skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is about as easy to enforce on the blockchain as it is in meatspace...

All you have to do is "wrap" the NFT in a smart contract, then move the smart contract around. The NFT itself is not moving (its owner is the smart contract) so it won't trigger the fee.
Yeah, another example of the "great" EU "helping" the people...
I love that the embedded video immediately below the article is titled "WATCH: A beginner's guide to NFTs, the crypto potentially worth millions"
If I'm being candid, what bugs me about this kind of marketing is that I work for a Silicon Valley company which spends a lot of hot air on "doing what's right"—and I want it to be true.

So, for {altruistic, self-interested} reasons, I want to push back on the dilution of "doing good by doing well."

To directly answer your questions on Robinhood, though: I believe (with low confidence) that the big innovation is gamification. That's it. And I have trouble feeling like that's beneficial.

If Robinhood had gamified saving for retirement in a boring 3-fund portfolio with zero commission trades, I don't think we'd be having this conversation. But PFOF on once-a-month 401k inputs wouldn't be very good for their investors.
That's how I read the chart too. Though I don't know if those 4 represent all DSL providers.
I don't understand the anonymity argument.

Cash is already anonymous - the act of transferring cash from one person to the other is anonymous. While bills have serial numbers, it is impossible to see who owns all the bills at any moment in time. One can only trace specific bills if they've been marked and then found.

Bitcoin transactions are not only recorded, but linked to each other uniquely. It's a government's dream to be able to track all your payments everywhere. It's the opposite of anonymity. Even if you manage to buy bitcoins from someone anonymously, if you _ever_ make a transaction that identifies you (such as paying with Bitcoin at Starbucks where a security camera can run facial recognition) they can trace where your bitcoins came from and then look at all other transactions you've ever made.

That situation is not better than fiat. It's an objectively worse situation for preserving your anonymity.
Agreed; it's disappointing that the UK beat them to banning it.
Enforcement and source of truth are separate entities/problems.

The blockchain can be the source of truth, but that truth might not be enforced.

The difference between it, and a centrally controlled entity is the truth cannot be altered (at least in an easy way) on a blockchain.
I have a provider here in Switzerland that actually states on their website that 5g is the same as fiber. They offer 10gbits fiber. 10gbits maybe theoretically possible with 5g but fiber will never ever be the same as 5g when you have air/rain/snow/ etc in the line of sight.

I can't even pull 150mbit at full view of the 5g tower with best connection. That's less than 10% of the 2gbits they sold me and 1/5th of what the support told me I can expect.

Meanwhile my cable provider is providing me with 90% of what they sold me which I find acceptable.

I'm now running 15min automated speedtests and hopefully find someplace I can submit this data eventually.

I hate being lied too. If they told me I would get 150mbit I would have been happy.
I find myself both calmer and more productive with deep brown noise pumped into headphones. That used to mean pulling up simplynoise.com until they started monetizing it (and the legacy site died with Flash). Now I go to something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3sWyjDFC5Y

Apple has a great record for sound quality, but not so much for configurability. I'm guessing that I'd be a candidate for their "dark noise" setting, but worry somewhat about their frequency selections. I'd rather have an equalizer interface for the noise options.
My advice is either make as much money as possible, or find a job you enjoy even if you're poor.

Most of this feel good talk from companies (or schools) are either lies or promises they can't deliver on. Be skeptical.
Are you already working or can get a job at a large/growing company? Such companies have a need to fill very specific roles that are adjacent to engineering (for example: project/program manager, people/business manager, architect, writer, etc) and often make it easy for strong performers to make a lateral move. The advantage is the you can gain experience and refocus your career without having to start from scratch.
Ah, it hadn't occurred to me to use API Gateway in conjunction with containers; it's most well known for being used with Lambda, while ALB is used with containers (e.g. through the ALB ingress controller for Kubernetes). Are there limitations I should be aware of when using API Gateway with containers?
I'm no expert, but salary negotiations may be different. If the rough range you're expecting is $100k, and you start the negotiations at $200k, they might actually take it as "this person has completely unrealistic opinions of themselves" and/or "this person is going to walk out on us the moment they get a better offer, so there's no point hiring them."
Types of Brand Strategy: Find Your Business's Perfect Fit
That's something Apple is doing already with their bluetooth W1 chip. Unfortunately only among their devices.

I wish this feature would be adopted by many other manufacturers. And that generally, the bluetooth pairing was faster.
It's too bad they couldn't export the nick db from Freenode and do some kind of auth to allow people to keep their identities.
The tulip comparison strikes me as being rather specious. For starters, tulip bulbs of the same variety were absolutely fungible.

It's more like trading cards. If you own some rare rookie card, you don't actually own that baseball player, just a sort of paper token that references the baseball player. But, since people see value in the reference itself, the value of the token ends up deriving from both the player's celebrity and the rarity of the baseball card.

NFTs riff on this concept by being digital, and having it be common for there to be limited runs of only 1.
I checked off the majority of the points the author mentioned but I never felt bad or alienated for it. Money can buy you things, most of them are a dumb waste. Why should I feel bad? They’re the idiots blowing their paychecks on trendy useless things.

I’m also an immigrant and have never seen such salaries in my life outside of executives so I’m just riding the gravy train. Again, I feel extremely lucky and great to be a part of it. Not beating myself up over having a bigger delta from my childhood than some of my coworkers. Isn’t that the American dream? I would also add that getting McDonalds was the summit of culinary experiences a few times a year when I was growing up. I’m sure people here would find that funny but I’m proud of my life and my background.

I do use an Uber for social calls as it buys me easily 2 hours of my life back as public transport kinda sucks
While not a certification i think some speed testing apps do show by network.
Looks like the relevant previous threads are:

Freenode resignation is official, not a draft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27205926 - May 2021 (10 comments)

The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: “what the fuck is going on?” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27169301 - May 2021 (8 comments)

I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153338 - May 2021 (262 comments)

Edit: oh - there's also this currently on the front page:

Welcome to Libera Chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207734 - May 2021 (254 comments)
Is this going to be a true client side RSS that talks to all 5k of websites I follow or a service provided by Google that polls for new content?
I would be fasinated to see what telemetry/buisness objective has them moving back in this direction.
Not to point out the obvious but by your own admission you're only getting 90% upload.
This comment violates one of the tenets of HN which keeps it a good place for discussion.

>Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

What does your comment add?
> have no idea how expensive it is to maintain cable lines to every house in US, yet they expect GbPS for 39.99. 39.99 doesn't even cover truck costs for 5 years when somebody drives over or cuts fiber line on the street or digs to plant a tree, forget about any profit or return for the company.

I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. Surely you understand that it's 39.99 a /month/ and a cut cable normally affects more than 1 household (so it's 39.99 times households affected). Also, it seems like you are conveniently leaving out the billions that the US government have given to ISPs to improve/build their networks. Bad/failing ISPs have no one to blame but themselves. I don't hate all ISPs but I do hate the ones that are scummy (which the big players all are). I gladly pay ~$100/mo to MetroNet for gigabit, they are about as no-nonsense as you can get in my book.
It would be nice if Firefox played nicely with cgroup memory limits. Right now, Firefox will freeze, crash or freeze while swapping heavily when it starts allocating near or at the limit. Same thing with Firejail.
> Does it make the argument weaker if they miss a couple? Maybe a little but it's still strong.

What if they miss almost every single one? That's how it reads to me, for almost every job I've had. That's why people are reacting like they are to the article.
Hetzner has banned crypto mining and Chia farming
> To do so I think they'd need to reach down into the protocol layer and add another message, which again, it'd likely be compatible with all the competent SSH implementations on your preferred Free Software platform, but undoubtedly break the expensive half-arsed solution somebody spent $5000 on.

The message wouldn't show up unless the server offers this new key type, would it?

> Also, if you do build that you run into another problem, even in a shiny Free Software environment, where do these IDs the server is now responsible for live? Is the SSH server now writing to files in the home directories of users it is authenticating? That sounds like a recipe for exciting new security bugs, not what we wanted.

It's not the job of the SSH server to write to authorized_keys, so it's not the job of the SSH server to write these blobs either.
It should be entirely possible to have a block chain system where every record is basically a multisig address where the source of truth holds enough keys to override. What would the point of that be vs a central database? Well they don't have to be different. A blockchain doesn't need to be decentralized. However, it does provide a very clear and secure record of who did what. It would certainly make sense to have a very redundant set of copies of that blockchain, perhaps with the pubic being given the option to participate. But a blockchain construction could simply make it very secure and clear what records have been changed and by who.

This way, in the Mona Lisa case, a court system would decide to take possession back, and they would pull out their government keys out to record that. There are lots of constructions that could be useful there.
Everything I've seen around here has been from the seller's perspective.

Has anyone here bought a tiny startup/project like that?

If not, is there some demographic not represented on HN who is buying these?
But that's not about representing physical objects on a blockchain, which is what the article (and at least in my mind the discussion) is about.

Keeping digital objects (like bitcoin) on a digital system is of course easier than keeping physical objects on a digital system but it also brings a whole load of it's own complexity.

I also keep getting back to what does the blockchain actually give you here? Even in this example you need someone or something to have privileged access to the chain to handle things like bankruptcy, inheritance, seizure and so on. Your pitch is for applying programmable logic to money. That'd be great, but also extremely complex and I just don't get why the blockchain is needed.
“I hope with this research we will come to the conclusion that unites us in our common objective, which is to demonstrate that Columbus was a Spanish nobleman and not a Genoese sailor,” said Alfonso Sanz, an amateur history researcher and author, who said Columbus was born in Espinosa de Henares in central Spain.
This is why BLM and the like generally ignore "reform the police" types entirely. Reform always ends up toothless for those exact reasons, so the only solution is to reduce their power in other ways (namely reduction of funds and repealing of criminal laws).
Yeah, this is the biggest issue I see. I am guessing at least a few will lose their well-known-ids to someone else.
In my experience the "a/s/l" question has only ever come from people who wanted to have text sex with you, and outside of those sort of chatrooms was only ever said as an awkward joke.
NFTs for MTG would make a lot of sense. Right now it's kinda like that, but there's a market on MTG servers.
I'm broadly anti-blockchain and anti-cryptocurrency since I grew disillusioned by the scene early on, but even I think blockchain has solved some problems, I just don't think those problems are worth the cost or that those problems are of people that should have them, like criminals.

For example, blockchain is allowing many Russians to move capital out of the country while the state locks down foreign currency transactions. That's a real problem that's getting solved, and I'm sure in some cases it's good people trying their best to survive. On the other hand, it also allows individuals or organizations to avoid sanctions or paying taxes. The cost isn't worth it. I'd rather not have the crime, schemes, and pollution that so often come with crypto. Plus all the countless stories of good people losing all their money because they forgot their password to their cryptowallet.
Do you really think the entire country runs on an old copy of Microsoft Access? Databases are routinely replicated and in this case there’s a natural partitioning scheme: your transaction is recorded by your local clerk and replicated to state mirrors. Since updates only happen in one place, each node only needs write capacity to handle local traffic – a huge advantage over a blockchain – and read replicas are trivial.

Put another way, the banking system handles orders of magnitude more traffic with far fewer resources than a blockchain. There’s no reason to think people are suddenly going to start making real estate transactions at a significantly greater volume than credit card transactions.
Considered sufficient by who? I sure don't, and this is not a site rule either.
Spectrum offers a "Gigabit" package, but it's asymmetric 940/35. Full Duplex DOCSIS via DOCSIS 4.0 is coming (https://stopthecap.com/2019/06/25/cables-docsis-4-0-symmetri...), and it looks like Comcast is demo'ing it in a lab (https://www.lightreading.com/cable-tech/10g/comcast-full-dup...), but who knows how much longer it'll take to get it fully up to speed.
Yes. That currency/store of value is Bitcoin.

No cyanides, no blown up mountains, and can be powered by clean energy.

Everyone thinks it will boil the oceans, for some reason. If renewables cannot provide power - then we have to either improve renewables, or accept that nuclear is the answer and move on.
I must be lucky, I'm currently getting ~100Mpbs higher than the advertised speeds for Fios.
This replaces a multi-step manual process that we've been doing in our team. Well done!
Has Windows ever broken Firefox? Do you think it's more or less likely to happen in Windows (or Mac) or Linux?
Yes, the difficulty of traveling "overseas" is closely correlated with the size of the seas over which one must travel.
> yet they expect GbPS for 39.99

Have you ever paid for internet in the US? GbPS is more like $80+ first of all (especially with fees), second both federal and state governments have given Frontier alone nearly $2 BILLION dollars to get their network up to snuff.

https://ilsr.org/fact-sheet-frontier-communications-has-fail...
Looks like the relevant previous threads are:

Leaving Freenode for a new network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27207440 - May 2021 (253 comments)

Freenode resignation is official, not a draft - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27205926 - May 2021 (10 comments)

The Freenode resignation FAQ, or: “what the fuck is going on?” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27169301 - May 2021 (8 comments)

I am resigning along with most other Freenode staff - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153338 - May 2021 (262 comments)
If you spend five minutes thinking about the problem at hand, you will yourself realize why things have to be the way they are.

Anyway, you can take heart in the fact that if your goal is just to learn programming, a computer science department at an IIT is probably the last place you want to be. I'm only half joking. The curriculum is tilted heavily towards theory, reflecting the attitudes of the professors who obviously come from an academic background (most of them have probably never programmed professionally).

There was only one course where anyone is actually going to even try to teach you programming, but that is actually a pretty basic programming course in the first semester. Everything else you are supposed to learn on your own, through "assimilation". There are several courses in your third year that require significant programming skills, so if you haven't learnt those skills on your own outside the classroom by that time, you're kind of fucked.
this is not really true. how exactly could a GH employee rewrite history on the central branch without being detected?
It's a "subset of general graphs - the restriction is that a node may have only one incoming and one outgoing edge with a given edge label. So structures are organized as lists/strings of nodes, which makes it easier to visualize than general graphs"

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/233#comment-1706
> It's also worth noting that the CNSA is not a civilian agency like NASA or the ESA

Given how many classified Shuttle missions[1] took place over the decades it was in service, and how the Hubble Space Telescope was likely a clone of a spy satellite, I don't think it's fair to say that NASA is entirely a civilian agency.

[1] https://www.space.com/34522-secret-shuttle-missions.html
If I were Mozilla I would strongly consider bundling more dependencies.
TripleBytes' placement rate was 40% in 2018 [https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/28/triplebyte-has-raised-more...]

I'm not sure how to reconcile a recruiting company well-known for doing rigorous technical screening having a 40% placement rate, most candidates being a clear yes or a clear no, the hiring process being completely fine, and the hiring process not producing many false negatives.
Here's a technical review of the (engineering, not science) imaging system for Perseverance, published in November 2000 before a touchdown in February 2021:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11214-020-00765-9

Here's the process for how the landing site was selected:

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/science/for-scientist...

I think this is more open than the Zhurong information has been, but I'd be happy to learn more.
Speaking of IRC, what about EFNET and Dalnet?
A withdrawal limit has nothing to do with being able to exit a trade from BTC to dollars.
Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm
Blacklists will be incredibly contentious and will likely never get merged. Even if they do - a fork is guaranteed to happen.
PyTorchVideo: A deep learning library for video understanding
Mina is the first cryptocurrency protocol with a succinct blockchain
I'm in the same boat as you (9 years in). I hate my job.

I am basically just trying to suck it up until I can "retire" in 19 years, or get fired. Moving to a different role in the same company can help temporarily.
Freenode didn't fall. They just had to change to a new name.

It's a better name anyway.

People that are not able to adjust to a new name, you should feel sorry for them.

Dang should pin an announcement about the new domain for a few weeks. Or all the subreddits and other forums the maintainers use can do something like that. The word will get out.
How would you validate that the transactions related to the house on the blockchain is correct? What do you do if you inherit the house from someone who neglected to leave you the private key? You can come up with solutions to all the problems and you’ll have reinvented the entire existing process, which is inefficient and costly for a reason.
Your story is probably the more common one by far. Most employers and managers (especially for starter/entry-level jobs) are incredibly insecure, and any sign of intellect or creativity scares them. I've learned the hard way to never ruffle feathers by trying to think or solve problems at full power on a job. Just do what's expected and move on.
Only to law enforcement or government intelligence agencies IMO
> more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of covid-19

Maybe this is because anti-covid measures were more efficient than anti-overdosing ones? Regarding the obvious question "Should San-Francisco pay more attention to overdosing" - I don't know, looks like much more people are at risk of dying because of covid than because of overdosing.
That's an interesting example because I don't think we'd edit the title that way now. We try to replace corporate-press-release tropes with more direct language; but of course only if we can be sure that it's true. If people in the thread were complaining about the word "purchased", that explains why we'd have changed your title. But I cringe a little to see that we put press release language like "joining forces" back in there.

Corporate press releases are sort of a special case: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... I sometimes say they're an exception to HN's title rule, but that's not really true. The rule is "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait", and the euphemistic, one-sided language of CPRs tends to be misleading (and sometimes is intentionally so).
Isn't that what copyright is about?
> From there, you can imagine increasingly complex structures built entirely in the blockchain.

> It also cuts out an enormous amount of the legal, settlement

Ah, yes. Because increasingly complex structures written in obscure esoteric languages are immediately absolved of all problems, are automatically correct, require no enforcement or verification.
I didn't say they couldn't be. You're doing the thing where you assume that a implies b means that b implies a.

"If you did not pass as a cit het white man you would likely be harassed for it on the early internet."

is not the same thing as

"If you were harassed on the early internet then you must not have passed as a cis het white man."

During a safety meeting at a lumber yard you wouldn't respond to "workers who use the malfunctioning machine in building A have been getting injured" by saying, "well I didn't use that machine and I also got injured."
There's a difference between making royalties for distribution of copies of an item and making royalties for transferring a single item from one person to another. One makes sense, the other is a weird misleading way to rent to people.
There’s a startup [1] that I don’t think has shipped yet, but they have a great idea about using nerve conductance sensors to use hand gestures to control the watch. Looks pretty exciting

[1] https://www.mudra-band.com/
Both can be true:

1) The original BTC paper was a huge breakthrough in decentralized systems.

2) Most "blockchain" projects today are merely elaborate Ponzis.
So instead of wasting energy we waste resources building HDDs. And the market will be flooded with worn out HDDs. And instead of GPU prices it's HDD prices. Little gained.
How do you enforce ownership without the state? If I take your house from you, what incentive do I have to care what the blockchain says?