skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-fungible tokens became the latest tech speculation bubble
Unfortunately the answer isn't necessarily yes. In this case, though, I think people may be reacting more to the fact that this topic has had dozens of submissions and at least a dozen major discussions in the last year.
I don't understand where you got the idea that people who tell others how to live have legal liability: if that were the case your local preacher would be in serious trouble.
Gold and silver have been money for thousands and thousands of years, that doesn’t mean it’s a unified monetary system, it was just a natural occurrence.

Back when dimes were silver you could get a gallon of gas for about a dime. If you found a silver dime today and sold it for melt value you will get pretty close to being able to get a gallon of gas for that dime still!
So many users end up losing their OEM activation after having to re-install windows from torrented ISO's without access to actual keys.
The Case Against Lockdowns
Well, most registrars that also run auction houses will auction off the expiring domain names. If nobody bids for them, they will get deleted.

As far as I understand it, this won't cost them anything in ICANN/Verisign fees if a domain doesn't sell as there's no renewal involved or anything.

There are other registrars (usually, smaller ones) that don't auction off expiring domain names, but rather keep them for themselves. $8/year is not much to offset and if you take in consideration the occasional sale of a domain name, it becomes even less to break even. At least, this is my take on it.

Some registrars (eg. EPIK) provide you with the number of WHOIS queries ran against your domain names, the IP's used etc. This is enough information to signal interest or not in a domain name. Also, once a domain expires, they can point it to their own DNS and start collecting a whole new set of valuable info.
This is how Ethereum is competing with Bitcoins in terms of "store of value".
People on the right need a boogeyman whenever (poor) people get a benefit, to scare them lest they lose the will to work.

So lately it's been inflation (not the deficit now that it's paying for tax cuts for the rich).

Meanwhile a deflationary spiral is truly scary, but it doesn't sound scary (my money is worth more!) so these people don't focus on it.
Not my experience (with Bank Mizrahi).

Can do almost anything on the web. Can even cash in checks by taking a picture of them on the app. Calling the central number for the bank directs the call automatically to my personal banker based on my caller ID. I haven't been to the branch in years.

Although it is true that when you _do_ need to go in, you need to go to your own branch, which is something that surprised me coming from the UK.
Selling things below cost price is not legal everywhere (it is often called predatory pricing, undercutting, price slashing, etc.). Now, I'm not a lawyer but I'm guessing that giving away something for free isn't always legal either, especially if giving it away is of interest to your business.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. This sort of provocation is close to trolling. It seriously damages the thread, especially when the topic is provocative. Please don't do it again.

There are plenty of ways to make substantive comments on both sides of this question, as other users have demonstrated. Please either do that instead, or (always a fine option) don't post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Quartz: A Framework for Engineering Secure Smart Contracts [pdf]
> I did not say that someone should assume authority and dictate what people need or want.

The very idea that there is any sort of universal standard for what people "need" or what is "good for them" implies such an entity.

Here's a novel thought: how about treating people as adults with their own intensional stances and allowing them to decide for themselves what they "need" or what is "good for them"?

You're not their parent. "Nutrition science" isn't their parent, either.
Analyzing the profitability of gTLD registry operators
Slaughterbots come to anyone's mind?

For those that haven't seen it, it's on youtube.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterbots

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
I haven't used Android for a few years, but back when I did it wasn't uncommon for me to come across apps that did horrible things, such as completely hijacking the Android UI to display ads or whatever. I bought into Apple's walled garden specifically to get away from this garbage, and I'll be none too pleased if legislation forces my user experience to be degraded.
> We can all compile C to wasm now.

yes, true. some people did indeed port not just python3 to wsm, but also llvm (not sure about llvm9 to run dex/jax/vax, but still). the practicality of such heroics is questioned by some folks, but tastes differ.

"we can compile anything to anything" is a bit of a non-argument. while it is a true statement, the public k9 wasm build is meant to illustrate how well k9 runs on bare metal ("bare", in this particular case). syscall table and two stdlib functions used by the web console are optional.

> clickhouse is winning left right and center

oh, thank you - never heard of that one, Russians produce a lot of excellent software (and sometimes manage to get away with it, see nginx). in particular, 3 queries against famous nyc taxi ride db is a very popular (non-)comparison, i really enjoyed the story of this guy riding a taxi on 100-way cluster:

https://tech.marksblogg.com/billion-nyc-taxi-rides-clickhouse-cluster.html

> show us something

maybe this, although old news:

https://shakti.sh/benchmark/taxi.k

i know it doesn't look remotely as shiny (and resilient!) as the clickhouse cluster configuration rant up above, but taxi.k is fully self-contained, includes some economy of scale estimations for k9 and some other systems, and will happily do 100-way over ipc if you so desire.

> ..interesting?

maybe this:

https://kparc.io/k/#%5Cl%20taxi.k

this is nyc taxi Q1 on your phone. no threads, no ipc, no ec2, no simd, no simdjs. it is just you and your mobile phone. maybe not so impressive.

i get about 9ms on iphone12 and about 40ms on mbp2012.

what do you get?

> J is cleaner and open source

while could be very true as well, especially open source part, i am not aware of taxi shootout readings for J, so my competence ends here. what i know about J, however, is where it came from - see the legendary "origins of j" anecdote at https://kparc.io

* * *

finally:

> k is a db

that is imprecise. k is a small, agile and integrated system, very well designed. it is a language that gives you a "db" if you need one, but it can also solve euler p572 for you only 10-20 times slower than a carefully crafted c solution (one should be lucky to get ~200ms, but maybe you get luckier).

that's the idea.
Tesla factory reported hundreds of Covid-19 cases after reopening
There's a thin line between cult and religion, and a lot of it has to do with institutional age. Although, yeah, there are a lot of christian, and buddhist for that matter, cults. Often these do end up breaching legal boundaries, as I've described, but more often they merely offend common morality or decency, which also reveals the problem of trying to tell people how to live, outside of accepted avenues (i.e. health sciences and, as you've pointed out, established religions).
Please don't use HN for political and ideological flamewar, regardless of what you're battling for or against. We're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Systems in which your skin color is the most important attribute have little space for meritocracy and movement among classes, and create an explosive reservoir of resentment.

This sounds pretty familiar
evilsocket/OpenSnitch is one of the cleaner code bases I have seen, especially for the functionality it implements. What other complexity are you alluding to?
Heat tent in winter,has this been done before?
One thing to watch out for: you're correct on jellybean linear regulators having a PSRR of ~80dB, it is frequency dependent. It is usually good at low frequencies (couple kHz) bu usually falls off as you approach switching frequencies of modern DC-DC solutions (a couple hundred kHz to couple MHz). It is not uncommon to see PSRR of ~20-30dB at 1MHz (e.g. datasheet of L7805 doesn't even show PSRR beyond 100kHz, LM317 is around 20dB at 1MHz).

There are linear regulators that are better in this regard though (LT3042 is my favourite for high PSRR).
$1000 a month is a good developer salary in lots of third-world countries, and that's not even entry level jobs. Hardly a bunch of rural farmers.
I think researching this stuff today is pretty immoral. If you're creating shit like this, you're inventing the next land mine. Stop it.
It isn't. Kernel context switching is the same thing as language runtime context switching, except you get access to kernel mode and you don't have to keep track of garbage collection stuff.
A more humane version may be to set up turrets with auto-aim lasers that can instantly blind targets rather than outright kill them.
“you still have your house after you’ve paid it off” until you retire and they tax you out of it, happening to my parents right now, sucks, tax bill is over 600/mo and rising! I’m going to have to start paying it eventually so we don’t lose the place. Seems fucked up to work your whole life to own something and then the state just takes it back by inflation and tax hikes eventually screwing you.

Inflation is a long con, eventually if you don’t keep increasing your profits you can’t sustain, that’s why I think a lot of disdain for capitalism is misguided, it’s the monetary system that has created this race to the bottom mentality where you have to keep squeezing to get more profitable just to stay in the game (or decreasing the size of the candy bar to keep the same price).
It seems pretty obvious to me this is a slippery slope, and humans won't be in the loop forever. When you're already using weapons to kill your enemies, it's pretty easy to justify killing them easier when your goal is just to kill them already. It even gives them plausible deniability over individual deaths (not that it should, but it will).
You can actually switch starting indices fairly easily in Fortran [1], or for that matter Julia, but for some reason the option doesn’t seem to be particularly widely used. People seem to give a lot of weight to the default, even when the effort to change is minimal. Added complexity/ambiguity?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48562873/zero-indexed-ar...
There's no "Wayland" that could implement a generic way of handling input. Wayland is an extensible set of protocols with several implementations.

Handling input is an integral part of what a compositor does, and it's not an easy problem to solve when said input doesn't map linearly to text.

Input methods in particular are not something that X11 "solves" at all: Under X every toolkit implemented their own way of handling complex input methods. XIM existed, but it was limited and only there for compatibility with ancient applications.

There are Wayland protocols for complex input methods too. Gnome's gone all-in and integrated ibus with their own compositor, so that obviously works, but Gnome also benefits a lot from distributions like Fedora making sure it works: everything is set up correctly out-of-the-box if you use Gnome. However, more niche implementations like Sway have to deal with a lower level of integration because there's no distribution that's built around Sway to create a full desktop environment.
How is it more dignified to have another human decide to kill you? It seems just as undignified to have a human with agency disregard your well being in a way which is indistinguishable from an automated killing.
Protein based slaughterbots cost USD $4k a month to hire, and $2k to arm, house, and feed.

And they've been on battlefields for much longer.
> Apple doesn’t and gives their OS away for free anyway

At the price of their hardware that isn't a surprise. Essentially it is just another bundle, and upgrades do not eat into the sales of new hardware.
Well we are talking about non inflationary systems compared to inflationary ones.
>>No, just because there's no law against it doesn't make it morally right.

Wait, are you replying to the right comment?

>>Also - I'm curious - have you ever contacted your representatives? Asked them to do anything about it?

Yes, I have. Have you?

>>But everyone else is just as apathetic as you, so there's no incentive to ever change anything.

Again, I feel like you're replying to the wrong comment. I feel like I live in a country with a very strong regulatory framework and things like fishing are treated very seriously with strong quotas on what can be caught not to overfish, and canned fish has to be clearly labeled where it came from and how it was caught. So I'm not sure which part of what I said comes across as apathetic to you.

>>I'm sure when the tuna finally goes, you'll say, "Yes, I ate tuna all my life, but I bear no responsibility - it's everyone else's fault."

I'll definitely say that it's the fault of the agencies tasked with protecting the flora and fauna that they are responsible for, not the consumers for eating tuna.
Competition law should work in the inserts of consumers, not private business. As long as consumers are voluntarily choosing to lock themselves behind this walled garden, I don't see why their user experience should be degraded to further business interests.
> It’s much easier to substitute something else for a gun when committing suicide than when murdering someone.

That idea seems to be belied by the upthread assertion that gun deaths disproportionately represent suicides.
You don’t need to buy an NFT to make it your desktop or mobile background.
(disclaimer: I work in a Climate&Energy R&D Lab)

I don't entirely agree with the overall assertion of this article. The author has some valid points, but I think it misses the forest for the trees.

TLDR: I think Fortran tooling and HPC clusters are a self-reinforcing local maximum. They are heavily optimized for each other, but at the cost of innovation and extensibility.

For example, we'll never get a fully differentiable climate model in Fortran. The tooling does not exist, and there are not enough Fortran developers to make a serious dent in the tooling progress made outside of the HPC world. The MPI stacks these codes rely on are not great for hardware outside of a supercomputer, and Fortran codes basically are built around full interconnect. I have many PFLOPs at my disposal that I cannot use because these codes are too brittle without being entirely rewritten.

At the end of the day, everything is a Turing machine, so you can technically do whatever you want in Fortran or any other language (or mix and match), but strategically staying in Fortran leaves a lot of resources on the table.
I suppose that given the pandemic’s possible sources a synonymous “Batshack” clone title wouldn’t be popular. Maybe “Bullymansion” would be better.
The tech companies are acting in co-ordinated effort to fortify elections (NY Times article). In helping to elect their preferred candidate, hiding negative stories, and skewed the algorithm for one candidate. At the very least they are making a massive campaign contribution, and section 230 gives them immunity to all the laws that apply. At the worse, they are spreading political propaganda. The anthesis of democracy. They also would not have gotten into market leader position had they disclosed their plans to do this. So I feel its a type of Fraud. Just like Joe Rogan lying to investors about not being censored on Spotify. When it now turns out he is. He personally gained 100 million from this lie. And Spotify investors got scammed. I hope more laws do get made so this kind of manipulation is punished.
I'm sorry you think so! You would make your argument stronger if you addressed some of my specific points. I'm sure my reading is pretty light (full disclosure: it consists of the Fraser biography, plus the King's War, King's Peace and Trial of Charles I trilogy), so if you have more or different sources, they might add some balance.
This is probably because accounts are branch specific and all your paperwork is there. If you want to move branch, your account number will change.
Maybe one day they will "fix" it .
Thanks so much.

Just like Auto Tab, I have heard of OneTab.
> “People with industry or regulatory agencies will tend to say things are okay. [...].”

Does anyone know why that is? Is it regulatory capture?
What is the material difference between a web site and a BBS?

BBS operators would be equally responsible, and won't run BBSes. Same with chat rooms and IRC channels — their operators could be sued, so they won't run anything like that for public service.

Of course, a web forum could still be run over Tor, hiding the webmaster and the participants. There would be no one to sue, so whatever inflammatory content were on such a forum, it would stay unless the moderators cared.

If the point is to stifle the public discussion and push it underground, then removing the protection of operators from liability for UGC is the way to go.
They have an intermittent tendency to have human emotions like "I should not commit a war crime", though.
> The turrets feature heavy duty 7.62 calibre machine guns tied into a network spanning the entire border. If any turret detects human movement, the entire chain of guns can train their sights and concentrate firepower on the interloper. Some turrets are also able to fire explosive rockets.

> With such overlapping fields of fire, even heavily armored vehicles would be quickly eliminated. The effect on a human body would be overwhelming, disproportionately violent, and would leave little in the way of human remains.

You can tell this is not written by a person with any military knowledge or with an agenda against weapons.

Non peaceful borders have been manned with such weapons operated by humans for more than a century (in the case of machine guns). And generally, if you can shoot one bullet and kill someone, you don’t use keep shoot hundreds of bullets, and if you can stop a threat with bullets, you don’t launch a rocket at it.

Israel doesn’t launch rockets at people next to the border. And tries to avoid killing unarmed people (for example by aiming for the legs). I assume every sane military does the same. Killing unarmed people, besides obviously being immoral, is bad strategically as well.

(This comment deals with a specific paragraph, and not the actual interesting issue raised by this article, which is not unique to Israel I presume, and is practiced by all military industries capable of building such weapons today)

EDIT: well, I had it coming. I didn’t mean for it to become the classic Israel vs Palestinians flame war - just wanted to point out the realities of borders, wars and weapons which I suspect most HN readers are not exposed to. But again, I should have seen this coming. :(
The problem starts with name. Developers are creating not producing. They don't make the same widget every day. When you are measuring productivity instead of creativity, you hinder creativity and therefore output.
>>Ultimately, you, and everyone like you, are the reason we can't have nice things.

Because I expect to live in a country with a strong regulatory framework where if I buy something in a store I don't have to worry whether it was produced in an ethical way?

You're right, I'm the problem. Thanks mate.
Most sites are now requiring 2x collateral for a loan, IE put up 10k in BTC and get back 5k in USD (as a stablecoin). This only becomes a problem if the price up BTC rapidly drops 50%, which is possible and has happened in the past, but is also probably less likely due to increased institutional investments.

The risk may be worth the 8-10% interest.
Thanks for sharing. I didn't know about the magazine, and as a lover of all things aquatic, I was missing something like this. It reminds me a lot of the old Italian magazine "Aqua".
Is it actually possible to get all the required components brand new, or do you need to get them of old broken machines?

There where a similar project for the Amiga 500, but actually building a machine required getting chips of old boards, or buying them on eBay.
Philosophy is not an Art.

Deciding what to philosophize about is the real art.
Thanks for this, I was using something similar called Opensnitch, which is unfortunately buggy and not as capable as Little Snitch.
Thank you for your work! I've decided to kick the tires after reading your Python book, I think you understimate the clarity of the API you have exposed which, honestly, looks a fair bit more sane than the tangled web that pandas is.
Incorrect. I buy art, the story is nice - but I mostly just like the way something looks & the fact it was handmade by someone with a deep level of care. I’m not sure I’d call appreciating craftsmanship a “story”.
Intermittent at most
Did they change this? I distinctly remember that after WhatsApp introduced e2e encryption I got a message every time somebody got a new phone. Haven't seen one in a while, though.
On a gold standard you can literally hoard it in a vault without losing value. Without inflation it’s actually not a terrible idea because you have high liquidity, you don’t have to sell assets to free up cash. You’d still buy assets but only the ones you actually needed or wanted rather than as a hedge against inflation.
It’s not even “the right”! The narrative is uniform from NyTimes and onward.
Google Judge Gets Peek at Her Court’s Role in Data-Mining Empire
Audio has taken off and I’m sure companies will figure out how to make billions off of it, but what they call innovation is boring to me. How about live-transcribe every conversation and allow me to subscribe to topics, so when someone is talking about a specific topic I can be alerted? How about automatic conversation summaries so the valuable pieces can be consumed more efficiently? I avoid podcast because there’s a lot of useless chit-chat which I just can’t be bothered with. I’d much rather read an article and the comment section.
This is some "Spinal Tap" level humor.

If you want to see a fascinating skyscraper that is actually quite tall (overtall?) check out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/432_Park_Avenue

1/4 mile in height, but only 100' wide.
> Spinal Tap called...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=071cXxCNj5A

David St. Hubbins: "I think that the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. That tended to understate the hugeness of the object."
I still see many banks using it. I think in the future they will end up using Redhat, but until now, I still didn't see it happening.
> I'm asking what the supposed positive achievements for humanity are? Don't bother, there really aren't any.

Why such contempt? To infer that Starlink, Tesla and SpaceX are not positive achievements for humanity is a bit cretinous.

More importantly. What positive achievements have you done? The likely answer is that Musk or any founder which company is publicly traded (not including social media ones for obv reasons) are a net positive for the world compared to you.

I find it fascinating how people watching from the sidelines love to dunk on entrepreneurs. They also seem to be always angry at the world.

The quote "Comparison is the thief of joy" by FDR has never ringed more true.
I highly doubt that they are breaching legal boundries. Doctors only have a monopoly on formal medical advise- they do not have a monopoly on "telling people how to live". Nobody thinks their local preacher or philosopher is giving formal medical advise- so there is unlikely to be any liability at all outside of gratuitously bad behavior like telling people to drink bleach.
This is what ulimit is for.