skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Moped cars" are a big thing in Sweden too, as 15yos can drive them just like they can drive a scooter. They are typically small diesels and currently cost about €16k+ new, though, so are in an entirely different price class (if not tech class).

There are some cheaper and some electric alternatives starting to arrive on the market. Right now, the electric alternatives don't have much range.
And exactly that happened to aluminium. After its discovery its cost was bigger than gold. Until more effective ways to ectract it were discovered. That does not mean that aluminium is useless.
There are some theories explaining that memory is stored in Space, and that DNA acts as an “antenna” which can retrieve information via quantum entanglement.

Ok, well IF that’s the case (I’m not saying it is) then this finding wouldn’t be that surprising but rather expected behavior.

So when they modified “antenna” of that snail so that it can access information previously accessed only by the other snail.

Anyways that’s just about entertaining an idea, so don’t take it seriously, please.
Yes, but who are the people reaping the profits really?

I don't think this [1] for example would happen if the portions of the pie had been well distributed.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_French_Caribbean_genera...
NFTs are generally being used for digital art at this time. Physical art of course still has this requirement.
1. Name me one original "American" dish. One. I should not have any roots in any other cuisine, neither should it be a derivative of something else. One completely original dish which you can claim as "American". What epic douchebaggery and pseudo culinary BS. Need open mind to enjoy food. Going by this article, you're a Class-A bigot.

2. If you can't stomach spicy food, you have a weak-ass stomach. Nothing to do with "masking" the quality of ingredients with extra spices or whatever. It just says you don't have the palate that can differentiate the different combination of flavours that spices produce.

3. Yes, you're being a total snob on top of being closed minded, disrespectful and being a total douchebag. If you want to eat those bland flavourless, colourless food that you claim as being "appetizing". What's one dimensional is your vision, taste and personality. Again, reiterating the point, a total douchebag like you would never run a kitchen, let alone being the bus boy.

Man, what a jackass. I don't get angry over internet douchebags but this, this was an affront to all food everywhere.
> The person who bought it (pseudonym Metakovan) runs https://metapurse.fund/ and says that Beeple's NFT is worth a billion.

I am not at all surprised that the person who paid that much is involved in hyping NFTs. IIRC, they also paid for it with Ethereum, and I think it's highly likely that they were someone who hit the crypto jackpot by getting it when it was very, very cheap, and are hoping lightning strikes twice.
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There are experts that can verify Picasso. Digital assets are copied verbatim with 100% fidelity and zero error.
> the artist's digital key was used to sign a record on the blockchain,

How do I verify the artist vs someone who just says they are the artist?

Couldn’t I generate a private key, call myself Banksy, sign a new token and add it to Bitcoin’s blockchain instead?

In this situation is Etherium running some pki that can prove that Banksy is really Banksy?

Or does Banksy tweet out his public key and just announce that only signatures from his key are authentic?

I guess the challenge in my mind is if there’s no root name authority to verify who is who, and there’s no legal provenance for who signs what, then someone could start creating new NFTs for Banksies and add them to any blockchain. So the desireability comes down to whether I want an autograph from the Banksy matching the signature his Twitter says vs an autograph from some rando claiming.
Environmental issues. Same reasons I guess why Bitcoin is disliked. But most Bitcoin dislikers still drive a car, are careless with heating and cooling and eat steak at least once a day.
I read it. Didn’t find any outdated information in it.
Eh, I think you’re way too quick to criticise him for it. He’s human, after all. And in love on top of it!

Personally, I appreciate the frankness. Too bad it got deleted.
If you're worried about power consumption from a cost perspective, it's going to take a long time to break even from the cost of new hardware, even for a cheap pi.

If you're worried about it from an environmental perspective, it often takes more energy / resource mining / pollution to manufacture a new piece of hardware than the total amount saved from not running older hardware over a longer lifetime. Running a computer / smartphone / tablet until it doesn't work well enough for its purpose is generally better for the environment than upgrading because shiny, because it slightly reduces the demand for new hardware.
> driven mostly by elderly or disabled people

how odd, in Italy small ICE vehicles in this category (which I believe is called "Light quadricycles" or L6e) seem to be marketed mostly to kids from affluent families. .
Um, you're obviously lying in this post here, contradicting the source material you link to.
Well, you’re misguided. It’s not the language, it’s platform features like kv store attached to blockchain that make these dapps possible to implement. And none of them require Turing completeness.
The Ethereum dev team has been publicly committed to a PoS transition since the day Ethereum was launched. Anybody not aligned with this switch shouldn't have become a stakeholder in the protocol.
The thing is that during those 10% most or at least a lot of them are on the road.
So what we really need is a big network of overhead wires, trolleybus style.
Well with the major caveat that right wing extremists are currently a lot more dangerous and violent. So they're really just not comparable at all.
Barrier is opensource, multiplatform and works pretty well.
Selling the copyright on an image is completely orthogonal to the NFT it is being accompanied with, however. The NFT is only acting as a certificate of ownership saying that someone verifiably possesses the NFT. In my opinion, the NFT bring sold alongside the copyright adds very little value that couldn't already be done pre-blockchains. Courts were perfectly capable of evaluating ownership claims in the past.

And many of these NFTs don't even pretend to sell ownership of any underlying asset. Take Jack Dorsey's tweet, or the burned Banksy artwork for example. When you buy those, you get ownership of exactly 0 actual assets. It's just cashing in on NFTmania (and the larger cryptomania).
Cool, I just don’t want it to power any of my financial future.
I think it’s a reasonable comparison. C is still a language that is widely used. In some niches, it is the only acceptable language. Comparing C with Rust is useful for people in those niches. An example of this is the Linux kernel.
I always shake my head in perplexity at people just living with annoyances for decades instead of taking 5 minutes to google something.

Well I am guilty on this one. I should not have learned this from a HN comment. But I did, so all that's left is THANK YOU.
Marketplaces like OpenSeas, Nifty Gateway, Rarible, and Zora do work to verify known artists. But not all artists have a reputation, so surely there is risk among some of the NFTs out there. However, the price for unverified NFTs from unknown artists is usually reflective of that risk.
Vitalik announced the eventual switch to PoS before he was even finished writing Ethereum, before it was released.
Except the concept of authenticity doesn't really apply to digital information. There exist infinitely many copies of any piece of digital art and none of them is more authentic than the others. They are all equally authentic.
Average monthly wage is ~$475?

US is $3k-$4k?

https://tradingeconomics.com/thailand/wages
That shell is all most might need, to go shopping or run any errand in the city. It's much safer than a scooter and carries much more. Obviously you probably shouldn't be driving it in the highway, but how often does that happen?
I think it's not that the US is odd as much as each market is odd in a different way.

I remember one of the points of the failed trans-atlantic trade treaty was about handling where the stop lights should be on cars, because "safety" regulations differ.
The whole point of a model is to take advantage of data with more information. If GPT-3 output sucks for predicting human output then it will be ignored by the model during descent. Otherwise the learning algorithm is defective.
I dunno, it kinda sounds like the conditioning of the snails was passed through the RNA. I don't know if this would scale to humans, but that would be a super interesting experiment.
The setup process isn't the reason people want to use hosted services, the maintenance is.
"oh noes! someone on the internet is trying to con me!!!"

guess an 3rd-party script- and ad-blocker is the way to go
I’m on record here saying I really dislike Mongo DB and never want to work with it again. I stand by that. But Atlas is a really nice product (to work around the inherent failings of Mongo, but hey, you’re locked in already). Want to look at something in a backup? Select your snapshot, download and run a special binary, and point your client at it. It takes like 30 seconds to be pulling data from any backup. I did it this week. Now, would I have been able to make the mess I needed to recover from if I’d been using Postgres? No, of course not. But like I said: you’re locked-in already.

Edit: Mongo is a special kind of lock-in: your code ends up so much more tightly-coupled, and hard to extricate, because of the Mongo pattern of making you do the work to ensure consistency and correctness. I can’t imagine it was planned, but it’s highly effective: for many companies it’s just too much work, too expensive, and the benefits are too opaque (“but the application works now, and you’re telling me you want to switch databases and it’ll take how long?!”) for others to buy into.

I’d call it clever, but I think it’s a profitable accident that’s a braking force on the progress of many teams.
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No, they would still be death traps since cars may also hit other hard obstacles like walls and rocks.
For sure. Red rear turn signals and not requiring better headlight glare mitigation come to mind.. and are some of my pet peeves.

But when it comes to expensive systems like crash structures, active and passive safety systems, the US requires a lot.
Reminds me of the Citroen Ami for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBD0Q9p4bR4
The idea that "the road not taken" was a better path to where you are is a common fallacy. It's likely the author needed the sum of their life experience to value the investment in learning, to become an ML junkie and find their best fit.

Had they been exposed to more life choices and learning choices It's equally likely they would be living their best life as a piano player in a bordello in Mexico.

I also basically failed university, I did not deserve my second class honours degree. I've been continuously employed ever since, raised a family, travelled the world, I have no regrets beyond the obvious ones with hindsight.

Life is fleeting. Do not resent your years attempting to live "animal house" because they make you what you are as much as the uplifting valedictorian speech doesn't.
In any non-trivial program you will not know how much gas it requires to complete because that’s what it means - to solve the halting problem. What a great basis for your financial system handling all people’s economic interactions. What can possibly go wrong.

I’ll stick with deterministic bitcoin script, thankyouverymuch.
The idea that the powers aren't actually useful is a completely false meme that techies tell each other because they imagine criminals to behave in a particular way, which is incorrect.

Police powers are routinely shown to be useful in actual criminal investigations.
These are all really good questions. I'm not sure that there are equally good answers.

Right now, it seems that people are taking things on trust, buying only from digital artists who have very active online presence, and whose social media accounts are presumed to be true representations of the artist.

Nobody is running what I would consider to be a robust system for verifying digital identities for signing NFTs.
Are you suggesting censorship might be an issue?
Ha. Are you kidding?

A million people are killed directly every year by cars. Many more are seriously injured and disabled. Another million indirectly due to air pollution. They are also the number one cause of micro plastics around waterways. Billions are spent on hospitals, doctors, nurses, ambulances, police to support all this death.

Much more is spent covering our countryside on roads, that kill millions of animals every year.

And encouraging urban sprawl means cities take up more space, destroying wild life habitat.

This is just some of the awful things cars have bought to our world, not mentioned are wars, major spills, toppled governments, bribery, etc...
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The switch to PoS was known for years, miners know they’ll be phased out. The chain is decentralized, but that switch is not (it’s part of the initial chain dev/vision).
But authenticity is only a concern in physical art.
There is a /raw endpoint to make it easy. On a released pok you can do curl <pok-url>/raw | sha256sum
There will almost certainly be a split chain that continues to run on pow. Eventually it will die off, like Eth classic
Given the cryptocurrency, DeFi, NFT hype I see recently, I thought this was timely.
Look, what I'm going to say here is not even close to the same, but it really needs be said.

I have that same kind of visceral reaction to any thoughts of certain employers that I've had "that" kind of relationship with. I don't think it's "startup PTSD" so much as "dysfunctional employment (or other relationship) PTSD"

I can easily mark the exact moment where my ability to deal with the situation I was in went so far gone that my brain's instinctive response was to just flee.

I've seen this with familial relations as well, which clearly pushes it well into "just normal PTSD" if you can accept that ANY form of PTSD is "normal" (which I refuse, for the record...)

I'm just glad you got out before you actually ended up with permanent psychological damage. This shit isn't a joke.
But all of those are still true. I would argue that public transport should replace cars for commute which is most of the "non-niche" usage.

Public transport can't get you anywhere, on your own terms? Sounds familiar.
thanks for the heads up and consideration!

I'd like to suggest more prominent mention of the E2E stuff.. the bitwarden site currently has a big bold E2E as the top left block under the header block.. and on the send page there is a prominet block about security and blah blah that you can't miss these even if you are scrolling/skimming fast..
I looked for that info on your pages including the /resources/download/ and the home page. Did not notice any mention of encryption.. in transit, at rest, anything.. I even stopped the scroll and read the paragraph under heading "Private File Sharing " - the top left / 1st info block under the cover/heading block..

At that point I wrote it off as not having E2E.

glad that it does - and certainly after the latest Msoft Exchange hack - One might think that every business would demand all emails and similar web transfers are encrypted at rest and in transit.. I certainly look for such.

My experience with free is that it's either bad for privacy or the company is not real legit and is going to change at some point drastically, so I don't get caught into those traps I avoid getting invested into them. From google to rtMedia - free transactions either fail / die / change or they profit by slaying your privacy or time or something eventually..

I certainly prefer to buy once to own software and consider paying for an upgrade after a year if new features are added.

I get it that it's a legit and, common, and profitable way to earn and keep earning by getting business on a monthly / yearly fee.. Not my preference, but it works..

I would want to know what happens to any data if the fee stops being paid if I considered such a thing - and what backup plan there was if the company shut down as well.

I appreciate your work and you taking the time to respond, I hope you are successful in making at least parts of the world more secure and private! Whether I can afford it or not I think it's great!
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No. The whole point of blockchain and crypto is digital scarcity. Bitcoin has been proving this concept since 2009.

Why is a BCH coin cheaper than a BTC coin? Why is a Doge coin cheaper than either?

The supply & demand of each is completely different.

NFTs are not infinite. They are provably scarce. They not only cost money to mint, but any artist who cheapens their NFTs by distributing too many copies will see the effects in the price and valuation of their art.
Thanks for the PR! I noticed that little detail and probably wouldn't have completed the puzzle without it.
Why doesn't capitalism produce good kettles?
It is also my understanding that NFT need a central authority defining which chain is the true one to work. This is true for all NFT use-case I think, event tickets, membership, game assets...

This can be fine and still interesting for these use-cases, for example several independent organizations can agree about the validity of a token independently. Personally I don't think NFT for art make sense though.
This metaphor doesn’t make sense to me. As a matter of course, a gasoline car needs gasoline; unless you live on a farm with delivered fuel, that means going to the gas station for it.

An electric car needs only electricity to operate, which is already distributed via wires to everyone’s home.

Both cars need tires; electric cars also need significantly less scheduled maintenance. No oil changes, no timing belt, etc.
Decentralized blockchains are entirely opt-in. If you are a participant in a blockchain that isn't serving your needs, you can opt out of that blockchain and into a new blockchain.

A hard fork is essentially a large coordinated migration from one blockchain to a new blockchain, generally with a shared history.

Vitalik does not have the sole power to go against the stakeholders of the network and make massive changes to Ethereum. The power that Vitalik has is one of leadership. If he attempts to coordinate a mass migration from one blockchain (old Eth) to another (new Eth), Vitalik actually needs to convince everyone that this is a good idea. He can't force it to happen if people disagree that it's the right thing to do. If Vitalik launches a hardfork and 80% of the network upgrades, that definitionally means that Vitalik had the support of 80% of the network, otherwise they wouldn't have followed the upgrade.

Blockchains are about consent. If you don't like what's happening on a blockchain, make a change. A single person making a change in isolation isn't interesting, but a large group of people making a change together IS interesting, and can be successful even if that group is just a minority. You end up with two different networks, each capable of thriving on their own.

Miners depend on the users of a blockchain for revenue. If a blockchain has no users, there will be no fees, and no revenue. The reverse is not true. If the users determine that they are better off selecting a different set of miners to build and preserve consensus, they can fork the network in a way that changes who is able to mine effectively, but does not otherwise impact daily use of the blockchain.
I’m surprised you couldn’t tell because my reading is their point was quite clearly genuine and not at all sarcastic.

They were just expressing the notion that while the acute personal cost is zero the actual cost is still borne. They didn’t make the point in a very nuanced way but any system that divorces the cost from the person receiving the treatment hides information by suppressing the natural price discovery mechanism.

Anyway, I agree that insurance has a similar problem, at least if policies like “no pre-existing conditions” are followed. However if such policies are not in place then premiums would go up and thus the information propagation of the price mechanism is (all else equal) restored.

I don’t have time to get into it but speaking from the US perspective I really wish we had a real free market system with no government revelation or licensure laws whatsoever. What we have now is criticized by the ignorant as a “failure of unbridled capitalism” but it is of course anything but. It is absolutely absurd that I can’t decide that I don’t want insurance and equally that I’m not told what a procedure or drug or item will cost beforehand. I’ve been to the ER several times and you’re always treated like a bag of meat to poke and prod and I have to be very diligent about constantly getting them to tell me what they’re actually doing. (And don’t even get me started on the chargemaster system where they initially charge you 10x more than what they expect to recoup purely for leverage to negotiate with insurance)
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I wonder what’s worse: being squashed inside this car or just become airborne when scooter hits something. At least you’re required to wear a helmet when on a scooter. But as someone said here, if we only had those cars on the road(and a 30 km/h speed limit), it’d be much safer.
They say the brightest rockstars die the quickest, but are the most beautiful. Rest in peace, it was a life not wasted.
I have a 5 year old laptop whose display died after 2 years. Rather disappointing that high-end stuff doesn't last and manufactures don't seem to care, but that's another rant. I plugged it into my TV to use for emulators. It's fun to play occasionally, but overall I hate it because of how whiny and high maintenance windows 10 is. Every single freaking time I want to use it, I have to pull it out from under the blu-ray player and reassure it of its insecurities. Every few days it will randomly wake up and start loudly revving its fans up and down too, just to remind me that it exists to torment me.
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I'm not feeling that. Perhaps most people are different. To me it always felt like that feeling is a social construct.
aaah TLDP it is than, also that was pretty uplifting.
Thank you so much for your time, guess one just cant go away from documentations.
There was a decent discussion on these a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26232760

And a few months before that:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24601479
The Kurose/Ross textbook is also a favourite of mine.

Consider checking out https://book.systemsapproach.org/index.html as a free alternative as well.

The authors develop the book, as well as a few micro-books on topics like SDN, 5G, TCP congestion control, on github: https://github.com/SystemsApproach

They also have a blog with regular updates: https://www.systemsapproach.org/blog

And if you're curious about the motivation behind the project, they have a whitepaper: Open Source Networking Education: A Systems Approach - https://www.systemsapproach.org/uploads/4/7/7/4/47748257/sig...
Amazon will not sell books that 'frame sexual identity as mental illness'
Amsterdam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ly7JjqEb0
Yet you seem to own a computer and presumably are ok with that?
Not the point. The returns are in the 30-1000x from the initial investment.
As an upper-caste person, you don't get to decide which minorities have lived a privileged life based on your resentful view of them. The caste hierarchy exists outside of class.
Easy there bud.
Something like this happens in humans.[0] Eukaryotic gene expression is quite complex.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_splicing