skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed most of disinformation in Indonesia is via contents not facebook ads.

But there's still problem with Facebook - echo chamber algorithm, it traps people in their own bubble world

I once tried to like just funny posts. In just a week, nearly all contents in my timeline are jokes and funny posts

Now that's scary.
There’s no actual Bluetooth connection that happens here. The AirTag or other FindMy-enabled device is purely transmitting. The packets being transmitted are Bluetooth Low Energy advertisements (sometimes referred to as “beacons”). Any Apple device can perform Bluetooth Low Energy scanning and can listen for these advertisements, and report what they’ve found to Apple’s servers.
The hate is because the realized instantiation of the supposed value creates a bunch of collections of four thousand images of a rabbit or something stupid. The NFT community is largely a bunch of people hyping up crappy animal picture collections on twitter as the next big thing. The attraction to the medium is not through aesthetics or craft, but through FOMO.
> Perhaps I am not thinking creatively enough

Perhaps, but its ok either way, it's not really limiting the DAO or the places leveraging the DAO to pursue this stuff.

> Using your hotel example, you will end up at the hotel where they can choose to honor your ticket in the same way as their traditional booking system. There was no need for this to be on a distributed ledger as the asset (a hotel stay) was between you and the hotel.

Its not just about honoring the ticket for the duration of any particular booking, but also mitigating the risk between multiple parties and being able to easily integrate such information with as many decentralized protocols are needed for the parties involved without extra dev overhead to connect them.

For some places, you need to have a card on file in case of damages (this is where the decentralized escrow/dispute and resolution protocol come in) and rely soley on visa/mastercard and the hotel unilaterally being able to say that you were the cause of an issue that may come up or being able to decided whether or not you are on the hook.

Incentivized actors (these need not be people, it could be automated, but since everything has an address, no one can tell the difference) of those other protocols on chain need visibility with the address that held the nft. So yes, its trust the protocols and incentives associated with them around handling dispute and resolution and non custodial locking of collateral in escrow (or allowing another protocol to time lock collateral on ones behalf).

And this assumes that the place someone buys an nft stay has the in house capability to do all that without using a particualr nft stay protocol (which alot of places dont esp for random bnb) or ok with giving a large cut to airbnb/booking.com/visa etc if they don't.

> You are not cutting out the middle man of some SaaS provider, you are substituting them.

Yes, for code that can take a lot less of the cut than existing SaaS providers (if any at all). A protocol != SaaS provider, even though a SaaS provider could manage a protocol[0], or a protocol can just be an set of immutable contracts deployed on chain, or anything in between.

[0] https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com/standard21/uploads/shinedao/o...
It really shouldn't be necessary to link to this on Hacker News, but Snopes [1] does a good job putting this article into context.

1. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nations-vanish-global-warm...
It doesn't seem very easy right now, it's complex and expensive for the seller and/or buyer compared to existing services for commissioning art
Youtube suggested a video to me about what's going on in the collectable video game market. The claim was that there's some collusion between a major auction site and a grader, and some of those players were running a pump and dump.

Unless you know who the buyers and sellers are or transaction fees are high (like an auction at Christie's), you have no idea if the sales are real, so it's pretty easy to make it look like the asset is appreciating when it's really just manufactured hype.
That makes sense because secondary sources provide context, almost by definition. They are also inferior to primary sources, by definition.
These are some fantastic recommendations. I'd add Hinamatsuri[1], Eizouken[2], Maid Dragon[3], Tanaka kun is always listless[4], Usagi Drop[5], Love is War[6], Machikado Mazouku[7], Girls' Last Tour[8], Non Non Biyori[9], and Barakamon[10] to the list!

[1]: https://myanimelist.net/anime/36296/Hinamatsuri_TV
[2]: https://myanimelist.net/anime/39792/Eizouken_ni_wa_Te_wo_Das...
[3]: https://myanimelist.net/anime/33206/Kobayashi-san_Chi_no_Mai...
[4]: https://myanimelist.net/anime/32093/Tanaka-kun_wa_Itsumo_Ked...
[5]: https://myanimelist.net/anime/10162/Usagi_Drop
[6]: https://myanimelist.net/anime/37999/Kaguya-sama_wa_Kokuraset...
[7]: https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=39071
[8]: https://myanimelist.net/anime/35838/Shoujo_Shuumatsu_Ryokou
[9]: https://myanimelist.net/anime/17549/Non_Non_Biyori
[10]: https://myanimelist.net/anime/22789/Barakamon\
When is Gitlab going to join the performance party?
They are similar to a market maker but it's not the same. They are like predatory HFT, benefiting from fast information propagation. Most of the time the market would function well without them, with much less volatility in the price. In that sense, scalpers en masse are destabilizing the economy.
What Happened to Treehouse?
Uh, how about using a proper static site generator and call it a day?
> however, one benefit is clear and compelling: decentralized royalty capture and IP management.

Bzzt. No. This is what NFTs claim they do, not what they actually do.

How do you know that the person creating a NFT has the right to do that? The NFT tracks the chain of ownership for the NFT itself, if the initial person creating the NFT did not own the copyright for the art in question, then the NFT itself is useless.

Second, there is no way for the NFT chain to enforce off-chain actions. If you have the NFT for a copyrightable piece of work and you believe someone is infringing your rights, you must still go to the regular legal courts and sue over it. The NFT itself cannot enforce your IP or collect royalties on your behalf.
It's a pump and dump.
I do wonder what would've happened if he just replied with a straightforward "no I won't treat students differently based on their race" instead of writing a fairly condescending email
yes that already exists, last time i checked governments don't like it when people eat other people;
What I mean is, the Craigslist section for rooms/shared might allow the word “male” while it’s prohibited in other rental categories. But maybe it’s harsher if the user makes multiple postings, if something like that distinguishes landlords from renters.
> When you grow plants, you take carbon out of the atmosphere. When you eat it, you release it back into the atmosphere.

So the electricity and diesel that are involved in growing plants come from the atmosphere? That's new to me.
Who convinces people to buy Herbalife? People who have spent a bunch of money on Herbalife.

Who convinces people that NFTs aren't just a fad, they're really innovative and you should consider adding them to your portfolio? Not people who don't own any.
> Which, presumably, mere mortal developers have no access to?

I sure hope not, since "mortal developers" include countless bad actors. Apple has an imperfect record, but at least has a vested interest in avoiding abuse.
Crypto hasn’t improved our digital world. It’s made it measurably worse through (among other things) making it trivial to profit from ransomware and DDOS-for-hire services. And of course there’s the indefensible environmental impacts and the destabilizing effect on the market for consumer computing hardware like GPUs.

I don’t doubt there exist people whose lives have been improved (for the time being) by the existence of cryptocurrency, but the overwhelming impact has been a disaster.
I wish that HN would implement an automatic acronym and abbreviation expander!

What is an MLM?

Ah, multi-level marketing. A euphemism for a pyramid scheme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing.
Amen, brother. Someone like your CEO at somewhere like his lake house at the end of a dodgy DSL line from Cletus's ISP and Bait Shop.

I kid, I kid...they didn't sell bait.

There are a lot of unpleasant failure modes to blocking ICMP without completely understanding the implications.
I heard the argument, that one reason of the Syrian war is how agriculture becomes less and less possible there.

So we already see direct effects on society from climate change.
Thanks for sharing this, found it a very interesting read and analysis of FB and disinformation/advertising. One clue should definitely be that "if we just fix FB the problem will be solved or substantially better" can't be as true as people want. It would help, but it is not the real source of the problem. An amplifier that could (not so easily?) be replaced.
I agree there are issues, but the same was (and still is) true in crypto - shitcoins and shitNFTs. That doesn't mean there aren't valuable use cases, or real artistic value and utility in some NFTs, and it doesn't mean there aren't real visionaries building things with authenticity and heart behind them.
> “The unjust murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, the life-threatening actions of Amy Cooper and the violent conduct of the [University of California Police Department] have led to fear and anxiety which is further compounded by the disproportionate effect of COVID-19 on the Black community. As we approach finals week, we recognize that these conditions place Black students at an unfair academic disadvantage due to traumatic circumstances out of their control.”

> The student then requested that the final be a “no harm” exam — meaning it should be counted only if it boosted one’s grade. “This is not a joint effort to get finals canceled for non-Black students, but rather an ask that you exercise compassion and leniency with Black students in our major.” (As I noted in my legal complaint, the student clarified, in a subsequent conversation with a university investigator, that he “intended that the requested adjustments apply to Black students and not the class generally.”)
Sure, I get all that but scalping is still in essences a leeching practice.

And yes they can suck up profits, that’s their whole thing. Are you saying that profits can’t exist in a functioning market?
What makes NFTs easier than sending them cash on paypal for a commission, backing their patreon, or using a service like Skeb?
Yeah this is one of the reasons I love hicetnunc and am suspicious of most of the NFTs hyped on Ethereum, so many that I checked are hosted on some random host, I even saw a very $$$ one hosted on heroku...
I can't see how lab grown meats would enable the use of the land that animals use. Animals take up land that is unusable for crops and make it productive. What land would the labs use?
They don’t explain this, but the naming of AWS services indicates how modular they are. Services prefixed with “Amazon” are supposed to usable independently, while services with the “AWS” prefix need to be used inside the ecosystem.
Video retreived from drone downed by crocodile
That quote doesn't support your hot take at all.

> if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000

The trend was not reversed, so now we wait to see if the prediction comes true. Given the low lying geography of some nations (esp pacific islands) I would bet money that this does indeed come true in the future.

Nowhere in the quote does it say, as you claim, that civilization would collapse in 2000.
Yes, that girl should not have worn that short skirt.
Why Public Schools and the Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down
Or depending on where you live horses, cats and dogs.
Since Beethoven, it's considered bad omen to complete a 10th symphony in classical music.

The productive Gustav Mahler circumvented this by naming one of his symphonies as "The Song of the Earth".
Maybe read the entire comment before replying to it.
Sure, that's a solution. Or own one as subsidiary. Not sure if would have really helped so, there were decisions to order less. Reasonable to assume that production at the own fans would have been ramped down as well.
Tangentially related to events you may not consider to be relevant now, but become so in the future is Roko's Basilisk.

Reader beware.

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rokos-basilisk
> So this is why the government will never force Apple to have easy to remove batteries.

The government did not force Apple to use non-user-replacable* batteries. Which is good, unless you're a fan of government-designed hardware and software.

(*Well, not easily user replaceable: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+12+Battery+Replacement/1...)
Because when I buy a piece of art, I can hang it on my wall and look at it.

If I buy an NFT, it doesn't give me the right to print a picture of the art and hang it on the wall. I have no rights to display the picture of which I own the NFT. All I can say is that I own the NFT of that piece of art.

So, I can hang the hex code of the NFT on my wall and look at that I suppose. But the actual piece of artwork that is associated with that NFT? I can't even display it on a digital display in my house, because that's copyright violation.
Ah, so in some cases you’re able to stuff an entire JPEG into the blockchain itself, I’ll grant that. In which case we move on to all the other problems. But For NFTs that are meant to be used in applications, I think my argument still holds.

For fully disembodied NFTs where you just stuff a jpeg or it’s hash into a blockchain, my other complaint is that you’re just creating a speculative instrument that doesn’t really do anything except hope someone else will pay more for it. And I still have to rely on trust outside the blockchain that the artist approved these NFTs in the first place (there are many done with unauthorized art)
You could make the same arguments about computers or the internet.
They're already planning a spin on the "C65 Classroom Computer", as seen at https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/102560-wo-kann-man-d...

They also have issues sourcing functional refurbished 3.5" drives, apparently the idea is to potentially move away from the built-in drive entirely after those 1400 units they're building right now.
I'm not looking forward to the self-driving AI vs drunk driver battle.
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Not sure I agree here. Most Bluetooth Low Energy devices (aside from Apple Devices and Android phones) don't make use the privacy feature and therefore their device address can be linked to a specific product. Many Bluetooth products have user accounts attached to them (think fitness trackers and AirTag-like products) meaning that the device address can be tied to a specific user.

Now consider the vast number of “smart nodes” out there (eg street lights) that have multi-protocol connectivity built into them. Whoever controls these nodes can simply scan and log every BLE advertisement that is nearby.

I’m not saying that this is the only way that a person can tracked or that this kind of tracking is definitely happening right now, but it’s a very real possibility.
JIT always has some buffer, just smaller ones than in other models. True that Japanese manufacturers increased those after 2011.
Anonymous leaks disk images stolen from far-right-friendly web host Epik
>Consumer workloads have barely even started to evolve to take advantage of SSDs, and hard drives aren't quite entirely gone from the consumer PC market.

I really wish there is some industry push towards this. But last time ( I think around 6-7 years ago ) I try to push for this the answer was Information Security and Data erase / recovery would not allow SSD to be used in certain industry and domain. It has to be HDD.

I wonder if this has changed in the era of Smartphone and Tablet where NAND are now the default solution.
The simple explanation is that CL probably uses a blocklist as opposed to an in-house NLP algorithm that understands the specific context in which the Fair Housing Act is not being violated.
By buying data like all the other companies do? Not impressive. They don't track me directly.
Moralizing can work, though. Recall slavery, child labor, feminism, equal rights, welfare (,healthcare outside the USA).

Plant based meat substitutes will improve (via the production learning curve and competition) if there is enough demand.

(According to this article that attracted much comment[1] a few days ago, though, artificial meat is a non-starter.)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28621288
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but what makes you expect the NaCL would be delivered by meteor? The area is geologically rich in salt already. From wiki:

Movements of the Great Rift Valley system, along with the pressure generated by the slow accumulation of earth and rock, pressed down on the layers of salt, creating Mount Sodom. It is about 80% salt, 720 feet (220 m) high, capped by a layer of limestone [...] Because of weathering, some portions have separated. One of these pillars is known as "Lot's wife", in reference to the Biblical account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sodom
> Whatever rare NFT you have I can go make a visually identical NFT for <minimum cost of an NFT> and confirm that I own that NFT.

Yes but your NFT would be deployed on a copycat (ie. replica, inauthentic) smart contract.
'Google' is most searched word on Bing
> People are not migrating North in droves

Yes, because - you might be surprised to hear - people actually like to life where they are born and raised and require catastrophic hardship (such as the Syrian civil war) to actually start a migration.
There's Comic Book Guy! Someone said Star Trek on the Internet and you just know someone was gonna beam in to enforce Cannon.
Because I can look at the baseball card. I can display the card as well.

If you want to print out an NFT display that, go ahead but it's pretty meaningless.
Metal fences are tricky for groundhogs. my parents have one that is welded wire (comes in a roll) and its not sturdy enough for a fat groundhog to climb all the way up and get over, they aren't the most athletic. once they shored up some holes along bottoms of the fence the groundhog wasn't getting inside anymore.
Twitter is building exactly that apparently, you would get an ethereum checkmark next to your profile pic if that image is verified.

There is definitely discussion happening on exactly your point, but i imagine there are options to combat the fake NFTs given that you can't fake a signature from a known public key.

Given that there are so many NFT projects I speculate that the twitter verification will only happen for a small subset though.
I have no doubt this will fool a great many people. If you've ever served in a symphony orchestra and played one of his majestic symphonies I doubt it will move you.
Merck says research shows its Covid-19 pill works against variants
Love the author’s point that web-based is an untapped blue ocean opportunity.

My team is building a sort of “Roblox in WASM/WebGPU” that’s built in UE4 and compiled to the browser, that will allow anyone to easily create virtual words and experiences for HTML5 without needing to know how to code. We’re even working toward live building using editor client side on the web, with hot reloading and a simple “publish” button so you can see in real time as you push changes.

Furthermore, the metaverse will be born from the web, because it “just works”, not to mention accessibility is increased when anyone can join with a simple link.

And for developers? No 30% tax from monopolistic walled gardens, plus only one codebase to worry about.

If anyone is interested in early access to our platform, you can join our Discord here:

https://discord.gg/zUSZ3T8
"right wing ideas"? You must be kidding me. Are you one of those valley hackers who changed his gender 300 times and who is only wearing pink runes to protect his/her/its aura?

Sorry, but not everything is "right wing", except ofc you are one of those "special kids".
While I partially agree with there being a difference between just ads and what we're seeing happen, I didn't read it as being a 1-to-1 correspondence. Instead, it was pointing out the perhaps limited influence of...influence. In that maybe this isn't really "changing" people but highlighting them, giving them a platform, letting them congregate. Surely it attracts people that may not believe something yet and are susceptible, but the argument seems to be more of amplification and noticing this, rather than creating it as much. In other words, remove FB and you'll still have the same beliefs, just not as obvious to the outside. At least that was how I read some of the article. (I do think FB and the like are making things worse, but does it just look like that because we can see it better? or have the numbers grown rather than just each gotten more bold?)
It's a quote from the movie "Top Gun" if that helps.
I don't think your comment deserved to be killed but I also don't think this is a very good take. Just because something is mentioned in the bible doesn't mean it's made up. Is your argument that "if meteors could destroy cities we'd see more cities destroyed by meteors"?
At least these days you can hire a task rabbit to come by and water.
How much resistance and effort for 100% of beef, which is a part of 10% are you willing to expend to push for elimination versus transportation at 29% and electicity usage at 25%? To put it into perspective, how would you focus energy on lowering output out of 100% of your personal energy? https://cfpub.epa.gov/ghgdata/inventoryexplorer/
Wow, genius insight
All of this gushing hype for the future of artistry is transparently performative. Nobody in this tech cares about art or artists, any of the useful functions of NFTs have long been possible and many orders of magnitude less expensive using public key cryptography or digital signatures.
I suspect the problem lay with the professor’s response to the student, as opposed to anything else (and that’s actually what the UCLA statement mentioned says), but as described here, the response, as a ill advised as it was, hardly merits any action.

This is an unfortunate situation where largely things worked the way they were supposed to. Somebody raised a stink. The administration took time to investigate it. Found nothing and within 3 weeks dismissed the complaints. It sucks, but sometimes shit happens. Especially in academia.

The problem appears to be that the 3 week suspension led to the professor’s income from unrelated work being affected. I highly doubt that this lawsuit will succeed. This is the process everyone in academia (and if they are lucky in private companies as well...private companies don’t even promise an investigation...their at will contracts mean they can simply terminate your position) agrees to and it works well, as it did in this case.

The issue lies with the private companies the professor makes money from outside the university, who he has at will and temporary contracts with, which allow him to be terminated for no reason.

Of course, the irony is that contrary to the professor’s claims, the entity he is suing completely protected him. It’s the at will contracts with the private companies that are the cause of his loss of income.

If UCLA operated like a private company he wouldn’t have had a suspension with an investigation. His contract would simply have been terminated.
Apple devices all use a private resolvable Bluetooth address that changes every 15 minutes. That, along with a cryptographic payload, protect against this.

Aside from Apple products and Android phones, most other Bluetooth Products do not use private resolvable addresses, and many have the issue that you describe. The name isn’t always so obvious, but sometimes there is identifiable data that can be read.
The email, like a skirt, didn’t do him any favors.