skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So you own it, and assumedly have exclusive rights to sell it, but it's also very easy to copy and distribute

And this is also questionable. I mean, anyone can make a perfect copy and sell it. They cannot get that sale recorded on some blockchain, but who cares? There are no legal ramifications, because the legal system does not recognize some random blockchain as authoritative regarding ownership, instead most jurisdictions have their own (central) database about registered/copyrighted works.
Maybe they had no inventory in your region, or you're remembering an earlier time? It definitely had auctioned ads in 2014.
Well, in order to satisfactorily answer that, we'd have to agree on what constitutes a good reason...

(describes a notation for propositional logic)

Oh. I see what you did there.
Only way I can imagine is if it were integrated with a blockchain-based Content ID system, you could try to force people to pay royalties. Overall, I'm skeptical of NFTs...
I had an East German camera (a Praktica) for a short while; my aunt brought it with her from England. Seeing the comments about Soviet build quality, I'd note that it also applies to Soviet satellites as well.

The lens was wonderful, but it didn't take many rolls of film for the shutter to give out. I switched to a Minolta SRT202 after that, before I ditched film for digital. I suppose I could have gone with a Pentax K-1000 and kept the lens, since it was the same screw mount.
Pay us xxx per month and get your bad reviews removed and have 5 gold stars beneath your Google search listing too.

A great business model.
But of course you understand Bitcoin can be transacted in off-chain, yes?
That's one way of doing it. But making bigger integrated circuits (IC) is hard. And it wouldn't automatically give you increased performance.

In microelectronics, costs are directly proportional to the die area. Actually, they might rise faster due to yield issues.

Making masks [1] is expensive. The bigger the mask, the more expensive. A mask set for a modern CPU can easily be in the millions, I think. And it gets more expensive with size.

Then you have yield. The bigger the chip, the more likely it has some defects (due to dust or other issues during fabrication). Often, processes work more or less well across a wafer: temperature higher in the center, etc. That can affect performance.

Due to yields, bigger chips have to be scrapped more often, and are generally less performant. Binning (selecting the fastest, slowest, more efficient, or chips with specific intact features across a wafer) is less effective. You might have to add redundancy or mechanisms to cut power to damaged areas to avoid short circuits.

Now, that's why we don't generally make bigger integrated circuits. Now, we could make bigger integrated circuits with today's latest clean rooms and equipment to try to raise yields. I don't know if that's being done already, but it would likely raise costs. On the other hand, progress is being made on bigger chips as well [2].

Another more promising direction (IMO) is to use chiplets like AMD does it. You could use more of these for a bigger virtual size.

Now, like I wrote, a lot of the performance improvements actually come down from physically scaling down the transistors: if the gate is smaller, the transistor needs less electrons to charge up. That means faster transistors, and less energy. Also, transistors are closer, so signals reach the next one faster [3].

If you want bigger chips at a previous technological node, you are going to need a huge heatsink, or disable part of the chip ("dark silicon") [4].

The real answer might come from completely different architectures, based on light or spin, or more power-efficient circuit/computer architectures like with adiabatic computing [5] (or non von neumann based, closer to what I do).

Power efficiency is key, since that's the limiting factor for performance nowadays (ask any overclocker: you don't want to melt your CPU. Also, rovers have a small energy budget). With better efficiency, you have room to grow performance again.

Paradoxally, software seems headed in the other direction, generally speaking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomask

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20739408

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_silicon

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic_circuit
Exactly what I was thinking of. I’m having a lot of trouble understanding the value proposition to vendors here.
Prime+probe cache side-channel attack implemented in CSS
luck is just another word for other people.
It is interesting to make a connection between integrated solution and over-serving. To me, integration seems like a defense against feature sprawl and over-serving. Not saying they can't be disrupted, I just don't think it comes from their choice to integrate.

Disruption wouldn't come from Apple not covering all the use cases, but from making a really important use case harder to access than it should be. Amazon's Echo is a classic attack in this regard. If Amazon bets that Siri-like interfaces are important it should build a device that mostly does that, and does it better.

I don't see the smartphone as a whole being disrupted, especially by an open platform, since I still don't see a use case that Apple can't copy. If there was an innovators dilemma based attack it would need to radically simplify the interface. The problem is a multi-touch screen and display make the core value the diveristy of things the phone can do. A product cannot really collapse over some subset.
Ain't that true for any currency and stock?

The definition of Market Capitalization is "Commonly referred to as "market cap," it is calculated by multiplying the total number of a company's outstanding shares by the current market price of one share." according to investopedia.[1]

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marketcapitalization.as...
Have you looked into using a heterogeneous map library in Haskell? I haven't used any myself, but a quick search shows that they do at least exist.
From what I understand, it depends on the particular NFT. Some (most?) of them do not transfer copyright, so you couldn't reproduce or license the work for profit. Maybe you could loan the token somehow?
Sorry about that - went down earlier from the load! It is back up now if you would like to give it another try!
I don't play GTA Online, but I'll just say thanks for forwarding, since it's a concrete step towards possibly fixing the bugs.
If I want to move .de domains from one hoster to another, I'll need authentication codes and alike for that. This process has been automated and digitalized but the current domain owner has to explicitly acknowledge and allow the transfer.

This is how DENIC handles those things at least.
People sitting stoned in their houses don't sound like they're committing a lot of violent crimes.

It's possible that marijuana makes some people useless and drives others to commit crime. But it doesn't sound like your observations match what the article is claiming.
It's interesting to note how slow the French justice is.
It took 7 years between the evidence being found by investigators and the trial.
It's going to take a few more years with the appeal and in all cases he will never step foot in prison, which is ironic given that Sarkozy was a huge proponent of Zero Tolerance policies.

Similarly, Jacques Chirac was condemned in 2011: 11 years after what he did became known, 16 years after he left the Mairie de Paris. At which point, his mental and physical health was so poor he didn't even stand in trial.
The incredible short-sightedness of everyone who reworked their business around subscription cloud business products that can change their terms and costs at any time.

Once schools and enterprises are locked in enough, the prices will rise, the offerings will diminish, and nobody will be able to do squat about it.

If subscription offerings were required to uphold their pricing and terms for customers as long as they maintained an account, you'd see very different calculations on what is offered when. Much more like an on-prem offering.
Its main purpose is as a currency. This is what the original authors clearly intended it to be and what all the popular discussion was about until a year or two ago.

The "store of value" narrative is a rationalization of the fact that Bitcoin has failed.
It really is my pet peeve with fish, but the last command that started with what you typed cannot be completed that way. For that, you need to use right-arrow.

I kept a fork of fish for that purpose for some time, but that was really too much hassle and I went back to zsh.

Which is pretty sad, because otherwise fish is amazing.
LBRY works nicely, but hasn't got a lot of traction. Haven't seen it crop up much since last year's Linux Sucks 2020 video.

Incidentally, from Firefox I can right click the video > Save Video As... and I can download the video to watch later. Was surprised to see there doesn't seem to be a download button anywhere on the page, though.
the $6.6M didn't go to Beeple, this art was bought from him for 67k$ last year. $6.6M is the transaction between two collectors.
> Is there any serious unpredictable danger for people living near Chernobyl?

The towns surrounding Chernobyl were completely evacuated. This can happen again.

In Germany, the government of Aachen is giving iodine tablets and asked its people to prepare for an eventual nuclear catastrophe because of the nearby nuclear power plant behind the border with Belgium [1]. The nuclear power station was designed to run 30 years, but 15 years after its expiration date there's no sign the Belgian government will close it.

I wouldn't trust any western government to not fall for the same "already built plant = free energy" trap the Belgian government fell into. We are better off admitting that and focusing on renewables instead of risking nuclear.

https://m.dw.com/en/german-city-of-aachen-offers-iodine-tabl...
While I am also concerned about safety (there’s always something that can go wrong, and the energy density and the conversion factor from energy to risk are both very hazardous here), the waste is a surprisingly small issue: The actual quantity of material, thanks to the energy density of the fuel, is tiny and easily managed.
The hard part with these kinds of fixes is that they evaluate every time you create a new shell or tab, which for me is very frequently.

It’s already starting to add noticeable latency from all of the various eval statements in there.

Edit: I missed it’s a function def which should be fine speed wise.
This has been called "ETL" for as long as I can remember. Could someone explain why they're using "ELT"?
I recall hearing that it was 29K on Griddy (myself included) before the storm. I've also heard a little over 10K were left to be transferred when it was shut down. I'm not sure exactly how many were exposed to the 4-days of artificially pegged prices.

I've also discovered over the past week that there's at least one more wholesale-rate provider, https://www.octopusenergy.com (specifically, it's OctoFlex plan).
suggested to tag cosmopolitan projects with such a cosmopolitan tag
https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3/issues/205
No but there is a problem with Btc that is not comparable to other currencies.

Satoshi own 1 million btc. That is 49 billion usd.

When he made that 1 million 11 years ago nobody knew what btc was...

Do you see the problem.
Most people in 1900 would not transact in Gold although it was the first settlement.

The world was fine till governments decided to operate without hard money as first settlement layer.

We are going to revert back. It _has_ to be fixed.
Some thoughts on how to handle component communication in ReactJS
Agreed.

But there are exploits and there are breaches. Exploits are bad and Rust will help, but in the rest of industry and government and military, exploits are not the whole story with respect to what causes breaches.
“Learn Python for hedge fund jobs, and don’t be afraid of legacy systems”
> And food production following an O(2^n) curve is highly improbable, the best we can imho do is something polynomial or linear.

Why? All technology has so far outpaced population growth.
This 'product limitation' makes user experience worse. Actually, it makes it unusable for most users.

Whether this limitation is intentional is irrelevant, the UX is still bad.
I’ve got to think that Rocket Lab’s announcement came earlier than planned because of this announcement by Relativity Space a few days ago:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/25/relativitys-reusable-terran-...

Relativity is claiming to be working on a fully reusable, Methalox burning, competitor to the Falcon 9. Of course Relativity has yet to put something into space so Rocket Lab seems better positioned but these companies are all competing for the same funding and launch contracts so they can’t sit back and let another company steal the lime light for long. Really exciting times in the space industry, the US could have four different companies making reusable rockets in the next 5-10 years.
Also, you can use special lanes and in California lane split. If you're willing to take on the risk, and live in a sunny place, motorcycles can compete with public transport in cost.
Uncertain decision making and the maximax criterion
> https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sWFFiubtC3c&feature=youtu.be

Wow I forgot SpaceX originally wanted a reusable second stage on F9. Would have been pretty cool.
Perserverance looks cool! :-O
Does it have the zipties though like the original on Mars? ;)
I agree with @newswasboring , all your sources seem to have an interest in bitcoin.

My primary source for the facts given are based upon this study by Cambridge university :

https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-cc...

Secondary source is here:

https://youtu.be/lNGwQhXfB88
And how much can we increase agri productivity? Will it grow exponentially along with the population? Otherwise, we will need that land.
You hit my sentiment on that perfectly.

I am currently going through something similar on some open source software. Basically the people who run the project are 'done'. But it depends on other services and those people are 'done' too. They got tired of the endless support requests with little recompense. So they bailed out. Yet from my 'customer' point of view now something I used no longer works correctly and no amount of money will fix that. So now I have to spend a bunch of time trying to figure out something that works for me for something that 'worked'. This is the situation many of these companies leave other people and companies in.

Fail usable is what IoT should be. Instead it seems to be just 'fail and you are out of luck'.
I’ve typed in :wq! so often I sometimes accidentally type it in when trying to do things like close browser tabs or exit programs.
Yes - the article is about 1991. Of course there was more than one DOS spreadsheet in 1991. To give you some perspective: Excel for Mac was six years old in 1991, Informix Wingz was three years old, and Lotus Improv was just released.

They were already showing Visual Basic for Windows at trade shows and Hypercard on the mac was four years old.
US has too much to lose if this happens and the dollar is displaced. SEC will knock the legs out from under crypto first.
Another example of so many things wrong with the status quo.

(1) Naive people find liberation in text-based protocols that don't require tools to understand.

(2) With experience one finds that variable-length data structures are much more treacherous than fixed-length data structures: you find simplicity instead in binary data formats that are dead easy to parse.

(3) Floating point numbers are astonishingly expensive to parse and unparse to ASCII compared to how many FLOPs you could do in that time. All that, for a function that isn't quite correct... That is, the number 1/5, which you write as "0.2" doesn't actually exist in IEEE floats. You don't notice at first because that number unparses as "0.2" -- but then note that "0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3" is false in most computer languages.

(4) Null-terminated strings are the definition of insanity, rivaled only by "pointers are integers, integers are pointers"

One pet project of mine lately is a "Data Assembler" that takes a graph of data structures (say test data for a family of logic chips, graphics data for a laser light show, or "maps" to upload to the engine control unit in your car) in Python and converts it to a byte array that is incorporated into an Arduino program.

The total size of the structure could be up to 32kbytes on a small device, or up to 250kbytes or so on a big device, but the program memory is huge compared to the RAM which might be as little as 2kb so the unpacking code is going to stream the data with a small working area.

The minimum it has to do is put together blocks of data that have references to one another that are only resolved once all of the blocks are otherwise complete.

I deliberated a lot about how to handle variable length data structures and decided to embed a two-byte length before the block for all blocks. I could have saved some bytes when the length of the structure was known, but then I'd have to figure out how to code lengths then (e.g. for an array of 2-byte ints do I count the ints or bytes) and figured I'd make up my mind once.
The performance fix for macOS [0] is very welcomed. I'll be glad to get rid of the ugly hacks in my fish config files. Looks like an amazing release all around.

[0] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/7365
He (Johnny Lee) also worked on the Kinect.
It's all fun and dandy until someone hacks satoshis wallets.
Yea I used AOL chatrooms and then AIM chatrooms in the late 1990's into the 2000's. I liked that AIM allowed you to connect with strangers who may have had similar interests but were outside your network (unlike Facebook). A few people I met on AOL/AIM have become good friends IRL, and my cousin and a couple others I know met their future spouses on AIM.
Et vous trouvez cela normal ?
The type-writer: a machine to supersede the pen (1875)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180231
Twitter is a terrible format for stuff like this. I wish HN had a filter that automatically kills all tweet submissions.
I mean, it isn't some weird flex with me going yeah it's cramped BUT WE LOVE IT THIS WAY. Like, yeah, this house would be too small for 4 people. But right now, with just me, wife, and a baby on the way - no problem.

>>my parents bedroom was the 'big' bedroom and it was just large enough to fit a queen sized bed, a chest of drawers, a gun case, and then a night stand on one side of the bed

That's exactly what ours is, minus the gun case ;-)
And lost users every time. Also, you've merged a lot of unrelated products.

MSN was folded into Skype after they bought Skype, a separate company. Lync, a corporate offering with no commonality with MSN, got rebranded Skype for Business, despite no actual relation or compatibility with Skype. Teams has nothing in common with either of the previously described product lines, though Microsoft is going to sunset SfB and push everyone over to Teams, given the success of that product.

Renaming Lync as Skype for Business is actually the only "rebrand" Microsoft did here, and it did nothing to actually increase adoption of that platform, considering Microsoft chose to dump it less than five years later.
But you could imagine that an exploit might exist that would defeat the existing countermeasures, and that exploit would probably still be described as a "spectre exploit." So without that explicit context in the article, it's left to the reader to fret over :)
Good, it may take a while (I'd say another 10 to 20 years) but I see crypto replacing fiat, with the help of technologies such as lightning for the payment layer, after central bank crypto will have proved a failure.

It'll just be too convenient to have a worldwide currency, and payment in that same currency. I estimate the final BTC ath to be at about 1M/BTC, to conveniently have 1 cent per Satoshi.

Having to really balance budgets instead of always having the possibility to print their way out may destabilize quite a few governments in the process

EDIT: can't post a reply because of the amount of downvotes (sorry if truth hurts!) but to comment on the very good analysis below by hellen__keller, the answer below by johnyzee that the size will increase in due time is the correct analysis. No need to increase the blocksize prematurely like BCH did. Wait until lightning or or other constraints make it necessary.

I think Blockstream will wait for an important milestone, like 200k USD to push for that change: this milestone will make it necessary too, if you want to let people move their exchange funds to their offline wallet.

Just do some quick math assuming 1k investment per person and you'll see a BTC at 200k with the same fees as now would swamp out this investment. So fees can't be kept constant until after the final ath is reached. And lowering the fees will reduce the miners gain, so it can't be postponed too much, otherwise that would destabilize the fine economic balance.

My bet is that the blocksize will be increased before the next halving, or the one after that, as soon as a nice milestone is reached. A nice round numbers will facilitate coordination.
Beeple is a well known digital artist.
Interested to hear your thoughts about the thread about living in a van which hit the front page the other day.
I asked this in another NFT post the other day. As far as I could understand unless specified it still doesn't include the rights to the image (like you can't reproduce it on t-shirts), it's just you own a (for want of a better phrase) 'digital original'.
I’ll be honest, I’m so tired of this attitude that the average joe shouldn’t be actively trading. Getting high returns with billions of dollars is hard. Doing it with hundreds of thousands is much easier. It’s brainwashing to say otherwise. You can’t compare the two, or listen to experts from the former. It’s a completely different discipline.
Have you considered trauma release (there are many different ways you can do this) in order to get over your fear of being poor?

From the way you're speaking (for want of a better phrase), it sounds like the poverty experience traumatised you, and you're re-living your trauma each day.
Best Soviet engineers were designing military planes, not household appliances.
To me everything I see an ad for is automatically tainted forever. If I'm not paying attention, I won't even consider buying anything I've ever seen on TV because it automatically registers as "too expensive". With certain things I've trained myself that "I can afford this easily now", but those are exceptions.
Sorry about that. I'm slightly confused too.

Size doesn't make much difference in case of a full-stop (wall or similarly-sized car). It could help with bigger crumple zones though. In the end, I am not sure what proportion of passenger injuries is affected by car weight, but would love to see the data.

And being heavier makes a car universally more dangerous to its surroundings. Which might be part of the appeal.
When I show up at the bank and want to deposit the $1 million I just got from selling bitcoin, they're going to want to know why someone just transferred $1 million worth of bitcoin to me. NFTs are 'real' enough that my story is plausible, and anonymous enough that investigating it would be very time consuming.
So what changed to make re-usable rockets reality? Is there a specific advance in materials science or computing that made this possible not just for SpaceX but other companies too? Or is it just an array of advances in a variety of fields that came together?

Reading about the DC-X, it seems like this was possible in the 1990s but NASA had no interest in funding it for whatever mysterious reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
Perseverance's Rover brain is a 200MHz PowerPC 750, 256Mb RAM and 2Gb flash