skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, the point is you have to be in the game. If you were to pull out because the game is crap and ceded it to your opposition, it wouldn't be crap anymore. They'd dominate the channel and own the signal. Better to pay your money, keep in the game and spoil it for everybody than let anyone else win.

Also Corey correctly identifies, but dismisses the real power of FB and similar tech, which is connecting people with stuff they're interested in.

"Seen in that light, “online radicalization” stops looking like the result of mind control, instead showing itself to be a kind of homecoming — finding the people who share your interests, a common online experience we can all relate to."

We know this. Algorithmically tuning your feed into torrents of stuff you already like is the issue. He is right that yes we can relate to this. The reason we use search is to find stuff we know we want more of, but being dumb chimps the uncomfortable fact is we don't always know what's good for us. Hence Oxycontin, it feels great until you depend on it to feel anything at all, and then you're dead. Or slagging off humans with vaginas for being TERFs. Or storming the capitol building chanting "shoot him with his own gun".

The problem then is, who gets to decide what's good for us? Maybe it's our right to die or become brainwashed however we choose. I don't know, I've got no easy answers for you here.
Those points also apply to a wholesaler of physical goods
Xkcd: Two-Factor Security Key
You know, there are people in the space who talk a lot about adding utility to NFTs. This may well work for tickets or whatever, but the kind of NFTs we talk about here don't benefit from utility; art doesn't benefit from utility.

I agree with the OP that a lot of people here seem unwilling to take a moment and think about this more deeply, and how NFTs might compare to existing ways of valuing things. To be fair, it does take some time to wrap your head around, and maybe an open mind.

People complaining about a lack of "real" ownership often seem to mean ownership as in owning the copyright, but note that during the piracy debates of 00s the tech world spent a lot of effort trying to convince the world that a copyright claim is fundamentally different than physical ownership. And so it is.

There is physical ownership over a digital file; and that is having physical access to the bits that make of that file.

NFTs work because of the realization that a significant part of the value of physical artworks has nothing to do with there physical form.

Now there remain a lot of open questions; for example, it may well be that the physical form is still somehow essential, even if a small part of the value. Yves Kleins Immaterial Zones don't seem to be trading a lot at Sothebys, as interesting as a concept they may be. People may well feel the value of hanging your Rothko in a home is a very important part of the experience, even if 99.9% of the value is simply provenance (which an NFT artificially creates for digital goods).

It's not very strange that people instinctively feel that NFTs are nonsense; but a lot of the arguments being made are entirely unengaged with the actual issues at play, and seemingly no interest in doing so.
Welcome to Switzerland, the only place you can have all of those.
For anyone trying to understand the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic definitions of sets, consider the set of birds.

Intrinsic definition:

"Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton."

Extrinsic definition:

"Birds are the set made up of: Sparrows, Pigeons, Robins, Hummingbirds, Hawks, Eagles, Parrots, Penguins, Ducks, etc..."
Strongly agree. I would also add that even if you as an app developer are not a malicious individual who would help law enforcement persecute political activists, Google will certainly give away all info it has on the persons who downloaded the app, and may as well publish targeted binary updates without anyone's knowledge, which is frightening.

On F-Droid on the other hand, the recipe is open source and the build process is automated and reproducible. That means if your threat model requires it, you can setup your own F-Droid build server and only download from it and/or verify all checksums of packages published on f-droid.org repo. Outside the Android ecosystem, that's precisely what GNU/guix project is doing with the guix challenge command: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-chall...
> My guess is that ISPs must have needed to choose if to invest to core network or to last mile, and that is visible here. But at the same time it seems bit weird that you'd in 2020s deploy fancy new fiber networks without IPv6.

Well there's no real value connecting to an IPv6 island. The Internet is still IPv4.
Apparently Loki has been renamed Oxen in the meantime. I'm curious if/how Session is usable without any form of "coin".

EDIT: So apparently their tokens are used to form market-based Sybil resistance:

> This supply-demand effect is further reinforced by something called lock-up. If Oxen is staked to a Service Node, it can’t be moved or traded — meaning that the purchasable supply reduces as the number of Service Nodes increases. If a prospective attacker attempted to buy up a massive amount of Oxen (in order to stake a large number of nodes), the cost would ramp up as they purchased, making it extremely expensive to actually conduct a successful Sybil attack. [0]

I find their FAQ very unclear so far (haven't read the whitepaper yet), but from what i understand Session is free-to-use because the servers (Oxen Service Nodes) are remunerated by cryptocurrency speculation (lock-up) and block rewards. I find it worrying though, that the entire threat model relies on the financial cost to mount an attack... I hope like with Tor, many different circuits can be built in parallel.

[0] https://getsession.org/blog/how-session-protects-your-anonym...
If you’re a company user, there’s < completion via https://github.com/xenodium/company-org-block

Disclaimer: I wrote it after muscle memory got used to tempo.
Does the GIF reside on the blockchain or is it hosted on whatever webserver? What if the webserver is shutdown? Now you "own" a pointer to nothing?
Honest question - are young or old also a protected class? I disagree that CoC clauses should be based on protected classes only, because I think there are possible types of discrimination that should be addressed in CoC.
Yea, the Edge homepage is atrocious and looks like a spam site. I don't blame people for wanting to get away from it and to something that looks more trustworthy ASAP.
You can also avoid ads in iOS Safari YouTube by just refreshing the page immediately. Here, I said it.
> There’s a lot of confusion here about why NFTs are valuable if the buyer doesn’t get to own the image copyright.

Mostly because of two persistent lies around NFTs: 1) That you buy a piece of artwork. 2) Blockchain makes it automatically watertight.

All you get is transfer rights of a single number via a blockchain, optionally (usually) with a URI pointing to some media.

Now, why is owning blockchain transfer rights to that number valuable? Because an artist was involved in creating it, and they stated somewhere that the number refers to a specific artwork.

Outside the blockchain, more things have to be trusted for this to hold up:

- The artist in question must be the seller. Sure, you bought it from "banksy44" on nftgox.com, but is that the artist? There are soft ways to verify it, and you can get all sorts of receipts, promises, or statements from semi-official authorities.

- Whatever links the number or the URI to the artwork must remain up. If it's on a regular URL, the host owner gets to decide when to delete it, or when to replace it an ad for their gambling site. If a IPFS resource goes dead, it's gone. If the number referring to the artwork is stored on a 3rd party ledger you rely on them being honest, online, and correct.

AND NOW you have two weaker links in your trust chain, on the level of "humans trusting humans", rendering the blockchain basically useless. The premise is a lie, intentional or not.
> Surely the baseball card’s value does not come from the fact that you can hold a piece of cardboard in your hand.

That is definitely part of it. We are physical beings, you can't pretend like physical existence is irrelevant.
> central authority of authenticity

But authenticity of what exactly?

If everyone agrees that, for example, a particular distributed ledger provides authenticity of some class of artwork, that is fine. But soon the real world happens eg. a court in one country orders the art to be seized and handed over to a third party , but they don't have the ability to force the NFT to be transferred because the former-owner is in a different country. Would the art world suddenly pretend that the artwork is not real because the current owner does not have the NFT? We are back to square one.
Hmm, I'm not sure anyone who doesn't already know will be helped by this analogy?

Though not sure whether Wikipedia does a better job:

> An intrinsic/Church-style semantics only assigns meaning to well-typed terms, or more precisely, assigns meaning directly to typing derivations. This has the effect that terms differing only by type annotations can nonetheless be assigned different meanings. [...] In contrast, an extrinsic/Curry-style semantics assigns meaning to terms regardless of typing, as they would be interpreted in an untyped language.

> The distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic semantics is sometimes associated with the presence or absence of annotations on lambda abstractions, but strictly speaking this usage is imprecise. It is possible to define a Curry-style semantics on annotated terms simply by ignoring the types (i.e., through type erasure), as it is possible to give a Church-style semantics on unannotated terms when the types can be deduced from context (i.e., through type inference). The essential difference between intrinsic and extrinsic approaches is just whether the typing rules are viewed as defining the language, or as a formalism for verifying properties of a more primitive underlying language. Most of the different semantic interpretations discussed below can be seen through either a Church or Curry perspective.
You don’t need to apologise! It is sad that people don’t get this simple mechanism. I believe that lots of misery could have been averted if market signals where not distorted when they are needed most. E.g. in your example higher prices for generatora would not only prevent people from buying them for less important things but also open up a location arbitrage opportunity and incentivise to bring generators to the place where they are needed most.
The hurricane wing? It's smaller.

https://www.saildrone.com/news/tropical-atlantic-hurricane-m...
I can't help but think we'd be better off using tree navigation operators and gender as types. Li(ft), do(wn), si(deways), like lisp's car, cdr, caaadr, etc.. And adding m(ale) and fe(male) at the end of the word as types.

E.g. paternal uncle would be lim-sim. Maternal grandmother's son's daughter: life-life-dom-dofe.

Utterly pointless and ridiculous but so much more sensible than having a dozen different words which contain less information than what we care about.
AFAIK duckduckgo is mostly powered by Bing. Do you see a substantial difference?
If all men are gay, it is practically impossible for that to have happened as a result of voluntary choice.
You'd still need IPv4 to connect with the Internet.
Gutted.
Sparta at its peak was 10-20 times smaller than Athens. With such a huge population difference you'd expect Sparta to not even put up a fight, but they did and often won and took over large parts of Greece. So to me it is strange to say that the spartan people didn't punch above its weight militarily. If they didn't nobody would have written about them since they were just another small town in Greece.

The problem with Sparta was their inability to incorporate other people into their culture. An example of a warrior tribe very similar to Sparta but did properly incorporate new cultures is Rome, and they conquered the entire Mediterranean that way. We would probably have called it "The great Spartan Empire" if Sparta was a bit different.

Edit: I think the "myth" part was that Spartan warriors were any better than others elite soldiers. They weren't. But they fielded a disproportionally large amount of elite warriors for their size. Rome did the same, and made their new territories also adopt that culture, which allowed them to just expand and expand.
Is this Signal killer?
Is this another platform developed by FBI?
A while before this point.
It’s a very expensive, publicly broadcasted and “socially agreed upon” (by everyone who thinks they are worth money) version of calling “dibs”.
I also don't have to try to remember whether or not Widgeco's Sweden site is widgeco.se, se.widgeco.com or widgeco.com/se.
That crowed probably installed the app on their phone.
Really? Herodotus, "the father of history" is not history?

Anyway, I suppose I shouldn't be pessimistic and take your one comment as an indication that a random blog post on the internet is treated as a more authoritative source than the original texts from which it -ultimately, though evidently indirectly- draws its information.

Edit:

>> They were all written with agendas, none of which were "document the historical reality of the Spartans".

How do you think we know the "historical reality of Sparta"? And do you think you will find that "documented" in a blog post?
> reproducible build available at F-Droid

It's not available at F-Droid. They have an F-Droid compatible repository that you can manually add to your F-Droid client where they ship binaries.

I also can't find any mention of reproducible builds on their website, and their builts seem to include proprietary binaries.

The issue [0] to publish the app on F-Droid is still open.

0: https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android/issues/73
CoCs themselves, and the wider identity politics culture war, are also extremely Ameri-centric.

> the implication that harrasment is somehow ok against people who are not members of the protected class?

There is a subset (I like to think that they're the fringe, but have no numbers to back that up) of those who engage in identity politics who do believe that bigotry does not apply when the target is the dominant demographic.
Reading the article, the worrying question that jumps out at me is how do google know what the top search on Bing is?
Here is their reasoning for a change of protocol: https://getsession.org/session-protocol-technical-informatio...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25690036

Summary: forward secrecy and deniability are nice to have, but removing them makes significant UX improvements possible.
> And so on. Read history; and make up your own mind.

I'm of the opinion that this "do your own research" is generally bad advice. One person can be expert in a very limited number of fields, and one of the main advantages of our modern society is that we can afford to have experts in very niche areas.

It's much better to recognize who are the actual experts in any given subject, and read their output / follow their advice. Even historians have very limited specialties; someone who's expert of the ancient Greece would restrain from commenting authoritatively on renaissance topics.

Everyone can read the source material on history/medicine/astronomy/whatever for their enjoyment. Absolutely nobody should think they understand the topic better than someone who has dedicated their professional career on it. Outside of your slimmest core competence you are just another hobbyist with very flawed understanding.
Oh how far we have strayed from the early Internet.
This is partly true, but you are missing one important aspect:

While ownership can be enforced equally well with NFTs and baseball cards, the crucial difference is that with physical cards, owners have a unique way of experiencing the card. Anyone can look at an online reproduction of it, but only if you have a physical copy can you hold it in your hand.

This is not the case for NFTs, anyone can experience the image in exactly the same way.
Skeptical because Signal has reached critical mass so that even normal people are starting to use it. I hate how Signal requires phone numbers, something Session does not.
>is part of a distasteful part of history

...of one of the english speaking countries
Middleware/devtools/components can be kinda profitable as a niche but you really have to hit a spot with where people who're weak at one thing is willing to pay for it.

Also as you mention elsewhere there's a big disconnect between those who provide a non-profit thing (some Professors page) vs f.ex. a teaching company.

I think the sanest way to approach this is to have 3 tiers with an AGPL version available where you offer support on a by-the-hour basis for some price with a lower rate for non-commercials (#1) and a higher for commercial ones (#2).

And finally a non-gpl commercial license on a SUBSCRIPTION basis that includes X number of support tickets per year. (People really won't pay or sometims even upgrade to new versions anymore most of the time and the support/price ratio can get bad)
Yeh we noticed the same thing, facebook and offerup do not have this issue. It maybe that craigslist has turned incredible woke and dismissed the idea of gender lol. I suggest you use a site like https://allcraigslistsearch.com to find an ad that is live and has a catchy title that you can copy.
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A cryptographically signed picture may tell you its from a certain artists, but it cannot enforce uniqueness.

There are only two options - tokens, and ledgers. Despite the name, there is no such thing as a digital token, because digital objects cannot move, they only copy.

So you need a ledger, so basically something like a blockchain, to keep track of copies.

https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/
FWIW, I am personally shocked that anyone wants to buy small pieces of cardboard with photos of baseball players on them at all, much less for any appreciable amount of money just because one happens to be "rare" (whatever the hell that means, as clearly anyone with a printer and some cardboard can make their own)... that doesn't mean that someone else is valuing them for some reason, and they clearly do; that most small pieces of cardboard with pictures on them aren't valuable is kind of irrelevant to the idea that some are.
I genuinely feel quite terrified just watching that first video.
> Is there any kind of programming task where it's too much to ask the programmer to know the type of the function he's writing?

I think the problem is that lots of type systems are inherently limited, so there may be patterns that you want to express that your type system simply can't, or that you have to write tons of boilerplate code to express. In languages like Java or C# that don't have Sum types, this can be as basic as "this value is a String or Integer". You have to write a class hierarchy to express this in Java. In JavaScript you simply accept a parameter and branch on `typeof value`. More powerful type systems allow you to express more patterns, but you still have to type them out. This can be done, but if you're doing exploratory work an unknown dataset then this can make the work much slower. And there be may little benefit.
That of yesterday (Smithsonian) was a republishing, this is the original (TheConversation). One could have thought this was further information: it is the exact copy.
Learnerbly is hiring engineers (EMEA)
> The notion that things would be easier if we simply rolled back the clock to simpler times is demonstrably not true

Things might not be any easier, but they would definitely be simpler.
It truly is well done to make a cheap joke on HN that hits just well enough not to get downvoted to oblivion.
I have doubts regarding its privacy, but I think WhatsApp's security is up to the mark[1]. A lot of secure messengers fall short of simplifying security stuff on their UI/UX, for the average user, and i genuinely think it's a hard thing to do. In fact you could argue that "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

But maybe we'll get there, as more and more users understand the need for security

[1]https://www.whatsapp.com/security
"art blocks" had a trading volume of $100M last week [1].

And that's only one of the more notable nft projects.

[1] https://nonfungible.com/market/history
I think I'm realising this might be a bit of a male point of view (European here). Sometimes women put up because they feel they have to. But I agree with the general point. Banter is banter, jokes are jokes. Boundaries are boundaries.

Jokes around "haha women are less smart and do the dishes" are not OK. A joke about moving your birthday because you're a woman, not so funny but wow so not sexist.

"Be nice" is the long forgotten good rule of Internet behaviour, and "if you meant to be nice but weren't, apologise" a close second.
Cisco still produces brand new equipment without IPv6 support. It's not only routers, much of the rest of the networking stack needs IPv6 to be enabled as well.

We mistakenly had the same notion that "why would a new line of Cisco wireless equipment not have IPv6". That pushed back a network upgrade of a remote office a few months. Our mistake really, we should have checked.

Of manufacturers, like Kyocera, have equipment that technically supports IPv6, but no-one really knows who to configure it. IBM have a software product which is IPv6 capable, or it was when they did the initial implementation in 2012. Later versions just sort of shipped with broken IPv6, because IBM doesn't actually test in new releases.
So they can be extradited to US when the time will come. Fear the greeks when they give you presents.
Classic Books about Ruby and Ruby on Rails in 2021
If there is a coupling between electrons and photons, however brief, then could the photon be influenced along this coupling by acting on the electron and affecting the state of the coupled system? Or is this precluded because it would imply faster than light action?
UE4 dropped support for HTML5 a few builds back are you guys using an old build or did you work to add compiling for HTML5 to the latest?
Don’t they feed the whole corn plant though, not just the grain? I could be totally wrong about this.
Shostakovitch is an outlier. His 9th symphony departs from the established precedent of composing seriously for this otherwise iconic number. It's a comical satire on the Soviet state then, an embarrassment to Stalin who commissioned the piece in commemoration of victory in WW2.

For more commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCxzMYVvHBg
Internet-wide SNMPv3 scans (ACM IMC 2021)
This would be great paired with some code convention limiting line length to 80 columns :D
OP said "electronic control" not electronics, not the same! If you have an analog control on the dashboard directly connected to the heater element than it is electronic, but not electronically controlled.
Assimilated nitrogen != calories. Fish are rich in protein; plants have a large share of digestible carbohydrates.
NetNewsWire for macOS/iOS[0]. It was the best RSS reader for Mac OS X in the far past and they have now revived it and made it open source. I particularly like that you can sync feeds via iCloud or self-hosted instead of an external service.

[0] https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire
This is some next-level trolling right here.
I don't care about that. Above, I suggest to read up on the original sources and make up your mind, rather than consuming someon else's opinions, then spreading them across the internets as if they're some kind of holy fact. Do you have any objection to that? Read the origional sources. Do you disagree with that suggestion?
Maybe Loglan does it in such a way ?