skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in one about three years ago and it was full of children and families. It was constructed in the 1960s so it still had a few larger units. The grounds were recently renovated, so the children had an astroturf half length soccer field, a new playground area, a basketball court, a tennis court, and two pools and jacuzzis on each end of the property. The kids ran around the grounds absolutely amok with their little kick scooters unsupervised since the entire property was gated and patrolled by a security guard. I always thought living like that all year jumping into the pool with your friends every day must be a wonderful childhood. Probably nice for the parents being able to kick back and let the kids run anywhere within the property knowing its pretty safe.
> airplanes

Have pilots.

> bicycles

You steer them.
You mean the same standard private corporations are required to do to prevent a repeat of “oh lol Bethlehem Steel underfunded your pension, you’re on your own now”?
- Behaviour which can be reasonably considered harassment will not be tolerated.

+ Behaviour which can be considered harassment against protected classes will not be tolerated.

That change sure seems a lot like it's saying "we're now okay with harassment as long as the person you're harassing isn't a member of a protected class". Isn't that then adding abuse-enabling language, not removing it?
It doesn’t make sense to say that an NFT is not scarce. Every NFT is unique by design.
> Use of gender probably also invites bad actors that leads to a disproportionate amount of support work.

could you elaborate more how this listing might more likely to lead to bad actors?
Interoperability out of the box with protocols for escrow/dispute and resolution without having to solely trust the company issuing the nft ticket, esp with PII (I'm thinking hotel/bnb bookings, I know of a DAO[0][1] that has already partnered with a few places in europe and facilitated this). Just have to walk in, sign a message with the address that holds the nft and then you have access to the space for the duration. They're trying to solve all the kinks before trying to scale though.

Granted, I really can't be bothered to care about all the stuff going on out there with nft's but i'm not going to let it sour me on those trying to build decentralized alternatives for systems people like to engage in now while cutting out the centralized platform rentiers/censors.

[0] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/785611286100049941/88...

[1] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/785611286100049941/88...
100% agree. Leave Facebook and social. IRC is much better. Frankly, context is the issue. My group of friends should not intersect with some other random group of friends. Content should remain within its context. Sharing to everyone is the worst thing possible. It just causes huge conflicts from different contextless people clashing over content the original poster usually considers harmless. Like, if anti-vaxers stayed in their own little groups, it might not be such a problem, but their content gets posted to everyone in everyone's networks, and the meme virus spreads, lacking the important "the people saying these things are fucking idiots" context.
Being an NFT does not preclude anyone else from hanging the exact same physical representation on their wall. Exclusivity matters if you want to impress your rich friends.
I live in a town in rural Montana that has fiber to the home. Population is 800.
this is a half-baked ‘solution‘ that just makes eating meat a luxury. a thing only for the rich.

it’ll be like crimes that are punished by a fine - they just become the ‘fee’ that allows the propertied class to do whatever they want.

beef is deadly for humanity because of destructive water and land usage (Vice had a great video showing the Amazon deforestation due to beef production).

edit: my point is that the propertied class will lower wages and raise commodity prices to be able to pay to keep eating an unsustainable amount of beef. instead we should restrict or ban industrial animal agriculture, while investing in educational material to help society transition away from beef. that and regenerative agriculture, agro-forestry, etc.

Ernst Gotsch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gSPNRu4ZPvE
It’s been over 7 years since I deleted my FB and I’ve never had Instagram. Their IP address scopes are blocked in my home.
I do miss the now ancient FB, before they destroyed it with algos controlling what I got to see. That is when I got rid of it.
Every so often someone will show me some hatred spewing diatribe someone in their family posted, and all the people piling on and I am happy being unaware.
I get my quasi-news, conspiracy updates, and assurances that the world is about to end direct from Zerohedge.
https://archive.ph/RoeA3
https://hackaday.com/2017/05/04/ultrasonic-tracking-beacons

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/your-...

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/hundreds-apps-can-listen-beaco...
This whole rant assumes that people just buy NFTs to sell them to the next guy, but that's not the case. Some people buy NFTs to support artists (like Patreon) - others are gamified to represent something in a dapp, for example metaverse parcels are like domain names. And of course some just collect them for the flex. It's not really an MLM anyway you slice it.
My town of 800 here in Montana has literally zero building codes. Almost zero zoning laws. If I want to split my property into little 5 acre ranchettes and build houses on 'em, I can, no permits or approvals or anything needed.

Freedom, baby.
To be fair, an honest bill would have switched the pension from defined benefit to defined contribution, like everywhere else that is forced to fully account for pensions.
I'd argue that startups are also MLMs for tech elites.

EDIT: Good video that summarizes it well that I just found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU5JsP6pUpc
> I think you could argue that the 'upline' acrues value even if they aren't paid directly. Greater interest in an NFT drives the value up.

right, but uplines getting paid in a necessary but not sufficient condition for MLM. In a MLM it's usually derived through their downlines. The mechanism described is a general benefit to all participants in the system which isn't very MLM-like. platforms (eg. youtube) tend to have the same "general interest drives the value of the ecosystem up" (ie. creators convincing other creators to join your youtube clone increases your site's catalog, which boosts the quality of recommended content you can show to your user to get them to stay on longer, making it easier for creators to get views), but you wouldn't call that a MLM.
Open job roles and receive applications within few seconds
Like Java NIO select? Lot to ask for 4 hours if you aren’t familiar with the API of NIO
For me nfts provide an easier way for me to support digital artists I love that I've been following for a while.

I don't really like the collectable scarcity kind of thing, but I like building a collection and having an easy way to explore and find art and artists. Also a lot of these websites are providing this art at higher resolutions and quality than social media would allow for (IPFS) and without direct hosting.

I think it's here to stay in some form but it'll definitely undergo some change.

Not everything exists for function, let's enjoy our time.
I always get a small chuckle when I read an article about how horrible FB is. Not because it isn't horrible. It literally is the digital devil. But because 90% of those articles have a FB share button on them. As this one does.
> minting a new beanie-baby-NFT takes less effort than making an actual beanie baby.

I'll add onto this that the core technology has no way of verifying which beanie baby NFT is "valid" outside of traditional centralized mechanisms like IP law and large validators. You can duplicate NFTs that point to the same beanie-baby-NFT link, are totally indistinguishable, that don't have any artwork that you own, and nobody can stop you outside of centralized mechanisms. As soon as you try to build a market on top of NFTs, you're right back inside the current system of ownership enforced by legal contracts and centralized validators.

At least with Bitcoin, you don't have to tie your wallet to a Twitter verification system to figure out whether or not your funds are real or just a low-effort scam.

People can disagree with whether Bitcoin has value (I think it's a bad system), but at least it doesn't completely fall apart as soon as you leave Coinbase. NFTs really don't work at all unless they're tied to centralized services, because anybody can make an NFT for anything, regardless of whether they have any real relationship to the asset they're issuing. Even official accounts that are validated: you can mint 5,000 NFTs of the same beanie baby, nobody can stop that from happening. Any scarcity in the system is only self-imposed by the actors within that system.
I prefer epoxy fastened wooden boats (whether on a river or not). Amateurs out there who are following these "tutorials" beware ... you can become allergic to epoxy with repeated exposure so wear your PPE.
Set-feature for that value is how the host system indicates how many queues it is requesting. A subsequent get-feature returns how many queues were actually allocated. This can be less than the maximum supported by the drive, such as if the OS didn't request very many queues (due to you not having very many CPU cores), or if the drive is being virtualized and some of its queues are already allocated to a different virtual function.
Show me a 15 or 20 year old SSD that's still working! I worked with 20 year old hard drives that still run like new.
The modern mechanical turk. Pay someone to be very stoned and to sit in a box made to look like a supercomputer. Have it occasionally print a prompt for the "AI" to reflect on.

Add a pitch deck and a blockchain and you have a startup with the right buzzword cloud.
This is what happens whenever you see a large amount associated with an NFT. I bet that the art market started like that.
I can’t view the whole article due to the paywall, but I have to ask - where does this line of thinking lead? Does every pleasurable activity we might voluntarily undertake get scrutinized, regulated, or banned? I certainly hope not, since such losses of freedom can make the tyranny of the majority very real. It’s important that any potential policies are applied in a fair manner. For example, priced externalities shouldn’t be limited to just carbon dioxide or only applied to some things like cars or cows. In particular, those who support regulation or bans should also have their own favored things regulated similarly.
Work hard to get your lady onboard. Step one is to find an outdoor activity you can progressively gain sill in, e.g., dirtbiking. Soon buying 80 acres in the sticks will become something she needs!
E: The tone and direction of this comment would've redirected from discussion of an otherwise interesting piece, so I've changed it.

You can also read this on Cory's own website: https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/30/dont-believe-the-criti-hy...

or on archive.is: https://archive.is/iAsXZ

(My apologies to people who responded to the earlier version of this)
Right, because the creator of the NFT totally can't just mint another token right after you buy the first one. Oh wait, just kidding they can. And there's absolutely nothing you can do, because you don't _actually_ own the thing, you just own a trivially replicated pointer to the thing.

It's ok though, because at least the original will definitely be the one to be valuable, and not the 42nd, 69th, or 420th. Right? Right??
Awesome. I'm glad you're able to see how this post could be useful to others.

It's great to hear that you thought this makes ML concepts a little bit more accessible. Hopefully others can see GPT-3 as more than a black box and that with a little bit of intuition, they can get the results they're looking for.
The Case of the First Alleged Ransomware Death
Massive speculation scam to take advantage of the uninformed. Let them enjoy their time without making digital beanie babies and pretending they have value.
Everyone does it in their 20s. Everyone likes being walking distance from the bars at that age. Few last into their 30s or 40s with kids in tow unless they are very wealthy or too poor to afford the high upfront costs of moving to a cheaper area.
yeah, describing git as a stream of change events sounds more like the way svn or mercurial worked than git.
I would expect a strictly mapped system would perform significantly worse in an area like SF, where roads and obstacles frequently change. Human drivers are not rigid, they are adaptable, so building rigid AV systems is doomed to fail outside perfect conditions.
Interesting use case and solution.

Why not use package publishing tool like packagecloud.io (or setting your own private reprepro, dak variation) with unattended-upgrades configured for the repos and frequency you need ? Was the tooling at OS layer not adequate for this kind of setup ?
Aspera: Moving the world’s data at maximum speed
I also think they might just trying to avoid headaches with illegal listings.
I think maybe the human flagging is not sufficient to prevent illegal listings?
That's true of literally anything where the price reflects the externalities.

If it bothers you that the rich can afford to pay for the externalities, that's an argument against wealth inequality, not against pricing things correctly.
In my view there's a finite number of Picasso paintings, but an as yet unlimited possible number of digital artworks, and an unpredictable number of things that could compete with digital artworks for the dollars of buyers.

To fix the supply of digital artworks, there has to be at least a loose consensus on what the accepted "canon" of those works consists of. For now, that's an unknown.
FWIW, I recently got a Eufy wired doorbell and wasn't pleased with it. I had been running all my access points with the same SSID which works well enough for most things, but the Eufy associated with the most distant AP, I setup alternate SSIDs, but the streaming peformance was still poor --- audio would cut in and out; and video and audio were out of sync. I'm in the middle of the woods, you can see two of my neighbors APs, but not at the same time; if it doesn't work on my network, woe is you if you're in a suburb.

That said, I've had good reviews from people with the battery only Eufy doorbell, so that may be better.
Yes, the rate of extinction is increasing, and the consensus is that we're the main cause cause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

There has been mass extinctions before, every one of them had their specific causes. So it's kind of how evolution and life works. But we don't need to shrug and do nothing.
I really enjoyed this comment and the thread it started. I wrote some thoughts as a little blog post, and would welcome any thoughts or contrary opinions (I'm no expert, just thinking out loud).

https://rabbitsbynight.notion.site/Scalping-vs-price-gouging...
A man turns down girlfriend's marriage proposal leaves with her best friend
Only in the Bay Area.
I hope you're kidding! ... if you're buying plywood spend the extra buck or two to at least get one finished size. Furniture-grade veneered plywood really isn't that outrageously priced and for a pro-am like me, it's dimensionally stable for bigger pieces and I can cut out parts that don't fit in my thicknesser and/or finish planer.
Did you know the book "How to Lie With Statistics" was written not by a statistician but by a writer who was employed by the tobacco industry to downplay the research about the health effects of smoking? He had written a sequel "How to Lie with Smoking Statistics", but it was never published. https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/preprint/Huff_and_puff/1312...
Core values of? People who sit in front of Netflix and YouTube and read Facebook and browse Instagram and TikTok and Reddit and HN?

Bread and circuses.
> And then there will be a few of the "Charlie Bit My Finger" variety that people actually have desire to uniquely "own".

Not necessarily. The original creator that issued that "Charlie Bit My Finger" NFT could also create 1,000 more of them tomorrow. And all of those NFTs would be exactly as valid as the original, it wouldn't be equivalent to making a print of the Mona Lisa. It wouldn't be downstream of the original NFT, the original NFT is just a link to a publicly hosted asset.

You're trusting the creator that they won't do that, but you have no real guarantee that they won't. That's doubly true when you start looking at corporate-backed NFTs like what the NBA is doing. They control the entire supply of the NFTs they issue, you have no way to guarantee that they won't re-issue all of their NFTs that you own.
> The only reason they can sell something on is because they created an artificial scarcity of the thing. If widget X has a well-matched supply and demand, and a scalper decides to buy 10% of widget X, then 10% of the demand is now unmet, some of the buyers go out of business, and the maker of widget X now has 90 something % of their previous market.

If that happens, then the price drops, and the "scalper" loses money - demand has some elasticity, and a healthy market has some slack in it. Momentum-trading speculation works sometimes, but anyone who uses it as their sole strategy will go bankrupt sooner or later.
power is fungible. Nobody cares where their electricity comes from. Coal is failing because it is not price competitive. Food is not fungible, so I am not sure what point this is making.
I disagree, its a percentage of roughly 10% according to the EPA in 2019. Here are the EPA statistics. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis... I am all for replacing them with native buffalo, but this is overemphasis on minute percentages, this information presented is much too technology based and not practical, it relies on assumptions about plant based foods and lab meat (farming crops is the backbone of civilization, it is not a new idea, meat replacements like tofu, seitan, and even quorn of more reasonable price exists but we should ignore it for the fantasies of lab grown meat) the problem is that nobody will do it, and even with existing solutions you can't force people to eat the way the author wants them to.

Electricty (such as that used for cooling), and transportation make up the most carbon emissions. This truck is one such solution for transportation and lower emmission, it uses compression rather than combustion for the engine, and "waste" is cold, so its used to cool the internals. The adoption of this would have a much better effect overall without human habits as resistance. https://atlasofthefuture.org/project/the-dearman-engine/

Improved infrastructure and improvements in efficiency in larger sector should be focused on rather than a nudged suggestion to change eating habits, the title is a pie in the sky, noit interested in practical applications.
Indeed, and I'm much less skeptical, if it's seen as akin to buying tickets to a concert. The value is in enjoying the music in the present moment, and knowing that the musicians are receiving some income. A concert ticket is an NFT of sorts. Nobody will ever be able to attend that concert again.

I own plenty of concert tickets.
Except that your markets are not perfect, your scalpers have overhead and now represent a middleman who wants their cut.
A Profession Is Not a Personality
Velocity always goes down as team size goes up. Bigger teams are not about delivering faster, it's about dealing with bigger scope.
Communication is not programming; every statement is not intended to be taken completely literally. When someone says "species go extinct" there is the subtext "... due to humans destroying their ecosystem." It is not necessary to say that every time, because that would make the the cost of communication too high. Humans depend on having a common ground of shared assumptions to communicate effectively. This is why people do not respond to this headline the way you think they should, and why people who act as if they are not able to read the subtext of a statement are described as autistic.
Do you feel unsafe riding in a human driven taxi? If not (I don't), why would you want to ride in a machine driven one? I simply do not understand the HN desire for sitting in machine driven cars, which have already demonstrated far, far poorer safety than human driven ones.

Computers are good at some digital things. They are not good at others.
And the early airplanes were canvas over wooden sticks, and the early bikes made you fall over if you leaned a little bit funny. I'll let other people break their bodies on the penny farthings of the day, I'll wait for the safety bicycle to come along and not miss out on much in the mean time I expect.
Close friend in college managed to do a lot of Snobol4; I got the impression that it was a language based around string transformations, like regex everywhere.

Mathematica is essentially a transformation engine like that.. A standard Lisp unification engine, initially.

And didn't Snobol lead to some language that's embedded in large healthcare management systems?
Yes, but the auction house takes a cut and the taxman might notice so it's not without risk. Usually a shill bidder doesn't want to win the actual bid.
I generally like the economist but this article is poor.

The topic of deforestation is only whispered in at the end, almost a footnote. However, burning the Amazon for farmland to produce beef in Brazil should be part of the headline.
You could, and it likely happens in some cases.

However, an auction house is going to take significant fees as a percentage of the sale price and your shill bidder will want a cut as well. You’re also going to get a large tax bill because you technically had a realized capital gain and the auction house will report it.

With NFTs you can do a blockchain transaction for a relatively small fee by yourself from your computer. No taxes owed because you didn’t actually sell anything.
Too get an idea of just how close we came to losing this treasure, check out this photo of the city after the bombing:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Koeln_19...

Notice the bridge just a few hundred meters away.
> Dive Into HTML5 anaogises <aside> to sidebars:

However, ctrl+f footnote doesn't return anything. What's the current best practice for writing footnotes with semantic html? If I were to implement footnotes with <aside>, how would it look like?
> It’s perfectly rational for a scalper to regularly purchase more tickets than they sell due to the kind of markup their looking for. At say 4x they could on average sell 1/2 the tickets while doubling their investment.

True, but in that case they've added more value than they've subtracted. That artists insist on pricing every concert to sell out is a big part of the problem here; you'd get a more functional market by accepting a few empty seats to give some slack.
It is moralizing food consumption, and suggests a complex solution that is not practical nor realistic because it is not interested in solutions.
This year I started my leetcode grinding for interview purposes. But when I look back, I can tell that's all this practice and analysis of solutions made me a much better engineer than before.
The most impactful thing in my 6+ year career was my understanding of how to think effectively about my code.

Before that, I got some basic knowledge about CS theory, master theorem, asymptotic, all these things, and was a typical skeptical developer who was thinking like, "yeah, that's cool, but you don't actually need it. At all, basic knowledge is enough."

Today, I will recommend that anyone go through basic algo and ds courses (Sedgwick book or course, Skiena book too) and try to practice them.

Now I'm even trying to participate in leetcode and codeforces contests. In the end, after the first months of frustration about how stupid I was and how I couldn't find a solution to easy problems, it's started to be fun, and I loved it.