jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The question is whether anyone cares about the scarcity. I think the more complicated the item, the less it makes sense perhaps. The more utility in the item, the less I care about a separate ID number associated to it, I would think. For example, let’s move away from pictures momentarily and instead think of lossless music files. You consume music more “actively” than an image, and a literally identical music file seems weirder to pay more for. Or perhaps a movie. “An original pressing” NFT movie that has the same content as the $5 version. To some extent it feels that the Napster revolution proved the opposite: people are willing to take a hit on quality for price, and I would have hoped once upon a time that the response would have been to go more physical. People like plastic, so include trinkets you can do things with when you sell a digital thing because the trinkets can’t be downloaded (until we figure out crazy 3D printing of arbitrary materials I guess).

In some respects, blockchain currencies make the most sense precisely because they aren’t bound to some fictionally scarce “physical analogue” to remind you that it’s just a number. The currency says “the number has value, that is the one axiom you must believe”. An NFT muddies this by saying “the number has value BECAUSE it is tied to this unique thing that actually isn’t unique.”

Edit: One added point: if the scarcity is “real” due to some outside constraint (a card that can be used in a game, and thus it’s not yet copyable asset that people are buying but the unique ability to use it), then the above does not apply and NFTs seem like a fine way to standardize a cheating proof way of handling this.
Yes, we know. And melee is almost always played on CRTs locally.
Well didn't they enjoy titles, land and command of foot-soldiers - in exchange for an oath of loyalty? How would they be more like an inanimate object than today's generals (who have similar benefits to what I just listed)? Also, I understood your original point to be related to the threat from a human bad actor - not a "state of the art high speed weapons platform".
I'd expect to see those on a jobboardjobboardjobboard.
If you want to upgrade your architecture.
Some like to pretend that we can just build infinite new housing, for free or almost no cost, and that will give everyone a nice American level luxury dwelling, all with no environmental costs. I feel like such opinions are built on ignorance or at the very least naïveté about the home building industry. One can invest in the home builders to profit from these misinformed opinions as they increasingly drive policy towards deregulation and corporate welfare for the mega-developers.
Git has over-complicated source control for the majority of developers. Things were much simpler with svn.
Major telcos are anywhere from 70 to 100-year-old companies generally speaking. Most of them are the result of haphazard mergers between many many local phone companies over their existence, so even internally they are often held together rather precariously.

I'll give you one simple example of the magnitude of this. In Ontario & Quebec, Canada, in the 1920s, there were almost 800 local phone companies operating, and "The Bell Telephone Company of Canada" was the long-distance provider that connected all those companies together. Even back then they handled almost 3M long distance calls per day (from roughly ~500,000 phones).

Over time, Bell bought up all those local independent companies and merged their records, customers, infrastructure, operations, etc..

That's Ontario and Quebec only, 2 provinces out of 10.

Fast forward like 60 years and in Canada local/regional phone companies in various parts of the country were still a thing in the early 1980s, and even now we still have distinct phone companies for some of our provinces.

And this is just one country that has less than 40M people. Now repeat this process in the US, and other parts of the world, going back almost a century, and you can start to understand the complexity we're dealing with here.

The insanity of these merged and glued-together tech stacks would make most people faint.

Obviously they're not all still running on super old tech, but if you look at any major incumbent telco's DCs you will commonly find switching systems from as far back as the 1960s that have been wrapped in layer after layer of "modernization" but are still there routing calls and running old code.

I know you believe what you are saying is "simple enough", and it probably should be, but sadly it's not.

And while you're right to say it's a cost thing, it is also a technical problem in that it would require massive coordination both internally within telcos but also between companies that are competitors to each other, and aren't naturally inclined to work together in the first place.
Hi I'm Benoît and my agency made a tool that makes it easy to give feedback on any website. After years of freelancing and studio work I kept getting the same asks by clients:

"The development team has implemented your mocks can you please review and let them know what low hanging fruit they could do to get closer to the design?"

I started off with manually capturing screenshots (Shift + Cmd + 4 Pro here), annotating them and sending them to the devs. They came back with questions about the changes I requested so we had a ton of threads on multiple channels (Slack, their project management tool, one time, a crazy email chain) and it ended taking a lot of time of everyone.

I billed for that time to my clients but still felt like it was not the best value for them. I thought there had to be a better way.

I started searching for similar tools but all of them felt short of my expectations. Some of them provided a nice canvas experience but were restricted to only public facing pages, anything behind a login or with VPN access could not be commented on. Others were simply a better screenshooting tool but that didn't solve my multiple threads problem.

I created Greenlight to make that process a lot easier. Once you give it a try it's really hard to go back. We soft launched a couple of weeks ago and we're seeing users from all over the world commenting their projects which is great to see. Hope we can also help you out in your projects!

Ask me anything
Since this is HN, any advice for someone wanting to get from basically zero music knowledge to reading and playing jazz stuff? Let's say keyboard or guitar.

I do know some music theory from elementary / high school.
Spain has been mentioned several times here and it's helpful to read the details from 2015, of what happened there. Belgium and Germany too.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150725/14510131761/study...

A quick reading of the Bill indicates this will apply to snippets; and even a hyperlink without snippet. Who is that good for? That ended up damaging publishers in Spain.

Who else can imagine Google bargaining with the publishers for reduced paid renumeration by offsetting "value" from organic referrals?
Jazz pianist here. Among the greatest jazz pianist albums:

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage, Empyrean Isles, Herbie Hancock Trio (1981)

McCoy Tyner - Supertrios, The Real McCoy

Keith Jarrett - Facing You, Survivors Suite, Fort Yawuh, Expectations

A lot of my favourite piano/keyboard playing is on Miles Davis albums:

Red Garland on Steamin'. Relaxin', Workin', Cookin', Round About Midnight, Milestones

Herbie Hancock on Four & More, My Funny Valentine

Keith Jarrett on Live-Evil

Not to mention all the other amazing musicians on those! Among my musician friends, Miles' band with Wayne Shorter, Herbie, Ron Carter and Tony Williams (1963-68) is considered unrivalled in jazz. All Miles' records with Gil Evans' orchestra are superlative also.

P.S. There's also the strange and not-very-important question of labels – I don't think Facing You (or The Köln Concert) or Live-Evil are jazz, or anywhere near it. They are played mostly by jazz musicians, I guess. Who cares, they're good music.
Fair, it seems like noindex is the better way. It doesn't really matter what the exact technical details are, the point is that Google respects your wish to not be indexed if you express it.

The law as written is extremely draconic because it will force Google to link to these orgs(providing value) and then also pay them(providing value). It explicitly forbids Google from delisting them
Wanderlust is commonly used as a loanword in English.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wanderlust
Node.js incurs a fixed initialization time of 0.09s on my machine, which in a real-world scenario has already occurred, and isn't a factor in runtime performance. That makes Rust only 5 times faster.

If the author had provided the input data, I would optimize the JavaScript further so that Rust and JS would be more even.
> We're experiencing a DNS issue, causing the site to not resolve for many users. We are actively looking into this issue.

— https://twitter.com/NotionStatus/status/1360220589743480838

https://status.notion.so/

https://twitter.com/NotionStatus/
No, FreeBSD uses Fortuna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna_(PRNG)

Mersenne Twister is not secure, and it isn’t a very good RNG even for insecure uses.
The crackdown in Hong Kong was and is severe and that was with the worlds media watching.

One can only imagine how bad it is in Xinjiang with the strict control of independent reporting as to what is going on.
- visiting pixar with my roommate who worked there at the time was a great experience; the environment they've created for their team is the best i've seen anywhere
> just needs to be clear and well defined

Jeez I wish I had work like that. Maybe 1 in 10 tickets is clear and well defined where I work.
A setup that probably works is vps -> tor -> vpn or some other order of these three, but I couldn't find any sort of blog that detailed setting up something like this so I imagine very few people are doing it.
I had a more positive experience with Hetzner, and would recommend them. They do indeed default to Frankfurt DC.
Agreed that the foundations and payments need to be transparent. But if they are making, say on the order of a hundred grand a year in payments, wouldn't it behoove them to have a stable or increasing MOB market cap in the long run. IOW, if payments << market cap (currently O(10B)) then pumping and dumping is a disincentived move.
Quantum Mechanics and the three generations of matter are slightly different. Quantum Mechanics is like Newton's laws at small scales, in that if you know what things are like at time t, and you know all the potentials (forces), it tells you how they evolve. It also tells you what states are physically allowed (e.g. only certain energies for electrons orbiting an atom). You can study QM for years without any real look at the standard model, which is where the three generations come from.

If you want an undergraduate class in QM, edX has MIT's classes on line:

https://learning.edx.org/course/course-v1:MITx+8.04.1x+3T201...

If you want a textbook, Griffth's "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" is the standard answer. It's very much a "shut up and calculate" book, you'll learn how to compute expected values of commutators without much intuition for what they mean.

Update: Others point out Griffth's "Introduction to Elementary Particles", read their recommendations, sounds like the way to go.

If don't want to spend 12 hours a week for 3 months and still not have learned much about the 3 generations, then ... I don't know, maybe QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter? I don't know if it has the 3 generations, but it only assumes high school math, yet gets into the quantum version of electricity and magnetism.
> and has been fairly distributed from the start.

except for that giant cache of untouched (so far) bitcoins from the start.

> Blockchain analysts estimate that Nakamoto had mined about one million bitcoins before disappearing in 2010

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Creation
I liked the Dark Forest theory put forward in, well, The Dark Forest [1]. Advanced Alien civilizations are all across the galaxy, but everyone is keeping quiet and trying to not get noticed as being noticed is a death sentence. Not necessarily because there are evil civilizations hell bent on destruction, but because no one can be sure that the person who has noticed them is not going to destroy them simply because they in turn are not sure whether they know they are there and are hostile, and so on. This uncertainty arises due to the great distances in space making communication between civilizations impossible. Kind of the opposite to how on earth we have communication hotlines between nuclear powers to be able to de-escalate a situation.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168817-the-dark-forest
Simply enough, people do NOT want filthy hooker money in their wallets, if they don't need to. Yuck.
Thank you for this comment!

It is infuriating to see an article like this without a single chart, graph, or anything referencing actual statistical analysis.

We have an entire class of elites who despite graduating from elite schools are statistically and often mathematically illiterate who are funneled directly into the top tier media companies. Like most quantitatively illiterate humans, they think in terms of stories, anecdotes, and emotions.

Journalism like this is why people on hiking trails wear masks, and healthy 20-something people are acting like they are at equivalent risk as nursing home residents.

It's embarrassing that the entire western world has allowed media institutions filled with liberal arts grads to shape our entire response to the virus.
> E2ee helps mostly against server owner, and you eliminate this risk by being your own server owner.

Unfortunately you only eliminate it by being your own server owner _and_ your recipient being their own server owner. Take a look at email: I might not want to use e2ee because I self-host, but the second I send an email to a friend hosted on gmail, Google gets all the content.

I think federation does have its place (for different reasons) but it unfortunately isn't enough for privacy.
A more accurate title would be "You cannot police Covid misinformation in a fair, reproducible, and representative way" You can't because it's relatively new, still being researched and there are varieties of scientific opinion about various things. The debate is ongoing.

You can police Holocaust misinformation in a fair, reproducible and representitive way
Some may recall a time when magazines came in the mail with an address label that was glued on. Usually printed with a dot matrix printer. they usually had semicircles notches of feed hole in the middle, top and bottom.

The machines that applied these ate big stacks of tractor feed stock, with a hot melt glue already on one side, cut them into individual labels, heated and applied them to whatever you were running. It did this operation with a spinning heated drum and vacuum routed through holes in it. I can't find links to the thing unfortunately, it was an impressive hack.

Anyway, we had a clapped out one of those we nursed along for a decade in our publishing operation. At the time we were running about 10k small newspaper size things every 2 weeks or so, which would be a full day for several people running the papers through the label machine and getting them to the post office.

One day the "pre-run" shows a problem: it's dropping every 6th label. The diagnosis was hard cuz it shows up as "one in 6 is something between off center to under the next one". We looked at the timing chains (always a fun source of errors). We looked at the label stock. We checked the paper we were applying to. We made sure none of the rollers had flat spots and re-tensioned all the springs in the paper path. Still the same symptom.

Much more digging ensues and finally we discover a (now thoroughly cooked) spider in one of the vacuum channels in the spinning head thing.

Thanks to the healing power of aerosol brake cleaner, we got the problem solved, at about 6am before mail day.
What possesses someone who just stole billions to stay in New York while trying to launder their money? Staying and pretending it didn't happen, I get. Pulling a Marsalek, I get. But staying? While continuing to try and access that wealth?

Is it arrogance? Stupidity? Misplaced faith in the anonymity of crypto?
Right.

But IMO that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

It's not perfect, yup, mistakes will be made. I don't buy into the idea that you thus shouldn't do it.
Ah you are right, I didn't follow it up, thanks man!
Question from the cheap seats here : what causes a virus to "burn itself out" or fail to keep replicating? A lack of new hosts it can infect? Environmental details (heat, humidity)?

If anyone truly knows I'd like to hear it.
Herd community for covid19
is speculation right? There is no proof that that will happen is there? It is a (dangerous) gamble at this point as I understand it.
AppRun is looking pretty good https://apprun.js.org/
I wish I could highlight your comment, and tell everyone in the thread to read it.
Yeah that's what it's saying. But it's not saying we get updates as to where the sun is instantly due to FTL gravity. It's saying objects rotate around a projection. If the linear path of the sun were to change, those changes would take a while to get to us to update our path, but also due to how that can't "just happen", things don't end up getting messed up.
If this is the case, then would it be more efficient to connect to your own router with the second connection and just allocate the extra channels to yourself?
It's chunky for me too in Firefox, especially the 'letter' version. Pretty cool, but it's definitely still got a ways to go.
I think those were fairly light shots, at least compared to what was said at Google I/O.
I'm not really clear on what the gyroscope adds that wasn't there before, can someone clarify?
Market share: iPhone 28%, Android 9%

Mobile browsing: iPhone 58.2%, Android 22.7%

Looks like Android is edging the iPhone in mobile pageviews per user. Or am I thinking about this wrong?
Whoever said that must not be able to talk & use the network at the same time?
Yeah, I've definitely seem some seriously lax sites, but it's vastly better than in 2004. The great anti-usb-flash jihad of 2008-2009 seems to have helped a lot, at least on nipr and sipr.

The mitigating factor is that someone in a deployed environment is probably more aware of the potential harm from letting slip (even unintentionally) sensitive or classified information. i.e. mortar in the hooch.
On the other hand, Lamo might have argued that his status as a famous hacker makes him a regular target for the fabricated tales of script kiddies and weirdos worldwide.

Encountering a boastful liar on the internet isn't a freak occurrence by any means. Whether or not this is a viable defense is another matter.
You don't buy cars only for their designs.

Oh I disagree. I think designs matter a lot more to a large fraction of people than you might think.

I think luxury cars have much in common with fashion, in the sense that people who would buy a Mercedes would never buy a Hyundai even if it had all those identical IP in it. Once you get above midrange (ie Toyota), a car is much more about status symbols and conspicuous consumption than features. Just like fashion.
Thankfully, he's under UCMJ jurisdiction, and will have professional military officers adjudicating.

i.e., he's fucked.
A few folks have replied with the usual "use C/C++/Java instead", but in the real world it's often either impractical (or rather commercially indefensible) to fork out a different environment with its own training, testing, environment, automation, documentation and maintenance overheads. A blanket rejection of Node for CPU-heavy tasks is naive.

On the issue of performance, V8 lets Javascript run pretty quickly. Yes, there are languages that broadly offer faster execution, but that's far from the only factor in choosing a solution.

The main issue from my perspective is that the event loop can easily get blocked by CPU-bound tasks, preventing it from doing other things, e.g. responding to HTTP requests. You hit a similar problem with a Java servlet runner, eg. if a couple of your threads are bogged down on CPU-heavy tasks then they can't be responding to requests.

My personal preference would be to split CPU-heavy operations out so that they happen elsewhere, regardless of language, e.g having large PDFs generated by an internal microservice rather than by the webserver, or maybe via a queue in some cases. But that's just a personal preference.
Or the criticisms of Python that he has encountered are just different from your criticisms.

I have not seen anyone complain that Python is not compiled for at least a decade, but maybe the author has.
> Learn professional programming languages using an editor that lets you work in either blocks or text.

I was hoping this would be a visual editor for existing mainstream languages (Python, JS, PHP, C#, etc.). Sadly it isn't, but this makes me want to make one.
I came hoping for the same. While these are amazing, in publication reading, one really needs to try it out. Would love to get my hands dirty. Still wait-listed got gpt3 access, but no hope in sight...
> > Strong correlations have been observed between the presence of DRM and strong sales

> Can you point to any studies on this subject please?

I said "have been observed" and I gave three examples of games where DRM correlated with strong sales.

You are still repeating "There are studies proving the inverse" without ever referencing them.
Has there been a ruling on if the scanning creates a derivative work in New Zealand? The crazy argument in the US has been that the digital scanned copy is a new derivative work that gets copyright based on the scan date.
And with signed artifacts that wouldn't have happened.

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_verific...

> Note that a variation of a compromised library is often name squatting, when a hacker would use GAV coordinates which look legit but are actually different by one character, or repository shadowing, when a dependency with the official GAV coordinates is published in a malicious repository which comes first in your build.

Best part is that the documentation literally describes the attack used here.

Another example where npm and co are reinventing the same issues that Java has already solved long ago.
Yeah, well there are still people living very close to Chernobyl and who don't die from instant cancer every year. We have no real knowledge of how medium levels of radiation cause safety/health issue. We know very high levels of radiations kill, and low levels or radiation don't kill much, but we have very unreliable data in between, and we know for sure it's not a linear effect.
> She made about $50k, but I had to pay her with after-tax income so the actual cost of the nanny was closer to $70k of my pretax income. This is the precise double taxation you’re talking about.

That's just payroll taxes, which fund things like your nanny's social security and Medicare, and corporations have to pay them too.

If the nanny was on a corporation's payroll it would cost them 70k too, so if you paid the corporation for her services, you'd still have to pay more than 70k for that corporation to make a profit.
Q: What's to stop me taking sometime else's art I find online, claiming it's mine, turning it into a NFT and making money from it?

A: Absolutely nothing ... I think?