skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> those who use them for work, which is a huge portion of the market

I would disagree with this statement, which is why I don't think there's much intersection. More and more people are seeing pick up trucks as a form of self expression and a status symbol (which might seem like a baffling statement if you don't live in the American midwest or south).

There's a non-negligible segment that has a lot of identity tied up in their current way of life, to the point that they see electric vehicles as a threat to them.

In short, anyone that unironically owns a set of truck nuts is not going to by a Cybertruck.

I think that people who actually use trucks because a sedan doesn't have the capabilities will consider the cybertruck a viable option as it definitely has a ton of positives, although I would be very weary of sing them in remote locations as there's no way they're as maintainable as a regular truck and extra electricity is a lot harder to find or transport in an emergency than extra gas.
I'll give these suggestions a try. I can't promise I'll be able to use all of them, because our site uses a disgustingly archaic CMS that's as likely to mangle markup as not (hence why I haven't even attempted to do the graphs in SVG or anything like that). The publisher's IT dept really only cares that the ads still show up in enough places, not about giving us a useful tool to work with.
Gotta get out of Gmail and Excel from time to time. :D
never mind fashion trends, they come and go :) I think you're on point. Hopefully Britain will bounce back as a beacon of progressive ideas. It was always the voice of reason and brought balance to the dominating German/French axis of bureaucratic/pedantic authoritarian thought.

I miss you guys!!
So now we have no Banksy painting but someone has a crypto token that says “This represents a Banksy painting” in the code?

Since there’s nothing to own or even point to, what’s stopping a second party from claiming they actually have the original Banksy NFT and selling their own? Just the time stamps on the blockchain?

What a miserable destruction of real art to profit on a trading frenzy.
Thanks Collin! Glad you're enjoying it so far :)
maybe i should have brought up the time she shouted at a teenage survivor of a school shooting in public instead

of the time she called a fellow representative a member of isis

or the time she mocked another representatives transgender child
The fact is technical sophistication and commercial value do not correlate well. Currency is a medium to solve meat world conflicts and there is none for well-written pieces of software.
Shameless plug: My project, Cactus Comments[1] does something similar, although for commenting, instead of support chat.

We ship a web-embeddable Matrix client. The users' browser connects directly with a Matrix server of their choice (or a default one).

[1]: https://cactus.chat
Why not just fake stuff? If you give software no file permissions, show it an empty dir. Tell the software you saved it's file but don't, just keep it in an memory overlay just for that program's run. If it wanted the network, give it a dummy net.
Similar UI is a pro, not a con. And a big one at that.
Interesting.

Yup, if that was my experience, I would hate driving cars as well.

I’m able to drive pretty much on autopilot. Plus, I don’t feel I’m wasting time listening to podcasts/audiobooks because I’m “doing something/headed somewhere”.

I’ve driven almost 20k miles in the past 3.5 months.
At first I thought Bitcoin and crypto currencies were bunk. Totally useless compared to USD or any other national currency. Although I still believe I'm correct, I've pretty much been shown that a lot of other people disagree with that premise because I've seen Bitcoin go from about $10 to $60,000. I still think it's a total bubble but have to admin there's a lot of other people who disagree. The one thing we can agree is that people who want to own Bitcoin do own Bitcoin and those that don't want to spend $60k on a coin dont.

But with NFT.... You don't have to spend any money at all. You can just download the item. Why would you pay any money at all. If Van Gough painted two "starry night" painting and sold the 1st for $10MM but offered me the 2nd one for free, I'd take the free one. Why would anyone pay money for something that you can get for free?

I think its because we're in a time of massive inflation of assets, probably brought on my the Fed's policies. We've inflated housing with low interest rates, stocks with QE and salaries for the lucky few in certain industries have risen much faster than the rest. This has lead to a group of people with excess cash chasing return. Once all the low hanging fruit has become out of reach in terms of value (ie: TLSA), money is seeking any other place to get returns - Crypto, penny stocks, SPAC's and now NFTs.
Like ‘natural flavors’ and ‘artificial flavors’ are just different uses of ‘git rebase’?
Please, stop calling any non-essential use of energy that you're looking to smear, "evil". Are movies, which consume energy in their production and consumption, also evil? Video games? No, because you personally see the entertainment they provide as redeeming?

If people want to expend their own resources on NFTs, that's entirely their right to do so, and calling it evil because the process consumed energy is absurd.

If you have a problem with CO2 emission, by all means advocate for laws requiring energy production to not emit CO2 as a by-product. But to single out some non-essential activity that you personally don't like because of the imagined motives of those behind it, while ignoring every other non-essential activity that uses energy, is disingenuous and irresponsible.
> In my mind SBOM is similar to food ingredients being listed on the packaging. FDA or someone requires them, very few read them or cares what is in there. BUT now that they are listed on every food product, those who care can read them and make informed decisions. And raise alarm when it is found that someone uses unhealthy amounts of whatever in their cakes or sausages.

And sue them if they lie about it. I think a lot of the benefit of these types of regulations is to force businesses to commit active frauds instead of passive frauds. Not doing something you were supposed to do is incompetence. Lying on a form about doing something that you haven't is deceit.

The profits from incompetence and deceit are equal until one gets caught, then the lesser punishment for incompetence as compared to deceit makes deceit more expensive. Smart businesses will choose incompetence every time, and engineer it into the system everywhere where fraud would be profitable.

Of course, they can also hire temps to sign forms, like the banks did in 2008[1], but the current administration has to really want you to get away with it for that to work.

[1] https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/false-affidavits-for... Note: it was strangely difficult to find information on this still on the web.

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edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26530786
Where our parents would hedge with gold, Gen-x and younger who got a foothold on finance are hedging with digital.

Consider this: We have 2 generations who are digital native. They have digital relationships. They buy digital. They consume digital. The missing part has been to earn and spend digital.

No that digital natives have been handed $$$ in govt handouts which has caused an explosion of economic activity in crypto.

Now they can and will speculate in markets with digital. And do it with provable scarcity

They are discovering scarcity
A house is linked to a title. The title is a paper token.
What capableweb said is correct. NFTs do not confer any ownership of, rights over, or special access to anything else, real-world out digital. When you buy an NFT of an artwork, you aren't buying the artwork, you are only buying the NFT.

As far as I know, the inventors of NFTs do not claim that they do. But it seems like a lot of people talking about and perhaps buying NFTs don't understand that.
Some providers are doing that. For example you can rent such bare metal servers from OVH's cheap brand So You Start. But that doesn't make sense if you need something more that one cheapest server. Consider the total cost of buying and hosting such servers compared to the resources they provide.

You are paying more but mainly when the capabilities are better. Example for SSD:
Samsung 860 PRO 1TB and "for Data Center" Samsung PM883 1TB both have about 1200 TBW lifespan, both cost about $180.

On the other hand 8-core Xeon 4215 is almost 2 times more expensive than 8-core consumer CPU but it has 3x the memory bandwidth (6 channel controller vs 2 channel), 1TB of RAM per processor vs 128GB, 48 PCIe lanes vs 20 and supports 2-way SMP. That means you can put few times more capacity (cores, memory, in 1U rack enclosure than with consumer hardware. That additional capacity can also share 1 PSU, 1 network card.

I'm not even talking about ECC memory and remote management capabilities available only in server grade hardware.
In what way do you think they have any intrinsic value?
Why is it ironic?

I believe it is a fair warning, and if somebody he knows how easy to collect data through these companies. In some way he might be a not-radical Snowden.
There is only one patent office per country and one trademark office per country. (It may be more complicated.) And if you ignore the patent/trademark office in your country, they can call some people with tanks to go to your home and ask nicely to follow the patent/trademark rules. (It may be more complicated.)

And there are rules about how the trademarks/patents from one country applies in other countries. (IIRC you must fill some paperwork in every country, but copyright is similar and easier to extend globally.)

Anyway, everyone can create a new chain of NFT, so the same object can be NFTed in many blockchains. Specially because some NFT implementations don't even ask if you are the creator of the digital object.
Hyperscript: An experimental front end scripting langauge
Closed borders, travel ban, halted immigration: Covid changed how, where we move
Ok but your two arguments over how this isn’t just a feel good thing come down to (1) is ok that it’s a feel good thing and (2) it can be a popular feel good thing. How many net acres of forest can we gain and how much CO2 can we remove with this per year, based on your best projections?

I am not saying it’s bad to do this. I would be happy to be a customer. But how do we know this does anything meaningful?
Blockchain doesn’t need to make it impossible to counterfeit real-world items to be useful, it just needs to reduce counterfeiting levels by reducing the profitability. It’s more than capable of doing that. If you can only sell at most one counterfeit item per authentic item, that’s already a multi-trillion dollar innovation.
A different approach might be insurance markets. If I want to use component X, but the use of that component creates a risk (however small) that my business will be hacked, then my business could buy an insurance policy to cover that risk. If the software is maintained by an unpaid guy in a basement, the insurance is likely to be relatively expensive. The insurance company then has a strong incentive to pay basement guy to do maintenance of the software so as to reduce the risk of an insurance claim.

This is grossly over-simplified, but if we accept the notion that businesses can have real liabilities if they get hacked, then they're going to want insurance and the insurance companies are going to want to drive rapid improvements in quality in order to reduce the number of claims. This effect has been a significant factor in improvements in safety in a wide range of other industries.
The problem is why is that company in the business of "special offers"? The job of the telecoms company should be to provide reliable phone/internet service and otherwise disappear in the shadows. There should be no reason to "engage" with them other than paying your bill or changing some settings, just like there's no reason to "engage" with your power, water company or trash collection company.
We don't quite reach a very high degree of practical math literacy even though everyone is taught from a young age. Calculus considered as "incredibly difficult" being an example.
Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, Schiller, Forstall to Testify in Epic vs. Apple Trial
Good progress. I think you'd be mad to not use type hints, even for small scripts they're hugely advantageous. It's especially nice now that VSCode supports them well.

The only problems I have with them are that they are completely ignored by Python itself - you have to run a separate type checker. That's a fairly stone-aged system. And also I with VSCode had something like Typescript's "no implicit any" so it was more obvious where you had to put types that couldn't be inferred.
Looks mighty interesting.

Going to try it out to see if this can solve my "re-import batches due to corrupt data" vicious cycle.
It takes authorities a long time to catch up. We still have ransomware attacks despite authorities having all the tools necessary to shut off the payment channels.
From what I could tell, they specifically worked out the
current design in a way that allows them to change the
implementation later. The current WIP code, as far as I know,
mostly just compiles Generic Go code into the regular Go code,
so closer to the “slow compilers” method, but the eventual
goal seems to be some form of a hybrid approach[1].

EDIT: Here[2] is a direct link to what seems to be the most
recent public DRAFT of the design document of the hybrid
approach in question.

[1]: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/OcW0ATRS4oM

[2]: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/78bd52518d53994d3fe66...
In my experience, you have to make sacrifices. Everything in life is a trade-off in one eaybor another.

I gave up my nice car and doing track days. Many of my time consuming hobbies that involved going somewhere have been greatly reduced or eliminated. I tried replacing them with smaller hobbies at home while I can watch the kid - like small batch beer brewing or learning bass guitar.

Career-wise I have accepted that I will not be promoted and will remain an average midlevel dev for the foreseeable future, mostly due to the cultural expectation that you have to put in more hours to be higher level (and some past decisions still dragging me down). I also acknowledge that I can't afford to changes jobs, eventhough I hate my current job. I need the money to support my family.

The responsibilities that come with marriage and kids is vastly understated - it can be absolutely crushing. If it weren't for these responsibilities, I would have changed jobs, been a senior dev or tech lead, made and saved more money, and likely would have been able to move to a lower cost area to retire early.
Police and civilians disagree on when body camera footage should be made public
Unless penalties for doing so are legislated, they need not claim that the fork they are actually using is a fork of anything; they could treat it as if part of their proprietary code (though they might be in violation of license agreements if they do this.)
Don’t forget the wash trading aspect:

Since this occurs on the blockchain, it’s trivially easy for someone to create two wallets and then “sell” an NFT to themself for whatever amount of money they have.

If you have $10K in ETH, you can buy a $1 NFT and then trade it among your own wallets for increasing amounts of ETH up to $10K. Now your $1 NFT is “worth” $10K and you only spent as much money as the gas costs at the time.

Use that momentum to flip the NFT to an unsuspecting buyer who sees the value skyrocketing, and you’ve made a huge return by selling nothing at all. Or simply show your friends that you have an expensive NFT as a way to flex. Or talk to a reporter who wants to write a story on how people are getting rich with NFTs. Amazing.

Contrast this with something like eBay where the buyer would lose 10-20% on each sham transaction, limiting the profits. With NFTs, the transaction costs (gas) are fixed so the more money you wash trade, the lower percentage you lose. Some NFTs are designed to kick money back to the artist with each transaction, but curiously those aren’t trading at exorbitant prices in most cases. Of course, there’s nothing stopping the artist themself from using this scheme to pump up the price of their own artwork.
It also just seems sooooo slow. I also drop to the terminal for these tasks 100% of the time - including search. I’ll Google for software, and then dnf search to find the specific package if it’s offered.
That's a fair explanation. A crypto token with a supply of 1. But here's the problem.

And?

This takes the idea that anything has value only due to scarcity to such an extreme, it's laughable. So much so, people thus had to try redefining the idea of ownership to justify its existence. These NFTs aren't "free" in existence. While this is true of anything is digital and on the internet, the cost of an Etherum NFT is far more expensive and more worthless in its own existance (which is an amazing feat). If you post 1 piece of artwork on imgur, artstation or even deviantart, the amount of electricity used to upload and view is going to be difficult to sustainably measure since it's so low. A single Etherum transaction to create an artwork NFT takes 60kWh (https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption). 2 days of an average household's energy usage.

It's solutionism that's trying to create a false narrative of problems that it can "solve". But even a regular solutionist would be disgusted and demand a new word to be formed so they're not lumped into the same category. I don't have a grief with those trying to simply profit off a craze. I don't hate the player, I respect the hustle. I hate the game and the zealots. The zealots who drop on their knees and pray to the almighty crypto whitepapers are sucking in victims just like a cult. And just like cults, "Put all your money into us. We're far safer from those evil outsiders. Stay and never listen to the outside world. Don't participate in their social constructs of value. Our idea of value is far better because the elves from our DMT trips told us so."
Seems plausible if you can cover all traces of where your crypto came from, and considering NFTs stay unregulated by legislation/governments.

If NFTs remain a thing after all the hype & fake demand fades then I am sure regulation for NFT purchases will come into effect to combat such practices.
> The one thing we can agree is that people who want to own Bitcoin do own Bitcoin and those that don't want to spend $60k on a coin dont.

Almost right. Yes, the ones that wanted to own Bitcoin badly enough have Bitcoins by now. The ones that want Bitcoin but not badly enough don't. The ones that don't want to have Bitcoins don't have Bitcoins. The error in your statement is within "those that don't want to spend $60k on a coin dont" because you don't need to spend $60k minimum to buy Bitcoin, that's the price of a full Bitcoin, which you don't need to buy.

> But with NFT.... You don't have to spend any money at all. You can just download the item.

That's not how NFTs work. Yeah, sure, you can download the NFT metadata, or the multimedia that the NFT links to, but that's not "ownership" as defined by blockchains, where the owner is the one the blockchain consensus has said is the owner.

A bit like saying is the same to own the hosting of a SaaS landing page if you download the HTML file. Sure, now you have a copy of it, but that's the limit of your ownership there.

Disclaimer: I'm myself not into NFTs because it mostly seems like hype at this point, I own zero NFTs myself and have no interest in buying. But I also care about accuracy.
It’s worse than that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_ton
It seems like it could equally be “internal package UUID1 version X, internal package UUID2 version Y” if malicious compliance and/or industrious laziness was the goal.
It looks a lot of overheads for something that is supposed to be helpful for the environment.

Why not just donate the equivalent of 1-year amount of your [whatever event-triggered actions] directly to one of these Reforestation projects? It saves your time, the cost of running server (albeit not much) while doing the same amount of help.
Thanks for the links. I'm a great fan of video walks too. They are very relaxing and IMHO they provide a much better overview of a place than the typical travel vlog.

Here is another Japan-focused channel. There are walks either with or without audio commenting.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGfM15CKSjHl8bGp16P6P8g/fea...
I tried to preview the example but apparently it doesn't work with my browser. The web needs to do better.
Intel Put to the Test: M1 MacBook Pro 13 vs Dell XPS 13
Evil? No I don’t think so. I believe the correct word is idiotic.
It’s interesting how close together those percentages are. Python developers may well be split 50:50 or 60:40 on the issue of whether or not to use static typing.

For the language that’s famously supposed to have “one obvious way to do it”, that’s a significant difference of opinion on something so fundamental.
The Giant Mech Suit Made for Racing
A more recent post https://godotengine.org/article/godot-web-progress-report-6
Except that the transfer speed and drive temperature are linked together, we checked many times. If I do the same operation on 2 drives from 2 vendors and one works just fine and the other one shows 15 degrees C more on the same workload that almost fills and entire drive, what has SLC to do with this?
That proves too much. There’s nothing inherent in the paper that grants any rights and privileges. It’s the legal system that does that. A digital token is either meaningless (if the legal system doesn’t recognize it) or massive overkill (if the legal system treats it the same as a wet signature).
Any two things involving time that can't be done simultaneously are, to a degree, mutually exclusive.

You can't be running a code review and chasing a two year old around the house.
They would have to be deorbited or possibly boosted to a higher orbit as the energy cost to send them into the sun, IIRC, is way too high.
My company has done a bunch of those activities, but luckily for me they were webinars so I just muted the tab and keept doing my job without paying them any attention. I even managed to do it at in person events. Most of the people attending those events are trying to do the same, so they won't snitch on you.
Sure you can do this. But keep in mind that "wash trading" is illegal, and you still need to declare where the money comes from when you want to cash out.

Yeah, any asset that can artificially propped up. Cryptocurrencies doesn't make this harder nor easier, they simply make it possible to do without a central authority. We still have laws people need to follow in their countries, and up to government to act against people who break the law.

If anything, blockchains makes it easier for local governments to spot things like this, because the centralized exchanges need to corporate, and all the transactions are stored forever. So if you have a IT department with even a small amount of IT knowledge, it'll be easy to setup a system to spot things like this and tie the data to actual individuals via the exchanges.
I was going to comment the same. I really like them! They look as if displayed on an old CRT with color artifacts.