skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hype around NFTs currently is just that: hype _BUT_ that doesn't mean that there is no value in an NFT. Remember, NFTs are non-fungible digital signatures and there is value in something being provable and forcibly unique. The easiest non-hype example I can think of right now is identity. If you literally own your identity then you're in control.

Anyway, the problem here is that apparently, via this hack, the ERC721 standard (which is implemented via a contract) is not as secure as we thought. That's fine, it can be improved, and I hope it will.

Art NFTs being hyped to the point where people invest tens of thousands or millions in something they don't know about is a layer on-top of this which is regrettable. I'd like to see someone present an example of the first implementation of a standard being secure for all time though.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/.amp/culture/u-s-imposes-sanctio...

https://cointelegraph.com/news/over-10-000-blacklisted-btc-f...

Tonnes of examples. I’ve been unable to sell coins on coinbase and polo that I got from Bisq
ORMs can be a pain. Setting up SQL schemas and managing migrations is also slow and tedious. Prisma won me over when my friend integrated it while we were working on SpaceTraders.io - things have mostly been going well. Main issue was not getting the transaction support needed for read / compute / write locks. Solved our needs for today with Redis, but we came very close to regretting the Prisma choice. Other than that the DX is amazing and the tooling is great. I think there is a lot of promise and I'm excited as they develop more advanced DB escape hatches.
Speaking of self-awareness, we need some as the community—specifically, enough self-awareness to avoid endless reflexive repetition in response to the same provocative stimulus over how many—has it been 20 now?—years. The internet obsession with Wolfram is just a mirror image of the Wolfram-obsession it's complaining about.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26895428.
Holders of gold seek no innovation in the material science of gold.

Would like to hear more of your theory, in my view Bitcoin is a fossil whose community is intent on keeping it a fossil. All energy towards improving the network are focused on Layer 2. Transactions per second will not be increased, max supply will not be increased... the various forks of bitcoin speak to this. Why do you believe Bitcoin can keep an edge?
"The biggest problem I found with promotions is that people wanted one because they thought they were doing their current job well. That isn't promotion, that's calibration, and doing well in calibration certainly opens up good raise / bonus options. Promotion is something different -- it's interviewing for a brand new job, by proving you're already doing that job. Whether or not that's fair is debatable, but the model does make a lot of sense to me."

Thanks for articulating this distinction so clearly; it's a simple enough idea, but it seems to elude so many.
I think you should actually read the unanimous opinion by the Maryland Court of Appeals before sleazifying the work of the innocence project so vilely:

https://law.justia.com/cases/maryland/court-of-appeals/2020/...

In its analysis of the palmprint evidence, the circuit
court lost sight of the forest for the trees. The
points of overriding importance are:

(1) Ty Brooks burglarized Ms. Wilford’s house in
break-in that was never reported by Ms. Wilford;

(2) Thomas’s confession that he committed the
burglary and murder is corroborated
by his statement putting Ty Brooks in the
house and identifying the murder weapon as
a butcher knife long before those facts were
publicly known; and (3) ...

To break it down for you, they already had a confession in evidence!
> But if you have a legitimate house, credit card, phone, facebook account, etc. then you have

... committed identity theft, punishable by 20 years in the can.
The explanation I have seen works best for a non-technical audience is – Bitcoin is digital gold, and there is a global ledger which automatically tracks who owns how much of it.

There is a finite amount of it out there, and it has to be "mined".

There is nothing that makes it different from any other "coin" or really any other combination of bits (just like gold isn't unique among all the elements in any way), but it is simply what most people decided would be the one.

No country or central government decides how much Bitcoin is worth. It is all up to people trading on many individual exchanges. Or you can buy/sell it directly without using an exchange, all same as gold.

Is Bitcoin (or will Bitcoin ever be) a currency? This one is complicated, and goes into subjective discussions about what currency even means.
here's our explainer video too: http://bit.ly/namii-explainer
Ahh I actually love those conversations, when they express the knowledge in a way that actually helps build your own understanding about the product and use it better.

Dear HN reader, if you ever did that to really help a costumer, you are a truly MVP :P
> The hypothetical LibreOffice fork, with their private modifications on their own private computer, is entirely within the bounds of reason to keep those modifications private and generate revenue with it, if people want to pay them for the services they provide with it.

I think you're getting caught up in the "on their own private computer" part. There is a clear distinction between using a piece of software and providing a service by which other users make use of the software by proxy. In the first case, you are not acting as a proxy for other users to run the software.

> It's no different than me using LibreOffice to produce private documents, which I then use to generate revenue for my business. My customers have no right to access my private documents that I use to provide that service:

It is incredibly different, so much so that I'm not sure you've understood my hypothetical.

> source code is no different.

If you were using it purely for yourself, yes. But in the hypothetical the business is providing the ability for other users to use the software by proxy. They aren't using the software themselves and then

As a final point, consider that these days a regular user might not know whether the software they run is actually locally running on their computer or is a SaaS application where the code happens to reside on a different machine. How they use the software is no different in either case -- so why should they have different concepts of what freedoms they have? For an ordinary user there is no practical distinction between software they use on their computer versus software which is provided over the internet -- hence why I said that the only real difference is that the "display protocol" for the application is HTTP not X.
A Clubhouse bug let people lurk in rooms invisibly
Just in time, was looking at getting this and the BSD version too. As far as I can see Absolute BSD (the equivalent to this Linux version) is from 2013 though.
> their value is in your head, or at the tip of the gun, or because you can pay taxes in it or get sent to jail.

These all seem very real. And not something that will disappear (or even drop) if media attention or nerd interest moves elsewhere.
How is this so? I thought RISC-V was fixed length, except for 16 bit compressed instructions. And afaik those aren't identified by a singular particular bit.
The Indian Government had one job. Prepare for this crisis. They had one year to prepare for it. They did nothing apart from grandstanding,claiming credit for vaccines, and suggesting home remedies and cow urine (not joking) while telling each other that Indians are immune to this virus. These naratives played out across whatsapp groups and yoga guru channels. The health minister even endorsed some of these remedies on TV.

The Prime Minister appears on TV on a regular basis to take credit for all things from all time and sermonise. Rarely has he been insightful or organized. The cabinet of ministers they have also seem to have failed to knock some sense into the Prime Minister and his egotistical proclamations that have put India on to this path.

The death toll is likely to be vast and India should expect generational impact. A resolution will take time, a lot of pain, and lots of external help. In the meanwhile, Indian officials will fudge numbers while the truth is out there for everyone to see in the fires that burn all across India and possibly visbile from space. It's unfortunate that a lack of education leads to populations electing incapable leadership leading to horrendous after effects like these.
A real aside and sorry for it, but it'd be great if we had a way to execute spreadsheet computation in a generalized manner/without opening a GUI. XLSX isn't (immediately) text based but I feel there should be a way to extract XLSX into a neat package that can be executed on different runtime implementations.
I'm pretty sure we just haven't seen the war that would stop it.

A few cut undersea cables and a dose of kessler syndrome would make all those burned cpu cycles for naught.
But you need to be logged into the cloud to start the support request. If they disable your account you can‘t start the process.
If you want to work anywhere as a nurse, the first things they will ask you are:

- To fill USCIS Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.

- To provide a valid nursing license.

USCIS Form I-9 is also required by most jobs. So the remaining jobs that are targeted by undocumented people are informal jobs in agriculture, construction, landscaping, food processing, etc.

From the international news I've seen from El Salvador, it is my impression that Mara Salvatrucha/MS-13 gang members are easy to identify since they use MS-13 tatoos.
I don't use bitcoin but one attraction I see is that it lets you spend your money without anyone else's permission. If you buy something with it, the seller gets the money without your having to worry about automated fraud checks causing your credit card to be declined, check to be put on hold, etc. It's like cash that way. Wire transfers might be an alternative, but they are only practical for fairly large transactions and involve a lot of bureaucracy.

Of course bitcoin (like cash) limits your recourse against the seller, so you have to take that into account. Sometimes though, that is to your advantage when the risk is low enough (small transaction, trusted seller) that the hassle avoidance outweighs the risk.
So I am someone who has done a masters in CS but it was completely coursework and project-based. I have regretted not doing any "research" or having any papers published. I guess, I just want to experience the whole process of diving deep into a topic and coming up with something new. Now, I'm about 3 years into my career as software engineer working on data infrastructure for a data science org in a large non-tech company. Could I potentially volunteer my coding skills to a professor who has a lab in some field I am interested in and join in their work in my personal time. I never thought that is possible. I'd actually like that. Can someone who has any experience or seen something like this comment?
It was probably in a cool-off period. HN has a bunch of anti-flamewar features that temporarily discourage voting under specific circumstances.
> No country or central government decides how much gold is worth

This is true today. It was not true in the US 50 years ago. It does not need to be true tomorrow.

The government can put ceilings and floors in the price of all things just as easily as Turkey banned crypto.
it's not like currencies haven't died before due to international boycott. And even internally there is a breaking point at which a sovereign that loses the confidence of its people is helpless.
Bragging in front of 386 users
No, nothing beats PoW as a consensus protocol when it comes to security and privacy so far, unfortunately.

Pretty recent rundown of privacy coins posted on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/md3toy/2021...
Exactly, cryptocurrency is a powerful human coordination tool that allows us to build networks that contain real monetary value on top of legacy infrastructure. I'm not surprised to see this on the front page, hacker news has taken misrepresenting Bitcoin to a professional level.
Ungated version: https://thetechtack.com/a-clubhouse-bug-let-people-lurk-in-r...
They shouldn't HAVE to, but an upscale college woman should be able to take a few jobs on the side if she wants in lieu of a full-time job.

Maybe someone is a sex-therapist who's wanting to experiment with actual sex in the context of doctor/patient/couples therapy well, they're getting paid so is that prostitution if she shows the wife different techniques or something?

Should the hypothetical homeless woman who's already suffering -- be put in jail -- giving her a felony so she's now even LESS employable?

Just locking up our "problems" doesn't fix anything. It didn't fix anything with drugs it won't with sex. It just creates black markets which are tax-free and have no legislation.

If you at least legalize it, require a business license, sales tax, and STD tests you kill some major problems in society like STD spread, you give the sex-worker more confidence to maybe move to a different career because now she's "legit" and not a "criminal".... etc...
I have a deep love/hate relationship with react so I largely agree with you.

The last time I used the extension, it was obnoxious to use to try to find "state" within the page. Using redux makes things easier to debug from this perspective but you do need yet another extension for that too...

I really think this is a sign of young engineers who have no experience with older approaches just memorizing "how things are done". They have no perspective on the tooling or experience.
It's probably the single most blatant gaming-related fundraiser scam I've personally come across... but they got YC backing.

It'll take quite a bit to beat Star Citizen.

I don't understand the YC backing either though.
It is possible to set the background without entering a key, and there are a couple other things that are possible too, but it is far from easy.
(N=1) I have a single-disk laptop running opensuse (tumbleweed) on btrfs. It's the only machine I've ever owned to corrupt its root filesystem beyond repair, and it's done so twice IIRC (definitely 2, maybe 3), within the last few years. It's not just the initial issues.
As a Uk person who has driven on them, I had to look it up as well at the time. I was shocked to find how they weren’t smart. I honestly thought the smart part was safety and breakdown detection as the hard shoulder was used for traffic. I was wrong and shocked.
That's a potential use, one of many, but it is not a current widespread use of crypto. Why? Probably because Paypal (despite its many, many faults) works just fine for most people.
> AirBnb probably also looked ridiculous at the time; it's only in hindsight where you have the clarity.

There is a difference between assumptions of the market, and assumptions of the amount of work a team can accomplish.

The latter is easier to estimate since you have a lot of data points of what teams can do in an amount of time.
If you own 2 BTC, there aren't specific Bitcoins that are marked for you.

If you mine 2 BTC, you posses the private keys to two very specific BTC (unspent outputs) on the blockchain. No one else may spend them without the private keys.

If you own 2 BTC in an exchange then it is true that you are unlikely to own any specific 2 BTC but that's an entirely different subject. At that point you don't really own them.
Has f2fs reliability changed much since this publication?

https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/jaffer

I'd be afraid to use it for anything other than throwaway test data.
> Collectibles have cultural, artistic, or other value on their own

Interest or novelty, perhaps, but not value. There's a big difference between a baseball used in a game and a baseball card. NFTs show this distinction a bit better because, like baseball cards, they're only loosely associated with the person or thing that's actually culturally interesting.

> Bitcoin is very fungible.

As others have said, there's a record of your bitcoin's life, but there are also a fixed number of bitcoins.
>terms and conditions

I'm sure all sorts of sites have magic words that claim I cannot block their ads. Meanwhile, some of them may have ad blocker detectors even if they don't have magic words. Either way, it's on them to show me or not show me whatever content they want, and on me to block ads or not and view their content or not.
I do really hate this pattern done by AWS, and their docs seems more made to hide information than actually make easier.

I've learned much more with 5 minutes posts (which I truly dislike) in other sites than going to AWS docs.

Comparing to Digital Ocean docs and Q&A which is so much easier

Edit reason: Added DO as example of simplicity and really helpful price model.
It's not eye opening at all. The evidence that exonerated Smith was a confession from another individual accompanied by physical evidence of that individual at the scene of the crime. Much more compelling than Smith's "uh huh." The comment you're replying to is being deceitful.
You don't even need the const literals.

type Color = "red" | "blue" | "green";
Indeed! Incredible specs.

> For improved performance, I maxed out the RAM at 128MB and swapped the socketed Intel 486DX-33 by an AMD enhanced 486DX4-SV8B (write-back cache and SMM) in a voltage adapter socket.
I am on GCP, the greatest fear is not they increasing prices or disabling a product it‘s getting flagged and not being able to do anything. The support has been helpfull, that‘s true.

I guess having this fear is mostly people on hn reading these stories so often and how it is resolved: knowing someone at google. I don‘t know anyone and i should not have to.
There should be some contact for disabled accounts you can reach. I am all the time looking at aws which does not have this problem but gcp is so much easier to use.
Compare with actual company building an engine that can power a huge scale MMO - for over 8 years, stuffed with FAANG alumns and Cambridge graduates, and probably valued over a billion dollars:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improbable_(company)
Hyperscript is great. Just like the real revolutionary htmx.
It depends where you put a limit on genre. Minecraft for example covers a surprising number of genres using just the basic mechanics + user mods for goals/limitations. Same with Roblox. If you can modify the world, you get them "for free".
That looks like a huge point of failure that undermines the whole NFT economy.
I mean, technically he did leave Google, Apple, and Facebook.
The local routing number tied to your parents phone number changed when you ported it to Comcast, thus spammers started calling your parent's known good number.
gotcha, that makes sense. You might be able to get a cheap chromebook with a big enough screen that folds into a tablet form. One thing to be careful with on these is the brightness of the screens if you want to use it outside.
RBE was discontinued during alpha. They tried a thing, it didn't work out for some reason, so they decided not to bring it to market. This hardly fits the bill of the typical Google deprecation.
> The funny thing is that Bitcoin will basically only have value as a collectible as long as substantial numbers of people believe this essay’s argument is false.

Is this the "greater fool" argument against Bitcoin?
> I installed Windows NT 3.1 on a Compaq ProSignia 3080

When you see a listing for a used 3080 on eBay, make sure you read the fine print before deciding that it is a great deal.
Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images
What does 21 years of missed opportunity cost?
The other way to interpret this would be "it was the only filesystem to detect corruption on my malfunctioning hardware", because that's what usually happens in the last few years.

Or have you been using ZFS on the same hardware?
You're conflating the value of blockchains with the value of bitcoin. A bet on bitcoin is a bet that more people will want bitcoins, so the price goes up. This trades a lot like baseball cards that random drug dealers also accept. A bet on blockchain tech is that someone finds a use case for it that isn't a solution in search of a problem.
> Would have save 90% of that person's time it it's on a sperate branch and we only need to focus on security patches. (NO, there is no such concept of branching in Google's dev system).

I wonder if this is why you have so many different programming languages being used under the hood at Google? Essentially people using a programming language as a branch. If you're working on a completely different language in theory you could shelter your team's product?
That feels like a rationalization of an emotional argument.

Gold's current value is not related to its function as a material for jewelry, but from a myth that it is a store of value. If people would stop believing the myth, the cost of gold would plummet and stabilize around the value it provides as a material for jewelry.

Similarly, "art is lovely" is a really stretched argument. If you want, you could print your transaction block hash and consider it pretty as a math-art concept.

So yes, bitcoin needs people to believe in its value to remain valuable, much like everything else that is not a raw utility - nations, religions, money, corporations, gold, baseball cards, and so on.

Heck, even Ferraris would become much cheaper if people only valued them for their function. They cost a lot primarily because we value them highly due to myths and scarcity.
I'd like to make a book recommendation. The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina. When I read this 12 months ago, I felt it was one of the most powerful accounts of the pillages still occurring in the world's oceans, as well as the horrific conditions many fishermen are forced to live in. I won't link to Amazon, but here is a review of the book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/02/the-outlaw-oce...

There's an associated website: https://www.theoutlawocean.com/
> I’m curious how European economies justify the high cost of starting a business?

Short answer: they don't.

Longer answer: countries in Europe don't want some guy opening a business out of his garage. They want somebody with fat stacks of cash who will be able to afford to pay high fees and taxes right from the start and then pay some more when/if his business actually makes revenue/profit.

Things are slowly changing, especially in the smaller economies, but change is slow.
Seems like you could do some cool stuff today if you applied this technique using a 3D printer.
It keeps getting repeated that the original AirBnB idea was "crazy and outlandish" at the time, but it was only with hindsight that we see how it could be successful.

My argument is that that is false, because at the time there were already numerous examples of successful lodging sharing platforms, just none of which had the special combination of features (e.g. social reviews, ease of payment) that AirBnB had.

As another analogy, when Facebook launched there were already many previous social networks (MySpace, Friendster), but FB was the first with a unique combination of features (uncluttered design, real name policy, eventually the feed, etc.) that made them the primary social media winner. But nobody repeats the false myth "Oh wow, social media was such a crazy and outlandish idea before Facebook came along".
And some of the people being brutally punished by ICE and CBP do not even know what a country border is, because they don't know what a country is, because they're not even 1 year old.

Feel free to jump to pages 7, 8 and 9 of this report.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/GO/GO00/20190712/109772/HHRG...
It’s not hard to find his LinkedIn etc. He legitimately did work at (or at least “for”) those companies but seems to be hyping it up a lot more than is probably warranted.