skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a shame that we are ending up here with "Blockchain technology". Beyond the financial aspect (Bitcoin/Stablecoins), here are a few use cases where a Blockchain will shine:

- Tracking shipments across countries. This is an append-only operation, across multiple jurisdictions/languages/infrastructures. A blockchain ledger can play the role of standardizing operations for the tracking of shipments.

- Healthcare records.

- Company registry records. Once submitted, they are publicly available and immutable.

- Title deeds. You wouldn't own the NFT yourself. The government could assign it to you and be the only one able to transfer it across its "subjects".

- Stocks/Assets. For this one I'll blame ASE for failing to deliver. They have picked the wrong company to build such a thing while spending a gigantic sum of money in the process.

- Digital Identities. There was never enough investment in this area, especially for key retrieval in the case of loss.

- Decentralized DNS. The tech is there (Namecoin) and roughly functional. There was never any investment in this comparing to the billions thrown in NFTs and other crap projects.

Instead of addressing any of the above points, Blockchain and Crypto degenerated into fancy websites and gifs aimed to drill money from everyone who can be influenced. We are here 5-6 years later after the Defi/Smart Contracts fever and all we have to show for it is some apes NFT. This could have been done a lot earlier with Namecoin which has a much more native support of NFT. But Namecoin never took off because the founders were never interested to make money out of this.

It does seem that governments might be more fundamental than we thought. They might be protecting us more from ourselves than we see them as an imposition on our freedom. Here we have a worldwide experiment of a government-less operation at wild.
I think watching DieHard with your kid is a good choice. The journey to adulthood isn't instantaneous at 18, parents should help to guide the kids there. Introducing them to adult cultural experiences at home, and then talking about it, is an awesome thing to do.

Plus DieHard is one of the best movies ever made!

(Have an 8th so not reached that stage myself yet)
It does not have to be a one-company effort at all.

But someone has to propose a solution.

I still stand by my view that the supply chain of hydrogen is solvable with current tech. Whereas hydrogen (or other green long range) planes are not. It does not make much sense for supply chain companies to go first if they know that it takes airbus or Boeing or whoever 20 years with 50% odds of success.
It's worth mentioning that a ST4 license is $99 USD (and ST3 used to be $80).

Still a relative drop in the bucket for how powerful ST is and how much value its users derive from it, but there _is_ a bit of sticker shock when comparing it to most other software.

I say this as someone who, as a broke college student, got very good at hitting esc every 10 times I saved (which is how often it asks). I eventually switched to VSCode, and the rest is history.
Seems misleading.

"Marijuana users excluded and added to Marijuana smokers group".

Would have been fruitful if there were 4 groups, Marijuana only, Mixed, Tobacco only, and Non-Smokers.

The introduction seems kinda biased from the start:

"Marijuana is the most widely used illicit psychoactive substance in the world (1) and the second-most commonly smoked substance after tobacco..."

"...Its use has increased in Canada since the legalization of Medical...".

does not compute.
ELI5 posts are reduced to fantasy by the attention span of actual 5 year olds if nothing else. :-)
So what happens when a rich baron approaches a farmer who's exact GPS ownership record is registered on the blockchain and says "transfer digital ownership of your land to me, or i kill your sister"?

Exactly the same thing as what happens without a blockchain.

Weak institutions are absolutely a problem in human society, but they are not solved by decentralization technology.
I think the cost of trust is underestimated.

All those shiny skyscrapers that the banks build? It's for trust, along with a good deal of banking licensing requirements and regulation.

The example with the farmers' fields is quite valid. We forget in our relatively well-governed western nations that some governments really can't be trusted to simply keep records straight and not 'lose' vital documents, in cases where bribes abound.

Another example is foreign exchange trading settlements; I can't trust that if I send you $500mn in swiss francs, you'll actually send me the equivalent settlement in USD. You might go bankrupt half way through the transaction. And so there exists an expensive jointly owned escrow bank for exactly this purpose, CLS bank.

I'm sure there are many other examples, but the point is, trust is actually quite expensive.
Its just funny, it's basically saying your country/politics/church/society is a cult. And then it kind of invites you to join a different cult.

So it's funny x 2
Yah the thing is weed smokers know a small bit of weed smoke is nearly harmless compared to an equivalent bit of smoke from a tobacco smoker. It is absolutely still inconsiderate but as far as I know there is little evidence that second hand weed smoke inhalation is much of a threat to anyone. Vehicular exhuast is most definitely far more of a health threat
To augment this slightly: It doesn't even matter if the uninformed thugs completely understand, embrace, and accept the technology of the ledger.

They then just simply glance, smirk, and pummel the farmer until they initiate the transfer of the digital ownership record to them.
Indeed, I expect the ONLY application where this combination of requirements makes sense is.. a global currency.
Airlines Push for Lone Pilot Flights to Cut Costs Despite Safety Fears
They want to sign their software themselves that's ok. Everybody learned their lesson from the Signal vs Fdroid drama
These are "repunit" primes, meaning that it's the digit "1" repeated N times, in this case 49081 times. So yes 20KB.
https://archive.ph/pNW1D
6,880. By the end I was guessing, and I cheated once. (and still got it wrong, I think) I think the right side of my screen just looks nicer.

It's amazing what I overlooked by the end. I guessed on one with an obvious typo.
What is happening in France?
Focus Browser – Userscripts and Video Download
Focus is a iOS browser that support Tampermonkey Userscripts & Video Download. Focus is fast,safe and easy to use.
Certainly reads like an instance of 'If all you want to use is a hammer, everything looks like a nail'.
"I completely agree with the core tenants of Buddhism, but I think I should be able to eat babies."
If they jack up the space rent too high they will end up owning an empty park.
> A cheap device that was able to locate reference points with GPS to some sort of online land registry would potentially avoid these disputes.

Okay, and why would you use a blockchain over a state-held database?

Because it doesn't matter what your blockchain says about ownership, the state that issued the title deeds are the ones who decide where the boundaries are.

If the state is not recording it, recording it in a blockchain doesn't help.
OKSolar, color scheme based on Solarized using OKLab perceptual colorspace
It's not the fandom purchasing the tickets, but their parents.
Considering how much they've squandered Star Wars video game IP, or video game IP in general, probably leaving billions on the table. That said, maybe it's to prevent cannibalizing other divisions, but it's hard to imagine type of media more extractive than micotransctions. IIRC Fifa + Madden made like 1.5B revenue last year.
I saw defn (Clojure) in the URL and thought about https://franz.com/ immediately.
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Quick way to summarise a Vitalik blog post: Here's a social problem, tech will solve this!
Total disagree and not sure why you believe why any of those woukd have value added if on blockchain.
Especially, health care records, wtf??
I also suspect they will attempt this. A system to be maintained by 100 engineers needs to be simpler than one maintained by 2000 engineers but in a normally run business that kind of simplification would never get pursued over short-medium term incremental revenue.

However pulling that off successfully while maintaining the existing platform on a skeleton crew and also replicating everything their users and customers expect (when said customers are already pausing spending in concern) doesn't lead me to expect success
I think the speed and low-fees required in (some types of) financial trading just can't happen fully on chain. So that's another reason for centralization in exchanges

Also it's interesting to note that in regular finance, exchanges and brokerage firms are separate entities .. meanwhile eg FTX was both the exchange and the 'broker'

Edit: just searched twitter and came across someone asking SBF this exact question about the conflict of interest in being both the exchange and broker (of course he was also trading with client funds on top of that..)

https://twitter.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/1593243104114458627
The weather system that influences the world
Arguments like this one strike me as extremely condescending.

Have you directly spoken to developing world farmers who have experienced these problems?

Do you think people with these problems are just clamoring for the first world to come in and solve this for them with blockchain technology?

Do you think all of the participants in the situation you described would even adopt blockchain (the small farmer, the larger farmer who wants to steal land, the corrupt central government officials open to bribes)? If so, why? It seems the only person with an incentive for change is the one least likely to have strong influence for that change.
I actually appreciate being able to sometimes do paperwork around the time it's due instead of never and no longer regularly needing to break into my house.

If you'd like to propose societal reforms that greatly reduce the amount of paperwork required of adults or allow ICs to just say "hey I'll probably not get anything done like 70% of the time but the other 30% will be pretty good" then I'll support them, but they don't seem to be forthcoming.
If he had said that in early May it would be impressive. We've been watching the trainwreck unfold since then and it's most definitely not over.
Shinkansen is a bit weird, it’s like an enlarged business jet or a Concorde body on a metro train chassis. No dedicated locomotives, and almost instantaneous stops at stations. What I’m trying to say is, they will have to start by doubling the size of door opening to do that…
That’s an event sourcing architecture, and something like Kafka will do it much better than a blockchain.

The forever problem can be, ironically, resolved with crypto. If you encrypt each employer record with an employee key then, if the employee data needs to be deleted you just delete the key and the data is gone.
The symbol and the names both make more sense for point contact transistors than BJTs. Like the article says, I had never heard of point contact transistors' different operating principle.

FETs have a schematic symbol that describes their operating principle pretty well - they have never had a shift in meaning.
What are fast ways to earn 1k USD monthly with a side project?
I like to build stuff, so much so that I don't build for others, just for myself.

So I've set myself a challenge, earn 1,000 USD per month with a side project within 6 months.

Doable?

I would love to hear your stories and ideas!
And then you're forcing dog-owners (which is a bigger and bigger percentage of the population) to rely on cars.
Floating point NaNs as map keys in Go give you weird results
If the solution is putting your senior citizens on wheels than the problem must be seriously borked in some aspect.
> Now, try to architect this in your favorite programming language.

Isn't this trivial in java with streams? Or in C# with linq? Maybe I'm missing something.
Vulkan is a lot more work to get to, with far fewer applications using it. It would be a worse ROI, and take significantly longer to make an OS that can be a daily driver for most people.
Imagine the world we could live in if there were no weapons. That's the world we would have if nobody built them.

I have heard the line "If I don't build it somebody else will." from an engineer working on multi-million dollar weapons (think F-16).

I can only decide what I do with my time on this earth. Everyone makes that decision for themselves.
No, a cult leader would say that nobody outside the group is free. Only the group is free, and the freedom comes from the cult-leader in some way (flavor that last part to the kind of cult).
Can you sleep in awareness? Can you eat awareness?
In the US, property records are maintained by a local government authority. That alone doesn’t stop squatters or unauthorized encroachment on your property. Normally, the boundaries of a parcel of land are not a mystery, but enforcing them requires more than just knowing their location
The Bloom app by Brain Eno and Peter Chilvers has been a life life for me throughout the years.

Music for Airports, with even less repetition.

https://www.generativemusic.com/bloom.html
What's your opinion of the Microsoft Ignite 2022 demo by Mark Russinovich of their next-gen immersion-cooled setup for Azure compute nodes? Link: https://youtu.be/PO5ijv6WDv0?t=370
Replying because I forgot two rather important point:

* child mortality is lower nowadays, therefore there is usually a temporary population boom in industrializing societies. This is because

* in preindustrialized societies, people are aware that their children are their primary means of economic support in old age. Pension schemes have eliminated this incentive in industrialized countries, but a collapse of such schemes will force people to reconsider this point. People might consider to re-prioritize children over other life goals.
I read the featured article and found it interesting. Maybe just a difference of opinion?
This reads like faxlore: the smeared, repeatedly photocopied screeds and attempts at humor you find pinned to the cork board in the mail room.
> Push notifications are a specific thing where your OS can briefly wake up, check for notifications for all services, and then sleep again. It’s how you can have 10 IM apps but still be notified of messages on all of them despite none of the apps actually running unless they are actively on the screen.

Ah, I didn't know that's what push notifications were. Sounds like a regular old pull aka refresh but I have no idea about web stuff.

> IRC is unable to do this because it requires a constant active connection which is something that was fine in the desktop era but is not usable on battery powered devices.

I think at the scale which devices are already waking up to check things, it's unlikely to be a problem for most. Phones don't actually sleep for hours (or probably even minutes.

That said, IRC's heavyweight connection does seem clunky, if your connection drops momentarily it's unlikely you wanted to lose track of conversations you were currently participating in. Although that can be solved with logs / archives pulling what you missed, it seems better solved at a core level (maybe it is, I haven't looked at IRC for a decade or more).
Magic3D looks like an improvement on DreamFusion [1], so it's sad to see that the code and models are not being made public.

What is public right now is StableDreamFusion [2]. It produces surprisingly good results on radially symmetrical organic objects like flowers and pineapples. You can run it on your own GPU or a colab.

Or, if you just want to type a prompt into a website and see something in 3D, try our demo at https://holovolo.tv

[1] https://dreamfusion3d.github.io/

[2] https://github.com/ashawkey/stable-dreamfusion

[3] https://holovolo.tv
It's not impossible to tell - they'll buy and takeover more and more of your culture and existing competitors and IPs, enter other venues of entertainment and expand their empire of protected content to encompass as much as what you daily see and consume as possible.
No, re-read my last paragraph. As long as their dog is small, they can take the train no problem.

If they have a large dog, they should already own a car. Apartments in Tokyo do NOT allow large dogs, and anyone living outside the city should already have a car anyway. If you can't afford a car, you can't afford a large dog.

I live in Tokyo; there's almost no large dogs here. Having a large dog is a luxury.
Standardized and encrypted healthcare records. It means wherever you travel you can: 1. Access your health records at your discretion; and 2. Make sure these records are never lost and 3. These records are immutable.

Encrypted records can be easily added by any doctor/clinic as your public key is publicly available.
What a Broken Wheel Taught Google Site Reliability Engineers
Can you help me understand how this would help? The way I see it: if the government were on board with recording property boundaries in a public ledger, it could do it without a blockchain. And if it's not on board, then I don't see how a random third-party ledger would help, since the government wouldn't defer to it.
That's adding one (making a positive should-statement) not removing one.
> I would have difficulty relating with anyone if all I cared about was race but hey you do you.

The person you replied to listed 10+ other reasons, of which diversity was buried in the middle. You asked for a clarification specifically on diversity, then leapt to an unfounded judgment implying that that’s all they care about.

That sequence of events seems like an entirely unnecessary and counterproductive provocation.
> InfiniBand cable close to $1000 a foot

Wait... wat? I thought InfiniBand just used fibre!
Their existence is mentioned in my comment so I am not sure what you are trying to say.
Space is not "doing something for humanity". Go out and look what people suffer from.
You would be surprised what I would put up with for a large-enough check.
There are many different levels of Python. A top python training courses institute NCR should offer all the various levels of Python training. From providing an introductory course to this language, to an extremely advanced version of the same, you should have the freedom to choose the level of training you desire in this subject. https://datapatrons.com/searching-for-the-top-python-trainin...
What I'd really personally like to see is space opera with better storytelling. But the impression I've got is that the sorts of films that do best as indies are ones where the props are cheap. So in other words, mostly contemporary or maybe historical settings. There are a handful of exceptions I'm aware of, but only a handful.

Am I wrong about this? Anything I'm missing?
Is there even a precise "underlying issue"? Isn't it just one horrible blob of dysfunction?
>> Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools.

That was a really shocking insight for me. We do not own our means of production. And suffer all the textbook consequences that follow.

Maybe unions could help with that. Imagine using union-funded licenses, compute, storage etc. to experiment with your side projects, build your prototypes without risk of losing IP to your current employer.
Not sure if OpenGL 4.0-4.6 is less work in general. I'd argue implementing Vulkan gives the best ROI, since it gives all OpenGL after that without extra effort.

And I don't think that few applications use it. Anything modern tries to. The rest are planning to move to it.
IME many forget or neglect or don't know to implement captcha or rate limiting on checkout. It's rarely spec'd and meets resistance with product/sales/exec teams as unspec'd scope and undesirable conversion friction.
One of the main problems is marketing. Adding more bells and whistles to something makes it more marketable. And so we invariably trend towards more complexity, even when it doesn't really provide any "real" return. This also drives constant changes just for the sake of change - to feel like what you have is genuinely new as opposed to a fundamentally identical rehashing of what you already had. Operating systems being the obvious culprit there.

And the most frustrating part of it all is that often the more marketable concepts are often just worse. Flat design is one obvious example. It looks sleek and sexy in marketing especially compared to the janky pseudo-3d effects of times past, but not being able to determine at a glance which parts of your UI are interactable is objectively less functional. But functionality < marketing.

The one other thing I'd add is that this is not limited to software/hardware. Movies face the exact same issue. Explosions, effects, and "loudness" are highly marketable, people standing around talking isn't. So we went from movies focusing on personal interactions to movies focusing on people running around in spandex in front of green screens screaming and battling other people in spandex, all while stuff explodes around them and special effects zip and zap about, while music with all the emotional subtlety of a hammer to the head blares. Progress!
> When you consider that, taking a bike on a train is decidedly environmentally unfriendly.

Framing it like that, taking a suitcase on the train is environmentally unfriendly. Or taking your own body on it.

The alternative to taking your bike on the train may be that you hail a taxi on the other end of the ride rather than ride to your destination. Or that you choose to drive to your destination so you can put the bike in a bike-rack on your car, rather than take public transit.

It's not as clear-cut as "decidedly environmentally unfriendly" to me at least.
How so?

Rap is almost all rhythm, almost no harmony or melody. Drums are all rhythm, no harmony or melody. How the hell is that "reactionary"? It's just a basic fact.
> Distributed DNS

As opposed to normal DNS?
Sounds more like it would be lower priority than very difficult?
Not even tangentially related, but I can't help complaining how I hate the dotless syntax in scala.

No, "list map function" is not as readable as "list.map(x => function(x))".
Anyway.
The underlying system is mostly written in COBOL and desperately needs a replacement before all the COBOL engineers die out with many large bags of money going to their descendants. Blockchain, no matter how good it might be or might have been, is clearly not that system due to its now tarnished reputation at this point in time.
My roommate had an Alexa and we changed the wake word to computer... Didn't last long. Apparently the word computer comes up on casual conversation much more than you probably think.
She-Hulk is “hulk for everyone” and is also clearly targeted at adults. This is clear because it’s rated TV-14 but sets the tone pretty early that it’s not a children focused show.

That the protagonist is a woman doesn’t mean it’s for girls btw.

If you’re looking for a more child focused Marvel series with a female protagonist, Ms.Marvel would be it.

The Marvel episodic content is (with the exception of Falcon and the Winter Soldier) is a lot more diverse in style content than the films, and unapologetically so. This is where Marvel is experimenting and providing a more varied range of content.
Twitter engineer claims problems will pile up, leading to a breakdown
Was that a meta-cult induction. Because I think I just read the Penn and Teller version of a cult induction?

Neat.
Banks are better.
What about Karpathy, nobody pays him in principle.
I would agree, same at Meta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_precepts
That’s quite subjective. I thought She-Hulk was pretty entertaining, and actually really clever and subversive in its writing. You may however not be the target demographic for it, which is fine, but it’s important to note it isn’t just firing into a void for no reason.