skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An NFT is a virtual title of ownership on a blockchain, that's it. You don't own neither a string or an image or a JSON.

https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-721
Part of the problem Microsoft have is that they just set the default to bing, people open it and don’t know what it is so search google.

These same people don’t know how to change their default search so keep searching for google.

If they wanted these people to stay they should get rid of their background image and just give a search box like google does - basically trick people into staying.
Well, the Draupner Wave brushed the under side of an oil rig, if that helps. That was a rogue wave and they get a lot higher.

There are also the opposite - rogue holes - the trough part of a wave. Imagine being in a boat and dropping 100ft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave
If I'm not using bookmark, I'm using the same approach. Because of simple reason: If I would make a typo, Google will correct it and I will not land in a some faecbook.com.
It’s not a shameless plug if it’s not your own channel. :)
> For that matter what do regular (amateur) boaters do if their sailboat or motorized boat get caught in a bad storm on the open ocean?

I am far from an expert on this topic, but for sailboats; sea anchors and storm sails. The first is a parachute-like device that keeps the boat pointed in the right direction relative to the waves. The second is a small, tough sail used when any other sail, even while reefed, would be too big.

If you can't make it to shelter in time, it's better to weather the storm in open water than near the shore - at least that way, you won't risk hitting something and sinking.
I understood it as not working with people (lack of friends) is torturous.
OMG preach! When you've heard these empty platitudes enough they become warning klaxons.
This is a great explanation. I’ve understood NFTs slightly differently, where they are akin to an _autographed_ baseball card. In that case, regardless of how many copies of that card exist in the world, you have a rendition of that card authorized by a special party (the autographer) that causes it to be unique.

Where any number of digital copies of an asset may exist, the NFT is the “autograph” atop that asset that is unique and therefore adds the value.

(It’s worth noting that anyone can autograph any baseball card. So it’s not the autograph that makes it valuable, but _who_ autographed it. It’s the same with who minted the NFT.)
Ask HN: Does your company delete old data or keep them forever?
> In this implementation, to maximise performance, we consider each individual byte of the file separately, and look it up in π.

I don't get it. we simply replace one byte (the data) in another byte, or even more than that (the index in pi)
What am I missing?

Besides, why do you have to "search" pi? why not just make a table mapping all possible 2/3/4 bytes (256^(2/3/4) combinations) to it's corresponding positions in pi, and every subsequent compression will run much more efficiently.

BTW, it is very easy to show that a simple huffman code based compression yields a better compression ratio than this method.
I'm sure device manufacturers are looking at energy-harvesting technologies for true "always on" capability.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28715935
My 6 semesters of Computer Science fundamentals
> produced by the same companies

Hilariously, Ivermectin is made by Merck.
If you buy the Marilyn Monroe print then you can legally put it up on your wall at home and other people can see it.

If you buy an NFT (which is just an URL to somewhere that might have a picture today but might be a 404 tomorrow or an ipfs hash if you're lucky) then you can not (in most cases I've seen) legally put that picture that's behind the link in the NFT up on your website and show it to others. Heck, in some countries this doesn't even grant you the right to store that picture itself on your own computer.

(Most) NFT's don't give the owner of the NFT any rights for the linked art itself - you can't copy it, distribute it, present it etc. You can do all of that with the NFT but _not_ the actual art piece.
You don’t appear to have read the complaint correctly.

He was placed on administrative leave so the university could investigate the issue — that isn’t the same as a suspension. It also completely aligns with HR's comment that “further inquiry is warranted before action can be taken.” An inquiry happened, the non-tenured professor was found to have not violated any of the guidelines and was reinstated.

The publicity surrounding his email does appear to have had an averse effect on his contracts unrelated to his post at UCLA, that is absolutely true. I’m still not seeing how him losing business opportunities because of bad publicity, caused in part by his own actions, is the university's fault. I agree with OP.
It's time for people to start badging projects with a new style of CoC, one line:

"No woke ideology allowed."

That's it. No explanation needed. Those who pretend they don't know what the rule means, or protest, are in violation. The radical left has been co-opting every organization they can get their hands on and kicking out the "non-believers" for years. It's time the handful of sane people that are left band together and start doing the same. The left loves the phrase "toxic," but their ideology genuinely is toxic, and no project, company, or group can thrive once it takes root.
Optimal text segmentation for QR Codes (2018)
The article is wrong about AOP being on while the phone is off. AOP is on while the phone is in standby. It powers down when you shut down the phone. Its job is to save battery by doing things like the Hey Siri and sensors processing without powering up the main cores at all. It does not stay on when the system is shut down.

The part about the Bluetooth chipset staying on is correct. Think about it, why would they need the AOP when the Bluetooth chipset can run that applet autonomously and send the beacons?

Nothing is listening to your mics while the phone is off. The stuff that runs while the phone is off is rather limited. Mostly things related to the NFC chipset, to support payment and transport applications while the battery is dead (which is a requirement of some of those systems) and, as we just saw, Bluetooth LE features.
I mean and they lie under oath without penalty, and if they ever settle on anything it's for peanuts compared to whay they rake in.

I think we've given them more than enough chances they need to be completely dissolved nothing of value will have been lost.
Notes on the Go translation of Reposurgeon (2020)
Chinese espionage group deploys new rootkit compatible with Windows 10 systems
Surely the baseball card’s value does not come from the fact that you can hold a piece of cardboard in your hand.

Whether the data representation is a piece of cardboard or a JSON string replicated on 10,000 Ethereum nodes or a tulip or a Venmo balance is arbitrary; it just matters whether a lot of humans are looking at the same thing. And for the time being, a lot of humans are looking at crypto ledgers!
Read the HN guidelines and stop being an arse.
Software Engineering Magic
Their position is that intention doesn't matter, what matters is how an action is received.
I think this is too simplistic for real-world programming languages.

For example TypeScript has the "any" and the "unknown" types. Both encompass the same set of values (any possible value which can be represented in the language), but the allowed operations are different.

C# has something similar with "object" and "dynamic".

For a static type system it makes more sense to think of a type as a set of supported operations rather than a set of values.
> Though nowadays usually an iPad will also do fine.

iPads tend to cost about twice/thrice the price of a Chromebook if you want a keyboard with your computer.

Lenovo's great Duet comes with the keyboard for like 290EUR.
At $19/pop, why bother? I seriously think you should 100x that. If you aren't familiar already, search around for patio11's thoughts on charging for software (search term: "charge more")
Title is from the OP, but it doesn't do justice to the novel surveillance system the article is about. (Localizing acoustic microphones, combined with license-plate scanners).
so u enjoy filling captchas to visit a site?
Email Opening Line Examples for Any Type of Message
The point is that it is impossible to explain these results by assuming that the device behaves like a classical computer, even if the results themselves are uninteresting.
Show HN: Smallest and fastest command-line coloring library on the internet
As someone in big fintech who has to deal with regulated release processes, I would like to tip my hat to "oh that's a godd suggestion from one of our users - let's try that out on our front page as soon as I can commit it".

:-)
Semantics of programs in type theory are most of the time described by a small step relation which describes, possibly non-deterministically, how to perform one step of computation. Separately one can consider which terms are values, indicating a successful, terminating computation. Type theory would then involve proving properties about the semantics of typed programs.

One can give a small step relation for a Turing machine and one could possibly come up for a type system for it, but generally one starts with the semantics for untyped lambda calculus.

Some of the more advanced type theory stuff unifies the notions of terms and types, meaning arbitrary computations can happen in type checking and so properties about types can involve properties about computation in general.
I'm seriously impressed you pulled that off in something that small. I know that people have done it in smaller boats but rowing a vessel in waves many times the length of the ship must present some pretty interesting challenges.
If you read the link about pg_upgrade, you're not guaranteed that pg_upgrade will work if the underlying data storage format changes. pg_upgrade may not work in a future version of PostgreSQL. It works for version 14 though.
> I saw too many junior developers read a rando blog article, then get a non-technical / semi-technical manager excited about something that made their life easier, even though it was by no means a good practice for the context at hand.

I’ve seen the other way around too - senior developers rejecting or pushing changes that they find convenient. IME it’s not to do with experience, rather stubbornness.
Neat. But what happens to this drone after the hurricane, or when it stops phoning home due to UV damage, drained batteries, or gunked up solar cells?

Does it just become another member of the Great Garbage Patch?
I wrote an article some time ago on this exact mistake that product teams do. I called it the baby bias:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/baby-bias-how-start-product-d...
Inoreader: https://www.inoreader.com/
You could be spied on if governments are allowed to deploy dragnets that spy on everyone. Like how if your phone is on, your broad location is tracked whether you are a suspect or not.
The warning said “further inquiry is warranted before action can be taken.” That inquiry is what happened when he was placed on administrative leave. And less than three weeks later, he was reinstated. He's classifying it as a suspension but the university is going to say this was an investigation. A court will decide who is correct, assuming this isn’t thrown out on its face (which is what I am betting will happen). He doesn’t have tenure, which makes his rights at UCLA even more tenuous as it is — the university could have just opted not to renew his contract. But they took him off administrative leave and found he hadn’t violated any policies after the inquiry that HR recommended.

We don’t know if the university followed policy or not. Nothing in the complaint proves that it didn’t, and it could very well be read that it did, based on the facts he made in the claim.
What will end the pandemic then?

You can put the blame on people who don't want to get vaccinated, but looking at the countries that have high % vaccinated, it doesn't look like it's the solution either. It's just moving goalposts.

First it was "let's vaccinate the elderly and we can reopen", then "let's vaccinate most people and then we can reopen", now it's "let's vaccinate everyone, children included and then we can reopen". I wonder what the next goalpost will be. A new variant like with Delta? "Yeah, those vaccines were good for Delta, but now with Omega variant we have to shut down to wait for a new vaccine".

If you want to live few more years in fear, you are free to do that. Otherwise, let people live their lives. For many people, the pandemic only exists on TV and in the government. Stop fearmongering every day about "rising number of cases" and we can go back to normal.
I was thinking, this would rock in 3D/VR.
This doesn't seem like a huge surprise. Demand for Chromebooks went through the roof due to children doing remote learning during Covid, and they, by and large, have the Chromebooks they need now, and are beginning to go back to school. That demand is going to tail off.

The jump in sales two years ago should have always been seen as a temporary spike due to circumstances, not the new normal. They've still sold a heck of a lot of Chromebooks and gained marketshare.
Another article along those lines:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
Ah yes. I knew we'd tried this before! Reverting...
Makes you wonder how many ships got lost before structural integrity improved to the point where a ship would survive that kind of impact.
Being an artist doesn't mean you care about other artists. There are a looooot of selfish people out there and they'll often use the trappings of helping people to claw their way skyward.
Excuse me?! It is disingenuous to infer that a complete demographic doesn't know about how the Internet works.

For some late-age Boomers, I would agree that a large percentage of them would do this, but Gen-Xers are in their 40s and 50s, and most of them have literally grown up surrounded by technology.
> ...development speed is increased with types...

There might be a hidden assumption of stead-state in there. In the initial ramp-up when people are learning a language, or learning to code to start with, types will slow down development because there is one more system to learn and use correctly.

It is notable that if your code is going to be a bug ridden mess regardless of language features, language features that reduce the number of bugs (like type systems) are a hindrance.
Ok, let's try that and see what it breaks :)

Edit: done now. I can't shake the feeling that we've been through all this before, and that's why I ended up resorting to whitespace tricks in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20352144. But let's wait and see what's broken now...
Exactly. I couldn't have solved this with JS only.
Things have a way of becoming what the ruling class wants them to become. Eventually, every crisis, however minor, becomes another excuse for them to grab more money and power from the rest of us.
Nuclear is massively cheaper as long as you build it in scale 20 reactors at a time, like France did in the 1970s or China has been doing for the last decade.

The capital cost of any battery, flywheel or pumped storage is higher than the $30-50/MWh energy of a nuclear plant, without even having built any PV or wind generation.
I might be mistaken but I don't think >99% of people who have bought an NFT have verified that the key used to generate the token does in fact belong to the artist that created the piece that's (currently) behind the link that's in the token.
Post some sources for your claim instead of attacking me.
More than 60% of PC owners haven’t even heard of Windows 11
No SSG can access information that is only available at serving time. Otherwise it would not be a SSG.
One of the big difficulties with programming on 8-bit machines was that if you wanted to use anything other than the built in Basic, compilers were generally expensive. Usually the cheapest alternative to Basic was Assembly, a huge leap for a self taught programmer to make.

Compilers for C, Pascal, and other languages of the time were hundreds of dollars, which was a lot for a (often young) hobbyist to pay. When I first heard about gcc in the early 90s, I was blown away because compilers in my head were something that only big corporations, universities, and the government could afford.

While there was no shortage of homebrew software in the 8-bit era, I have to wonder how much more there would have been if the major manufacturers of computers had made access to developer tools inexpensive and easy instead of letting the third-party market fill that role with small volume, high cost products.

64FORTH was relatively inexpensive ($40-$50) and might be another reason why the C64 had so much software developed for it.
Green light is 200nm, but we are already approaching 2nm with electronics, wouldn't that make any equivalent light CPU 100x larger/slower?
The Firefox-recommended reader is quite good:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/feedbroreader...
> Scalpers perform a social service by rationing demand and ensuring availability.

While the fundamental issue is indeed price discovery, even in the most abstract market -- stocks/fx/derivatives there are numerous regulations in place to limit the predatory behavior of certain speculators.

It is astonishing we have no such regulation for real-life items.

Scalpers are compounding a problem, by reselling something at 5X the price they invite others to do the same, they create artificial demand and speculation.

> Think about hospitals paying 10 times more

No, think somali pirates in terms of transportation costs. If you only look at it throught the autistic-economical lens, they are entrepreneurs helping the market find the right price for transportation.

> the problem is low competition not intermediaries

The problem is inelastic markets and high moats. Think New York real estate market where mobsters around the world inflate property price and will destroy the local economy.

Think about drug cartels and drug prices.

Think about the USD and its status as a global currency and its relationship to the Military Industrial Complex.
Pretty sure 9 months payment terms are illegal in the EU, everything above 90 days is an issue already. Not defending the supplier squezzing that auto OEMs conduct. Also, trucks aren't circling around facilities, they are waiting at parking lots.

Seriously, I don't know what kind of axe you have to grind with automotive and JIT. It does seem to be a larger issue if it is affecting all industries, and all companies. Chip shortages are affecting Aerospace, Google reportedly has issues getting chips as well for things like the Pixel 4a.

Also I am not sure if you have hands on experience with SCM or procurement, automotive or otherwise.
In theory. In practice things will never ever go as planned and you're going to have to improvise. Stuff will break, wind will change direction rapidly, you may have to chop a sail, you may lose a mast.

The very best way to deal with heavy weather is to be on the shore.
The issue is not so much about Jekyll vs. Hugo, because in our situation we also had to include other renderers like Graphviz, which bloats the build image considerably.
NOAA's most obvious citizen-facing product for me has been the National Hurricane Center.

Right here is a link to the web site: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Their forecasting graphics (probability distributions of tropical cyclone tracks, wind speeds, rainfall, et cetera, all overlaid on maps) are direct and easy-to-read, and do a good job of conveying the uncertainty of the behavior of these storms in a way that's legible to a lay person.
Why are you so worried about expensive AirTags being used to track people? There’s a market full of cheap tracking devices to slip in someone’s pocket and they come with no privacy protection at all.
Google making Reader very good, and it becoming the most popular method of using RSS (for reading articles, at least - not for podcasts), and then suddenly killing it, can be seen as pretty much an "embrace, extend, extinguish" move.
That sounds like a lot of work, and a PR nightmare if the public ever found out.

Nvidia is already a money printing machine, and their margins are growing. I doubt it’s worth the time investment and risk exposure to the crypto markets for Nvidia. Better off using that time a money inventing better money printers.
I don't think that's fundamentally possible. We just don't have enough information about his creation process to know that.
Absolutely. I find it horrific how, due to politics, we've moved all the way from "censorship is bad" to "we need to stop disinformation" which clearly implies soft or hard censorship. It also heavily leans to whatever political biases the company has and people think that's perfectly fine because they're getting one over their political opponents.

The end result is that lies become truth and truth becomes lies because dogma spread by tech companies (lobbied by other companies or political groups) is what is pushed and accepted while dissent is punished in varying degrees.

All in the name of "the greater good", non ironically. Seems we learned nothing from fiction or history.
And ergonomically a laptop is better for writing and whatever purposes there may be.
I couldn't play an instrument if my life depended on it, can't sing particularly well and also have little to no musical training beyond whatever we did in middle school – even I can tell this piece just doesn't sound right. Listening to it felt schizophrenic or something, like it's reaching all over the place and just going off on weird incoherent tangents. Almost exhausting to try and keep up with it, and not in a good way.
Suspended, not terminated. And actually unsuspended 12 hours ago too - https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1443662425790816262
This has two false assumptions, one being that the process number (a marketing number chiefly), has any physical meaing. And another that you can compare it to the wave length of light. And also green light is 500-560nm.
> Whether the data representation is a piece of cardboard or a JSON string replicated on 10,000 Ethereum nodes or a tulip or a Venmo balance is arbitrary; it just matters whether a lot of humans are looking at the same thing. And for the time being, a lot of humans are looking at crypto ledgers!

But are they really? I mean, are there that many humans waiting in line to have a JSON pointing to a tweet?

There were a few reports of NFTs going on the market for thousands of dollars, but at least the ones I'm aware of sounded an awful lot like people buying their own NFTs and leaving that out from the report.
Dolby Atmos and Apple’s rewritten audio stack
the criticism of C.A. do you have any further reading? i recall a podcast where they interviewed one of the founders ( his name was something comically evil like last name Spectre) and he was saying it was just consulting mumbojumbo and it didnt work. but now I cant find it.
Wow that is an amazing achievement, those waves are scary, especially being so far from assistance in such a small boat. Did you manage the whole journey without major issue?
I actually like this kind of art, I find it funny and entertaining. It's like real-life 9gag or reddit shitposting.

What I don't like though, is that those shitposters get paid hundreds of thousand dollars, or even million, often in public money (or “charity” money which is a way to avoid taxes and is eventually public money), because they have a network (it's not even their “name” that matters because practically no-one know them in the public, they just happen to know the right persons).
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Why would I need an app when the site works perfect on mobile browsers?

I almost find it kind of funny that the general narrative on HN is “not every site needs its own app!” and then when we finally have a site that works flawlessly on mobile, people still suggest an app for it!