skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious as to how NFTs will compare to a sales contract from a legal point of view.

E.g. if say an artist sells the rights to a digital artwork via both an NFT and via a normal sales contract. Both buyers claim ownership to the artwork and end up in court.

Who wins? And what implications will a legal presedence have for the vaule of NFTs one way or the other?
In jail, hopefully.
Deep Blue Something was onto something.
That's what I'm saying..
Relationship movies are marriage propaganda.
Oh, interesting. I didn't connect those two.

I think my hesitation would not be that 6ft of water is not manageable in the single case, ie, one building. But several thousand of them at the same time? A whole city? Good luck coordinating that in any reasonable amount of time, especially when roads are all flooded.

Abandonment is a much more viable option at some point along that particular path.
And I think JetBrains' strategy is fine in that regard: either do it well or don't do it at all.
Transplantin a twins brain would still render the person a complete legume, not even the cranial nerve connections would be the same(sight, smell, hearing, touch of the face), let alone the spine nerves.
All the nerve wiring would be wrong.
DNA does not contain all the intricate nerve connections, just a meta-summary on how to build them.
Could be ripping people off still, in jail, dead, retired or bootcamp grad working in sf.

Creating a sad story to explain motiviations shouldn't be an exercise one does in a situation like this.
The link to the list of movies and questions is broken in the article but it can be found here instead:

https://www.rochester.edu/news/divorce-rate-cut-in-half-for-...

Edit: it's also in the right sidebar but I did not notice it until I had seen the PDF already (the graphics is the same as the frontpage of the PDF). Funny how being on the interwebz long enough trains one to ignore everything but the main content.
This is called "Demand Response" and it's an important part of grid management. For example a factory will agree to decrease consumption when asked in exchange for lower rates.

Too much power is usually handled in the generation side by incentivize producers to scale back generation or even paying to have them take a plant offline.

For a bitcoin mining operation, I suspect it would not be profitable to have all that equipment sit idle except when there is an oversupply of electricity.
People should not be in jail because one person's recounting of an encounter with them makes them sound like a thief.
> 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.

That’s entirely how our markets are run. Nearly all stock is owned by a few trusts and what everyone is trading everyday are “certificates” of the original stock certificates.

Even big ticket items like cars or homes, they really aren’t worth anything without a clean title or deed. On the other hand people buy deeds all the time without ever seeing the actual property.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involute
You missed a digit
I've never seen such prolonged parroting as this last cycle.

The scale of the thing is getting out of hand. Cryptocurrency mining is eating up power on the scale of a small country, a sizable fraction of GPU manufacturing capacity, and a noticeable fraction of wafer fab capacity.

This has some parallels in how Spain went broke mining gold in the Americas in the 1500s. Expeditions went to the New World and gold came back. They were rich! Well, no. They had only created inflation by creating a gold glut. At a much higher operating cost than printing money, too, because it took ships and armies to make this happen.
I was thinking that if you built for peak load, you could reduce the idle time to four hours or so a day.
Uber really shines in countries with a culture of haggling and gouging tourists.

Landing in Cairo, step one was to buy a local sim and check the price for a ride into town. When the local taxi tout quoted me triple that price, I showed him the app and said I’d pay that. He pulled out a laminated card with his tourist rate printed on it explaining that this was the “official price” and that here was no way anybody could get a cheaper one.

50 feet further toward the exit, he tried pulling out a different laminated card, explaining that it contained the “old price”, which was now only double ubers price. So I hit the “go” button on the Uber.

He never went lower double Ubers price, and followed me all the way to my driver before giving up.

It’s the ultimate travel “screw remover”.
Instead of transplanting brains, if we could format/update the brain OTA, we could prevent a lot of morbidity and recovery time associated with surgeries. All we will need is bodies to act as hosts for these memories/brain updates.
> There are numerous configurations, networks, and commercial structures that can be created for NFT offerings that can mitigate "problems" described in the OP and accommodate for different tradeoffs.

Ah, yes. The goid old "might", the adage as old as the whole blockchain itself.

Translation: "will painstakingly re-invent all the attributes of what real world needs, and already has, and doesn't need blockchain in the least".

More eloquently put in these articles: https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/ten-years-in-nobody-has-c...
Just a few really strong movies and guided discussion after that can definitely completely change ones perspective towards how to approach their partner; this study seems to affirm the same.
virtually all of those services will still have to exist under crypto. Regulatory frameworks will still exist, centralized entities will provide lightning channels to small-fry actors, firms will still host servers to execute trades based on the network, etc.
A bit of a clickbait title but good list of guidelines

7-seg displays are usually used because of cost and constraints, not because they're "good". But for something like a microwave oven they're just fine!
Nothing, but they can only sign the "first" once
A rule could be made that memories can only be moved and not copied. Copying memories could be made illegal punishable by mandatory formatting.
Who cares about parties when you can't buy food.
This doesn’t have a date I have noticed fewer articles do, but is similar in content to Bloomberg’s article:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-05/celebriti...
Can’t access the paper but deducing the following numbers from the abstract :

Participants per group - 43

Number divorced in control - 11

Number divorced in all three treatments - 5.

It sounds iffy but when I think about it, it probably will pass most statistical tests of significance. So this is surprising for sure.
More likely than it seems imo. Seeing the huge amount of discontent and dissent during the initial covid outbreak in Wuhan points towards the system being very fragile with no pressure release (such as democratic elections) in place. This can only go on so long before it implodes.
Thanks for the idea, I use a notebook to keep track (and hopefully cross out) todo items, but a whiteboard might be an even better idea. More visible, and more flexible...

In my case, I have to battle the fallacy that, no matter how good it feels to cross out an item from the todo list, there will always be another item that follows, whereas if I don't do anything, then there will never be another item in my life :|
> if you type (5+5)*(9+9), you only see the end result.

Only if in see-full-expression-before-action mode.
Otherwise you would see 10 after the first ), and see 18 after the second ).
And you're basing this on what?

I do concede that XMPP is not the new shiny, but it is very far from dead.

It powers more things than you realise, a few are listed at https://xmpp.org/uses/

There is healthy growth in server count: https://blog.prosody.im/2020-retrospective/

Development is very active, across a diverse range of projects: https://xmpp.org/category/newsletter.html
Why do you disagree? If I profit X per kWh why wouldn't I burn as many kWhs as I can?
Stock and Flow
The ARPA past today does have child allowances in it. They're projected to end half of child poverty in the US (because it turns out you can unironically end poverty by giving people money.)

Well, until they run out anyway.
This site has advertising cancer.
So, Altered Carbon?
> Why is this relevant? Rules and laws are there for a reason.

I agree.

> If society lets taxi drivers steal from people because they are taxi drivers, where do you draw the line for expected fair treatment of everyone? Do only rich people have the expectation of behaving correctly?

I think this is where you missed the point. It’s an empathy exercise. Where do _you_ think that taxi driver is, right now? What do you think their home looks like? Are they pleased with having pulled one over on that foreigner fare?

Their actions don’t have to be morally correct or even morally justifiable to be understandable.
I am truly sorry but for anyone not drowning their tea in the alabaster ichor of the masses of Great Britain, 2g per 100ml of water is a bombastic amount of tea to brew and an infuriating statement to make from a standards body. whats even more ridiculous is that the 2/100 ratio is FREQUENTLY insisted upon by websites selling loose teas.

Try this experiment. meter out a 1 litre pot of water. now meter out 18-20 grams of loose green tea. what you brew (if you attempt it) will be flat-out undrinkable.

There has GOT to be something better than the ISO standard here.

EDIT:

I just tried to do this again with a green lower grade Xinyang Maojian and it tasted like the over-steeped dreck conjured up in an airport coffee chains platitude scrawled cardboard cups. the cup was rich, but the astringency was like trying to drink a cup of drywall. It was utterly wasteful for anything more than just testing and the comical amount of tea I used to attempt this left me with a sense of remorse. The tea I made sat tangibly heavy in my stomach.

It is a standard, and I guess I never stopped to consider what a standard means and thats what this standard does a particularly great job of doing. Yes, Starbucks adheres to this standard and if you buy a venti will gladly (sometimes reluctantly) give you four tea bags in the cup but for the love of god yank them out after a minute or two at most lest youre looking to start up your own tannery in the terminal. Its quite strange to think of a standard as something you shouldn't make a habit of.
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Another way to change this : Could crypto not make useful calculations instead of useless calculations? Like protein folding for example?
Or any of the other non 7 or 8 segment displays.
How would you prove to a blockchain that a particular serial number really is owned by you, or was lost, or all the other things that can happen that don’t occur on the blockchain? Aren’t you sort of back to needing the cooperation of lots of different entities globally, and some kind of authority equivalent to the third party database maintainer to ensure the data makes sense?
You pay no taxes either. And with a police record it might be the only job you can get. It's like running a business the hard way
This is the only time I'll admit this, but my favorite book on FFMPEG is called google.com

Just like the rest of the internet, there's probably very little that you could do right now, that someone else has not already done or struggled with as well. Most of the time, it's reading about what people have tried that did not work before which is still incredibly useful in and of itself. It sucks while your under pressure of a deadline, but you eventually you just sort of "get it".

The trick is, you have to use it frequently, and not just every now and then when some task comes up. But that's no different than any other tool. Yes, the commands can get harry and scary looking, but so can SQL statements.
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Other people may have a different opinion. I personally find the company disgusting. A horrible company can bring value to a lot of people. I would still find the company horrible.
I absolutely agree with you that the amount of randomness you need is incredibly small for modern cryptography relies on an objectively small amount of random values.

Although, I wonder if an invention like this allows for some new developments in crypto protocols that are extremely "random hungry" in the same way that modern innovation in NNs was made possible by scaled up processors (GPUs / accelerated NN chips).

ie just XOR your plaintext with a random "key" the length of your plaintext
Same for art though. You don't own a copyright. You own only the bragging right as well as the useless physical canvas and paint. All artful beauty it has can be copied much more cheaply than the original painting's price.
Congratulations, you just invented an inefficient PoS for a single use case!
URL and URI are different things (like the linked document mentions). Often, URL is what is meant, so write "URL". But, in some cases (such as for namespacing), URI is what is meant.

My own opinion is, write URL if it is meant to access or reference a file or service or something, or URI if it is only an identifier for a namespace or something like that (i.e. if what it points to (if anything) is generally irrelevant). Usually, URL is correct (even though it is a URI too).

However, a domain name is not a URL (nor a URI); it is only a part of one.

(Also, some people say that if you want purely identifiers, to use UUIDs instead of URIs. But, a UUID is a URI, too! Prefix "urn:uuid:" in front to make a UUID into a URI.)
Yeah, the HDSP-2132 is a common display component in military hardware. I'm sure that readability figures into it (especially for NVGs), but so does hardiness. My hopes of an 80x24 dumb terminal were dashed when I finally learned the unit replacement price... I don't need a rad hardened serial display that bad.
Yep. As djb pointed out, PGP is predicated on the idea that you generate a small amount of secure entropy once, and then keep that entropy safe indefinitely. And a good CSPRNG can be seeded with 32 bytes of entropy and generate essentially infinite secure output.

Still, it would be nice to remove the CSPRNG from the equation entirely, and just read from the stream of "pure"/"true" randomness directly. On the other hand, there are obvious downsides to getting your entropy from a single source... I guess it comes down to a simple question: which do you trust more, your hardware or your software?
Are they uncommon now? Gotorazor makes a very good point that portable electronics might be plugged in in more places, and therefore you're less likely to ensure every one of these sockets are surfer protected. But my desktop PC and my TV and consoles are all connected to surge protected sockets. Perhaps I'm a bit old fashioned and fussy!
You mean like getting your facebook profile banned?

As always, this always exists and the question is why Facebook would want to give up their centralized control of it, just like national central banks won't willingly accept loss of control over their own currencies.
The police presence is not uniform across every city, they prioritize areas they get the most complaints
If curious, two small past threads:

ISO 3103:1980 (ISO standard for tea making) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138824 - Feb 2010 (5 comments)

ISO 3103: an international standard for brewing tea - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95457 - Jan 2008 (7 comments)
Note that this is not the same Amdahl as the famous Amdahl's law in computing.
Animated:
https://www.youtube.com/user/thang010146
If you're gonna go that route, why even bother with an organic body... much easier to just throw the poor into a generic robot or something.
I read it as sarcasm.
Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab both work, but I think the original shortcuts were: Cmd-{ and Cmd-} for switching tabs ( Cmd-[ and Cmd-] are back and forward too ). Both of these still work, and are what I've used for 13 years now.
It doesn't have connection to the content, unless it's declared that it does.

All intellectual property law works this way already. The copy you have does not have any bearing on the copy someone else has, but we created laws that link it back: you don't "own" the copy you have, and using it in certain ways is made illegal.

NFTs as they are now, without any legal protection, are still innocent, but they are bought because people want to "own" something. Since NFTs don't actually provide technological means to implement that "ownership", the next logical step is to declare it by law: "owning" an NFT gives "ownership" of the content. I hope it never comes to this.
Seems you fail to grasp that the overwhelming majority of business ventures are destined to fail. It's the production of successful and profitable ventures that matter.

Read about Walt Disney's bankruptcies and failures. Should we conclude the same about him?

https://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/5535/marketing/...
This standard is not for you.

People here are missing the purpose of a standard. No matter the details, it serves as a standard way to brew and conduct tasting for tea traders and professionals. Nit picking whether this or that is fine but unless something drastically changes (such as dynamic range of tastes), it won’t matter much. Whether it follows tradition in your specific region is also irrelevant. This isn’t the “right” way to brew either nor does it try to.

Ironically, the bickering here is exactly why a standard is needed. It is proving its point.
See, that is the point being lamented in the original article. You claim the problem with the article is the lack of apology. This implies whoever accuses the author is right and the author is wrong. Which is true, I do not know. But the key and fundamental problem is that based on your belief of who is right, you deem the article not worth your time. This sentiment being widespread in the universities is the main thing being lamented in the original article.
Almost exact same happened to me: on my way home I agreed on a price, then as we arrived at the airport the taxi driver got mad (and asked if I was Russian :-).

I hadn't been so spesific though to point out that this was all dollars I had left.
The turbosquid comparison is fair...basically NFTs are recreating that, but without the need of turbosquid.

To your other point many NFTs already include these additional legal rights, it’s articles and forums like this where people are talking about NFTs as if they are all just digital baseball cards.

Just look at decentralized domain names as the obvious counter examples (Unstoppable Domains and/or Ethereum Name Service). You aren’t just buying an NFT for a domain name, the NFT includes the rights to the actual name. I use both companies as examples, because even if this new space they are not offering the same rights over the underlying domain and it’s incumbent on the user to understand what rights they actually get with the NFT.
I am in a similar situation. Lately I repeat to myself: "do not what you can, do what you must" to fight off my fight/flight response. It works about 40% of those situations that I was in.
Looks nice. I like the idea. I wish the UI could be improved more. For example, I see all the languages on left, they could be sorted by the number of codes in a descending order. There is just too much white color. I am color blind, maybe you could have used Bootstrap or Material to get started. I see "No title" everywhere, do we need to see "No title" or maybe not show anything?

I assume the back-end is very straightforward (basic abstraction over S3), so please focus on the front-end.
I loathe how everything on the internet has become this worldwide competition. Somebody does something, and immediately everyone says, well, this other person did this much better.

Like, who cares? This guy built something, made fun videos about it, and apparently people like to watch him. Who cares if someone else made something better?
Couldn’t the thieves just make a new NFT blockchain that says they own whatever they like and skip the messy steps in the middle? You’d end up at the same end state where the museum has a painting and the thieves have a certificate that says they own it.
Maybe the people who spent longer in education just take too long to learn things.
Pihole is definitely the best thing that happened to my broadband connection. I would argue it was even better than the coaxcable->fiber upgrade.
Because I had to look this up: ‘SNS’ is an abbreviation for Social Networking Service that is mostly used in Japan.
I find divorce statistics hard to fathom. A rate that compares numbers of marriages and divorces in a single year does not really seem to speak for long term prospects, especially due to population changes over that time.

For example, are there any reliable statistics on the percent of people who married in 1970, who did not divorce to the present day? And for 1980, 1990, 2000 etc.
Wagh Bakri’s Masala loose leaf tea is so good!
The electricity argument is flawed. The electricity used is to power the ethereum proof of work blockchain. All its doing is checksumming hashes.

It doesn't matter if you buy 0, 1, or 100 NFTs: your marginal impact on the electricity usage is zero.

The argument of marginal gas fees is also going away in July, with the network upgrade no longer paying gas fees to miners but burning them instead.
But power in practice does not adhere to how different parties arbitrarily define where borders lie.

Most of nations of the world officially define Crimea to be within the Ukrainian border, but it is the Russian government who wields the actual, practical power there.

It took a rather long time for many countries to stop defining mainland China as falling within the power of the R.O.C. government, despite the R.O.C. wielding no practical power there any more, and the R.O.C. still defines mainland China as falling within it's power.

If “borders” of nations were defined descriptively based on sovereign entities having control over them, then they would certainly be more useful, but, this would also assume a simplified world where it is easy to decide what powerbase is sovereign, and what powerbase binarily has control over what surface of the planet; it is often not so simple and often multiple parties vie for control over a single area, and whether a powerbase be sovereign is not so easy to simply answer.
I am reminded of the Shoe Event Horizon.

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Shoe_Event_Horizon
Excellent article and remarkably easy to identify the anticompetitive behavior which is the fundamental issue. Add to this CA Prop 22, among other related problems it'll be interesting to see what government does to exercise its power appropriately and encourage competition in the market. Appreciate the clarity Tim Wu and Wired contribute.
> ie just XOR your plaintext with a random "key" the length of your plaintext

This is essentially what a modern cipher does, except that the key is a keystream and is generated deterministically from the actual key. This is objectively better than just using a really big key -- it means your shared secret only needs to be e.g. 32 bytes, rather than len(plaintext) bytes!

I do still think there's an important use case for high-volume "good" entropy, though: it should replace essentially all uses of "bad" entropy (generated by weak pseudo-random generators, maybe seeded with a few dozen bits of entropy). Programmers should have to go out of their way to get weak entropy, rather than the other way around. Historically programmers have reached for weak RNGs because they tend to be much faster and more convenient to use than the strong RNGs. We should flip that equation. We don't necessarily need a device like this one to do that, but it might help.