anything to do with it. People used to say that World of Warcraft was way too addictive and that's pay to play.
They both tried to be too creative, like they both thought they needed to walk on eggshells to get tribal equity or partnership backdoors for sports gambling in the state

If any of them just said “yo, ya’ll wanna have sports gambling everywhere so ya’ll stop getting excluded from apps?” we would have voted for it (imo)

nobody here cares about tribal drama, both propositions heavily miscalculated that and got into immature campaigns against each other, they thought their proposals couldn't stand on their own merits and needed these complicated handouts
>The electrical equivalent of fueling a single Boeing 747 with 65,000 gallons of JET-A in under an hour is ludicrous

You're forgetting that internal combustion engines waste most of the energy in fuel as heat. Car/truck engines are about 35% efficient at the best. I'm not sure what it is for airplanes, but turbines are well-known to be horribly inefficient, much much worse than piston engines; they're only used in airplanes because the power-to-weight ratio is so much better.
No screenshot. You're fired.
One little clarifier: You can unstake and stop running your validator, the exit-validator process already exists as it is necessary for slashing. What you cant do is withdraw exited ether until withdrawals are enabled.
This is sadly typical of Discord, who treat every problem as a nail even when offered a detailed explanation.
Completely agree. I love dogs but am quite allergic and imho transport infrastructure should prioritise the comfort/needs of people over their pets.
If you read upthread, the example given was that of Asian farmers who struggle with markers being damaged by floods.

A cheap device that was able to locate reference points with GPS to some sort of online land registry would potentially avoid these disputes. Blockchain could be a tool to mitigate the limited connectivity available.

It’s potentially a way to make information more available and maybe facilitate certain transactions.

Again, it’s just a technology. It may make sense as a solution or not.
Managing TODOs is quite straightforward:

- Have a development plan with lists of features/problems to be released/fixed in each version

- Create an issue for each of the TODOs (and link it in the code comments)

- Assign all issues to a particular version milestone

- Actually follow the development plan

If a TODO is not worth fixing, you will find that out during the project budget evaluation stage before you start working on issues. Although your client may decide not to address the TODO, it will not bother you anymore, because the decision will be on them.
I think if they open sourced Kite from the start rather than as they call it quits that they could've had a ton of free development done on their products by interested developers. Developers not paying for tools is simply not true. Developers do pay for good tools. Sublime text is one such tool many devs pay for and it's quite profitable and completely built and operated by a two person team.
IIRC, Gmail search used to work on threads, not messages. ie word1 might be in the email and word2 in the reply. That leads to all sorts of weirdness.
I just noticed that there don’t seem to be as many stars out tonight as there usually are.
That sounds similar to me. I was diagnosed unexpectedly at 38 and it changed my life. There is a good chance your internalised coping mechanisms are adding undue stress to your nervous system, making you tired and depressed, and ironically exacerbating the conditions for symptoms to become more disruptive (when you're tired, aren't eating properly, hyperfocusing too much and wearing yourself out, working late nights to catch up and not getting enough sleep, rinse, repeat, constant burnout).

If it's within your means to do so, I can't stress enough how much better it is knowing, for sure.
I was diagnosed at 29.

FWIW, this is exactly what it's like for me too - "Not enough stimulation and I get distracted easily, too much stimulation and I shut down completely."
An external service that signs and dates [a hash of] your database is very viable! But at that point there's no longer a distributed ledger.
I liked reading it, so I upvoted it. Apparently other people did the same.
TAI is independent of the altitude.

The clocks that were used to build TAI (its a co-ordinated average of dozens of atomic clocks around the world) became sufficiently accurate that the difference in each second based on the altitude of the clock measuring it in the early 70s. As a consequence of this it was decided that as of 1 January 1977 00:00:00 TAI would be corrected to correspond to what TAI should be if measured by clocks at the geoid (mean sea level) and as a result it has no relation to altitude or accelerations. There is also (because metrologist are like this sometimes) a continually published version of what TAI was before 1 January 1977 00:00:00 but it is now named EAL (Échelle Atomique Libre, meaning Free Atomic Scale)

In addition to this, we have already designed and maintain equivalent time standards to TAI, but for the Earth's barycentre Geocentric Coordinate Time (TCG - Temps-coordonnée géocentrique) which is roughly speaking TAI for a clock orbiting the sun, where the earth moon barycentre orbits, but without the earth & moon gravitational influence... and for the entire solar system Barycentric Coordinate Time (TCB, from the French Temps-coordonnée barycentrique) which is roughly speaking again, equivalent to a TAI style clock but this time subtracting the entire solar system, as if a clock keeping TAI was just orbiting the galaxy at the barycentre of the entire solar system.

The cutting edge of this is building up astronomical data on ultra stable pulsars to use as "external" reference clocks far outside the solar system, but the complexities of subtracting the effect of all the universe the pulsars' radiation beams pass through before they get to us, makes it quite challenging. But the utility for deep space navigation has made it an active funded path of research for at least the last decade. (to get a GPS equivalent at lunar distance and beyond where it becomes rapidly impractical to have a GPS like orbiting constellation due to inverse square radio broadcast power limits, good radio can pick up GPS at the moon but the location precision out at that distance... is not great)

The cosmic microwave background dipole may be indicative that we can use it as an absolute frame of reference but settling that with enough certainty to base an official time standard on it, seems like some time away based on the state of things between cosmology, astronomy, astrophysics and metrology.
Be that as it may, the violence is inherently part of every single Marvel movie. Parents who object to violence in movies would know to not show them to their kids.

But the sexual content is unexpected and random. She Hulk is "hulk for girls"... and one episode is about revenge porn. As a parent, that's pretty awkward.

Note that my complaint isn't about movies having sexual content. It's that 95% of Marvel movies don't have overtly sexual references, and then a couple suddenly do, within the same sub-franchise. The right way to go is like Jessica Jones (on Netflix), which was a Marvel series but it was very clearly marketed for adults.
That doesn't sound so implausible. Many countries are cult-like and many people, even those who think of themselves as liberal, have a very cult-like nationalism.
I don't think so. I've worked a lot in NLP and spoken with one of the founders of Alexa. Imo there is a lack of core science about language which leads to crazy scaling difficulties in voice applications. (eg.Alexa had over 15000 engineers working on it...) until someone pushes that core science forward, the same issues will remain.
Steps to do better code reviews
couldnt find this, but given the india connection at a guess probably something on polygon.
there are other india anti-corruption uses on polygon too e.g. police complaints records https://twitter.com/firozabadpolice/status/15794707131234058...
Usually the feedback is not "I don't understand this" or "I find this unclear" it's "I think it would be clearer if you did it this way instead of this way". Or "if you made this change it would make it more maintainable".

And if everyone followed everyone else's advice you end up with everyone writing code in their reviewers style instead of their own which doesn't seem like a gain.

Not to mention code changes have a cost, very few devs spend as much time testing and thinking about their code when making code changes. So many times you are trading more thought out, better tested code for less tested less thought out code. Because of this I've seen countless bugs introduced from code changes related to trivial PR requests.
I started off reading your comment thinking I was going to disagree with you. But you are 100% right.
You should add basic rate limiting to your app. We had a similar issue with Stripe and making sure that different card numbers could not be quickly used one after the other by the same account fixed the problem.
fun game, would like to see why a few of these design patterns are correct though. for example why does there need to be a border radius?

I scored 6180. randomly selected the last ten or so on hard and got more than half of those right
And what purpose would that serve?
The battery is a bigger problem. You can work around OS issues but if yourun out of battery at the same time you are cut off from normal communications you now have two major problems, and your expedited/unexpected disappearance from the conversation creates unnecessary anxiety for others. I hope they make fixing this a priority, it's a serious shortcoming.
We're 14 years in. I think the dust settled some years ago, personally.

But (and this is an honest question) how long should we give this? What is the appropriate amount of time before we can say "This was basically a bust"?

Because AFAICT the blockchain revolution never came. It's been talked about endlessly for over a decade, it's been hyped to hell and back, it's been oh-my-god-so-full-of-amazing-potential-just-think-of-the-uses for all this time and the only thing that ever seems to come out of it is a variety of schemes that reward early entrants and then crash into the dust, without delivering the utility that was so vaguely promised for so long.
Interest in spectator sports has been on the decline in the US, there is an audience like me that was never into it, despite my upbringing and the cultures’ best attempts at indoctrination

Put money on it though? I’m very engaged

I’m totally fine if the audience completely changes
I've always wondered why Chapek was picked. It seems that CEO often choose head of the most successful division as successors (e.g. Amazon's Jeff Bezos choosing then-AWS chief Andy Jassy as CEO). Meanwhile, Disney parks invested massively into the struggling initiative of digitization.

Additionally, Chapek's timid personality did not seem as conducive in the people-centric entertainment industry.
> available on iOS too

Ah yes, the two operating systems: Android + iOS. You can't have an account without registering a primary device on one of those OSs. No KaiOS, no Linux phones, no desktop machines, no web-only options. I'm mad about these mobile-duopoly-app-first services because you can't participate in alternative lifestyles when it Cowes to phone usage.
$500 million is something on the order of the annual opex budget of my entire division of ~800 people. Are you seriously proposing that an app like Evernote requires that kind of a nestegg to deliver on users best interest in addition to a subscription model? Better than "maybe we should charge $1 more a month" or similar? Color me dubious.
My experience with Chinese universities was that they had their own ecosystem to "obtain" Western software. They didn't need an intermediary.
I didn't say this was a right-libertarian thing, so I don't want anyone to think that was my bias here. I think it's clear that there are hucksters of all stripes jumping on this bandwagon.

That said, I think this is as insightful a summation of the situation I see in crypto as I've read recently.

It's a race against a regulatory clock and when it strikes midnight...

I may steal this gem. :-)
I knew nothing about Repunit numbers until a few minutes ago. So far, the most interesting bit for me was that:

> As of March 2022, the largest known prime number 282,589,933 − 1, the largest probable prime R8177207 and the largest elliptic curve primality prime R49081 are all repunits.

Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repunit
Agree no/low-code tools are the way to go. Airtable, for example, can address 80+% of what you describe, if not more, and integrations for whatever functionality is missing will get you the rest of the way…

https://www.airtable.com/integrations
The decline of meritocracy makes the lottery a rational last-ditch source of hope for the impoverished working class. Without hope, they die. See: deaths of despair.

The apologists for this sort of thing are every bit as disgusting as those presiding over it.
Proof-of-Waste :)

Anyone got a good one for Proof-of-Stake.
This definitely feels like some sort of “turning point.“ like maybe we should be concerned for the health of his other businesses?
> Could some uncountable infinities be cardinally smaller than countable infinites if we throw out the property that they must be countable by definition? As in you can say "this is smaller than that, I can demonstrate it's infinite but I can't do a countable demonstration."

No, trivially. If X has a smaller cardinality than Y then there is an injective function from X to Y (by definition), if Y is countable then there is an injective function from Y to the natural numbers (by definition), then by composing those two functions you have an injective function from X to the natural numbers i.e. X is countable.
I would expect the ESP32-C6 to become a hit when it will be available as a cheap module like its older siblings.

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-c6
I hate these article titles. There does exist a world where a part of the population likes things and the other doesn't.
Your understanding is wrong.

In fact, Facebook has been consistently reporting millions of videos even before PH got heat. Any platform that hosts images or videos has this problem, but with all its shenanigans FB has been among the best at identifying and removing the content. It is ridiculous to blame them for actually doing the right thing, which includes reporting found CSAM. Microsoft with Bing done markedly worse. PH pre-2021, obviously, too (and the bar is higher since it distributed this content for actual profit).

This is all public information.
I personally find this situation unfortunate. It returns us back to learning subverting requiring that something to be “useful” for some arbitrary definition of useful. It’s the same story of the failure of trying to make mathematics or philosophy or whatever appear “useful” or “practical” to students. It doesn’t work because the point of learning is not to directly get you a job or put something n your resume or be “useful”.
In my experience, Apple devices readily respond to "Sarah" which was a top-five baby girl name in 19 of the years from 1980 through the 2000 [1].

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/top5names.html
100%. While we are at this, I am happy to share my heuristic for sifting "uninspiring grub" from quality shows. Two words: theme song. If the protagonists wander around in silence on a CGI generated background, that's a hard pass right away. Unfortunately, most of Netflix originals fall into this category.
Did you reply to the wrong comment? I'm talking about Java's Optional implementation.
You are quibbling with semantics. What you have quoted is the definition of a blockchain. Any "centralized" database with these properties is a blockchain, for all intents and purposes.
Depends on what kind of work it is - if it's experimental, one time exploration, it's ok to be hacky. If it's a product intended for release and has a long life or intensive compute usage, then it's better to spend the time to make it right. Don't do premature optimisation!
Yeah, but these kind of ideas don't really work in the complexity of the real world. If somebody hacks a computer and steals my land title token, we need off-chain ways of adjudicating that and fixing the database. So we have exactly the same kind of problems, can't rely on the blockchain for actually saying somebody definitely owns something, and may as well just not have bothered with the blockchain...

Unless you want to change it so 'code is law' and if you can hack someone and transfer ownership to yourself, then you legally own it. But I think few want to live in that kind of society...
Were these devices given to you, or did you buy them?
Many of these seem like downsides.

> Blockchains cannot be corrupted by bad actors managing the central system. As I've noted in another comment, a Postgres DBA can be bribed to modify a property record and wipe the backups. That can't happen to a blockchain record.

What is to happen if a land-owner drops their cell-phone with their private keys, and now needs to re-gain ownership of their land? Well, either the government/admins can update the blockchain to have a new private key as an owner (in which case they could be bribed to do the same), OR the blockchain will be inaccurate, it will have an old address owning some land even though no one can use that address. See also, a farmer dies and has no beneficiary.

Also, how is new land added to the blockchain and old land removed? If the government needs to exercise eminent domain to build a railway, the farm's boundaries are changed. Perhaps the farmer does not want to make the update... so how does the land get updated to align with reality?

Natural disasters can also make land change drastically.

> Blockchains can streamline the availability of credit, making it easier for a property owner to leverage their property to grow their business

This just seems bad. Easier access to credit has not been great.

> Blockchains are natively replicated on a massive basis

They are if you have a lot of nodes. Which you do if you use bitcoin/eth/whatever (but then the cost of doing anything is incredibly expensive for those in the global south, so it's unusable). If each town builds their own to manage their land, it would be just as replicated as a .json file in s3 people can mirror if they want, which is to say archive.org might save a copy, a few farmers and companies in the area might, but most people would not care. Heck, people mirroring a json dump of a database would be more likely to happen than people figuring out how to spin up weird blockchain software I bet.
Friends don't let friends make important decisions on the basis of internet bullshit.
StoptheMadness is one of the best extensions I've ever downloaded. It's kind of sad that the web has gotten to the point where an extension needs to undo like twenty different kinds of hostility from web devs, but here we are I guess.

Separately I was wondering why StoptheMadness was failing to fix its own test site... turns out iOS Safari extensions don't run in embedded in-app Safari, but only in the browser proper. TIL.