skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The actual artwork on a piece of paper will typically be lower fidelity than a digital version of it, and paper degrades faster than CD-roms.

I think the post does a nice job of countering this; a physical object will always contain much more information (in the Shannonian sense) than any digital alternative could, and that goes far beyond things like DPI.
> The actual artwork on a piece of paper will typically be lower fidelity than a digital version of it, ...

I don't know your definition of fidelity, but a paper artwork is full of details and a digital capture of it will loss information. Consider the tridimensional nature of real paper and paints, or the infinite interplay between light and medium. You can't capture any of that information in a digital copy.

Also, the argument about longevity is not that clear cut. We can see paintings in cave walls from thousands of years ago, same with stone carvings. Let's see if you can render a JPG 10.000 years from now. (without having to reconvert/maintain it each epoch)
People with disabilities frequently do.
And pirates use bulletproof hosting in other countries to avert takedowns. Amazon is in the US, where they are beholden to US laws.
>It costs money to produce, so it should also cost money to consume.

This isn't how markets work. It costs money to consume because people aren't able to find a free substitute and the place some value in it. The cost of production is irrelevant.
I think there's a fundamental difference: pay-to-progress games have a strong incentive to make progressing without paying as painful as possible. Getting people hooked is just a means to get them paying. Games with long progression paths have an incentive to keep that process as interesting is possible, otherwise people will just stop playing (and along the way the player is having fun).

Also, I've not come across many roguelites which have a strong RNG component in their progression path. Roguelites are inherently random but their progression mechanics are generally quite regular on any given playthrough. All the ones I've played you progress quite linearly just by playing the game, not grinding for a chance to process. The worst I've heard of is one FTL's ship unlocks which involves getting two or three good rolls in a playthrough, which players (mostly 100% speedrunners) do complain about. Certainly nothing to the level of what is very common in lootboxes (where a massive grind for a less than 1 in 100 chance is common).
> It's up to you to decide whether Texas is an outlier.

That isn't really related. Like I said, it's possible the temporary spikes in prices can make mining with fossil fuels profitable, but that is in the short term.

> If the power was literally not being used the cost would be negative - this is a real thing that happens.

Price only goes negative when there is too much energy produced, but downregulating production would be even more expensive. This is mostly a problem with wind energy combined with coal or nuclear plants. Otherwise you would downregulate production so you don't have to pay the penalty. Consuming this excess energy in a profitable manner would keep prices above zero.
> auto w = Widget(1,2,3);

Note that unlike in Java or C# this is not the right way to initialize a variable in C++.
No they certainly need solving, that is, if we are able to justify them causing any environmental impact at all.

If can start on the agreement that we need to curb our environmental impact, then any new technology we embrace surely needs to be very useful to as many people as possible in order to justify any significant affect on the environment.
EVs still require nearly as much servicing as ICE cars: they still have suspension, body, brakes, wheels. This article is another in a line of cargo-cult leaps defining anything Tesla does as somehow inherent to EVs in general. See also the apparent linkage between self-driving and EVs (unrelated, except both are done by Tesla).

Edit: I agree that dealerships are mostly obsolete, but the internet is what really kills them off - customers can now deal directly with the manufacturer.
> And probably check my privilege

That's a weird way of putting it. Not having a good model of others' experience is a universal experience, and something that should be treated as a reason to not make assumptions about others, not a sign that you're privileged.
I'm the co-founder of a startup named Vantage that is an alternative to the AWS console with a focus on developer experience and cost transparency and this is exactly the sort of thing we try and help people with.

We're sorry that this happened and hear about it a lot. I'd highly recommend folks sign up for Vantage if for no other reason than to get our weekly cost reports which would have caught this sooner: https://www.vantage.sh/
> I believe that the world is primarily run by academia and journalists

I think that world would look something like this:
We take immediate and severe measures to curb global warming, don't spend the last decade imposing austerity measures on the European populace, de-escalate the war on drugs, develop a deep understanding of the cultural intricacies of countries we consider invading, avoid publishing clickbait inflammatory anecdotes in our newspapers in consideration for the long term public interest, not the benefit of the shareholders, and drive policy by the nuanced understanding of scientific study, not emotion, intuition, or anecdote.

How does the contrast between the last 40 years of ruthless neoliberalism vs. the very leftist academia and democratic-liberal leaning MSM, fit in your belief that academia and the press are somehow running the show?

(edit: typo)
But at least they are semantically buttons and not the UI equivalent of a <div> to VoiceOver…
I don't see why it would. Verified doesn't mean unhackable (including physically), it means correct.
If you read the title of the article or some of the opening paragraphs, you will see that it is intended to answer common questions from people who are less familiar with crypto or NFTs. This is explicitly not an issue of "someone is forcing you to use crypto art." Though you could certainly ask whether you are being forced to tolerate the environmental impacts of crypto art through things like rising temperatures, that's hard to prove trivially (the article tries)
That argument has the distinction of being universally valid, so no single issue will ever be tackled following its logic.

And just to be clear: Bitcoin is a bit more pushback than, say, residential heating, because it’s an entirely new CO2-emitting industry, and it is neither necessary nor beneficial except maybe for the thin slice of humanity that spends too much time on Reddit.
The environmental cost of the beemer is not linked to its dollar value. As tfa demonstrates, this is not true of the 0.1 bitcoin.
> Name a single thing we produce with Bitcoin

Internet arguments about Bitcoin?
I think it's really similar to art. It's more about your relationship with the artist or the emotion that makes you want to own the original... And of course, the art market.
Oh, I have no dog in this fight, but let me tell you Factorio is extremely addicting. As in, "I wonder where all those hours of my day went?". I had to stop playing because it was starting to get stressful.

PS: it's a really cool game.
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It's a bit of a joke as well, hence:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telesco...
A worldwide shortage of gaming video cards. I've been thinking about building a new box for a couple of YEARS now, waiting on the prices to come down. I don't have any hope of that for at least another year.
My personal rules of naming, in order of importance are:

1. Be unique.

2. Don't be misleading.

3. Be leading.

So in this case you are nailing 2 but missing out on three which I would consider a "pretty good" name. Sure, it would be nice if it was a bit more obvious (maybe construct_in_place_back?) but at least it doesn't sound like it does something else so people know to look it up.
> [...], but please just give me a Face ID laptop Apple.

Why is that so much more convenient than eg the fingerprint scanner?

(Even entering my password is pretty quick for me.)

I haven't use any form of Face ID on any device so far. So I am genuinely curious. I do see the appeal of finger print auth over having to type a password or a code on the phone.
VS Code doesn’t allow plugins to access the DOM. I wish it did!
Then there are other societal costs. Like people losing power. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/iran-bitcoin-electr...
Even rising cost of electricity and added pressure on ASIC/GPU production due to bitcoin is an externality we all pay for. Ask anyone who has been trying to buy a GPU for the last 6 months.
Yes. If we split all the bitcoins up into 7.8 billion pieces and distributed them to everyone on the planet ... what do you think bitcoins would suddenly be worth? Would each slice still be worth ~$100 or would the market simply collapse?
IRS clarifies that buying and holding crypto doesn't require 1040 reporting
I thought each token cost over a hundred dollars to mint. Otherwise I'd play around with adding a few things. As it is, it's gambling to see if someone will want to pay you more for what you minted than the cost to mint it, right?
See my previous answer for a possible reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26288948
Telus Authorized Partner Store in Vancouver
Google will van your application if you do a filtered Play store search, so make sure it is available on F-Droid and elsewhere.
>The article makes specific claims to the contrary

Which are unsubstantiated. One minting is basically one (largish) transaction. Transactions arent quite that expensive, it costs maybe $50-100 and you definitely don't put months of electricity to earn that little as a miner. I don't have the numbers but it doesn't check out.

>Does PoS actually work today? AFAICS it's vaporware.

Yes, it's worked for a while.
Did the US Government lose the blueprints for the B-2 bomber?
I've seen a few of these on Google docs recently - is there a way they can turn the obnoxious margins off on mobile, it's not possible to read on there with 1 inch of padding on each side of the phone....
FWIW, those views are held not just by Peterson (who is easy to dismiss for his more extreme and loony views), but many if not most reputable researchers in the field, as far as I can tell.
Is that really that slow? idk how they even read the file in that amount of time, my drive is only about 125MB/s
I make my Jamstack website generate from the wordpress REST API, so my content people still use Wordpress which they love, and once they publish the pipeline publishes my JamStack site which the public visits.
GCHQ’s plans to use AI to tackle disinformation raise thorny questions
The comparison isn't so much physical art as selling someone else's photos or songs or game assets on the internet which doesn't involve crypto.
We all have different opinions on what activities we consider "wasteful". Some people see value in cryptocurrencies while others don't. What we really need is to price externalities (e.g. carbon emissions) and let the market decide. Or we could keep posting 20 articles a day that bash about cryptocurrencies being bad for the environment.
I think that's a good point. I probably should have elaborated a bit, that I wasn't talking purely instictual increase in sexual activity, but also an increase in opportunity to discuss and plan having a baby
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My opinion has definitely changed over the last 10 years from I'll use anything if it's free, to I'm willing to pay for a better service.

Spotify is something I'll gladly pay for because it just works and is less hassle than ads and playlists and searching for youtube videos.
yeah, exactly. There are "people who matter" who pay attention to Twitter, and their opinion may be influenced by dogpiles.

But if you don't have that, then (I have found) it's easy to ignore.
You're lamenting the short-term downside, but you ignore the long-term upside. If it hadn't been for the crypto boom, GPUs would not be where they are today.
It's true of course that as a cross-platform toolkit independently built on top of another platform, Flutter will have to consider new controls, gestures, and changes in many platforms. You could say the exact same things comparing Android/iOS/Windows to the cross-platform web: it's very hard to do and there are plenty of compromises, but it's still very valuable. There's been far more handwringing over the web's deficiencies as compared to native OS platforms; why reinvent the wheel with some crappy dynamic language called JS, why rebuild everything with a custom style language and layout engine? Yet Electron and web apps continue to dominate because the trade-offs can still be worth it.

The web is not really adopting hordes of new input modes like WebXR every year, there'll be plenty of time for Flutter to consider new stuff like that before it approaches relevancy in mainstream product development. Accessibility features like voice assistant support don't necessarily come free either. Rich web applications usually don't produce simple/accessible DOM structures even if you're developing with web-native tooling. Flutter or not, accessibility practically always requires some level of manual annotation in web apps, which is Flutter's primary use case.

> Not on the web though. I mean, for obvious reasons on the web we can't just expose native OS methods for websites to call.

I meant native-to-the-web. Flutter's MethodChannels & plugin system works on the web too. If there are browser APIs that you need to use, you can setup hooks to call them from within Flutter.
Thanks for explaining I read the commit 3 times trying to find out what could be offending.
I'm dying. Thank you for the laugh.
Video of an aircraft landing at the airfield:

https://mobile.twitter.com/flightradar24/status/136633455367...
I'm also surprised to see this shared here, but mostly because of the timing. Jeff Ding translated it in June 2020: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-98-techlore-the-histori...

Note also that he chose to translate it because it has the entertainment value of a typical Chinese "self-media" article:

This week’s feature translation is a joint work with Joy Dantong Ma, who pitched this epic piece. My term for these types of pieces is “techlore:” longform pieces that read, at times, like epic poems in which the heroes (tech company leaders) wage battle over the commanding heights of the economy. “Development Bloggers” or the “Industrial Party,” usually people who have experience working in the tech industry and espouse techno-nationalist views, are emerging as a formidable force in Chinese media and the semiconductor industry is especially fertile ground for techlore.

You've probably scrolled past thousands of "self-media" articles and dismissed them instantly, but for many here, it's their first encounter with the genre, so it feels new and exciting. And don't forget that HN is a highly-refined entertainment product optimized for delivering new and exciting content to its users.
Arizona adopts law untying payments from mobile app store
yes, I never use std::deque for the same reason. I believe that the deque in boost these days has a compile time configurable block size.
No one is forcing me to burn coal or hunt rhinos to extinction but I'm against both of those things too.
Dealerships could have been a thing of the past many years ago. They’ve persisted because dealership owners are often the richest people in sparsely populated areas and have a lot of influence on local politicians. This in turn prevents outdated state laws forbidding car manufacturers from selling directly to the public from being repealed. See also, beverage distribution.
The price of infinite freedom in UI toolkits is that you get nothing for free. This has consistently been untenable: you quickly get stuck in the weeds reimplementing basic behaviors.
Kinda reminds me of SimAnt, which if I recall correctly would basically play itself but you could 'help' by throwing down food or digging tunnels for the ants.
I never thought that. The uncertainty was too great. The economy isn’t doing well either.
The article has a strong focus on the environmental impact, but a subtheme exists questioning the real value in cryptocurrencies at all.

The author addresses the existence of Po[X]:

"""
I’m sure you’re seeing the problem here- there is not a schema that doesn’t reward those who already are already wealthy, who are already bought in, who already have excess capital or access to outsized computational power. Almost universally they grant power to the already powerful.

This is also a climate issue.
"""
As of now the picture is not 100% clear, but so far reports of everybody looking into the issue seems to indicate that data is indeed being written (either cause of a bug, or aggressive swap), and it's not a tooling misreporting issue.
Urghh.. and to think I got rejected the season before Auth0 got accepted for exactly the same idea. Anyone have any tips on actually getting noticed at YC? Didnt even get past video pitch :/
That seems like a legitimate question although you’ve rephrased it somewhat uncharitably.
I'm a bit reluctant to reply without having looked at the article in detail, but I feel confident that the answer must be negative!

Why?

Because the very concept of side-channel depends on
attacker capability! For example, does your attacker have physical
access to the processor or not? With physical access you can exploit channels like power consumption through
differential power analysis, or shoot laser pulses at target
transistors to flip them and induce the processor to leak secrets. OTOH,
without physical access, those channels don't meaningfully exist
and you need to rely on, for example, speculation failure attacks and
exfiltration via cache timing. So what counts as a side-channel is
attacker-capability dependent.
These arguments are always pointless, as there is nothing that can be done about it, short of a global ban on computers and the internet. Why not ask the question: "how can we incentivise usage of clean over dirty energy?". How is it the fault of Bitcoin that someone realised burning brown coal to create hashes is economically viable? That's a failure of the state, not the software.
* How does "twin sisters" imply a rags to riches story? You seem to be implying that because the headline mentions the success of a female team in taking public a games studio making games for a female market, it somehow implies they must have come from nothing and struggled?*

It doesn't. However people do jump to conclusion. I also assumed that it's a rags to riches story, however incorrect it is.
This article is trash -- just look at these assertions:

>The overwhelming consensus among programmers and technologists is that blockchain is completely useless technology for anything but speculative digital gambling on tokens.

Many Bitcoin skeptics are advocates of blockchain -- so I don't see a consensus here.

>Ok, so what do we even mean when we say “blockchain”. The answer is really that nobody knows, it’s not a term that has any precise definition and it really depends on who you talk to and the context.

Blockchain is useful and afaik does have a working definition -- it solves a very real problem of how to prevent bitrot in the long term storage of data for example.
Poverty is not Sybil-resistant, capital is. There's nothing keeping you from pretending to be ten or ten thousand poor people instead of one rich person. In the real world we have to use strong, centralized identity checks to validate things like welfare programs or voting. These cannot be turned into distributed systems and remain robust to manipulation. You only get the security guarantees of crypto from actually scarce resources.

That being said, this has been done, but usually off the backs of existing blockchains. In Etheriumland this is known as an "airdrop" and is considered a form of annoying spam these days. Of course, if you actually wanted a wallet full of no-name ICOs you could just send coins back and forth to yourself to keep your address on the blockchain so that you got more airdrops. This is bounded mainly by gas price (which is artificially made scarce through protocol limits), but I wouldn't consider this system robust or equitable.
....like...down by the river??

;)
I know. But it doesn't matter as DNT is universal. If you enable DNT, websites SHOULD (or better: MUST, but unrealistisc I know) honor that. For technical/functional cookies you don't need permission. The rest is off, DNT answers the question of "Do you accept" with a browser-based "No.".
I wrote a picture book about big data to try and make my mum care about privacy
1. Money Laundering: If you made money from a pump and dump or something otherwise nefarious that you want to convert back to USD and explain away, a good way is to mint digital art and sell it to yourself. Then when you report it to the IRS you made $100,000 from selling digital artwork to an anonymous buyer instead of from insider trading a low market cap coin. This is not so different from how art works in meatspace (see Mark Rothko).

2. Charity: It's hard to really grok this if you don't live in the crypto world but people make insane amounts of money from Ethereum. I know multiple people who are under 30 and have each made upwards of $500,000,000 from buying ETH in the presale / insider trading in bull markets. Generally someone who bought into the ETH presale is a mega crypto bull and keeps a large percentage of their net worth in crypto. It's trivial for them to support artists by buying their artwork for a minuscule fraction of the money they've made. What sounds like "buying a .jpg for thousands of dollars" to someone not in this world, is more like the crypto equivalent of tipping a live streamer a bit on twitch.
That's brilliant marketing from Peak Design and Amazon obviously copied their product features but contrary to what most commenters seem to think that is not in anyway a counterfeit.

A counterfeit has to be made in exact imitation of something valuable with the intention to deceive. It's going to be hard to confuse the Amazon bag and the Peak Design one when they don't use the same zips and straps, they don't have the same color and the Amazon brand is obvious on the Amazon one.

Both products have the same shape but that is not in anyway illegal.
I noticed that one of the project goals is to support PCs which use the 8086 or 8088 class cpus, but there doesn't seem to be 360KB installation media available which is the floppy size many of these machines would support.
To be fair, push_back won’t help you here, either.
Why is that a failure of the state? Which state?
I always found that annoying. My best best is crypto mining defense.

Btw if you're looking for cheap cloud GPUs here's a little side project of mine - https://gpu.land/. You can rent dirt cheap Tesla V100s at $0.99/hr. That's 1/3 of what you'd pay at GCP/AWS/paperspace!

Give it a go and let me know if any questions:)
Seriously though https://fishtoaster.com/images/Blockchain.png
If you have an existing codebase you need people who can come in and understand it rather than spend their first few months learning the language.