skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do the numbers look like in the US though? I did some googling and found about 190M for Facebook, 80M for TikTok, and 70M for Twitter. I don't know how accurate the numbers are, because they were from pretty sketchy sources. But if the real numbers are anywhere close to that, then that does make it seem like Facebook has a fair few competitors.
FFMPEG exposes a terrible API. Even something as simple as thumbnail extraction is overly complex and has a ton of pitfalls that you won't discover until a user uploads a weirdly encoded video.
Google and Facebook have more access to capital, financial or human, than any of their competitors. If anything they are at a strong competitive advantage in this respect.
This American Life Episode "One Last Thing Before I Go" has a segment called Really Long Distance about this phone booth

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/597/one-last-thing-before-i...
Chlorine can damage the seals especially of something not actually rated as water resistant. Soap is also a weakness and can cause water to bypass the barrier due to water tension lowering.
WER we are and WER we think we are
> Evaluating the capabilities of NFTs against the value offerings of something like rare art is an apples to oranges comparison.

Someone should tell that to all the artists who are selling NFTs with the implication that they're analogous to owning original works.

I agree that it's apples-to-oranges, which is why so many people are appalled at the charlatans who are successfully selling these oranges as apples.

> It turns the conventional model of third-party hosted digital assets on its head

How so? The assets that are "sold" as NFT are still hosted somewhere.

Owning the NFT for something does nothing more than copyright already does. You can store the digital asset on your computer with or without the NFT. You can "consume" it either way as well.

So what if the digital asset is an item in a video game? The game can check to make sure you own it before you use it!

Yes, it can. But the creator of that game can also choose not to do that, just as anyone can choose not to respect copyright.

> I mean to acknowledge its limitations and its potential at the same time

What is its potential? What can someone do with NFTs that they couldn't do before?
The reality is neither. No feedback loop will be removed, and no new energy will be ready (at scale) in time. China has been building a lot of coal plants, I expect more of that.
Better not be on the meter.
> It would be geographically and culturally agnostic

Who's to say everyone is using the same NFTs for this? We already see a variety of different platforms for NFT art.

> It would eliminate the privacy and security risks of maintaining a central database of PII and associated valuable assets.

How are there now fewer privacy and security risks when the entire blockchain is completely public? Where's the privacy?
one of my favorite stories is when i landed in saigon i took a taxi to my hotel. literally
my first experience in the city. and the taxi driver didn’t give me the right change, he kept a bunch of money. so i’m yelling at him. he’s acting like he doesn’t speak english. it goes on so long the people im with check in to the hotel. i move up front to the drivers side door, with it open, standing between the door and the driver telling him he’s a fucking thief and the hotel people are trying to calm me down and tell me to call the taxi company. eventually he relents and gave me my money. it wasn’t about the money (VND to USD is cheap) i just did not want to let this guy fuck
me as soon as i landed
This actually happens in the TNG episode "Second Chances", in which Riker is unknowingly duplicated.
Droid48 to the rescue.
I still am confused by this though. If the police/government don't acknowledge this then you can't really get it back without a fight.

Wouldn't you rather just have it run by an entity the legal system can point to?

If you don't trust the legal system...then I really doubt that having a third-party website is going to help you with a bike thief in anyway.
No. You should not learn Python just for the sake of it.

You should have a problem you need to solve, evaluate what programing languages will help you solve that problem and learn the language you need.

If you want to make a video game you probably don't want Python, you might choose Godot and learn C# or its internal scripting language. (Or Unitys C#) or Unreal (C++ or its Visual Scripts)

If you want to make a complex web app you might want to learn JavaScript and deploy your code both client and server side.

If you want to write a mobile app for iOS or Android, there are lots of choices there as well, though at a guess you would be jumping through a lot of hoops to get a Python program working in those environments.

Languages are just tools. Pick the right tool for the job.
Taxis were usually ok but hoping you don’t randomly get screwed over or worse was a horrible kind of lottery. Isn’t there a particular circle of hell in Dante for those who betray trust placed in them? I remember in NYC pre Uber certain times of day they wouldn’t take you to the airport.
The power producers that did winterize couldn't run their plants for lack of gas due to wellheads and pipelines freezing [0] (Texas Railroad Commission jurisdiction) and an emergency order directing gas away from power plants (TRC again) [1]

[0] https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/blackout-crisis-texans-ele...
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/12640ebb-5c20-4d00-aec0-9c8810541...
The glue makes it hard to open without breaking everything else too. Also the glue IS hard to replace since its a special silicon glue, most replacements use lower quality 3M 2 sided.
I suppose the reality one would have to buy in to is that people were previously sitting around with tens of thousands in disposable cash ready to spend on art, but were held back by the fact that ownership of the art could not be proven digitally.
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I thought it was just the Amiga. Like, Macs had square pixels, to my recollection, both 512x342 and 640x480. I had forgotten that VGA was 320x200 not 320x240, but PCs also had 640x480, so it seems like square or not square depended on the mode.

Strictly speaking, I don't think square pixels were a characteristic of the monitor. If you looked closely there were little dots on a shadow mask monitor considerably smaller than the average pixel, or horizontal gaps between the wires on a trinitron.
The fact that borders exist doesn’t imply that there are different centers of power. In fact, for most of history borders were notoriously ill-defined.
In their entire country of 38k people, which has the second highest GDP per capita in the world. There are a lot of comparisons one could make here, but this is not the strongest one.
You still might want to hand out tokens to third parties to trade but not copy. I agree that a decentralized structure is not necessary.
I don’t know of any book like that. I have a CinemaDNG processing workflow: create a camera/lens profile using a ColorChecker and DCamProf, batch develop DNGs using RawTherapee into 16-bit TIFFs, export TIFF sequence as a movie using DaVinci Resolve (30 FPS if delivering to popular services like Instagram, where 24 FPS causes subtle stuttering). I’ve been meaning to script this all, Resolve can be easily replaced with ffmpeg, but didn’t get around to that yet. For basic VFX I’ve used Blender (which can track the scene allowing to incorporate 3D objects, and can act as a decent NLE) but again not in a scripted way. It’s just personal projects so there’s not enough pressure to automate.
Can’t the subject of NFTs also be trivially copied? All you really have is a token that refers to a particular file and proves that you own a token that refers to that file. Everyone else is free to ignore the token and copy the original file at any time.

Is there something that you can only do via the token? Are there special events or access for token holders? I could see something like that being independently valuable, and interesting.
I think the bigger issue in this scenario is that they now can’t move to the Bay Area themselves and both make great money.
Even without proof of stake, it's possible to make transactions low-cost.

Bitcoin is going to burn power whether or not you attach your token-tracker to it. If you design a system with thousands to millions of users that makes one bitcoin transaction per day to secure itself, then it's responsible for a pretty negligible amount of wasted power.
Batteries surprisingly last a really long time as long as they are COMPLETELY drained (modern lithium has about 10-25% left after drain). Low cycling can make them last even longer in terms of decades expected, if you don't cycle the battery and keep it around 60-70%.
I don't think this is as interesting philosophically as people who have half brains removed, but note that a head transplant is more invasive than what you and the article acknowledge: the CNS is partly in the body, and the body regulates one's hormonal makeup which is in itself pretty complex and tied to one's sapience.
> The thieves can do whatever they want with the certificate -- use it to pay illicit debts and so forth. They can visit their painting at the museum, and brag to their friends about it. But the rest of the public still gets to enjoy the painting too.

I love this answer because it's a perfect analogy to explain why NFTs are total nonsense.

Owning a one-of-a-kind, literally irreplaceable painting cannot be substituted for a certificate. The certificate has zero value because it does not allow the owner to restrict access to the original painting.

The core concept of ownership (control over a scarce resource) is violated as soon as you start trading a certificate instead of the original item.

It's like someone saying that owning the last remaining Michael Jordan baseball card is the same as owning Michael Jordan, and that both have the same value. It's ludicrous.
I never had much love for RPN until recently when I found myself hand coding PostScript. I loved the minimalism of leaving a result of one operation on top of the stack and feeding it into subsequent operations. I totally want to learn Forth now.
Tea and milk go together like coffee and lemon.
The artist can sign a message including your public key. The message is verifiable using the artist's public key. If other people copy it, they're just copying the proof that it belongs to you.

If you want to sell it to someone else, you sign a message saying you give it to them and so on, forming a "chain" of signed transactions.
They're not "subsidies", they're just profits earned from selling what was mined, nothing useful happened, it simply makes the blockchain needlessly more expensive for everyone because a nuclear power plant is dumping hashing power into the network. Green energy doesn't change the fundamental nature of PoW, it inevitably expands to consume all available energy because the more energy you can burn the more money you can make.
If that’s what you want throw a “transfer” button on your site. There’s already a button to do this on the Ticketmaster app.
In the mid-late 80s, I didn't think anything about the Amiga was as polished and nice looking as the Mac, but the insert floppy graphic didn't stand out to me as below the standards of the rest of the interface.
> I'm saying that “identities” are a fuzzy human “You know it when you see it, and different men see it differently.”

I.e., you claim that identities don't (really) exist.

Do triangles exist? Is the definition of triangle "bereft of any definition that can be objectively measured"?

Is the Ship of Theseus fundamentally different than a triangle, or is it merely a difference of degree?

Ask any random human to define some extremely complex mathematical entity, and you'll get various fuzzy answers.

Does that mean complex math doesn't really exist?
I was looking into cutting a file and I came across two flags. Could anybody explain them in layman's terms.

-c copy - It doesn't re-encode the file. What does re-encoding mean?

-async 1 -which is deprecated in favour of aresample. If the correct syntax is aresample=async=1 then would it just cut off the audio timestamp and match it with video timestamp.
Tim Wu Joins the National Economic Council as an Assistant on Tech Policy
Build a Search Bar for Your Hugo Blog with a JSON Index
Even algebraic has different also-possibles. APL and Smalltalk don't bother with precedence, for example.
The original standard (from British Standards Institute) is here: https://www.mus-ic.co.uk/images/blog/2006-04-27/bs_6008.pdf

And, somewhat more complete and well defined than the wikipedia summary.

N.B. the PDF above references bsonline.techindex.co.uk, but that domain seems to have lapsed. The current BSI and ISO standards require purchase, and can't be linked to directly (that I can find).
I always imagine this will be the divide between rich and poor in the future. The more expensive technology will break the person down and send their atoms to the destination to be reconstructed, it will be slower but it will be the same person. The less expensive technology will scan the person send that data and they will be printed out from a a futuristic atomic printer in a process that kills the original.

I imagine a mining colony around the asteroid belt where the CEO uses the more expensive tech that is slower to visit every so often but the workers are forced to use the tech that kills them everyday but they are just a light beam of zero and ones on their "commute"
I believe my argument addresses that everything being online doesn't necessarily worsen security from hacking.
Some company can run a DB to record spends. Why trust a third party? Well with any crypto linked to real world outcomes you need it trust a third party. Be that tether or some NFT hustler.
Each state, each family, each district, probably has their own version.

The tea can be salty (J&K), incredibly sweet with thickened milk, with spices (cardamom, ginger among others), brewed with bhang (wet cannabis leaf), boiled with milk, leaves spices and sugar at the same time, or with each ingredient added in some specific order..

The possibilities are limited only by one's imagination, and my imagination often falls short of reality. :D
Exactly. The worst thing for SF is for all the new transplants to not be there for the city, but rather for the money while thumbing their nose at the city. They will invest zero into it, but displace those who contribute to culture in their wake.
You can reduce the energy output of a nuclear reactor both through the moderation of the fission reaction (via control rods, coolant temperature variation, neutron poisoning, etc), and through moderation of the electrical generator turbine (slowing down the turbine speed, venting steam, etc).

There is no such thing as "excess power" for crytomining. Even if there was then that energy could just be stored using batteries or gravity storage or something, or it could be sold to neighbouring energy users, or it could be used in the grid and other more polluting sources could be scaled down instead.
I hope this doesn't make me a curmudgeon, but I don't see any appeal for Python. I've programmed in many languages professionally and it is the sole language that left me with an overwhelmingly negative opinion.

Of course it all comes down to taste. I am in no way "Right" about if one should learn Python or not.
There is a long tradition in academic philosophy of using this model of teleportation as a device for investigating questions of personal identity. Derek Parfit's 'Reasons and Persons' is probably the best-known treatment [1].

I think there are good reasons to believe this is not generally how the writers of Star Trek thought the transporters in their stories were supposed to work, but they weren't always perfectly consistent on the subject.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasons_and_persons#Personal_i...
For those who are brewing ISO standard tea, it's safe to assume they are doing so inside a QC lab with climate control set to 20 degrees Celsius, and without a leaky roof or hurricane force wind over their heads.
Seriously a downvote ?? for what?? ughh.... "bavula kappa" ==> frog in the well.. a metaphor for biased people(or people who live in a bubble).
> It sounds like from your experience, the concept of FLoC from the main article is exactly where Google and other want to be?

Yes, if it can be made into some objective standard, and not just another "trust me, I'm Google".

> But when they are trying to market it to us as users, as a ‘privacy win’, that’s hard to swallow when you’re saying their end goal is some sort of ‘govtech’ or ‘social credit’ system.

Yes, because Google is not just an adtech company. Obviously they are more than that. (Or at least they want to be.)
Agreed. I still think there's some charm to the idea that it can be supported passively but as you say the fulfilment is ultimately not passive, so it doesn't really gain you all that much.
I use ffmpeg for encoding audio and metadata extraction... very powerful and a really sophisticated tool, but handling timestamps I agree with you. Some caveats that I came across along the way:

- Inaccurate time handling (https://github.com/yermak/AudioBookConverter/issues/21#issue...)

- Incorrect handling of mp3 chapters https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool/issues/71#issuecomment-...

If anyone who is interested in using ffmpeg in a docker container (without the dependencies / compiling stuff), this alias is pretty useful (with relative paths ;-):

alias ffmpeg='docker run --rm -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v "$PWD:$PWD" -w "$PWD" mwader/static-ffmpeg:4.3.2'
Seeing intermediate values can’t be overstated. It’s a huge sanity check that catches many mistakes way earlier in the process.
I remember back when I visited the US, and I took a taxi back to the airport. I asked how much it was upfront because I wanted to use up the last of my dollars.

I even remember telling him that this was the amount of cash I had up front, which was a little more than the quote and he was okay with it. That's how much i'd give him for the ride.

Only to get to the airport and have him getting cross because the amount I was going to give him wasn't going to cover some tip after I told him exactly how much I would be able to give him. A tip for a taxi? The American begging industry has to die.
I dunno man, it ain't got nothing on my man over in accounting

https://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25
Keep up folks. Your so Feb 2021 to not know what NFT means.
Loved it .... I've been craving a replacement for Douglas Adams for a while now.. Terry Pratchett was quite close.. but now he too is gone.. perhaps it's time for me to find other writers or write stuff myself..
Note that the standard is not for how to make a good tea, but just one suitable for sampling tea leaves (and provide some instructions to do it the same way every time)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26367969
I think there would have to be a long, difficult adjustment period. Phantom limb syndrome is thought to be caused by the brain adapting to different/fewer signals from the missing limb. Covid-19 parosmia may be caused by the regrowing sustentacular cells. The physical interfaces between our brains and our inputs and outputs are very delicate
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26367969
A Universal Theory for Everything
"Early-access" release of my paper I've been ruminating on for almost two months now. Potentially a solution for the age-old problem of baryon asymmetry. Any feedback from academics and or physicists is highly ideal. Thank you.

LBB
Did they just watch "The Prestige?"
The important part is that the profits from mining are used to reduce rates: so it’s subsidizing the power costs for the customers as well as offsetting the capital investment into the powerplant.
Indian tea or chai is heavily spiced and often boiled in milk instead of steeped in hot water.
Yes, no/yes, and yes, would be my understanding. This of course assumes that we’ve magically attached all of the nerves correctly. No to the part about the senses since what is happening is the doctor is essentially attaching a new blood supply to a severed head that’s been put on ice, so the head-based senses like scent and sight are unchanged. I’d expect the sense of touch and pain to translate well since it’s a one-direction signal sent from the skin pressure sensors to the brain. That’s a simple enough signal processing task that wouldn’t change though the brain would probably have to get used to what sensations correspond to which part of the body. The bi-directional senses like knowing where your limbs are in space would be atrociously tough to recalibrate. That leads me to my Yes answers, because our brain would have an incredibly tough time recalibrating it’s ability to communicate with the body. This is similar to a victims of nerve damage that, after repairing the damage, have to learn how to walk all over again. The message is getting through but it’s a completely garbled mess and the two sides have to re-establish communication.

That was a fun thought experiment. Hopefully it answered your question. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
The be your own bank headaches that most people can’t handle will then apply. You need to spend a lot of money on gas fees, hardware wallets etc and get a good grounding in cyber security. Or just get a lock and bike insurance.
Exactly, with all the VCs, celebrities, etc hyping up their own coins and launching an ICO to potentially pump and dump the coin for a quick exit scam in 2017.

This is no different and it is another giant scam. Where was the same 'thought leaders' on Twitter who were screaming and hyping about ICOs in 2017? Bust.

On to the next get rich quick scheme I suppose for the VCs and the hype brigade on Twitter, I guess.
Pool where the fuck are your room temperatures varying that much? You know a thermostat is usually set to about 68 degrees F. Maybe +/- 5 degrees. Any more variance than that and you're crazy.
What a quirky paper. I worked at a major winery that had dozens of tanks, up to 100,000 liters each. A single failure in a tank represented many millions of dollars. Our extremely expensive micro-oxygen pump used a standard 7-segment display combined with little red LEDs representing On/Off next to a list of tank numbers. The 7-segment display was used to read and to set the units (μg, mg , etc), amount, and rate of oxygen delivery. I never made the mistake of misconfiguring, but one of the senior Winemakers did resulting in some very angry customers, a 7 figure loss, and many contracts.

I'm left with two opinions: 7-segment displays are not usually fail-safe, and have the potential to be fail-deadly (figure 1). In my entire life I've never had occasion to use a tool with a 7-segment readout, handheld or otherwise, that actually failed or that I misread due to ambiguity.

So, I think a better conclusion would be don't use 7-segment displays in important places.
There's already a gap in you consciousness when you sleep. Is that any different than arriving as the copy?
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Any owner can sign as many receipts of sale as they want.
"The protocol has been criticized for omitting any mention of prewarming the pot.[6] Ireland was the only country to object, and objected on technical grounds.[7]"