skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With one Ethereum account you can have endless passwords that you don't need to remember
Web Framework in Bash
More news at 11.

Also get ready to start installing air conditioning in your home.
> Friends, countryhumans, lend me your brains! Leave behind the wreckage of Reddit and begin to migrate to greener pastures! Join a social community created for nerds, by nerds! Ok, ok ... no need to shove, I'm leavin!

But only if you have the correct NFT.
Does it work well when users have poor internet connections?
States divide up the world's oceans
I assume you haven't been through the absolute hell that are Hadoop JARs
You're right. I read into your comment and assumed you meant that the closing were justified
So a fifteen minute walk?
California needs real math education, not gimmicks
Food insecurity is real, widespread, and getting worse. setting aside your 'let them eat cake' comments, though, surely you understand that a society is only useful to the people that compose it when it does a good job of somewhat equitably distributing the fruit of the society's labors. When a few men have as many resources as the bottom decile or three, the system is broken. People are working longer and harder for less and less. It's not about 'beong billionares' it's about a basic level of human dignity. It's about being able to afford medical care, having a secure place to live, being able to afford to spend quality time with your family.
Enforcement doesn’t mean they can’t allow the community to use it under clear guidelines. Or if they’re not using it any longer commercially, O’Reilly could transfer any rights they have to the Perl folks and they could allow O’Reilly to use it for its back catalog or whatever.
About pas Al in comparison to languages using {} for blocks, where some have block scoping and some don't.
Disagree. Mobility is absolutely a feature. When the pandemic sent everyone at my employer (several thousand workers) home in 2020, we were at 90% productivity within a few days because virtually everyone had laptops. Getting everyone settled in with effective home office setups took a week or two, but we were connected and working the whole time.

Then, when we went home a couple years later because of a cyberattack, essential workers were able to log in and work with the systems because we all had laptops.

As time goes on and less and less of our data is actually sitting on laptops.
Which is a hilariously awful proposition, especially given how truly security unconscious most wallet applications actually are, along with the... questionable... security policies baked-in to the blockchain.
CPU upgrades on desktops did not make much sense for several years, until Zen came out.
As clearly stated, the above is not what I think the way to do it is.
Not having to deal with the distributed computing problems a blockchain provides. No worrying about any proof of stake slowdowns or overhead.

I don't think urbit is all that great, either, but this is coming from someone who decided to increase their investment in face to face conversations following social media starting to crumble.
The fact that you're creating a user ID on a service is already third party. That service owns your username and you also have to trust them to store your password securely.

Ethereum accounts are not tied to any service. They are just a public/private keypair so they can be used as portable usernames.
And the way we use it also creating a bunch of carbon.
1. 100m to achieve what?
2. There are only around 82m single family houses in the United States.
Yeah but it's nowhere near the choice you get with a typical x86_64 laptop with an AMD/Intel chipset.

I have minor problems with my Lenovos and Framework, but by and large they do work out of the box.
In the sense that animals and human beings are big blobs of carbon, yes. Ethanol isn't the primary output of maize.
I didn’t think gp was recommending writing every thing from scratch, but rather advocating for more piecemeal tools that can be refactored or replaced, rather than buying into a whole framework. Those libraries you mentioned are much lighter weight. I like using guidance partially since it provides a unified interface to language models, but it’s not trying to do too other than managing prompts, output and iteration within prompts
From the paper:

"Throughout the test, the Arm Cortex-M0+ processor drew an average current from the compact Al-BPV of 1.4±0.4 μA with a voltage of 0.72±0.14 V. ... As the average power drawn from the compact Al-BPV during the 27 weeks of experimental run (1.05 μW) was larger than the minimum power required to run the CPU (i.e., 0.3 μW), it is likely that a smaller power-generating system could be used, or that more computationally intensive algorithms could be performed."

and:

"We programmed the Cortex-M0+ CPU to calculate a sum of consecutive integers as an example compute workload, and assess the correctness of the computation by verifying the sum against a precomputed value."

Pretty neat -- although it looks like they were clocking the chip at only 10 KHz.
I can't tell if your comment is a false flag operation. I actually tried to find it any oil executives, lobbyists, or republican said something about big greening but couldn't.
https://ethereum.org/en/energy-consumption/
Corn tissue...with a very instructive caveat emptor:

> Be aware that elemental concentrations in plant tissue can vary widely for a given crop depending on the stage of growth and environmental conditions and for different crops, yet plants can still appear normal and healthy. For some elements the range of sufficiency is wide and for others the range is narrow. A good deal of caution needs to be exercised in diagnosing mineral deficiencies based only on plant tissue analysis.

Appreciate the cite though.
I’m sorry I lost you on the last point. Where does the natural gas consumption come from in a solar power plant, inclusive of presumably grid connectivity?

I don’t understand the chemistry you state. My understanding is silicon tetrachloride is an intermediate for producing polysilicon, and is used multiple places in the process in a recycling through the hydrogenation reactor. It’s not a by product. Do you mean to produce polysilicon you need 4x the silicon tetrachloride? That’s approximately true. But chlorinated ferrosilicon is typically the route for production and this can be achieved without natural gas, if that was where you got your nat gas assertion.
Well, there is a difference between not publishing what some interviewee tells you because you fear it would harm your own political goals, and not publishing what some interviewee tells you because you think they are trying to feed you some bullshit to further their own political goals.

More eyebrow raising that she seemingly nonetheless found it worthwhile to bang this guy. The article only mentions his account of their sexual relationship, but isn't it rather hard to imagine that the Guardian wouldn't have asked her about the truth of that matter, and, had she denied it, either print this denial or omit the claim altogether from the story? One wonders how her husband feels about partaking in a polyamorous relationship that embraces diversity to such an extent.
> This is a community created for scammers by scammers

Provide deterministic evidence.
Ask HN: How are you handling SaaS integrations for LLM's?
Hey,
We are in the process of integrating mailing/document platforms into our LLMs, and I'm quite curious about your approach to handling this. If you have any insights, recommendations, or experiences to share, we would be grateful to learn from you.
I don’t get it, Web2 constantly upsells you on stuff and HN complains, but doesn’t blame the underlying technology.

But far be it for someone to store their private keys in a wallet and sign transactions on their own behalf! Nooooo, that has no real applications!
So you're saying my neighbors and I should feel fine throwing old car batteries in the lake and switching back to leaded gas?
This is a well-written tutorial and it's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks so much.
You should never submit and merge code that was not reviewed, no matter the size of the team.
Every time this comes up on HN I end up watching a decent amount of the video, if someone were to ask you "what does 'evergreen' content mean?" pointing them at this video would be a great example.
Laptops are expendable tools, no question.

The problem is that their price does not include the expenses of the global warming accelerated due to their production and transportation. So they are sold artificially less expensively than they will turn out to be.

When laptop production, transportation, and recycling become largely carbon-neutral, it would be easier to argue for throwing them away once a slightly better model is available.
Very curious how this works in practice, because having worked as a non-software eng role (support, SRE, tech writer) for "tiger teams" and other out-of-band task forces with limited scope, any of those roles associated with away/host teams become the metaphorical red shirts[1], buried alive under the actual handoff/maintenance work that the engs are too valuable to the org to touch.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt_(stock_character)
Never used it - can anyone tell me how you use htmx with localStorage and webrtc?
Electricity use was reduced by 99.98% with the transition to PoS
What are non-scamming alternatives that let you not have to trust a website with your assets?
Wait until winter time and heat your house!
Ahh you’re right, for some reason my head thought it was 10 kW.
> "An average blue whale weighs two hundred thousand pounds. How much do you think I weigh?"

Would that actually work on someone in that situation in real life though? I know the author is going for "anchoring" from Kahneman 1974, but the incentive to not insult someone you want to be cooperative in the future in that scenario is so strong, and the person would probably think longer to avoid an infoleak.
Figure out what you want to do first.

Even if you later pivot that’s fine, but you need direction, otherwise you’ll flounder along until your funds runs out.

Many years back I saved up over one year of runway, quit my job and started working on software tools I wanted to write. I had a clear vision of what I wanted to make and successfully executed on it - and even though those tools still brings in income today, it was never enough to support me financially and so I branched out in to contracting and then for the last few years have gone back to full time employment.

Most startups fail. Without knowing what you want to do, how will you know what to execute on?

Otherwise it just sounds like you’re sick of your job and just want to do something else - that attitude won’t get you far in startup land.

That said, AI is hot right now so maybe you could still raise a 2M seed round anyway.
No one said no dependencies. htmx itself has no dependencies which would make me a lot more comfortable adding it to a project.
https://archive.md/RB12m
Example use case:

We have a group at work that meets and discusses various investment topics. The guy organizing it is fairly well connected and every week he tries to get an external speaker to come and present. Very educational.

I have raw notes for each of these presentations. My goal has always been to go through those notes, and properly organize the knowledge in there into a wiki of sorts. It's been 3 years since this all started and I still haven't found the time to do it. If I want to be realistic, I should accept that it'll never happen.

How do I go about finding information that I have in those notes? I could use text search but it's too sensitive to my search string - I'll often fail to find what I need. Also, the information may be scattered across several files, and I'd have to open all the hits and scan to find what I need.

With technology like this, I can put all my notes into some vector DB, and then use AI to ask in plain English what I need. Locally the system interprets my query and finds the most relevant documents in the DB. It then sends my query and those hits to OpenAI to interpret my question, and find the answer amongst my notes. A while ago I used Langchain to set it up and I got it working as a proof of concept. An Aha moment was when I asked it something and it gave me a response with information that was scattered over two different presentations. My challenge is that there are so many parameters I could play with, and I haven't yet thought of a way/metric to assess the performance of my system (any pointers would be appreciated!)

There's nothing personal in these notes, so no privacy concerns. I did want to set a similar thing up with over 20 years of emails, but didn't due to privacy. Also, I use a mail indexer (notmuch) which is fairly good so the need to use AI is not as strong.

But for other (non-personal) notes? If I can get this system working fairly well, it'd be a life saver. I've made so many notes on so many topics over the years, and it's worth real money not to have to organize it well. Just let me write my notes, and use an AI to retrieve what I need.
Why would this be the deal breaker of all things? If necessary, you can tack on both the semantics and the layout properties to any container really.
A scientist is someone who follows the scientific method for one, engineers do that too. You can be both
The problem is not that there is "glue" to closed-source apps. It's that the essential core of your product, without which your product has no content or meaningful use — is _someone else's closed-source model._

If I market "a totally creative-commons blockbuster Hollywood movie", but my actual product is just a creative-commons-licensed set of driving directions to some nearby movie theater where you can buy tickets to see the same copyrighted movies anyone else is offering, then _the fundamental essence_ of what I'm offering is not, in fact, creative-commons. I sold people on a _movie_ with that license, and then failed to deliver.

That's what you've done here.

To be clear, the fatal flaw is that your marketing is dishonest about what your product currently is, not that your product is something nobody wants. I'd recommend either making your marketing honest, or else making your product live up to what your marketing promises.

_Then_ you do the PR push on HN.
> Nearly every aspect of flying in the US is abusive.

I hear flying by private jet is where it's at. No muss, no fuss. Just walk on the tarmac, get on the plane and off you go. At least, that's what I hear.
htmx is often touted as an alternative to React/Vue/Svelte/etc., but is it more realistic to say htmx+backend is the alternative? In the same vein as hn.svelte.dev [1], can someone provide a htmx equivalent or some similar non-trivial demo?

[1] https://hn.svelte.dev/
The electricity argument might have been mitigated, but I don't believe it is moot. If it was moot then it would be entirely irrelevant. It is still relevant because the power requirements might have been reduced, but that means nothing for the total power consumption. Indeed, it is possible for power requirements to decrease while simultaneously not abating or even increasing power consumption!

Also, with the move to proof-of-stake, the winner-takes-all-ness of it is even worse. It is now even easier for early movers to continue reaping marginal rewards. It is a system designed to entrench and centralize power.
Fragmentation of community can feel like it sucks but it was also the fun of the early web to seek and find the pockets of communities that resonated with you.

So far, all social media platforms have come and gone or faded.. or dealt with remaining relevant with the early adopters and majority that eventually arrives.

You can even go back before them to the instant messaging, forums, IRC and BBS years.

Once organizing and connecting on a platform reaches whatever its zenith may be able to contain or not correct, it changes.

There is always a new curve that emerges, the next curve. Where the masses are ready to adopt the next way of Connecting.

As much as I miss the other communities that existed, new ones will come. Heck, one can even have a say in it and build what they need.

Maybe it’s fediverse time. Maybe blockchain contracts will let me license and withdraw license to my content anywhere I publish it.

I didn’t use Twitter for a decade and recently reconnected with it.

Because I remained in a usage of learning from others it was fine to me to just follow others and topics that interest me and avoid following too much news, local, political, populist (on both sides of the spectrum) perspectives.
Indeed, I hadn't noticed the 000 (rather than 0f0) in there! Thanks!
Most of them would have broken down, it's not like giant piles of logs. Think more "heavily wooded bog"
Sounds like change management didn’t work. Culture shifts never work without a large amount of change management and someone who sponsored the initiative should be accountable.
>The telephone and email are also useful for legitimate transactions.

Many people find Ethereum useful for legitimate transactions. In this case, you wouldn't even be using Ethereum. Just the public-private key pairs created by the Ethereum browser wallet.

>They also take many orders of magnitude less electricity than Ethereum

Since implementing the merge, Ethereum uses very little electricity:

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/04/26/ethereums-lifetime-...

>Ethereum’s energy consumption from the blockchain's inception in 2015 until it moved to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism late last year is about equal to that used by all of Switzerland in just a year, according to the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF).

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>CCAF estimates Ethereum will consume 6.56 GWh of electricity annually. To put that into perspective, the annual electricity consumption of the Eiffel Tower is 6.70 GWh, while keeping the lights on for a year at the British Museum requires 14.48 GWh.

So your criticism is at least two years outdated.

>The internal economics of the whole situation is absurd on its face. It is literally rotten and valueless, except for the purpose of cheating people.

This sounds like another anti-free-market diatribe.

Are you really unaware of the horror stories of Venmo and PayPal freezing customer accounts? Or of governments forcing their constituents to use hyper-inflating currencies?

Arguments like this want a return to serfdom, under the control of officialdom. There is no other conceivable reason why someone would not want people to have at least the option of taking custody over their own money, in a form more useful than physical cash.
> What all these technologies had in common is they allowed people to freely interact and create content, without a single intermediary.

> Sign up for the Bluesky private beta.

Anyone else see the irony here?
Hedonism isn't necessarily the enemy, as one can take hedonistic enjoyment from low-impact activities. And indeed many common pastimes are already in that category.

Your point about realization is key, I think. The awareness of the consequences of various activities and choices. Which somewhat relies upon translating those consequences into metrics that ordinary people can easily grasp.

For example, in some countries, it's law that smoking tobacco must be sold in packaging which includes graphic imagery of surgical outcomes from tobacco use. Staring a diseased organ in the face (so to speak!) every time you have a cigarette is an easily grasped metric.

Perhaps other industries should fall under similar controls. Airline tickets with images of ???. Petrol pumps with ???. But of course, therein lie long battles between different interest and commercial groups. Or, as in tobacco's case, for the situation to progress to sufficiently large and undeniable quantities of deaths and disease, such that action becomes a belated but foregone conclusion.
This feels like a lot of writing for what could me described as a vanity project for Zuck to throw shade at Elon for a small amount of money. If it's successful, yay, brand new product to monetize. If it fails, it still annoyed Elon and make Zuck look better.
I keep hearing this bullshit ancecdotal phrase repeated by some people on HN.

“I have not seen X”.

Well, plenty of other people have. Maybe you haven’t personally experienced hunger, doesn’t mean that everyone in the world is fed either.

Here’s the thing —- whenever someone brings up legitimate applications of Web3, you just ignore them, slink out of the conversation, and then elsewhere continue to say “I have not seen any value provided”. It’s a no true scotsman fallacy all the way down.

The most harm Web3 decentralized finance has done is to people who voluntarily put some of their assets into it — and the vast majority was actually done by Centralized services that claimed to be part of Web3 but were more of the old “trust me” garbage. The kind you like.

By contrast, downsides of other things like fossil fuels, non-biodegradeable plastics and AI are far greater, and you can’t opt out of them.

In every single way, your disingenuous argument against Web3 sucks.
I think you are still making an unfair generalization from this post. What you are saying is like reading a machine learning paper which has python examples and complaining that software development with python demands understanding advanced linear algebra.
The what does this mean? “ As a species, we’re not very good at self-restraint (see: AI)”. That’s a bad ending line
This is fascinating. I assumed plants were far more efficient at extracting energy from sunlight but I had no reason to believe that. What is the source of this claim? Is it efficiency of a leaf in direct sunlight? Or of the entire plant with leaves wherever they may be?
"Assets" is a bit of a strong term for meaningless blobs of data. Can you refine your question to make it more specific? What assets would I actually desire to entrust to a website? I can think of none, because trusting a website with assets seems a stupid proposition in the first place.
oh, like a password manager? or any number of other private key based authentication schemes that aren't attached to a distributed system which spends a lot of time, effort, and complexity, not to mention cost on ensuring double-spends don't appen?
It's not very private if your Ethereum account is connected to it. Ethereum accounts should be considered PII. After all, KYC requirements on exchanges makes your accounts easy to link to your identity.

Logging in with Bitcoin (LNURL-auth) is much better implementation. It's just standard public key cryptography, which reuses your wallet seed to generate keys for logging in. Nothing about your addresses is shared or recorded anywhere.
At least politicians traveling are ostensibly doing it as representatives of their constituents. In theory it is reasonable that diplomatic summits whose outcome could affect millions of people are attended not by the millions but by a small number of professionals whose job it is to advocate for the millions.

Much less defensible, from a utilitarian perspective, are the corporate retreats and company meetups that are quite common in the tech industry.
KDE, wlroots's hardware cursor are broken right now
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452117
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4763

sad to see another linux api design failure
> yet to find an application beyond gambling and scamming.

Besides the only immutable planet-scale consensus of history, of course.

Good grief.
I saw an article the other day that we've got coal power stations on standby in the UK to power all the new air conditioning units
What does 3 dots like this mean? I’ve been seeing it a lot recently.
Can this get a "[2022]" added to the title? I remembered seeing this last year.
What's the problem with an exclusive community? The website is decentralized such that people can form exclusive communities with whatever rules they want, with no concern that an overarching corporation will dethrone them.