skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I'm aware, the NFT doesn't itself convey any transfer of copyrights (or any other form of IP). That has to be done by a separate document (and therefore it's that document that transfers the rights, not the NFT). So I don't see how the NFT is doing anything to help enforce existing IP laws?
The customer should be able to decide.

I’ve built solutions for customers who would prefer an unplanned outage over an unplanned $250k expenditure. Many customers think that I’m a dinosaur for saying it, but if there’s a 2-5 year expected lifetime for something, it’s almost always more cost efficient to use traditional colo or VPS.

Also, operationally it’s possible to have something more than all or nothing. Big companies usually have “Tier-0” services that must be up all costs. AWS is no stranger to complexity - this type of function doesn’t exist because it would cost them money. They probably make 9-figure money from obviously idle services.
I'm no lawyer, but I would read that quote as only prohibiting the participation in proceedings when you have a financial interest in the subject matter, but not the other way around: using the knowledge you gained from participating in proceedings to create financial gain afterwards.
Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: detectives untangling the global supply chain
I get hundreds of different discussion list mails I have not signed up to.
> At best, you replace trusting your ISP with trusting a different group of unknown people with similar motivations.

I'm not sure what country you live in, but in the US, all the big ISPs might as well be run by the government, at least when talking about privacy. Private VPN companies are far more trustworthy, all else being equal.
Go Generics 2x faster than stdlib for sorting
You are an incredible webmaster!
Measuring energy use per transactions makes no sense, as mining energy consumption is not related to the number of transactions processed.

Also a huge portion of the energy used by bitcoin would otherwise be wasted.

Also your figures are egregiously off and taken from flawed estimates

https://nydig.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/NYDIG-Bitcoin-N...
Not convinced of this. (Your handle doesn’t make it a more convincing claim.)

I’m not saying I’m totally convinced that PoS can be really secure, but I am reasonably confident that some developing such systems sincerely believe it can be, and have no deceptive intent. This in my mind seems to contradict it being “a scam”, which to my mind requires deception.

In fact, I do suspect that it can be secure, for some reasonable sense of “secure”, though I am not especially confident in this.
Cryptocurrency was originally designed to be currency, not a transactional mechanism only.

If you think it through, it can't work as only a transactional mechanism, because the price won't be stable. It has to first become a big asset class with a lot of liquidity, which means it has to go through a growth phase, i.e. speculation.
I disagree. Disagreements with Kaepernick were largely that his actions were socially unaccaptable and uneffective. But it was his choice and he didn't need anyone to enable him to do that. (I think Kaepernick was effective personally).

If you think the EFF is not an effective organization, it might be worthwhile explaining your opinion so as the influence charitable donations that could be spent differently. I think the EFF misses the mark pretty frequently, personally. But they're net positive.
Most of the paperwork for offers etc are standard forms that are used in the state. You can put in an offer and get a mortgage on your own. There is some overhead of learning it, but it's not difficult. If you do run into anything tricky (covenants, etc), most agents just tell you to talk to a real estate lawyer anyways. You should be able to save the 3% that a buyer agent typically charges.
> But an iPhone fits in your pocket.

this is the reason I loved the Ricoh GR series of cameras, an APS-C sensor that genuinely fits in almost any pocket is incredible, it's not for everyone but I wish there were more companies trying this, even the X100 cameras are too big for that
I remember reading from the Epic vs Apple debacle that Apple decided to not open iMessage for Android phones since 2013:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-an...
If you hand a professional guitarist a ukulele, they will probably laugh at you.

From personal experience, if you hand a professional guitarist a ukulele, he will play the shit out of it and make it sound better than you've ever heard a ukulele sound.
I still have this problem, but I don't know who can help me. Google does not give clear answers to this
I can't say much about the use of macros, however there are some SM83-specific patterns you can take advantage of if you decode instructions using octals like what I do in my own gameboy emulator here [1]

[1] https://git.musuka.dev/paoda/gb/src/branch/main/src/instruct...
These are not really corner cases but whatever man, you believe what you want.
As far as I can tell, there's nothing to "get":
https://www.fortressofdoors.com/the-degraded-blockchain-prob...
> 1) Believe prices constantly rising is good for poor people.

I mean, inflation actually does benefit poor people, when wages and prices rise at the same rate. Devaluing savings accounts isn't a big deal if you don't have any savings in the first place. Inflation also makes debt less valuable over time, making it gradually easier to pay off.

The real problem is that (in the US) wages have been stagnant for decades. That's not an issue that cryptocurrency is going to solve.
He's shooting in raw, if you do that you _have_ to post process because otherwise it'll look flat and listless because raw is capturing as much information as possible so that you can choose later how you want it to look.
Of course, there would be plenty of positive impact in the mid to long term. More capacity for semiconductor production available would help with semiconductor shortages, ransomware would become pretty much unprofitable, and of course a huge drop in environmental destruction.
Well, you can put it into an extension method like this:

T SyncResult<T>(this Task<T> task){
return task.ConfigureAwait(false).Result;
}

Same for ValueTask. It may already be implemented in the base .NET library as well.
Ohhh I remember this too, I hated how it consistently dropped connections. A community member fixed this for us (here https://github.com/cloudflare/wrangler/pull/2008) so that it transparently and automatically reconnects now and the experience has gotten so much better.

And of course, miniflare reduces even the chance of that to zero :)
That is an interesting theory. Along similar lines, with people debating whether policing has anything to do with it, I thought "mafia thinks it can get its hits in now." Seems outlandish, though.

My best guess is that people cooped up and afraid are more likely to kill. I wonder how it went in other countries. I also wonder whether the distribution of methods of murder (gun, etc.) was much different from 2019 (probably not).
I kind of regret not joining stackoverflow I am sure alot of people get hired off of it instead of having to jump through hoops doing technical interviews. I am looking for work now in golang and i just hate having to do interviews over and over again with each new contract.
Yeah, I'm sure it's theoretically doable, but it's one of those things which would almost certainly require substantial work given the massively complex edifice of iOS. (And the iOS IPSW format, or even iOS DMGs/ADIs, are very different from the OS X patches you mentioned.)
You are completely ignoring the fact that even if connected to the grid all power grids are structured to meet peak demand, and that there will always exist periods of excess power which, until bitcoin, had to go to ground.

Bitcoin makes use of energy that would otherwise be unused.
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As for me, shares are very convenient for a certain category of the population. And also profitable.
Incidentally that "you" was intended generic. I wasn't referring to anyone in particular!
Damn, just throwing Israel Kamakawiwo'ole right under the bus there.
This is like automated testing. Perceived value is high -- so why is it so rare?
Right, except very frequently, the scapegoat isn't a single figure, but rather a group.

The Bourgeoise, the Jews, the QAnons, the Blacks, the Whites, the Immigrants, the Rich, the Anti-Vaxxers, the Catholics, the Muslims, the Kulaks, the <insert group here>

If humanity could unite and create order under the periodic ritual sacrifice of a single King, we'd be much better off than the way it actually happens, which is scapegoating and sacrificing millions of people at once.
>I'd choose the Archive in a heartbeat.

I'd have to agree with you.

My latest project is to busily download and store everything I might possibly use from the Internet Archive (and Dailymotion/youtube/gutenberg) since I just assume that the Walt Disney Police are going to ramp up copyright enforcement (plus the youtube ad thing is going to get worse).

As it turns out, I think that a couple of terabytes will do it for me, so it isn't a huge datahoarding issue.
Look at who really funds the EFF.

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine
To be fair, it is well accepted that high inflation is bad as everyone stops spending. This holds true for asset inflation as well - you can be damned sure that in the current environment tonnes of people will be taking money out of the system to dump into markets
Actually it's pretty weird. This is a sports blog and content engine. And the author is someone who started this publication. I'm not sure what the motivation/context is at all here.
"The road from libertarianism" [0]

[0] https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-road-from-liber...
> I believe you lack understanding of BTC monetary policy.

I am so tired of people insisting that I simply don't know anything.

The mining curve is monetary policy. For example, a 100% premined coin has very different properties than a coin with a fixed mining rate and no upper bound. The upper bound on the number of bitcoins is consistently pointed at by proponents as a means to prevent inflation. I can imagine no other phrase for this than "monetary policy".
The use cases for a single IP not associated with your person are numerous: avoidance of ISP retribution for your use of certain network connections (ie torrenting), avoidance of direct targeted attack, avoidance of geofencing, avoidance of censorship by IP location, as a few examples. All the better if the private static IP can be changed on demand and adjusted for location.
> No one in the thread could post one so far.

This is false, I posted this before:

> Just look at all these people who went to jail for crimes related to illegal numbers (eg. piracy). Or people like Mildred Gillars. Or the various whistleblowers.
I'm a bit sad, but I've made the same decision recently.

I had an older mirrorless Sony that I really enjoyed using and taking pictures -- and honestly, I did enjoy the process but it was partially because I could take much better pictures than anyone who was just using a phone.

While shopping for a new camera, I just couldn't get past how much better phones have become and how much more convenient they are. I'm sure I'll still use my existing camera, and maybe look at buying an upgraded one used in a few years, but in terms of "Good Images per Dollar", it's just a no-brainer to spend that $1,000 on a 13 Pro instead of a new body.
Good luck with that.

This will be impossible to enforce. The wealthiest lawmakers will get around it, and the middle class lawmakers will be saddled with the burden of shuffling their entire investment portfolio around. It's unreasonable in practice.

(imo, everything is "insider trading" if you squint hard enough. Another losing battle.)

Impose term limits or stfu.
Yes: https://www.bp.com/en_us/united-states/home/products-and-ser...
if you leave it on and put it in a bag it's going to overheat.
This is a professional photographer. Editing is part of the photography process, just as important as taking the picture in the first place and sometimes even more important to the end result (that is to say, a poorly edited photo is often worse than just having never taken the photo at all).

There are many, many, many more reviews out there on the internet that show casual, unedited photos from this camera. I think this person's use case and exhibition are interesting due to his entire workflow.
It was a simplistic method, but I think sufficient: I counted the different device-side cable ends in my box o’ USB cables.

Giant B, mini B, micro B, the giant B with the extra dormer on top of it, the micro B with the extra bit next to it, and USB-C.

Literally all six of them are within reach from my desk (my monitor takes a dormer version, an external HD housing takes the extra-wide version, Arduino clones take a giant original and mini, and most devices take a micro-B or -C.)

> Are you counting type A 3.0 and micro 3.0 as "separate iterations"?

I counted only device-side differences (as the point of the EU law is to reduce e-waste by reducing device-side variation). I didn’t make any distinction on variations in the host (A) side of the cable.
We also don't have a lockin to webpack anymore (you can choose custom builds with the "javascript" type, which I admit is a little confusing). We're going to move away from even this dependency and make everything much faster and lighter, stay tuned.
zpool add tank mirror /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1

But I presume you're referring to adding disks to an existing raidz. Such an operation was never really considered by ZFS, as it was made for business environments where they buy disks in quantity. So they buy enough disks for a full redundancy set (another mirror or raidz), and append onto the existing array.

From the perspective of an individual user it's definitely a suboptimal part of ZFS. But standing in the shadow of business usage is the price to pay for it having been developed in the first place.

As an individual user you can play games with sparse files and failed members as a sibling comment says (and dragging some external drives into service can help, as well as restoring from your backups). But really, just try to plan for the space you want and buy at once. Disks are large enough these days that you should aim to not be tinkering with your storage.

Back in the day I had something like an 8 x 250GB disk external USB drive array for my FLAC collection, with each disk partitioned into 10 slices, raid6'd, and then LVM'd back together. This gave me the wiggle room to take down a single slice at a time for reshaping, and then I could even online grow the filesystem thanks to reiserfs. No backups of course. I did the online expanding thing once or twice and it was neat, but ultimately the whole thing was replaced by a simple 2TB mirror after several years.

There's no reason you couldn't do something similar with ZFS besides performance. But do you really want to?
> Regular time gives CONTEXT about things like daylight

That's the thing I'm discussing here. You are mostly right, but I wanted to point out that depending on a range of factors, local time can be offset by ~3 hours compared to the sun (depending on latitude and longitude), with office times sometimes following suit.

DST is even worse if we consider that some businesses have different opening times during winter and summer.

Anyway, UTC might be impractical to use in everyday life, or it might not. But please give the time as UTC when scheduling a meeting or event across time zones, especially across countries. This is even worse when someone posts something on the internet: "livestream begins at <random time>". You're lucky if a timezone is posted at all sometimes, but I'd have to look up what will be my local time if something like "PST" is given, while I always know my offset to UTC.
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> At best, you replace trusting your ISP with trusting a different group of unknown people with similar motivations.

When one party with auditors says they will protect your privacy, and the other openly spells out in their stated policies that they will run roughshod over your privacy, cataloging and trading your data as much, as long, and as insecurely as they like...

You don't have to trust the former party a lot to recognize the lesser evil.
The NPR article says "pushing a bill that would require members to divest individual stocks within six months of taking office and limit their investments to mutual funds." This new distinction (investment opportunities for members of Congress are different than investment opportunities for other Americans) creates a new conflict of interest for lawmakers who then must choose whether to invest in mutual funds instead of non-stock-related asset classes. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/16/democratic-plan-would-close-... suggests that the Senate may soon consider a less favorable tax treatment of the use of in-kind redemptions by mutual funds. If senators perceive that their own stock investments will be limited to mutual funds or other funds (i.e., not individual stocks), then they may have a greater incentive to vote against this tax-law change, regardless of whether the change is good public policy.
For any company, ask why they'd actually care about doing the right thing.

Is it reputation? Integrity? Is the reasoning purely financial?

Then ask whether the company operates in a way that suggests they'd do the profitable thing over the right thing if they think they might get away with it. Does that picture look realistic?

As an example, look at Apple. Leaving the tangential discussion about scanning iCloud photos for CSAM aside, they are a company that claims to care about users and about privacy. Whereas every other company is literally trying to send all data to the cloud, Apple is telling us they're working to process everything they can on the device itself.

What would happen if they were caught selling location data? Caught allowing companies direct access to data aggregated from users that they explicitly say they're not collecting? They'd stand to lose literally many billions of dollars of sales because the thing differentiating them from everyone else would be erased.

Which is greater - those billions of dollars of sales as a premium device maker, or those scraps of money they'd make from underhandedly selling data?

Now look at the same scenario but with Facebook, or Google - is it the same? No, because we have no realistic expectation of privacy with either company. They're in the news quite often because they're doing nefarious things, allowing access to data most people didn't even know they're collecting, yet people aren't really doing things differently because of the news.

Imagine the same with companies like ExpressVPN. How much would a disclosure hurt them? How much money could they possibly make by selling private data? Do they employ the kind of people who'd take the gamble between the two?
I use a VPN to watch my local sports team - whose owner is currently in a contract dispute resulting in the team not being played on local tv.
Previous thread about terrible customer service at Airbnb and some pointers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468549
Nonsense.

Bitcoin mining's main cost is energy usage. It already fully optimises for less energy consumption. But because the way bitcoin is designed, any gains in energy consumption will cause mining difficulty to go up, and with it energy consumption.

Bitcoin is designed to be anti-efficient. All improvement in efficiency of mining are immediately cancelled out by difficulty adjustments. That is the economic model of bitcoin: It will always use as much energy as you can buy with the mining rewards.
First time I've been impressed with a phone-camera since the Nokias windows Phone, which still stands as the best phone Ive ever had.

This one: https://www.freshnessmag.com/.image/t_share/MTM2NjQ3MjI5MTMz...
How did the pyramid scheme work? Who was recruiting (not in an abstract sense)? What were the rewards for getting new recruits?
I don’t really understand these types of claims.

You think the CCP and central bank of China are just putting out statements to help a few foreign traders win on leveraged trades? The central planners of the economy that if fast becoming the largest in the world care a ton about some random traders in other countries? LMAO.
You do have a point there
What? There's loads across the Atlantic. Why would anyone take the long way? Pacific + Indian oceans are huge!
The emperor is dressed in NFTs.
Good point, but you have to consider that if we're talking about a scenario in which it's being used in the place of a national currency, the bigger picture matters less. If your paycheck can lose 20% of it's value in a few days you may not have the option to wait for it to possibly regain that value. Even ignoring the short term issues, I'm not convinced Bitcoin is any more protected from becoming totally worthless than any given fiat currency. I just can't see the scenario in which it solves or even helps the issue of hyperinflation in a way that fiat currency couldn't.
Well, the other half of Securities & Exchange is exchange. Tether is owned and controlled by Bitfinex, who does claim to be a cryptocurrency exchange.
It [ExpressVPN] said it had not known of the federal investigation or the details of Gericke's work in UAE

Seriously?

So either he lied or they are lying. I'm not an expert in American employment laws but would have assumed that one of the conditions of employment would be disclosing/reporting being under a federal investigation.
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> Is it just me or does it feel a little off-putting that he doesn't bother to post the pre-edited photos?

This is a professional photographer writing a review targeted at other professional photographers, so it feels appropriate to post photos shot and developed as a professional photographer would.

Regardless, the article is more about features like the new macro mode with short focus distance and the performance of the telephoto lens. Those don’t depend on manual post-processing.
The reason there isn't a keyword is because its not possible to do it right. The example given is far from foolproof.
> it’s not engineering milestone that makes a POC a product

My first reaction to this statement was, "no that's wrong." But then on reflection, I think that it might be accurate. HOWEVER,

> Besides, the only difference between the two is whether it has customers

This is wrong.

The difference between a proof of concept and a product, is that a product is assumed to be reasonably safe. A proof of concept can be barely held together by string and tape. Because it's just trying to gage the reactions of the stakeholders. Or even exploring the feasibility of the idea itself.

A product had better get the edge cases cleaned up. If you write an email client that sends the user's password to some random URL, then that's okay because it's just a proof of concept. Nobody should be using it yet. On the other hand, if Microsoft's Outlook sends your password off to some random URL, then that's a serious problem. Because Outlook is a product.

Proof of concept has a "use at your own risk" or "for demos only" attached to it.

Product has a moral and ethical obligation of the manufacturer attached to it. It had better be reasonably safe to use for the intended (or reasonably accidental) usages.
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People are opting out because Apple have explicitly barred Facebook from offering them anything as a reward for opting in (other than better targeted adverts, which most don't see as a positive). Obviously if they didn't do this Facebook would use dark patterns (such as crudely gating the entire functionality of the app behind the opt-in) but it's disingenuous to say that this is a free exchange when one party is prevented from bringing anything to the table.